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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 146 184
Rank change year-on-year +23 +38 +48
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 261 185 169
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.17% 1.85% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.04% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 118 121
10th Percentile £358 £389 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £581 £638 £600
90th Percentile £675 £741 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £53.50 £70.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.57% +44.33% -33.10%
75th Percentile £84.75 - £50.25
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.75 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -24.64% +13.64% -15.03%

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 10,626 9,090 13,426
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.33% 91.03% 87.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,871 6,240 8,958
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £416 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 224 564
10th Percentile £17.21 £14.20 £15.05
25th Percentile £27.74 £19.87 £24.19
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.50 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +41.98% +0.93% -27.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £29.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.08% -16.71% -6.27%

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 28 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 28 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 11 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.68%) Oracle Application Server
3 4 (1.53%) Apache
3 4 (1.53%) CICS
3 4 (1.53%) Confluence
3 4 (1.53%) IIS
3 4 (1.53%) NetWeaver
3 4 (1.53%) SAS
4 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.15%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.15%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.15%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.77%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (0.77%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.77%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.38%) Documentum
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.30%) Payment Gateway
1 6 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.53%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.15%) BASE24
3 3 (1.15%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.77%) Magento
4 2 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.38%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.38%) Shopify
5 1 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 91 (34.87%) Azure
2 84 (32.18%) AWS
3 29 (11.11%) GCP
4 26 (9.96%) Power Platform
5 21 (8.05%) Amazon S3
6 17 (6.51%) Snowflake
7 16 (6.13%) Serverless
8 15 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (4.60%) dbt
12 11 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.45%) GitHub
13 9 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (3.07%) OpenShift
15 7 (2.68%) PaaS
16 6 (2.30%) Amazon Kinesis
16 6 (2.30%) Azure Storage
16 6 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.51%) Firewall
2 12 (4.60%) Network Security
2 12 (4.60%) VPN
3 10 (3.83%) BGP
4 9 (3.45%) OSPF
5 7 (2.68%) DNS
6 6 (2.30%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (2.30%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.30%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.30%) VXLAN
6 6 (2.30%) WAN
7 5 (1.92%) SSL
7 5 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.53%) DHCP
8 4 (1.53%) LAN
8 4 (1.53%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (1.53%) Wireless
9 3 (1.15%) SAN
10 2 (0.77%) 802.11
10 2 (0.77%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.18%) SQL Server
2 32 (12.26%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (7.66%) Power BI
4 19 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.75%) Oracle Database
6 14 (5.36%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (4.98%) Data Lake
7 13 (4.98%) Relational Database
8 12 (4.60%) Star Schema
9 11 (4.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (3.83%) DB2
10 10 (3.83%) DynamoDB
10 10 (3.83%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (2.68%) NoSQL
11 7 (2.68%) Oracle ODI
12 6 (2.30%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 25 (9.58%) Git
2 13 (4.98%) GitLab
2 13 (4.98%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.30%) JIRA
4 5 (1.92%) JUnit
5 4 (1.53%) JMeter
6 3 (1.15%) Maven
7 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.77%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.77%) Gatling
7 2 (0.77%) Gradle
7 2 (0.77%) Introscope
7 2 (0.77%) Mockito
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.38%) Postman
8 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 74 (28.35%) Social Skills
2 56 (21.46%) Finance
3 32 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (11.11%) Banking
5 19 (7.28%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.68%) Marketing
8 6 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.92%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.15%) Publishing
10 3 (1.15%) Retail
11 2 (0.77%) Law
11 2 (0.77%) Legal
11 2 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.38%) Back Office
12 1 (0.38%) Billing
12 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Military
12 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (22.61%) Developer
2 37 (14.18%) Data Engineer
3 29 (11.11%) Senior
4 27 (10.34%) Architect
5 22 (8.43%) Lead
6 21 (8.05%) DBA
7 12 (4.60%) Oracle Developer
8 11 (4.21%) Network Engineer
8 11 (4.21%) SQL DBA
9 10 (3.83%) Administrator
9 10 (3.83%) Snowflake Engineer
10 9 (3.45%) Oracle DBA
11 8 (3.07%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.07%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 7 (2.68%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (2.68%) C# Developer
12 7 (2.68%) Consultant
13 6 (2.30%) Data Architect
13 6 (2.30%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.30%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.13%) RESTful
2 15 (5.75%) Kafka
2 15 (5.75%) REST
3 12 (4.60%) JSON
4 11 (4.21%) .NET
4 11 (4.21%) SOAP
4 11 (4.21%) Spring
4 11 (4.21%) Spring Boot
5 8 (3.07%) PySpark
6 7 (2.68%) Node.js
6 7 (2.68%) React
7 6 (2.30%) Middleware
7 6 (2.30%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (2.30%) SAP Basis
7 6 (2.30%) Web Services
8 5 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (1.53%) Entity Framework
9 4 (1.53%) OAuth
9 4 (1.53%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.90%) Data Centre
2 16 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.36%) Clustering
3 14 (5.36%) Replication
4 12 (4.60%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.21%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.83%) Mainframe
7 9 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.68%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.30%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.92%) CUDA
10 5 (1.92%) DataPower
11 4 (1.53%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.53%) Legacy Code
11 4 (1.53%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.53%) NHS
11 4 (1.53%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 42 (16.09%) Linux
2 34 (13.03%) Windows
3 18 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 17 (6.51%) Unix
5 11 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.45%) zOS
7 4 (1.53%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.15%) Android
8 3 (1.15%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.77%) AIX
9 2 (0.77%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.77%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.77%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.77%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.77%) VMS
10 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.38%) Solaris
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (28.35%) CI/CD
2 63 (24.14%) Data Modelling
3 59 (22.61%) DevOps
4 55 (21.07%) Migration
5 49 (18.77%) ETL
6 47 (18.01%) High Availability
7 40 (15.33%) Analytics
8 37 (14.18%) Agile
9 35 (13.41%) Data Pipeline
9 35 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (13.03%) Data Engineering
11 33 (12.64%) Performance Optimisation
12 28 (10.73%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (10.34%) AI
13 27 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
15 23 (8.81%) Capacity Planning
15 23 (8.81%) Containerisation
16 22 (8.43%) Disaster Recovery
16 22 (8.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 99 (37.93%) SQL
2 78 (29.89%) Python
3 28 (10.73%) Java
4 24 (9.20%) PowerShell
5 15 (5.75%) PL/SQL
6 13 (4.98%) C#
6 13 (4.98%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.60%) T-SQL
8 11 (4.21%) Bash
9 8 (3.07%) Perl
10 7 (2.68%) C
10 7 (2.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (2.68%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.68%) JCL
11 4 (1.53%) Rust
11 4 (1.53%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.15%) CLIST
12 3 (1.15%) COBOL
12 3 (1.15%) REXX
13 2 (0.77%) C++
Qualifications
1 62 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 52 (19.92%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.36%) Degree
4 9 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.68%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.53%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.53%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.15%) CCIE
8 3 (1.15%) CCNP
8 3 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.15%) CISSP
8 3 (1.15%) OCP
8 3 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.15%) SnowPro
8 3 (1.15%) VCAP
9 2 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.96%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.75%) QA
3 12 (4.60%) GDPR
4 7 (2.68%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.92%) ISO 8583
5 5 (1.92%) SLA
6 2 (0.77%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.77%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.77%) NIST
6 2 (0.77%) PSD2
6 2 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.77%) SEPA
7 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.38%) COBIT
System Software
1 29 (11.11%) Docker
2 16 (6.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.98%) vSphere
4 12 (4.60%) Active Directory
5 9 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.68%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.92%) KVM
8 4 (1.53%) Hyper-V
9 3 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (1.15%) RACF
9 3 (1.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.77%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.77%) NFS
10 2 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.38%) Firmware
11 1 (0.38%) Postfix
11 1 (0.38%) Varnish
11 1 (0.38%) XenApp
11 1 (0.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (14.56%) Ansible
2 32 (12.26%) Terraform
3 27 (10.34%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.60%) Grafana
5 10 (3.83%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.45%) PowerCLI
7 6 (2.30%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.92%) Kibana
8 5 (1.92%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (1.92%) vMotion
9 4 (1.53%) Argo
9 4 (1.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (1.53%) Puppet
10 3 (1.15%) Data Guard
10 3 (1.15%) logstash
10 3 (1.15%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.15%) SCCM
11 2 (0.77%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.77%) SCOM
11 2 (0.77%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 46 (17.62%) Oracle
2 39 (14.94%) Microsoft
3 27 (10.34%) VMware
4 13 (4.98%) Databricks
4 13 (4.98%) SAP
5 12 (4.60%) Google
5 12 (4.60%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.83%) IBM
7 9 (3.45%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.68%) Cisco
8 7 (2.68%) Citrix
8 7 (2.68%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.30%) Informatica
10 5 (1.92%) Broadcom
10 5 (1.92%) Juniper
10 5 (1.92%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.92%) Splunk
10 5 (1.92%) Sybase
11 4 (1.53%) 3PAR
11 4 (1.53%) Nimble Storage