Performance Tuning Contracts in Manchester

Performance Tuning
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning 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 74 89 108
Rank change year-on-year +15 +19 +13
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 5 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% 0.46% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.53% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile £401 £409 £311
25th Percentile £441 £516 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £619 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.80% +30.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £495 £656 £550
90th Percentile £508 - £551
North West median daily rate £500 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -1.96% +7.37% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in Manchester

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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 (40.00%) SAS
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) Parquet
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Flyway
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Liquibase
1 1 (20.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SAS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Security
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Re-Platforming
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Groovy
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow