Performance Tuning Contracts in the East Midlands

Performance Tuning
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 59 80
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 +10
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 2 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.37% 0.91% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 1.16% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £544 £338
25th Percentile £405 £563 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.70% +15.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £415 £588 £573
90th Percentile - £595 £582
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.73 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £72.50
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.03% +56.76%

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 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the East Midlands

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the East Midlands

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the East Midlands

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 1 May 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
Nottinghamshire +8 1 - - 3
Northamptonshire - 1 £410 - 1
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) HBase
1 1 (50.00%) Impala
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Scala Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet