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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 117 175
Rank change year-on-year -36 +58 +52
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 273 231 160
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.01% 2.37% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 2.57% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 132 101
10th Percentile £400 £375 £383
25th Percentile £429 £431 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £459
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +4.85% -12.57%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £660 £714 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £544
% change year-on-year - -8.05% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £25.25 £49.00 -
25th Percentile £30.13 £56.88 £62.50
Median hourly rate £38.25 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.36% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £42.88 £73.75 £87.50
90th Percentile £45.65 £76.00 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -45.36% +13.64% -8.74%

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 12,269 9,000 11,061
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.40% 92.22% 88.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,667 5,976 6,992
10th Percentile £355 £325 £325
25th Percentile £429 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 780 280 275
10th Percentile £15.81 £12.98 £19.75
25th Percentile £30.00 £20.50 £31.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.70 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.08% -16.99% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 13 (4.76%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (4.03%) Confluence
3 7 (2.56%) CICS
4 5 (1.83%) Apache
5 4 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.47%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.47%) SAS
5 4 (1.47%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.10%) IIS
6 3 (1.10%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.73%) nginx
7 2 (0.73%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.37%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.37%) Documentum
8 1 (0.37%) FileNet
8 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (6.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.56%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.47%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.73%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.73%) Cerner Millennium
4 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.73%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.37%) Finacle
5 1 (0.37%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.37%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.37%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.37%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (0.37%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 84 (30.77%) Azure
2 69 (25.27%) AWS
3 27 (9.89%) GCP
4 25 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (7.69%) GitHub
6 17 (6.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (5.86%) Power Platform
8 15 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (5.49%) dbt
8 15 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (5.13%) Amazon S3
9 14 (5.13%) Serverless
10 12 (4.40%) Snowflake
11 11 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (4.03%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (2.56%) Boomi
12 7 (2.56%) Smartsheet
12 7 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.66%) Network Security
2 8 (2.93%) Firewall
3 7 (2.56%) DNS
3 7 (2.56%) SSL
4 5 (1.83%) HTTP
5 4 (1.47%) BGP
5 4 (1.47%) ICMP
5 4 (1.47%) OSPF
5 4 (1.47%) SNMP
5 4 (1.47%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.10%) Bluetooth
6 3 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.10%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.10%) VPN
6 3 (1.10%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.73%) DHCP
7 2 (0.73%) FTP
7 2 (0.73%) SMTP
7 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.73%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (16.85%) SQL Server
2 44 (16.12%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (12.45%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (9.89%) Relational Database
5 20 (7.33%) Oracle Database
6 19 (6.96%) Oracle Reports
7 16 (5.86%) MySQL
7 16 (5.86%) Power BI
8 13 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (4.76%) Oracle ODI
9 12 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (4.40%) Db2
9 12 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.56%) BigQuery
11 7 (2.56%) MongoDB
11 7 (2.56%) RDBMS
12 6 (2.20%) OLTP
12 6 (2.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (16.12%) Git
2 20 (7.33%) Jenkins
3 18 (6.59%) GitLab
3 18 (6.59%) JIRA
4 6 (2.20%) Postman
5 5 (1.83%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (1.47%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.47%) Maven
7 3 (1.10%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.73%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.73%) Flyway
8 2 (0.73%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.73%) JUnit
8 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.73%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.37%) ESLint
9 1 (0.37%) Toad
General
1 83 (30.40%) Social Skills
2 60 (21.98%) Finance
3 47 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.26%) Banking
5 21 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.30%) Retail
7 7 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.47%) Legal
9 4 (1.47%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.47%) Military
9 4 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.10%) Marketing
11 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.73%) Publishing
11 2 (0.73%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.37%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 75 (27.47%) Developer
2 36 (13.19%) Senior
3 33 (12.09%) DBA
4 32 (11.72%) Data Engineer
5 24 (8.79%) Architect
6 19 (6.96%) Administrator
6 19 (6.96%) SQL Developer
7 13 (4.76%) Lead
7 13 (4.76%) Oracle Developer
8 12 (4.40%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (4.40%) SQL DBA
9 11 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (4.03%) Consultant
10 10 (3.66%) SC Cleared DBA
10 10 (3.66%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.30%) Data Warehouse Developer
11 9 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.30%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (3.30%) Oracle DBA
12 8 (2.93%) Informatica Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.82%) Terraform
2 33 (12.09%) REST
3 21 (7.69%) .NET
4 19 (6.96%) Kafka
4 19 (6.96%) SOAP
5 17 (6.23%) Middleware
5 17 (6.23%) Web Services
6 15 (5.49%) JSON
7 13 (4.76%) XML
8 11 (4.03%) BAPI
8 11 (4.03%) PySpark
8 11 (4.03%) Spring
9 10 (3.66%) React
9 10 (3.66%) Spring Boot
10 9 (3.30%) Node.js
10 9 (3.30%) RESTful
11 7 (2.56%) IDoc
11 7 (2.56%) OAuth
11 7 (2.56%) OAuth2
11 7 (2.56%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.79%) Replication
2 20 (7.33%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 13 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 12 (4.40%) Mainframe
4 12 (4.40%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.03%) Clustering
6 7 (2.56%) CUDA
6 7 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.20%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.83%) PKI
8 5 (1.83%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.47%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (20.51%) Linux
2 23 (8.42%) Windows
3 18 (6.59%) Windows Server
4 15 (5.49%) Unix
5 10 (3.66%) zOS
6 9 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.10%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.10%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.73%) AIX
8 2 (0.73%) CentOS
8 2 (0.73%) MVS
8 2 (0.73%) VMS
9 1 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (34.07%) CI/CD
2 73 (26.74%) DevOps
3 67 (24.54%) Data Modelling
4 65 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (20.88%) ETL
6 51 (18.68%) Analytics
7 48 (17.58%) Agile
7 48 (17.58%) High Availability
8 44 (16.12%) Migration
9 41 (15.02%) Root Cause Analysis
10 39 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (13.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (13.19%) Observability
13 35 (12.82%) Capacity Planning
14 34 (12.45%) Data Pipeline
15 32 (11.72%) Disaster Recovery
16 31 (11.36%) Microservices
17 29 (10.62%) Validation
18 25 (9.16%) Business Intelligence
18 25 (9.16%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 117 (42.86%) SQL
2 69 (25.27%) Python
3 23 (8.42%) T-SQL
4 22 (8.06%) PowerShell
5 21 (7.69%) Java
6 18 (6.59%) C#
6 18 (6.59%) PL/SQL
7 16 (5.86%) Bash
8 14 (5.13%) Shell Script
9 11 (4.03%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.30%) ABAP
11 7 (2.56%) C++
12 6 (2.20%) Perl
13 5 (1.83%) C
13 5 (1.83%) JCL
14 4 (1.47%) COBOL
14 4 (1.47%) Korn
14 4 (1.47%) REXX
14 4 (1.47%) TypeScript
15 3 (1.10%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 81 (29.67%) Security Cleared
2 75 (27.47%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.76%) Degree
5 9 (3.30%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.47%) OCP
10 4 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.37%) CCA
12 1 (0.37%) CISM
12 1 (0.37%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.76%) QA
3 8 (2.93%) GDPR
4 4 (1.47%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.47%) GMP
4 4 (1.47%) GxP
4 4 (1.47%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 3 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.10%) SLA
6 2 (0.73%) GRC
6 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.37%) PSD2
7 1 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (9.52%) Docker
2 12 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.30%) vSphere
4 7 (2.56%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.20%) Active Directory
5 6 (2.20%) RACF
5 6 (2.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 6 (2.20%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.10%) ACF2
7 3 (1.10%) Firmware
8 2 (0.73%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.73%) SRDF
8 2 (0.73%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (0.73%) Varnish
9 1 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.37%) Postfix
9 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 30 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.42%) Ansible
3 13 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 12 (4.40%) Grafana
5 7 (2.56%) Data Guard
6 6 (2.20%) Puppet
7 5 (1.83%) Control-M
7 5 (1.83%) PowerCLI
8 4 (1.47%) Kibana
8 4 (1.47%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.47%) vMotion
9 3 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.10%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.73%) Argo
10 2 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.73%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.73%) Nagios
10 2 (0.73%) QRadar
10 2 (0.73%) SCOM
Vendors
1 59 (21.61%) Oracle
2 44 (16.12%) Microsoft
3 24 (8.79%) SAP
4 23 (8.42%) VMware
5 13 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.76%) Splunk
6 12 (4.40%) IBM
7 11 (4.03%) MuleSoft
8 10 (3.66%) Databricks
8 10 (3.66%) Informatica
9 9 (3.30%) Dell
10 6 (2.20%) NVIDIA
10 6 (2.20%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.20%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.83%) 3PAR
11 5 (1.83%) Adobe
12 4 (1.47%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.47%) Google
12 4 (1.47%) Nimble Storage
13 3 (1.10%) Tagetik