Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 71 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.56% 0.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £483 - -
25th Percentile £494 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £583 - -
90th Percentile £597 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

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 773 667 1,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.56% 86.29% 90.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 416 736
10th Percentile £288 £314 £311
25th Percentile £400 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £517
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.12% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £656 £681 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 15
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £14.03
25th Percentile £21.30 £21.25 £17.07
Median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +56.97% -1.80%
75th Percentile £46.56 £38.75 £25.27
90th Percentile £81.25 £56.25 £30.05
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.08 £19.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +28.59% -11.36% +10.00%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Optimisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Performance Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Performance Optimisation

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 19 November 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 -12 5 £525 - 9
Halifax - 1 £500 -
Performance Optimisation
Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) Apigee
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bundler
1 1 (20.00%) ESLint
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jasmine
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Karma Test Runner
1 1 (20.00%) Log4j
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (20.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) FoxPro Developer
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) React Developer
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) CSS3
2 1 (20.00%) DOM
2 1 (20.00%) Enzyme
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) Handlebars
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) HTML5
2 1 (20.00%) JDBC
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) JMS
2 1 (20.00%) JWT
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) Mustache
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) API Management
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Progressive Web App
3 1 (20.00%) Resilience Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) SOLID
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) FoxPro (VFP)
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) IBM Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) TIBCO