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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 130 183
Rank change year-on-year +7 +53 +43
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 281 194 162
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.23% 2.01% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 2.20% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 118 120
10th Percentile £377 £397 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £683 £775 £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 £53.00 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -24.29% +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 11,196 8,814 12,875
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.05% 91.33% 87.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,187 6,000 8,658
10th Percentile £350 £328 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -3.49%
75th Percentile £619 £634 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 219 574
10th Percentile £18.45 £13.72 £14.91
25th Percentile £33.38 £18.36 £23.81
Median hourly rate £57.50 £35.89 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.21% -16.53% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £74.35
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.85%) Oracle Application Server
3 7 (2.49%) CICS
3 7 (2.49%) Confluence
4 5 (1.78%) Apache
5 4 (1.42%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.42%) NetWeaver
5 4 (1.42%) SAS
5 4 (1.42%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.07%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.71%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.71%) IIS
7 2 (0.71%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.71%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.71%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.36%) Documentum
8 1 (0.36%) FileNet
8 1 (0.36%) nginx
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.14%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.42%) SAP MDG
4 3 (1.07%) Aladdin
4 3 (1.07%) BASE24
4 3 (1.07%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.36%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.36%) Magento
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.36%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (36.30%) Azure
2 91 (32.38%) AWS
3 33 (11.74%) GCP
4 29 (10.32%) Power Platform
5 24 (8.54%) Amazon S3
6 19 (6.76%) Serverless
7 18 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (6.05%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (6.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (6.05%) dbt
8 17 (6.05%) Snowflake
9 16 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (4.98%) GitHub
11 13 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (2.85%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.49%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (2.49%) Azure Storage
13 7 (2.49%) PaaS
14 6 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.05%) Firewall
2 13 (4.63%) Network Security
3 12 (4.27%) VPN
4 11 (3.91%) BGP
4 11 (3.91%) DNS
5 10 (3.56%) OSPF
6 7 (2.49%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.14%) Ethernet VPN
7 6 (2.14%) SD-WAN
7 6 (2.14%) VXLAN
7 6 (2.14%) WAN
7 6 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.78%) DHCP
8 5 (1.78%) SAN
8 5 (1.78%) Software-Defined Networking
8 5 (1.78%) SSL
9 4 (1.42%) Wireless
10 3 (1.07%) HTTP
10 3 (1.07%) Internet
10 3 (1.07%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.59%) SQL Server
2 38 (13.52%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (8.19%) Power BI
4 20 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (6.76%) Relational Database
6 15 (5.34%) Oracle Reports
7 14 (4.98%) Data Lake
7 14 (4.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (4.63%) Star Schema
9 12 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (3.91%) Db2
10 11 (3.91%) DynamoDB
10 11 (3.91%) Oracle Database
10 11 (3.91%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (2.85%) Oracle ODI
13 7 (2.49%) BigQuery
13 7 (2.49%) Metadata
14 6 (2.14%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 40 (14.23%) Git
2 17 (6.05%) GitLab
3 16 (5.69%) Jenkins
4 14 (4.98%) JIRA
5 6 (2.14%) JUnit
6 5 (1.78%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.78%) JMeter
6 5 (1.78%) Maven
7 4 (1.42%) Postman
8 3 (1.07%) Mockito
8 3 (1.07%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.71%) DbUnit
9 2 (0.71%) Gatling
9 2 (0.71%) Gradle
9 2 (0.71%) Introscope
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 79 (28.11%) Social Skills
2 65 (23.13%) Finance
3 41 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.03%) Banking
5 22 (7.83%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Marketing
8 5 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.42%) Publishing
10 3 (1.07%) Military
10 3 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.07%) Retail
11 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.71%) Law
11 2 (0.71%) Legal
12 1 (0.36%) Back Office
12 1 (0.36%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (24.20%) Developer
2 42 (14.95%) Data Engineer
3 33 (11.74%) Senior
4 25 (8.90%) Architect
5 21 (7.47%) Lead
6 17 (6.05%) DBA
7 15 (5.34%) SQL Developer
8 13 (4.63%) Network Engineer
9 12 (4.27%) Oracle Developer
10 10 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (3.56%) Python Engineer
10 10 (3.56%) SQL DBA
11 9 (3.20%) Java Developer
11 9 (3.20%) Snowflake Engineer
11 9 (3.20%) Systems Engineer
12 8 (2.85%) Administrator
12 8 (2.85%) Consultant
12 8 (2.85%) Python Data Engineer
12 8 (2.85%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.85%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.54%) REST
2 19 (6.76%) JSON
