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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 137 191
Rank change year-on-year +9 +54 +47
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 249 189 168
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.09% 1.88% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.06% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 121 118
10th Percentile £363 £388 £336
25th Percentile £425 £431 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £593 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile - - £49.40
25th Percentile £53.00 - £53.38
Median hourly rate £53.50 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.57% +16.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £84.75 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.75 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -24.64% +16.67% -17.24%

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 10,555 9,162 13,614
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.40% 91.01% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,836 6,271 9,085
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 501 224 563
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.20 £14.90
25th Percentile £27.71 £19.87 £24.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.98% +1.25% -27.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%

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 24 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 24 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 10 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.41%) Oracle Application Server
3 4 (1.61%) CICS
3 4 (1.61%) Confluence
3 4 (1.61%) IIS
3 4 (1.61%) NetWeaver
3 4 (1.61%) SAS
4 3 (1.20%) Apache
4 3 (1.20%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.20%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.20%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.20%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.80%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.80%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.20%) BASE24
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.80%) Magento
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) Shopify
5 1 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 90 (36.14%) Azure
2 83 (33.33%) AWS
3 27 (10.84%) GCP
4 26 (10.44%) Power Platform
5 21 (8.43%) Amazon S3
6 18 (7.23%) Snowflake
7 16 (6.43%) Serverless
8 15 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (5.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (5.22%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (5.22%) dbt
11 12 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (3.61%) GitHub
13 9 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.81%) OpenShift
14 7 (2.81%) PaaS
15 6 (2.41%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (2.41%) Azure Storage
15 6 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.83%) Firewall
2 12 (4.82%) Network Security
2 12 (4.82%) VPN
3 10 (4.02%) BGP
4 9 (3.61%) OSPF
5 7 (2.81%) DNS
6 6 (2.41%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (2.41%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.41%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.41%) VXLAN
6 6 (2.41%) WAN
7 5 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.61%) DHCP
8 4 (1.61%) LAN
8 4 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (1.61%) SSL
8 4 (1.61%) Wireless
9 3 (1.20%) SAN
10 2 (0.80%) 802.11
10 2 (0.80%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.06%) SQL Server
2 30 (12.05%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (8.03%) Power BI
4 19 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (6.02%) Oracle Database
6 13 (5.22%) Data Lake
6 13 (5.22%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (4.82%) Relational Database
7 12 (4.82%) Star Schema
8 11 (4.42%) Snowflake Schema
9 10 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (4.02%) DynamoDB
9 10 (4.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (3.61%) DB2
11 7 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (2.81%) NoSQL
12 6 (2.41%) Oracle ODI
12 6 (2.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 23 (9.24%) Git
2 13 (5.22%) GitLab
2 13 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.41%) JIRA
3 6 (2.41%) JUnit
4 4 (1.61%) JMeter
5 3 (1.20%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.20%) Maven
6 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.80%) Gatling
6 2 (0.80%) Gradle
6 2 (0.80%) Introscope
6 2 (0.80%) Mockito
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.40%) Postman
7 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (26.91%) Social Skills
2 56 (22.49%) Finance
3 29 (11.65%) Banking
4 27 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (7.63%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.41%) Marketing
7 6 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.01%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.20%) Publishing
11 2 (0.80%) Law
11 2 (0.80%) Legal
11 2 (0.80%) Retail
12 1 (0.40%) Back Office
12 1 (0.40%) Billing
12 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Military
12 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (22.49%) Developer
2 38 (15.26%) Data Engineer
3 30 (12.05%) Senior
4 26 (10.44%) Architect
5 21 (8.43%) Lead
6 20 (8.03%) DBA
7 12 (4.82%) Oracle Developer
8 11 (4.42%) Network Engineer
9 10 (4.02%) Administrator
9 10 (4.02%) Snowflake Engineer
9 10 (4.02%) SQL DBA
10 9 (3.61%) Java Developer
10 9 (3.61%) Oracle DBA
11 8 (3.21%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 7 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (2.81%) C# Developer
12 7 (2.81%) Consultant
12 7 (2.81%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.41%) .NET Developer
13 6 (2.41%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.83%) RESTful
2 14 (5.62%) Kafka
3 13 (5.22%) REST
4 12 (4.82%) JSON
4 12 (4.82%) Spring
4 12 (4.82%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.42%) .NET
5 11 (4.42%) SOAP
6 8 (3.21%) PySpark
7 7 (2.81%) React
8 6 (2.41%) Middleware
8 6 (2.41%) SAP Basis
8 6 (2.41%) Web Services
9 5 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.01%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.61%) 802.1X
10 4 (1.61%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.61%) Jest
10 4 (1.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (5.62%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.22%) Clustering
4 12 (4.82%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.82%) Replication
5 11 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 10 (4.02%) Mainframe
7 9 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.81%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.41%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.01%) DataPower
11 4 (1.61%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.61%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.61%) Legacy Code
11 4 (1.61%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.61%) NHS
11 4 (1.61%) Online Banking
12 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (15.66%) Linux
2 33 (13.25%) Windows
3 18 (7.23%) Windows Server
4 16 (6.43%) Unix
5 11 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.61%) zOS
7 4 (1.61%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.20%) Android
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.80%) AIX
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.80%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.80%) VMS
10 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.40%) Solaris
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (28.92%) CI/CD
2 61 (24.50%) DevOps
3 58 (23.29%) Data Modelling
4 54 (21.69%) Migration
5 46 (18.47%) ETL
6 40 (16.06%) High Availability
7 38 (15.26%) Agile
7 38 (15.26%) Analytics
8 35 (14.06%) Data Engineering
9 34 (13.65%) Data Pipeline
10 33 (13.25%) Performance Optimisation
11 28 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
11 28 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (10.84%) AI
13 25 (10.04%) Infrastructure as Code
13 25 (10.04%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (9.64%) Containerisation
15 22 (8.84%) Capacity Planning
16 21 (8.43%) Disaster Recovery
16 21 (8.43%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 96 (38.55%) SQL
2 77 (30.92%) Python
3 29 (11.65%) Java
4 23 (9.24%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.62%) PL/SQL
6 13 (5.22%) C#
7 12 (4.82%) Shell Script
8 11 (4.42%) Bash
9 10 (4.02%) T-SQL
10 8 (3.21%) Perl
11 7 (2.81%) C
11 7 (2.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (2.81%) JCL
12 4 (1.61%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.61%) Rust
12 4 (1.61%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.20%) CLIST
13 3 (1.20%) COBOL
13 3 (1.20%) REXX
14 2 (0.80%) Swift
Qualifications
1 57 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 48 (19.28%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.62%) Degree
4 8 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.81%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.81%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.20%) CCIE
8 3 (1.20%) CCNP
8 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.20%) CISSP
8 3 (1.20%) OCP
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.20%) SnowPro
8 3 (1.20%) VCAP
9 2 (0.80%) CCA
9 2 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.44%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.02%) QA
3 10 (4.02%) GDPR
4 6 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.41%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.01%) ISO 8583
5 5 (2.01%) SLA
6 2 (0.80%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.80%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.80%) NIST
6 2 (0.80%) PSD2
6 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.80%) SEPA
7 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.40%) COBIT
System Software
1 30 (12.05%) Docker
2 16 (6.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.82%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.61%) vSphere
5 7 (2.81%) VMware NSX
6 5 (2.01%) KVM
6 5 (2.01%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.61%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (1.20%) RACF
9 2 (0.80%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.80%) NFS
9 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.40%) ACF2
10 1 (0.40%) Ceph
10 1 (0.40%) etcd
10 1 (0.40%) Firmware
10 1 (0.40%) Lustre
10 1 (0.40%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 33 (13.25%) Terraform
2 32 (12.85%) Ansible
3 26 (10.44%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.82%) Grafana
5 10 (4.02%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.41%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.01%) Kibana
7 5 (2.01%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (2.01%) PowerCLI
8 4 (1.61%) Argo
8 4 (1.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (1.20%) Data Guard
9 3 (1.20%) logstash
9 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.20%) SCCM
10 2 (0.80%) CA Wily
10 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (0.80%) SCOM
10 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.80%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 44 (17.67%) Oracle
2 39 (15.66%) Microsoft
3 23 (9.24%) VMware
4 13 (5.22%) Databricks
5 12 (4.82%) Google
5 12 (4.82%) SAP
5 12 (4.82%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.61%) IBM
6 9 (3.61%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.81%) Cisco
7 7 (2.81%) Citrix
8 6 (2.41%) Informatica
9 5 (2.01%) Broadcom
9 5 (2.01%) Juniper
9 5 (2.01%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.01%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.01%) Sybase
10 4 (1.61%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.61%) Splunk
11 3 (1.20%) RedGate