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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 96 113
Rank change year-on-year +3 +17 +37
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 19 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.27% 0.20% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 0.24% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 1
10th Percentile £345 - -
25th Percentile £349 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +30.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £600 - -
England median daily rate £475 £575 £520
% change year-on-year -17.39% +10.58% -10.92%

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 1,371 1,274 1,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 91.46% 83.32% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 857 779 1,202
10th Percentile £267 £313 £281
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £625
90th Percentile £618 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 49 31
10th Percentile £16.58 - £12.00
25th Percentile £18.39 £12.15 £17.11
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £22.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £76.57 £36.75 £44.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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
South Yorkshire +2 15 £358 -44.92% 5
West Yorkshire - 4 £513 - 6
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 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) WebSphere
1 1 (5.26%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
1 5 (26.32%) GCP
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.26%) IaaS
3 1 (5.26%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DWDM
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) HTTPS
1 1 (5.26%) SNA
1 1 (5.26%) SSH
1 1 (5.26%) SSL
1 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.26%) Metadata
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Git
2 4 (21.05%) Android Studio
2 4 (21.05%) Gradle
3 3 (15.79%) CocoaPods
3 3 (15.79%) Xcode
4 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.26%) JIRA
4 1 (5.26%) Log4j
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Android Developer
3 3 (15.79%) iOS Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Platform Architect
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Unix Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) WebSphere Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) WebSphere Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) z/OS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) JSON
1 7 (36.84%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.26%) Hugging Face
2 1 (5.26%) ISPF
2 1 (5.26%) JDBC
2 1 (5.26%) JMS
2 1 (5.26%) JNDI
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) LDAP
2 1 (5.26%) OAuth
2 1 (5.26%) OpenCV
2 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.26%) React Native
2 1 (5.26%) Regular Expression
2 1 (5.26%) SAML
2 1 (5.26%) SpaCy
2 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
2 1 (5.26%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Mobile App
2 3 (15.79%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.53%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.26%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (5.26%) LPAR
4 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Android
2 3 (15.79%) Apple iOS
3 2 (10.53%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Unix
3 2 (10.53%) zOS
4 1 (5.26%) AIX
4 1 (5.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Agile
2 10 (52.63%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) Application Security
3 7 (36.84%) Architectural Patterns
3 7 (36.84%) Design Patterns
3 7 (36.84%) Memory Management
3 7 (36.84%) Mobile Application Development
4 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (21.05%) Android Development
6 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
6 3 (15.79%) Data Science
6 3 (15.79%) ETL
6 3 (15.79%) iOS Development
7 2 (10.53%) Data Management
7 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (10.53%) High Availability
7 2 (10.53%) Migration
7 2 (10.53%) Scrum
7 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) Kotlin
3 3 (15.79%) Objective-C
3 3 (15.79%) Swift
4 2 (10.53%) JCL
4 2 (10.53%) REXX
4 2 (10.53%) Scala
5 1 (5.26%) ActionScript
5 1 (5.26%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (5.26%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) Bicep
5 1 (5.26%) CLIST
5 1 (5.26%) Korn
5 1 (5.26%) Perl
5 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (10.53%) IBM Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (5.26%) Microcode
2 1 (5.26%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Nagios
3 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.26%) Puppet
3 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.26%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) IBM
2 3 (15.79%) Databricks
3 2 (10.53%) Commvault
3 2 (10.53%) Google
3 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
3 2 (10.53%) Splunk
4 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.26%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) TIBCO