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 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 109 124
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 +70
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 34 26 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.41% 0.93% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.15% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 25
10th Percentile £305 £389 £395
25th Percentile £411 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.23% -10.10% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £573
90th Percentile £688 £666 £610
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
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% +61.11%

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 2,103 2,255 2,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.33% 80.51% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,343 1,533 1,915
10th Percentile £220 £251 £253
25th Percentile £356 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £643 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 125 90
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.90 £12.95
25th Percentile £15.12 £14.00 £19.62
Median hourly rate £21.25 £18.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.06% -34.55% +41.03%
75th Percentile £26.86 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.75 £65.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +65.38%

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

Performance Tuning
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

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the Midlands

Performance Tuning
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

Performance Tuning
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 24 July 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 +23 30 £500 -23.08% 13
East Midlands -20 4 £465 +3.56% 1
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 7 (20.59%) Confluence
2 5 (14.71%) Apache
3 4 (11.76%) Apache Spark
3 4 (11.76%) nginx
4 3 (8.82%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) SAP GRC
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) AWS
2 9 (26.47%) Azure
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
3 5 (14.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon ELB
4 4 (11.76%) AWS KMS
4 4 (11.76%) GCP
4 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (11.76%) Route 53
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (8.82%) IaaS
6 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.94%) ChatGPT
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) IMAP
1 4 (11.76%) OpenLDAP
1 4 (11.76%) SMTP
2 3 (8.82%) Firewall
3 2 (5.88%) DNS
3 2 (5.88%) FTP
3 2 (5.88%) HTTP
3 2 (5.88%) SSH
4 1 (2.94%) BGP
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.94%) Internet
4 1 (2.94%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 7 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (11.76%) Big Data
4 4 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (8.82%) Hadoop
5 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
5 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
5 3 (8.82%) Tableau
6 2 (5.88%) DB2
6 2 (5.88%) MySQL
6 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
6 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (5.88%) Power BI
7 1 (2.94%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.94%) Impala
7 1 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) JIRA
2 5 (14.71%) Git
2 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.76%) Vagrant
4 3 (8.82%) ScriptRunner
General
1 17 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.71%) Finance
5 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.88%) Electronics
6 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.88%) Marketing
6 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Data Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Administrator
2 7 (20.59%) DBA
2 7 (20.59%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Senior
3 4 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) SQL DBA
5 2 (5.88%) Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Support Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) .NET
1 4 (11.76%) HTML
1 4 (11.76%) LDAP
2 3 (8.82%) Middleware
3 2 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.88%) Kafka
3 2 (5.88%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (5.88%) Web Services
4 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.94%) CSS
4 1 (2.94%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.94%) HTML5
4 1 (2.94%) SAP Basis
4 1 (2.94%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Replication
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.94%) IoT
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) VMS
2 5 (14.71%) Windows
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (8.82%) Unix
5 2 (5.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (26.47%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (26.47%) Migration
3 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 8 (23.53%) Data Modelling
3 8 (23.53%) DevOps
3 8 (23.53%) ETL
4 7 (20.59%) Agile
4 7 (20.59%) Analytics
4 7 (20.59%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (17.65%) Change Management
5 6 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (17.65%) Database Security
5 6 (17.65%) High Availability
6 5 (14.71%) Incident Management
6 5 (14.71%) Service Management
7 4 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 4 (11.76%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 22 (64.71%) SQL
2 8 (23.53%) Python
3 7 (20.59%) Groovy
3 7 (20.59%) PowerShell
4 4 (11.76%) C#
4 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.82%) PL/SQL
5 3 (8.82%) Scala
6 2 (5.88%) Java
7 1 (2.94%) ABAP
7 1 (2.94%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.94%) PHP
7 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (55.88%) Security Cleared
2 10 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.65%) Degree
3 6 (17.65%) DV Cleared
4 4 (11.76%) OCP
4 4 (11.76%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.88%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.94%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
2 4 (11.76%) Dovecot
2 4 (11.76%) Postfix
2 4 (11.76%) Squid
3 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.88%) DFS Replication
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (2.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Grafana
1 6 (17.65%) Terraform
2 4 (11.76%) Nessus
2 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.88%) Data Guard
4 2 (5.88%) Kibana
4 2 (5.88%) logstash
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (5.88%) Proxmox
5 1 (2.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.59%) Oracle
3 5 (14.71%) ServiceNow
4 4 (11.76%) Google
4 4 (11.76%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (11.76%) SAP
5 3 (8.82%) Atlassian
5 3 (8.82%) Cisco
5 3 (8.82%) Databricks
5 3 (8.82%) Salesforce
6 2 (5.88%) Cognos
6 2 (5.88%) IBM
7 1 (2.94%) Adobe
7 1 (2.94%) Ariba
7 1 (2.94%) Concur
7 1 (2.94%) Fortinet