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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 132 194
Rank change year-on-year +22 +62 -54
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 23 25 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.83% 0.76% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.87% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 12
10th Percentile £389 £401 £330
25th Percentile £400 £500 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £431
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +21.74% +7.81%
75th Percentile £588 £572 £461
90th Percentile £683 £588 £522
England median daily rate £510 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -2.86% -12.50% +14.29%
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 2,263 2,867 4,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.37% 87.68% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,520 2,015 3,272
10th Percentile £231 £263 £250
25th Percentile £357 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £672
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 97 135
10th Percentile £11.07 £12.30 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +25.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.25
90th Percentile £55.00 £60.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

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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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +16 16 £449 -20.35% 3
West Midlands +11 7 £650 +30.00% 7
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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 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.35%) Azure
1 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (4.35%) GitHub
1 1 (4.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) Fibre Channel
1 6 (26.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.35%) Flink
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Automotive
3 1 (4.35%) Back Office
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Police
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) DBA
2 7 (30.43%) SQL DBA
3 4 (17.39%) Designer
3 4 (17.39%) SQL Server DBA
4 3 (13.04%) Administrator
4 3 (13.04%) Lead
4 3 (13.04%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Backup Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Developer
6 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Informatica Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Product Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Product Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) .NET
1 2 (8.70%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) CSS
2 1 (4.35%) HTML
2 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) SOAP
2 1 (4.35%) Vue
2 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) HP Storage
2 3 (13.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.70%) Grid Computing
4 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.35%) Clustering
4 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Linux
3 7 (30.43%) Windows Server
4 6 (26.09%) AIX
4 6 (26.09%) Solaris
5 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Data Modelling
2 6 (26.09%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (26.09%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (21.74%) Data Integration
3 5 (21.74%) High Availability
3 5 (21.74%) ITIL
3 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
3 5 (21.74%) Project Delivery
3 5 (21.74%) Statistics
4 4 (17.39%) ETL
5 3 (13.04%) Analytics
5 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
5 3 (13.04%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.04%) QMS
5 3 (13.04%) Quality Management
6 2 (8.70%) Data Science
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (8.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.04%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) Python
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) R
5 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Degree
2 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
3 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (21.74%) MCITP
4 5 (21.74%) MCTS
4 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
5 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
7 1 (4.35%) OCP
7 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) EMC NetWorker
1 6 (26.09%) HP Data Protector
1 6 (26.09%) NetBackup
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (8.70%) SCCM
2 2 (8.70%) SCOM
2 2 (8.70%) SCSM
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Oracle
2 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
3 6 (26.09%) Brocade
3 6 (26.09%) Cisco
3 6 (26.09%) EMC
3 6 (26.09%) HP
3 6 (26.09%) Symantec
4 2 (8.70%) Informatica
4 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.70%) VMware