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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 106 187
Rank change year-on-year -47 +81 +57
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 275 241 156
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.01% 2.49% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.71% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 140 95
10th Percentile £400 £375 £390
25th Percentile £429 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.36%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £650 £678 £658
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.59% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £26.88 £46.63 -
25th Percentile £34.19 £50.94 £62.50
Median hourly rate £41.63 £61.25 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.04% -18.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £45.63 £70.94 £87.50
90th Percentile £46.75 £74.88 -
UK median hourly rate £41.63 £75.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -44.50% +21.75% -5.59%

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 12,395 8,888 10,895
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.60% 91.93% 88.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,792 5,898 6,847
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £428 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -1.50%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £736 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 791 278 253
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.25 £19.36
25th Percentile £28.75 £20.50 £27.84
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.95 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.10% -16.41% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 12 (4.36%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (4.00%) Confluence
3 7 (2.55%) CICS
3 7 (2.55%) SAS
4 5 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.45%) Apache
5 4 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.45%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.09%) IIS
6 3 (1.09%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.73%) nginx
7 2 (0.73%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.73%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.36%) Documentum
8 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.36%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (6.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.55%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.45%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.73%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.73%) Cerner Millennium
4 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.73%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.36%) Finacle
5 1 (0.36%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.36%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.36%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.36%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.36%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (0.36%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 85 (30.91%) Azure
2 72 (26.18%) AWS
3 26 (9.45%) GCP
4 25 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (7.64%) GitHub
6 17 (6.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (6.18%) Power Platform
7 15 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (5.09%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (5.09%) Amazon S3
9 13 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (4.73%) dbt
9 13 (4.73%) Serverless
10 10 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.64%) Snowflake
11 9 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (2.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (2.55%) AWS KMS
13 7 (2.55%) Boomi
13 7 (2.55%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.27%) Network Security
2 8 (2.91%) DNS
2 8 (2.91%) Firewall
2 8 (2.91%) SSL
3 5 (1.82%) HTTP
4 4 (1.45%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.45%) ICMP
4 4 (1.45%) SNMP
5 3 (1.09%) Bluetooth
5 3 (1.09%) VPN
6 2 (0.73%) BGP
6 2 (0.73%) DHCP
6 2 (0.73%) DMZ
6 2 (0.73%) Internet
6 2 (0.73%) Intranet
6 2 (0.73%) OSPF
6 2 (0.73%) SAN
6 2 (0.73%) SMTP
6 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.73%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (17.09%) SQL Server
2 44 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 22 (8.00%) Oracle Database
6 18 (6.55%) Oracle Reports
7 17 (6.18%) MySQL
7 17 (6.18%) Power BI
8 14 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (4.73%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (4.73%) Oracle ODI
10 12 (4.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (4.00%) Db2
12 9 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (2.91%) BigQuery
13 8 (2.91%) MongoDB
14 7 (2.55%) RDBMS
14 7 (2.55%) SAP HANA
15 6 (2.18%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 45 (16.36%) Git
2 24 (8.73%) Jenkins
3 18 (6.55%) GitLab
3 18 (6.55%) JIRA
4 6 (2.18%) Postman
5 5 (1.82%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (1.45%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.45%) Maven
7 3 (1.09%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.73%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.73%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.73%) Flyway
8 2 (0.73%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.73%) JUnit
8 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.73%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.36%) Toad
General
1 86 (31.27%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.18%) Finance
3 47 (17.09%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.82%) Banking
5 22 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.27%) Retail
7 6 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.45%) Legal
9 4 (1.45%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.45%) Military
9 4 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.09%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.09%) Marketing
11 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.73%) Publishing
