Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Performance Tuning
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.83% 0.62% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 0.66% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £650 £475 -
% change year-on-year +36.84% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 151 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 86.30% 93.21% 85.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 73 93
10th Percentile £200 £317 £350
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £549 £590 £625
90th Percentile £630 £670 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £463 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -2.63% -6.86% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 6
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.50 £18.19
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -6.33% +19.70%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.88
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.75
% change year-on-year +4.05% -6.33% +22.06%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Newcastle upon Tyne

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) IaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) ScriptRunner
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Atlassian