Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Worcester

Performance Optimisation
Worcestershire > Worcester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcester requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Worcester 2.94% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £638 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median hourly rate £72.50 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Worcester

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 Worcester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29 24 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcester 85.29% 92.31% 81.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 23
10th Percentile £163 £145 £220
25th Percentile £450 £160 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £450
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +55.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £850 £575
90th Percentile £627 £900 £613
Worcestershire median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £46.28 - £15.17
25th Percentile £50.44 £16.67 £19.54
Median hourly rate £59.75 £17.16 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +248.29% -40.33% -
75th Percentile £67.94 £17.64 £63.13
90th Percentile £71.43 - £72.50
Worcestershire median hourly rate £25.00 £17.16 £20.74
% change year-on-year +45.73% -17.27% -

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcester

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Worcester

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcester 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) logstash
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform