Performance Tuning Contracts in the North West

Performance Tuning
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Performance Tuning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 148 144
Rank change year-on-year +28 -4 -27
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 17 13 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.64% 0.42% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.46% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 30
10th Percentile £358 £397 £363
25th Percentile £485 £431 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £488 £506
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -3.70% +39.66%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £586
90th Percentile £654 £559 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -2.86% -10.64% +11.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Performance Tuning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,283 2,831 3,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.83% 90.48% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,449 1,995 2,611
10th Percentile £308 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 139 172
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.80 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £23.15 £14.44
Median hourly rate £23.50 £36.00 £23.55
Median % change year-on-year -34.72% +52.90% +27.82%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.46 £50.01
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024. 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
Cheshire +16 10 £510 -0.49% 2
Manchester +15 7 £631 +29.49% 7
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 6 (35.29%) Apache Spark
2 5 (29.41%) Apache
2 5 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.88%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP IBP
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon EMR
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (29.41%) Serverless
3 5 (29.41%) Snowflake
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.88%) Azure App Service
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) FTP
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Big Data
2 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
3 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) Metadata
3 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.76%) SAP HANA
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.88%) Impala
4 1 (5.88%) MySQL
4 1 (5.88%) SAP BW
4 1 (5.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Manufacturing
1 7 (41.18%) Pharmaceutical
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Banking
5 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Data Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Data Modeller
3 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Architect
4 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) JSON
1 5 (29.41%) XML
2 2 (11.76%) RESTful
2 2 (11.76%) SOAP
2 2 (11.76%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.88%) SAP Basis
3 1 (5.88%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
1 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
1 2 (11.76%) Derivative
1 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Unix
2 3 (17.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Analytics
1 7 (41.18%) Data Management
1 7 (41.18%) ETL
1 7 (41.18%) OO
1 7 (41.18%) OOP
1 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
3 5 (29.41%) Data Engineering
3 5 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (29.41%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (29.41%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 5 (29.41%) Scrum
3 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
5 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
5 3 (17.65%) Data Science
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 5 (29.41%) C#
3 5 (29.41%) Python
4 2 (11.76%) C
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) Bicep
5 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Informatica
1 5 (29.41%) Talend
2 2 (11.76%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle