Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Performance Tuning
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 62 45
Rank change year-on-year 0 -17 +18
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 18 6 19
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.56% 0.80% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 0.93% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 15
10th Percentile £411 - £390
25th Percentile £412 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £415 £449
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -7.57% -17.43%
75th Percentile £538 £454 £566
90th Percentile £543 £497 £588
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £21.73
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.25 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -45.36% +13.64% -15.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 870 646 624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 75.32% 86.13% 78.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 447 424
10th Percentile £221 £224 £250
25th Percentile £400 £334 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.46% -8.79% -5.37%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £569
90th Percentile £650 £600 £622
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 57 45
10th Percentile £13.46 £14.30 £12.28
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.87 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.31 £20.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +13.89% -64.71%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £47.50 £25.69 £50.00
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the East Midlands

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 July 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
Nottinghamshire -13 6 £446 -14.18% 2
Northamptonshire +18 5 £443 +8.08% 2
Derbyshire - 3 - -
Leicestershire -6 2 £540 - 1
Lincolnshire - 2 £371 - 2
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.56%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) SAP CRM
2 2 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 4 (22.22%) Algolia
4 3 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (5.56%) GCP
6 1 (5.56%) OCI
6 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (16.67%) Power BI
2 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.11%) MySQL
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.56%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Retail
3 4 (22.22%) Marketing
4 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (11.11%) Finance
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.56%) Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Cloud Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Salesforce Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (11.11%) DBA
4 2 (11.11%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Architect
4 2 (11.11%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Database Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (5.56%) Power BI Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Node.js
2 4 (22.22%) React
3 3 (16.67%) REST
4 2 (11.11%) Jakarta EE
4 2 (11.11%) OSGi
4 2 (11.11%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) Middleware
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (5.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) CRM
3 6 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 4 (22.22%) Analytics
4 4 (22.22%) API Integration
4 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (22.22%) ETL
4 4 (22.22%) Personalization
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (16.67%) Cost Management
5 3 (16.67%) Data Privacy
5 3 (16.67%) High Availability
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (16.67%) Microservices
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (44.44%) Python
3 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (11.11%) Java
6 1 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) Salesforce
3 4 (22.22%) MuleSoft
3 4 (22.22%) Oracle
3 4 (22.22%) SAP
4 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (11.11%) Adobe
6 1 (5.56%) Databricks
6 1 (5.56%) Google
6 1 (5.56%) NetApp
6 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud