Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in the North East

Performance Optimisation
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 35 34
Rank change year-on-year -41 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.13% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.43% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £430 £345
Median % change year-on-year +24.88% +24.64% -
England median daily rate £530 £483 £581
% change year-on-year +9.74% -16.99% +11.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 627 231 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.05% 78.57% 82.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 143 107
10th Percentile £313 £205 £265
25th Percentile £368 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £470
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -1.60% -6.00%
75th Percentile £575 £572 £589
90th Percentile £658 £638 £685
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 18 24
10th Percentile £17.00 - £11.50
25th Percentile £43.96 £11.60 £17.94
Median hourly rate £67.50 £17.15 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year +293.59% -35.00% +1.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.46 £50.00
90th Percentile - £47.93 £70.00
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in the North East

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Performance Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 28 July 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -41 1 £537 +24.88% 2
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) PowerCenter
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle