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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 179 238
Rank change year-on-year +63 +59 +63
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 214 159 191
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.21% 1.26% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 1.43% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 107 129
10th Percentile £369 £391 £393
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £655 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £49.00 - £68.50
25th Percentile £56.88 £62.50 £70.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +52.63%
75th Percentile £73.75 £87.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £68.75
% change year-on-year +13.64% -10.40% +52.78%

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 8,955 11,093 18,377
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 92.29% 87.77% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,947 7,129 12,966
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 300 435
10th Percentile £12.62 £18.48 £17.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £30.36 £26.12
Median hourly rate £35.70 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.99% -18.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.71 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.06%

Performance Tuning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Tuning trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Performance Tuning daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Performance Tuning hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (7.94%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (5.14%) Apache
3 10 (4.67%) Apache Spark
4 8 (3.74%) Confluence
5 5 (2.34%) CICS
6 4 (1.87%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (1.87%) WebLogic
7 3 (1.40%) GemFire
7 3 (1.40%) Oracle Coherence
7 3 (1.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (1.40%) SAS
8 2 (0.93%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.93%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.47%) CMS
9 1 (0.47%) IIS
9 1 (0.47%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.47%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.47%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 8 (3.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.87%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.87%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.87%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (1.87%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.87%) SAP MDG
2 4 (1.87%) SAP PLM
2 4 (1.87%) SAP VC
3 1 (0.47%) BASE24
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.47%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.47%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 54 (25.23%) Azure
2 50 (23.36%) AWS
3 15 (7.01%) GitHub
4 14 (6.54%) Amazon S3
5 13 (6.07%) GCP
5 13 (6.07%) Snowflake
6 12 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (5.14%) Power Platform
8 10 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (4.67%) Serverless
9 9 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (4.21%) Datadog
10 8 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (3.27%) OCI
11 7 (3.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.34%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.40%) DNS
1 3 (1.40%) Firewall
2 2 (0.93%) Network Security
2 2 (0.93%) VPN
3 1 (0.47%) ATM
3 1 (0.47%) BGP
3 1 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.47%) DHCP
3 1 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (0.47%) FTP
3 1 (0.47%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) IMAP
3 1 (0.47%) LAN
3 1 (0.47%) Multicast
3 1 (0.47%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.47%) OSPF
3 1 (0.47%) SMTP
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) WAN
3 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (20.56%) DB2
2 43 (20.09%) Relational Database
3 39 (18.22%) MongoDB
4 23 (10.75%) SQL Server
5 22 (10.28%) Oracle Database
6 20 (9.35%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (5.14%) Big Data
9 10 (4.67%) Power BI
9 10 (4.67%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (4.21%) Data Lake
10 9 (4.21%) Hadoop
10 9 (4.21%) MySQL
11 8 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (3.74%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (3.27%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (2.80%) NoSQL
14 5 (2.34%) MariaDB
14 5 (2.34%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 39 (18.22%) JUnit
2 19 (8.88%) Git
3 12 (5.61%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.74%) GitLab
5 7 (3.27%) JIRA
6 4 (1.87%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.40%) Maven
8 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.93%) GCC
8 2 (0.93%) git-flow
8 2 (0.93%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.93%) ScriptRunner
8 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.93%) Storybook
8 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.47%) Gatling
9 1 (0.47%) Postman
9 1 (0.47%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 101 (47.20%) Social Skills
2 73 (34.11%) Finance
3 60 (28.04%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (24.30%) Banking
5 39 (18.22%) Investment Banking
6 20 (9.35%) Front Office
7 14 (6.54%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.34%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.40%) Games
11 2 (0.93%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.93%) Automotive
11 2 (0.93%) Electronics
11 2 (0.93%) French Language
11 2 (0.93%) German Language
11 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.93%) Marketing
11 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (37.85%) Developer
2 51 (23.83%) Java Developer
3 40 (18.69%) Senior
4 36 (16.82%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 36 (16.82%) SQL Developer
5 29 (13.55%) DBA
6 23 (10.75%) Senior Developer
7 20 (9.35%) Senior Java Developer
8 18 (8.41%) Data Engineer
9 17 (7.94%) Senior SQL Developer
10 16 (7.48%) Linux Developer
10 16 (7.48%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
10 16 (7.48%) Sybase Developer
11 14 (6.54%) Administrator
12 11 (5.14%) Lead
12 11 (5.14%) Oracle DBA
13 9 (4.21%) Architect
13 9 (4.21%) SQL DBA
14 8 (3.74%) Consultant
14 8 (3.74%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (23.83%) Kafka
2 46 (21.50%) Spring
3 36 (16.82%) JMS
4 18 (8.41%) RESTful
5 14 (6.54%) REST
6 11 (5.14%) AngularJS
7 10 (4.67%) React
8 9 (4.21%) Spring Boot
9 8 (3.74%) .NET
9 8 (3.74%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 7 (3.27%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (2.80%) Middleware
11 6 (2.80%) OAuth
12 5 (2.34%) AWS CDK
12 5 (2.34%) CSS
12 5 (2.34%) HTML
12 5 (2.34%) SOAP
13 4 (1.87%) OpenID
13 4 (1.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 42 (19.63%) Data Structures
2 35 (16.36%) Equities
3 20 (9.35%) Clustering
3 20 (9.35%) Replication
4 15 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.61%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (4.67%) Mainframe
7 7 (3.27%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (3.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.34%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.34%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.87%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.40%) Derivative
10 3 (1.40%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.40%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (29.91%) Linux
2 8 (3.74%) Unix
3 6 (2.80%) zOS
4 5 (2.34%) Windows
5 4 (1.87%) VMS
6 2 (0.93%) OS/2
6 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.47%) AIX
7 1 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (40.19%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (35.98%) Agile
3 60 (28.04%) DevOps
4 50 (23.36%) CI/CD
5 46 (21.50%) Database Tuning
6 38 (17.76%) Multithreading
6 38 (17.76%) SDLC
7 35 (16.36%) Open Source
8 34 (15.89%) Migration
9 29 (13.55%) Data Modelling
9 29 (13.55%) ETL
10 27 (12.62%) High Availability
11 26 (12.15%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (11.68%) Disaster Recovery
13 23 (10.75%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (9.35%) Analytics
15 19 (8.88%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (8.88%) Microservices
16 17 (7.94%) Containerisation
17 16 (7.48%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 98 (45.79%) SQL
2 70 (32.71%) Java
3 66 (30.84%) Python
4 36 (16.82%) Shell Script
5 13 (6.07%) PL/SQL
6 9 (4.21%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.74%) Perl
7 8 (3.74%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.27%) C#
8 7 (3.27%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.80%) ABAP
10 5 (2.34%) Bash
11 4 (1.87%) Assembly Language
11 4 (1.87%) C++
11 4 (1.87%) COBOL
11 4 (1.87%) REXX
11 4 (1.87%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.40%) Groovy
12 3 (1.40%) JCL
12 3 (1.40%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 20 (9.35%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.48%) Degree
4 6 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.40%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.93%) OCA
7 2 (0.93%) OCP
7 2 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.47%) CCNP
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.47%) CISSP
8 1 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.47%) VCAP
8 1 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.01%) QA
2 11 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.80%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.87%) GDPR
6 3 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.40%) SLA
7 2 (0.93%) COBIT
7 2 (0.93%) HL7
7 2 (0.93%) NIST
8 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.47%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.47%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.47%) NCSC
8 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (10.28%) Docker
2 10 (4.67%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (2.34%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.87%) RACF
4 4 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.40%) GridGain
5 3 (1.40%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 3 (1.40%) Time Sharing Option
5 3 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.93%) HDFS
6 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.47%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.47%) GPFS
7 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.47%) KVM
7 1 (0.47%) Postfix
7 1 (0.47%) QEMU
7 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (10.75%) Terraform
2 14 (6.54%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.14%) Oracle RMAN
4 10 (4.67%) Ansible
5 7 (3.27%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.80%) Data Guard
6 6 (2.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 5 (2.34%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 3 (1.40%) Grafana
8 3 (1.40%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.93%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (0.93%) Kibana
9 2 (0.93%) logstash
9 2 (0.93%) OMEGAMON
9 2 (0.93%) Oozie
9 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.93%) Tivoli NetView
9 2 (0.93%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.47%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 36 (16.82%) Sybase
2 31 (14.49%) Oracle
3 14 (6.54%) Microsoft
4 13 (6.07%) SAP
5 11 (5.14%) Databricks
6 8 (3.74%) Informatica
7 6 (2.80%) Google
7 6 (2.80%) IBM
7 6 (2.80%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.34%) Solace
9 4 (1.87%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.87%) Refinitiv
9 4 (1.87%) Teradata
10 3 (1.40%) Commvault
10 3 (1.40%) VMware
11 2 (0.93%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.93%) CyberArk
11 2 (0.93%) New Relic
11 2 (0.93%) RedGate
11 2 (0.93%) Siemens