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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 98 124
Rank change year-on-year +3 +26 +3
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 35 20 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.63% 0.84% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 1.01% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 10 14
10th Percentile £323 £395 £312
25th Percentile £381 £426 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £509 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% +19.76% -14.14%
75th Percentile £520 £600 £561
90th Percentile £775 £644 £601
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -7.08%

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 1,901 1,978 2,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.75% 83.46% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 1,161 1,686
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% -0.50% -
75th Percentile £552 £588 £595
90th Percentile £657 £688 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 106 164
10th Percentile £13.51 £16.68 £15.83
25th Percentile £17.34 £28.75 £18.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +59.09%
75th Percentile £48.94 £57.88 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.68 £70.90 £66.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning 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 15 September 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
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 15 September 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 +5 10 £402 -30.09% 13
Cheshire -18 10 £492 +23.00% 20
Merseyside - 6 £750 - 3
Lancashire +2 5 £450 -14.29% 10
Cumbria - 4 - -
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
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 4 (11.43%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (11.43%) Confluence
1 4 (11.43%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (11.43%) Skype for Business
2 2 (5.71%) IIS
2 2 (5.71%) WebSphere
2 2 (5.71%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.86%) Apache
3 1 (2.86%) JBoss
3 1 (2.86%) Mule
3 1 (2.86%) Mule ESB
3 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.86%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) AWS
2 8 (22.86%) Azure
3 4 (11.43%) GCP
3 4 (11.43%) Snowflake
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (8.57%) dbt
4 3 (8.57%) Prefect
4 3 (8.57%) Serverless
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (5.71%) GitHub
5 2 (5.71%) IaaS
5 2 (5.71%) IBM Cloud
5 2 (5.71%) npm
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) PSTN
1 4 (11.43%) Skype
1 4 (11.43%) SMTP
2 2 (5.71%) Calico
2 2 (5.71%) DHCP
2 2 (5.71%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (11.43%) Siebel EIM
3 3 (8.57%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (5.71%) MySQL
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.86%) Big Data
5 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.86%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.86%) Parquet
5 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.86%) Power BI
5 1 (2.86%) Redis
5 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Git
2 4 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.43%) JIRA
3 3 (8.57%) GitLab
3 3 (8.57%) ScriptRunner
4 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.71%) JUnit
4 2 (5.71%) Maven
5 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (25.71%) Public Sector
2 8 (22.86%) Banking
2 8 (22.86%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Developer
2 5 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Senior
3 4 (11.43%) Collaboration Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Data Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) DBA
3 4 (11.43%) Siebel Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Administrator
4 3 (8.57%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) Exchange Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) SQL DBA
5 2 (5.71%) VMWare Administrator
5 2 (5.71%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) Web Services
2 4 (11.43%) JMS
2 4 (11.43%) SOAP
3 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.71%) HTML
3 2 (5.71%) Kafka
3 2 (5.71%) Node.js
3 2 (5.71%) React
3 2 (5.71%) REST
3 2 (5.71%) RESTful
3 2 (5.71%) Spring
3 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
3 2 (5.71%) Vue
4 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.86%) Bootstrap
4 1 (2.86%) CSS3
4 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.86%) PySpark
4 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Blackberry
1 4 (11.43%) Handset
2 3 (8.57%) Clustering
2 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (31.43%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) Android
2 6 (17.14%) Windows Server 2019
3 5 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.71%) Windows
4 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) CI/CD
2 10 (28.57%) Migration
3 9 (25.71%) Agile
3 9 (25.71%) DevOps
4 7 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
6 5 (14.29%) High Availability
6 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 5 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (14.29%) Resource Management
6 5 (14.29%) SDLC
7 4 (11.43%) Analytics
7 4 (11.43%) Change Management
7 4 (11.43%) Cloud Security
7 4 (11.43%) Data Engineering
7 4 (11.43%) Data Transformation
7 4 (11.43%) EAI
7 4 (11.43%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (45.71%) SQL
2 8 (22.86%) PL/SQL
2 8 (22.86%) Python
3 7 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 5 (14.29%) Ruby
5 3 (8.57%) Groovy
5 3 (8.57%) Java
5 3 (8.57%) T-SQL
6 2 (5.71%) Bicep
7 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.86%) Korn
7 1 (2.86%) PHP
7 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 14 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) RHCE
4 2 (5.71%) Degree
5 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.86%) MCSA
5 1 (2.86%) MCSE
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) SLA
2 4 (11.43%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.71%) QA
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Docker
2 3 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (17.14%) Terraform
3 2 (5.71%) Istio
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (5.71%) NetApp OnCommand
3 2 (5.71%) vCenter Server
3 2 (5.71%) vMotion
3 2 (5.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.14%) Oracle
3 5 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 4 (11.43%) Clearswift
4 4 (11.43%) Ribbon
4 4 (11.43%) Siebel
5 3 (8.57%) Atlassian
6 2 (5.71%) IBM
6 2 (5.71%) VMware
7 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.86%) Databricks
7 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.86%) Google
7 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.86%) Splunk