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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 43 59
Rank change year-on-year -24 +16 +23
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 9 12 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.90% 2.07% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 2.36% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 7
10th Percentile £399 £356 £427
25th Percentile £412 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £445
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -10.11% +11.25%
75th Percentile £442 £425 -
90th Percentile £474 £600 -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £21.73
England median hourly rate £74.63 £67.50 £54.25
% change year-on-year +10.56% +24.42% -19.63%

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 845 508 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.08% 87.44% 80.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 320 436
10th Percentile £192 £202 £188
25th Percentile £359 £325 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £541 £526 £538
90th Percentile £625 £600 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 21 63
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.63 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +28.57% +3.98%
75th Percentile £24.86 £24.66 £27.63
90th Percentile £25.77 £33.75 £51.50
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
% change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%

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 February 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 February 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
Northamptonshire -20 6 £424 +6.09% 1
Nottinghamshire -9 2 £510 -15.00% 1
Derbyshire -7 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 (33.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (11.11%) ChatGPT
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Hive
2 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (22.22%) Big Data
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
3 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Metadata
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (33.33%) Marketing
4 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Ab Initio Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) J2EE
1 3 (33.33%) OSGi
1 3 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 3 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 3 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 2 (22.22%) Complex ETL
3 2 (22.22%) Cost Management
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
4 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Adobe
3 2 (22.22%) Ab Initio
3 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Sophos