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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 91 101
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +32
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 83 35 19
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.23% 1.60% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 1.82% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 26 14
10th Percentile £319 £346 £365
25th Percentile £404 £403 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £498 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% -2.35% +7.37%
75th Percentile £554 £613 £631
90th Percentile £592 £775 £656
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.25 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -45.36% +13.64% -15.03%

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 3,083 1,918 2,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.94% 87.90% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,812 1,240 1,286
10th Percentile £291 £275 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -9.35% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £671 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 124 203
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £50.00 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.91% -4.17% -1.77%
75th Percentile £75.00 £56.19 £51.44
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.63 £70.67
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 0 56 £429 +0.94% 9
Cheshire -1 14 £553 +33.13% 3
Cumbria -6 4 £430 - 1
Merseyside -24 3 £425 -32.00%
Lancashire -8 2 £625 - 4
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 3 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.20%) Apache
3 1 (1.20%) IIS
3 1 (1.20%) NetWeaver
3 1 (1.20%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.61%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (2.41%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (2.41%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.41%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (1.20%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (1.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 27 (32.53%) Azure
2 12 (14.46%) AWS
3 10 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
5 6 (7.23%) GCP
5 6 (7.23%) GitHub
6 5 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (6.02%) dbt
7 4 (4.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.61%) Akamai
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.61%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.61%) Serverless
9 2 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.41%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.43%) SSL
2 6 (7.23%) VSAN
3 4 (4.82%) DNS
4 3 (3.61%) HTTP
4 3 (3.61%) NAS
4 3 (3.61%) SAN
4 3 (3.61%) Skype
4 3 (3.61%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.41%) Firewall
6 1 (1.20%) DHCP
6 1 (1.20%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (36.14%) SQL Server
2 16 (19.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (16.87%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (15.66%) Relational Database
5 12 (14.46%) Oracle Database
6 8 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (9.64%) Power BI
7 7 (8.43%) MySQL
8 6 (7.23%) RDBMS
8 6 (7.23%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (6.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (6.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (4.82%) DataStage
10 4 (4.82%) Db2
10 4 (4.82%) MongoDB
10 4 (4.82%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (3.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (3.61%) Oracle Database 12c
12 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (7.23%) GitLab
2 5 (6.02%) Git
3 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.41%) Flyway
4 2 (2.41%) JDeveloper
4 2 (2.41%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.41%) Toad
General
1 14 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (14.46%) Finance
3 10 (12.05%) Social Skills
4 8 (9.64%) Banking
5 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.82%) Military
7 3 (3.61%) Law
8 2 (2.41%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.41%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (38.55%) DBA
2 24 (28.92%) SQL DBA
3 18 (21.69%) Administrator
4 15 (18.07%) Senior
5 10 (12.05%) Oracle DBA
6 8 (9.64%) Developer
7 7 (8.43%) Data Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) SQL Server DBA
8 6 (7.23%) VMware Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Consultant
9 5 (6.02%) Lead
9 5 (6.02%) Senior VMware Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) DataStage Developer
10 4 (4.82%) Security Engineer
11 3 (3.61%) Senior DevOps
11 3 (3.61%) Software Engineer
12 2 (2.41%) Database Engineer
12 2 (2.41%) Senior Integration Engineer
12 2 (2.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.02%) Kafka
2 4 (4.82%) XML
3 3 (3.61%) BAPI
3 3 (3.61%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (3.61%) Web Services
4 2 (2.41%) .NET
4 2 (2.41%) JSON
4 2 (2.41%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 2 (2.41%) Oracle Streams
4 2 (2.41%) React
4 2 (2.41%) Spring
4 2 (2.41%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.20%) Middleware
5 1 (1.20%) Pandas
5 1 (1.20%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.30%) Replication
2 19 (22.89%) Clustering
3 4 (4.82%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.61%) Blackberry
4 3 (3.61%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (3.61%) Handset
4 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.20%) FPGA
6 1 (1.20%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.48%) Windows
2 14 (16.87%) Linux
3 9 (10.84%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.23%) Unix
5 5 (6.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.82%) AIX
7 3 (3.61%) Android
8 2 (2.41%) Solaris
8 2 (2.41%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.41%) VMS
8 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.20%) HPUX
9 1 (1.20%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (1.20%) SUSE
9 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.30%) CI/CD
1 21 (25.30%) DevOps
2 20 (24.10%) Disaster Recovery
3 19 (22.89%) Data Modelling
3 19 (22.89%) ITIL
4 18 (21.69%) High Availability
5 17 (20.48%) Capacity Planning
5 17 (20.48%) Root Cause Analysis
6 15 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (16.87%) Database Tuning
8 12 (14.46%) ETL
8 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (14.46%) Migration
9 10 (12.05%) Analytics
9 10 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (10.84%) Change Management
10 9 (10.84%) Data Integration
11 8 (9.64%) Database Security
11 8 (9.64%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (57.83%) SQL
2 25 (30.12%) PowerShell
3 16 (19.28%) T-SQL
4 14 (16.87%) Python
5 11 (13.25%) PL/SQL
6 9 (10.84%) Bash
7 4 (4.82%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.61%) ABAP
8 3 (3.61%) Bicep
8 3 (3.61%) Java
9 2 (2.41%) C#
10 1 (1.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (34.94%) Security Cleared
2 27 (32.53%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.43%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.82%) Degree
5 4 (4.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.41%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.41%) VCAP
6 2 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.46%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.82%) SLA
3 2 (2.41%) GDPR
4 1 (1.20%) GRC
4 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 14 (16.87%) Oracle RAC
1 14 (16.87%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (8.43%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (8.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.23%) Docker
3 6 (7.23%) VMware NSX
3 6 (7.23%) vSphere
4 2 (2.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.20%) Firmware
5 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (16.87%) Data Guard
2 12 (14.46%) Ansible
2 12 (14.46%) Terraform
3 7 (8.43%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.43%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (7.23%) PowerCLI
5 5 (6.02%) Grafana
5 5 (6.02%) Prometheus
5 5 (6.02%) SCOM
6 4 (4.82%) Argo
7 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.61%) vCenter Server
7 3 (3.61%) vMotion
8 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 2 (2.41%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (2.41%) Istio
8 2 (2.41%) linkerd
8 2 (2.41%) Nagios
8 2 (2.41%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (2.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (30.12%) Oracle
2 24 (28.92%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.64%) ServiceNow
3 8 (9.64%) VMware
4 5 (6.02%) IBM
5 4 (4.82%) RedGate
5 4 (4.82%) SAP
5 4 (4.82%) SolarWinds
5 4 (4.82%) Teradata
6 3 (3.61%) Adobe
6 3 (3.61%) BMC
6 3 (3.61%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.61%) Remedy
7 2 (2.41%) Confluent
7 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.41%) Splunk
8 1 (1.20%) Brocade
8 1 (1.20%) HP
8 1 (1.20%) Mellanox
8 1 (1.20%) Solarflare