Performance Optimisation Contracts in West Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 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 55 76 105
Rank change year-on-year +21 +29 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 7 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.28% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £528 - -
25th Percentile £559 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £700 £475 £525
90th Percentile £738 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in West Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in West Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in West Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds +8 6 £675 +50.00% 13
Halifax - 1 £513 - 1
Performance Optimisation
Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Google Compute Engine
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SNA
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) BigQuery
2 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence Architect
2 2 (28.57%) GCP Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) React Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
3 1 (14.29%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
3 3 (42.86%) Data Science
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Architectural Design
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
5 1 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (14.29%) Mobile Development
5 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) Scala
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (14.29%) JCL
3 1 (14.29%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) IBM