Performance Optimisation Contracts in the West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 111 114
Rank change year-on-year +16 +3 +55
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 4 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.29% 0.15% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.19% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile - - £441
25th Percentile £525 - £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £360 £650
Median % change year-on-year +59.72% -44.62% +36.84%
75th Percentile £638 - £675
90th Percentile £660 - £686
England median daily rate £500 £581 £500
% change year-on-year -13.98% +16.25% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.13
% change year-on-year - +5.51% +6.39%

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 1,232 1,619 1,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.70% 83.32% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 1,082 1,334
10th Percentile £200 £271 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £582 £625 £609
90th Percentile £663 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 117 50
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.10 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.13 £13.87
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £21.69
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +3.73% +28.92%
75th Percentile £29.33 £40.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £48.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the West Midlands

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 29 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
Birmingham +11 1 £650 +80.56% 45
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (75.00%) Moodle
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) PHPUnit
2 3 (75.00%) Postman
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Moodle Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Behat
1 3 (75.00%) JSON
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
1 3 (75.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) e-Learning
1 3 (75.00%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (75.00%) Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks