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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 120 176
Rank change year-on-year -16 +56 +66
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 292 220 160
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.15% 2.23% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 2.41% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 130 109
10th Percentile £400 £361 £387
25th Percentile £431 £429 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year - +3.84% -8.29%
75th Percentile £571 £597 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £653
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £28.50 £49.00 -
25th Percentile £38.25 £56.88 £62.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -6.67% +1.69%
75th Percentile £53.00 £73.75 £87.50
90th Percentile - £76.00 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -45.36% +13.64% -12.00%

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 12,289 9,116 11,113
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.37% 92.23% 87.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,679 6,053 7,173
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £740 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 740 280 312
10th Percentile £15.81 £12.62 £18.50
25th Percentile £28.00 £19.15 £29.63
Median hourly rate £47.50 £35.95 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.15% -16.41% -14.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%

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 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 10 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 (4.79%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (3.77%) Confluence
3 10 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.05%) Apache
4 6 (2.05%) CICS
5 5 (1.71%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.71%) SAS
5 5 (1.71%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.03%) IIS
7 3 (1.03%) nginx
7 3 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.03%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.68%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.68%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.68%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (6.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.71%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.37%) SAP CRM
4 3 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.68%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.68%) Cerner Millennium
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.68%) 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 97 (33.22%) Azure
2 77 (26.37%) AWS
3 29 (9.93%) GCP
4 24 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (8.22%) Power Platform
5 20 (6.85%) dbt
6 19 (6.51%) GitHub
7 17 (5.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (5.82%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (5.82%) Amazon S3
8 15 (5.14%) Serverless
9 14 (4.79%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (4.79%) Snowflake
10 12 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (4.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.40%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (2.05%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 6 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.45%) Firewall
2 12 (4.11%) Network Security
3 10 (3.42%) DNS
3 10 (3.42%) SSL
4 7 (2.40%) HTTP
5 5 (1.71%) BGP
5 5 (1.71%) OSPF
5 5 (1.71%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.37%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.37%) ICMP
6 4 (1.37%) SNMP
6 4 (1.37%) TCP/IP
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%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.15%) Data Warehouse
2 50 (17.12%) SQL Server
3 32 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (9.59%) Relational Database
5 24 (8.22%) Power BI
6 21 (7.19%) Oracle Reports
7 20 (6.85%) Oracle Database
8 15 (5.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (5.14%) MySQL
9 14 (4.79%) Oracle ODI
10 13 (4.45%) Db2
10 13 (4.45%) Star Schema
11 12 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (3.42%) Snowflake Schema
13 9 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (3.08%) SAP HANA
14 7 (2.40%) Data Lake
14 7 (2.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 40 (13.70%) Git
2 20 (6.85%) GitLab
3 18 (6.16%) Jenkins
3 18 (6.16%) JIRA
4 5 (1.71%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.37%) Maven
5 4 (1.37%) Postman
6 3 (1.03%) Liquibase
6 3 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.68%) Flyway
7 2 (0.68%) Introscope
7 2 (0.68%) JUnit
7 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.68%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.34%) Toad
General
1 80 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 62 (21.23%) Finance
3 47 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.56%) Banking
5 19 (6.51%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.74%) Retail
7 6 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.37%) Legal
9 4 (1.37%) Marketing
9 4 (1.37%) Military
9 4 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
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%) Games
11 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 80 (27.40%) Developer
2 39 (13.36%) Senior
3 37 (12.67%) Data Engineer
4 31 (10.62%) DBA
5 22 (7.53%) Architect
6 18 (6.16%) Administrator
6 18 (6.16%) Lead
6 18 (6.16%) SQL Developer
7 14 (4.79%) Consultant
7 14 (4.79%) SQL DBA
8 13 (4.45%) Oracle Developer
9 11 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (3.77%) Senior Developer
10 10 (3.42%) .NET Developer
10 10 (3.42%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (3.08%) Data Warehouse Developer
11 9 (3.08%) Lead Developer
11 9 (3.08%) Oracle DBA
11 9 (3.08%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.30%) REST
2 32 (10.96%) Terraform
3 24 (8.22%) .NET
4 22 (7.53%) Kafka
5 21 (7.19%) SOAP
6 18 (6.16%) Middleware
6 18 (6.16%) Web Services
7 16 (5.48%) JSON
8 13 (4.45%) XML
9 11 (3.77%) PySpark
9 11 (3.77%) React
9 11 (3.77%) Spring
10 10 (3.42%) Node.js
10 10 (3.42%) RESTful
10 10 (3.42%) Spring Boot
11 9 (3.08%) BAPI
12 8 (2.74%) .NET Framework
13 6 (2.05%) OAuth
13 6 (2.05%) SAP Basis
13 6 (2.05%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.22%) Replication
2 19 (6.51%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.48%) Clustering
4 14 (4.79%) Data Centre
5 13 (4.45%) Data Structures
6 12 (4.11%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.77%) Mainframe
8 9 (3.08%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.74%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.40%) CUDA
10 7 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.71%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.71%) PKI
12 5 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.37%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 65 (22.26%) Linux
2 33 (11.30%) Windows
3 23 (7.88%) Windows Server
4 19 (6.51%) Unix
5 13 (4.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.08%) zOS
7 4 (1.37%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (1.03%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (1.03%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (1.03%) VMS
8 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.68%) CentOS
9 2 (0.68%) MVS
9 2 (0.68%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.34%) AIX
10 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.34%) Solaris
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (31.51%) CI/CD
2 77 (26.37%) Data Modelling
3 76 (26.03%) DevOps
4 66 (22.60%) ETL
5 61 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (20.21%) Analytics
7 53 (18.15%) Migration
8 48 (16.44%) High Availability
9 47 (16.10%) Agile
10 42 (14.38%) Root Cause Analysis
11 41 (14.04%) Data Pipeline
12 35 (11.99%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (11.99%) Observability
13 34 (11.64%) Capacity Planning
13 34 (11.64%) Validation
14 33 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (10.96%) AI
15 32 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
16 30 (10.27%) Disaster Recovery
17 29 (9.93%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 129 (44.18%) SQL
2 78 (26.71%) Python
3 25 (8.56%) PowerShell
4 24 (8.22%) T-SQL
5 21 (7.19%) C#
5 21 (7.19%) Java
5 21 (7.19%) PL/SQL
6 20 (6.85%) Bash
7 15 (5.14%) Shell Script
8 12 (4.11%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.08%) ABAP
10 8 (2.74%) Perl
11 7 (2.40%) C++
12 5 (1.71%) C
12 5 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.71%) JCL
12 5 (1.71%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.37%) REXX
14 3 (1.03%) Groovy
14 3 (1.03%) Korn
Qualifications
1 86 (29.45%) Security Cleared
2 79 (27.05%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (4.79%) Degree
5 11 (3.77%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.08%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.71%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.37%) OCP
10 4 (1.37%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.37%) SnowPro
11 3 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.68%) CISM
12 2 (0.68%) CISSP
13 1 (0.34%) NCDA
13 1 (0.34%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (16.10%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.79%) QA
3 9 (3.08%) 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 25 (8.56%) Docker
2 16 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.11%) vSphere
4 9 (3.08%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.08%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.74%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.40%) Oracle RAC
7 6 (2.05%) 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 (0.68%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.68%) 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 30 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.25%) Ansible
3 13 (4.45%) Prometheus
4 11 (3.77%) Grafana
5 7 (2.40%) Data Guard
6 6 (2.05%) PowerCLI
6 6 (2.05%) Puppet
7 5 (1.71%) Control-M
7 5 (1.71%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.71%) vMotion
8 4 (1.37%) Kibana
8 4 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.03%) Argo
9 3 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.68%) CA Wily
10 2 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.68%) Nagios
10 2 (0.68%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 68 (23.29%) Oracle
2 54 (18.49%) Microsoft
3 28 (9.59%) VMware
4 26 (8.90%) SAP
5 14 (4.79%) Informatica
6 12 (4.11%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.77%) IBM
8 10 (3.42%) Databricks
8 10 (3.42%) Splunk
9 9 (3.08%) MuleSoft
9 9 (3.08%) Red Hat
10 7 (2.40%) Dell
11 6 (2.05%) Adobe
11 6 (2.05%) NVIDIA
11 6 (2.05%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.71%) 3PAR
12 5 (1.71%) Google
13 4 (1.37%) Cisco
13 4 (1.37%) Nimble Storage
13 4 (1.37%) Sybase