Performance Optimisation Contracts in Northamptonshire

Performance Optimisation
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation 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 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 1.37% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £371 - -
25th Percentile £377 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 - -
75th Percentile £403 - -
90th Percentile £410 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £681 -
% change year-on-year -39.82% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

Performance Optimisation 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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 134 175 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.78% 89.29% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 127 163
10th Percentile £269 £292 £191
25th Percentile £356 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £537 £620 £572
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 16
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £21.56 £14.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%
75th Percentile £45.06 £51.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £51.03 £53.30 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Northamptonshire

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in Northamptonshire

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton - 2 £389 - 1
Performance Optimisation
East Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) HBase
1 1 (50.00%) Impala
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Grunt
1 1 (50.00%) gulp
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Scala Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) LESS
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Sass
1 1 (50.00%) XHR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Perforce