Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Performance Tuning
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 1.18% 2.53% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 3.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £515 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £425 £525
% change year-on-year -1.18% -19.05% -5.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 136 129 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 80.00% 81.65% 83.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 67 142
10th Percentile £195 £310 £289
25th Percentile £394 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £621 £575 £694
90th Percentile £839 £613 £745
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £495
% change year-on-year -8.89% -9.09% +6.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 12
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.71 £11.01
25th Percentile £16.17 £12.75 £18.29
Median hourly rate £17.87 £13.54 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +31.98% -72.23% +400.51%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £88.75
90th Percentile - £50.33 £93.25
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
% change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Nottinghamshire

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

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

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Nottingham -3 2 £520 - 6
Performance Tuning
East Midlands

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (50.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow