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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 169 256
Rank change year-on-year +58 +87 +21
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 244 167 145
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.36% 1.37% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 1.55% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 94 101
10th Percentile £375 £396 £330
25th Percentile £445 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £460
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% +7.17% -16.36%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £534
90th Percentile £700 £663 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £498
% change year-on-year -6.19% +7.14% -9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £46.63 - -
25th Percentile £50.94 £62.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £61.25 £75.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +17.65% +155.00%
75th Percentile £70.94 £87.50 £69.06
90th Percentile £74.88 - £69.63
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year +20.55% +2.67% -

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 9,455 10,783 15,920
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.50% 88.23% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,249 6,769 10,992
10th Percentile £325 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 221 383
10th Percentile £15.18 £18.27 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.50 £26.24
Median hourly rate £41.50 £38.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.79% -26.67% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 26 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 17 (6.97%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.51%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.28%) Apache
4 5 (2.05%) CICS
5 4 (1.64%) Confluence
6 3 (1.23%) SAS
6 3 (1.23%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.82%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.82%) IIS
7 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.41%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.41%) CMS
8 1 (0.41%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.41%) nginx
8 1 (0.41%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.41%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (4.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.23%) SAP MDG
2 3 (1.23%) SAP PLM
2 3 (1.23%) SAP VC
3 2 (0.82%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.82%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.41%) Magento
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.41%) Shopify
4 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 77 (31.56%) Azure
2 69 (28.28%) AWS
3 17 (6.97%) GCP
3 17 (6.97%) GitHub
4 16 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (6.56%) Snowflake
5 13 (5.33%) Amazon S3
5 13 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (5.33%) Power Platform
6 12 (4.92%) dbt
6 12 (4.92%) Serverless
7 10 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (3.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (3.28%) Datadog
10 7 (2.87%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (2.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.69%) Firewall
2 5 (2.05%) HTTP
2 5 (2.05%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.64%) DNS
3 4 (1.64%) SSL
4 3 (1.23%) Internet
4 3 (1.23%) Network Security
4 3 (1.23%) VPN
5 2 (0.82%) DHCP
5 2 (0.82%) LAN
5 2 (0.82%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.82%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.82%) WAN
5 2 (0.82%) WebEx
6 1 (0.41%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.41%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.41%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.41%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (17.21%) MongoDB
2 39 (15.98%) Relational Database
3 38 (15.57%) DB2
4 29 (11.89%) SQL Server
5 25 (10.25%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (6.97%) Oracle Database
8 12 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (4.92%) Power BI
9 10 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (4.10%) Data Lake
9 10 (4.10%) MySQL
9 10 (4.10%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.28%) Big Data
11 7 (2.87%) Hadoop
11 7 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (2.87%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (2.05%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 37 (15.16%) JUnit
2 27 (11.07%) Git
3 17 (6.97%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.28%) GitLab
5 6 (2.46%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.46%) JIRA
6 3 (1.23%) Maven
7 2 (0.82%) GCC
7 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.41%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.41%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.41%) LSMW
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.41%) Selenium
8 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.41%) Toad
General
1 101 (41.39%) Social Skills
2 76 (31.15%) Finance
3 53 (21.72%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (20.49%) Banking
5 34 (13.93%) Investment Banking
6 22 (9.02%) Public Sector
7 17 (6.97%) Front Office
8 10 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.87%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.05%) Marketing
10 5 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.23%) German Language
11 3 (1.23%) Legal
11 3 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.82%) Automotive
12 2 (0.82%) Electronics
12 2 (0.82%) Retail
12 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 84 (34.43%) Developer
2 43 (17.62%) Java Developer
3 33 (13.52%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 33 (13.52%) Senior
3 33 (13.52%) SQL Developer
4 26 (10.66%) Data Engineer
5 24 (9.84%) Senior Developer
6 20 (8.20%) Consultant
6 20 (8.20%) DBA
6 20 (8.20%) Lead
7 19 (7.79%) Architect
8 18 (7.38%) Senior Java Developer
9 16 (6.56%) Senior SQL Developer
10 15 (6.15%) Linux Developer
10 15 (6.15%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
10 15 (6.15%) Sybase Developer
11 12 (4.92%) Administrator
12 8 (3.28%) Java Engineer
12 8 (3.28%) Oracle DBA
13 7 (2.87%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (19.67%) Kafka
2 46 (18.85%) Spring
3 31 (12.70%) JMS
4 22 (9.02%) RESTful
5 15 (6.15%) REST
6 14 (5.74%) Spring Boot
7 11 (4.51%) React
8 10 (4.10%) .NET
9 9 (3.69%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (2.87%) HTML
10 7 (2.87%) OAuth
11 6 (2.46%) AWS CDK
11 6 (2.46%) CSS
11 6 (2.46%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (2.46%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 5 (2.05%) Jest
12 5 (2.05%) JSON
12 5 (2.05%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.05%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 37 (15.16%) Data Structures
2 30 (12.30%) Equities
3 22 (9.02%) Replication
4 18 (7.38%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (5.74%) Cloud Native
6 12 (4.92%) Mainframe
7 11 (4.51%) Clustering
8 10 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.46%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.64%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.64%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.64%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (1.23%) Legacy Code
12 3 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 66 (27.05%) Linux
2 14 (5.74%) Windows
3 8 (3.28%) zOS
4 7 (2.87%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.46%) Unix
6 3 (1.23%) AIX
6 3 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.23%) VMS
7 2 (0.82%) OS/2
7 2 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.41%) Android
8 1 (0.41%) CentOS
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (30.74%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (29.10%) Agile
3 70 (28.69%) CI/CD
3 70 (28.69%) DevOps
4 46 (18.85%) Data Modelling
5 38 (15.57%) Migration
6 37 (15.16%) Database Tuning
7 33 (13.52%) Multithreading
7 33 (13.52%) Open Source
7 33 (13.52%) SDLC
8 31 (12.70%) Data Pipeline
8 31 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
9 30 (12.30%) ETL
10 29 (11.89%) Analytics
11 27 (11.07%) Business Intelligence
12 26 (10.66%) Microservices
13 25 (10.25%) Containerisation
14 23 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (9.43%) High Availability
14 23 (9.43%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 102 (41.80%) SQL
2 80 (32.79%) Python
3 72 (29.51%) Java
4 31 (12.70%) Shell Script
5 12 (4.92%) C#
5 12 (4.92%) PL/SQL
5 12 (4.92%) PowerShell
6 10 (4.10%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.69%) ABAP
8 8 (3.28%) Perl
9 6 (2.46%) Bash
9 6 (2.46%) REXX
10 5 (2.05%) JCL
10 5 (2.05%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.64%) Assembly Language
11 4 (1.64%) CLIST
11 4 (1.64%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.23%) C++
12 3 (1.23%) COBOL
12 3 (1.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.48%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.56%) Degree
4 7 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.23%) OCP
7 3 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.82%) CCNP
8 2 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.82%) OCA
8 2 (0.82%) VCAP
8 2 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.41%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.41%) CCIE
9 1 (0.41%) CISSP
9 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.02%) QA
2 19 (7.79%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.10%) GDPR
4 8 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.05%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.64%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.23%) SLA
8 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.41%) COBIT
8 1 (0.41%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.41%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.41%) NCSC
8 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (14.34%) Docker
2 10 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.46%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (2.46%) RACF
5 5 (2.05%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 4 (1.64%) NDS
6 4 (1.64%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 3 (1.23%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.82%) HDFS
8 2 (0.82%) NFS
8 2 (0.82%) vSphere
9 1 (0.41%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.41%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.41%) Postfix
9 1 (0.41%) Squid
9 1 (0.41%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 33 (13.52%) Terraform
2 23 (9.43%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.97%) Ansible
4 7 (2.87%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.46%) Data Guard
6 5 (2.05%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (2.05%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (2.05%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.64%) Grafana
7 4 (1.64%) Kibana
7 4 (1.64%) logstash
8 3 (1.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (1.23%) Puppet
9 2 (0.82%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.82%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.82%) OMEGAMON
9 2 (0.82%) SCCM
9 2 (0.82%) SCOM
9 2 (0.82%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 31 (12.70%) Oracle
1 31 (12.70%) Sybase
2 22 (9.02%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.15%) SAP
4 13 (5.33%) Databricks
5 9 (3.69%) IBM
5 9 (3.69%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.87%) VMware
7 5 (2.05%) Google
7 5 (2.05%) Informatica
7 5 (2.05%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.05%) Solace
8 4 (1.64%) Broadcom
8 4 (1.64%) Cisco
8 4 (1.64%) NetIQ
8 4 (1.64%) Okta
9 3 (1.23%) Adobe
9 3 (1.23%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.23%) OpenText
9 3 (1.23%) Teradata