Performance Optimisation Contracts in the West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Performance Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 131 170
Rank change year-on-year +24 +39 -49
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 2 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.10% 0.41% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.47% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 3
10th Percentile - £597 £470
25th Percentile - £625 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -44.62% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile - £675 £594
90th Percentile - £683 £620
England median daily rate £550 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +5.77% -13.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £57.57 £52.13 £48.50
% change year-on-year +10.44% +7.48% +50.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Performance Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,620 2,133 3,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.94% 88.43% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 1,463 2,393
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £401 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +17.66%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 46 72
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.70
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%
75th Percentile £40.81 £23.62 £19.59
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.63 £21.85
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
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 Optimisation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +13 2 £360 -
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
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 1 (50.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Next.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Sling
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) OSGi
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Web Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft