Performance Tuning Contracts in the South West

Performance Tuning
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Performance Tuning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 141 153
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 -35
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 13 30 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.41% 0.83% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.92% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 19
10th Percentile £295 £298 £280
25th Percentile £325 £338 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile - £450 £571
90th Percentile £411 £643 £575
England median daily rate £510 £525 £586
% change year-on-year -2.86% -10.41% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year -15.03% +56.76% -20.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Performance Tuning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,654 3,248 3,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.02% 89.70% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,694 2,395 2,337
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £723 £668
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 332 192
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £16.89 £20.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.50 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +26.52% +8.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.31 £69.98
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tuning within the South West region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +18 6 £350 - 2
Wiltshire -3 4 £400 -
Somerset - 2 - - 1
Devon - 1 £425 -
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England

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Biml
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.69%) Metadata
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Automotive
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Report Developer
3 3 (23.08%) SSIS Developer
4 2 (15.38%) .NET Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) ETL Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Security Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leader
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) .NET Core
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Operational Technology
1 2 (15.38%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Data Integration
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps
1 4 (30.77%) ETL
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
2 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (15.38%) Data Privacy
2 2 (15.38%) Kimball Methodology
2 2 (15.38%) Microservices
2 2 (15.38%) MVC
2 2 (15.38%) OO
2 2 (15.38%) OOA/OOD
2 2 (15.38%) OOD
2 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (15.38%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.69%) Data Science
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) CCNA
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) CISSP
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) OSCP
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow