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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.27% 0.68% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.78% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £443 £594
% change year-on-year +1.69% -25.47% +69.64%

All Process & 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 277 129 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 75.89% 87.76% 80.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 69 59
10th Percentile £190 £345 £248
25th Percentile £340 £409 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £551 £523 £550
90th Percentile £650 £578 £589
East Midlands median daily rate £466 £410 £435
% change year-on-year +13.72% -5.75% -8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 14 19
10th Percentile £13.07 - £12.28
25th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £12.75
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.62 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +9.43% -34.15%
75th Percentile £19.03 £17.87 £17.32
90th Percentile £19.09 - £26.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.94 £18.87 £17.25
% change year-on-year -4.95% +9.39% -36.09%

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 21 June 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
Nottingham -16 1 £450 - 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%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks