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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 106 164
Rank change year-on-year +4 +58 -10
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 10 9 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.53% 0.47% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.55% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 11
10th Percentile £512 £383 £313
25th Percentile £545 £406 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £418 £475
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% -12.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £611 £426 £513
90th Percentile £637 £476 £544
England median daily rate £550 £517 £550
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -

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 1,573 1,635 3,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.10% 84.76% 87.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 1,098 2,182
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £398 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - +9.29%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £583
90th Percentile £713 £725 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 57 48
10th Percentile £14.70 £16.28 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £20.00 £14.36
Median hourly rate £24.18 £27.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +55.19% +18.13%
75th Percentile £35.00 £43.75 £21.39
90th Percentile £52.50 £67.50 £36.43
England median hourly rate £39.50 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.24% +27.14% +70.73%

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 31 October 2024.

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 31 October 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
Birmingham +9 7 £562 +47.20% 2
Shropshire - 4 £562 -
Warwickshire -6 2 £607 -6.62%
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 2 (20.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (10.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (40.00%) Power Automate
2 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (40.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) IaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Lead
3 3 (30.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (20.00%) CRM Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Administrator
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
5 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) DBA
5 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM Architect
5 1 (10.00%) NetSuite Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) HTML
2 5 (50.00%) CSS
3 4 (40.00%) .NET
3 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 4 (40.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 4 (40.00%) JSON
3 4 (40.00%) WCF
3 4 (40.00%) XML
4 2 (20.00%) Middleware
4 2 (20.00%) SAML
5 1 (10.00%) REST
5 1 (10.00%) SOAP
5 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) CRM
2 4 (40.00%) Customer Service
2 4 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 4 (40.00%) Feature Driven Development
2 4 (40.00%) TDD
2 4 (40.00%) Web Development
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (10.00%) OCP
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (20.00%) IBM
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) Cognizant