Performance Optimisation Contracts in Sheffield

Performance Optimisation
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 52 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.88% 0.79% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 0.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £575 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £650 -
% change year-on-year -26.92% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Sheffield

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in Sheffield

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in Sheffield

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) DWDM
2 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Commvault Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) GCP Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Platform Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Unix Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (16.67%) LPAR
3 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) AIX
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Solaris
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) B2B
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (16.67%) Key Management
4 1 (16.67%) Network Design
4 1 (16.67%) Network Management
4 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) ActionScript
2 1 (16.67%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) CLIST
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) JCL
2 1 (16.67%) Korn
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) REXX
2 1 (16.67%) Scala
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
1 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (16.67%) Microcode
1 1 (16.67%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Nagios
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Commvault
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) IBM Sterling
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk