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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 122 172
Rank change year-on-year -15 +50 +64
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 294 222 161
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.16% 2.25% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 2.44% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 132 108
10th Percentile £400 £375 £392
25th Percentile £431 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year - +2.83% -7.38%
75th Percentile £566 £605 £600
90th Percentile £698 £738 £654
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £26.88 £49.00 -
25th Percentile £34.19 £56.88 £62.50
Median hourly rate £41.63 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.54% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £48.88 £73.75 £87.50
90th Percentile £51.35 £76.00 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -45.36% +13.64% -10.40%

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 12,272 9,094 11,117
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.28% 92.30% 87.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,673 6,051 7,121
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.55% -3.43% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 742 278 296
10th Percentile £15.83 £12.62 £18.38
25th Percentile £30.00 £20.40 £30.36
Median hourly rate £48.83 £36.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.63% -16.28% -17.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £67.14
90th Percentile £82.50 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 17 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 17 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 (4.76%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (3.74%) Confluence
3 8 (2.72%) CICS
4 6 (2.04%) Apache
4 6 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.70%) SAS
6 4 (1.36%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.36%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.36%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.02%) IIS
7 3 (1.02%) nginx
8 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.68%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.34%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.34%) Documentum
9 1 (0.34%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.34%) JBoss
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (5.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.04%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.36%) SAP CRM
4 3 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.68%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.68%) Cerner Millennium
5 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.68%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
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%) Oracle EBS
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 95 (32.31%) Azure
2 74 (25.17%) AWS
3 28 (9.52%) GCP
4 25 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (7.14%) GitHub
5 21 (7.14%) Power Platform
6 17 (5.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (5.78%) dbt
7 15 (5.10%) Amazon S3
7 15 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (5.10%) Serverless
8 14 (4.76%) Snowflake
9 12 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.04%) Boomi
12 6 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.08%) Firewall
1 12 (4.08%) Network Security
2 10 (3.40%) SSL
3 9 (3.06%) DNS
4 6 (2.04%) HTTP
5 5 (1.70%) BGP
5 5 (1.70%) OSPF
5 5 (1.70%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.36%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.36%) ICMP
6 4 (1.36%) SNMP
6 4 (1.36%) VPN
6 4 (1.36%) 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%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (17.01%) Data Warehouse
1 50 (17.01%) SQL Server
2 31 (10.54%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (9.86%) Relational Database
4 21 (7.14%) Power BI
5 20 (6.80%) Oracle Database
5 20 (6.80%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (5.10%) MySQL
7 14 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (4.76%) Oracle ODI
8 13 (4.42%) Db2
9 12 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (3.06%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (3.06%) Star Schema
12 8 (2.72%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (2.38%) RDBMS
13 7 (2.38%) SAP HANA
14 6 (2.04%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 43 (14.63%) Git
2 20 (6.80%) GitLab
2 20 (6.80%) Jenkins
3 18 (6.12%) JIRA
4 5 (1.70%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (1.70%) Postman
5 4 (1.36%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.36%) Maven
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%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.68%) JUnit
7 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.68%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.34%) Introscope
8 1 (0.34%) Toad
General
1 86 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 64 (21.77%) Finance
3 48 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.86%) Banking
5 19 (6.46%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.72%) Retail
7 7 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.36%) Legal
9 4 (1.36%) Marketing
9 4 (1.36%) Military
9 4 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.02%) Publishing
11 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.34%) Law
12 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (27.55%) Developer
2 40 (13.61%) Senior
3 36 (12.24%) Data Engineer
4 32 (10.88%) DBA
5 24 (8.16%) Architect
6 19 (6.46%) Administrator
7 18 (6.12%) SQL Developer
8 17 (5.78%) Lead
9 14 (4.76%) SQL DBA
10 13 (4.42%) Oracle Developer
11 12 (4.08%) Consultant
11 12 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (3.74%) Senior Developer
13 10 (3.40%) .NET Developer
13 10 (3.40%) Linux Engineer
14 9 (3.06%) Data Warehouse Developer
14 9 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.06%) Lead Developer
14 9 (3.06%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.56%) REST
2 33 (11.22%) Terraform
3 24 (8.16%) .NET
4 21 (7.14%) Kafka
4 21 (7.14%) SOAP
5 18 (6.12%) Middleware
5 18 (6.12%) Web Services
6 17 (5.78%) JSON
7 13 (4.42%) XML
8 12 (4.08%) Spring
9 11 (3.74%) React
9 11 (3.74%) RESTful
9 11 (3.74%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.40%) BAPI
10 10 (3.40%) Node.js
10 10 (3.40%) PySpark
11 8 (2.72%) .NET Framework
12 7 (2.38%) OAuth
13 6 (2.04%) IDoc
13 6 (2.04%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.16%) Replication
2 21 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.46%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 14 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.42%) Clustering
5 13 (4.42%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.42%) Mainframe
6 9 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.06%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.72%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.38%) CUDA
9 6 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.70%) PKI
10 5 (1.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (21.43%) Linux
2 31 (10.54%) Windows
3 23 (7.82%) Windows Server
4 17 (5.78%) Unix
5 12 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (3.74%) zOS
7 4 (1.36%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (1.02%) Embedded 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%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.34%) AIX
10 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.34%) Solaris
10 1 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (32.31%) CI/CD
2 77 (26.19%) DevOps
3 74 (25.17%) Data Modelling
4 66 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (21.43%) ETL
6 56 (19.05%) Analytics
7 51 (17.35%) Agile
8 50 (17.01%) Migration
9 47 (15.99%) High Availability
10 42 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
11 38 (12.93%) Data Pipeline
11 38 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (12.93%) Observability
11 38 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
12 37 (12.59%) Capacity Planning
13 31 (10.54%) Microservices
13 31 (10.54%) Validation
14 30 (10.20%) AI
14 30 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
15 29 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 126 (42.86%) SQL
2 75 (25.51%) Python
3 24 (8.16%) PowerShell
4 23 (7.82%) T-SQL
5 22 (7.48%) Java
6 21 (7.14%) C#
7 20 (6.80%) PL/SQL
8 19 (6.46%) Bash
9 15 (5.10%) Shell Script
10 12 (4.08%) JavaScript
11 9 (3.06%) ABAP
12 7 (2.38%) C++
12 7 (2.38%) Perl
13 6 (2.04%) JCL
14 5 (1.70%) C
14 5 (1.70%) TypeScript
15 4 (1.36%) COBOL
15 4 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (1.36%) Korn
15 4 (1.36%) REXX
Qualifications
1 84 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 77 (26.19%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (4.76%) Degree
5 11 (3.74%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.72%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.70%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.36%) OCP
10 4 (1.36%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.68%) CISM
12 2 (0.68%) CISSP
12 2 (0.68%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.34%) CESG Certified Professional
13 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (14.63%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.76%) QA
3 9 (3.06%) GDPR
4 4 (1.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.36%) GMP
4 4 (1.36%) GxP
4 4 (1.36%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.02%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.02%) SLA
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 27 (9.18%) Docker
2 17 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.08%) vSphere
4 9 (3.06%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.06%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.38%) Oracle RAC
7 6 (2.04%) RACF
7 6 (2.04%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (1.02%) ACF2
8 3 (1.02%) Firmware
8 3 (1.02%) Varnish
9 2 (0.68%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.68%) SRDF
9 2 (0.68%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.34%) Ceph
10 1 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.34%) etcd
10 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (11.22%) Kubernetes
2 28 (9.52%) Ansible
3 13 (4.42%) Prometheus
4 11 (3.74%) Grafana
5 7 (2.38%) Data Guard
6 6 (2.04%) PowerCLI
6 6 (2.04%) Puppet
7 5 (1.70%) Control-M
7 5 (1.70%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.70%) vMotion
8 4 (1.36%) Kibana
8 4 (1.36%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.02%) Argo
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
11 1 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 65 (22.11%) Oracle
2 51 (17.35%) Microsoft
3 29 (9.86%) VMware
4 25 (8.50%) SAP
5 13 (4.42%) ServiceNow
6 12 (4.08%) IBM
6 12 (4.08%) Informatica
6 12 (4.08%) Splunk
7 10 (3.40%) Databricks
7 10 (3.40%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.72%) Dell
8 8 (2.72%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.04%) Adobe
9 6 (2.04%) NVIDIA
9 6 (2.04%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.70%) 3PAR
11 4 (1.36%) Broadcom
11 4 (1.36%) Cisco
11 4 (1.36%) Google
11 4 (1.36%) Nimble Storage