Performance Optimisation Contracts in the North West

Performance Optimisation
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 146 165
Rank change year-on-year +13 +19 -28
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 8 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.29% 0.37% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.41% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 12
10th Percentile £398 £382 £384
25th Percentile £413 £410 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £420 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -32.80% +81.16%
75th Percentile £472 £430 £663
90th Percentile £609 £577 -
England median daily rate £558 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +7.21% -13.33% +20.00%
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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,400 2,922 3,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.42% 90.97% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,555 2,080 2,592
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £406 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 149 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.73 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.16 £20.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £54.00 £65.15 £59.38
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the North West

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the North West

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the North West over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the North West

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the North West

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Manchester +21 6 £425 +1.19% 7
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Data Lake
2 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (37.50%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) MariaDB
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) OLTP
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Data Modeller
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) Visualforce
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) Data Integration
2 6 (75.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Data Management
4 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
5 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) Microservices
5 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Apex Code
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce