Performance Tuning Contracts in the West Midlands

Performance Tuning
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Performance Tuning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 129 166
Rank change year-on-year +22 +37 -60
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 6 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.45% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.51% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 4
10th Percentile £370 £461 -
25th Percentile £443 £497 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +21.21% -2.94%
75th Percentile £759 £544 £538
90th Percentile £813 £621 £560
England median daily rate £510 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -2.86% -10.64% +11.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Performance Tuning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,609 2,150 3,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.80% 88.22% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 1,483 2,430
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +6.25% +16.36%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £575
90th Percentile £733 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 70
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.00 £11.93
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.59
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +7.39% -7.04%
75th Percentile £41.44 £23.22 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.00 £24.25
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the West Midlands

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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 Tuning within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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 - 3 £600 - 2
Birmingham +11 1 £350 -12.50% 10
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England

Performance Tuning
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (50.00%) Automotive
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Leader
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Product Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Product Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Master Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Database Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Database Mirroring
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
4 1 (16.67%) Server Patching
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Packer
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Informatica
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix