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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 143 214
Rank change year-on-year +23 +71 +42
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 251 181 158
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.22% 1.74% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 1.93% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 103 110
10th Percentile £383 £364 £350
25th Percentile £426 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £53.30 - £49.40
25th Percentile £53.75 - £53.38
Median hourly rate £74.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £67.50 £54.25
% change year-on-year -19.26% +24.42% -22.50%

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 10,086 9,384 14,294
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.08% 90.23% 87.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,612 6,323 9,553
10th Percentile £350 £330 £338
25th Percentile £415 £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 443 202 548
10th Percentile £17.00 £15.66 £15.34
25th Percentile £26.36 £22.00 £23.16
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.25 £43.62
Median % change year-on-year +43.79% -12.31% -24.14%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £63.06
90th Percentile £81.84 £75.00 £77.15
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.77% - -7.14%

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 9 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 9 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 9 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.59%) CICS
3 3 (1.20%) IIS
3 3 (1.20%) SAS
3 3 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.80%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.80%) NetWeaver
4 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.80%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.40%) Mendix
5 1 (0.40%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 7 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.59%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.20%) BASE24
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.40%) Magento
5 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.40%) Shopify
5 1 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 85 (33.86%) AWS
2 81 (32.27%) Azure
3 22 (8.76%) GCP
4 21 (8.37%) Power Platform
5 20 (7.97%) Amazon S3
6 18 (7.17%) Serverless
7 16 (6.37%) Snowflake
8 15 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (5.58%) GitHub
10 12 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (4.78%) dbt
10 12 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.59%) SaaS
13 8 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (2.39%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.37%) Firewall
2 11 (4.38%) VPN
3 9 (3.59%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.79%) Network Security
5 6 (2.39%) BGP
6 5 (1.99%) OSPF
6 5 (1.99%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.99%) WAN
7 4 (1.59%) HTTP
7 4 (1.59%) Internet
7 4 (1.59%) SSL
7 4 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.59%) Wireless
8 3 (1.20%) DHCP
8 3 (1.20%) DNS
8 3 (1.20%) LAN
9 2 (0.80%) 802.11
9 2 (0.80%) EIGRP
9 2 (0.80%) SAN
9 2 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.34%) SQL Server
2 27 (10.76%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (8.37%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (7.97%) Relational Database
5 18 (7.17%) MongoDB
6 15 (5.98%) DB2
6 15 (5.98%) Power BI
7 14 (5.58%) Oracle Database
8 13 (5.18%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (3.98%) Data Lake
10 9 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (3.59%) NoSQL
10 9 (3.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (3.19%) DynamoDB
11 8 (3.19%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (2.39%) MySQL
13 6 (2.39%) Star Schema
14 5 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (10.36%) Git
2 15 (5.98%) Jenkins
2 15 (5.98%) JUnit
3 11 (4.38%) GitLab
4 4 (1.59%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.59%) JMeter
5 3 (1.20%) JIRA
5 3 (1.20%) Maven
6 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.80%) Gatling
6 2 (0.80%) Gradle
6 2 (0.80%) Mockito
6 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.40%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.40%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.40%) Postman
7 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 77 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 66 (26.29%) Finance
3 38 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (13.15%) Banking
5 23 (9.16%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.59%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.99%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.99%) Marketing
9 4 (1.59%) Front Office
9 4 (1.59%) Legal
9 4 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Retail
11 2 (0.80%) Billing
11 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.80%) Publishing
12 1 (0.40%) Law
12 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 66 (26.29%) Developer
2 37 (14.74%) Data Engineer
3 30 (11.95%) Senior
4 28 (11.16%) Architect
5 22 (8.76%) Lead
6 17 (6.77%) DBA
6 17 (6.77%) Java Developer
7 16 (6.37%) Consultant
8 15 (5.98%) Senior Developer
9 12 (4.78%) SQL Developer
10 10 (3.98%) Administrator
10 10 (3.98%) Oracle Developer
11 9 (3.59%) SQL DBA
12 8 (3.19%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 8 (3.19%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (2.79%) C# Developer
13 7 (2.79%) Data Architect
13 7 (2.79%) Oracle DBA
13 7 (2.79%) Senior SQL Developer
14 6 (2.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.37%) Spring
2 19 (7.57%) Kafka
3 17 (6.77%) RESTful
4 13 (5.18%) Spring Boot
5 12 (4.78%) .NET
6 10 (3.98%) PySpark
6 10 (3.98%) React
7 9 (3.59%) JSON
7 9 (3.59%) REST
8 8 (3.19%) JMS
9 7 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (2.79%) Web Services
10 6 (2.39%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.39%) SOAP
11 5 (1.99%) Jest
11 5 (1.99%) Node.js
11 5 (1.99%) Oracle Fusion
12 4 (1.59%) Next.js
12 4 (1.59%) Pandas
12 4 (1.59%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.77%) Data Structures
2 15 (5.98%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.38%) Replication
4 10 (3.98%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.98%) Mainframe
5 9 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.19%) Equities
7 6 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.39%) Clustering
7 6 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.99%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.59%) NHS
9 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.20%) DataPower
10 3 (1.20%) EMV
10 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.20%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.94%) Linux
2 21 (8.37%) Windows
3 11 (4.38%) Unix
4 9 (3.59%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.19%) zOS
6 5 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.59%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.20%) Android
9 2 (0.80%) AIX
9 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.40%) CentOS
10 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (30.28%) CI/CD
2 62 (24.70%) DevOps
3 54 (21.51%) Data Modelling
4 48 (19.12%) Migration
5 45 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (16.33%) Agile
7 36 (14.34%) Data Pipeline
8 32 (12.75%) Analytics
9 31 (12.35%) ETL
9 31 (12.35%) High Availability
10 30 (11.95%) Data Engineering
10 30 (11.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (11.55%) Performance Optimisation
12 25 (9.96%) Business Intelligence
13 24 (9.56%) Containerisation
13 24 (9.56%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (9.16%) Observability
15 21 (8.37%) AI
15 21 (8.37%) Data Integration
16 20 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 106 (42.23%) SQL
2 77 (30.68%) Python
3 42 (16.73%) Java
4 20 (7.97%) PowerShell
5 16 (6.37%) Shell Script
6 14 (5.58%) C#
7 13 (5.18%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.19%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.79%) Bash
9 7 (2.79%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.39%) ABAP
10 6 (2.39%) C
11 5 (1.99%) JCL
11 5 (1.99%) Perl
11 5 (1.99%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.59%) COBOL
12 4 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.59%) REXX
13 3 (1.20%) PHP
13 3 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 49 (19.52%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.37%) Degree
4 6 (2.39%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.99%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.59%) OCP
6 4 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.20%) CCIE
7 3 (1.20%) CCNP
7 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.20%) VCAP
8 2 (0.80%) CCA
8 2 (0.80%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.76%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.17%) QA
3 13 (5.18%) GDPR
4 9 (3.59%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.39%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.39%) SLA
6 5 (1.99%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.99%) ISO 8583
6 5 (1.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.80%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.80%) PSD2
7 2 (0.80%) SEPA
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.40%) COBIT
8 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (13.94%) Docker
2 13 (5.18%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.39%) KVM
5 5 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.99%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.59%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.59%) NDS
6 4 (1.59%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 4 (1.59%) RACF
6 4 (1.59%) vSphere
7 3 (1.20%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 3 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.20%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.80%) NFS
8 2 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.40%) Firmware
9 1 (0.40%) Lustre
9 1 (0.40%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 38 (15.14%) Terraform
2 29 (11.55%) Kubernetes
3 23 (9.16%) Ansible
4 10 (3.98%) Grafana
5 7 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.99%) Argo
6 5 (1.99%) Kibana
6 5 (1.99%) logstash
7 4 (1.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 4 (1.59%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (1.59%) PowerCLI
7 4 (1.59%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.59%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.80%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 2 (0.80%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.80%) Puppet
9 2 (0.80%) SCCM
9 2 (0.80%) SCOM
Vendors
1 37 (14.74%) Oracle
2 33 (13.15%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.98%) Databricks
3 15 (5.98%) VMware
4 13 (5.18%) SAP
5 11 (4.38%) Sybase
6 10 (3.98%) Google
6 10 (3.98%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.19%) Cisco
8 7 (2.79%) IBM
8 7 (2.79%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.39%) Citrix
10 5 (1.99%) Broadcom
10 5 (1.99%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.99%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.59%) Adobe
11 4 (1.59%) Juniper
11 4 (1.59%) NetIQ
11 4 (1.59%) OpenText
11 4 (1.59%) Zscaler