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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 125 180
Rank change year-on-year -7 +55 +51
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 293 216 166
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.17% 2.19% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.38% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 125 119
10th Percentile £400 £368 £368
25th Percentile £435 £429 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year - +3.84% -8.29%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £695 £738 £653
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £30.13 £49.00 -
25th Percentile £39.31 £56.88 £62.50
Median hourly rate £49.00 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £53.00 £73.75 £87.50
90th Percentile - £76.00 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -45.36% +13.64% -13.54%

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 12,157 9,083 11,193
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.13% 92.06% 87.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,629 6,065 7,367
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 711 279 333
10th Percentile £16.33 £12.62 £17.65
25th Percentile £30.11 £19.07 £30.12
Median hourly rate £47.50 £35.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.80% -17.44% -14.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.55 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 14 (4.78%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (3.75%) Confluence
3 10 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.05%) Apache
4 6 (2.05%) CICS
5 5 (1.71%) SAS
5 5 (1.71%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (1.02%) IIS
7 3 (1.02%) NetWeaver
7 3 (1.02%) nginx
7 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.02%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.68%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.68%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (6.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.71%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.37%) SAP CRM
4 3 (1.02%) Aladdin
4 3 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.02%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.68%) Cerner Millennium
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.34%) Finacle
6 1 (0.34%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.34%) Magento
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.34%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.34%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.34%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 96 (32.76%) Azure
2 75 (25.60%) AWS
3 27 (9.22%) GCP
3 27 (9.22%) Power Platform
4 24 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (6.48%) dbt
6 17 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (5.80%) GitHub
7 16 (5.46%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (5.46%) Amazon S3
8 15 (5.12%) Serverless
9 13 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (4.44%) Snowflake
10 12 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (3.07%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (2.05%) Amazon EMR
12 6 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (2.05%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 6 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.78%) Firewall
2 13 (4.44%) Network Security
3 10 (3.41%) DNS
3 10 (3.41%) SSL
4 6 (2.05%) HTTP
5 5 (1.71%) BGP
5 5 (1.71%) OSPF
5 5 (1.71%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.37%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.37%) ICMP
6 4 (1.37%) SNMP
6 4 (1.37%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.37%) VPN
6 4 (1.37%) VXLAN
7 3 (1.02%) Bluetooth
7 3 (1.02%) DHCP
7 3 (1.02%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.02%) Internet
7 3 (1.02%) SAN
7 3 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.09%) Data Warehouse
2 52 (17.75%) SQL Server
3 31 (10.58%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (9.56%) Relational Database
5 26 (8.87%) Power BI
6 20 (6.83%) Oracle Database
6 20 (6.83%) Oracle Reports
7 15 (5.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (5.12%) MySQL
8 14 (4.78%) Oracle ODI
8 14 (4.78%) Star Schema
9 13 (4.44%) Db2
10 12 (4.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (3.07%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (3.07%) SAP HANA
12 9 (3.07%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (2.73%) Data Lake
14 7 (2.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (13.99%) Git
2 20 (6.83%) GitLab
3 18 (6.14%) JIRA
4 17 (5.80%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.37%) Maven
5 4 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (1.37%) Postman
6 3 (1.02%) Liquibase
6 3 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.68%) Flyway
7 2 (0.68%) Introscope
7 2 (0.68%) JUnit
7 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.34%) JMeter
8 1 (0.34%) Toad
8 1 (0.34%) Vite
General
1 79 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 64 (21.84%) Finance
3 46 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.87%) Banking
5 20 (6.83%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.39%) Retail
7 6 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.37%) Legal
9 4 (1.37%) Marketing
9 4 (1.37%) Military
10 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.02%) Publishing
11 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Law
12 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (27.30%) Developer
2 37 (12.63%) Data Engineer
3 36 (12.29%) Senior
4 32 (10.92%) DBA
5 21 (7.17%) Architect
6 19 (6.48%) Administrator
6 19 (6.48%) SQL Developer
7 17 (5.80%) Lead
8 15 (5.12%) Consultant
8 15 (5.12%) SQL DBA
9 14 (4.78%) Oracle Developer
10 11 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (3.75%) Senior Data Engineer
11 10 (3.41%) Linux Engineer
11 10 (3.41%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.07%) Data Warehouse Developer
12 9 (3.07%) Oracle DBA
12 9 (3.07%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.07%) SC Cleared DBA
13 8 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.26%) Terraform
2 31 (10.58%) REST
3 22 (7.51%) .NET
4 20 (6.83%) Kafka
5 19 (6.48%) SOAP
6 18 (6.14%) Middleware
7 17 (5.80%) Web Services
8 16 (5.46%) JSON
9 12 (4.10%) XML
10 11 (3.75%) RESTful
10 11 (3.75%) Spring
11 10 (3.41%) PySpark
11 10 (3.41%) React
11 10 (3.41%) Spring Boot
12 9 (3.07%) BAPI
12 9 (3.07%) Node.js
13 7 (2.39%) .NET Framework
14 6 (2.05%) IDoc
14 6 (2.05%) OAuth
14 6 (2.05%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.85%) Replication
2 19 (6.48%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.46%) Clustering
4 14 (4.78%) Data Centre
4 14 (4.78%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.75%) Mainframe
5 11 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.73%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.39%) CUDA
8 7 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.39%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.71%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.71%) PKI
10 5 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.37%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 65 (22.18%) Linux
2 34 (11.60%) Windows
3 23 (7.85%) Windows Server
4 20 (6.83%) Unix
5 13 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.07%) zOS
7 4 (1.37%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (1.02%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (1.02%) VMS
8 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.68%) CentOS
9 2 (0.68%) MVS
9 2 (0.68%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.34%) AIX
10 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.34%) Solaris
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (31.40%) CI/CD
2 78 (26.62%) Data Modelling
3 75 (25.60%) DevOps
4 67 (22.87%) ETL
5 59 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (19.11%) Analytics
7 53 (18.09%) Migration
8 49 (16.72%) High Availability
9 47 (16.04%) Agile
10 41 (13.99%) Data Pipeline
10 41 (13.99%) Root Cause Analysis
11 35 (11.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (11.95%) Observability
12 34 (11.60%) Business Intelligence
12 34 (11.60%) Capacity Planning
13 32 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (10.58%) Data Engineering
15 30 (10.24%) AI
16 29 (9.90%) Disaster Recovery
16 29 (9.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 125 (42.66%) SQL
2 79 (26.96%) Python
3 26 (8.87%) PowerShell
4 24 (8.19%) T-SQL
5 22 (7.51%) Java
6 21 (7.17%) PL/SQL
7 20 (6.83%) Bash
8 19 (6.48%) C#
9 15 (5.12%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.75%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.73%) ABAP
11 8 (2.73%) Perl
12 7 (2.39%) C++
12 7 (2.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.71%) C
13 5 (1.71%) JCL
14 4 (1.37%) Bicep
14 4 (1.37%) REXX
14 4 (1.37%) TypeScript
15 3 (1.02%) Rust
Qualifications
1 88 (30.03%) Security Cleared
2 81 (27.65%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (4.78%) Degree
5 11 (3.75%) AWS Certification
6 10 (3.41%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.71%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.37%) OCP
10 4 (1.37%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.37%) SnowPro
11 3 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.68%) CISM
12 2 (0.68%) CISSP
13 1 (0.34%) MCITP
13 1 (0.34%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (15.36%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.44%) QA
3 9 (3.07%) GDPR
4 4 (1.37%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.37%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.37%) SLA
5 3 (1.02%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 3 (1.02%) GMP
5 3 (1.02%) GxP
5 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
6 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.34%) NIST
6 1 (0.34%) PSD2
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (8.87%) Docker
2 15 (5.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.10%) vSphere
4 11 (3.75%) Active Directory
5 9 (3.07%) VMware NSX
6 8 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.73%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.39%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (2.05%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (1.37%) RACF
10 3 (1.02%) ACF2
10 3 (1.02%) Firmware
10 3 (1.02%) Varnish
11 2 (0.68%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.68%) SRDF
12 1 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.34%) NFS
12 1 (0.34%) Postfix
12 1 (0.34%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 30 (10.24%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.22%) Ansible
3 13 (4.44%) Prometheus
4 11 (3.75%) Grafana
5 7 (2.39%) Data Guard
5 7 (2.39%) PowerCLI
6 6 (2.05%) Puppet
6 6 (2.05%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.71%) Control-M
7 5 (1.71%) vMotion
8 4 (1.37%) Kibana
8 4 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.02%) Argo
9 3 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.68%) Nagios
10 2 (0.68%) SCOM
10 2 (0.68%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 68 (23.21%) Oracle
2 54 (18.43%) Microsoft
3 28 (9.56%) VMware
4 27 (9.22%) SAP
5 14 (4.78%) Informatica
6 12 (4.10%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.75%) Databricks
7 11 (3.75%) IBM
8 9 (3.07%) MuleSoft
8 9 (3.07%) Red Hat
8 9 (3.07%) Splunk
9 7 (2.39%) Dell
10 6 (2.05%) Adobe
10 6 (2.05%) NVIDIA
10 6 (2.05%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.71%) 3PAR
11 5 (1.71%) Sybase
12 4 (1.37%) Cisco
12 4 (1.37%) Google
12 4 (1.37%) Nimble Storage