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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 37 47
Rank change year-on-year -26 +10 +33
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 11 22 18
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.27% 2.99% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 3.55% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 18
10th Percentile £406 £359 £439
25th Percentile £409 £381 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -13.16% -14.41%
75th Percentile £457 £456 £561
90th Percentile £518 £537 £588
England median daily rate £500 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.87% -5.55%

All Process and 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 748 620 673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.37% 84.35% 83.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 377 488
10th Percentile £206 £265 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -7.29% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £588
90th Percentile £638 £619 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 28 53
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.66
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile - £51.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

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
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 8 November 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
Northamptonshire -17 6 £420 +5.00% 4
Nottinghamshire 0 3 £515 -14.17%
Derbyshire 0 1 - -
Leicestershire -13 1 - - 3
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 5 (45.45%) Apache Spark
2 3 (27.27%) Apache
2 3 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (18.18%) ChatGPT
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (9.09%) dbt
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Apache Hive
1 5 (45.45%) Big Data
1 5 (45.45%) Hadoop
2 4 (36.36%) Metadata
2 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (27.27%) HBase
3 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
4 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
5 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
General
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Hadoop Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Scala Developer
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Ab Initio Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior C# Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DBA
4 1 (9.09%) SQL DBA
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Data Science
4 3 (27.27%) MapReduce
4 3 (27.27%) Metadata Management
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (18.18%) Complex ETL
5 2 (18.18%) Cost Management
5 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Scala
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) PHP
3 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) Data Quality
2 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) HDFS
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (27.27%) Oozie
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Ab Initio
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks