Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Performance Optimisation
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 1.38% - 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% - 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £631 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - -
75th Percentile £644 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £575 £360
% change year-on-year -13.04% +59.72% -39.92%
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 - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £72.50 - £55.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 117 63 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 80.69% 92.65% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 52 63
10th Percentile £300 £202 £276
25th Percentile £364 £525 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £594 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +13.10% +12.90%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £588
90th Percentile £625 £871 £613
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 6
10th Percentile £13.38 - -
25th Percentile £19.15 - £10.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £82.00 £14.74
Median % change year-on-year -69.51% +456.50% -20.35%
75th Percentile £40.16 - £30.99
90th Percentile £77.50 - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.73 £24.34 £21.75
% change year-on-year +26.25% +11.91% -19.44%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

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

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 21 August 2026. 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
Redditch - 1 £638 -
Worcester - 1 - -
Performance Optimisation
West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) logstash
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks