Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Performance Tuning
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 19 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 1.40% 2.94% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 3.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% - -
75th Percentile £475 £338 -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £450 £325 £400
% change year-on-year +38.46% -18.75% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 119 93 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 83.22% 91.18% 76.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 60 47
10th Percentile £305 £308 £139
25th Percentile £350 £400 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £550
90th Percentile £725 £650 £623
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £563 £545
% change year-on-year -2.22% +3.21% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 10
10th Percentile £21.20 - £12.00
25th Percentile £30.36 - £12.59
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £16.50
75th Percentile £49.13 - £27.00
90th Percentile £49.75 - £30.25
Wiltshire median hourly rate £20.51 £18.87 £14.54
% change year-on-year +8.66% +29.78% -78.66%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Swindon

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Gatling
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Scalability Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) New Relic
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk