Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Performance Optimisation
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.38% 1.28% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.42% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £535 £190 -
25th Percentile £588 £204 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £226 -
Median % change year-on-year +209.73% - -
75th Percentile £738 £451 -
90th Percentile £745 £585 -
Wales median daily rate £700 £226 -
% change year-on-year +209.73% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 332 212 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 76.32% 90.60% 73.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 149 166
10th Percentile £300 £190 £141
25th Percentile £375 £285 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -17.95% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £483 £553
90th Percentile £775 £625 £641
Wales median daily rate £471 £400 £490
% change year-on-year +17.81% -18.37% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 19 30
10th Percentile £12.21 £12.91 £11.69
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.23 £15.48
Median hourly rate £21.50 £16.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% -20.93% +7.55%
75th Percentile £45.40 £32.50 £49.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £45.00 £86.18
Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £20.24
% change year-on-year -2.22% +11.19% +11.55%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in South Wales

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in South Wales over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in South Wales

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Newport - 5 £725 - 2
Cardiff -10 1 £500 +121.24% 1
Performance Optimisation
Wales

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JMeter
1 3 (50.00%) MSTest
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
1 3 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Military
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Automation Tester
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Automation Tester
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Tester
2 3 (50.00%) Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Acceptance Criteria
1 5 (83.33%) Collaborative Working
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
2 4 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 4 (66.67%) User Experience
3 3 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) AI
4 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 1 (16.67%) CRM
5 1 (16.67%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 5 (83.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft