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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 40 55
Rank change year-on-year -21 +15 +27
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 7 24 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.92% 3.20% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 3.90% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 14
10th Percentile £406 £383 £436
25th Percentile £406 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £449 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% -14.48% -5.41%
75th Percentile £430 £566 £584
90th Percentile £487 £590 £588
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -8.70%

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 651 615 722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.43% 82.11% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 404 526
10th Percentile £225 £265 £213
25th Percentile £340 £362 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% -9.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £610
90th Percentile £625 £625 £700
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.96% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 34 46
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.74 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -38.57% +49.68%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.06 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

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
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 5 September 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 -15 4 £416 +4.06% 1
Nottinghamshire -2 1 £520 -13.33% 3
Derbyshire -3 1 - - 1
Leicestershire -5 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 3 (42.86%) Apache
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (14.29%) ChatGPT
1 1 (14.29%) dbt
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Hive
1 3 (42.86%) Big Data
1 3 (42.86%) Hadoop
1 3 (42.86%) HBase
1 3 (42.86%) Metadata
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Hadoop Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Scala Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SQL DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Data Science
3 3 (42.86%) MapReduce
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Metadata Management
3 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (14.29%) Release Management
5 1 (14.29%) Service Management
5 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Scala
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) HDFS
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (42.86%) Oozie
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow