Performance Optimisation Contracts in the Midlands

Performance Optimisation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 105 128 157
Rank change year-on-year +23 +29 +42
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 6 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.31% 0.18% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.22% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £386 £402 £587
25th Percentile £428 £464 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £588 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% -9.62% +33.33%
75th Percentile £583 £697 £675
90th Percentile £605 £751 £686
England median daily rate £523 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +10.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £27.13 £57.57 £52.13
% change year-on-year -52.88% +10.44% +7.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +14 3 £550 +52.78% 22
East Midlands +11 3 £410 -39.82% 10
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (50.00%) Moodle
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) npm
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) HBase
1 1 (16.67%) Impala
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) PHPUnit
2 3 (50.00%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (16.67%) Grunt
3 1 (16.67%) gulp
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Moodle Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Scala Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) JSON
2 3 (50.00%) Behat
2 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (33.33%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) Ajax
4 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) CSS3
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) HTML5
4 1 (16.67%) jQuery
4 1 (16.67%) JWT
4 1 (16.67%) LESS
4 1 (16.67%) Node.js
4 1 (16.67%) OAuth
4 1 (16.67%) SAML
4 1 (16.67%) Sass
4 1 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (16.67%) XHR
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) e-Learning
1 3 (50.00%) VLE
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (50.00%) Data Management
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) API Design
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) PHP
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Apex Code
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft
1 1 (16.67%) Perforce
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce