Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Performance Tuning
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 58 68
Rank change year-on-year +13 +10 +22
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 15 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.54% 0.42% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 0.52% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £295 - £365
25th Percentile £325 - £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £650 £381
Median % change year-on-year -40.38% +70.40% -15.23%
75th Percentile £438 - £388
90th Percentile £460 - £388
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £510 £418
% change year-on-year -4.41% +22.16% -13.92%

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 520 579 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 88.14% 81.90% 83.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 388 474
10th Percentile £187 £200 £265
25th Percentile £363 £386 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £549 £638 £624
90th Percentile £639 £750 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 13 28
10th Percentile - £15.30 £13.34
25th Percentile £12.62 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £43.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.12% +56.36% +52.78%
75th Percentile £22.08 £55.00 £49.06
90th Percentile £26.51 £56.85 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £22.05 £27.50
% change year-on-year +10.41% -19.84% +61.76%

Performance Tuning
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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Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Performance Tuning

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Birmingham over the 6 months to 31 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Birmingham

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Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Performance Tuning

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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 11 (73.33%) Confluence
2 8 (53.33%) nginx
3 2 (13.33%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (53.33%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (53.33%) Amazon ECS
2 8 (53.33%) Amazon ELB
2 8 (53.33%) Amazon S3
2 8 (53.33%) AWS KMS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (53.33%) Route 53
2 8 (53.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (13.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) DNS
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
1 8 (53.33%) FTP
1 8 (53.33%) HTTP
1 8 (53.33%) IMAP
1 8 (53.33%) OpenLDAP
1 8 (53.33%) SMTP
1 8 (53.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 8 (53.33%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (53.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database 12c
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) JIRA
2 8 (53.33%) Git
2 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
2 8 (53.33%) Vagrant
3 3 (20.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 12 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (53.33%) Presentation Skills
2 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Electronics
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (13.33%) Marketing
3 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) DBA
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared DBA
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) JIRA Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared DBA
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) LDAP
2 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) Middleware
2 2 (13.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Replication
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
2 8 (53.33%) Amazon Linux
2 8 (53.33%) Ubuntu
2 8 (53.33%) VMS
2 8 (53.33%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Change Management
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Cloud Security
2 8 (53.33%) Configuration Management
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) Patch Management
2 8 (53.33%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (26.67%) Incident Management
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (13.33%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) ITIL
6 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
6 2 (13.33%) Programme Management
6 2 (13.33%) Service Management
6 2 (13.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) SQL
2 11 (73.33%) Groovy
3 10 (66.67%) PowerShell
4 8 (53.33%) Python
5 2 (13.33%) C#
5 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (66.67%) Degree
4 8 (53.33%) AWS Certification
4 8 (53.33%) Azure Certification
5 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (13.33%) OCP
6 2 (13.33%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (13.33%) Tableau Certification
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) DFS Replication
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
1 8 (53.33%) Dovecot
1 8 (53.33%) Postfix
1 8 (53.33%) Squid
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Grafana
2 8 (53.33%) Nessus
2 8 (53.33%) Prometheus
2 8 (53.33%) Proxmox
2 8 (53.33%) Terraform
3 2 (13.33%) Data Guard
3 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 8 (53.33%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (20.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 2 (13.33%) SAP