Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Performance Tuning
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 23 18
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 4 9 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 1.45% 4.15% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 4.57% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 1
10th Percentile £405 £381 -
25th Percentile £406 £383 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% -20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £430 £411 -
90th Percentile - £430 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £416 £400 £565
% change year-on-year +4.06% -29.20% +1.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 197 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 96.74% 90.78% 91.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 160 65
10th Percentile £269 £355 £193
25th Percentile £344 £383 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -1.19% -1.53%
75th Percentile £447 £575 £510
90th Percentile £500 £622 £599
Northamptonshire median daily rate £378 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -15.17% -6.32% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Median hourly rate £21.39 - £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.28%
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £36.34 £51.00
% change year-on-year -41.14% -28.75% +45.71%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Northampton

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) dbt
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (75.00%) Big Data
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (75.00%) HBase
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) MapReduce
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Metadata Management
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Scala
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (75.00%) Oozie
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks