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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 121 144
Rank change year-on-year +38 +23 -10
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 37 16 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.88% 0.58% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 0.67% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 11
10th Percentile £346 £425 £325
25th Percentile £463 £505 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +7.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £520 £581 £550
90th Percentile £625 £656 £556
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -10.64%

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 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 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

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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 1 May 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
Cheshire 0 9 £356 -30.20% 11
Merseyside - 7 £600 - 5
Manchester +15 5 £472 -23.80% 18
Cumbria - 4 - -
Lancashire - 3 - - 10
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 3 (8.11%) IIS
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (5.41%) SAS
3 2 (5.41%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.70%) Apache
4 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) AWS
2 4 (10.81%) Azure
3 2 (5.41%) IaaS
3 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.70%) GCP
4 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) PSTN
1 4 (10.81%) Skype
1 4 (10.81%) SMTP
2 3 (8.11%) DHCP
2 3 (8.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) SAP HANA
2 5 (13.51%) Siebel EIM
3 3 (8.11%) MySQL
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database 10g
3 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (5.41%) Power BI
4 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Parquet
5 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.70%) SQLite
5 1 (2.70%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) JIRA
2 3 (8.11%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (5.41%) Git
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.70%) Flyway
4 1 (2.70%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.70%) Toad
General
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Banking
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Developer
2 9 (24.32%) ABAP Developer
2 9 (24.32%) SAP Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Collaboration Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Siebel Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Administrator
4 3 (8.11%) Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Exchange Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (8.11%) VMWare Administrator
4 3 (8.11%) Wintel Administrator
5 2 (5.41%) Applications Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle Applications Developer
5 2 (5.41%) SAS Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (37.84%) Web Services
2 9 (24.32%) BAPI
3 5 (13.51%) JMS
3 5 (13.51%) SOAP
4 2 (5.41%) Middleware
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.70%) CSS
5 1 (2.70%) CSS3
5 1 (2.70%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.70%) HTML
5 1 (2.70%) HTML5
5 1 (2.70%) Kafka
5 1 (2.70%) Node.js
5 1 (2.70%) PySpark
5 1 (2.70%) React
5 1 (2.70%) REST
5 1 (2.70%) RESTful
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%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) Linux
2 7 (18.92%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (10.81%) Android
3 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (8.11%) Unix
4 3 (8.11%) Windows
4 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (5.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) Migration
1 9 (24.32%) OO
1 9 (24.32%) Process Improvement
2 8 (21.62%) Agile
3 6 (16.22%) Data Modelling
3 6 (16.22%) SDLC
4 5 (13.51%) EAI
4 5 (13.51%) ETL
5 4 (10.81%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (10.81%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (10.81%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (10.81%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (10.81%) Problem Management
5 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.81%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (8.11%) Patch Management
6 3 (8.11%) Resource Management
6 3 (8.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (8.11%) Scrum
6 3 (8.11%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) SQL
2 9 (24.32%) ABAP
3 8 (21.62%) PL/SQL
4 6 (16.22%) Python
5 4 (10.81%) Ruby
5 4 (10.81%) Shell Script
6 3 (8.11%) Groovy
6 3 (8.11%) Java
7 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 27 (72.97%) Security Cleared
2 25 (67.57%) SC Cleared
3 8 (21.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (10.81%) RHCE
5 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.70%) Degree
5 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.92%) SLA
2 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
2 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
1 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (8.11%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Clustering
1 3 (8.11%) NetApp OnCommand
1 3 (8.11%) vCenter Server
1 3 (8.11%) vMotion
1 3 (8.11%) WSUS
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
1 9 (24.32%) Oracle
1 9 (24.32%) SAP
2 5 (13.51%) Siebel
3 4 (10.81%) Clearswift
3 4 (10.81%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.81%) Ribbon
4 3 (8.11%) Atlassian
4 3 (8.11%) VMware
5 1 (2.70%) Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow