Performance Tuning Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Performance Tuning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 251 269
Rank change year-on-year +85 +18 +30
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 163 149 360
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.34% 0.81% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.91% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 104 203
10th Percentile £383 £363 £363
25th Percentile £408 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £542
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -12.36% +9.83%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £625
90th Percentile £663 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £63.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £69.06 -
90th Percentile - £69.63 -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% - -6.61%

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 10,702 16,400 34,372
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.74% 88.75% 91.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,673 11,431 24,654
10th Percentile £325 £340 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £650
90th Percentile £747 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.41% -3.18% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 401 537
10th Percentile £17.58 £18.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £26.24 £26.25
Median hourly rate £38.75 £51.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.02% -5.56% +120.41%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £65.76
90th Percentile £74.88 £86.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £43.17 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.92% +23.33% +66.27%

Performance Tuning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Tuning trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Tuning.

Performance Tuning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Performance Tuning daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Tuning.

Performance Tuning hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.29%) Confluence
2 6 (3.68%) Apache
2 6 (3.68%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.84%) CICS
3 3 (1.84%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.23%) GemFire
4 2 (1.23%) NetWeaver
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (1.23%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.23%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.61%) nginx
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.84%) SAP HCM
1 3 (1.84%) SAP Payroll
1 3 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.23%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.61%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.61%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 60 (36.81%) AWS
2 59 (36.20%) Azure
3 15 (9.20%) Serverless
4 14 (8.59%) Amazon S3
5 10 (6.13%) GCP
6 9 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.52%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (4.29%) Amazon Neptune
8 7 (4.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 6 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.68%) Azure Functions
9 6 (3.68%) GitHub
9 6 (3.68%) Snowflake
10 5 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (3.07%) IaaS
10 5 (3.07%) PaaS
11 4 (2.45%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.07%) HTTP
2 3 (1.84%) DHCP
2 3 (1.84%) DNS
2 3 (1.84%) Firewall
3 2 (1.23%) FTP
3 2 (1.23%) Network Security
3 2 (1.23%) SMTP
3 2 (1.23%) tcpdump
3 2 (1.23%) Telnet
4 1 (0.61%) Internet
4 1 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.61%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.61%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.61%) NAS
4 1 (0.61%) RTMP
4 1 (0.61%) SAN
4 1 (0.61%) SSL
4 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.61%) VLAN
4 1 (0.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (20.25%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (18.40%) SQL Server
3 29 (17.79%) Elasticsearch
4 27 (16.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 26 (15.95%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (15.95%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (15.34%) Couchbase
6 25 (15.34%) NoSQL
7 24 (14.72%) OLTP
8 22 (13.50%) Oracle Database
9 11 (6.75%) Relational Database
10 10 (6.13%) DB2
10 10 (6.13%) MongoDB
11 9 (5.52%) Power BI
12 8 (4.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (4.91%) Oracle Database 11g
13 7 (4.29%) SAP HANA
14 6 (3.68%) RDBMS
15 5 (3.07%) Neo4j
15 5 (3.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (9.20%) Git
2 12 (7.36%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.91%) JIRA
4 4 (2.45%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.84%) GitLab
5 3 (1.84%) JUnit
6 2 (1.23%) Gatling
6 2 (1.23%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.23%) Locust
7 1 (0.61%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.61%) Babel
7 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.61%) CMake
7 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.61%) webpack
General
1 37 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.43%) Finance
3 13 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.07%) Banking
4 5 (3.07%) Front Office
5 4 (2.45%) Legal
6 3 (1.84%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.84%) Retail
7 2 (1.23%) Electronics
7 2 (1.23%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.61%) Law
8 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.61%) Marketing
8 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (38.65%) DBA
2 36 (22.09%) Developer
3 20 (12.27%) Consultant
3 20 (12.27%) SQL DBA
4 10 (6.13%) Database Consultant
5 9 (5.52%) Administrator
5 9 (5.52%) Java Developer
5 9 (5.52%) Oracle DBA
5 9 (5.52%) SC Cleared DBA
5 9 (5.52%) SQL Server DBA
6 8 (4.91%) Data Engineer
6 8 (4.91%) Software Engineer
7 7 (4.29%) SQL Developer
8 5 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.07%) Python Engineer
9 4 (2.45%) Android Developer
9 4 (2.45%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (2.45%) Senior
9 4 (2.45%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (22.09%) Kafka
2 10 (6.13%) Web Services
3 9 (5.52%) REST
3 9 (5.52%) Spring
4 8 (4.91%) RESTful
5 6 (3.68%) HTML
5 6 (3.68%) JMS
5 6 (3.68%) SOAP
6 5 (3.07%) .NET
6 5 (3.07%) Android SDK
6 5 (3.07%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 5 (3.07%) XML
7 4 (2.45%) ADO
7 4 (2.45%) GraphQL
7 4 (2.45%) Node.js
8 3 (1.84%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.84%) CSS
8 3 (1.84%) JSON
8 3 (1.84%) LDAP
8 3 (1.84%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.63%) Replication
2 24 (14.72%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (9.20%) iPad
4 11 (6.75%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.68%) Clustering
6 4 (2.45%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.45%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.45%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.45%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.45%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.84%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.84%) Equities
7 3 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.84%) VSAM
8 2 (1.23%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 28 (17.18%) Linux
2 11 (6.75%) Unix
2 11 (6.75%) Windows
3 6 (3.68%) Android
4 5 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.07%) zOS
5 4 (2.45%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.61%) CentOS
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Solaris
6 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (20.25%) Containerisation
2 33 (20.25%) DevOps
2 33 (20.25%) Migration
3 28 (17.18%) Agile
3 28 (17.18%) CI/CD
4 27 (16.56%) Data Integration
4 27 (16.56%) E-Commerce
5 23 (14.11%) Data Modelling
5 23 (14.11%) ETL
6 19 (11.66%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (11.66%) High Availability
7 15 (9.20%) Database Tuning
8 14 (8.59%) Computer Science
8 14 (8.59%) Software Engineering
8 14 (8.59%) Unit Testing
9 13 (7.98%) Analytics
10 12 (7.36%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (7.36%) Data Engineering
10 12 (7.36%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 90 (55.21%) SQL
2 51 (31.29%) Java
3 35 (21.47%) Python
4 24 (14.72%) Scala
5 16 (9.82%) PL/SQL
6 15 (9.20%) Bash
7 13 (7.98%) PowerShell
8 9 (5.52%) Perl
9 8 (4.91%) C#
10 7 (4.29%) Gremlin
10 7 (4.29%) SPARQL
11 6 (3.68%) T-SQL
12 5 (3.07%) Kotlin
13 4 (2.45%) COBOL
13 4 (2.45%) Cypher
13 4 (2.45%) JavaScript
13 4 (2.45%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.84%) JCL
14 3 (1.84%) Tcl
15 2 (1.23%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 29 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 27 (16.56%) SC Cleared
3 18 (11.04%) Degree
4 13 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.07%) MCITP
5 5 (3.07%) MCTS
5 5 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.84%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.84%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.84%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.61%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.61%) OCA
8 1 (0.61%) OCP
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.61%) RHCA
8 1 (0.61%) RHCE
8 1 (0.61%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.68%) QA
2 5 (3.07%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.45%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.23%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.61%) HL7
5 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (19.02%) Docker
2 26 (15.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.45%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.23%) NFS
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.23%) Samba
5 1 (0.61%) Ceph
5 1 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (21.47%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.98%) Ansible
3 12 (7.36%) Terraform
4 5 (3.07%) Grafana
5 4 (2.45%) Data Guard
5 4 (2.45%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (2.45%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.84%) Istio
6 3 (1.84%) Kibana
7 2 (1.23%) Argo
7 2 (1.23%) Galera Cluster
7 2 (1.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.23%) Oracle Flashback
7 2 (1.23%) yum
8 1 (0.61%) Cilium
8 1 (0.61%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.61%) Netcool
8 1 (0.61%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 30 (18.40%) Oracle
1 30 (18.40%) VMware
2 29 (17.79%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.13%) SAP
4 8 (4.91%) Google
4 8 (4.91%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.29%) Databricks
5 7 (4.29%) IBM
6 4 (2.45%) Sybase
7 3 (1.84%) Splunk
7 3 (1.84%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.84%) Unisys
8 2 (1.23%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.23%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.23%) HP
8 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.23%) Solace
8 2 (1.23%) Workday
9 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.61%) Serena