Performance Tuning Contracts in Wales

Performance Tuning
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning 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 37 41 60
Rank change year-on-year +4 +19 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 6 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.05% 0.76% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 0.96% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £244 £503 -
25th Percentile £263 £506 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £388 £594 £663
90th Percentile £398 £598 -
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 311 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.03% 78.73% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 212 421
10th Percentile £185 £168 £183
25th Percentile £285 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
75th Percentile £525 £571 £573
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in Wales

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Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tuning within the Wales 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
South Wales +7 4 £275 -50.00% 6
Dyfed - 2 £375 -
Performance Tuning
UK

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (33.33%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) OCI
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Backup Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Commvault Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Middleware
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Database Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 2 (33.33%) SOA
2 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Database Security
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Commvault
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) VMware