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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 140 223
Rank change year-on-year +20 +83 +34
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 243 185 148
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.17% 1.75% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 1.94% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 104 97
10th Percentile £382 £365 £358
25th Percentile £425 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £591 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +4.10% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £62.20 - £49.40
25th Percentile £74.50 - £53.38
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £54.25
% change year-on-year -18.52% +24.42% -19.63%

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 9,992 9,524 14,405
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.30% 90.34% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,529 6,276 9,656
10th Percentile £345 £329 £338
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 197 531
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.86 £15.25
25th Percentile £27.00 £23.50 £22.55
Median hourly rate £57.05 £38.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.18% -14.44% -20.18%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £64.77
90th Percentile £82.05 £75.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £27.61 £32.50 £33.03
% change year-on-year -15.06% -1.61% -5.62%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 10 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.65%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.65%) CICS
3 3 (1.23%) IIS
3 3 (1.23%) SAS
3 3 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.82%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.82%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.41%) Mendix
5 1 (0.41%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.41%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (2.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.65%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.23%) BASE24
3 3 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.23%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.82%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.41%) Magento
5 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 85 (34.98%) AWS
2 81 (33.33%) Azure
3 22 (9.05%) GCP
4 20 (8.23%) Amazon S3
5 19 (7.82%) Power Platform
5 19 (7.82%) Serverless
6 17 (7.00%) Snowflake
7 16 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (5.35%) dbt
9 13 (5.35%) GitHub
10 12 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (3.70%) SaaS
14 8 (3.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (2.47%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.17%) Firewall
2 11 (4.53%) VPN
3 9 (3.70%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.47%) BGP
4 6 (2.47%) Network Security
5 5 (2.06%) OSPF
5 5 (2.06%) SD-WAN
5 5 (2.06%) WAN
6 4 (1.65%) HTTP
6 4 (1.65%) Internet
6 4 (1.65%) SSL
6 4 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.65%) Wireless
7 3 (1.23%) DHCP
7 3 (1.23%) DNS
7 3 (1.23%) LAN
8 2 (0.82%) 802.11
8 2 (0.82%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.82%) SAN
8 2 (0.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.58%) SQL Server
2 26 (10.70%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (9.05%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (7.82%) Relational Database
5 18 (7.41%) MongoDB
6 15 (6.17%) DB2
7 14 (5.76%) Oracle Database
7 14 (5.76%) Power BI
8 13 (5.35%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (4.12%) Data Lake
10 9 (3.70%) NoSQL
10 9 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (3.29%) DynamoDB
11 8 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (3.29%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.47%) MySQL
12 6 (2.47%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (2.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (10.70%) Git
2 16 (6.58%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.17%) JUnit
4 11 (4.53%) GitLab
5 4 (1.65%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.65%) JMeter
6 3 (1.23%) JIRA
6 3 (1.23%) Maven
7 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.82%) Gatling
7 2 (0.82%) Gradle
7 2 (0.82%) Mockito
7 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.41%) Postman
8 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.41%) Toad
General
1 76 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 63 (25.93%) Finance
3 38 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (12.76%) Banking
5 23 (9.47%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.70%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.06%) Marketing
9 4 (1.65%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.65%) Front Office
9 4 (1.65%) Legal
9 4 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.82%) Billing
10 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.82%) Publishing
10 2 (0.82%) Retail
11 1 (0.41%) Law
11 1 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 63 (25.93%) Developer
2 37 (15.23%) Data Engineer
3 27 (11.11%) Architect
3 27 (11.11%) Senior
4 22 (9.05%) Lead
5 17 (7.00%) Java Developer
6 15 (6.17%) Consultant
6 15 (6.17%) DBA
7 14 (5.76%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.94%) SQL Developer
9 9 (3.70%) Administrator
9 9 (3.70%) Oracle Developer
10 8 (3.29%) Investment Banking Java Developer
10 8 (3.29%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (3.29%) SQL DBA
11 7 (2.88%) Data Architect
11 7 (2.88%) Oracle DBA
11 7 (2.88%) Snowflake Engineer
12 6 (2.47%) C# Developer
12 6 (2.47%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.64%) Spring
2 19 (7.82%) Kafka
3 16 (6.58%) RESTful
4 13 (5.35%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.53%) .NET
6 10 (4.12%) JSON
6 10 (4.12%) PySpark
6 10 (4.12%) React
6 10 (4.12%) REST
7 8 (3.29%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (3.29%) JMS
8 7 (2.88%) Web Services
9 6 (2.47%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.47%) SOAP
10 5 (2.06%) Jest
10 5 (2.06%) Node.js
10 5 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (1.65%) 802.1X
11 4 (1.65%) Pandas
11 4 (1.65%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.58%) Data Structures
2 15 (6.17%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.35%) Replication
4 11 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.12%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.12%) Mainframe
6 9 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.29%) Equities
8 7 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.88%) Clustering
9 6 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.06%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.65%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.65%) NHS
11 4 (1.65%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.23%) DataPower
12 3 (1.23%) EMV
12 3 (1.23%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.40%) Linux
2 19 (7.82%) Windows
3 10 (4.12%) Unix
4 8 (3.29%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.29%) zOS
5 5 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.65%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.23%) Android
8 2 (0.82%) AIX
8 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.82%) VMS
9 1 (0.41%) CentOS
9 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (32.10%) CI/CD
2 65 (26.75%) DevOps
3 52 (21.40%) Data Modelling
4 46 (18.93%) Migration
5 44 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (16.87%) Agile
7 37 (15.23%) Data Pipeline
8 33 (13.58%) Analytics
9 32 (13.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (12.76%) ETL
11 29 (11.93%) Data Engineering
11 29 (11.93%) High Availability
12 26 (10.70%) Performance Optimisation
13 25 (10.29%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (9.88%) Containerisation
14 24 (9.88%) Observability
15 23 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (9.47%) Technical Leadership
16 21 (8.64%) Data Integration
17 20 (8.23%) AI
Programming Languages
1 107 (44.03%) SQL
2 75 (30.86%) Python
3 41 (16.87%) Java
4 19 (7.82%) PowerShell
5 16 (6.58%) Shell Script
6 14 (5.76%) PL/SQL
7 13 (5.35%) C#
8 9 (3.70%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.88%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.47%) ABAP
10 6 (2.47%) Bash
10 6 (2.47%) C
11 5 (2.06%) JCL
11 5 (2.06%) Perl
11 5 (2.06%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.65%) COBOL
12 4 (1.65%) REXX
13 3 (1.23%) CLIST
13 3 (1.23%) PHP
13 3 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (19.34%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.05%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.58%) Degree
4 6 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.06%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.06%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (1.65%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.65%) OCP
6 4 (1.65%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.23%) CCIE
7 3 (1.23%) CCNP
7 3 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.23%) VCAP
8 2 (0.82%) CCA
8 2 (0.82%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.41%) QA
3 13 (5.35%) GDPR
4 9 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.06%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.06%) ISO 8583
5 5 (2.06%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (2.06%) SLA
6 2 (0.82%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.82%) PSD2
6 2 (0.82%) SEPA
7 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.41%) COBIT
7 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (14.81%) Docker
2 12 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.53%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.47%) KVM
4 6 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.65%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.65%) NDS
6 4 (1.65%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 4 (1.65%) RACF
6 4 (1.65%) vSphere
7 3 (1.23%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 3 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.23%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.82%) NFS
8 2 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.41%) Firmware
9 1 (0.41%) Lustre
9 1 (0.41%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 36 (14.81%) Terraform
2 31 (12.76%) Kubernetes
3 23 (9.47%) Ansible
4 10 (4.12%) Grafana
5 7 (2.88%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.47%) Kibana
6 6 (2.47%) logstash
7 5 (2.06%) Argo
8 4 (1.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (1.65%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.65%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.23%) PowerCLI
9 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.23%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.82%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.82%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.82%) SCCM
10 2 (0.82%) SCOM
Vendors
1 35 (14.40%) Oracle
2 32 (13.17%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.17%) Databricks
4 14 (5.76%) VMware
5 11 (4.53%) SAP
6 10 (4.12%) Google
6 10 (4.12%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.12%) Sybase
7 8 (3.29%) Cisco
8 7 (2.88%) IBM
8 7 (2.88%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.47%) Citrix
10 5 (2.06%) Broadcom
10 5 (2.06%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.06%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.65%) Adobe
11 4 (1.65%) Juniper
11 4 (1.65%) NetIQ
11 4 (1.65%) OpenText
11 4 (1.65%) Zscaler