Performance Tuning Contracts in Cheshire

Performance Tuning
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 49 49 61
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 -12
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 9 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.00% 1.79% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 2.12% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 1
10th Percentile £313 £473 -
25th Percentile £324 £505 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year -30.20% +13.33% +24.14%
75th Percentile £506 £515 -
90th Percentile £520 £524 -
North West median daily rate £500 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -1.96% +7.37% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tuning within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 5 £492 - 4
Warrington -1 3 £325 -27.78% 10
Performance Tuning
North West

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DHCP
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database 10g
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database 11g
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Toad
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Administrator
2 3 (33.33%) VMWare Administrator
2 3 (33.33%) Wintel Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) CSS3
1 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) HTML5
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) High Availability
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
1 3 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 3 (33.33%) Resource Management
1 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
3 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Ruby
2 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) RHCE
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 3 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (33.33%) NetApp OnCommand
1 3 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 3 (33.33%) vMotion
1 3 (33.33%) WSUS
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle