Performance Tuning Contracts in the West Midlands

Performance Tuning
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 81 103 128
Rank change year-on-year +22 +25 +42
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 16 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.19% 0.41% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.49% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 8
10th Percentile £256 £374 £461
25th Percentile £510 £495 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £700 £731 £544
90th Percentile - £813 £621
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -10.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

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

Performance Tuning
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 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
Birmingham +25 11 £675 +35.00% 8
Shropshire - 2 - - 2
Worcestershire - 2 £575 - 2
Coventry +6 1 £185 -69.17% 6
Performance Tuning
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) IIS
2 3 (18.75%) Apache
2 3 (18.75%) Confluence
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (12.50%) MySQL
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (12.50%) Tableau
4 1 (6.25%) Big Data
4 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
4 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
1 3 (18.75%) ScriptRunner
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Legal
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Applications Support
3 3 (18.75%) Applications Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) DBA
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) JIRA Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) JIRA Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) HTML
1 6 (37.50%) Middleware
2 3 (18.75%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (12.50%) Web Services
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
4 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 6 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (18.75%) Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Time Management
7 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
7 2 (12.50%) Data Architecture
7 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
7 2 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 2 (12.50%) High Availability
7 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 2 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) PowerShell
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) Groovy
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (12.50%) OCP
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Grafana
1 2 (12.50%) Kibana
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (12.50%) logstash
2 1 (6.25%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Atlassian
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) Juniper
4 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow