Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Performance Tuning
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -40 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.44% 3.13% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 3.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £472 - -
25th Percentile £480 £556 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £562 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% - -
75th Percentile £507 £567 -
90th Percentile £515 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £607 £600
% change year-on-year -17.63% +1.17% +23.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 385 120 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 84.80% 93.75% 57.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 76 30
10th Percentile £400 £263 £292
25th Percentile £446 £357 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £472 £410
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +15.12% -24.07%
75th Percentile £537 £519 £490
90th Percentile £577 £567 £534
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% +16.89% -71.59%
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile - £21.32 £12.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £20.12 £23.00
% change year-on-year +6.66% -12.52% +29.94%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 17 February 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 -37 2 £494 -12.07% 3
Performance Tuning
West Midlands

Performance Tuning
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 1 (50.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (50.00%) Pentaho
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) FATCA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Denodo
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Talend