Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Performance Tuning
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 55 83
Rank change year-on-year -1 +28 +21
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 18 12 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.77% 1.72% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 2.01% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 1
10th Percentile £369 £501 -
25th Percentile £419 £556 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £562 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% +12.30% -16.67%
75th Percentile £647 £567 £525
90th Percentile £650 £583 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £562 £400
% change year-on-year -2.05% +40.38% -33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 581 598 996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.38% 85.55% 90.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 391 686
10th Percentile £300 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £539
Median % change year-on-year - -7.19% +5.12%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 14
10th Percentile £25.05 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.13 £14.03 £15.94
Median hourly rate £25.50 £22.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% +15.79% -10.59%
75th Percentile £26.13 £37.50 £21.31
90th Percentile £26.35 £44.00 £23.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £22.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.60% +18.42% +1.60%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Leeds

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Leeds over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Leeds

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Performance Tuning
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 4 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) IaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Functions
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) GCP
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (11.11%) PaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) npm
5 1 (5.56%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.11%) Power BI
3 2 (11.11%) Power Query
3 2 (11.11%) Tableau
4 1 (5.56%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (5.56%) SAP HANA
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 4 (22.22%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) Maven
3 1 (5.56%) Mockito
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Developer
1 7 (38.89%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Android Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) JIRA Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Android Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Android Jetpack
1 5 (27.78%) Android SDK
1 5 (27.78%) Jetpack Compose
2 3 (16.67%) Dagger
2 3 (16.67%) Retrofit
3 2 (11.11%) .NET
3 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 2 (11.11%) ARM Templates
3 2 (11.11%) Blazor
3 2 (11.11%) CSS
3 2 (11.11%) CSS3
3 2 (11.11%) HTML
3 2 (11.11%) HTML5
3 2 (11.11%) React
3 2 (11.11%) RESTful
3 2 (11.11%) RxJava
3 2 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Migration
3 5 (27.78%) Android Development
3 5 (27.78%) Benchmarking
3 5 (27.78%) MVVM
3 5 (27.78%) Open Source
3 5 (27.78%) SOLID
4 4 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 3 (16.67%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.11%) Coaching
6 2 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) Kotlin
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) Groovy
4 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) Bicep
5 2 (11.11%) C#
5 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (5.56%) Go
6 1 (5.56%) Python
6 1 (5.56%) Rust
6 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) OCP
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Google
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) SAP