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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 155 231
Rank change year-on-year +23 +76 +35
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 230 161 137
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.16% 1.49% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 1.66% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 91 91
10th Percentile £362 £375 £319
25th Percentile £425 £408 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £49.40
25th Percentile - - £53.38
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £65.62 £60.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% +9.37% -7.69%

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 9,569 9,705 14,680
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.82% 90.05% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,265 6,189 9,882
10th Percentile £331 £330 £334
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £637
90th Percentile £725 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 186 498
10th Percentile £15.74 £18.38 £15.23
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.67 £22.34
Median hourly rate £50.00 £37.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -22.11% -17.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.06 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

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 6 February 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
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 12 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.74%) IIS
4 3 (1.30%) Apache
4 3 (1.30%) CICS
4 3 (1.30%) Confluence
4 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.87%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.87%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.87%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.43%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.43%) nginx
6 1 (0.43%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.74%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.30%) BASE24
3 3 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.87%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.43%) Magento
5 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.43%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.43%) Shopify
5 1 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 80 (34.78%) AWS
2 75 (32.61%) Azure
3 18 (7.83%) GCP
3 18 (7.83%) Power Platform
4 17 (7.39%) Amazon S3
5 15 (6.52%) Serverless
5 15 (6.52%) Snowflake
6 14 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (6.09%) GitHub
7 13 (5.65%) dbt
8 12 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (3.91%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (3.91%) SaaS
12 8 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.96%) Firewall
2 9 (3.91%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.91%) VPN
3 6 (2.61%) BGP
3 6 (2.61%) Network Security
4 5 (2.17%) DNS
4 5 (2.17%) HTTP
4 5 (2.17%) OSPF
4 5 (2.17%) Wireless
5 4 (1.74%) DHCP
5 4 (1.74%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.74%) SSL
5 4 (1.74%) WAN
6 3 (1.30%) Internet
6 3 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.87%) 802.11
7 2 (0.87%) EIGRP
7 2 (0.87%) IPsec
7 2 (0.87%) MPLS
7 2 (0.87%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.87%) MongoDB
1 25 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 24 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 20 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (8.26%) DB2
6 15 (6.52%) Oracle Database
6 15 (6.52%) Power BI
7 11 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (4.35%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.35%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.48%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (3.04%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (2.61%) Big Data
11 6 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (2.17%) DynamoDB
12 5 (2.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (9.57%) Git
2 21 (9.13%) JUnit
3 17 (7.39%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.91%) GitLab
5 6 (2.61%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.74%) JIRA
7 3 (1.30%) Maven
8 2 (0.87%) Gatling
8 2 (0.87%) Gradle
8 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.43%) JMeter
9 1 (0.43%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.43%) LSMW
9 1 (0.43%) Mockito
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.43%) Toad
9 1 (0.43%) Vagrant
General
1 77 (33.48%) Social Skills
2 63 (27.39%) Finance
3 42 (18.26%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (14.78%) Banking
5 24 (10.43%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.96%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.04%) Front Office
10 5 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.74%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.74%) Legal
11 4 (1.74%) Marketing
11 4 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.87%) Billing
12 2 (0.87%) Retail
13 1 (0.43%) German Language
13 1 (0.43%) Military
13 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 64 (27.83%) Developer
2 30 (13.04%) Data Engineer
3 28 (12.17%) Architect
4 24 (10.43%) Java Developer
4 24 (10.43%) Senior
5 18 (7.83%) Lead
6 16 (6.96%) Consultant
6 16 (6.96%) SQL Developer
7 15 (6.52%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 15 (6.52%) Senior Developer
8 13 (5.65%) DBA
9 10 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (3.48%) Administrator
10 8 (3.48%) Senior SQL Developer
11 7 (3.04%) Linux Developer
11 7 (3.04%) Oracle DBA
11 7 (3.04%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
11 7 (3.04%) Sybase Developer
12 6 (2.61%) Oracle Developer
12 6 (2.61%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.61%) Spring
2 26 (11.30%) Kafka
3 17 (7.39%) RESTful
4 14 (6.09%) JMS
4 14 (6.09%) Spring Boot
5 12 (5.22%) React
6 11 (4.78%) .NET
6 11 (4.78%) REST
7 8 (3.48%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (3.04%) Jest
8 7 (3.04%) JSON
9 6 (2.61%) PySpark
10 5 (2.17%) HTML
10 5 (2.17%) Web Services
11 4 (1.74%) .NET Framework
11 4 (1.74%) BAPI
11 4 (1.74%) CSS
11 4 (1.74%) OAuth
11 4 (1.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.57%) Data Structures
2 14 (6.09%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.09%) Equities
3 13 (5.65%) Replication
4 10 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.48%) Mainframe
6 7 (3.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.04%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.61%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.17%) Clustering
9 4 (1.74%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.74%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.74%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.30%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 44 (19.13%) Linux
2 21 (9.13%) Windows
3 9 (3.91%) Unix
3 9 (3.91%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.04%) zOS
5 5 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.30%) Android
6 3 (1.30%) VMS
7 2 (0.87%) AIX
7 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.87%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.43%) CentOS
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (31.74%) CI/CD
2 63 (27.39%) DevOps
3 51 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (20.43%) Agile
4 47 (20.43%) Data Modelling
5 39 (16.96%) Migration
6 33 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (12.61%) Analytics
7 29 (12.61%) Data Pipeline
8 27 (11.74%) ETL
9 26 (11.30%) Observability
10 25 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (10.87%) High Availability
11 24 (10.43%) Containerisation
11 24 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (10.43%) Technical Leadership
12 22 (9.57%) Data Engineering
13 21 (9.13%) Performance Optimisation
14 20 (8.70%) Mentoring
14 20 (8.70%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 96 (41.74%) SQL
2 69 (30.00%) Python
3 45 (19.57%) Java
4 19 (8.26%) Shell Script
5 18 (7.83%) PowerShell
6 14 (6.09%) PL/SQL
7 12 (5.22%) C#
8 7 (3.04%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.61%) ABAP
9 6 (2.61%) Bash
9 6 (2.61%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.17%) C
10 5 (2.17%) Perl
10 5 (2.17%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.74%) COBOL
11 4 (1.74%) REXX
12 3 (1.30%) CLIST
12 3 (1.30%) JCL
12 3 (1.30%) PHP
12 3 (1.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (17.83%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.78%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.26%) Degree
4 7 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.61%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.74%) CCNP
6 4 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.30%) CCIE
7 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.30%) OCP
7 3 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.30%) VCAP
8 2 (0.87%) CISSP
8 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.87%) GSEC
9 1 (0.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.26%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.83%) QA
3 12 (5.22%) GDPR
4 10 (4.35%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.61%) SLA
6 5 (2.17%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.17%) ISO 8583
6 5 (2.17%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.87%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.87%) PSD2
7 2 (0.87%) SEPA
8 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (15.65%) Docker
2 11 (4.78%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.17%) RACF
3 5 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.74%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.74%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 4 (1.74%) KVM
4 4 (1.74%) NDS
4 4 (1.74%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 3 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.30%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.30%) vSphere
6 1 (0.43%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.43%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.43%) HDFS
6 1 (0.43%) Lustre
6 1 (0.43%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (16.09%) Terraform
2 28 (12.17%) Kubernetes
3 24 (10.43%) Ansible
4 9 (3.91%) Grafana
5 8 (3.48%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.61%) Kibana
6 6 (2.61%) logstash
7 5 (2.17%) Argo
7 5 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.30%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.30%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.87%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (0.87%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.87%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.87%) Puppet
10 2 (0.87%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (13.48%) Oracle
2 28 (12.17%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.09%) Databricks
3 14 (6.09%) Sybase
4 13 (5.65%) VMware
5 11 (4.78%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.91%) SAP
7 8 (3.48%) IBM
8 7 (3.04%) Cisco
8 7 (3.04%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.61%) Google
10 5 (2.17%) Broadcom
10 5 (2.17%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.17%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.74%) Adobe
11 4 (1.74%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.74%) NetIQ
11 4 (1.74%) Okta
11 4 (1.74%) OpenText
12 3 (1.30%) Splunk