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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 112 183
Rank change year-on-year -28 +71 +54
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 289 223 161
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.13% 2.30% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.49% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 133 107
10th Percentile £399 £375 £375
25th Percentile £429 £438 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -12.38%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £668 £725 £655
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £25.25 £49.00 -
25th Percentile £30.13 £56.88 £62.50
Median hourly rate £38.25 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.36% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £42.88 £73.75 £87.50
90th Percentile £45.65 £76.00 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -45.36% +13.64% -8.74%

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 12,245 8,946 10,923
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.18% 92.24% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,667 5,950 6,967
10th Percentile £355 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 753 271 279
10th Percentile £15.81 £12.62 £19.53
25th Percentile £30.00 £20.50 £30.63
Median hourly rate £48.84 £36.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.67% -16.28% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £82.45 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 (4.84%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (3.81%) Confluence
3 8 (2.77%) CICS
4 6 (2.08%) Apache
5 5 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.73%) SAS
6 4 (1.38%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.38%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.38%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.04%) IIS
7 3 (1.04%) nginx
8 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.69%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.35%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.35%) Documentum
9 1 (0.35%) FileNet
9 1 (0.35%) JBoss
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.42%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.38%) SAP CRM
4 3 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.69%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.69%) Cerner Millennium
5 2 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.69%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.35%) Finacle
6 1 (0.35%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.35%) Magento
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.35%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.35%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.35%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.35%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 93 (32.18%) Azure
2 72 (24.91%) AWS
3 28 (9.69%) GCP
4 25 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (7.27%) GitHub
6 20 (6.92%) Power Platform
7 17 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (5.54%) dbt
9 15 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (5.19%) Serverless
10 14 (4.84%) Amazon S3
11 13 (4.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (4.50%) Snowflake
12 12 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (2.42%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (2.42%) Boomi
15 7 (2.42%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.15%) Network Security
2 11 (3.81%) Firewall
3 9 (3.11%) DNS
3 9 (3.11%) SSL
4 6 (2.08%) HTTP
5 5 (1.73%) BGP
5 5 (1.73%) OSPF
5 5 (1.73%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.38%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.38%) ICMP
6 4 (1.38%) SNMP
6 4 (1.38%) VPN
6 4 (1.38%) VXLAN
7 3 (1.04%) DHCP
7 3 (1.04%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.04%) Internet
7 3 (1.04%) SAN
7 3 (1.04%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.04%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (16.96%) Data Warehouse
2 48 (16.61%) SQL Server
3 32 (11.07%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (9.69%) Relational Database
5 20 (6.92%) Oracle Database
5 20 (6.92%) Oracle Reports
5 20 (6.92%) Power BI
6 15 (5.19%) MySQL
7 14 (4.84%) Oracle ODI
8 13 (4.50%) Db2
9 12 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (4.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (3.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (3.11%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.77%) Star Schema
13 7 (2.42%) BigQuery
13 7 (2.42%) RDBMS
13 7 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (2.08%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 45 (15.57%) Git
2 20 (6.92%) GitLab
2 20 (6.92%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.57%) JIRA
4 6 (2.08%) Postman
5 5 (1.73%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (1.38%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.38%) Maven
7 3 (1.04%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.69%) Flyway
8 2 (0.69%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.69%) JUnit
8 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.69%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.35%) Introscope
9 1 (0.35%) Toad
General
1 87 (30.10%) Social Skills
2 61 (21.11%) Finance
3 49 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.69%) Banking
5 20 (6.92%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.77%) Retail
7 7 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.38%) Legal
9 4 (1.38%) Marketing
9 4 (1.38%) Military
9 4 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.04%) Publishing
11 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (27.68%) Developer
2 40 (13.84%) Senior
3 33 (11.42%) Data Engineer
4 31 (10.73%) DBA
5 24 (8.30%) Architect
6 19 (6.57%) Administrator
6 19 (6.57%) SQL Developer
7 16 (5.54%) Lead
8 13 (4.50%) Oracle Developer
9 12 (4.15%) Consultant
9 12 (4.15%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (4.15%) SQL DBA
10 11 (3.81%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (3.81%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.46%) .NET Developer
12 9 (3.11%) Data Warehouse Developer
12 9 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.11%) Lead Developer
12 9 (3.11%) Oracle DBA
12 9 (3.11%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.76%) REST
1 34 (11.76%) Terraform
2 23 (7.96%) .NET
3 20 (6.92%) SOAP
4 19 (6.57%) Kafka
4 19 (6.57%) Middleware
5 18 (6.23%) Web Services
6 16 (5.54%) JSON
7 13 (4.50%) XML
8 12 (4.15%) Spring
9 11 (3.81%) BAPI
9 11 (3.81%) React
9 11 (3.81%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.46%) Node.js
10 10 (3.46%) PySpark
10 10 (3.46%) RESTful
11 8 (2.77%) .NET Framework
11 8 (2.77%) OAuth
12 7 (2.42%) IDoc
12 7 (2.42%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.30%) Replication
2 21 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.57%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.84%) Data Centre
5 13 (4.50%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.50%) Mainframe
5 13 (4.50%) Onboarding
6 12 (4.15%) Clustering
7 9 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.11%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.42%) CUDA
8 7 (2.42%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.73%) PKI
10 5 (1.73%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 60 (20.76%) Linux
2 27 (9.34%) Windows
3 21 (7.27%) Windows Server
4 16 (5.54%) Unix
5 11 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.81%) zOS
6 4 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.04%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (1.04%) VMS
7 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.69%) AIX
8 2 (0.69%) CentOS
8 2 (0.69%) MVS
9 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (32.53%) CI/CD
2 75 (25.95%) DevOps
3 72 (24.91%) Data Modelling
4 67 (23.18%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (21.45%) ETL
6 55 (19.03%) Analytics
7 51 (17.65%) Agile
8 49 (16.96%) Migration
9 47 (16.26%) High Availability
10 42 (14.53%) Root Cause Analysis
11 40 (13.84%) Stakeholder Management
12 38 (13.15%) Data Pipeline
12 38 (13.15%) Infrastructure as Code
12 38 (13.15%) Observability
13 37 (12.80%) Capacity Planning
14 31 (10.73%) Microservices
15 30 (10.38%) Disaster Recovery
16 29 (10.03%) AI
16 29 (10.03%) Validation
17 28 (9.69%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 124 (42.91%) SQL
2 73 (25.26%) Python
3 25 (8.65%) PowerShell
3 25 (8.65%) T-SQL
4 22 (7.61%) Java
5 20 (6.92%) C#
6 19 (6.57%) PL/SQL
7 18 (6.23%) Bash
8 15 (5.19%) Shell Script
9 12 (4.15%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.11%) ABAP
11 7 (2.42%) C++
11 7 (2.42%) Perl
12 6 (2.08%) JCL
13 5 (1.73%) C
13 5 (1.73%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.38%) COBOL
14 4 (1.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (1.38%) Korn
14 4 (1.38%) REXX
Qualifications
1 84 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 77 (26.64%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (4.84%) Degree
5 12 (4.15%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.11%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (1.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.38%) OCP
9 4 (1.38%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.35%) CCA
11 1 (0.35%) CISM
11 1 (0.35%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.84%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.84%) QA
3 8 (2.77%) GDPR
4 4 (1.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.38%) GMP
4 4 (1.38%) GxP
4 4 (1.38%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.04%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) GRC
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.35%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) PSD2
6 1 (0.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 27 (9.34%) Docker
2 15 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.81%) vSphere
4 8 (2.77%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.77%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (2.77%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.42%) Oracle RAC
5 7 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.08%) RACF
6 6 (2.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (1.04%) ACF2
7 3 (1.04%) Firmware
7 3 (1.04%) Varnish
8 2 (0.69%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.69%) SRDF
8 2 (0.69%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.35%) Ceph
9 1 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.35%) NFS
9 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (11.07%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.34%) Ansible
3 12 (4.15%) Prometheus
4 11 (3.81%) Grafana
5 7 (2.42%) Data Guard
6 6 (2.08%) PowerCLI
6 6 (2.08%) Puppet
7 5 (1.73%) Control-M
7 5 (1.73%) vMotion
8 4 (1.38%) Kibana
8 4 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.38%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.04%) Argo
10 2 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.69%) Nagios
10 2 (0.69%) QRadar
10 2 (0.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 63 (21.80%) Oracle
2 50 (17.30%) Microsoft
3 27 (9.34%) VMware
4 24 (8.30%) SAP
5 13 (4.50%) IBM
5 13 (4.50%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.50%) Splunk
6 11 (3.81%) Informatica
6 11 (3.81%) MuleSoft
7 10 (3.46%) Databricks
8 9 (3.11%) Dell
9 7 (2.42%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.08%) Adobe
10 6 (2.08%) NVIDIA
10 6 (2.08%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.73%) 3PAR
12 4 (1.38%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.38%) Cisco
12 4 (1.38%) Google
12 4 (1.38%) Nimble Storage