Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Performance Optimisation
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire 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 55 - 78
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.76% - 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £518 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £563 - £575
90th Percentile £569 - -
South West median daily rate £540 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -13.60% +8.70% +17.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 455 498 693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 87.00% 86.61% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 335 516
10th Percentile £368 £356 £353
25th Percentile £513 £460 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% +0.91% -
75th Percentile £688 £669 £638
90th Percentile £739 £738 £724
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 15
10th Percentile £12.50 - £14.36
25th Percentile £15.00 - £30.43
Median hourly rate £22.27 £12.79 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.08% -74.42% -23.66%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £66.00
90th Percentile £25.15 £22.23 £74.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire 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
Corsham - 2 £553 -
Swindon - 1 £550 - 1
Performance Optimisation
South West

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) OAuth
1 4 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 4 (100.00%) OpenID
1 4 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 4 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Server Management
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware