Performance Optimisation Contracts in the North West

Performance Optimisation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 96 128 145
Rank change year-on-year +32 +17 +17
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 24 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.22% 0.33% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.38% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 5
10th Percentile £444 £403 £382
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 £560 £438 £430
90th Percentile £638 £598 £577
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Cheshire - 11 £475 - 10
Manchester +18 8 £472 +10.94% 40
Merseyside - 5 £625 - 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (20.83%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.33%) SAS
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 6 (25.00%) GCP
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (20.83%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) HTTPS
2 2 (8.33%) BGP
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) MPLS
2 2 (8.33%) Network Security
2 2 (8.33%) OSPF
2 2 (8.33%) VLAN
2 2 (8.33%) VPN
3 1 (4.17%) 3GPP
3 1 (4.17%) 4G
3 1 (4.17%) 5G
3 1 (4.17%) LTE
3 1 (4.17%) MIMO
3 1 (4.17%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Tableau
2 3 (12.50%) Data Mining
3 2 (8.33%) Essbase
3 2 (8.33%) Metadata
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.17%) Big Data
4 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.17%) MySQL
4 1 (4.17%) Parquet
4 1 (4.17%) Power BI
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Flyway
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) Liquibase
General
1 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Banking
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Senior Architect
3 3 (12.50%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Data Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Designer
4 2 (8.33%) Essbase Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Network Designer
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) SAP Architect
4 2 (8.33%) SAP Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) SAS Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) D3.js
1 3 (12.50%) JDBC
1 3 (12.50%) OAuth
1 3 (12.50%) OAuth2
1 3 (12.50%) OpenID
1 3 (12.50%) SOAP
2 2 (8.33%) MDX
2 2 (8.33%) SAP PI
3 1 (4.17%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 3 (12.50%) PKI
1 3 (12.50%) Taxonomies
2 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) EMC VNX
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.17%) IBM XIV
3 1 (4.17%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Mentoring
2 9 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (29.17%) Data Governance
5 6 (25.00%) Agile
5 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
6 5 (20.83%) Data Loss Prevention
6 5 (20.83%) Data Protection
6 5 (20.83%) Migration
6 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
6 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (20.83%) Technical Architecture
6 5 (20.83%) Zero Trust
7 4 (16.67%) Data Architecture
7 4 (16.67%) Data Integration
7 4 (16.67%) Data Science
7 4 (16.67%) Data Strategy
7 4 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
1 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) Java
2 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (8.33%) CCIE
4 2 (8.33%) CCNP
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.33%) JNCIE
4 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle
3 3 (12.50%) ForgeRock
3 3 (12.50%) Ping Identity
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco
4 2 (8.33%) F5
4 2 (8.33%) Fortinet
4 2 (8.33%) MuleSoft
4 2 (8.33%) SAP
5 1 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) EMC
5 1 (4.17%) Huawei
5 1 (4.17%) IBM