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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 88 116
Rank change year-on-year -19 +28 +22
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 67 38 19
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.91% 1.87% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 2.10% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 29 15
10th Percentile £304 £352 £380
25th Percentile £384 £408 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -1.96% +13.33%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £629 £775 £656
England median daily rate £512 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.30% -4.76% -0.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.38 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -35.18% +13.64% -13.54%

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 2,934 1,808 2,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.61% 88.76% 84.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,715 1,201 1,430
10th Percentile £300 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% -8.18% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £565 £585
90th Percentile £675 £665 £675
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 110 265
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.06 £14.22
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.88 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.84% +6.27% -1.77%
75th Percentile £76.00 £62.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.24 £66.61
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.65%

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 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Tuning in the North West over the 6 months to 28 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 28 June 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 +1 44 £401 -7.93% 10
Cheshire -2 12 £559 +34.64% 3
Cumbria -10 4 £430 -
Lancashire -7 2 £625 - 8
Merseyside -24 1 £425 -32.00%
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 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) IIS
3 1 (1.49%) NetWeaver
3 1 (1.49%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.49%) Elite 3E
3 1 (1.49%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (1.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (31.34%) Azure
2 14 (20.90%) AWS
3 6 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.96%) dbt
3 6 (8.96%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.96%) Serverless
4 5 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (7.46%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (7.46%) GCP
4 5 (7.46%) GitHub
5 4 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.48%) Akamai
6 3 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.48%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.99%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) VSAN
2 4 (5.97%) DNS
3 3 (4.48%) Firewall
3 3 (4.48%) HTTP
3 3 (4.48%) NAS
3 3 (4.48%) SAN
3 3 (4.48%) SSL
3 3 (4.48%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.49%) 802.11
4 1 (1.49%) BGP
4 1 (1.49%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.49%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.49%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.49%) IPsec
4 1 (1.49%) MPLS
4 1 (1.49%) Network Security
4 1 (1.49%) VLAN
4 1 (1.49%) VPN
4 1 (1.49%) WAN
4 1 (1.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.37%) SQL Server
2 13 (19.40%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (19.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (17.91%) Relational Database
4 9 (13.43%) Oracle Database
5 7 (10.45%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (8.96%) Power BI
6 6 (8.96%) RDBMS
7 5 (7.46%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (7.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (7.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (5.97%) MongoDB
8 4 (5.97%) MySQL
8 4 (5.97%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (4.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (4.48%) DataStage
9 3 (4.48%) Db2
10 2 (2.99%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Git
2 7 (10.45%) GitLab
3 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.99%) Flyway
4 2 (2.99%) Gradle
4 2 (2.99%) JDeveloper
4 2 (2.99%) Liquibase
4 2 (2.99%) Maven
5 1 (1.49%) JUnit
5 1 (1.49%) Mockito
General
1 12 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (14.93%) Finance
3 8 (11.94%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.96%) Banking
5 5 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.97%) Law
6 4 (5.97%) Military
7 2 (2.99%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.49%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (26.87%) DBA
2 15 (22.39%) Senior
3 13 (19.40%) SQL DBA
4 9 (13.43%) Administrator
4 9 (13.43%) Data Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Developer
6 6 (8.96%) SQL Server DBA
6 6 (8.96%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Senior VMware Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Security Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Consultant
9 3 (4.48%) DataStage Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Oracle DBA
9 3 (4.48%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (4.48%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.46%) React
1 5 (7.46%) Spring
1 5 (7.46%) Spring Boot
2 4 (5.97%) Kafka
2 4 (5.97%) XML
3 3 (4.48%) GraphQL
3 3 (4.48%) Web Services
4 2 (2.99%) .NET
4 2 (2.99%) JSON
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 2 (2.99%) Spring Security
5 1 (1.49%) BAPI
5 1 (1.49%) Middleware
5 1 (1.49%) Pandas
5 1 (1.49%) REST
5 1 (1.49%) RESTful
5 1 (1.49%) SAP Basis
5 1 (1.49%) SOAP
5 1 (1.49%) Visualforce
5 1 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.37%) Clustering
2 15 (22.39%) Replication
3 3 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.40%) Windows
2 11 (16.42%) Linux
3 6 (8.96%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.97%) Unix
5 3 (4.48%) AIX
6 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.99%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.99%) VMS
6 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.49%) Solaris
7 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.31%) CI/CD
2 20 (29.85%) DevOps
3 16 (23.88%) Data Modelling
4 15 (22.39%) Capacity Planning
4 15 (22.39%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (19.40%) High Availability
5 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (17.91%) ETL
6 12 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (14.93%) Analytics
7 10 (14.93%) Migration
7 10 (14.93%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (13.43%) ITIL
9 8 (11.94%) Agile
9 8 (11.94%) Database Tuning
10 7 (10.45%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (10.45%) Data Integration
10 7 (10.45%) Data Migration
10 7 (10.45%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 35 (52.24%) SQL
2 23 (34.33%) PowerShell
3 14 (20.90%) Python
4 13 (19.40%) T-SQL
5 11 (16.42%) PL/SQL
6 9 (13.43%) Bash
7 7 (10.45%) Java
8 3 (4.48%) Bicep
8 3 (4.48%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.99%) C#
10 1 (1.49%) ABAP
10 1 (1.49%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.49%) Perl
10 1 (1.49%) SOQL
10 1 (1.49%) SOSL
10 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (22.39%) SC Cleared
1 15 (22.39%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.46%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.99%) Degree
3 2 (2.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.99%) VCAP
3 2 (2.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.42%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.99%) GDPR
2 2 (2.99%) SLA
3 1 (1.49%) GRC
3 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 11 (16.42%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (13.43%) Docker
3 7 (10.45%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (10.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (8.96%) VMware NSX
4 6 (8.96%) vSphere
5 4 (5.97%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.49%) Firmware
6 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (16.42%) Ansible
1 11 (16.42%) Terraform
2 6 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.96%) PowerCLI
3 5 (7.46%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (5.97%) Data Guard
4 4 (5.97%) Grafana
4 4 (5.97%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.48%) Argo
5 3 (4.48%) vCenter Server
5 3 (4.48%) vMotion
6 2 (2.99%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (2.99%) Istio
6 2 (2.99%) linkerd
6 2 (2.99%) SCOM
6 2 (2.99%) vRealize
7 1 (1.49%) logstash
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (1.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (17.91%) Microsoft
1 12 (17.91%) Oracle
2 8 (11.94%) VMware
3 5 (7.46%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.97%) IBM
4 4 (5.97%) RedGate
4 4 (5.97%) SolarWinds
5 3 (4.48%) BMC
5 3 (4.48%) Remedy
5 3 (4.48%) Teradata
6 2 (2.99%) Cisco
6 2 (2.99%) SAP
6 2 (2.99%) Splunk
7 1 (1.49%) Adobe
7 1 (1.49%) Brocade
7 1 (1.49%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.49%) Reuters
7 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.49%) Sybase