Performance Optimisation Contracts in Manchester

Performance Optimisation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 89 113
Rank change year-on-year +18 +24 +17
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 8 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.86% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.53% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 4
10th Percentile £401 £393 -
25th Percentile £441 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £425 £420
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +1.19% -32.80%
75th Percentile £495 £506 £491
90th Percentile £508 £620 £602
North West median daily rate £492 £425 £420
% change year-on-year +15.76% +1.19% -32.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Manchester

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in Manchester

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in Manchester

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Stockport - 1 - - 2
Performance Optimisation
North West

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (25.00%) SAS
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) 3GPP
1 1 (12.50%) 4G
1 1 (12.50%) 5G
1 1 (12.50%) LTE
1 1 (12.50%) MIMO
1 1 (12.50%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) Parquet
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Flyway
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Liquibase
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) SAP Architect
2 2 (25.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) SAS Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) SAP PI
2 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) EMC VNX
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (12.50%) IBM XIV
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (50.00%) ETL
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Quality Management
4 2 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) SAP Implementation
4 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) MuleSoft
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) EMC
2 1 (12.50%) Huawei
2 1 (12.50%) IBM