Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Devon

Performance Tuning
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 0.92% - 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% - 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £425
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £525 £460 £400
% change year-on-year +14.13% +15.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 253 106 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 77.37% 86.89% 76.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 49 113
10th Percentile £213 - £143
25th Percentile £387 £145 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £320 £425
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -24.71% -3.95%
75th Percentile £619 £500 £575
90th Percentile £750 £650 £600
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 18 34
10th Percentile £15.23 - £10.42
25th Percentile £17.73 £25.15 £16.30
Median hourly rate £21.26 £56.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.20% +87.50% -40.00%
75th Percentile £26.74 £66.88 £72.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.25 -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £32.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +76.92% -40.91% -4.35%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Devon

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

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

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

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

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in Devon

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 Devon region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Exeter - 3 £750 - 1
Performance Tuning
South West

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon 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 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
1 2 (66.67%) SQL DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) React
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Database Security
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Asynchronous Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle