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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 106 113
Rank change year-on-year +29 +7 +68
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 29 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.79% 0.36% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 0.44% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 11
10th Percentile £303 £438 £388
25th Percentile £422 £510 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +30.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £613 £813 £519
90th Percentile £703 - £675
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -8.70%

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 1,430 1,599 1,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.38% 81.25% 86.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 896 1,075 1,320
10th Percentile £208 £275 £263
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 85 41
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.18 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.76 £14.00 £15.64
Median hourly rate £22.05 £18.97 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.24% -24.87% +46.38%
75th Percentile £32.29 £37.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.75 £46.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +63.46%

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

Performance Tuning
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 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the West Midlands

Performance Tuning
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 21 July 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 +12 10 £475 -26.92% 6
Solihull - 6 £385 -
Warwickshire - 5 £600 - 3
Coventry +1 4 £465 +19.23% 5
Shropshire 0 2 - - 9
Worcestershire - 2 £575 - 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 (20.69%) Confluence
2 4 (13.79%) Apache
3 3 (10.34%) Apache Spark
3 3 (10.34%) IIS
3 3 (10.34%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SAP GRC
1 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
3 4 (13.79%) GCP
3 4 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (10.34%) AWS KMS
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (10.34%) IaaS
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.34%) Route 53
5 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.90%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.45%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (3.45%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) IMAP
1 3 (10.34%) OpenLDAP
1 3 (10.34%) SMTP
2 1 (3.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) FTP
2 1 (3.45%) HTTP
2 1 (3.45%) Internet
2 1 (3.45%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (37.93%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (13.79%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (10.34%) Big Data
4 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
4 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
4 3 (10.34%) Tableau
5 2 (6.90%) DB2
5 2 (6.90%) Hadoop
5 2 (6.90%) MySQL
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (6.90%) Power BI
6 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (3.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) JIRA
2 4 (13.79%) Git
2 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.34%) ScriptRunner
3 3 (10.34%) Vagrant
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
3 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Finance
5 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (6.90%) Electronics
6 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.90%) Marketing
6 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.45%) Legal
7 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Administrator
1 7 (24.14%) Data Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) DBA
2 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared DBA
5 2 (6.90%) JIRA Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Platform Support Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared DBA
5 2 (6.90%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) HTML
2 3 (10.34%) .NET
2 3 (10.34%) LDAP
2 3 (10.34%) Middleware
3 2 (6.90%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.90%) Kafka
3 2 (6.90%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (6.90%) Web Services
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.45%) CSS
4 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.45%) HTML5
4 1 (3.45%) SAP Basis
4 1 (3.45%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Replication
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (27.59%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) VMS
2 4 (13.79%) Windows
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (10.34%) Unix
4 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (31.03%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (27.59%) Data Modelling
4 7 (24.14%) Analytics
4 7 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (24.14%) ETL
5 6 (20.69%) Agile
5 6 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (20.69%) Database Security
5 6 (20.69%) DevOps
5 6 (20.69%) High Availability
5 6 (20.69%) Migration
5 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (17.24%) Change Management
6 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
6 5 (17.24%) Incident Management
6 5 (17.24%) Service Management
7 4 (13.79%) Coaching
7 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (13.79%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) SQL
2 7 (24.14%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) Groovy
3 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
4 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.34%) C#
6 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.90%) Scala
7 1 (3.45%) ABAP
7 1 (3.45%) Apex Code
7 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (62.07%) Security Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.69%) DV Cleared
4 5 (17.24%) Degree
5 4 (13.79%) OCP
5 4 (13.79%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (6.90%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.45%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
1 3 (10.34%) Dovecot
1 3 (10.34%) Postfix
1 3 (10.34%) Squid
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.45%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Grafana
1 5 (17.24%) Terraform
2 3 (10.34%) Nessus
2 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.90%) Data Guard
3 2 (6.90%) Kibana
3 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.90%) logstash
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (3.45%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Oracle
3 4 (13.79%) Google
3 4 (13.79%) SAP
3 4 (13.79%) ServiceNow
4 3 (10.34%) Atlassian
4 3 (10.34%) Databricks
4 3 (10.34%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (10.34%) Salesforce
5 2 (6.90%) Cisco
5 2 (6.90%) Cognos
5 2 (6.90%) IBM
6 1 (3.45%) Adobe
6 1 (3.45%) Ariba
6 1 (3.45%) Concur