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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 117 170
Rank change year-on-year -22 +53 +65
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 291 216 162
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.16% 2.21% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.39% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 127 109
10th Percentile £396 £370 £393
25th Percentile £429 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year - +3.84% -8.29%
75th Percentile £566 £594 £600
90th Percentile £683 £738 £653
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 12,152 9,036 11,169
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.28% 92.36% 87.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,591 6,004 7,183
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -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 737 279 305
10th Percentile £15.81 £12.62 £18.36
25th Percentile £28.75 £19.49 £30.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £35.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.21% -17.44% -15.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £82.95 £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 14 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 14 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 (4.81%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (3.78%) Confluence
3 7 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.06%) Apache
4 6 (2.06%) CICS
5 5 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.72%) SAS
6 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.37%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.03%) IIS
7 3 (1.03%) nginx
8 2 (0.69%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.34%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.34%) Documentum
9 1 (0.34%) JBoss
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.34%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (5.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.72%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.37%) SAP CRM
4 3 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.69%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.69%) Cerner Millennium
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.69%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
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%) 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 94 (32.30%) Azure
2 75 (25.77%) AWS
3 29 (9.97%) GCP
4 24 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (7.90%) Power Platform
6 21 (7.22%) GitHub
7 18 (6.19%) dbt
8 17 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (5.50%) Amazon S3
10 15 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (5.15%) Serverless
11 14 (4.81%) Snowflake
12 13 (4.47%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (2.06%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
16 6 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.12%) Firewall
1 12 (4.12%) Network Security
2 10 (3.44%) SSL
3 9 (3.09%) DNS
4 6 (2.06%) HTTP
5 5 (1.72%) BGP
5 5 (1.72%) OSPF
5 5 (1.72%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.37%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.37%) ICMP
6 4 (1.37%) SNMP
6 4 (1.37%) VPN
6 4 (1.37%) VXLAN
7 3 (1.03%) Bluetooth
7 3 (1.03%) DHCP
7 3 (1.03%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.03%) Internet
7 3 (1.03%) SAN
7 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (17.87%) Data Warehouse
2 50 (17.18%) SQL Server
3 31 (10.65%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (9.62%) Relational Database
5 23 (7.90%) Power BI
6 21 (7.22%) Oracle Reports
7 19 (6.53%) Oracle Database
8 15 (5.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (5.15%) MySQL
9 14 (4.81%) Oracle ODI
10 13 (4.47%) Db2
11 12 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (3.78%) Star Schema
13 10 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (3.09%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (3.09%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (2.41%) Data Lake
15 7 (2.41%) RDBMS
15 7 (2.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 40 (13.75%) Git
2 20 (6.87%) GitLab
3 18 (6.19%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.84%) JIRA
5 5 (1.72%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.37%) Maven
6 4 (1.37%) Postman
7 3 (1.03%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.69%) Flyway
8 2 (0.69%) JUnit
8 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.69%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.34%) Introscope
9 1 (0.34%) JMeter
9 1 (0.34%) Toad
General
1 83 (28.52%) Social Skills
2 61 (20.96%) Finance
3 49 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.93%) Banking
5 20 (6.87%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.75%) Retail
7 6 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.37%) Legal
9 4 (1.37%) Marketing
9 4 (1.37%) Military
9 4 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.03%) Publishing
11 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.34%) Back Office
11 1 (0.34%) Front Office
11 1 (0.34%) Law
11 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (27.84%) Developer
2 38 (13.06%) Senior
3 36 (12.37%) Data Engineer
4 31 (10.65%) DBA
5 22 (7.56%) Architect
6 18 (6.19%) Administrator
6 18 (6.19%) SQL Developer
7 17 (5.84%) Lead
8 14 (4.81%) SQL DBA
9 13 (4.47%) Consultant
9 13 (4.47%) Oracle Developer
10 11 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (3.78%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (3.78%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.44%) .NET Developer
11 10 (3.44%) Linux Engineer
12 9 (3.09%) Data Warehouse Developer
12 9 (3.09%) Lead Developer
12 9 (3.09%) Oracle DBA
12 9 (3.09%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.34%) REST
1 33 (11.34%) Terraform
2 24 (8.25%) .NET
3 21 (7.22%) Kafka
3 21 (7.22%) SOAP
4 18 (6.19%) Web Services
5 17 (5.84%) Middleware
6 16 (5.50%) JSON
7 13 (4.47%) XML
8 12 (4.12%) Spring
9 11 (3.78%) React
9 11 (3.78%) RESTful
9 11 (3.78%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.44%) Node.js
10 10 (3.44%) PySpark
11 9 (3.09%) BAPI
12 8 (2.75%) .NET Framework
13 6 (2.06%) OAuth
13 6 (2.06%) SAP Fiori
14 5 (1.72%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.25%) Replication
2 20 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.53%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.81%) Clustering
4 14 (4.81%) Data Centre
5 13 (4.47%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.47%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.78%) Mainframe
7 8 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.75%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.75%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.41%) CUDA
9 6 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.72%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.72%) PKI
10 5 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.37%) LIMS
11 4 (1.37%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 63 (21.65%) Linux
2 31 (10.65%) Windows
3 23 (7.90%) Windows Server
4 17 (5.84%) Unix
5 12 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.09%) zOS
7 4 (1.37%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (1.03%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (1.03%) VMS
8 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.69%) CentOS
9 2 (0.69%) MVS
9 2 (0.69%) 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 92 (31.62%) CI/CD
2 75 (25.77%) DevOps
3 74 (25.43%) Data Modelling
4 64 (21.99%) ETL
4 64 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (19.93%) Analytics
6 51 (17.53%) Migration
7 48 (16.49%) Agile
8 47 (16.15%) High Availability
9 42 (14.43%) Root Cause Analysis
10 40 (13.75%) Data Pipeline
11 37 (12.71%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (12.37%) Observability
13 35 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (11.68%) Capacity Planning
15 32 (11.00%) AI
15 32 (11.00%) Business Intelligence
15 32 (11.00%) Validation
16 30 (10.31%) Microservices
17 29 (9.97%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 128 (43.99%) SQL
2 75 (25.77%) Python
3 24 (8.25%) PowerShell
3 24 (8.25%) T-SQL
4 22 (7.56%) Java
5 21 (7.22%) C#
5 21 (7.22%) PL/SQL
6 19 (6.53%) Bash
7 15 (5.15%) Shell Script
8 12 (4.12%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.09%) ABAP
10 7 (2.41%) C++
10 7 (2.41%) Perl
11 5 (1.72%) C
11 5 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.72%) JCL
11 5 (1.72%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.37%) Korn
12 4 (1.37%) REXX
13 3 (1.03%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 85 (29.21%) Security Cleared
2 78 (26.80%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (4.47%) Degree
5 11 (3.78%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.75%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.72%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.37%) OCP
9 4 (1.37%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.03%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.69%) CISM
11 2 (0.69%) CISSP
12 1 (0.34%) CCA
12 1 (0.34%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (15.46%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.81%) QA
3 9 (3.09%) GDPR
4 4 (1.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.37%) GMP
4 4 (1.37%) GxP
4 4 (1.37%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.03%) 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 (9.28%) Docker
2 16 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.12%) vSphere
4 9 (3.09%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.09%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.75%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.41%) Oracle RAC
7 6 (2.06%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (1.37%) RACF
9 3 (1.03%) ACF2
9 3 (1.03%) Firmware
9 3 (1.03%) Varnish
10 2 (0.69%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.69%) SRDF
11 1 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.34%) Postfix
11 1 (0.34%) XenApp
11 1 (0.34%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.93%) Ansible
3 13 (4.47%) Prometheus
4 11 (3.78%) Grafana
5 7 (2.41%) Data Guard
6 6 (2.06%) PowerCLI
6 6 (2.06%) Puppet
7 5 (1.72%) Control-M
7 5 (1.72%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.72%) vMotion
8 4 (1.37%) Kibana
8 4 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.03%) Argo
10 2 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.69%) Nagios
10 2 (0.69%) SCOM
11 1 (0.34%) SCCM
Vendors
1 65 (22.34%) Oracle
2 53 (18.21%) Microsoft
3 28 (9.62%) VMware
4 24 (8.25%) SAP
5 13 (4.47%) Informatica
6 12 (4.12%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.78%) Splunk
8 10 (3.44%) Databricks
8 10 (3.44%) IBM
9 9 (3.09%) MuleSoft
10 8 (2.75%) Red Hat
11 7 (2.41%) Dell
12 6 (2.06%) Adobe
12 6 (2.06%) NVIDIA
12 6 (2.06%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.72%) 3PAR
13 5 (1.72%) Google
14 4 (1.37%) Cisco
14 4 (1.37%) Nimble Storage
15 3 (1.03%) Tagetik