Performance Optimisation Contracts in South Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation 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 42 53 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.61% 0.66% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 0.73% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £575 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in South Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in South Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in South Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +8 6 £475 -26.92% 8
Performance Optimisation
Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) DWDM
2 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Commvault Specialist
1 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) GCP Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Platform Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Unix Administrator
1 1 (16.67%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (16.67%) LPAR
3 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) AIX
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Solaris
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) B2B
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (16.67%) Key Management
4 1 (16.67%) Network Design
4 1 (16.67%) Network Management
4 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) ActionScript
2 1 (16.67%) ActionScript 2.0
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) CLIST
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) JCL
2 1 (16.67%) Korn
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) REXX
2 1 (16.67%) Scala
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
1 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (16.67%) Microcode
1 1 (16.67%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Nagios
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Commvault
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) IBM Sterling
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk