Performance Tuning Contracts in Cambridge

Performance Tuning
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 14 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 5.26% - 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.94% - 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £378 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.20%
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £610 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £463 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 101 177 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 88.60% 91.24% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 99 177
10th Percentile £296 £235 £185
25th Percentile £411 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 28 16
10th Percentile £16.28 £20.40 £17.12
25th Percentile £17.46 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £52.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.19% +156.10% -64.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Cambridge

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Cambridge

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) 802.11
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) Multicast
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) SNMP
1 1 (16.67%) VLAN
1 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless Security
1 1 (16.67%) WLAN
1 1 (16.67%) WPA2
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Senior
1 1 (16.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
1 1 (16.67%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (16.67%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (50.00%) Workload Management
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (16.67%) Break/Fix
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (16.67%) Memory Management
3 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Server Management
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
3 3 (50.00%) Perl
4 1 (16.67%) C
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (16.67%) KVM
2 1 (16.67%) QEMU
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (16.67%) HAProxy
3 1 (16.67%) Nagios
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 3 (50.00%) Google
2 3 (50.00%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) AirMagnet
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) Ekahau
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Sun