Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Performance Optimisation
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 1.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate - - £588
% change year-on-year - - +11.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85 99 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 85.00% 83.19% 81.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 68 92
10th Percentile £433 £513 £360
25th Percentile £463 £548 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £568
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +8.37% -5.42%
75th Percentile £662 £676 £700
90th Percentile £750 £1,075 £750
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +1.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £28.20 - £38.65
25th Percentile £31.13 £55.00 £42.63
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +21.83% -48.16%
75th Percentile £66.13 £65.00 £55.88
90th Percentile £84.20 - £59.85
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £51.21 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year -21.22% +33.42% -18.80%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 (100.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Rocky
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes