Performance Tuning Contracts in Birmingham

Performance Tuning
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 64 71
Rank change year-on-year +25 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 11 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.11% 0.39% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 0.47% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £393 £380 -
25th Percentile £545 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% +25.00% +23.08%
75th Percentile £700 £575 -
90th Percentile - £620 -
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £600 £500
% change year-on-year - +20.00% +21.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Performance Tuning 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (54.55%) IIS
2 3 (27.27%) Confluence
3 1 (9.09%) Apache
3 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Internet
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 2 (18.18%) Tableau
3 1 (9.09%) Big Data
3 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
3 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
1 3 (27.27%) ScriptRunner
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Legal
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Applications Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Applications Support
2 3 (27.27%) Applications Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Big Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) JIRA Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Network Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Software Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Software Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) HTML
1 6 (54.55%) Middleware
2 3 (27.27%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) Web Services
4 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Incident Management
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (54.55%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Time Management
5 2 (18.18%) Change Management
5 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) ITIL
5 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
5 2 (18.18%) Service Management
5 2 (18.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (18.18%) Web Application Development
6 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 1 (9.09%) Data Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (9.09%) Data Science
6 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
3 3 (27.27%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) Groovy
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Tableau Certification
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Atlassian
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco
3 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Juniper
3 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow