Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Performance Tuning
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 41 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 8 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.96% 0.67% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 0.75% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £454 £234 -
25th Percentile £455 £239 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £256 -
Median % change year-on-year +85.37% - -
75th Percentile £478 £277 -
90th Percentile £513 £283 -
Wales median daily rate £475 £256 -
% change year-on-year +85.37% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 310 267 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 75.79% 89.30% 81.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 177 223
10th Percentile £230 £187 £153
25th Percentile £304 £259 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £515 £550 £581
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
Wales median daily rate £415 £425 £438
% change year-on-year -2.47% -2.86% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 25 27
10th Percentile £12.21 £17.65 £11.51
25th Percentile £15.59 £20.12 £14.78
Median hourly rate £21.75 £22.50 £22.68
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -0.79% +20.54%
75th Percentile £46.85 £41.25 £54.50
90th Percentile £79.25 £45.00 £86.72
Wales median hourly rate £19.10 £22.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.13% - +19.59%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in South Wales

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 7 March 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
Cardiff -4 7 £475 +85.37% 4
Newport - 1 £475 - 4
Performance Tuning
Wales

Performance Tuning
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
1 6 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Spanner
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) JMeter
2 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Billing
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Lead
1 6 (75.00%) Performance Test Leader
1 6 (75.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Data Centre
2 4 (50.00%) NHS
3 1 (12.50%) Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Migration
1 6 (75.00%) Performance Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Load Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Coaching
4 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (12.50%) FinOps
4 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
4 1 (12.50%) Model Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Resilience Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Google
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix