Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 16 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.48% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 0
10th Percentile £345 - -
25th Percentile £352 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £645 - -
90th Percentile £703 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

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 616 418 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.65% 89.32% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 221 263
10th Percentile £300 £238 £375
25th Percentile £384 £425 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £587
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -11.48% +17.49%
75th Percentile £548 £588 £663
90th Percentile £643 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £14.66 - £18.35
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +14.69%
75th Percentile £20.44 £18.81 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.50 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.58 £18.25 £20.50
% change year-on-year +23.70% -10.98% +7.89%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 October 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 5 October 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 - 13 £363 -
Performance Optimisation
Yorkshire

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

Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Azure AKS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) IaaS
3 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Metadata
1 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
2 1 (6.25%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) Android Studio
2 4 (25.00%) Gradle
3 3 (18.75%) CocoaPods
3 3 (18.75%) Xcode
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Lead
2 5 (31.25%) Lead Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Android Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Lead Software Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) iOS Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) JSON
1 7 (43.75%) RESTful
2 3 (18.75%) Hugging Face
2 3 (18.75%) OpenCV
2 3 (18.75%) PyTorch
2 3 (18.75%) Regular Expression
2 3 (18.75%) SpaCy
2 3 (18.75%) TensorFlow
3 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Mobile App
2 4 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Android
2 3 (18.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 10 (62.50%) DevOps
3 9 (56.25%) Design Patterns
4 7 (43.75%) Application Security
4 7 (43.75%) Architectural Patterns
4 7 (43.75%) Memory Management
4 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
5 6 (37.50%) Mobile Application Development
6 4 (25.00%) Android Development
6 4 (25.00%) Clean Code
6 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (25.00%) SOLID
6 4 (25.00%) TDD
7 3 (18.75%) Code Quality
7 3 (18.75%) Data Science
7 3 (18.75%) Generative AI
7 3 (18.75%) Intelligent Automation
7 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
1 4 (25.00%) Kotlin
1 4 (25.00%) Python
1 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (18.75%) Objective-C
2 3 (18.75%) Swift
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks