Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in the North West

Performance Tuning
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 86 114
Rank change year-on-year -13 +28 +27
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 62 42 19
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.86% 2.16% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 2.40% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 31 14
10th Percentile £304 £335 £373
25th Percentile £384 £432 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -1.96% +7.37%
75th Percentile £568 £520 £631
90th Percentile £588 £625 £656
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +0.05% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -21.43% +13.64% -15.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,772 1,752 2,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.27% 90.08% 85.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,656 1,145 1,449
10th Percentile £300 £300 £306
25th Percentile £395 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £561 £588
90th Percentile £670 £662 £676
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 97 263
10th Percentile £17.09 £13.88 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.72 £14.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.40 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.92% +16.92% -25.71%
75th Percentile £74.26 £63.40 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £84.80 £66.61
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
% change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Tuning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in the North West

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the North West

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Tuning in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the North West

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 May 2026. 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 -8 41 £413 -5.17% 7
Cheshire -12 11 £555 +55.90% 2
Cumbria -8 4 £430 -
Lancashire -12 1 £575 - 4
Merseyside -26 1 £425 -29.17% 2
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.61%) Apache
3 1 (1.61%) IIS
3 1 (1.61%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (1.61%) Elite 3E
3 1 (1.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (27.42%) Azure
2 13 (20.97%) AWS
3 6 (9.68%) dbt
3 6 (9.68%) Serverless
4 5 (8.06%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (8.06%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (8.06%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (8.06%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (6.45%) GCP
5 4 (6.45%) GitHub
5 4 (6.45%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.84%) Akamai
6 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.84%) Prefect
7 2 (3.23%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.68%) VSAN
2 4 (6.45%) DNS
2 4 (6.45%) Firewall
3 3 (4.84%) HTTP
3 3 (4.84%) NAS
3 3 (4.84%) SAN
3 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.23%) 802.11
4 2 (3.23%) BGP
4 2 (3.23%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (3.23%) EIGRP
4 2 (3.23%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (3.23%) IPsec
4 2 (3.23%) MPLS
4 2 (3.23%) OSPF
4 2 (3.23%) VLAN
4 2 (3.23%) VPN
4 2 (3.23%) VXLAN
4 2 (3.23%) WAN
4 2 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.35%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 11 (17.74%) Relational Database
3 9 (14.52%) Oracle Database
3 9 (14.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (12.90%) Snowflake Schema
5 6 (9.68%) RDBMS
6 5 (8.06%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (8.06%) Power BI
7 4 (6.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (6.45%) MongoDB
7 4 (6.45%) Oracle Exadata
7 4 (6.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (6.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (3.23%) DataStage
8 2 (3.23%) DB2
8 2 (3.23%) DTS
8 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Git
2 7 (11.29%) GitLab
3 2 (3.23%) Flyway
3 2 (3.23%) Gradle
3 2 (3.23%) JDeveloper
3 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.23%) Liquibase
3 2 (3.23%) Maven
4 1 (1.61%) JUnit
4 1 (1.61%) Mockito
General
1 10 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (9.68%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.06%) Banking
3 5 (8.06%) Finance
3 5 (8.06%) Law
3 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.45%) Military
5 2 (3.23%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.61%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Senior
2 14 (22.58%) DBA
3 9 (14.52%) Data Engineer
3 9 (14.52%) SQL DBA
4 6 (9.68%) Administrator
4 6 (9.68%) Developer
4 6 (9.68%) VMware Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Security Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Snowflake Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) SQL Server DBA
7 3 (4.84%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Java Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (4.84%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Java Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) React
1 5 (8.06%) Spring
1 5 (8.06%) Spring Boot
1 5 (8.06%) XML
2 3 (4.84%) GraphQL
2 3 (4.84%) Web Services
3 2 (3.23%) 802.1X
3 2 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.23%) JSON
3 2 (3.23%) Kafka
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (3.23%) Spring Security
4 1 (1.61%) .NET
4 1 (1.61%) Middleware
4 1 (1.61%) Pandas
4 1 (1.61%) REST
4 1 (1.61%) RESTful
4 1 (1.61%) SOAP
4 1 (1.61%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.58%) Clustering
2 12 (19.35%) Replication
3 3 (4.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.74%) Linux
1 11 (17.74%) Windows
2 4 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.84%) AIX
3 3 (4.84%) Unix
4 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.23%) VMS
4 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.61%) Solaris
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (35.48%) CI/CD
2 15 (24.19%) Data Modelling
3 13 (20.97%) Capacity Planning
3 13 (20.97%) DevOps
3 13 (20.97%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (19.35%) High Availability
4 12 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (17.74%) ETL
6 10 (16.13%) Analytics
6 10 (16.13%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (11.29%) Database Tuning
8 7 (11.29%) Migration
8 7 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (11.29%) Workflow
9 6 (9.68%) Agile
9 6 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (9.68%) ITIL
9 6 (9.68%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 30 (48.39%) SQL
2 19 (30.65%) PowerShell
3 13 (20.97%) Python
4 11 (17.74%) PL/SQL
5 9 (14.52%) Bash
6 8 (12.90%) Java
6 8 (12.90%) T-SQL
7 3 (4.84%) Bicep
8 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.61%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.61%) C#
9 1 (1.61%) Perl
9 1 (1.61%) SOQL
9 1 (1.61%) SOSL
9 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (17.74%) SC Cleared
1 11 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.84%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.23%) VCAP
3 2 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.74%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.84%) SLA
3 1 (1.61%) GRC
3 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 9 (14.52%) Docker
1 9 (14.52%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (11.29%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (9.68%) VMware NSX
3 6 (9.68%) vSphere
4 4 (6.45%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.61%) Firmware
5 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (16.13%) Ansible
1 10 (16.13%) Terraform
2 6 (9.68%) PowerCLI
3 5 (8.06%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (6.45%) Data Guard
4 4 (6.45%) Kubernetes
5 3 (4.84%) Grafana
5 3 (4.84%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.84%) vCenter Server
5 3 (4.84%) vMotion
6 2 (3.23%) Argo
6 2 (3.23%) Istio
6 2 (3.23%) Kibana
6 2 (3.23%) linkerd
6 2 (3.23%) logstash
6 2 (3.23%) vRealize
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.61%) NetApp OnCommand
7 1 (1.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (1.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (17.74%) Oracle
2 8 (12.90%) VMware
3 7 (11.29%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.45%) RedGate
4 4 (6.45%) SolarWinds
5 3 (4.84%) BMC
5 3 (4.84%) Cisco
5 3 (4.84%) IBM
5 3 (4.84%) Remedy
6 2 (3.23%) Splunk
6 2 (3.23%) Teradata
7 1 (1.61%) Brocade
7 1 (1.61%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.61%) Reuters
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.61%) Sybase
7 1 (1.61%) Workday