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 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 90 121
Rank change year-on-year -9 +31 +26
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 58 34 16
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.81% 1.77% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 1.96% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 24 11
10th Percentile £336 £341 £425
25th Percentile £402 £462 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +7.37%
75th Percentile £564 £534 £581
90th Percentile £588 £625 £656
England median daily rate £500 £500 £518
% change year-on-year - -3.38% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £77.00 - -
25th Percentile £83.75 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.38 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -35.18% +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 2,675 1,739 2,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.46% 90.34% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,663 1,116 1,526
10th Percentile £275 £288 £306
25th Percentile £375 £393 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £589
90th Percentile £653 £665 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 109 245
10th Percentile £20.29 £16.21 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.72 £13.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% +52.38% -40.00%
75th Percentile £72.37 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.78 £57.50
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 38 £500 +6.04% 7
Cheshire -9 11 £555 +58.57% 5
Cumbria +3 4 £430 -
Merseyside -24 1 £425 -29.17% 1
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 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) IIS
2 1 (1.72%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.72%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 20 (34.48%) Azure
2 15 (25.86%) AWS
3 11 (18.97%) GCP
4 7 (12.07%) Power Platform
5 6 (10.34%) dbt
6 5 (8.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (6.90%) Power Automate
7 4 (6.90%) Serverless
8 3 (5.17%) Akamai
8 3 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.17%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.17%) Prefect
9 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.45%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.45%) GitHub
9 2 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) VSAN
2 4 (6.90%) DNS
3 3 (5.17%) Firewall
3 3 (5.17%) HTTP
3 3 (5.17%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.45%) 802.11
4 2 (3.45%) BGP
4 2 (3.45%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (3.45%) EIGRP
4 2 (3.45%) IPsec
4 2 (3.45%) MPLS
4 2 (3.45%) NAS
4 2 (3.45%) OSPF
4 2 (3.45%) SAN
4 2 (3.45%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.45%) VLAN
4 2 (3.45%) VPN
4 2 (3.45%) VXLAN
4 2 (3.45%) WAN
4 2 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (17.24%) Snowflake Schema
2 10 (17.24%) SQL Server
3 8 (13.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (12.07%) Power BI
5 5 (8.62%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (6.90%) Oracle Database
6 4 (6.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (5.17%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.45%) DynamoDB
8 2 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Git
2 4 (6.90%) GitLab
3 2 (3.45%) Flyway
3 2 (3.45%) Gradle
3 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.45%) Liquibase
3 2 (3.45%) Maven
4 1 (1.72%) JUnit
4 1 (1.72%) Mockito
General
1 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (15.52%) Banking
3 7 (12.07%) Finance
4 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Law
6 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.72%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
7 1 (1.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (24.14%) Senior
2 10 (17.24%) DBA
3 9 (15.52%) Data Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) SQL DBA
5 6 (10.34%) Developer
5 6 (10.34%) VMware Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Security Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Senior VMware Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Snowflake Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Administrator
8 3 (5.17%) Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Java Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) SQL Server DBA
9 2 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) Kafka
2 3 (5.17%) GraphQL
2 3 (5.17%) React
2 3 (5.17%) Spring
2 3 (5.17%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.45%) 802.1X
3 2 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.45%) Spring Security
4 1 (1.72%) Jest
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.72%) Pandas
4 1 (1.72%) React Native
4 1 (1.72%) REST
4 1 (1.72%) RESTful
4 1 (1.72%) SOAP
4 1 (1.72%) Swagger
4 1 (1.72%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.72%) Web Services
4 1 (1.72%) XML
4 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.59%) Clustering
2 11 (18.97%) Replication
3 3 (5.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.72%) CUDA
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Windows
2 9 (15.52%) Linux
3 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.17%) Unix
5 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.45%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.45%) VMS
5 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.72%) AIX
6 1 (1.72%) Solaris
6 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.59%) CI/CD
1 16 (27.59%) Data Modelling
1 16 (27.59%) High Availability
2 15 (25.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (22.41%) Capacity Planning
4 12 (20.69%) Analytics
4 12 (20.69%) ETL
4 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (17.24%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (15.52%) Containerisation
6 9 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (13.79%) DevOps
7 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (10.34%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (10.34%) Data Science
9 6 (10.34%) Event-Driven
9 6 (10.34%) ITIL
9 6 (10.34%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 28 (48.28%) SQL
2 19 (32.76%) Python
3 17 (29.31%) PowerShell
4 10 (17.24%) Java
5 9 (15.52%) PL/SQL
6 7 (12.07%) Bash
6 7 (12.07%) T-SQL
7 3 (5.17%) Bicep
8 2 (3.45%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.72%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.72%) C
9 1 (1.72%) C++
9 1 (1.72%) Perl
9 1 (1.72%) SOQL
9 1 (1.72%) SOSL
9 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
1 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.45%) VCAP
2 2 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.41%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.17%) SLA
3 1 (1.72%) GRC
3 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) Docker
2 8 (13.79%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (12.07%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (12.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (10.34%) VMware NSX
4 6 (10.34%) vSphere
5 3 (5.17%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) Ansible
1 9 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.34%) PowerCLI
2 6 (10.34%) Terraform
3 4 (6.90%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (5.17%) Data Guard
4 3 (5.17%) Grafana
4 3 (5.17%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.17%) vCenter Server
4 3 (5.17%) vMotion
5 2 (3.45%) Argo
5 2 (3.45%) Istio
5 2 (3.45%) Kibana
5 2 (3.45%) linkerd
5 2 (3.45%) logstash
5 2 (3.45%) vRealize
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.72%) NetApp OnCommand
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.07%) VMware
3 6 (10.34%) Oracle
4 4 (6.90%) Confluent
4 4 (6.90%) RedGate
4 4 (6.90%) SolarWinds
5 3 (5.17%) BMC
5 3 (5.17%) Remedy
6 2 (3.45%) Cisco
6 2 (3.45%) Google
6 2 (3.45%) IBM
6 2 (3.45%) Splunk
6 2 (3.45%) Teradata
7 1 (1.72%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.72%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.72%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.72%) Reuters
7 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.72%) Sybase
7 1 (1.72%) Workday