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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 68 106
Rank change year-on-year -32 +38 +4
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 14 14 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.76% 1.37% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.57% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 5
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £373 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +28.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £619 £475 £375
90th Percentile £660 £650 £413
England median daily rate £500 £521 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +4.10% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £51.63 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £54.69 - -
90th Percentile £54.88 - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £67.50 £54.25
% change year-on-year +10.01% +24.42% -22.50%

All Process & 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 1,466 893 1,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 79.20% 87.29% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 463 832
10th Percentile £198 £250 £235
25th Percentile £350 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £477
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.93% -4.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £576
90th Percentile £675 £693 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 438 158 516
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.56 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.51 £20.07 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.80 £57.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -62.09% +50.84% +15.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%

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 9 March 2026.

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 9 March 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
Hertfordshire -26 6 £475 +5.56% 4
Cambridgeshire -9 3 £650 +52.94% 3
Suffolk - 3 £395 - 2
Essex - 2 - - 9
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 2 (14.29%) NetWeaver
2 1 (7.14%) Mendix
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (7.14%) IaaS
2 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Power BI
2 2 (14.29%) SAP HANA
2 2 (14.29%) Sybase ASE
3 1 (7.14%) MaxDB
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Star Schema
3 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Administrator
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
1 3 (21.43%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) SAP Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) SAP Support
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Data Visualisation Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Portal Developer
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Basis Support
3 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) SAP Basis
2 1 (7.14%) ADO
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (7.14%) SAPUI5
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) Unix
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Actionable Insight
1 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
3 3 (21.43%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Testing
3 3 (21.43%) User Experience
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (14.29%) High Availability
4 2 (14.29%) Model Validation
4 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
5 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
3 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
1 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Consul
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Dynatrace
1 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
1 3 (21.43%) SAP
2 2 (14.29%) Databricks
2 2 (14.29%) Sybase
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) VMware