Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Performance Optimisation
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 19 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 2.08% 1.01% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 1.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £519 £550 -
% change year-on-year -5.68% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 159 90 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 82.81% 90.91% 78.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 60 61
10th Percentile £305 £212 £238
25th Percentile £383 £308 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -11.42%
75th Percentile £602 £555 £550
90th Percentile £778 £600 £600
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £563 £538
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.55% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile £21.20 - -
25th Percentile £30.36 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £16.50
75th Percentile £49.13 - £30.25
90th Percentile £49.75 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £33.43 £22.50 £14.54
% change year-on-year +48.57% +54.75% -78.93%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Swindon

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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 4 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) DataOps
1 4 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (100.00%) Use Case
2 3 (75.00%) Business Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform