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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 139 186
Rank change year-on-year +21 +47 +41
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 273 193 167
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.24% 1.97% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 2.15% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 123 123
10th Percentile £358 £392 £328
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year - +3.84% -8.29%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £748 £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% -33.10%
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 10,765 8,962 13,005
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.40% 91.35% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,954 6,159 8,720
10th Percentile £350 £332 £325
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -0.76% -3.31%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 512 212 566
10th Percentile £17.51 £13.89 £14.94
25th Percentile £30.88 £18.89 £24.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £38.52 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.27% -10.42% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £83.98 £77.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.02
% change year-on-year +50.82% -21.77% +1.04%

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 May 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 May 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 11 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.93%) Oracle Application Server
3 5 (1.83%) CICS
4 4 (1.47%) Apache
4 4 (1.47%) IIS
4 4 (1.47%) NetWeaver
4 4 (1.47%) SAS
4 4 (1.47%) WebLogic
4 4 (1.47%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.10%) Confluence
5 3 (1.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.10%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.73%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.73%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.73%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.73%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.20%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (1.83%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.47%) SAP MDG
5 3 (1.10%) Aladdin
5 3 (1.10%) BASE24
5 3 (1.10%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (1.10%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.37%) Magento
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.37%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 97 (35.53%) Azure
2 82 (30.04%) AWS
3 30 (10.99%) GCP
4 27 (9.89%) Power Platform
5 20 (7.33%) Amazon S3
6 18 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (6.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (6.23%) Snowflake
8 15 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (5.49%) Serverless
9 13 (4.76%) dbt
10 12 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (3.66%) GitHub
12 9 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (2.93%) OpenShift
14 7 (2.56%) PaaS
15 6 (2.20%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.59%) Firewall
2 14 (5.13%) Network Security
3 13 (4.76%) VPN
4 10 (3.66%) BGP
5 9 (3.30%) DNS
5 9 (3.30%) OSPF
6 7 (2.56%) SD-WAN
6 7 (2.56%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.56%) WAN
7 6 (2.20%) Ethernet VPN
7 6 (2.20%) VXLAN
7 6 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.83%) LAN
8 5 (1.83%) SSL
9 4 (1.47%) DHCP
9 4 (1.47%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (1.47%) Wireless
10 3 (1.10%) HTTP
10 3 (1.10%) SAN
11 2 (0.73%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.55%) SQL Server
2 34 (12.45%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (7.69%) Power BI
4 20 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (6.23%) Oracle Database
6 16 (5.86%) Relational Database
7 15 (5.49%) Oracle Reports
8 14 (5.13%) Data Lake
9 13 (4.76%) Star Schema
10 10 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (3.66%) DB2
10 10 (3.66%) Snowflake Schema
10 10 (3.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (2.93%) DynamoDB
12 8 (2.93%) Oracle ODI
13 7 (2.56%) NoSQL
14 6 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (2.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (10.99%) Git
2 12 (4.40%) GitLab
2 12 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.66%) JIRA
4 4 (1.47%) JMeter
4 4 (1.47%) JUnit
4 4 (1.47%) Postman
5 3 (1.10%) Maven
6 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.73%) Gatling
6 2 (0.73%) Gradle
6 2 (0.73%) Introscope
6 2 (0.73%) Mockito
6 2 (0.73%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.37%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.37%) jMock
7 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.37%) Toad
General
1 76 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 63 (23.08%) Finance
3 33 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.62%) Banking
5 17 (6.23%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.20%) Marketing
8 5 (1.83%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.10%) Publishing
9 3 (1.10%) Retail
10 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.73%) Law
10 2 (0.73%) Legal
10 2 (0.73%) Military
10 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.37%) Back Office
11 1 (0.37%) Billing
11 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (22.71%) Developer
2 39 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 31 (11.36%) Architect
3 31 (11.36%) Senior
4 21 (7.69%) DBA
4 21 (7.69%) Lead
5 13 (4.76%) Oracle Developer
6 12 (4.40%) Network Engineer
7 11 (4.03%) Administrator
8 10 (3.66%) Oracle DBA
9 9 (3.30%) Snowflake Engineer
9 9 (3.30%) SQL DBA
9 9 (3.30%) SQL Developer
9 9 (3.30%) Systems Engineer
10 8 (2.93%) .NET Developer
10 8 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (2.93%) Python Engineer
10 8 (2.93%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 7 (2.56%) C# Developer
11 7 (2.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.69%) REST
