Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Performance Tuning
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 77 109
Rank change year-on-year -2 +32 +16
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 19 10 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.33% 0.76% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 0.95% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 5
10th Percentile - £413 £385
25th Percentile £475 £416 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% +21.58%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £425
90th Percentile £660 £675 £433
England median daily rate £513 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -6.82% +5.97% -5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year +21.15% +2.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,273 1,048 1,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.33% 80.00% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 418 900
10th Percentile £194 £225 £225
25th Percentile £363 £316 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £556 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 224 377
10th Percentile £13.92 £15.00 £14.10
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £26.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +31.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £75.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +27.14%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Tuning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in the East of England

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the East of England over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the East of England

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
Norfolk - 8 £500 -
Hertfordshire -9 5 £500 +11.11% 2
Cambridgeshire -6 2 £650 +52.94% 3
Bedfordshire - 2 £500 -
Suffolk - 2 £500 -
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (21.05%) NetWeaver
2 2 (10.53%) Anypoint
2 2 (10.53%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (21.05%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) IaaS
3 2 (10.53%) PaaS
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) BGP
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) OSPF
1 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.26%) VPN
1 1 (5.26%) WAN
1 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) SAP HANA
2 4 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (21.05%) SAP BW
3 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
4 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
4 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
4 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
4 2 (10.53%) Sqoop
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
5 1 (5.26%) MySQL
5 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (5.26%) Power BI
5 1 (5.26%) PowerCenter
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) GitLab
General
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) SAP Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) SAP Basis Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) Technical Leader
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Informatica Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) DBA
4 1 (5.26%) Portal Developer
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) SQL DBA
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Developer
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) REST
1 4 (21.05%) SAP Basis
1 4 (21.05%) SAP Fiori
1 4 (21.05%) SOAP
2 2 (10.53%) JWT
2 2 (10.53%) Kafka
2 2 (10.53%) MUnit
2 2 (10.53%) OAuth
2 2 (10.53%) Web Services
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.26%) MediatR
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) React
3 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
1 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
1 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Unix
3 2 (10.53%) Windows
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (21.05%) Agile
2 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
2 4 (21.05%) Database Security
2 4 (21.05%) ETL
2 4 (21.05%) Incident Response
2 4 (21.05%) Problem Management
2 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (21.05%) SAP Security
3 3 (15.79%) API Development
3 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
3 3 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Migration
3 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
4 2 (10.53%) OOD
4 2 (10.53%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) DataWeave
2 2 (10.53%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) HiveQL
3 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) CCNP
1 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) CloudHub
2 1 (5.26%) Consul
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) SAP
2 4 (21.05%) Informatica
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) MuleSoft
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.26%) Juniper
4 1 (5.26%) Meraki
4 1 (5.26%) Teradata