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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 121 177
Rank change year-on-year -1 +56 +41
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 320 223 177
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.35% 2.20% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 2.40% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 133 125
10th Percentile £379 £375 £350
25th Percentile £429 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £775 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £35.00 £70.25 £48.33
25th Percentile £42.50 £70.63 £50.69
Median hourly rate £53.00 £72.50 £61.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.90% +17.41% -14.83%
75th Percentile £54.00 £75.63 £78.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.75 £83.78
UK median hourly rate £52.75 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -24.64% +13.64% -12.00%

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 12,218 9,299 12,364
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.75% 91.59% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,803 6,295 8,363
10th Percentile £354 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -2.86% -2.33%
75th Percentile £619 £627 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 662 269 499
10th Percentile £16.87 £12.62 £15.81
25th Percentile £33.75 £18.54 £25.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £34.48 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.76% -19.81% -17.51%
75th Percentile £71.91 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.23 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 (4.06%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.75%) Confluence
3 10 (3.13%) Oracle Application Server
4 7 (2.19%) CICS
4 7 (2.19%) SAS
5 5 (1.56%) Apache
6 4 (1.25%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.25%) NetWeaver
6 4 (1.25%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (1.25%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.94%) IIS
7 3 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.94%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.63%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.63%) nginx
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.63%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.63%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (5.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.56%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.25%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.94%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.94%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.31%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.31%) Magento
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.31%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.31%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 104 (32.50%) Azure
2 90 (28.13%) AWS
3 33 (10.31%) GCP
4 32 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 25 (7.81%) Amazon S3
6 23 (7.19%) Serverless
7 21 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (6.25%) dbt
9 19 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (5.63%) Snowflake
11 16 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.00%) GitHub
12 15 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (2.19%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 6 (1.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.38%) Firewall
2 13 (4.06%) Network Security
3 11 (3.44%) DNS
4 9 (2.81%) VPN
5 6 (1.88%) BGP
5 6 (1.88%) HTTP
5 6 (1.88%) OSPF
5 6 (1.88%) SSL
5 6 (1.88%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.56%) DHCP
6 5 (1.56%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (1.25%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (1.25%) Internet
7 4 (1.25%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.25%) VXLAN
7 4 (1.25%) WAN
7 4 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.94%) ICMP
8 3 (0.94%) NAS
8 3 (0.94%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (16.56%) SQL Server
2 45 (14.06%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (8.75%) Power BI
4 27 (8.44%) Relational Database
5 25 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (5.63%) Oracle Reports
7 16 (5.00%) Star Schema
8 15 (4.69%) Oracle Database
9 14 (4.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (3.75%) Db2
11 11 (3.44%) Data Lake
11 11 (3.44%) DynamoDB
11 11 (3.44%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (3.13%) Oracle ODI
12 10 (3.13%) SAP HANA
13 7 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (2.19%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 46 (14.38%) Git
2 19 (5.94%) GitLab
2 19 (5.94%) JIRA
3 16 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.88%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.56%) JMeter
5 5 (1.56%) JUnit
5 5 (1.56%) Maven
5 5 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (1.56%) Postman
6 3 (0.94%) Mockito
6 3 (0.94%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.63%) DbUnit
7 2 (0.63%) Gradle
7 2 (0.63%) Introscope
7 2 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 85 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 71 (22.19%) Finance
3 43 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.75%) Banking
5 23 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.50%) Retail
7 6 (1.88%) Marketing
8 5 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.25%) Military
9 4 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.25%) Publishing
10 3 (0.94%) Legal
11 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.63%) Law
11 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.31%) Back Office
12 1 (0.31%) Front Office
12 1 (0.31%) Games
12 1 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (26.88%) Developer
2 46 (14.38%) Data Engineer
3 40 (12.50%) Senior
4 29 (9.06%) DBA
5 23 (7.19%) Architect
5 23 (7.19%) Lead
6 21 (6.56%) SQL Developer
7 17 (5.31%) Administrator
8 16 (5.00%) SQL DBA
