Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 105 108
Rank change year-on-year -17 +3 +73
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 17 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.84% 0.53% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.63% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 2
10th Percentile £262 £293 £351
25th Percentile £310 £300 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £490 £531
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -7.86% -18.27%
75th Percentile £561 £538 £642
90th Percentile £725 £541 £707
England median daily rate £485 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.82% - -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,824 1,581 1,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 90.34% 83.12% 84.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 996 1,078
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £498
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% +4.32% -0.50%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 41 54
10th Percentile £12.94 £14.70 £16.09
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £18.31
Median hourly rate £24.34 £24.18 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.66% -11.27% +53.78%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £49.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Performance Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Performance Optimisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Coventry - 10 £275 - 1
Warwickshire - 3 £406 - 3
Birmingham -5 2 £725 +141.75% 8
Shropshire - 2 - - 1
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 4 (23.53%) SAP HR
1 4 (23.53%) SAP PM
2 2 (11.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
2 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Control Tower
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 3 (17.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
3 2 (11.76%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) OCI
4 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (11.76%) MySQL
3 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) MLflow
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Technical Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Lead
3 4 (23.53%) Salesforce Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Architect
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) CRM Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Scientist
6 1 (5.88%) Service Management Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) GraphQL
2 4 (23.53%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (23.53%) SAP PI
2 4 (23.53%) Visualforce
3 3 (17.65%) AWS CDK
3 3 (17.65%) RESTful
4 2 (11.76%) .NET
4 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.76%) Spring
4 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.88%) CSS
5 1 (5.88%) Jest
5 1 (5.88%) Material-UI
5 1 (5.88%) Next.js
5 1 (5.88%) OAuth
5 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (5.88%) React
5 1 (5.88%) REST
5 1 (5.88%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) SCADA
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) Translating Business Requirements
3 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) Data Migration
4 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
4 4 (23.53%) ETL
4 4 (23.53%) Front End Development
4 4 (23.53%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (23.53%) Migration
4 4 (23.53%) Scrum
4 4 (23.53%) Sequence Diagram
4 4 (23.53%) Use Case
4 4 (23.53%) User Experience
4 4 (23.53%) User Stories
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Apex Code
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) Kotlin
3 2 (11.76%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Certification
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.88%) PhD
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (17.65%) NIST
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Salesforce
1 4 (23.53%) SAP
2 3 (17.65%) Databricks
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle