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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 98 121
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 -2
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 40 19 25
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.66% 0.82% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 0.98% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 12 17
10th Percentile £337 £360 £318
25th Percentile £382 £402 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £509 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% +13.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £703 £616 £550
90th Percentile £718 £636 £595
England median daily rate £513 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -6.82% +5.97% -5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £76.41 - -
25th Percentile £79.63 - -
Median hourly rate £85.38 - -
75th Percentile £91.50 - -
90th Percentile £94.95 - -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year +21.15% +2.67% -

All Process and 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 2,113 1,946 2,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.75% 83.48% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,391 1,051 1,689
10th Percentile £215 £294 £270
25th Percentile £361 £391 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £593
90th Percentile £678 £656 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 109 166
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.78 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.19 £18.00
Median hourly rate £29.27 £40.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.41% +15.21% +49.64%
75th Percentile £46.29 £55.79 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.45 £70.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +27.14%

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 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
Manchester +1 17 £390 -33.62% 27
Cheshire -13 14 £705 +98.03% 7
Merseyside - 5 £625 -
Lancashire -7 4 £450 -14.29% 5
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 6 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (5.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) IIS
3 1 (2.50%) JBoss
3 1 (2.50%) Mule
3 1 (2.50%) Mule ESB
3 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) AWS
3 6 (15.00%) dbt
3 6 (15.00%) Prefect
3 6 (15.00%) Snowflake
4 4 (10.00%) GCP
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (7.50%) Serverless
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.00%) GitHub
6 2 (5.00%) IBM Cloud
6 2 (5.00%) npm
6 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Calico
2 1 (2.50%) DHCP
2 1 (2.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) SAP HANA
2 7 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (17.50%) Snowflake Schema
2 7 (17.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.00%) Power BI
5 2 (5.00%) Siebel EIM
6 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.50%) MySQL
6 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.50%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (2.50%) Redis
6 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Git
2 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.50%) GitLab
4 2 (5.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.00%) JUnit
4 2 (5.00%) Maven
5 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 8 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Banking
3 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Consultant
2 11 (27.50%) Developer
3 10 (25.00%) ABAP Consultant
3 10 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
4 7 (17.50%) Development Consultant
5 6 (15.00%) Data Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) DBA
7 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior
8 2 (5.00%) Administrator
8 2 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Dynamics AX Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (32.50%) Web Services
2 10 (25.00%) BAPI
2 10 (25.00%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (7.50%) Spring
3 3 (7.50%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.00%) ARM Templates
4 2 (5.00%) JMS
4 2 (5.00%) RESTful
4 2 (5.00%) SOAP
5 1 (2.50%) .NET
5 1 (2.50%) HTML
5 1 (2.50%) J2EE
5 1 (2.50%) JSON
5 1 (2.50%) JWT
5 1 (2.50%) Kafka
5 1 (2.50%) Middleware
5 1 (2.50%) OAuth
5 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.50%) Vue
5 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Clustering
2 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.50%) CUDA
4 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Android
2 2 (5.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.50%) VMS
3 1 (2.50%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (30.00%) DevOps
3 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 10 (25.00%) Process Improvement
5 8 (20.00%) Analytics
5 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (17.50%) Agile
6 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (17.50%) Data Engineering
6 7 (17.50%) Data Science
6 7 (17.50%) Resource Management
7 6 (15.00%) Data Transformation
8 5 (12.50%) High Availability
8 5 (12.50%) Migration
9 4 (10.00%) Business Analytics
9 4 (10.00%) ETL
9 4 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 4 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) SQL
2 10 (25.00%) ABAP
3 9 (22.50%) PL/SQL
4 5 (12.50%) Python
5 4 (10.00%) T-SQL
6 3 (7.50%) Java
6 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.00%) Bicep
7 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.00%) X++
8 1 (2.50%) C
8 1 (2.50%) C#
8 1 (2.50%) C++
8 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.50%) Korn
8 1 (2.50%) PHP
8 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.50%) Ruby
8 1 (2.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 15 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) MCSA
4 1 (2.50%) MCSE
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.50%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (22.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.50%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) Istio
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.50%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.50%) vMotion
4 1 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Adobe
1 10 (25.00%) SAP
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle
4 2 (5.00%) IBM
4 2 (5.00%) Siebel
5 1 (2.50%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.50%) Google
5 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.50%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk
5 1 (2.50%) VMware