Performance Tuning Contracts in the South West

Performance Tuning
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 144 138
Rank change year-on-year +56 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 23 13 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.37% 0.41% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.49% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 17
10th Percentile £306 £295 £298
25th Percentile £400 £325 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 - £450
90th Percentile £585 £411 £643
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £66.25 - -
25th Percentile £69.06 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile £72.61 - £63.60
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £72.50
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.03% +56.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the South West

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the South West

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Gloucestershire - 9 £600 - 10
Bristol +21 8 £523 +49.29% 9
Wiltshire +31 3 £325 -18.75% 6
Dorset - 1 £280 - 2
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (8.70%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) BASE24
1 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.35%) dbt
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Internet
1 2 (8.70%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) ATM
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
2 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (47.83%) SAP HANA
2 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.35%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.35%) SAP BW
3 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
1 2 (8.70%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Gatling
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) JMeter
2 1 (4.35%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Aerospace
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Consultant
1 4 (17.39%) Senior
2 3 (13.04%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (13.04%) Technology Specialist
3 2 (8.70%) Administrator
3 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Network Specialist
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Network Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) SAP Financial Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Technologist
4 1 (4.35%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.70%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (8.70%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) SAP Basis
3 1 (4.35%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (8.70%) Replication
2 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) EMV
2 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (4.35%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Change Management
2 8 (34.78%) Incident Management
2 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (30.43%) Technical Architecture
4 6 (26.09%) High Availability
5 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
5 5 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (21.74%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (17.39%) Analytics
6 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
6 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
6 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
6 4 (17.39%) ERP
7 3 (13.04%) DevOps
7 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (13.04%) SAP Security
8 2 (8.70%) Dashboard Development
8 2 (8.70%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 2 (8.70%) Microservices
8 2 (8.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) Python
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) C
3 1 (4.35%) C++
3 1 (4.35%) COBOL
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) CISSP
4 1 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (4.35%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.35%) Basel III
3 1 (4.35%) IFRS
3 1 (4.35%) IFRS 17
3 1 (4.35%) IFRS 9
3 1 (4.35%) ISO 20022
3 1 (4.35%) ISO 8583
3 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.35%) NFS
2 1 (4.35%) Samba
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Kibana
3 2 (8.70%) logstash
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (4.35%) Nagios
4 1 (4.35%) NetApp OnCommand
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) SELinux
4 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.35%) vMotion
4 1 (4.35%) WSUS
4 1 (4.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) SAP
2 1 (4.35%) AppDynamics
2 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.35%) HP
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) New Relic
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.35%) Splunk
2 1 (4.35%) VMware