Performance Optimisation Contracts in Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation 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 79 96 124
Rank change year-on-year +17 +28 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 13 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.28% 0.24% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 0.27% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £418 £448 £478
25th Percentile £463 £481 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £606 £519
90th Percentile £688 £633 £523
England median daily rate £523 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +10.00% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 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
West Yorkshire +21 7 £625 +38.89% 14
South Yorkshire +11 6 £475 -26.92% 3
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) GCP
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Google Compute Engine
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) DWDM
2 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) SNA
2 1 (7.69%) SSH
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) BigQuery
2 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
2 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 2 (15.38%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) GCP Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Commvault Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Architect
4 1 (7.69%) React Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) z/OS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) ISPF
1 1 (7.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
2 2 (15.38%) NHS
3 1 (7.69%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (7.69%) LPAR
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
1 2 (15.38%) zOS
2 1 (7.69%) AIX
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (38.46%) Data Protection
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
4 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Data Governance
4 4 (30.77%) Data Science
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) ETL
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
6 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 2 (15.38%) Data Security
6 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (15.38%) High Availability
6 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Scala
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (15.38%) JCL
3 2 (15.38%) REXX
4 1 (7.69%) ActionScript
4 1 (7.69%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) CLIST
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) Korn
4 1 (7.69%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) IBM Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
1 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (7.69%) Microcode
1 1 (7.69%) Time Sharing Option
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Nagios
3 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
3 1 (7.69%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Databricks
1 4 (30.77%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) IBM
3 2 (15.38%) Commvault
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk