Performance Optimisation Contracts in the North of England

Performance Optimisation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation 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 127 172 205
Rank change year-on-year +45 +33 +17
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 39 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.18% 0.27% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.32% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 7
10th Percentile £431 - £391
25th Percentile £463 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £425 £420
Median % change year-on-year +15.76% +1.19% -32.80%
75th Percentile £594 £525 £513
90th Percentile £638 £650 £585
England median daily rate £523 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +10.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £52.13
England median hourly rate £27.13 £57.57 £52.13
% change year-on-year -52.88% +10.44% +7.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the North of England

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the North of England

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the North of England

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the North of England

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +32 24 £492 +15.76% 57
Yorkshire +17 13 £513 -6.82% 18
North East - 1 £430 - 7
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (12.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.13%) SAS
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (41.03%) Azure
2 12 (30.77%) GCP
3 9 (23.08%) AWS
4 5 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (12.82%) OneDrive
5 4 (10.26%) Google Compute Engine
6 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) Firewall
1 4 (10.26%) HTTPS
2 3 (7.69%) Network Security
3 2 (5.13%) BGP
3 2 (5.13%) MPLS
3 2 (5.13%) OSPF
3 2 (5.13%) VLAN
3 2 (5.13%) VPN
4 1 (2.56%) 3GPP
4 1 (2.56%) 4G
4 1 (2.56%) 5G
4 1 (2.56%) DWDM
4 1 (2.56%) LTE
4 1 (2.56%) MIMO
4 1 (2.56%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (2.56%) SNA
4 1 (2.56%) SSH
4 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) BigQuery
1 4 (10.26%) Tableau
2 3 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 3 (7.69%) Data Mining
2 3 (7.69%) Power BI
3 2 (5.13%) Essbase
3 2 (5.13%) Metadata
3 2 (5.13%) Power Query
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.56%) Big Data
4 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.56%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.56%) MySQL
4 1 (2.56%) Parquet
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Flyway
1 1 (2.56%) Git
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
1 1 (2.56%) Liquibase
General
1 22 (56.41%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Banking
2 6 (15.38%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (53.85%) Architect
2 5 (12.82%) Data Architect
3 4 (10.26%) Senior
3 4 (10.26%) Senior Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) GCP Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Senior Data Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Essbase Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Network Designer
5 2 (5.13%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) SAP Architect
5 2 (5.13%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.13%) SAS Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) D3.js
1 3 (7.69%) JDBC
1 3 (7.69%) OAuth
1 3 (7.69%) OAuth2
1 3 (7.69%) OpenID
1 3 (7.69%) SOAP
2 2 (5.13%) MDX
2 2 (5.13%) SAP PI
3 1 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.56%) ISPF
3 1 (2.56%) Kafka
3 1 (2.56%) PySpark
3 1 (2.56%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.69%) PKI
3 3 (7.69%) Taxonomies
4 2 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.13%) Mainframe
4 2 (5.13%) NHS
5 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.56%) EMC VNX
5 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.56%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.56%) IBM XIV
5 1 (2.56%) IoT
5 1 (2.56%) LPAR
5 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Unix
1 2 (5.13%) zOS
2 1 (2.56%) AIX
2 1 (2.56%) Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Solaris
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (28.21%) Data Governance
3 10 (25.64%) Data Protection
3 10 (25.64%) Mentoring
3 10 (25.64%) Technical Leadership
4 9 (23.08%) Agile
5 8 (20.51%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (20.51%) Data Science
5 8 (20.51%) ETL
6 7 (17.95%) Software Engineering
7 6 (15.38%) Analytics
7 6 (15.38%) Data Modelling
7 6 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
8 5 (12.82%) Data Engineering
8 5 (12.82%) Data Loss Prevention
8 5 (12.82%) DevOps
8 5 (12.82%) Identity Management
8 5 (12.82%) Migration
8 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (12.82%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.95%) Python
2 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.82%) SQL
3 4 (10.26%) Scala
4 3 (7.69%) Java
4 3 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (5.13%) JCL
5 2 (5.13%) REXX
6 1 (2.56%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.56%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.56%) Bash
6 1 (2.56%) CLIST
6 1 (2.56%) Go
6 1 (2.56%) Korn
6 1 (2.56%) Perl
6 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Degree
1 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.13%) CCIE
3 2 (5.13%) CCNP
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.13%) JNCIE
3 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.56%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) GDPR
2 3 (7.69%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.56%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (2.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.56%) NCSC
4 1 (2.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
1 1 (2.56%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (2.56%) Microcode
1 1 (2.56%) Time Sharing Option
1 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Terraform
2 3 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.13%) Ansible
3 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.56%) Nagios
4 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.56%) Puppet
4 1 (2.56%) SCCM
4 1 (2.56%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.82%) Databricks
2 5 (12.82%) Oracle
3 4 (10.26%) Google
3 4 (10.26%) IBM
4 3 (7.69%) Cisco
4 3 (7.69%) ForgeRock
4 3 (7.69%) Ping Identity
5 2 (5.13%) Commvault
5 2 (5.13%) F5
5 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.13%) MuleSoft
5 2 (5.13%) SAP
6 1 (2.56%) EMC
6 1 (2.56%) Huawei
6 1 (2.56%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.56%) Splunk