Performance Tuning Contracts in the Midlands

Performance Tuning
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 93 118 148
Rank change year-on-year +25 +30 +48
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 18 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.94% 0.54% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.66% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 16
10th Percentile £265 £404 £388
25th Percentile £431 £555 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +17.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £688 £613 £553
90th Percentile £700 £796 £580
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.73 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £72.50
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.03% +56.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 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 Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning 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 Tuning in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning 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 Tuning in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the Midlands

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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 Tuning 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 +22 16 £600 - 28
East Midlands +5 2 £410 -28.70% 9
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
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 6 (33.33%) IIS
2 4 (22.22%) Apache
3 3 (16.67%) Confluence
4 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) BGP
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (5.56%) Internet
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 4 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (11.11%) Big Data
3 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
3 2 (11.11%) MySQL
3 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.11%) Tableau
4 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) HBase
4 1 (5.56%) Impala
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
1 3 (16.67%) ScriptRunner
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Legal
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Applications Support
3 3 (16.67%) Applications Support Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Big Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) DBA
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) JIRA Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Build Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) JIRA Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Build Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) HTML
1 6 (33.33%) Middleware
2 3 (16.67%) .NET
3 2 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (44.44%) Incident Management
3 6 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (27.78%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (22.22%) Migration
6 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (16.67%) Time Management
7 2 (11.11%) Analytics
7 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (11.11%) Data Architecture
7 2 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 2 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 2 (11.11%) High Availability
7 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
7 2 (11.11%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) C#
3 3 (16.67%) Groovy
4 2 (11.11%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) Scala
5 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.11%) OCP
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Grafana
1 2 (11.11%) Kibana
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.11%) logstash
2 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.56%) SCCM
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Atlassian
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) Juniper
4 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow