Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Performance Optimisation
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 63 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.70% 0.30% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £483 - -
25th Percentile £494 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £583 - -
90th Percentile £597 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Performance Optimisation 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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 639 569 879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.25% 85.95% 90.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 359 604
10th Percentile £300 £315 £316
25th Percentile £400 £403 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £651 £678 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £517
% change year-on-year +5.26% -8.12% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 7
10th Percentile £25.10 £15.54 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.00 £18.97
Median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +52.51% +0.28%
75th Percentile £27.63 £41.50 £22.86
90th Percentile £28.30 £61.75 £39.05
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £20.71
% change year-on-year -31.88% +56.97% -1.80%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Leeds

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Performance Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) Apigee
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bundler
1 1 (20.00%) ESLint
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jasmine
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Karma Test Runner
1 1 (20.00%) Log4j
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (20.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) FoxPro Developer
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) React Developer
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) CSS3
2 1 (20.00%) DOM
2 1 (20.00%) Enzyme
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) Handlebars
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
2 1 (20.00%) JDBC
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) JMS
2 1 (20.00%) JWT
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) Mustache
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Progressive Web App
3 1 (20.00%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) SOLID
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) FoxPro (VFP)
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) IBM Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) TIBCO