2 19 (6.76%) RESTful
3 17 (6.05%) Kafka
4 15 (5.34%) .NET
4 15 (5.34%) SOAP
5 13 (4.63%) Spring
6 12 (4.27%) PySpark
6 12 (4.27%) Spring Boot
7 11 (3.91%) Middleware
7 11 (3.91%) Web Services
8 7 (2.49%) Node.js
8 7 (2.49%) OAuth
8 7 (2.49%) React
9 6 (2.14%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.14%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.14%) SAP Basis
10 5 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (1.78%) WSDL
10 5 (1.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.47%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.41%) Cloud Native
3 17 (6.05%) Clustering
3 17 (6.05%) Replication
4 16 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.91%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.56%) Mainframe
7 8 (2.85%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.49%) CUDA
9 6 (2.14%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.14%) Legacy Code
9 6 (2.14%) Online Banking
9 6 (2.14%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.14%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.78%) Enterprise Storage
10 5 (1.78%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (18.86%) Linux
2 30 (10.68%) Windows
3 16 (5.69%) Unix
4 14 (4.98%) Windows Server
5 12 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.56%) zOS
7 4 (1.42%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.07%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (1.07%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.71%) Android
9 2 (0.71%) CentOS
9 2 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.71%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.71%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.71%) VMS
10 1 (0.36%) AIX
10 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (32.38%) CI/CD
2 72 (25.62%) Data Modelling
3 71 (25.27%) DevOps
4 57 (20.28%) ETL
5 56 (19.93%) Migration
6 49 (17.44%) Analytics
7 47 (16.73%) High Availability
8 46 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (16.01%) Data Pipeline
10 44 (15.66%) Agile
11 36 (12.81%) Data Engineering
12 30 (10.68%) AI
13 29 (10.32%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (9.96%) Business Intelligence
14 28 (9.96%) Observability
14 28 (9.96%) Performance Optimisation
15 27 (9.61%) Capacity Planning
16 25 (8.90%) Containerisation
16 25 (8.90%) Validation
17 23 (8.19%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 113 (40.21%) SQL
2 89 (31.67%) Python
3 30 (10.68%) Java
4 28 (9.96%) PowerShell
5 19 (6.76%) T-SQL
6 15 (5.34%) C#
7 13 (4.63%) Bash
7 13 (4.63%) Shell Script
8 10 (3.56%) PL/SQL
9 7 (2.49%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.49%) JCL
10 6 (2.14%) C
10 6 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.78%) Perl
11 5 (1.78%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.42%) Bicep
12 4 (1.42%) COBOL
12 4 (1.42%) Rust
13 3 (1.07%) C++
13 3 (1.07%) REXX
Qualifications
1 66 (23.49%) Security Cleared
2 57 (20.28%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.63%) Degree
4 11 (3.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 9 (3.20%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.78%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.42%) CISSP
9 4 (1.42%) SnowPro
10 3 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.07%) OCP
10 3 (1.07%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.07%) VCAP
11 2 (0.71%) CCA
11 2 (0.71%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.71%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (0.71%) GSEC
11 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.46%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.63%) QA
3 12 (4.27%) GDPR
4 6 (2.14%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.78%) ISO 8583
6 4 (1.42%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.42%) SLA
7 3 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.71%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.71%) NIST
8 2 (0.71%) PSD2
8 2 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.71%) SEPA
9 1 (0.36%) COBIT
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
System Software
1 30 (10.68%) Docker
2 16 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.34%) vSphere
4 14 (4.98%) Active Directory
5 11 (3.91%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (2.85%) VMware NSX
8 6 (2.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 5 (1.78%) Hyper-V
9 5 (1.78%) KVM
10 3 (1.07%) RACF
11 2 (0.71%) NFS
11 2 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.71%) Postfix
11 2 (0.71%) SRDF
11 2 (0.71%) Varnish
11 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.36%) ACF2
12 1 (0.36%) Ceph
12 1 (0.36%) etcd
Systems Management
1 35 (12.46%) Ansible
2 33 (11.74%) Terraform
3 30 (10.68%) Kubernetes
4 14 (4.98%) Grafana
5 12 (4.27%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.56%) PowerCLI
7 8 (2.85%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.14%) Puppet
9 5 (1.78%) Argo
9 5 (1.78%) vMotion
10 4 (1.42%) Data Guard
10 4 (1.42%) Oracle RMAN
11 3 (1.07%) Kibana
12 2 (0.71%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.71%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.71%) SnapMirror
12 2 (0.71%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 46 (16.37%) Oracle
2 45 (16.01%) Microsoft
3 28 (9.96%) VMware
4 17 (6.05%) Databricks
5 16 (5.69%) SAP
6 13 (4.63%) ServiceNow
7 12 (4.27%) Google
8 8 (2.85%) Cisco
8 8 (2.85%) IBM
8 8 (2.85%) Informatica
8 8 (2.85%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.49%) Splunk
10 6 (2.14%) Dell
10 6 (2.14%) NVIDIA
10 6 (2.14%) Salesforce
10 6 (2.14%) Sybase
11 5 (1.78%) 3PAR
11 5 (1.78%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.42%) Brocade
12 4 (1.42%) Citrix