Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Performance Tuning
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 15 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +6
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 1.18% 1.15% 4.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.59% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £449
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.22%
75th Percentile - - £474
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £540 - £449
% change year-on-year - - +15.87%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 70 63 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 82.35% 72.41% 72.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 33 57
10th Percentile £302 £250 £288
25th Percentile £389 £381 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -
75th Percentile £539 £523 £530
90th Percentile £675 £621 £625
Leicestershire median daily rate £425 £413 £449
% change year-on-year +3.03% -8.13% +5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £15.12 - £13.20
25th Percentile £17.50 - £15.38
Median hourly rate £18.00 - £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.20%
75th Percentile £27.25 - £25.38
90th Percentile £28.90 - £27.40
Leicestershire median hourly rate £26.70 £20.90 £22.75
% change year-on-year +27.75% -8.13% +11.19%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Leicester

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Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

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

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

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) VLDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Database Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle