Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Performance Tuning
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 27 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 1.06% 1.47% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £431 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £494 £525 -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £463 £500 -
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 124 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 80.42% 91.18% 76.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 79 59
10th Percentile £363 £150 £205
25th Percentile £400 £268 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £408 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% -18.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £628 £626 £655
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 £409 £500
% change year-on-year +10.09% -18.25% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 9
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £16.03 £24.18 £12.25
Median hourly rate £31.11 £35.25 £12.99
Median % change year-on-year -11.74% +171.36% -16.19%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.50 £16.00
90th Percentile - £78.47 £31.88
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £31.11 £35.25 £13.47
% change year-on-year -11.74% +161.79% -13.13%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

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 County Antrim region over the 6 months to 27 March 2026. 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
Belfast 0 2 £463 -7.50% 1
Performance Tuning
Northern Ireland

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (100.00%) Impala
1 2 (100.00%) Spark SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Sqoop
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Data Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) HDFS