Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Newport

Performance Optimisation
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newport requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 6.94% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £683 - -
25th Percentile £694 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £744 - -
90th Percentile £748 - -
South Wales median daily rate £700 £226 -
% change year-on-year +209.73% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60 31 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 83.33% 88.57% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 11 26
10th Percentile £363 £265 £133
25th Percentile £375 £285 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £325
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +38.46% -40.64%
75th Percentile £495 £519 £600
90th Percentile £603 £600 £625
South Wales median daily rate £475 £400 £488
% change year-on-year +18.75% -17.95% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 21
10th Percentile £34.81 £24.38 £14.36
25th Percentile £45.27 £33.75 £20.12
Median hourly rate £50.00 £41.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% +83.33% +24.04%
75th Percentile £55.00 £45.00 £73.75
90th Percentile - - £87.80
South Wales median hourly rate £21.50 £16.00 £20.24
% change year-on-year +34.38% -20.93% +7.55%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Optimisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport.

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Newport

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Performance Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JMeter
1 3 (60.00%) MSTest
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
1 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Military
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Automation Tester
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Automation Tester
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Tester
2 3 (60.00%) Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 5 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 4 (80.00%) Project Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Test Strategy
2 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (80.00%) User Experience
3 3 (60.00%) Architectural Design
3 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (60.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (40.00%) AI
4 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (20.00%) CRM
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (60.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 5 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft