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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 144 211
Rank change year-on-year +22 +67 +41
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 248 182 157
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.18% 1.78% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 1.97% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 107 110
10th Percentile £382 £367 £350
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £668 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £49.40
25th Percentile £53.00 - £53.38
Median hourly rate £54.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £67.50 £54.25
% change year-on-year -20.00% +24.42% -22.50%

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 10,132 9,255 14,269
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.94% 90.30% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,612 6,252 9,540
10th Percentile £350 £331 £338
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 196 547
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.81 £15.33
25th Percentile £25.50 £21.88 £23.63
Median hourly rate £56.80 £39.02 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.55% -8.19% -26.09%
75th Percentile £67.38 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 9 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.21%) IIS
3 3 (1.21%) NetWeaver
3 3 (1.21%) SAS
3 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.81%) CICS
4 2 (0.81%) Confluence
4 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.81%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.81%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.40%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.40%) Mendix
5 1 (0.40%) SugarCRM
5 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 8 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.61%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.21%) BASE24
3 3 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.21%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.40%) Magento
5 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.40%) Shopify
5 1 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 84 (33.87%) AWS
2 82 (33.06%) Azure
3 23 (9.27%) GCP
4 22 (8.87%) Power Platform
5 20 (8.06%) Amazon S3
6 17 (6.85%) Snowflake
7 16 (6.45%) Serverless
8 14 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (5.24%) dbt
9 13 (5.24%) GitHub
10 12 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (3.63%) SaaS
14 8 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (2.42%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.85%) Firewall
2 11 (4.44%) VPN
3 10 (4.03%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.82%) Network Security
5 6 (2.42%) BGP
6 5 (2.02%) HTTP
6 5 (2.02%) OSPF
6 5 (2.02%) SD-WAN
6 5 (2.02%) SSL
6 5 (2.02%) WAN
7 4 (1.61%) DNS
7 4 (1.61%) Internet
7 4 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.61%) Wireless
8 3 (1.21%) DHCP
8 3 (1.21%) LAN
9 2 (0.81%) 802.11
9 2 (0.81%) EIGRP
9 2 (0.81%) MPLS
9 2 (0.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.92%) SQL Server
2 27 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (8.87%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (8.06%) Relational Database
5 17 (6.85%) MongoDB
6 16 (6.45%) Power BI
7 14 (5.65%) Oracle Database
8 13 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (5.24%) DB2
9 10 (4.03%) Data Lake
10 9 (3.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (3.23%) DynamoDB
11 8 (3.23%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (2.82%) SAP HANA
12 7 (2.82%) Star Schema
13 6 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (2.42%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (10.48%) Git
2 16 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.05%) JUnit
4 12 (4.84%) GitLab
5 4 (1.61%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.61%) JIRA
5 4 (1.61%) JMeter
6 3 (1.21%) Maven
7 2 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.81%) Gatling
7 2 (0.81%) Gradle
7 2 (0.81%) Mockito
7 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.40%) Introscope
8 1 (0.40%) jMock
8 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.40%) LSMW
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.40%) Toad
General
1 75 (30.24%) Social Skills
2 66 (26.61%) Finance
3 37 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (13.31%) Banking
5 21 (8.47%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.63%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.02%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.02%) Marketing
10 4 (1.61%) Front Office
10 4 (1.61%) Legal
10 4 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.21%) Retail
12 2 (0.81%) Billing
12 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.81%) Publishing
13 1 (0.40%) Law
13 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 65 (26.21%) Developer
2 38 (15.32%) Data Engineer
3 31 (12.50%) Senior
4 28 (11.29%) Architect
5 21 (8.47%) Lead
6 17 (6.85%) Consultant
6 17 (6.85%) DBA
6 17 (6.85%) Java Developer
7 15 (6.05%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.84%) SQL Developer
9 10 (4.03%) Oracle Developer
10 9 (3.63%) Administrator
10 9 (3.63%) SQL DBA
11 8 (3.23%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 8 (3.23%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (2.82%) C# Developer
12 7 (2.82%) Data Architect
12 7 (2.82%) Oracle DBA
12 7 (2.82%) Senior SQL Developer
12 7 (2.82%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.47%) Kafka
1 21 (8.47%) Spring
2 16 (6.45%) RESTful
3 13 (5.24%) Spring Boot
4 12 (4.84%) .NET
5 10 (4.03%) PySpark
6 9 (3.63%) JMS
6 9 (3.63%) JSON
6 9 (3.63%) React
6 9 (3.63%) REST
7 7 (2.82%) Web Services
8 6 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.42%) SOAP
9 5 (2.02%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.02%) Jest
9 5 (2.02%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.61%) .NET Framework
10 4 (1.61%) BAPI
10 4 (1.61%) Node.js
10 4 (1.61%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.45%) Data Structures
2 14 (5.65%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.44%) Replication
4 10 (4.03%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.23%) Clustering
5 8 (3.23%) Equities
5 8 (3.23%) Mainframe
5 8 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.02%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.61%) NHS
9 4 (1.61%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.21%) EMV
10 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.21%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 37 (14.92%) Linux
2 23 (9.27%) Windows
3 13 (5.24%) Unix
4 9 (3.63%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.42%) zOS
6 4 (1.61%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.21%) Android
8 2 (0.81%) AIX
8 2 (0.81%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.40%) CentOS
9 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (30.65%) CI/CD
2 61 (24.60%) DevOps
3 55 (22.18%) Data Modelling
4 49 (19.76%) Migration
5 43 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (16.13%) Agile
7 36 (14.52%) Data Pipeline
8 33 (13.31%) Analytics
9 32 (12.90%) ETL
9 32 (12.90%) High Availability
10 31 (12.50%) Data Engineering
11 29 (11.69%) Performance Optimisation
12 27 (10.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (9.27%) Containerisation
14 23 (9.27%) Technical Leadership
15 22 (8.87%) Observability
16 21 (8.47%) AI
16 21 (8.47%) Data Integration
17 19 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 106 (42.74%) SQL
2 78 (31.45%) Python
3 42 (16.94%) Java
4 21 (8.47%) PowerShell
5 16 (6.45%) Shell Script
6 14 (5.65%) C#
7 13 (5.24%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.23%) Bash
8 8 (3.23%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.42%) C
9 6 (2.42%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.42%) Perl
10 5 (2.02%) ABAP
10 5 (2.02%) JCL
10 5 (2.02%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.21%) CLIST
12 3 (1.21%) COBOL
12 3 (1.21%) REXX
12 3 (1.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 49 (19.76%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.53%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.45%) Degree
4 6 (2.42%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.02%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.61%) OCP
6 4 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.21%) CCIE
7 3 (1.21%) CCNP
7 3 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.21%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.21%) VCAP
8 2 (0.81%) CCA
8 2 (0.81%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.27%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.26%) QA
3 13 (5.24%) GDPR
4 9 (3.63%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.42%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.42%) SLA
6 5 (2.02%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.02%) ISO 8583
6 5 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.81%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.81%) PSD2
7 2 (0.81%) SEPA
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.40%) COBIT
8 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (13.31%) Docker
2 12 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.42%) KVM
4 5 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.61%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.61%) NDS
5 4 (1.61%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 4 (1.61%) vSphere
6 3 (1.21%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 3 (1.21%) RACF
6 3 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.21%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.81%) NFS
7 2 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.40%) Firmware
8 1 (0.40%) Lustre
8 1 (0.40%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 36 (14.52%) Terraform
2 28 (11.29%) Kubernetes
3 24 (9.68%) Ansible
4 10 (4.03%) Grafana
5 7 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.02%) Argo
7 4 (1.61%) Kibana
7 4 (1.61%) logstash
7 4 (1.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 4 (1.61%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (1.61%) PowerCLI
7 4 (1.61%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.61%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.81%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 2 (0.81%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.81%) Puppet
9 2 (0.81%) SCCM
9 2 (0.81%) SCOM
Vendors
1 39 (15.73%) Oracle
2 34 (13.71%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.05%) Databricks
3 15 (6.05%) VMware
4 14 (5.65%) SAP
5 12 (4.84%) Sybase
6 11 (4.44%) Google
7 10 (4.03%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.23%) Cisco
8 8 (3.23%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.82%) IBM
10 6 (2.42%) Citrix
11 5 (2.02%) Broadcom
11 5 (2.02%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.02%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.61%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.61%) Juniper
12 4 (1.61%) NetIQ
12 4 (1.61%) OpenText
12 4 (1.61%) Zscaler