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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 146 191
Rank change year-on-year +19 +45 +49
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 258 185 171
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.15% 1.85% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 2.03% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 118 121
10th Percentile £362 £389 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £741 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile - - £49.40
25th Percentile £53.00 - £53.38
Median hourly rate £53.50 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.57% +16.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £84.75 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.75 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -24.64% +16.67% -17.24%

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 10,599 9,095 13,549
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.36% 91.03% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,870 6,241 9,028
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 224 563
10th Percentile £17.23 £14.20 £15.03
25th Percentile £27.71 £19.87 £24.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.98% +1.25% -27.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.22% -16.71% -6.67%

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 26 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Performance Tuning hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

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 10 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.71%) Oracle Application Server
3 4 (1.55%) CICS
3 4 (1.55%) Confluence
3 4 (1.55%) IIS
3 4 (1.55%) NetWeaver
3 4 (1.55%) SAS
4 3 (1.16%) Apache
4 3 (1.16%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.16%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.16%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.16%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.78%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (0.78%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.78%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Payment Gateway
1 6 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.55%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.16%) BASE24
3 3 (1.16%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.78%) Magento
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.39%) Shopify
5 1 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 92 (35.66%) Azure
2 85 (32.95%) AWS
3 28 (10.85%) GCP
4 26 (10.08%) Power Platform
5 21 (8.14%) Amazon S3
6 18 (6.98%) Snowflake
7 16 (6.20%) Serverless
8 15 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (5.04%) dbt
11 12 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.49%) GitHub
13 9 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.71%) OpenShift
14 7 (2.71%) PaaS
15 6 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (2.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.59%) Firewall
2 12 (4.65%) Network Security
2 12 (4.65%) VPN
3 10 (3.88%) BGP
4 9 (3.49%) OSPF
5 7 (2.71%) DNS
6 6 (2.33%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (2.33%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.33%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.33%) VXLAN
6 6 (2.33%) WAN
7 5 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.55%) DHCP
8 4 (1.55%) LAN
8 4 (1.55%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (1.55%) SSL
8 4 (1.55%) Wireless
9 3 (1.16%) SAN
10 2 (0.78%) 802.11
10 2 (0.78%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.34%) SQL Server
2 32 (12.40%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (7.75%) Power BI
4 19 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.81%) Oracle Database
6 14 (5.43%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (5.04%) Data Lake
7 13 (5.04%) Relational Database
8 12 (4.65%) Star Schema
9 11 (4.26%) Snowflake Schema
9 11 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (3.88%) DB2
10 10 (3.88%) DynamoDB
11 7 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (2.71%) NoSQL
11 7 (2.71%) Oracle ODI
12 6 (2.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 25 (9.69%) Git
2 13 (5.04%) GitLab
2 13 (5.04%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.33%) JIRA
3 6 (2.33%) JUnit
4 4 (1.55%) JMeter
5 3 (1.16%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.16%) Maven
6 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.78%) Gatling
6 2 (0.78%) Gradle
6 2 (0.78%) Introscope
6 2 (0.78%) Mockito
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.39%) Postman
7 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 72 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 57 (22.09%) Finance
3 30 (11.63%) Banking
4 28 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.36%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.10%) Marketing
7 6 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.94%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.16%) Publishing
10 3 (1.16%) Retail
11 2 (0.78%) Law
11 2 (0.78%) Legal
12 1 (0.39%) Back Office
12 1 (0.39%) Billing
12 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Military
12 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (23.26%) Developer
2 38 (14.73%) Data Engineer
3 30 (11.63%) Senior
4 28 (10.85%) Architect
5 21 (8.14%) DBA
5 21 (8.14%) Lead
6 12 (4.65%) Oracle Developer
7 11 (4.26%) Network Engineer
7 11 (4.26%) SQL DBA
8 10 (3.88%) Administrator
8 10 (3.88%) Snowflake Engineer
9 9 (3.49%) Java Developer
9 9 (3.49%) Oracle DBA
10 8 (3.10%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 7 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (2.71%) C# Developer
11 7 (2.71%) Consultant
11 7 (2.71%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.33%) .NET Developer
12 6 (2.33%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.59%) RESTful
2 15 (5.81%) REST
3 14 (5.43%) Kafka
4 12 (4.65%) JSON
4 12 (4.65%) Spring
4 12 (4.65%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.26%) .NET
5 11 (4.26%) SOAP
6 8 (3.10%) PySpark
6 8 (3.10%) React
7 7 (2.71%) Node.js
8 6 (2.33%) Middleware
8 6 (2.33%) SAP Basis
8 6 (2.33%) Web Services
9 5 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.55%) 802.1X
10 4 (1.55%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.55%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (5.43%) Clustering
2 14 (5.43%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.04%) Replication
4 12 (4.65%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.88%) Mainframe
7 9 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.71%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.33%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.94%) DataPower
11 4 (1.55%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.55%) CUDA
11 4 (1.55%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.55%) Legacy Code
11 4 (1.55%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.55%) NHS
11 4 (1.55%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 41 (15.89%) Linux
2 34 (13.18%) Windows
3 18 (6.98%) Windows Server
4 17 (6.59%) Unix
5 11 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.49%) zOS
7 4 (1.55%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.16%) Android
8 3 (1.16%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.78%) AIX
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.78%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.78%) VMS
10 1 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.39%) Solaris
10 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (29.07%) CI/CD
2 63 (24.42%) Data Modelling
3 61 (23.64%) DevOps
4 55 (21.32%) Migration
5 48 (18.60%) ETL
6 43 (16.67%) High Availability
7 39 (15.12%) Analytics
8 38 (14.73%) Agile
9 35 (13.57%) Data Engineering
9 35 (13.57%) Data Pipeline
10 33 (12.79%) Performance Optimisation
11 32 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (10.85%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (10.47%) AI
13 27 (10.47%) Technical Leadership
14 25 (9.69%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (9.30%) Containerisation
16 22 (8.53%) Capacity Planning
16 22 (8.53%) Disaster Recovery
17 21 (8.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 99 (38.37%) SQL
2 77 (29.84%) Python
3 29 (11.24%) Java
4 24 (9.30%) PowerShell
5 15 (5.81%) PL/SQL
6 13 (5.04%) C#
6 13 (5.04%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.65%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.26%) Bash
9 8 (3.10%) Perl
10 7 (2.71%) C
10 7 (2.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (2.71%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.71%) JCL
11 4 (1.55%) Rust
11 4 (1.55%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.16%) CLIST
12 3 (1.16%) COBOL
12 3 (1.16%) REXX
13 2 (0.78%) C++
Qualifications
1 58 (22.48%) Security Cleared
2 48 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.43%) Degree
4 8 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.71%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.71%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (1.55%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.16%) CCIE
8 3 (1.16%) CCNP
8 3 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.16%) CISSP
8 3 (1.16%) OCP
8 3 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.16%) SnowPro
8 3 (1.16%) VCAP
9 2 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.47%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.81%) QA
3 12 (4.65%) GDPR
4 8 (3.10%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.94%) ISO 8583
6 5 (1.94%) SLA
7 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.78%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.78%) NIST
7 2 (0.78%) PSD2
7 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.78%) SEPA
8 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.39%) COBIT
System Software
1 30 (11.63%) Docker
2 16 (6.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.65%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.49%) vSphere
5 7 (2.71%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.94%) KVM
6 5 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.55%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (1.16%) RACF
9 2 (0.78%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.78%) NFS
9 2 (0.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.39%) ACF2
10 1 (0.39%) Ceph
10 1 (0.39%) etcd
10 1 (0.39%) Firmware
10 1 (0.39%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 34 (13.18%) Ansible
2 33 (12.79%) Terraform
3 26 (10.08%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.65%) Grafana
5 10 (3.88%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.33%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.94%) Kibana
7 5 (1.94%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (1.94%) PowerCLI
8 4 (1.55%) Argo
8 4 (1.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (1.16%) Data Guard
9 3 (1.16%) logstash
9 3 (1.16%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.16%) Puppet
9 3 (1.16%) SCCM
10 2 (0.78%) CA Wily
10 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (0.78%) SCOM
10 2 (0.78%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 46 (17.83%) Oracle
2 39 (15.12%) Microsoft
3 23 (8.91%) VMware
4 13 (5.04%) Databricks
4 13 (5.04%) SAP
5 12 (4.65%) Google
5 12 (4.65%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.88%) IBM
7 9 (3.49%) Red Hat
8 8 (3.10%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.71%) Cisco
9 7 (2.71%) Citrix
10 6 (2.33%) Informatica
11 5 (1.94%) Broadcom
11 5 (1.94%) Juniper
11 5 (1.94%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.94%) Sybase
12 4 (1.55%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.55%) Splunk
13 3 (1.16%) RedGate