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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 138 187
Rank change year-on-year +11 +49 +47
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 263 188 168
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.16% 1.90% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 2.08% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 120 123
10th Percentile £351 £390 £328
25th Percentile £425 £447 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year - +3.84% -8.29%
75th Percentile £575 £609 £600
90th Percentile £666 £739 £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 £52.75 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -24.64% +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 10,747 9,026 13,415
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.45% 91.24% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,944 6,204 8,959
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £417 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 220 580
10th Percentile £17.23 £14.20 £15.17
25th Percentile £27.88 £19.87 £25.38
Median hourly rate £57.50 £39.02 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.36% -9.26% -21.82%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.31% -1.39%

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 3 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 3 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 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.66%) Oracle Application Server
3 5 (1.90%) CICS
4 4 (1.52%) Apache
4 4 (1.52%) IIS
4 4 (1.52%) NetWeaver
4 4 (1.52%) SAS
4 4 (1.52%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.14%) Confluence
5 3 (1.14%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.14%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.14%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.76%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.76%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.76%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.38%) Documentum
7 1 (0.38%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.28%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.14%) BASE24
4 3 (1.14%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.76%) Magento
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.38%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.38%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.38%) Shopify
6 1 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 92 (34.98%) Azure
2 83 (31.56%) AWS
3 29 (11.03%) GCP
4 27 (10.27%) Power Platform
5 21 (7.98%) Amazon S3
6 17 (6.46%) Snowflake
7 16 (6.08%) Serverless
8 15 (5.70%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (5.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.56%) dbt
12 11 (4.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.42%) GitHub
13 9 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (3.04%) OpenShift
15 7 (2.66%) PaaS
16 6 (2.28%) Amazon Kinesis
16 6 (2.28%) Azure Storage
16 6 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.46%) Firewall
2 12 (4.56%) Network Security
2 12 (4.56%) VPN
3 10 (3.80%) BGP
4 9 (3.42%) OSPF
5 8 (3.04%) DNS
6 7 (2.66%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.28%) Ethernet VPN
7 6 (2.28%) SD-WAN
7 6 (2.28%) VXLAN
7 6 (2.28%) WAN
8 5 (1.90%) SSL
8 5 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.52%) DHCP
9 4 (1.52%) LAN
9 4 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (1.52%) Wireless
10 3 (1.14%) HTTP
10 3 (1.14%) SAN
11 2 (0.76%) 802.11
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (14.45%) SQL Server
2 33 (12.55%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (7.98%) Power BI
4 20 (7.60%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.70%) Oracle Database
6 14 (5.32%) Data Lake
6 14 (5.32%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (4.94%) Relational Database
7 13 (4.94%) Star Schema
8 11 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (4.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (3.80%) DB2
9 10 (3.80%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (3.42%) DynamoDB
11 7 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (2.66%) Oracle ODI
12 6 (2.28%) NoSQL
12 6 (2.28%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (9.89%) Git
2 12 (4.56%) GitLab
2 12 (4.56%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.28%) JIRA
4 5 (1.90%) JUnit
5 4 (1.52%) JMeter
6 3 (1.14%) Maven
7 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.76%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.76%) Gatling
7 2 (0.76%) Gradle
7 2 (0.76%) Introscope
7 2 (0.76%) Mockito
7 2 (0.76%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.76%) Postman
8 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 75 (28.52%) Social Skills
2 60 (22.81%) Finance
3 32 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (11.41%) Banking
5 19 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.28%) Marketing
7 6 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.14%) Publishing
9 3 (1.14%) Retail
10 2 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.76%) Law
10 2 (0.76%) Legal
10 2 (0.76%) Military
10 2 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Billing
11 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (22.43%) Developer
2 38 (14.45%) Data Engineer
3 30 (11.41%) Senior
4 27 (10.27%) Architect
5 21 (7.98%) DBA
6 20 (7.60%) Lead
7 12 (4.56%) Oracle Developer
8 11 (4.18%) Network Engineer
8 11 (4.18%) SQL DBA
9 10 (3.80%) Administrator
9 10 (3.80%) Snowflake Engineer
10 9 (3.42%) Oracle DBA
11 8 (3.04%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 7 (2.66%) .NET Developer
12 7 (2.66%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (2.66%) C# Developer
12 7 (2.66%) Consultant
13 6 (2.28%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (2.28%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.46%) REST
1 17 (6.46%) RESTful
2 15 (5.70%) Kafka
3 13 (4.94%) JSON
4 12 (4.56%) .NET
5 11 (4.18%) SOAP
5 11 (4.18%) Spring
5 11 (4.18%) Spring Boot
6 9 (3.42%) PySpark
7 7 (2.66%) Middleware
7 7 (2.66%) Node.js
7 7 (2.66%) React
7 7 (2.66%) Web Services
8 6 (2.28%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.28%) SAP Basis
9 5 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.90%) OAuth
9 5 (1.90%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.52%) Entity Framework
10 4 (1.52%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.84%) Data Centre
2 16 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.32%) Clustering
3 14 (5.32%) Replication
4 13 (4.94%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.18%) Mainframe
5 11 (4.18%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.66%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.28%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.28%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.90%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.90%) DataPower
9 5 (1.90%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.52%) CUDA
10 4 (1.52%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.52%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.52%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.97%) Linux
2 33 (12.55%) Windows
3 17 (6.46%) Unix
3 17 (6.46%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.80%) zOS
5 4 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.14%) Android
6 3 (1.14%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (1.14%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.76%) CentOS
7 2 (0.76%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.76%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.76%) VMS
8 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.38%) Solaris
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (28.90%) CI/CD
2 64 (24.33%) Data Modelling
3 58 (22.05%) DevOps
4 57 (21.67%) Migration
5 50 (19.01%) ETL
6 48 (18.25%) High Availability
7 42 (15.97%) Analytics
8 38 (14.45%) Agile
9 36 (13.69%) Data Pipeline
9 36 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (12.93%) Data Engineering
11 32 (12.17%) Performance Optimisation
12 29 (11.03%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (10.27%) AI
14 25 (9.51%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (9.13%) Capacity Planning
16 23 (8.75%) Infrastructure as Code
17 22 (8.37%) Disaster Recovery
17 22 (8.37%) Observability
17 22 (8.37%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 102 (38.78%) SQL
2 78 (29.66%) Python
3 29 (11.03%) Java
4 24 (9.13%) PowerShell
5 15 (5.70%) PL/SQL
6 14 (5.32%) C#
7 13 (4.94%) Shell Script
7 13 (4.94%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.18%) Bash
9 8 (3.04%) Perl
10 7 (2.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (2.66%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.66%) JCL
11 6 (2.28%) C
12 4 (1.52%) Rust
12 4 (1.52%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.14%) CLIST
13 3 (1.14%) COBOL
13 3 (1.14%) REXX
14 2 (0.76%) C++
Qualifications
1 64 (24.33%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.53%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.32%) Degree
4 9 (3.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.66%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.66%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.52%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.14%) CCIE
8 3 (1.14%) CCNP
8 3 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.14%) CISSP
8 3 (1.14%) OCP
8 3 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.14%) SnowPro
8 3 (1.14%) VCAP
9 2 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.27%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.32%) QA
3 12 (4.56%) GDPR
4 6 (2.28%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.90%) ISO 8583
5 5 (1.90%) SLA
6 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.76%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.76%) NIST
6 2 (0.76%) PSD2
6 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.76%) SEPA
7 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.38%) COBIT
System Software
1 28 (10.65%) Docker
2 14 (5.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.94%) vSphere
4 9 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.42%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.66%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.90%) KVM
7 4 (1.52%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.52%) RACF
8 3 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (1.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.76%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.76%) NFS
9 2 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.38%) Firmware
10 1 (0.38%) Postfix
10 1 (0.38%) Varnish
10 1 (0.38%) XenApp
10 1 (0.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (13.69%) Ansible
2 32 (12.17%) Terraform
3 26 (9.89%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.56%) Grafana
5 10 (3.80%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.42%) PowerCLI
7 6 (2.28%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.90%) Kibana
8 5 (1.90%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (1.90%) vMotion
9 4 (1.52%) Argo
9 4 (1.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (1.52%) Puppet
10 3 (1.14%) Data Guard
10 3 (1.14%) logstash
10 3 (1.14%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.76%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.76%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 46 (17.49%) Oracle
2 39 (14.83%) Microsoft
3 25 (9.51%) VMware
4 14 (5.32%) Databricks
4 14 (5.32%) SAP
5 13 (4.94%) ServiceNow
6 12 (4.56%) Google
7 11 (4.18%) IBM
8 7 (2.66%) Cisco
8 7 (2.66%) Citrix
8 7 (2.66%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.28%) Informatica
9 6 (2.28%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.28%) Splunk
10 5 (1.90%) Broadcom
10 5 (1.90%) Juniper
10 5 (1.90%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.90%) Sybase
11 4 (1.52%) 3PAR
11 4 (1.52%) Nimble Storage