Performance Tuning Contracts in the East Midlands

Performance Tuning
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Performance Tuning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 75 89
Rank change year-on-year +24 +14 -21
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 13 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.68% 0.69% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 0.79% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 6
10th Percentile - £350 £388
25th Percentile £400 £438 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £525 £413
Median % change year-on-year -14.48% +27.27% +3.13%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £442
90th Percentile - £588 £473
England median daily rate £510 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -2.86% -10.64% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.73 - -
England median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.03% +61.11% -31.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Performance Tuning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 605 888 1,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.37% 88.10% 82.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 689 858
10th Percentile £200 £212 £200
25th Percentile £274 £335 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £463 £440
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +5.11% +12.82%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £522
90th Percentile £623 £700 £614
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 51 81
10th Percentile £11.24 £11.80 £9.74
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.73
Median hourly rate £17.00 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% +12.50% +36.99%
75th Percentile £26.15 £51.50 £29.38
90th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.73% +47.08% +8.70%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the East Midlands

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the East Midlands

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tuning within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 May 2024. 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
Derbyshire +7 6 £575 - 2
Northamptonshire +4 5 £400 -23.81% 2
Leicestershire +11 2 £449 +38.15% 2
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 1
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Fibre Channel
1 6 (46.15%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Back Office
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DBA
2 4 (30.77%) Designer
2 4 (30.77%) SQL DBA
3 3 (23.08%) SQL Server DBA
3 3 (23.08%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Backup Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) HP Storage
2 3 (23.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
4 1 (7.69%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Linux
3 6 (46.15%) AIX
3 6 (46.15%) Solaris
3 6 (46.15%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
1 6 (46.15%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (38.46%) High Availability
2 5 (38.46%) ITIL
2 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
2 5 (38.46%) Project Delivery
2 5 (38.46%) Statistics
3 3 (23.08%) QMS
3 3 (23.08%) Quality Management
4 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (7.69%) Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
5 1 (7.69%) Data Governance
5 1 (7.69%) Data Management
5 1 (7.69%) Data Security
5 1 (7.69%) ETL
5 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
5 1 (7.69%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) R
3 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) MCITP
2 5 (38.46%) MCTS
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) EMC NetWorker
1 6 (46.15%) HP Data Protector
1 6 (46.15%) NetBackup
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
2 1 (7.69%) SCOM
2 1 (7.69%) SCSM
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Brocade
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco
1 6 (46.15%) EMC
1 6 (46.15%) HP
1 6 (46.15%) Symantec
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) VMware