Performance Optimisation Contracts in the North of England

Performance Optimisation
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Performance Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 202 228
Rank change year-on-year +29 +26 -45
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 12 15 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.26% 0.26% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.28% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 11
10th Percentile - £391 £369
25th Percentile £413 £410 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -32.80% +73.61%
75th Percentile £550 £513 £663
90th Percentile £654 £585 -
England median daily rate £575 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +18.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £52.13 -
England median hourly rate £57.57 £52.13 £48.50
% change year-on-year +10.44% +7.48% +50.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Performance Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,026 5,268 6,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.79% 90.69% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 3,659 4,646
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 207 257
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.45%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £29.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.07
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +23 8 £425 +1.19% 9
Yorkshire +21 4 £550 +10.00% 6
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 3 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (25.00%) Jupyter
1 3 (25.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (25.00%) CloudBees
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
2 3 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Data Lake
2 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (25.00%) ClickHouse
3 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Data Modeller
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cassandra Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Database Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Apache Beam
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
1 3 (25.00%) Keycloak
2 2 (16.67%) PySpark
3 1 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 7 (58.33%) Data Integration
4 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 4 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
5 3 (25.00%) Data Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
5 3 (25.00%) ETL
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Open Source
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Go
2 3 (25.00%) Groovy
2 3 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) Ruby
2 3 (25.00%) Scala
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (25.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
1 3 (25.00%) Grafana
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce