Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Performance Tuning
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 19 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 2 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.95% 4.91% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 5.44% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.83% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 -
90th Percentile - £800 -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £650 £425 -
% change year-on-year +52.94% - -

All Process & 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 183 147 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 86.73% 90.18% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 91 108
10th Percentile £265 £296 £232
25th Percentile £400 £403 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £495 £466
Median % change year-on-year - +6.17% -1.84%
75th Percentile £594 £581 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £608
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £475 £478
% change year-on-year - -0.63% +0.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 25
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.85 £15.51
25th Percentile £16.03 £17.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £23.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% -8.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £34.06 £57.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £44.25 £62.00 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace