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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 106 111
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 +59
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 20 10 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.90% 0.55% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.65% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 1
10th Percentile £263 £293 -
25th Percentile £382 £300 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £750
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% -34.73% +15.38%
75th Percentile £550 £538 -
90th Percentile £638 £541 -
England median daily rate £487 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -14.19% +3.18% -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 1,953 1,538 1,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.13% 84.18% 85.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,240 961 1,094
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £700
England median daily rate £503 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 52 53
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.16 £16.07 £17.72
Median hourly rate £20.25 £21.80 £24.60
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% -11.40% +38.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £34.06 £50.00
90th Percentile £40.46 £52.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.00%

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 December 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 December 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 - 4
Warwickshire - 4 £447 - 5
Birmingham -9 3 £487 +62.33% 7
Shropshire - 1 - - 12
Staffordshire - 1 £550 - 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 (5.00%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) SAP HR
1 4 (20.00%) SAP PM
2 2 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Control Tower
3 3 (15.00%) Power Automate
3 3 (15.00%) PowerApps
3 3 (15.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (5.00%) OCI
5 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (15.00%) MySQL
2 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) Hudson
3 1 (5.00%) MLflow
3 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Salesforce Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (5.00%) CRM Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Service Management Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 5 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 4 (20.00%) RESTful
2 4 (20.00%) SAP PI
2 4 (20.00%) Visualforce
3 3 (15.00%) AWS CDK
4 2 (10.00%) .NET
4 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.00%) REST
4 2 (10.00%) Spring
4 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.00%) CSS
5 1 (5.00%) MACH
5 1 (5.00%) OAuth
5 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (5.00%) React
5 1 (5.00%) Sass
5 1 (5.00%) SOAP
5 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) SCADA
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) Migration
3 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (30.00%) Data Migration
3 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 5 (25.00%) ETL
4 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 4 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
5 4 (20.00%) Scrum
5 4 (20.00%) Sequence Diagram
5 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (20.00%) Use Case
5 4 (20.00%) User Stories
6 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (15.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Apex Code
3 4 (20.00%) Python
4 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (5.00%) Java
6 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.00%) R
6 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) PhD
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.00%) NIST
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) SAP
3 2 (10.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) IFS
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat