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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 152 236
Rank change year-on-year +38 +84 +22
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 247 177 140
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.41% 1.52% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 1.71% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 103 97
10th Percentile £375 £379 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -16.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £538
90th Percentile £680 £663 £610
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £498
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.53% -9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43.75 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £75.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +25.00% +26.32%
75th Percentile £51.25 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £64.13 £63.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +0.60% +6.24% -

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 9,299 10,367 15,093
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.82% 89.19% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,130 6,519 10,315
10th Percentile £331 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 210 363
10th Percentile £15.30 £18.04 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £28.32
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.63 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -34.63% -1.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.01 £70.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

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 20 December 2025.

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 15 (6.07%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.45%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.24%) Apache
4 5 (2.02%) CICS
5 4 (1.62%) IIS
6 3 (1.21%) Confluence
6 3 (1.21%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (1.21%) SAS
6 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.21%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.81%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.40%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.40%) CMS
8 1 (0.40%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.40%) SugarCRM
8 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 9 (3.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.02%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.62%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.81%) BASE24
5 2 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.81%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.81%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.81%) SAP VC
6 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.40%) Magento
6 1 (0.40%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.40%) Shopify
6 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 84 (34.01%) Azure
2 72 (29.15%) AWS
3 18 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (6.48%) Amazon S3
4 16 (6.48%) GCP
4 16 (6.48%) Snowflake
5 15 (6.07%) Power Platform
6 14 (5.67%) GitHub
6 14 (5.67%) Serverless
7 12 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (4.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (4.45%) dbt
9 10 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.83%) Datadog
11 7 (2.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.64%) Firewall
2 5 (2.02%) HTTP
2 5 (2.02%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.62%) SSL
3 4 (1.62%) VPN
4 3 (1.21%) DNS
4 3 (1.21%) Internet
4 3 (1.21%) Network Security
5 2 (0.81%) BGP
5 2 (0.81%) DHCP
5 2 (0.81%) LAN
5 2 (0.81%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.81%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.81%) WAN
5 2 (0.81%) WebEx
5 2 (0.81%) WLAN
6 1 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.40%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.40%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.57%) MongoDB
2 34 (13.77%) DB2
3 32 (12.96%) Relational Database
4 31 (12.55%) SQL Server
5 28 (11.34%) Data Warehouse
6 26 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
7 23 (9.31%) Oracle Database
8 13 (5.26%) Power BI
9 12 (4.86%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (4.86%) Data Lake
10 11 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (4.05%) Big Data
11 10 (4.05%) NoSQL
12 9 (3.64%) MySQL
13 8 (3.24%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (2.83%) Hadoop
14 7 (2.83%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 30 (12.15%) JUnit
2 23 (9.31%) Git
3 17 (6.88%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.24%) GitLab
5 6 (2.43%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.62%) JIRA
7 2 (0.81%) GCC
7 2 (0.81%) Maven
7 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.40%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.40%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.40%) LSMW
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.40%) Selenium
8 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.40%) Storybook
8 1 (0.40%) Toad
8 1 (0.40%) Vagrant
General
1 95 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 71 (28.74%) Finance
3 50 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (19.84%) Banking
5 28 (11.34%) Investment Banking
6 24 (9.72%) Public Sector
7 14 (5.67%) Front Office
8 10 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.43%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.62%) Legal
10 4 (1.62%) Marketing
10 4 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.21%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Automotive
12 2 (0.81%) German Language
12 2 (0.81%) Retail
13 1 (0.40%) Advertising
13 1 (0.40%) Billing
Job Titles
1 75 (30.36%) Developer
2 34 (13.77%) Java Developer
3 31 (12.55%) Senior
4 28 (11.34%) Data Engineer
5 27 (10.93%) SQL Developer
6 26 (10.53%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 25 (10.12%) Architect
8 22 (8.91%) DBA
9 21 (8.50%) Senior Developer
10 18 (7.29%) Consultant
11 16 (6.48%) Lead
12 15 (6.07%) Senior Java Developer
13 13 (5.26%) Senior SQL Developer
14 12 (4.86%) Linux Developer
14 12 (4.86%) Oracle DBA
14 12 (4.86%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
14 12 (4.86%) Sybase Developer
15 11 (4.45%) Administrator
16 8 (3.24%) Java Engineer
17 7 (2.83%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (17.00%) Kafka
2 39 (15.79%) Spring
3 25 (10.12%) JMS
4 19 (7.69%) RESTful
5 14 (5.67%) .NET
5 14 (5.67%) REST
6 13 (5.26%) Spring Boot
7 10 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (4.05%) React
8 9 (3.64%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.83%) HTML
9 7 (2.83%) OAuth
10 6 (2.43%) AWS CDK
10 6 (2.43%) CSS
11 5 (2.02%) .NET Framework
11 5 (2.02%) Jest
11 5 (2.02%) JSON
11 5 (2.02%) Middleware
11 5 (2.02%) PySpark
11 5 (2.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.55%) Data Structures
2 24 (9.72%) Equities
3 21 (8.50%) Replication
4 16 (6.48%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (5.67%) Mainframe
6 8 (3.24%) Clustering
7 6 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.62%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.21%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.21%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 60 (24.29%) Linux
2 17 (6.88%) Windows
3 10 (4.05%) zOS
4 9 (3.64%) Unix
4 9 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.62%) VMS
7 3 (1.21%) AIX
8 2 (0.81%) OS/2
8 2 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.40%) Android
9 1 (0.40%) CentOS
9 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (30.36%) DevOps
2 73 (29.55%) CI/CD
3 68 (27.53%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (25.91%) Agile
5 47 (19.03%) Data Modelling
6 39 (15.79%) Migration
7 33 (13.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (12.96%) Data Pipeline
8 32 (12.96%) ETL
9 31 (12.55%) Analytics
9 31 (12.55%) Database Tuning
10 29 (11.74%) SDLC
11 28 (11.34%) Business Intelligence
11 28 (11.34%) Open Source
12 26 (10.53%) High Availability
12 26 (10.53%) Multithreading
12 26 (10.53%) Observability
13 25 (10.12%) Containerisation
14 23 (9.31%) Microservices
15 22 (8.91%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 107 (43.32%) SQL
2 76 (30.77%) Python
3 59 (23.89%) Java
4 28 (11.34%) Shell Script
5 17 (6.88%) PL/SQL
6 16 (6.48%) C#
7 12 (4.86%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.45%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.24%) ABAP
9 8 (3.24%) Perl
10 7 (2.83%) REXX
10 7 (2.83%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.43%) Bash
11 6 (2.43%) JCL
11 6 (2.43%) TypeScript
12 5 (2.02%) CLIST
12 5 (2.02%) COBOL
13 4 (1.62%) Assembly Language
14 3 (1.21%) PHP
14 3 (1.21%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 36 (14.57%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.74%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.69%) Degree
4 8 (3.24%) Azure Certification
4 8 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.02%) OCP
6 5 (2.02%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.21%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.21%) CCNP
8 3 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.81%) CCIE
9 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.81%) OCA
10 1 (0.40%) CISSP
10 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.40%) RHCE
10 1 (0.40%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.50%) QA
2 20 (8.10%) Data Quality
3 13 (5.26%) GDPR
4 10 (4.05%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.43%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.62%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.62%) SLA
8 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.81%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (14.98%) Docker
2 10 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.24%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (2.83%) RACF
5 6 (2.43%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 6 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.62%) NDS
7 4 (1.62%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 3 (1.21%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (0.81%) HDFS
9 2 (0.81%) NFS
9 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.40%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.40%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.40%) KVM
10 1 (0.40%) Postfix
10 1 (0.40%) Squid
10 1 (0.40%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 36 (14.57%) Terraform
2 26 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 21 (8.50%) Ansible
4 8 (3.24%) Oracle RMAN
5 7 (2.83%) Data Guard
6 6 (2.43%) Grafana
6 6 (2.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 6 (2.43%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.43%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.02%) Kibana
7 5 (2.02%) logstash
7 5 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.62%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.21%) Argo
10 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (0.81%) Hadoop YARN
10 2 (0.81%) OMEGAMON
10 2 (0.81%) Puppet
10 2 (0.81%) SCCM
10 2 (0.81%) SCOM
Vendors
1 36 (14.57%) Oracle
2 27 (10.93%) Microsoft
3 25 (10.12%) Sybase
4 14 (5.67%) Databricks
5 13 (5.26%) SAP
6 12 (4.86%) IBM
7 10 (4.05%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.83%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.43%) VMware
10 5 (2.02%) Broadcom
10 5 (2.02%) Cisco
10 5 (2.02%) Google
11 4 (1.62%) Informatica
11 4 (1.62%) NetIQ
11 4 (1.62%) Okta
11 4 (1.62%) OpenText
11 4 (1.62%) Solace
12 3 (1.21%) Adobe
12 3 (1.21%) BMC
12 3 (1.21%) Citrix