Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Performance Optimisation
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 1.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £473 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 - -
75th Percentile £518 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £495 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60 66 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 71.43% 90.41% 82.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 45 87
10th Percentile £192 £225 £183
25th Percentile £400 £275 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £436 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% -12.90% +23.46%
75th Percentile £613 £525 £581
90th Percentile £627 £714 £699
Leicestershire median daily rate £425 £428 £475
% change year-on-year -0.58% -10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.80
25th Percentile - - £34.00
Median hourly rate £13.84 - £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.16%
75th Percentile - - £60.50
90th Percentile - - £63.20
Leicestershire median hourly rate £23.50 £24.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -2.08% +14.29% -65.00%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Leicester

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

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

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Android Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (100.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Android Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kotlin