Performance Tuning Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Performance Tuning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 189 255
Rank change year-on-year +47 +66 +75
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 186 165 261
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.84% 1.04% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.18% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 118 158
10th Percentile £375 £347 £375
25th Percentile £418 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £634 £600 £600
90th Percentile £746 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.65% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 9
10th Percentile - £49.40 £22.16
25th Percentile - £53.38 £62.50
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.24% +10.69%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £54.25 £72.50
% change year-on-year +24.42% -25.17% +25.54%

All Process and 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 9,117 13,928 24,821
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.37% 87.61% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,245 9,304 17,558
10th Percentile £330 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -3.67% +3.81%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 539 571
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.38 £19.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.54 £31.25
Median hourly rate £39.00 £38.12 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -30.69% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £32.50 £36.65
% change year-on-year -2.65% -11.33% +47.41%

Performance Tuning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Tuning trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Tuning.

Performance Tuning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Performance Tuning daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Tuning.

Performance Tuning hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (4.84%) Oracle Coherence
2 8 (4.30%) GemFire
3 7 (3.76%) Apache
4 5 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.69%) Confluence
5 2 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.54%) IIS
6 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.54%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (31.72%) AWS
2 53 (28.49%) Azure
3 21 (11.29%) GCP
4 10 (5.38%) Amazon S3
5 8 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (3.76%) GitHub
6 7 (3.76%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.76%) Serverless
6 7 (3.76%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.69%) Amazon Neptune
7 5 (2.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 5 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.15%) OCI
9 3 (1.61%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.61%) IaaS
9 3 (1.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.76%) DNS
2 6 (3.23%) Firewall
2 6 (3.23%) Network Security
3 5 (2.69%) DHCP
3 5 (2.69%) FTP
3 5 (2.69%) SSL
4 4 (2.15%) HTTPS
4 4 (2.15%) SMTP
4 4 (2.15%) tcpdump
4 4 (2.15%) Telnet
4 4 (2.15%) VPN
5 3 (1.61%) HTTP
5 3 (1.61%) Internet
5 3 (1.61%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.08%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.08%) NAS
6 2 (1.08%) SAN
6 2 (1.08%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.08%) SSH
6 2 (1.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (19.35%) Relational Database
2 27 (14.52%) MongoDB
3 24 (12.90%) DB2
3 24 (12.90%) Oracle Database
3 24 (12.90%) SQL Server
4 23 (12.37%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (7.53%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (7.53%) NoSQL
5 14 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (5.91%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (5.91%) SAP HANA
7 10 (5.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (5.38%) Couchbase
7 10 (5.38%) OLTP
8 8 (4.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (3.76%) Oracle Database 11g
10 6 (3.23%) Power BI
10 6 (3.23%) RDBMS
11 4 (2.15%) MySQL
11 4 (2.15%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (11.83%) JUnit
2 20 (10.75%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.99%) Git
4 9 (4.84%) GitLab
5 5 (2.69%) JIRA
6 3 (1.61%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.08%) MLflow
8 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.54%) CMake
8 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.54%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.54%) Flyway
8 1 (0.54%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.54%) Mocha
8 1 (0.54%) Subversion
8 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 53 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 49 (26.34%) Finance
3 45 (24.19%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (19.35%) Banking
5 23 (12.37%) Investment Banking
6 13 (6.99%) Front Office
7 6 (3.23%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.61%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.61%) Retail
9 2 (1.08%) Advertising
9 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Back Office
10 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Electronics
10 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Legal
10 1 (0.54%) Local Government
10 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (33.87%) Developer
2 38 (20.43%) Java Developer
3 31 (16.67%) Senior
4 29 (15.59%) DBA
5 19 (10.22%) Senior Developer
5 19 (10.22%) SQL Developer
6 18 (9.68%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 18 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
7 13 (6.99%) Consultant
7 13 (6.99%) Data Engineer
8 12 (6.45%) Oracle Developer
