Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Performance Optimisation
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.81% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £459 - -
25th Percentile £468 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 - -
75th Percentile £504 - -
90th Percentile £511 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £360
% change year-on-year -9.09% +52.78% -44.62%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 516 142 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 83.50% 94.67% 60.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 87 46
10th Percentile £352 £311 £260
25th Percentile £408 £409 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £490 £389
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +25.96% -27.70%
75th Percentile £514 £537 £499
90th Percentile £559 £551 £520
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 8
10th Percentile £23.20 - -
25th Percentile £25.15 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +331.03% +16.89% -81.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £11.32
90th Percentile £60.37 - £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.24 £18.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +51.33% -20.00% +26.98%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Telford - 5 £486 - 2
Performance Optimisation
West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) SAS
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) Pentaho
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Lead Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Pega Architect
1 2 (40.00%) SAS Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Denodo Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Informatica Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JMS
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Case Management
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) SFIA
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) FATCA
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Pega
2 2 (40.00%) Talend
3 1 (20.00%) Denodo
3 1 (20.00%) Informatica
3 1 (20.00%) Sage