Performance Tuning Contracts in West Yorkshire

Performance Tuning
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 55 74 103
Rank change year-on-year +19 +29 +5
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 7 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.28% 0.30% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 0.34% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £554 - £533
25th Percentile £559 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £400 £588
Median % change year-on-year +53.13% -31.91% +1.03%
75th Percentile £650 - £613
90th Percentile - - £635
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £425 £550
% change year-on-year -5.88% -22.73% -3.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 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 Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in West Yorkshire

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in West Yorkshire

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in West Yorkshire

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning 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 +7 6 £650 - 13
Performance Tuning
Yorkshire

Performance Tuning
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 5 (71.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) IaaS
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 4 (57.14%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (14.29%) DBeaver
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) DBA
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) SQL DBA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Incident Management
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Groovy
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Scala
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Atlassian
2 3 (42.86%) Google
3 2 (28.57%) Databricks
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle