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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 90 100
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 +23
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 72 43 22
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.84% 1.97% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 2.23% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 34 12
10th Percentile £304 £337 £355
25th Percentile £400 £403 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £484 £472
Median % change year-on-year -11.27% +2.55% +10.94%
75th Percentile £538 £708 £575
90th Percentile £585 £771 £635
England median daily rate £510 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 £95.75 -
Median hourly rate £72.00 £96.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.39% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £97.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.25 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -45.36% +13.64% -8.74%

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 3,225 1,931 2,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.46% 88.46% 83.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,838 1,279 1,120
10th Percentile £295 £275 £294
25th Percentile £402 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.01% -6.77% -2.50%
75th Percentile £599 £575 £578
90th Percentile £675 £680 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 134 107
10th Percentile £14.93 £13.61 £16.40
25th Percentile £22.65 £17.32 £29.00
Median hourly rate £46.80 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.08% -40.82% +28.79%
75th Percentile £71.91 £49.84 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.25 £72.70
England median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%

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 26 September 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
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 26 September 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 +16 57 £420 +4.51% 30
Cheshire -12 8 £525 -22.74% 11
Merseyside -19 2 - - 3
Lancashire -24 2 £625 +38.97% 2
Cumbria - 2 £600 -
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 5 (6.94%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.78%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (2.78%) SAS
3 1 (1.39%) IIS
3 1 (1.39%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 5 (6.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.78%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.78%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.39%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (1.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 27 (37.50%) Azure
2 15 (20.83%) Power Platform
3 14 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (13.89%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (8.33%) AWS
6 5 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (5.56%) GitHub
7 4 (5.56%) Power Automate
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.17%) GCP
8 3 (4.17%) Serverless
9 2 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.78%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.67%) SSL
2 4 (5.56%) Skype
3 1 (1.39%) DHCP
3 1 (1.39%) DNS
3 1 (1.39%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.39%) Firewall
3 1 (1.39%) NAS
3 1 (1.39%) Network Security
3 1 (1.39%) SAN
3 1 (1.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 17 (23.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (19.44%) Power BI
4 13 (18.06%) Relational Database
5 12 (16.67%) MySQL
6 10 (13.89%) Oracle Database
7 6 (8.33%) DataStage
7 6 (8.33%) Db2
8 5 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (6.94%) RDBMS
8 5 (6.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (5.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (2.78%) InterSystems Cache
11 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 2 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (2.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Git
1 3 (4.17%) GitLab
1 3 (4.17%) Toad
2 2 (2.78%) JDeveloper
2 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.44%) Finance
3 12 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.11%) Banking
5 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.17%) Law
6 3 (4.17%) Military
7 2 (2.78%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.39%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.39%) Retail
8 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (43.06%) DBA
2 24 (33.33%) SQL DBA
3 18 (25.00%) Administrator
4 11 (15.28%) Developer
5 9 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
6 8 (11.11%) Lead
7 6 (8.33%) Consultant
7 6 (8.33%) Senior
8 5 (6.94%) DataStage Developer
8 5 (6.94%) SQL Server DBA
9 4 (5.56%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.56%) SC Cleared DBA
10 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) Software Engineer
11 2 (2.78%) ABAP Consultant
11 2 (2.78%) Business Consultant
11 2 (2.78%) Oracle Consultant
11 2 (2.78%) SAP Consultant
11 2 (2.78%) SAS Developer
11 2 (2.78%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.33%) Terraform
2 5 (6.94%) Kafka
3 4 (5.56%) SAP Fiori
3 4 (5.56%) XML
4 3 (4.17%) BAPI
4 3 (4.17%) REST
4 3 (4.17%) Web Services
5 2 (2.78%) .NET
5 2 (2.78%) JSON
5 2 (2.78%) Oracle Streams
5 2 (2.78%) React
5 2 (2.78%) SAP Basis
5 2 (2.78%) Spring
5 2 (2.78%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.39%) Middleware
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (1.39%) SAP PI
6 1 (1.39%) SAPUI5
6 1 (1.39%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.61%) Replication
2 15 (20.83%) Clustering
3 4 (5.56%) Blackberry
3 4 (5.56%) Handset
4 3 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.39%) FMCG
6 1 (1.39%) FPGA
6 1 (1.39%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.22%) Windows
2 11 (15.28%) Windows Server
3 7 (9.72%) Linux
3 7 (9.72%) Unix
4 4 (5.56%) Android
5 3 (4.17%) AIX
5 3 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.39%) HPUX
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.39%) Solaris
7 1 (1.39%) SUSE
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (34.72%) DevOps
2 21 (29.17%) ITIL
3 20 (27.78%) Data Modelling
4 15 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (20.83%) CI/CD
5 14 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (18.06%) ETL
7 12 (16.67%) Data Integration
7 12 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 12 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (15.28%) Database Tuning
8 11 (15.28%) Disaster Recovery
8 11 (15.28%) Migration
9 10 (13.89%) Change Management
9 10 (13.89%) High Availability
10 8 (11.11%) Analytics
10 8 (11.11%) Data Migration
11 7 (9.72%) Agile
11 7 (9.72%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 46 (63.89%) SQL
2 22 (30.56%) T-SQL
3 17 (23.61%) PowerShell
4 8 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 7 (9.72%) Python
6 6 (8.33%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.56%) ABAP
8 3 (4.17%) Java
9 2 (2.78%) Bash
9 2 (2.78%) C#
10 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.39%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 31 (43.06%) Security Cleared
2 29 (40.28%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.89%) Azure Certification
3 10 (13.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (12.50%) Degree
4 9 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 9 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.78%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.44%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.94%) SLA
3 2 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (18.06%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (15.28%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (4.17%) Docker
4 2 (2.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.39%) Firmware
5 1 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (15.28%) Data Guard
2 10 (13.89%) SCOM
3 4 (5.56%) Ansible
3 4 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (4.17%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (2.78%) Argo
5 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (2.78%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (2.78%) Grafana
5 2 (2.78%) Nagios
5 2 (2.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.39%) NetApp OnCommand
6 1 (1.39%) Packer
6 1 (1.39%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (1.39%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.39%) vMotion
Vendors
1 29 (40.28%) Microsoft
2 25 (34.72%) Oracle
3 13 (18.06%) ServiceNow
4 7 (9.72%) IBM
5 6 (8.33%) Teradata
6 5 (6.94%) SAP
7 3 (4.17%) Adobe
7 3 (4.17%) VMware
8 2 (2.78%) BMC
8 2 (2.78%) Confluent
8 2 (2.78%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.78%) Remedy
9 1 (1.39%) Cisco
9 1 (1.39%) Databricks
9 1 (1.39%) HP
9 1 (1.39%) Mellanox
9 1 (1.39%) Solarflare
9 1 (1.39%) Splunk
9 1 (1.39%) Sybase