Performance Tuning Contracts in Lancashire

Performance Tuning
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 29 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.53% 0.46% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 0.64% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £498 £509 £488
% change year-on-year -2.16% +4.41% -7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 175 157 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 88.38% 72.35% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 60 133
10th Percentile £355 £205 £326
25th Percentile £425 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £580 £638 £634
90th Percentile £654 £741 £698
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 48 61
10th Percentile £16.49 - £20.58
25th Percentile £23.32 £16.06 £29.30
Median hourly rate £40.59 £26.55 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +52.88% -42.13% +21.38%
75th Percentile £63.40 £43.10 £49.52
90th Percentile £70.93 £48.00 £57.50
North West median hourly rate £27.90 £33.61 £33.00
% change year-on-year -16.97% +1.83% +43.48%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Lancashire

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Lancashire.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in Lancashire

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Lancashire.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in Lancashire

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Blackpool - 5 £450 - 2
Performance Tuning
North West

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (60.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) ScriptRunner
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Runbook
3 2 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Bicep
2 2 (40.00%) Groovy
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Atlassian