Performance Tuning Contracts in the North West

Performance Tuning
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 109 131
Rank change year-on-year +20 +22 +16
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 37 21 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.76% 0.76% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 0.90% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 15 12
10th Percentile £350 £380 £269
25th Percentile £406 £499 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +13.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £550
90th Percentile £775 £656 £556
England median daily rate £500 £510 £527
% change year-on-year -1.96% -3.13% -9.46%

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 1,863 2,335 2,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.59% 84.51% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,231 1,421 1,912
10th Percentile £296 £300 £313
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.04%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £669 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 264 153
10th Percentile £13.02 £11.00 £15.80
25th Percentile £19.02 £15.43 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.90 £30.50 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -0.13% +29.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.18 £44.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £67.23 £58.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the North West

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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the North West.

Hourly rate trend 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 5 July 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
Merseyside - 11 £625 - 5
Cheshire -7 10 £415 -18.63% 10
Manchester +10 7 £435 -31.09% 63
Cumbria - 4 - - 2
Lancashire 0 2 - - 14
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 (10.81%) Confluence
1 4 (10.81%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (10.81%) Skype for Business
2 2 (5.41%) IIS
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (5.41%) SAS
2 2 (5.41%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.41%) WebSphere
2 2 (5.41%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.70%) Apache
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) AWS
2 7 (18.92%) Azure
3 3 (8.11%) GCP
4 2 (5.41%) IaaS
4 2 (5.41%) IBM Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) npm
4 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.70%) GitHub
5 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) PSTN
1 4 (10.81%) Skype
1 4 (10.81%) SMTP
2 2 (5.41%) Calico
2 2 (5.41%) DHCP
2 2 (5.41%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) Siebel EIM
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database 10g
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database 11g
2 3 (8.11%) SAP HANA
3 2 (5.41%) MySQL
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (5.41%) Power BI
3 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.70%) Big Data
4 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.70%) Parquet
4 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.70%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
1 4 (10.81%) JIRA
2 3 (8.11%) GitLab
2 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.11%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (5.41%) Maven
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.70%) Flyway
4 1 (2.70%) JUnit
4 1 (2.70%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.70%) Toad
General
1 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 13 (35.14%) Banking
2 13 (35.14%) Finance
3 11 (29.73%) Public Sector
4 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Developer
2 7 (18.92%) Siebel Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Collaboration Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior
5 3 (8.11%) ABAP Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Architect
5 3 (8.11%) Exchange Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (8.11%) SAP Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) Applications Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Oracle Applications Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) SAS Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) VMWare Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (29.73%) Web Services
2 8 (21.62%) JMS
2 8 (21.62%) SOAP
3 3 (8.11%) BAPI
4 2 (5.41%) Kafka
4 2 (5.41%) Middleware
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (5.41%) React
4 2 (5.41%) REST
4 2 (5.41%) RESTful
5 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.70%) CSS
5 1 (2.70%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.70%) HTML
5 1 (2.70%) HTML5
5 1 (2.70%) Node.js
5 1 (2.70%) PySpark
5 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Blackberry
1 4 (10.81%) Handset
2 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.70%) IoT
2 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (45.95%) Linux
2 6 (16.22%) Android
2 6 (16.22%) Windows Server 2019
3 5 (13.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (8.11%) Unix
5 2 (5.41%) Apple iOS
5 2 (5.41%) Solaris
5 2 (5.41%) Windows
5 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Migration
2 11 (29.73%) Agile
3 9 (24.32%) SDLC
4 8 (21.62%) Data Modelling
4 8 (21.62%) EAI
5 7 (18.92%) End-to-End Testing
5 7 (18.92%) Requirements Gathering
6 6 (16.22%) Change Management
6 6 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (16.22%) System Integration Testing
7 5 (13.51%) ETL
7 5 (13.51%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
8 4 (10.81%) Knowledge Transfer
8 4 (10.81%) Performance Monitoring
8 4 (10.81%) Problem Management
8 4 (10.81%) Scrum
9 3 (8.11%) Data Integration
9 3 (8.11%) OO
9 3 (8.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) SQL
2 11 (29.73%) PL/SQL
3 9 (24.32%) Python
4 7 (18.92%) Shell Script
5 5 (13.51%) Ruby
6 4 (10.81%) Java
7 3 (8.11%) ABAP
7 3 (8.11%) Groovy
8 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.70%) Korn
8 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (62.16%) Security Cleared
2 21 (56.76%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) RHCE
4 4 (10.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.70%) Degree
5 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.70%) MCSA
5 1 (2.70%) MCSE
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) SLA
2 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
2 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Istio
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (5.41%) NetApp OnCommand
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) vCenter Server
2 2 (5.41%) vMotion
2 2 (5.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) Oracle
2 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
3 8 (21.62%) Siebel
4 5 (13.51%) Red Hat
5 4 (10.81%) Clearswift
5 4 (10.81%) Ribbon
6 3 (8.11%) Atlassian
6 3 (8.11%) SAP
7 2 (5.41%) IBM
7 2 (5.41%) VMware
8 1 (2.70%) Databricks
8 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow