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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 55 48
Rank change year-on-year -11 -7 +21
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 17 2 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.52% 0.34% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 0.38% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 14
10th Percentile £411 - £388
25th Percentile £412 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £410 £449
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -8.69% -20.53%
75th Percentile £494 £415 £577
90th Percentile £543 - £588
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +0.05% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £21.73
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -21.43% +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 878 521 616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.53% 87.71% 77.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 353 424
10th Percentile £200 £237 £200
25th Percentile £387 £333 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £425 £418
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% +1.67% -12.00%
75th Percentile £546 £519 £550
90th Percentile £626 £588 £622
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 38 55
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £11.24
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.25 £12.73
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.64 £16.63
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +12.07% -28.47%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.56 £24.20
90th Percentile £31.50 £37.60 £35.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
% change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -17 6 £446 -
Northamptonshire -3 5 £424 +3.35% 2
Derbyshire - 3 - -
Leicestershire - 2 £540 - 1
Lincolnshire - 1 £538 - 1
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 3 (17.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.88%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (23.53%) SAP CRM
2 2 (11.76%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 4 (23.53%) Algolia
4 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.88%) GCP
6 1 (5.88%) OCI
6 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Forms
General
1 13 (76.47%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Retail
3 5 (29.41%) Marketing
4 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Salesforce Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DBA
4 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Database Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (5.88%) Power BI Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Node.js
2 4 (23.53%) React
3 3 (17.65%) J2EE
3 3 (17.65%) OSGi
3 3 (17.65%) REST
3 3 (17.65%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) Middleware
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (5.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 10 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (41.18%) DevOps
4 6 (35.29%) CRM
4 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
5 5 (29.41%) API Integration
5 5 (29.41%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (23.53%) Analytics
6 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
6 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
6 4 (23.53%) Microservices
6 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (23.53%) Personalization
7 3 (17.65%) Change Management
7 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
7 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
7 3 (17.65%) Data Privacy
7 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
7 3 (17.65%) Service Management
7 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) Salesforce
3 4 (23.53%) MuleSoft
3 4 (23.53%) SAP
4 3 (17.65%) Adobe
4 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
5 2 (11.76%) Oracle
6 1 (5.88%) Databricks
6 1 (5.88%) Google
6 1 (5.88%) NetApp
6 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (5.88%) Sophos