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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 145 147
Rank change year-on-year +24 +2 -31
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 17 16 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.62% 0.50% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.55% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 31
10th Percentile £375 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £419 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -2.44% +57.69%
75th Percentile £538 £553 £586
90th Percentile £650 £600 £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 2,379 2,929 3,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.54% 90.85% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,538 2,093 2,614
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £406 £407 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 147 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.11 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +19.02%
75th Percentile £45.00 £49.46 £43.96
90th Percentile £52.78 £65.30 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +11 9 £510 - 2
Manchester +13 7 £600 +26.32% 5
Merseyside +10 1 £375 -37.50%
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 5 (29.41%) Apache
1 5 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (29.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP IBP
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon EMR
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) Serverless
2 5 (29.41%) Snowflake
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) FTP
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Big Data
2 4 (23.53%) 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%) DB2
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI
4 1 (5.88%) SAP BW
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Pharmaceutical
2 6 (35.29%) Manufacturing
3 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Finance
5 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Banking
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%) 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
4 1 (5.88%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Programmer
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) JSON
1 5 (29.41%) XML
2 2 (11.76%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) SAP Basis
3 1 (5.88%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (5.88%) SOAP
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%) Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (5.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Data Management
1 7 (41.18%) ETL
1 7 (41.18%) OO
1 7 (41.18%) OOP
2 6 (35.29%) Analytics
2 6 (35.29%) Data Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
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%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
5 3 (17.65%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 5 (29.41%) C#
3 5 (29.41%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) C
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Informatica
1 5 (29.41%) Talend
2 2 (11.76%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) 3PAR
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) VMware