Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Essex

Performance Tuning
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 3.89% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £351 - -
25th Percentile £352 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £354 - -
75th Percentile £367 - -
90th Percentile £375 - -
East of England median daily rate £510 £475 £350
% change year-on-year +7.37% +35.71% -35.63%
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 - -
East of England median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 93 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 78.99% 94.90% 81.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 43 92
10th Percentile £300 £196 £194
25th Percentile £350 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £506 £474 £554
90th Percentile £589 £500 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £440
% change year-on-year - +13.70% -8.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 20 53
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £10.76
25th Percentile £16.04 £17.47 £15.98
Median hourly rate £20.26 £27.58 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.55% -49.86% +23.51%
75th Percentile £35.53 £44.90 £80.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £128.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £30.58 £36.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.06% -10.00% +90.48%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Essex

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 19 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
Basildon - 6 £354 -
Performance Tuning
East of England

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 (70.00%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 8 (80.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) IaaS
2 2 (20.00%) PaaS
2 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) dbt
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) npm
3 1 (10.00%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SAP HANA
1 7 (70.00%) Sybase ASE
2 6 (60.00%) MaxDB
2 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Redis
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) SAP Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) SAP Support
1 7 (70.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) SAP Basis Support
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Angular Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) SAP Basis
2 6 (60.00%) SAP Fiori
2 6 (60.00%) SAPUI5
3 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) JWT
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (10.00%) RxJS
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (10.00%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Unix
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) High Availability
2 7 (70.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 7 (70.00%) Migration
3 5 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) Database Optimisation
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Runbook
5 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
6 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
6 2 (20.00%) Microservices
6 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
6 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (20.00%) SAP Security
7 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (10.00%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) SAP
2 7 (70.00%) Sybase
3 6 (60.00%) Oracle
4 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace