Performance Tuning Contracts in the Midlands

Performance Tuning
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 111 131 190
Rank change year-on-year +20 +59 -55
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 20 22 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.74% 0.67% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.77% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 11
10th Percentile £387 £373 £325
25th Percentile £400 £450 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £413
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +21.21% -
75th Percentile £588 £556 £473
90th Percentile £715 £588 £525
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
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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,205 2,872 4,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.91% 88.07% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 2,014 3,258
10th Percentile £235 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.03% +4.74% +14.46%
75th Percentile £596 £595 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 102 148
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.05 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.64 £13.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.34 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -19.41% +27.41% +16.87%
75th Percentile £33.25 £38.96 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £57.25 £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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 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
East Midlands +24 13 £449 -14.48% 7
West Midlands +10 7 £580 +16.00% 18
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England

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (5.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Fibre Channel
1 6 (30.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.00%) Flink
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Automotive
3 1 (5.00%) Back Office
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Police
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) DBA
2 5 (25.00%) SQL DBA
3 4 (20.00%) Designer
3 4 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Backup Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Leader
6 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Product Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Product Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) HP Storage
2 3 (15.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.00%) Clustering
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.00%) Grid Computing
4 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Linux
3 6 (30.00%) AIX
3 6 (30.00%) Solaris
3 6 (30.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (25.00%) High Availability
3 5 (25.00%) ITIL
3 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 5 (25.00%) Statistics
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (15.00%) Analytics
5 3 (15.00%) Data Integration
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) QMS
5 3 (15.00%) Quality Management
6 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.00%) Data Management
6 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 2 (10.00%) Data Science
6 2 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) Python
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) R
5 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Degree
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (25.00%) MCITP
3 5 (25.00%) MCTS
3 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) OCP
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 6 (30.00%) HP Data Protector
1 6 (30.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Packer
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (5.00%) SCCM
3 1 (5.00%) SCOM
3 1 (5.00%) SCSM
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Oracle
2 6 (30.00%) Brocade
2 6 (30.00%) Cisco
2 6 (30.00%) EMC
2 6 (30.00%) HP
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Symantec
3 2 (10.00%) Informatica
4 1 (5.00%) Citrix
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.00%) VMware