8 12 (6.45%) SQL DBA
9 10 (5.38%) ABAP Developer
9 10 (5.38%) SAP Developer
10 9 (4.84%) Linux Developer
10 9 (4.84%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
10 9 (4.84%) Senior SQL Developer
11 8 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.30%) Senior Oracle Developer
12 7 (3.76%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.89%) Kafka
2 24 (12.90%) Spring
3 20 (10.75%) JMS
4 13 (6.99%) Web Services
5 11 (5.91%) .NET
6 10 (5.38%) AngularJS
6 10 (5.38%) BAPI
7 8 (4.30%) ASP.NET
8 6 (3.23%) REST
9 5 (2.69%) LDAP
9 5 (2.69%) XML
10 4 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.15%) Middleware
10 4 (2.15%) React
10 4 (2.15%) SOAP
11 3 (1.61%) JSON
11 3 (1.61%) MSMQ
11 3 (1.61%) Node.js
11 3 (1.61%) YAML
12 2 (1.08%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.59%) Data Structures
2 21 (11.29%) Equities
3 16 (8.60%) Replication
4 11 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.84%) Clustering
6 6 (3.23%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.23%) iPad
7 5 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.69%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.15%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.15%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.15%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.61%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.61%) Derivative
9 3 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.61%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 54 (29.03%) Linux
2 17 (9.14%) Windows
3 12 (6.45%) Unix
4 10 (5.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.61%) AIX
5 3 (1.61%) Solaris
5 3 (1.61%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.54%) CentOS
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.54%) VMS
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.54%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (29.57%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (24.19%) Agile
3 44 (23.66%) DevOps
4 39 (20.97%) Database Tuning
5 38 (20.43%) Migration
6 31 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 27 (14.52%) High Availability
8 26 (13.98%) Software Engineering
9 24 (12.90%) Open Source
9 24 (12.90%) SDLC
10 21 (11.29%) Multithreading
11 20 (10.75%) Containerisation
12 19 (10.22%) ETL
13 18 (9.68%) Data Modelling
14 17 (9.14%) Data Migration
15 16 (8.60%) Data Integration
16 15 (8.06%) Computer Science
16 15 (8.06%) Disaster Recovery
17 14 (7.53%) Performance Optimisation
18 13 (6.99%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 100 (53.76%) SQL
2 59 (31.72%) Python
3 58 (31.18%) Java
4 25 (13.44%) Shell Script
5 18 (9.68%) PL/SQL
6 12 (6.45%) Bash
7 10 (5.38%) ABAP
7 10 (5.38%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.38%) Scala
8 6 (3.23%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.69%) ActionScript
9 5 (2.69%) ActionScript 2.0
9 5 (2.69%) Gremlin
9 5 (2.69%) SPARQL
10 4 (2.15%) Perl
10 4 (2.15%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.61%) C#
11 3 (1.61%) C++
11 3 (1.61%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.08%) C
Qualifications
1 34 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 33 (17.74%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.14%) Degree
4 10 (5.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (4.30%) Numerate Degree
6 7 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.69%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.61%) RHCE
9 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.08%) CISSP
10 1 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.54%) OCP
10 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.54%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.54%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.23%) GDPR
1 6 (3.23%) QA
2 4 (2.15%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.15%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.08%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.08%) NIST
3 2 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (14.52%) Docker
2 14 (7.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.30%) GridGain
4 5 (2.69%) NFS
4 5 (2.69%) Samba
5 4 (2.15%) vSphere
6 3 (1.61%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
7 2 (1.08%) Firmware
7 2 (1.08%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.54%) KVM
8 1 (0.54%) LXC
8 1 (0.54%) QEMU
8 1 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.54%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (17.74%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.75%) Ansible
3 14 (7.53%) Terraform
4 5 (2.69%) Grafana
4 5 (2.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 5 (2.69%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (2.69%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.15%) yum
6 3 (1.61%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.08%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (1.08%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.08%) Kubeflow
7 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.08%) Puppet
7 2 (1.08%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.54%) Consul
8 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (0.54%) Istio
8 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.54%) TADDM
Vendors
1 49 (26.34%) Oracle
2 24 (12.90%) Sybase
3 20 (10.75%) Microsoft
4 19 (10.22%) VMware
5 13 (6.99%) SAP
6 12 (6.45%) Red Hat
7 9 (4.84%) IBM
8 4 (2.15%) Databricks
8 4 (2.15%) Dynatrace
8 4 (2.15%) Google
8 4 (2.15%) HP
8 4 (2.15%) IBM Sterling
9 3 (1.61%) Cisco
9 3 (1.61%) Commvault
9 3 (1.61%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.61%) Splunk
10 2 (1.08%) BMC
10 2 (1.08%) Veritas