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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 64 103
Rank change year-on-year -14 +39 -5
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 31 23 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.40% 2.32% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 2.58% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 7
10th Percentile £350 £413 -
25th Percentile £384 £425 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% +35.71% -36.36%
75th Percentile £594 £500 £375
90th Percentile £631 £544 £415
England median daily rate £510 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +2.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £53.13 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £55.25 - -
90th Percentile £55.40 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -21.43% +13.64% -15.03%

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 1,750 893 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.83% 90.20% 83.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 892 458 672
10th Percentile £198 £225 £205
25th Percentile £381 £383 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £681 £675 £667
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 178 614
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.93 £15.53
Median hourly rate £27.74 £37.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.52% -5.63% +81.82%
75th Percentile £68.75 £72.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.30 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.08% -23.73% +3.81%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 -14 10 £375 -16.67% 4
Cambridgeshire +8 8 £510 +10.27% 3
Essex - 7 - - 6
Norfolk -24 3 - - 2
Bedfordshire -9 2 £575 +15.00%
Suffolk - 1 £395 -
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 7 (22.58%) NetWeaver
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.23%) Apache
Business Applications
1 7 (22.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (16.13%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.45%) dbt
5 2 (6.45%) IaaS
5 2 (6.45%) PaaS
5 2 (6.45%) Serverless
5 2 (6.45%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.23%) GCP
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) SAP HANA
1 7 (22.58%) Sybase ASE
2 6 (19.35%) MaxDB
2 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
3 5 (16.13%) Power BI
4 3 (9.68%) Metadata
4 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.45%) Star Schema
6 1 (3.23%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (3.23%) MySQL
6 1 (3.23%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (3.23%) Redis
6 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) SAP Engineer
1 7 (22.58%) SAP Support
1 7 (22.58%) Support Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Administrator
2 6 (19.35%) Linux Administrator
2 6 (19.35%) SAP Basis Support
3 5 (16.13%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Security Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.45%) VMware Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) SAP Basis
2 6 (19.35%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (19.35%) SAPUI5
3 2 (6.45%) ADO
3 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.45%) GraphQL
3 2 (6.45%) Kafka
4 1 (3.23%) Django
4 1 (3.23%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.23%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.23%) JPA
4 1 (3.23%) JSON
4 1 (3.23%) JWT
4 1 (3.23%) Middleware
4 1 (3.23%) Node.js
4 1 (3.23%) OAuth
4 1 (3.23%) REST
4 1 (3.23%) RESTful
4 1 (3.23%) Spring
4 1 (3.23%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.45%) Clustering
2 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) LIMS
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (45.16%) Linux
2 8 (25.81%) Windows
3 6 (19.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (16.13%) Windows Server
5 3 (9.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
2 9 (29.03%) High Availability
3 8 (25.81%) Data Modelling
4 7 (22.58%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 7 (22.58%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (22.58%) Migration
5 6 (19.35%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (19.35%) Analytics
5 6 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (19.35%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (19.35%) DevOps
5 6 (19.35%) ETL
5 6 (19.35%) Performance Testing
5 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (16.13%) Data Engineering
6 5 (16.13%) Data Governance
6 5 (16.13%) Database Optimisation
7 4 (12.90%) Agile
7 4 (12.90%) Runbook
7 4 (12.90%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) Python
2 9 (29.03%) SQL
3 6 (19.35%) Shell Script
4 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.45%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) vSphere
2 3 (9.68%) Docker
2 3 (9.68%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Grafana
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) SAP
1 7 (22.58%) Sybase
2 6 (19.35%) Oracle
2 6 (19.35%) Red Hat
3 5 (16.13%) VMware
4 4 (12.90%) Databricks
4 4 (12.90%) Dynatrace
5 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.45%) Splunk
6 1 (3.23%) Confluent
6 1 (3.23%) Informatica
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.23%) Talend