Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Performance Tuning
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 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 44 29 20
Rank change year-on-year -15 -9 +8
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 4 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 1.35% 3.28% 4.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 3.67% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 9
10th Percentile £405 £381 £510
25th Percentile £406 £383 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £400 £565
Median % change year-on-year +4.06% -29.20% +1.35%
75th Percentile £430 £411 £588
90th Percentile - £430 £595
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £449 £525
% change year-on-year -6.46% -14.48% -5.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 283 245 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 95.29% 89.42% 92.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 186 130
10th Percentile £269 £340 £198
25th Percentile £350 £377 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.17% -6.32% +2.15%
75th Percentile £447 £575 £565
90th Percentile £525 £621 £608
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £455 £500
% change year-on-year -9.89% -9.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 13
10th Percentile - £25.41 £12.37
25th Percentile - £28.88 £31.76
Median hourly rate £21.39 £36.34 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.14% -28.75% +45.71%
75th Percentile - £44.36 £51.50
90th Percentile £41.56 £48.17 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £28.75
% change year-on-year +6.85% -38.57% +49.68%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Northamptonshire

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 6 September 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 -20 4 £416 +4.06% 1
Performance Tuning
East Midlands

Performance Tuning
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 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