Hybrid/Remote Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends

Performance Tuning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 160 226
Rank change year-on-year +35 +66 +39
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 224 166 140
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.12% 1.55% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 1.72% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 94 92
10th Percentile £370 £366 £322
25th Percentile £425 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -10.71%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £49.40
25th Percentile - - £53.38
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £65.62 £60.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% +9.37% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Performance Tuning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,490 9,636 14,757
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.70% 90.11% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,207 6,151 9,905
10th Percentile £334 £330 £332
25th Percentile £413 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £729
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 186 504
10th Percentile £15.74 £18.18 £15.27
25th Percentile £24.00 £24.26 £22.52
Median hourly rate £50.00 £38.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.72% -19.47% -17.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.01 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.66 £34.36
% change year-on-year -22.98% -4.95% +5.71%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Tuning and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Performance Tuning daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.68%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.79%) Confluence
3 4 (1.79%) IIS
4 3 (1.34%) Apache
4 3 (1.34%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.89%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.89%) CICS
5 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.89%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.89%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.45%) nginx
6 1 (0.45%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.79%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.34%) BASE24
3 3 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.34%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.89%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.45%) Magento
5 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.45%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.45%) Shopify
5 1 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 80 (35.71%) AWS
2 75 (33.48%) Azure
3 18 (8.04%) Amazon S3
3 18 (8.04%) GCP
3 18 (8.04%) Power Platform
4 15 (6.70%) Serverless
4 15 (6.70%) Snowflake
5 14 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.80%) dbt
6 13 (5.80%) GitHub
7 11 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (4.91%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (4.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (4.02%) SaaS
9 8 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.14%) Firewall
2 9 (4.02%) TCP/IP
2 9 (4.02%) VPN
3 6 (2.68%) BGP
3 6 (2.68%) Network Security
4 5 (2.23%) DNS
4 5 (2.23%) HTTP
4 5 (2.23%) OSPF
4 5 (2.23%) Wireless
5 4 (1.79%) DHCP
5 4 (1.79%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.79%) SSL
5 4 (1.79%) WAN
6 3 (1.34%) Internet
6 3 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.89%) 802.11
7 2 (0.89%) EIGRP
7 2 (0.89%) IPsec
7 2 (0.89%) MPLS
7 2 (0.89%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.16%) PostgreSQL
1 25 (11.16%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.27%) MongoDB
3 21 (9.38%) Relational Database
4 20 (8.93%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (7.14%) DB2
6 15 (6.70%) Power BI
7 14 (6.25%) Oracle Database
8 12 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (4.46%) Data Lake
9 10 (4.46%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (2.68%) Big Data
12 6 (2.68%) DynamoDB
12 6 (2.68%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (2.23%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (2.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (10.27%) Git
2 19 (8.48%) JUnit
3 18 (8.04%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.02%) GitLab
5 5 (2.23%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.23%) JIRA
6 3 (1.34%) Maven
7 2 (0.89%) Gatling
7 2 (0.89%) Gradle
7 2 (0.89%) Mockito
7 2 (0.89%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.45%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.45%) jMock
8 1 (0.45%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.45%) Toad
8 1 (0.45%) Vagrant
General
1 74 (33.04%) Social Skills
2 60 (26.79%) Finance
3 40 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (13.39%) Banking
5 25 (11.16%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.80%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.68%) Front Office
10 5 (2.23%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.79%) Legal
11 4 (1.79%) Marketing
11 4 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.89%) Billing
12 2 (0.89%) Retail
13 1 (0.45%) German Language
13 1 (0.45%) Military
13 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (27.23%) Developer
2 30 (13.39%) Data Engineer
3 28 (12.50%) Architect
4 23 (10.27%) Senior
5 21 (9.38%) Java Developer
6 18 (8.04%) Lead
7 16 (7.14%) Consultant
8 14 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 14 (6.25%) SQL Developer
9 12 (5.36%) DBA
9 12 (5.36%) Investment Banking Java Developer
10 9 (4.02%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (3.57%) Administrator
12 7 (3.13%) Senior SQL Developer
13 6 (2.68%) Data Architect
13 6 (2.68%) Linux Developer
13 6 (2.68%) Oracle DBA
13 6 (2.68%) Oracle Developer
13 6 (2.68%) Sybase Developer
13 6 (2.68%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.05%) Spring
2 24 (10.71%) Kafka
3 16 (7.14%) RESTful
4 14 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 12 (5.36%) JMS
5 12 (5.36%) REST
6 11 (4.91%) .NET
6 11 (4.91%) React
7 8 (3.57%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (3.13%) JSON
9 6 (2.68%) Jest
9 6 (2.68%) PySpark
9 6 (2.68%) Web Services
10 5 (2.23%) HTML
10 5 (2.23%) Node.js
10 5 (2.23%) SOAP
11 4 (1.79%) .NET Framework
11 4 (1.79%) CSS
11 4 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.93%) Data Structures
2 14 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.80%) Replication
4 12 (5.36%) Equities
5 10 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.13%) Mainframe
6 7 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.68%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.79%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.79%) Clustering
8 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.79%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.79%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.34%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.34%) EMV
9 3 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.34%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 42 (18.75%) Linux
2 21 (9.38%) Windows
3 9 (4.02%) Unix
3 9 (4.02%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.68%) zOS
5 5 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.34%) Android
6 3 (1.34%) VMS
7 2 (0.89%) AIX
7 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.89%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.45%) CentOS
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (32.14%) CI/CD
2 62 (27.68%) DevOps
3 49 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (20.98%) Data Modelling
5 45 (20.09%) Agile
6 39 (17.41%) Migration
7 32 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (12.95%) Analytics
8 29 (12.95%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (12.05%) ETL
10 25 (11.16%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (11.16%) Observability
11 24 (10.71%) Containerisation
11 24 (10.71%) High Availability
11 24 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
12 22 (9.82%) Data Engineering
13 21 (9.38%) Mentoring
13 21 (9.38%) Performance Optimisation
14 20 (8.93%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 94 (41.96%) SQL
2 67 (29.91%) Python
3 42 (18.75%) Java
4 18 (8.04%) PowerShell
5 17 (7.59%) Shell Script
6 14 (6.25%) PL/SQL
7 12 (5.36%) C#
8 7 (3.13%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.68%) ABAP
9 6 (2.68%) Bash
9 6 (2.68%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.23%) C
10 5 (2.23%) Perl
10 5 (2.23%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.79%) COBOL
11 4 (1.79%) REXX
12 3 (1.34%) CLIST
12 3 (1.34%) JCL
12 3 (1.34%) PHP
12 3 (1.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 35 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.48%) Degree
4 7 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.79%) CCNP
5 4 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (1.34%) CCIE
6 3 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.34%) OCP
6 3 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.34%) VCAP
7 2 (0.89%) CISSP
7 2 (0.89%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.89%) GSEC
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.48%) Data Quality
2 17 (7.59%) QA
3 12 (5.36%) GDPR
4 9 (4.02%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.68%) SLA
6 5 (2.23%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.23%) ISO 8583
6 5 (2.23%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.89%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.89%) PSD2
7 2 (0.89%) SEPA
8 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (16.07%) Docker
2 11 (4.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.46%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.79%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.79%) KVM
5 4 (1.79%) NDS
5 4 (1.79%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 4 (1.79%) RACF
6 3 (1.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 3 (1.34%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.34%) vSphere
7 2 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.89%) Postfix
8 1 (0.45%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.45%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.45%) Lustre
8 1 (0.45%) NFS
8 1 (0.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 36 (16.07%) Terraform
2 28 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 23 (10.27%) Ansible
4 10 (4.46%) Grafana
5 7 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.68%) Kibana
6 6 (2.68%) logstash
7 5 (2.23%) Argo
7 5 (2.23%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (1.79%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.34%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.89%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.89%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.89%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.89%) Puppet
10 2 (0.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (13.39%) Oracle
2 28 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.25%) Databricks
4 13 (5.80%) VMware
5 12 (5.36%) Sybase
6 11 (4.91%) ServiceNow
7 9 (4.02%) SAP
8 7 (3.13%) Cisco
8 7 (3.13%) IBM
8 7 (3.13%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.68%) Google
10 5 (2.23%) Broadcom
10 5 (2.23%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.23%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.79%) Adobe
11 4 (1.79%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.79%) NetIQ
11 4 (1.79%) OpenText
12 3 (1.34%) HP
12 3 (1.34%) Splunk