Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Performance Tuning
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.96% 1.36% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.48% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £431 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £494 £525 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 167 135 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 79.90% 91.84% 76.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 80 61
10th Percentile £325 £150 £200
25th Percentile £393 £270 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £409 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% -18.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £626 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 22
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £16.03 £24.18 £12.25
Median hourly rate £31.11 £35.25 £13.47
Median % change year-on-year -11.74% +161.79% -13.13%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.50 £21.65
90th Percentile - £78.47 £31.04
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% -9.72%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Tuning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 27 March 2026. 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
County Antrim 0 2 £463 -7.50% 2
Performance Tuning
UK

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (100.00%) Impala
1 2 (100.00%) Spark SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Sqoop
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Data Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) HDFS