2 17 (6.23%) JSON
2 17 (6.23%) Kafka
3 16 (5.86%) RESTful
4 13 (4.76%) .NET
5 12 (4.40%) SOAP
6 11 (4.03%) Middleware
7 10 (3.66%) Spring
7 10 (3.66%) Spring Boot
8 9 (3.30%) PySpark
9 7 (2.56%) Node.js
9 7 (2.56%) OAuth
9 7 (2.56%) React
9 7 (2.56%) Web Services
10 6 (2.20%) OAuth2
10 6 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (2.20%) SAP Basis
11 5 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
12 4 (1.47%) Entity Framework
12 4 (1.47%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.59%) Data Centre
2 17 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.49%) Clustering
3 15 (5.49%) Replication
4 13 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.03%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.30%) Mainframe
8 8 (2.93%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.56%) CUDA
9 7 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.56%) Security Posture
10 6 (2.20%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.20%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.83%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.83%) NHS
11 5 (1.83%) Online Banking
12 4 (1.47%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (17.22%) Linux
2 33 (12.09%) Windows
3 18 (6.59%) Unix
4 17 (6.23%) Windows Server
5 11 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.30%) zOS
7 4 (1.47%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.10%) Android
8 3 (1.10%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (1.10%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.73%) CentOS
9 2 (0.73%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.73%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.73%) VMS
10 1 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.37%) Rocky
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (28.94%) CI/CD
2 65 (23.81%) Data Modelling
3 61 (22.34%) DevOps
4 56 (20.51%) Migration
5 50 (18.32%) ETL
6 48 (17.58%) High Availability
7 44 (16.12%) Analytics
8 39 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 39 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (13.92%) Agile
10 33 (12.09%) Data Engineering
11 30 (10.99%) Performance Optimisation
12 29 (10.62%) Business Intelligence
13 28 (10.26%) AI
14 25 (9.16%) Capacity Planning
14 25 (9.16%) Infrastructure as Code
14 25 (9.16%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (8.79%) Observability
16 23 (8.42%) Validation
17 22 (8.06%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 105 (38.46%) SQL
2 78 (28.57%) Python
3 27 (9.89%) Java
4 24 (8.79%) PowerShell
5 15 (5.49%) C#
5 15 (5.49%) PL/SQL
5 15 (5.49%) T-SQL
6 13 (4.76%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.66%) Bash
8 8 (2.93%) Perl
9 7 (2.56%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.20%) C
10 6 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (2.20%) JCL
11 5 (1.83%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.47%) Bicep
12 4 (1.47%) Rust
13 3 (1.10%) COBOL
14 2 (0.73%) C++
14 2 (0.73%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (22.71%) Security Cleared
2 53 (19.41%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.13%) Degree
4 9 (3.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.20%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.47%) SnowPro
10 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.10%) CCIE
10 3 (1.10%) CCNP
10 3 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.10%) CISSP
10 3 (1.10%) OCP
10 3 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.10%) VCAP
11 2 (0.73%) CCA
11 2 (0.73%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.76%) QA
3 11 (4.03%) GDPR
4 6 (2.20%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.83%) ISO 8583
5 5 (1.83%) SLA
6 4 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.73%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.73%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.73%) NIST
7 2 (0.73%) PSD2
7 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.73%) SEPA
8 1 (0.37%) COBIT
8 1 (0.37%) GRC
System Software
1 27 (9.89%) Docker
2 14 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.76%) vSphere
4 9 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.30%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.56%) VMware NSX
6 6 (2.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 5 (1.83%) KVM
8 4 (1.47%) Hyper-V
9 3 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (1.10%) RACF
10 2 (0.73%) NFS
10 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.37%) ACF2
11 1 (0.37%) Ceph
11 1 (0.37%) etcd
11 1 (0.37%) Firmware
11 1 (0.37%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.37%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 38 (13.92%) Ansible
2 33 (12.09%) Terraform
3 26 (9.52%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.40%) Grafana
5 10 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.30%) PowerCLI
7 7 (2.56%) Puppet
8 6 (2.20%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (2.20%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.83%) vMotion
10 4 (1.47%) Argo
10 4 (1.47%) Data Guard
10 4 (1.47%) Kibana
10 4 (1.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.10%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.73%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
12 2 (0.73%) logstash
12 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.73%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 49 (17.95%) Oracle
2 42 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 25 (9.16%) VMware
4 17 (6.23%) SAP
5 16 (5.86%) Databricks
5 16 (5.86%) ServiceNow
6 13 (4.76%) Google
7 9 (3.30%) IBM
8 8 (2.93%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.93%) Splunk
9 7 (2.56%) Cisco
9 7 (2.56%) Citrix
10 6 (2.20%) Informatica
10 6 (2.20%) NVIDIA
10 6 (2.20%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.83%) Juniper
11 5 (1.83%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.83%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.83%) Sybase
12 4 (1.47%) Dell