Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Performance Optimisation
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 24 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 3.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 0
10th Percentile £345 - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £557 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 - £500

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 689 282 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.43% 92.16% 96.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 162 233
10th Percentile £319 £220 £390
25th Percentile £401 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £621 £675 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £515 £539
% change year-on-year -6.80% -4.41% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.10
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Sheffield over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in Sheffield

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 6 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) IaaS
4 1 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (16.67%) iSCSI
1 4 (16.67%) NAS
1 4 (16.67%) SAN
2 3 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Metadata
1 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.17%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git
2 4 (16.67%) Android Studio
2 4 (16.67%) Gradle
2 4 (16.67%) Jaeger
3 3 (12.50%) CocoaPods
3 3 (12.50%) Xcode
4 1 (4.17%) GitLab
4 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Android Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) iOS Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) JSON
1 7 (29.17%) RESTful
2 4 (16.67%) Kafka
2 4 (16.67%) Middleware
2 4 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (12.50%) Hugging Face
3 3 (12.50%) OpenCV
3 3 (12.50%) PyTorch
3 3 (12.50%) Regular Expression
3 3 (12.50%) SpaCy
3 3 (12.50%) TensorFlow
4 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Mobile App
2 4 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (16.67%) Replication
3 3 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Android
2 3 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 3 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) DevOps
2 11 (45.83%) Agile
2 11 (45.83%) Application Security
3 9 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (29.17%) Architectural Patterns
4 7 (29.17%) Design Patterns
4 7 (29.17%) Memory Management
5 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (25.00%) Migration
5 6 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
6 5 (20.83%) Computer Science
6 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (20.83%) High Availability
6 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (16.67%) AI
7 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 4 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
7 4 (16.67%) Process Improvement
7 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Java
2 5 (20.83%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) Kotlin
3 4 (16.67%) Rust
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (12.50%) Objective-C
4 3 (12.50%) Swift
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) Bicep
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
1 4 (16.67%) NFS
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Grafana
2 4 (16.67%) Kiali
2 4 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 3 (12.50%) Terraform
4 2 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) EMC
1 4 (16.67%) IBM
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (16.67%) NetApp
1 4 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (4.17%) Databricks
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat