Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Performance Tuning
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stevenage requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 1.37% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £384 - -
90th Percentile £446 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £413 £450 £350
% change year-on-year -8.33% +28.57% -36.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 257 130 341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 70.41% 94.20% 93.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 19 36
10th Percentile £350 £311 £80
25th Percentile £450 £450 £234
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £530 £375
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +41.33% -4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £506
90th Percentile £738 £628 £650
Hertfordshire median daily rate £525 £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 83 240
10th Percentile £22.63 £40.00 £38.12
25th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £39.40
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £81.73 £66.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £80.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £22.66 £65.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -65.41% +9.17% -7.69%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Stevenage

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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 (20.00%) Mendix
General
1 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Administrator
1 4 (80.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Domain Models
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (20.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) SAP