9 15 (4.69%) Oracle Developer
10 12 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (3.75%) Consultant
10 12 (3.75%) Senior Data Engineer
11 11 (3.44%) Python Engineer
12 9 (2.81%) .NET Developer
12 9 (2.81%) Network Engineer
12 9 (2.81%) Snowflake Engineer
13 8 (2.50%) Lead Developer
13 8 (2.50%) Oracle DBA
13 8 (2.50%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.69%) REST
2 23 (7.19%) .NET
3 22 (6.88%) SOAP
4 21 (6.56%) Web Services
5 19 (5.94%) JSON
5 19 (5.94%) RESTful
6 18 (5.63%) Kafka
6 18 (5.63%) Middleware
7 13 (4.06%) PySpark
8 11 (3.44%) React
8 11 (3.44%) Spring
8 11 (3.44%) XML
9 10 (3.13%) Node.js
9 10 (3.13%) Spring Boot
10 9 (2.81%) BAPI
11 7 (2.19%) .NET Framework
11 7 (2.19%) SAP Basis
12 6 (1.88%) Flask
12 6 (1.88%) IDoc
12 6 (1.88%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.56%) Replication
2 19 (5.94%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.94%) Data Centre
3 18 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.31%) Clustering
5 12 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.44%) Data Structures
6 11 (3.44%) Mainframe
7 10 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.50%) Management Information System
10 7 (2.19%) CUDA
10 7 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.19%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.88%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.88%) Legacy Code
11 6 (1.88%) Online Banking
12 5 (1.56%) DataPower
12 5 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (18.44%) Linux
2 32 (10.00%) Windows
3 20 (6.25%) Unix
4 18 (5.63%) Windows Server
5 11 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.13%) zOS
7 4 (1.25%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.94%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.94%) VMS
9 2 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.63%) Android
9 2 (0.63%) CentOS
9 2 (0.63%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.63%) MVS
9 2 (0.63%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (30.31%) CI/CD
2 81 (25.31%) Data Modelling
3 80 (25.00%) DevOps
4 63 (19.69%) ETL
5 59 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (17.50%) Migration
7 53 (16.56%) Analytics
8 51 (15.94%) High Availability
9 50 (15.63%) Agile
10 48 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
11 41 (12.81%) Data Engineering
12 36 (11.25%) AI
13 34 (10.63%) Business Intelligence
14 33 (10.31%) Root Cause Analysis
15 31 (9.69%) Capacity Planning
16 30 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
16 30 (9.38%) Performance Optimisation
17 29 (9.06%) Disaster Recovery
17 29 (9.06%) Observability
18 28 (8.75%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 134 (41.88%) SQL
2 96 (30.00%) Python
3 30 (9.38%) Java
4 25 (7.81%) PowerShell
5 23 (7.19%) T-SQL
6 21 (6.56%) C#
7 17 (5.31%) PL/SQL
8 16 (5.00%) Bash
9 14 (4.38%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.44%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.50%) ABAP
12 7 (2.19%) JCL
13 6 (1.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (1.88%) Perl
14 5 (1.56%) C
14 5 (1.56%) TypeScript
15 4 (1.25%) Bicep
15 4 (1.25%) C++
15 4 (1.25%) Rust
16 3 (0.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 86 (26.88%) Security Cleared
2 78 (24.38%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.06%) Degree
4 11 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 8 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.88%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.25%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.94%) OCP
11 3 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.63%) CCA
12 2 (0.63%) CESG Certified Professional
12 2 (0.63%) CISM
12 2 (0.63%) CISSP
12 2 (0.63%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.81%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.00%) QA
3 12 (3.75%) GDPR
4 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.25%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.94%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 3 (0.94%) GMP
5 3 (0.94%) GxP
5 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 3 (0.94%) SLA
6 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.63%) NIST
6 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.31%) COBIT
7 1 (0.31%) GRC
System Software
1 31 (9.69%) Docker
2 15 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (4.69%) vSphere
3 14 (4.38%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.81%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (2.81%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.19%) Oracle RAC
7 6 (1.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (1.25%) RACF
9 3 (0.94%) ACF2
9 3 (0.94%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.94%) KVM
10 2 (0.63%) Firmware
10 2 (0.63%) NFS
10 2 (0.63%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.63%) Postfix
10 2 (0.63%) SRDF
10 2 (0.63%) Varnish
10 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (10.00%) Terraform
2 30 (9.38%) Ansible
2 30 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.75%) Grafana
4 11 (3.44%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.13%) PowerCLI
6 8 (2.50%) vCenter Server
7 7 (2.19%) Data Guard
8 6 (1.88%) Puppet
9 5 (1.56%) vMotion
10 3 (0.94%) Control-M
10 3 (0.94%) Kibana
10 3 (0.94%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.63%) Argo
11 2 (0.63%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.63%) SnapMirror
11 2 (0.63%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 63 (19.69%) Oracle
2 52 (16.25%) Microsoft
3 28 (8.75%) SAP
4 27 (8.44%) VMware
5 15 (4.69%) Databricks
5 15 (4.69%) Informatica
5 15 (4.69%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.44%) Google
7 9 (2.81%) IBM
7 9 (2.81%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.50%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.19%) Adobe
9 7 (2.19%) Dell
10 6 (1.88%) Cisco
10 6 (1.88%) NVIDIA
10 6 (1.88%) Splunk
10 6 (1.88%) Sybase
11 5 (1.56%) 3PAR
11 5 (1.56%) RedGate