Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Bath

Performance Optimisation
Somerset > Bath

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bath requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bath 3.80% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median daily rate £550 £513 -
% change year-on-year +7.32% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bath

Performance Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bath.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73 58 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath 92.41% 93.55% 83.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 45 40
10th Percentile £379 £225 £370
25th Percentile £430 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +10.14%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £528
90th Percentile £675 - £589
Somerset median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.25
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £12.50
75th Percentile - - £12.75
90th Percentile £15.50 - -
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
% change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.00%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Bath

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Optimisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath.

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Bath

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Bath

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing Performance Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bath citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bath by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) Power Query
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft