Performance Tuning Contracts in Sheffield

Performance Tuning
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 49 45
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 +22
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 32 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.68% 2.16% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.00% 2.43% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 1
10th Percentile £361 - -
25th Percentile £379 £411 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £527 £434 -
90th Percentile £650 £475 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £425 £525
% change year-on-year -5.88% -19.05% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 533 370 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.67% 88.73% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 199 248
10th Percentile £299 £386 £400
25th Percentile £375 £432 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.81% -13.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £700
90th Percentile £625 £645 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £468 £515 £600
% change year-on-year -9.22% -14.17% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.88 £13.18
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.13 £16.44
Median hourly rate £18.36 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.58% +7.69% +9.09%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.88 £20.69
90th Percentile - £22.00 £21.93
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.36 £12.83 £20.00
% change year-on-year +43.08% -35.85% +19.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Sheffield over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Sheffield.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in Sheffield

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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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (46.88%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) OCI
2 4 (12.50%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) DNS
1 1 (3.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (75.00%) Oracle Database
2 9 (28.13%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (6.25%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.75%) JIRA
3 4 (12.50%) ScriptRunner
General
1 23 (71.88%) Finance
2 14 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (21.88%) Financial Institution
5 6 (18.75%) Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Commvault Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Backup Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Database Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Data Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Data Protection Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) JIRA Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) JIRA Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Lead
6 1 (3.13%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Programmer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Systems Programmer
6 1 (3.13%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Mainframe
2 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Licensing
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (46.88%) Migration
3 13 (40.63%) Change Management
4 12 (37.50%) Problem Management
5 11 (34.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (34.38%) Translating Business Requirements
6 9 (28.13%) Data Migration
7 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
7 7 (21.88%) Data Protection
7 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (18.75%) Agile
8 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
9 5 (15.63%) Incident Management
10 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 2 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
11 2 (6.25%) Database Migration
11 2 (6.25%) Mentoring
11 2 (6.25%) Software Licensing
11 2 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) Python
1 7 (21.88%) Shell Script
2 4 (12.50%) Groovy
3 1 (3.13%) COBOL
3 1 (3.13%) JCL
3 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (12.50%) OCP
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) GDPR
1 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
1 7 (21.88%) vSphere
2 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (3.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (3.13%) RACF
4 1 (3.13%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Ansible
1 11 (34.38%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.25%) Data Guard
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (3.13%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.13%) Terraform
4 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (75.00%) Oracle
2 16 (50.00%) Commvault
3 6 (18.75%) VMware
4 4 (12.50%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.13%) Broadcom
5 1 (3.13%) F5
5 1 (3.13%) IBM
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft