Performance Tuning Contracts in the North of England

Performance Tuning
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 147 184
Rank change year-on-year +54 +37 -7
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 78 33 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.35% 0.70% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 0.83% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 24 20
10th Percentile £357 £403 £359
25th Percentile £388 £422 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £552
90th Percentile £650 £651 £589
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,986 3,985 5,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.91% 84.73% 90.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,922 2,416 3,435
10th Percentile £265 £300 £303
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +4.44%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 380 205
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.99 £12.53 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.34 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +30.04% -30.18% +45.44%
75th Percentile £51.00 £45.96 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £62.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the North of England

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the North of England

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the North of England

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the North of England

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 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 +33 43 £500 -1.96% 45
Yorkshire +41 37 £400 -5.88% 25
North East - 4 £650 - 3
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
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 18 (23.08%) Confluence
2 4 (5.13%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (5.13%) IIS
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.13%) Skype for Business
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.56%) SAS
3 2 (2.56%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.56%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.56%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.28%) Apache
4 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.28%) SAP CAR
2 1 (1.28%) SAP POS DM
2 1 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.38%) AWS
2 8 (10.26%) Azure
3 7 (8.97%) GCP
3 7 (8.97%) OCI
4 4 (5.13%) IaaS
5 3 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.56%) IBM Cloud
6 2 (2.56%) npm
7 1 (1.28%) Miro
7 1 (1.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) DHCP
1 4 (5.13%) DNS
1 4 (5.13%) PSTN
1 4 (5.13%) Skype
1 4 (5.13%) SMTP
2 2 (2.56%) Calico
3 1 (1.28%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (37.18%) Oracle Database
2 12 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (10.26%) SAP HANA
4 7 (8.97%) Siebel EIM
5 4 (5.13%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.85%) MySQL
6 3 (3.85%) Oracle Database 10g
6 3 (3.85%) Oracle Database 11g
6 3 (3.85%) Power BI
7 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.28%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.28%) SAP BW
8 1 (1.28%) SQLite
8 1 (1.28%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 9 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.26%) JIRA
3 5 (6.41%) Git
3 5 (6.41%) ScriptRunner
4 3 (3.85%) GitLab
5 2 (2.56%) Maven
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.28%) DBeaver
6 1 (1.28%) Flyway
6 1 (1.28%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.28%) Toad
General
1 36 (46.15%) Finance
2 22 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 20 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (21.79%) Banking
5 13 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.69%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (25.64%) Developer
2 10 (12.82%) Commvault Engineer
3 9 (11.54%) Backup Engineer
3 9 (11.54%) Data Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) ABAP Developer
4 8 (10.26%) Database Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 8 (10.26%) SAP Developer
5 6 (7.69%) Data Protection Engineer
5 6 (7.69%) Senior
5 6 (7.69%) Siebel Developer
6 5 (6.41%) Administrator
6 5 (6.41%) Architect
6 5 (6.41%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Collaboration Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.13%) VMWare Administrator
7 4 (5.13%) Wintel Administrator
8 3 (3.85%) JIRA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (19.23%) Web Services
2 8 (10.26%) BAPI
3 7 (8.97%) JMS
3 7 (8.97%) SOAP
4 4 (5.13%) Middleware
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (2.56%) RESTful
6 1 (1.28%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.28%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.28%) CSS
6 1 (1.28%) CSS3
6 1 (1.28%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.28%) HTML
6 1 (1.28%) HTML5
6 1 (1.28%) Kafka
6 1 (1.28%) Node.js
6 1 (1.28%) PySpark
6 1 (1.28%) React
6 1 (1.28%) REST
6 1 (1.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.13%) Blackberry
2 4 (5.13%) Handset
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle Licensing
4 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.28%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.28%) IoT
4 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.28%) NHS
4 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.79%) Linux
2 8 (10.26%) Windows Server 2019
3 6 (7.69%) Android
4 5 (6.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.13%) Unix
5 4 (5.13%) Windows
5 4 (5.13%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.13%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.56%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (34.62%) Migration
3 19 (24.36%) Change Management
4 17 (21.79%) Problem Management
5 13 (16.67%) Agile
6 12 (15.38%) Data Migration
6 12 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
7 11 (14.10%) CI/CD
7 11 (14.10%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (11.54%) Process Improvement
9 8 (10.26%) Containerisation
9 8 (10.26%) Data Modelling
9 8 (10.26%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (10.26%) OO
9 8 (10.26%) SDLC
10 7 (8.97%) Data Protection
10 7 (8.97%) EAI
10 7 (8.97%) ETL
11 6 (7.69%) End-to-End Testing
11 6 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.08%) Python
1 18 (23.08%) SQL
2 14 (17.95%) Shell Script
3 10 (12.82%) PL/SQL
4 8 (10.26%) ABAP
5 5 (6.41%) Groovy
5 5 (6.41%) Ruby
6 3 (3.85%) Java
7 2 (2.56%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.28%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.28%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.28%) Korn
8 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.28%) Scala
8 1 (1.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 29 (37.18%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (6.41%) RHCE
5 4 (5.13%) OCP
5 4 (5.13%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (5.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.56%) Degree
7 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.28%) IBM Certification
7 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.28%) MCSA
7 1 (1.28%) MCSE
7 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.28%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) SLA
2 2 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.56%) GDPR
2 2 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (14.10%) Docker
2 9 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.69%) vSphere
4 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.13%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (15.38%) Ansible
1 12 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 12 (15.38%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Clustering
2 4 (5.13%) NetApp OnCommand
2 4 (5.13%) vCenter Server
2 4 (5.13%) vMotion
2 4 (5.13%) WSUS
3 3 (3.85%) Terraform
4 2 (2.56%) Data Guard
4 2 (2.56%) Istio
4 2 (2.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 38 (48.72%) Oracle
2 17 (21.79%) Commvault
3 13 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 9 (11.54%) SAP
4 9 (11.54%) VMware
5 7 (8.97%) Siebel
6 5 (6.41%) Atlassian
6 5 (6.41%) Red Hat
7 4 (5.13%) Clearswift
7 4 (5.13%) Ribbon
8 3 (3.85%) Databricks
8 3 (3.85%) Google
8 3 (3.85%) IBM
9 1 (1.28%) IBM Sterling
9 1 (1.28%) NCR
9 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.28%) Toshiba