Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Performance Optimisation
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.53% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £450 - £350

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 124 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 77.78% 81.05% 81.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 68 111
10th Percentile £165 £313 £306
25th Percentile £303 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +1.01% -10.00%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £650
90th Percentile £715 £613 £745
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £430 £475
% change year-on-year -2.33% -9.47% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 5 9
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.83 £10.77
25th Percentile £16.17 £15.10 £14.75
Median hourly rate £16.35 £32.50 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year -49.69% +51.06% +95.59%
75th Percentile £17.87 £58.75 £88.75
90th Percentile - £93.70 £93.75
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.95 £22.50 £21.52
% change year-on-year -20.24% +4.58% +27.84%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Optimisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire.

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Performance Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Nottingham - 1 - - 1
Performance Optimisation
East Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Prophet
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) XGBoost
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) ARIMA
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Demand Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETRM
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Linear Regression
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Random Forest
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks