Performance Tuning Contracts in the East of England

Performance Tuning
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 68 105 98
Rank change year-on-year +37 -7 +29
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 14 7 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.49% 0.37% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 0.43% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 17
10th Percentile £413 - £250
25th Percentile £422 £325 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £538
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -34.88% +7.50%
75th Percentile £503 £375 £550
90th Percentile £569 - -
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.25
25th Percentile - - £46.88
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 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 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the East of England

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the East of England

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the East of England

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the East of England

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 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
Cambridgeshire - 8 £463 - 23
Hertfordshire +27 6 £450 +28.57% 13
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (28.57%) NetWeaver
2 3 (21.43%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) 802.11
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) LAN
1 1 (7.14%) Multicast
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) SNMP
1 1 (7.14%) VLAN
1 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (7.14%) Wireless
1 1 (7.14%) Wireless Security
1 1 (7.14%) WLAN
1 1 (7.14%) WPA2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) SAP BW
1 4 (28.57%) SAP HANA
2 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Tableau
3 1 (7.14%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Artifactory
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Consultant
1 5 (35.71%) SAP Consultant
2 4 (28.57%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) DBA
3 2 (14.29%) MongoDB DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) SAP PI Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Tableau Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) SAP Basis
2 4 (28.57%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (7.14%) 802.1X
3 1 (7.14%) Redfish
3 1 (7.14%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Replication
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
1 4 (28.57%) Problem Management
1 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (28.57%) SAP Security
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
2 3 (21.43%) Workload Management
3 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (14.29%) Security Patching
3 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (7.14%) Data Security
4 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) Perl
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) C
5 1 (7.14%) C++
5 1 (7.14%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) CCNP
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Firmware
2 1 (7.14%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (7.14%) KVM
2 1 (7.14%) QEMU
2 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (7.14%) HAProxy
3 1 (7.14%) Nagios
3 1 (7.14%) Puppet
3 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) SAP
2 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 3 (21.43%) Google
3 3 (21.43%) IBM
4 1 (7.14%) AirMagnet
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) Dell
4 1 (7.14%) Ekahau
4 1 (7.14%) HP
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.14%) Sun