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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 142 198
Rank change year-on-year +17 +56 +52
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 249 184 171
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.11% 1.81% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.00% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 113 122
10th Percentile £377 £375 £341
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £602 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £748 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -4.76%
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 £53.00 £70.00 £54.25
% change year-on-year -24.29% +29.03% -25.17%

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 10,487 9,197 13,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.68% 90.55% 87.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,827 6,302 9,212
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% - -3.67%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £751 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 219 535
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.20 £14.42
25th Percentile £27.00 £20.75 £23.54
Median hourly rate £57.50 £39.04 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +47.28% +2.41% -30.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.50 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £31.58 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.71% -2.83% -13.33%

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 6 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 6 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 14 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.61%) NetWeaver
2 4 (1.61%) SAS
3 3 (1.20%) CICS
3 3 (1.20%) IIS
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.80%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.80%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.80%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.80%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.80%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.20%) BASE24
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.80%) Magento
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.40%) Shopify
5 1 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 95 (38.15%) Azure
2 83 (33.33%) AWS
3 26 (10.44%) GCP
3 26 (10.44%) Power Platform
4 22 (8.84%) Snowflake
5 20 (8.03%) Amazon S3
5 20 (8.03%) dbt
6 16 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (6.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (5.22%) Serverless
9 12 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (4.42%) GitHub
10 11 (4.42%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (2.81%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.81%) PaaS
14 6 (2.41%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (2.41%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.23%) Firewall
2 12 (4.82%) VPN
3 9 (3.61%) Network Security
4 8 (3.21%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.81%) BGP
6 6 (2.41%) OSPF
6 6 (2.41%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.41%) SSL
6 6 (2.41%) WAN
7 5 (2.01%) DNS
7 5 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.61%) HTTP
8 4 (1.61%) LAN
8 4 (1.61%) Wireless
9 3 (1.20%) DHCP
9 3 (1.20%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (1.20%) SAN
9 3 (1.20%) VXLAN
10 2 (0.80%) IPFIX
10 2 (0.80%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.26%) SQL Server
2 30 (12.05%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (8.03%) Power BI
5 14 (5.62%) Oracle Database
5 14 (5.62%) Relational Database
6 13 (5.22%) Data Lake
7 12 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (4.82%) Snowflake Schema
7 12 (4.82%) Star Schema
8 11 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (3.61%) DynamoDB
9 9 (3.61%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (3.21%) DB2
10 8 (3.21%) MongoDB
11 7 (2.81%) NoSQL
12 6 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.41%) Delta Lake
12 6 (2.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 28 (11.24%) Git
2 15 (6.02%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.22%) GitLab
4 8 (3.21%) JUnit
5 4 (1.61%) JIRA
5 4 (1.61%) JMeter
6 3 (1.20%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.20%) Maven
7 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.80%) Gatling
7 2 (0.80%) Gradle
7 2 (0.80%) Introscope
7 2 (0.80%) Mockito
7 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.40%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.40%) Postman
8 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 69 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 59 (23.69%) Finance
3 30 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (11.65%) Banking
5 20 (8.03%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.01%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.01%) Marketing
7 5 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.20%) Legal
9 3 (1.20%) Publishing
9 3 (1.20%) Retail
10 2 (0.80%) Billing
10 2 (0.80%) Law
11 1 (0.40%) Front Office
11 1 (0.40%) German Language
11 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 59 (23.69%) Developer
2 43 (17.27%) Data Engineer
3 28 (11.24%) Senior
4 27 (10.84%) Architect
5 24 (9.64%) Lead
6 19 (7.63%) DBA
7 12 (4.82%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.42%) Consultant
8 11 (4.42%) SQL DBA
9 10 (4.02%) Oracle Developer
9 10 (4.02%) Snowflake Engineer
10 8 (3.21%) Administrator
10 8 (3.21%) Network Engineer
10 8 (3.21%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.21%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 7 (2.81%) C# Developer
11 7 (2.81%) Data Architect
11 7 (2.81%) Oracle DBA
12 6 (2.41%) .NET Developer
12 6 (2.41%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.23%) Kafka
2 17 (6.83%) RESTful
3 14 (5.62%) Spring
4 12 (4.82%) .NET
4 12 (4.82%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.42%) JSON
6 10 (4.02%) PySpark
6 10 (4.02%) REST
7 8 (3.21%) React
7 8 (3.21%) SOAP
8 6 (2.41%) SAP Basis
9 5 (2.01%) .NET Framework
9 5 (2.01%) Middleware
9 5 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (2.01%) Web Services
10 4 (1.61%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.61%) ASP.NET
10 4 (1.61%) Entity Framework
10 4 (1.61%) JMS
10 4 (1.61%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.62%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.42%) Clustering
2 11 (4.42%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (4.42%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.02%) Replication
4 9 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.21%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.81%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.81%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.41%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.61%) DataPower
8 4 (1.61%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.61%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.61%) NHS
9 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.20%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.25%) Linux
2 29 (11.65%) Windows
3 15 (6.02%) Unix
4 14 (5.62%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.41%) zOS
7 4 (1.61%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.20%) Android
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.80%) AIX
9 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.80%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.80%) VMS
10 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.40%) Rocky
10 1 (0.40%) Solaris
10 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (32.93%) CI/CD
2 64 (25.70%) DevOps
3 62 (24.90%) Data Modelling
4 55 (22.09%) Migration
5 43 (17.27%) ETL
6 42 (16.87%) Data Pipeline
7 40 (16.06%) Analytics
8 38 (15.26%) Data Engineering
9 36 (14.46%) Agile
10 33 (13.25%) Performance Optimisation
10 33 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (12.85%) High Availability
12 30 (12.05%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (10.44%) AI
14 25 (10.04%) Technical Leadership
15 23 (9.24%) Containerisation
15 23 (9.24%) Infrastructure as Code
16 22 (8.84%) Observability
17 21 (8.43%) Data Integration
17 21 (8.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 112 (44.98%) SQL
2 77 (30.92%) Python
3 32 (12.85%) Java
4 22 (8.84%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.62%) C#
5 14 (5.62%) PL/SQL
6 12 (4.82%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.02%) T-SQL
8 9 (3.61%) Bash
9 6 (2.41%) C
9 6 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.41%) Perl
10 5 (2.01%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.01%) JCL
11 4 (1.61%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.20%) COBOL
12 3 (1.20%) Rust
12 3 (1.20%) Scala
13 2 (0.80%) Ruby
13 2 (0.80%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 50 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 42 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.43%) Degree
4 7 (2.81%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.41%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.61%) VCAP
7 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.20%) CCIE
7 3 (1.20%) CCNP
7 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.20%) CISSP
7 3 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.20%) OCP
7 3 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.20%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.80%) CCA
8 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.65%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.43%) QA
3 12 (4.82%) GDPR
4 7 (2.81%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.41%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.01%) ISO 8583
6 5 (2.01%) SLA
7 4 (1.61%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.80%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.80%) NIST
8 2 (0.80%) PSD2
8 2 (0.80%) SEPA
9 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.40%) COBIT
System Software
1 28 (11.24%) Docker
2 16 (6.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.62%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.81%) vSphere
6 6 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.41%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.01%) KVM
8 4 (1.61%) Hyper-V
9 3 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.80%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.80%) NDS
10 2 (0.80%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 2 (0.80%) NFS
10 2 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.80%) RACF
11 1 (0.40%) etcd
11 1 (0.40%) Firmware
11 1 (0.40%) Postfix
11 1 (0.40%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 32 (12.85%) Terraform
2 27 (10.84%) Ansible
3 26 (10.44%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.61%) Grafana
5 7 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.41%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.01%) Argo
7 5 (2.01%) PowerCLI
8 4 (1.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (1.61%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.20%) Kibana
9 3 (1.20%) logstash
9 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.80%) CA Wily
10 2 (0.80%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (0.80%) SCCM
10 2 (0.80%) SCOM
10 2 (0.80%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 41 (16.47%) Microsoft
1 41 (16.47%) Oracle
2 20 (8.03%) VMware
3 17 (6.83%) Databricks
4 13 (5.22%) Google
5 12 (4.82%) SAP
6 11 (4.42%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.61%) Red Hat
8 8 (3.21%) Cisco
9 7 (2.81%) IBM
9 7 (2.81%) Sybase
10 6 (2.41%) Citrix
10 6 (2.41%) Informatica
11 5 (2.01%) Juniper
11 5 (2.01%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.01%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.61%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.61%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.61%) Splunk
13 3 (1.20%) HP