11 2 (0.73%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (26.91%) Developer
2 37 (13.45%) Data Engineer
3 36 (13.09%) DBA
4 35 (12.73%) Senior
5 23 (8.36%) Architect
6 20 (7.27%) Administrator
7 19 (6.91%) SQL Developer
8 13 (4.73%) Lead
9 12 (4.36%) Oracle Developer
9 12 (4.36%) SQL DBA
10 11 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (4.00%) Consultant
10 11 (4.00%) SC Cleared DBA
10 11 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
11 10 (3.64%) Oracle DBA
11 10 (3.64%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.27%) Data Warehouse Developer
12 9 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.27%) Linux Engineer
13 8 (2.91%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.00%) REST
2 32 (11.64%) Terraform
3 21 (7.64%) .NET
4 19 (6.91%) SOAP
5 18 (6.55%) Kafka
6 17 (6.18%) Middleware
6 17 (6.18%) Web Services
7 15 (5.45%) JSON
8 13 (4.73%) XML
9 12 (4.36%) PySpark
10 11 (4.00%) BAPI
10 11 (4.00%) Spring
11 10 (3.64%) Node.js
11 10 (3.64%) React
11 10 (3.64%) Spring Boot
12 9 (3.27%) RESTful
13 8 (2.91%) IDoc
13 8 (2.91%) SAP Fiori
14 7 (2.55%) .NET Framework
14 7 (2.55%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.73%) Replication
2 22 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 17 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.73%) Data Structures
4 13 (4.73%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.36%) Mainframe
6 11 (4.00%) Data Centre
7 10 (3.64%) Clustering
8 7 (2.55%) CUDA
8 7 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.18%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.18%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.82%) PKI
10 5 (1.82%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.45%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (20.00%) Linux
2 22 (8.00%) Windows
3 17 (6.18%) Windows Server
4 15 (5.45%) Unix
5 10 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.27%) zOS
7 3 (1.09%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.09%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (1.09%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.73%) AIX
8 2 (0.73%) CentOS
8 2 (0.73%) VMS
9 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.36%) MVS
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (34.91%) CI/CD
2 75 (27.27%) DevOps
3 72 (26.18%) Data Modelling
4 69 (25.09%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (22.55%) ETL
6 54 (19.64%) Agile
7 49 (17.82%) Migration
8 48 (17.45%) Analytics
9 47 (17.09%) High Availability
10 42 (15.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 41 (14.91%) Data Pipeline
11 41 (14.91%) Root Cause Analysis
12 35 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (12.73%) Observability
12 35 (12.73%) Validation
13 33 (12.00%) Capacity Planning
13 33 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 30 (10.91%) Microservices
15 28 (10.18%) Data Engineering
16 26 (9.45%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 123 (44.73%) SQL
2 69 (25.09%) Python
3 23 (8.36%) T-SQL
4 22 (8.00%) Java
5 21 (7.64%) PowerShell
6 19 (6.91%) PL/SQL
7 18 (6.55%) C#
8 16 (5.82%) Bash
9 13 (4.73%) Shell Script
10 11 (4.00%) JavaScript
11 10 (3.64%) ABAP
12 7 (2.55%) C++
13 6 (2.18%) Perl
14 5 (1.82%) C
14 5 (1.82%) COBOL
15 4 (1.45%) JCL
15 4 (1.45%) Korn
15 4 (1.45%) TypeScript
16 3 (1.09%) ActionScript 2.0
16 3 (1.09%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 84 (30.55%) Security Cleared
2 78 (28.36%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.55%) AWS Certification
3 18 (6.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (4.36%) Degree
5 8 (2.91%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.45%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.45%) OCP
9 4 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.36%) NCDA
11 1 (0.36%) NCIE
11 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.36%) PMP
11 1 (0.36%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (16.36%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.09%) QA
3 11 (4.00%) GDPR
4 4 (1.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.45%) GMP
4 4 (1.45%) GxP
4 4 (1.45%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.73%) GRC
6 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.73%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.36%) PSD2
7 1 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 27 (9.82%) Docker
2 12 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.91%) vSphere
4 7 (2.55%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.55%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (2.55%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 5 (1.82%) RACF
6 5 (1.82%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.09%) Firmware
9 2 (0.73%) ACF2
9 2 (0.73%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.73%) SRDF
9 2 (0.73%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.73%) Varnish
10 1 (0.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.36%) Postfix
10 1 (0.36%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 32 (11.64%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.27%) Ansible
3 11 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 10 (3.64%) Grafana
5 8 (2.91%) Data Guard
6 6 (2.18%) Puppet
7 5 (1.82%) Control-M
7 5 (1.82%) PowerCLI
8 4 (1.45%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.45%) vMotion
9 3 (1.09%) Kibana
9 3 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.09%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.73%) Argo
10 2 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.73%) Nagios
10 2 (0.73%) QRadar
10 2 (0.73%) SCOM
Vendors
1 59 (21.45%) Oracle
2 45 (16.36%) Microsoft
3 25 (9.09%) SAP
4 22 (8.00%) VMware
5 14 (5.09%) ServiceNow
6 13 (4.73%) Splunk
7 12 (4.36%) Databricks
8 11 (4.00%) IBM
8 11 (4.00%) MuleSoft
9 10 (3.64%) Informatica
10 9 (3.27%) Dell
11 7 (2.55%) Red Hat
12 6 (2.18%) NVIDIA
12 6 (2.18%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.82%) 3PAR
13 5 (1.82%) Adobe
14 4 (1.45%) Google
14 4 (1.45%) Nimble Storage
15 3 (1.09%) Broadcom
15 3 (1.09%) Tagetik