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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 87 102
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 +27
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 25 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.93% 0.59% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 0.72% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 7
10th Percentile £425 £325 £390
25th Percentile £475 £347 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £525 £466 £469
90th Percentile £585 £475 £513
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -7.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £56.63
25th Percentile - - £59.06
Median hourly rate - - £66.25
75th Percentile - - £71.56
90th Percentile - - £72.88
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £68.75
% change year-on-year +13.64% -10.40% +57.14%

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 1,160 1,247 1,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.44% 81.50% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 457 879
10th Percentile £200 £200 £225
25th Percentile £377 £306 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £442 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £628
90th Percentile £687 £638 £727
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 383 360
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.41 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +101.92% -3.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.90 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

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
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 18 September 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 18 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
Hertfordshire +7 8 £500 +25.00% 3
Norfolk - 8 £500 - 2
Cambridgeshire +2 6 £500 +17.65% 6
Bedfordshire - 2 £500 - 2
Suffolk - 1 £500 - 1
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 6 (24.00%) NetWeaver
2 3 (12.00%) Confluence
3 2 (8.00%) Anypoint
3 2 (8.00%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (24.00%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) IaaS
4 2 (8.00%) PaaS
4 2 (8.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Wireless
2 1 (4.00%) 802.11
2 1 (4.00%) BGP
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (4.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) LAN
2 1 (4.00%) Multicast
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) OSPF
2 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.00%) VLAN
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.00%) Wireless Security
2 1 (4.00%) WLAN
2 1 (4.00%) WPA2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) SAP HANA
2 6 (24.00%) SAP BW
3 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (8.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (8.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (8.00%) Sqoop
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (4.00%) Big Data
6 1 (4.00%) MySQL
6 1 (4.00%) Power BI
6 1 (4.00%) PowerCenter
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (4.00%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
2 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Administrator
2 3 (12.00%) Consultant
2 3 (12.00%) Lead
2 3 (12.00%) SAP Administrator
2 3 (12.00%) SAP Basis Administrator
2 3 (12.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 3 (12.00%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (12.00%) Technical Leader
3 2 (8.00%) Informatica Administrator
3 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 1 (4.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Backend Developer
4 1 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (4.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (4.00%) DBA
4 1 (4.00%) Developer
4 1 (4.00%) SQL DBA
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Developer
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Tableau Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) SAP Basis
1 6 (24.00%) SAP Fiori
2 4 (16.00%) REST
2 4 (16.00%) SOAP
3 2 (8.00%) JWT
3 2 (8.00%) Kafka
3 2 (8.00%) MUnit
3 2 (8.00%) OAuth
3 2 (8.00%) Web Services
4 1 (4.00%) .NET
4 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.00%) 802.1X
4 1 (4.00%) MediatR
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Linux
2 6 (24.00%) Unix
3 1 (4.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Agile
2 6 (24.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (24.00%) Problem Management
2 6 (24.00%) SAP Security
3 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (16.00%) Database Security
4 4 (16.00%) ETL
4 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.00%) Analytics
5 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Migration
5 3 (12.00%) Workload Management
6 2 (8.00%) Data Modelling
6 2 (8.00%) Data Security
6 2 (8.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (8.00%) OO
6 2 (8.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) Bash
3 3 (12.00%) Perl
4 2 (8.00%) DataWeave
4 2 (8.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) HiveQL
5 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) CCNP
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) CloudHub
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) SAP
2 4 (16.00%) Informatica
3 3 (12.00%) Google
3 3 (12.00%) IBM
3 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.00%) MuleSoft
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle
4 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.00%) AirMagnet
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco
5 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.00%) Ekahau
5 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.00%) Juniper
5 1 (4.00%) Meraki
5 1 (4.00%) Teradata