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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 132 193
Rank change year-on-year +9 +61 +28
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 277 193 161
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.23% 2.00% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 2.20% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 119 120
10th Percentile £362 £398 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £600
90th Percentile £676 £775 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £53.50 £70.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.57% +44.33% -34.24%
75th Percentile £84.75 - £50.25
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -24.29% +13.64% -15.03%

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 11,021 8,786 12,812
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.91% 91.25% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,094 6,002 8,641
10th Percentile £350 £330 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% -1.90% -3.23%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 540 214 571
10th Percentile £17.21 £13.80 £14.88
25th Percentile £30.38 £18.29 £24.13
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.95 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.97% -16.41% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.98% -23.38% -0.11%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 13 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.89%) Oracle Application Server
3 7 (2.53%) CICS
4 5 (1.81%) Apache
5 4 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.44%) Confluence
5 4 (1.44%) NetWeaver
5 4 (1.44%) SAS
5 4 (1.44%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.44%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (1.08%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (1.08%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.72%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.72%) IIS
7 2 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.72%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.72%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (1.81%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.44%) SAP MDG
5 3 (1.08%) Aladdin
5 3 (1.08%) BASE24
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (1.08%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.36%) Magento
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.36%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (36.10%) Azure
2 88 (31.77%) AWS
3 31 (11.19%) GCP
4 28 (10.11%) Power Platform
5 23 (8.30%) Amazon S3
6 17 (6.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (6.14%) Serverless
6 17 (6.14%) Snowflake
7 16 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.05%) dbt
10 12 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (4.33%) GitHub
11 11 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (2.89%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.53%) Azure Storage
13 7 (2.53%) OCI
13 7 (2.53%) PaaS
14 6 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.50%) Firewall
2 14 (5.05%) Network Security
3 13 (4.69%) VPN
4 11 (3.97%) BGP
4 11 (3.97%) DNS
5 10 (3.61%) OSPF
6 7 (2.53%) SD-WAN
6 7 (2.53%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.53%) WAN
7 6 (2.17%) Ethernet VPN
7 6 (2.17%) VXLAN
7 6 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.81%) DHCP
8 5 (1.81%) SAN
8 5 (1.81%) Software-Defined Networking
8 5 (1.81%) SSL
9 4 (1.44%) LAN
9 4 (1.44%) Wireless
10 3 (1.08%) HTTP
10 3 (1.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.44%) SQL Server
2 36 (13.00%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (7.94%) Power BI
4 20 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (6.14%) Relational Database
6 15 (5.42%) Oracle Database
6 15 (5.42%) Oracle Reports
7 14 (5.05%) Data Lake
8 13 (4.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (4.69%) Star Schema
9 12 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (4.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (4.33%) DB2
10 11 (3.97%) DynamoDB
11 10 (3.61%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (2.89%) Oracle ODI
13 7 (2.53%) BigQuery
14 6 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (2.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 37 (13.36%) Git
2 14 (5.05%) GitLab
2 14 (5.05%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.97%) JIRA
4 5 (1.81%) JUnit
5 4 (1.44%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.44%) JMeter
5 4 (1.44%) Maven
5 4 (1.44%) Postman
6 3 (1.08%) Mockito
7 2 (0.72%) DbUnit
7 2 (0.72%) Gatling
7 2 (0.72%) Gradle
7 2 (0.72%) Introscope
7 2 (0.72%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 76 (27.44%) Social Skills
2 62 (22.38%) Finance
3 38 (13.72%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.83%) Banking
5 20 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.17%) Marketing
8 5 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.08%) Publishing
9 3 (1.08%) Retail
10 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.72%) Law
10 2 (0.72%) Military
11 1 (0.36%) Back Office
11 1 (0.36%) Billing
11 1 (0.36%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) Legal
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (23.10%) Developer
2 40 (14.44%) Data Engineer
3 33 (11.91%) Senior
4 26 (9.39%) Architect
5 21 (7.58%) Lead
6 20 (7.22%) DBA
7 13 (4.69%) Network Engineer
8 12 (4.33%) Oracle Developer
8 12 (4.33%) SQL Developer
9 10 (3.61%) SQL DBA
10 9 (3.25%) Administrator
10 9 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (3.25%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.25%) Oracle DBA
10 9 (3.25%) Python Engineer
10 9 (3.25%) Snowflake Engineer
10 9 (3.25%) Systems Engineer
11 8 (2.89%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (2.89%) Senior Developer
11 8 (2.89%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.30%) REST
2 18 (6.50%) JSON
2 18 (6.50%) RESTful
3 17 (6.14%) Kafka
4 14 (5.05%) SOAP
5 13 (4.69%) .NET
6 11 (3.97%) Middleware
6 11 (3.97%) Spring
6 11 (3.97%) Spring Boot
7 10 (3.61%) PySpark
8 9 (3.25%) Web Services
9 7 (2.53%) OAuth
9 7 (2.53%) React
10 6 (2.17%) Node.js
10 6 (2.17%) OAuth2
10 6 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (2.17%) SAP Basis
11 5 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
11 5 (1.81%) WSDL
12 4 (1.44%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.58%) Data Centre
2 17 (6.14%) Clustering
2 17 (6.14%) Replication
3 16 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.42%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.97%) Mainframe
5 11 (3.97%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.53%) CUDA
8 7 (2.53%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.53%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.17%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.17%) Online Banking
9 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.81%) DataPower
10 5 (1.81%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.81%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.81%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 54 (19.49%) Linux
2 32 (11.55%) Windows
3 19 (6.86%) Unix
4 15 (5.42%) Windows Server
5 12 (4.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (3.97%) zOS
7 4 (1.44%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (1.08%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.72%) Android
9 2 (0.72%) CentOS
9 2 (0.72%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.72%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.72%) VMS
10 1 (0.36%) AIX
10 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (31.41%) CI/CD
2 69 (24.91%) DevOps
3 68 (24.55%) Data Modelling
4 55 (19.86%) Migration
5 54 (19.49%) ETL
6 49 (17.69%) High Availability
7 46 (16.61%) Analytics
8 45 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (15.16%) Data Pipeline
10 40 (14.44%) Agile
11 34 (12.27%) Data Engineering
12 29 (10.47%) Infrastructure as Code
13 28 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
13 28 (10.11%) Capacity Planning
14 27 (9.75%) AI
14 27 (9.75%) Performance Optimisation
15 26 (9.39%) Observability
16 25 (9.03%) Disaster Recovery
17 24 (8.66%) Containerisation
17 24 (8.66%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 111 (40.07%) SQL
2 86 (31.05%) Python
3 29 (10.47%) PowerShell
4 28 (10.11%) Java
5 17 (6.14%) T-SQL
6 14 (5.05%) Bash
6 14 (5.05%) C#
7 13 (4.69%) Shell Script
8 12 (4.33%) PL/SQL
9 7 (2.53%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.53%) JCL
9 7 (2.53%) Perl
10 6 (2.17%) C
10 6 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.81%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.44%) Bicep
12 4 (1.44%) COBOL
12 4 (1.44%) Rust
13 3 (1.08%) C++
13 3 (1.08%) REXX
Qualifications
1 63 (22.74%) Security Cleared
2 53 (19.13%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.05%) Degree
4 11 (3.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 9 (3.25%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.44%) CISSP
9 4 (1.44%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.44%) SnowPro
10 3 (1.08%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.08%) OCP
10 3 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.08%) VCAP
11 2 (0.72%) CCA
11 2 (0.72%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.72%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.19%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.69%) GDPR
3 12 (4.33%) QA
4 6 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.81%) ISO 8583
6 4 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.44%) SLA
7 3 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.72%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.72%) NIST
8 2 (0.72%) PSD2
8 2 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.72%) SEPA
9 1 (0.36%) COBIT
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
System Software
1 29 (10.47%) Docker
2 16 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.42%) vSphere
4 14 (5.05%) Active Directory
5 11 (3.97%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (2.89%) VMware NSX
8 6 (2.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (1.81%) Hyper-V
9 5 (1.81%) KVM
10 4 (1.44%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (1.08%) RACF
12 2 (0.72%) NFS
12 2 (0.72%) Postfix
12 2 (0.72%) SRDF
12 2 (0.72%) Varnish
12 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.36%) ACF2
13 1 (0.36%) Ceph
13 1 (0.36%) etcd
Systems Management
1 38 (13.72%) Ansible
2 34 (12.27%) Terraform
3 29 (10.47%) Kubernetes
4 14 (5.05%) Grafana
5 11 (3.97%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.61%) PowerCLI
7 8 (2.89%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.17%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (2.17%) Puppet
9 5 (1.81%) Argo
9 5 (1.81%) vMotion
10 4 (1.44%) Data Guard
10 4 (1.44%) Kibana
10 4 (1.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.08%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.72%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
12 2 (0.72%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.72%) logstash
12 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.72%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 49 (17.69%) Oracle
2 43 (15.52%) Microsoft
3 28 (10.11%) VMware
4 17 (6.14%) Databricks
5 16 (5.78%) SAP
6 13 (4.69%) ServiceNow
7 12 (4.33%) Google
8 9 (3.25%) Cisco
8 9 (3.25%) IBM
9 8 (2.89%) Red Hat
9 8 (2.89%) Splunk
10 6 (2.17%) Dell
10 6 (2.17%) Informatica
10 6 (2.17%) NVIDIA
10 6 (2.17%) Salesforce
10 6 (2.17%) Sybase
11 5 (1.81%) 3PAR
11 5 (1.81%) Citrix
11 5 (1.81%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.81%) Palo Alto