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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 138 184
Rank change year-on-year +4 +46 +65
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 246 184 171
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.05% 1.82% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.00% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 117 122
10th Percentile £376 £375 £341
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £743 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile - - £49.40
25th Percentile £53.00 - £53.38
Median hourly rate £53.50 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.57% +16.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £84.75 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £70.00 £54.25
% change year-on-year -24.29% +29.03% -25.17%

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 10,633 9,200 13,827
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.73% 90.76% 87.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,897 6,312 9,229
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £751 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 497 221 542
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.20 £14.48
25th Percentile £27.03 £20.50 £23.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £39.04 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +47.28% +2.41% -30.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
% change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -8.15%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 12 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.63%) NetWeaver
2 4 (1.63%) SAS
3 3 (1.22%) Apache
3 3 (1.22%) CICS
3 3 (1.22%) IIS
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.81%) Confluence
4 2 (0.81%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.81%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.81%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.81%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.81%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.81%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.41%) Mendix
Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.63%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.22%) BASE24
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.81%) Magento
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.41%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.41%) Shopify
5 1 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 92 (37.40%) Azure
2 81 (32.93%) AWS
3 26 (10.57%) GCP
3 26 (10.57%) Power Platform
4 20 (8.13%) Snowflake
5 19 (7.72%) Amazon S3
6 18 (7.32%) dbt
7 15 (6.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (5.69%) Serverless
9 12 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (4.07%) GitHub
11 10 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (2.85%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.85%) PaaS
14 6 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.32%) Firewall
2 12 (4.88%) VPN
3 10 (4.07%) Network Security
4 8 (3.25%) BGP
4 8 (3.25%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.85%) OSPF
6 6 (2.44%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.44%) SSL
6 6 (2.44%) WAN
7 5 (2.03%) DNS
7 5 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.63%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (1.63%) HTTP
8 4 (1.63%) LAN
8 4 (1.63%) VXLAN
8 4 (1.63%) Wireless
9 3 (1.22%) DHCP
9 3 (1.22%) SAN
10 2 (0.81%) 802.11
10 2 (0.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.04%) SQL Server
2 29 (11.79%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (8.13%) Power BI
5 15 (6.10%) Relational Database
6 14 (5.69%) Oracle Database
7 13 (5.28%) Data Lake
8 12 (4.88%) Snowflake Schema
8 12 (4.88%) Star Schema
9 11 (4.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (4.07%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (3.66%) DB2
11 9 (3.66%) DynamoDB
11 9 (3.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (2.85%) MongoDB
12 7 (2.85%) NoSQL
13 6 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (2.44%) Delta Lake
13 6 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (10.57%) Git
2 12 (4.88%) GitLab
2 12 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.25%) JUnit
4 4 (1.63%) JIRA
4 4 (1.63%) JMeter
5 3 (1.22%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.22%) Maven
6 2 (0.81%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.81%) Gatling
6 2 (0.81%) Gradle
6 2 (0.81%) Introscope
6 2 (0.81%) Mockito
7 1 (0.41%) jMock
7 1 (0.41%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.41%) LSMW
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.41%) Toad
7 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (27.64%) Social Skills
2 59 (23.98%) Finance
3 30 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (12.20%) Banking
4 20 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.03%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.03%) Marketing
6 5 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.22%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.22%) Legal
8 3 (1.22%) Publishing
9 2 (0.81%) Billing
9 2 (0.81%) Law
9 2 (0.81%) Retail
10 1 (0.41%) Back Office
10 1 (0.41%) Front Office
10 1 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 57 (23.17%) Developer
2 43 (17.48%) Data Engineer
3 29 (11.79%) Senior
4 25 (10.16%) Architect
5 22 (8.94%) Lead
6 18 (7.32%) DBA
7 12 (4.88%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.47%) Consultant
8 11 (4.47%) Oracle Developer
9 10 (4.07%) Snowflake Engineer
9 10 (4.07%) SQL DBA
10 9 (3.66%) Network Engineer
11 8 (3.25%) Administrator
11 8 (3.25%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 7 (2.85%) C# Developer
12 7 (2.85%) Oracle DBA
13 6 (2.44%) .NET Developer
13 6 (2.44%) Data Architect
13 6 (2.44%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.50%) Kafka
1 16 (6.50%) RESTful
2 14 (5.69%) Spring
3 12 (4.88%) Spring Boot
4 11 (4.47%) .NET
4 11 (4.47%) JSON
5 10 (4.07%) PySpark
5 10 (4.07%) REST
6 8 (3.25%) SOAP
7 7 (2.85%) React
8 6 (2.44%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (2.44%) SAP Basis
9 5 (2.03%) Middleware
9 5 (2.03%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (2.03%) Web Services
10 4 (1.63%) 802.1X
10 4 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.63%) Jest
10 4 (1.63%) JMS
10 4 (1.63%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.28%) Cloud Native
1 13 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (4.88%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.47%) Clustering
3 11 (4.47%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.07%) Replication
5 9 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.66%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.85%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.85%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.44%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.63%) DataPower
8 4 (1.63%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.63%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.63%) NHS
9 3 (1.22%) EMV
9 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.41%) Linux
2 28 (11.38%) Windows
3 14 (5.69%) Unix
4 13 (5.28%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.85%) zOS
7 4 (1.63%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.22%) Android
8 3 (1.22%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.81%) AIX
9 2 (0.81%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.81%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.81%) VMS
10 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.41%) MVS
10 1 (0.41%) Rocky
10 1 (0.41%) Solaris
10 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (31.71%) CI/CD
2 61 (24.80%) Data Modelling
3 60 (24.39%) DevOps
4 54 (21.95%) Migration
5 44 (17.89%) ETL
6 40 (16.26%) Analytics
6 40 (16.26%) Data Pipeline
7 36 (14.63%) Agile
7 36 (14.63%) Data Engineering
8 34 (13.82%) Performance Optimisation
9 33 (13.41%) High Availability
10 31 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (10.16%) AI
13 24 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
13 24 (9.76%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (9.35%) Containerisation
14 23 (9.35%) Observability
15 20 (8.13%) Data Governance
15 20 (8.13%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 107 (43.50%) SQL
2 77 (31.30%) Python
3 31 (12.60%) Java
4 21 (8.54%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.69%) PL/SQL
6 13 (5.28%) C#
6 13 (5.28%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.07%) T-SQL
8 9 (3.66%) Bash
9 6 (2.44%) C
9 6 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.44%) JCL
9 6 (2.44%) Perl
10 4 (1.63%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.63%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.22%) CLIST
11 3 (1.22%) COBOL
11 3 (1.22%) REXX
11 3 (1.22%) Rust
12 2 (0.81%) Swift
Qualifications
1 50 (20.33%) Security Cleared
2 42 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.91%) Degree
4 8 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.22%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.22%) CCIE
8 3 (1.22%) CCNP
8 3 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.22%) CISSP
8 3 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.22%) OCP
8 3 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.22%) SnowPro
8 3 (1.22%) VCAP
9 2 (0.81%) CCA
9 2 (0.81%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.01%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.10%) QA
3 12 (4.88%) GDPR
4 6 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.44%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.03%) ISO 8583
5 5 (2.03%) SLA
6 4 (1.63%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.81%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.81%) NIST
7 2 (0.81%) PSD2
7 2 (0.81%) SEPA
8 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.41%) COBIT
System Software
1 28 (11.38%) Docker
2 15 (6.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.88%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.85%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.85%) vSphere
6 5 (2.03%) KVM
6 5 (2.03%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.63%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.22%) RACF
9 2 (0.81%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.81%) NDS
9 2 (0.81%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 2 (0.81%) NFS
9 2 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.41%) Ceph
10 1 (0.41%) etcd
10 1 (0.41%) Firmware
10 1 (0.41%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 31 (12.60%) Terraform
2 29 (11.79%) Ansible
3 26 (10.57%) Kubernetes
4 10 (4.07%) Grafana
5 8 (3.25%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.44%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.03%) PowerCLI
8 4 (1.63%) Argo
8 4 (1.63%) Kibana
8 4 (1.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (1.63%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.22%) logstash
9 3 (1.22%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.81%) CA Wily
10 2 (0.81%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (0.81%) SCCM
10 2 (0.81%) SCOM
10 2 (0.81%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 43 (17.48%) Oracle
2 41 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.13%) VMware
4 15 (6.10%) Databricks
5 12 (4.88%) Google
5 12 (4.88%) SAP
6 11 (4.47%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.66%) Red Hat
8 8 (3.25%) Cisco
8 8 (3.25%) IBM
9 7 (2.85%) Sybase
10 6 (2.44%) Citrix
10 6 (2.44%) Informatica
11 5 (2.03%) Broadcom
11 5 (2.03%) Juniper
11 5 (2.03%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.03%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.63%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.63%) Splunk
13 3 (1.22%) HP