Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Performance Optimisation
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.38% - 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% - 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £350
South West median daily rate £525 £469 £531
% change year-on-year +12.00% -11.76% -7.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 188 88 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 71.21% 87.13% 87.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 51 74
10th Percentile £350 £185 £175
25th Percentile £401 £239 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -2.56% -9.30%
75th Percentile £668 £550 £630
90th Percentile £786 £565 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 15 7
10th Percentile £15.29 £14.80 £14.12
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.25 £14.41
Median hourly rate £39.25 £15.50 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +153.23% -0.77% -72.35%
75th Percentile £69.44 £15.75 £20.40
90th Percentile £74.68 £17.21 £40.11
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +3.85%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Dorset

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Bournemouth - 1 £300 - 2
Performance Optimisation
South West

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Flink
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) EDI
1 1 (100.00%) EDIFACT
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) webMethods