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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 144 189
Rank change year-on-year +17 +45 +66
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 250 185 165
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.13% 1.83% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 2.03% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 114 118
10th Percentile £376 £375 £347
25th Percentile £425 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £600
90th Percentile £688 £746 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -0.65% +0.65% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £49.40
25th Percentile £53.00 - £53.38
Median hourly rate £53.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £84.75 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £67.50 £54.25
% change year-on-year -21.48% +24.42% -25.17%

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 10,436 9,124 13,931
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.78% 90.48% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,807 6,252 9,304
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% - -3.67%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 474 213 539
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.20 £14.38
25th Percentile £26.04 £21.00 £23.54
Median hourly rate £57.50 £39.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +47.44% +2.31% -30.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

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 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 2 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 14 (5.60%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.60%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.60%) NetWeaver
2 4 (1.60%) SAS
3 3 (1.20%) CICS
3 3 (1.20%) IIS
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.80%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.80%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.80%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.80%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.80%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.60%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.60%) 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%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.40%) Shopify
5 1 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 94 (37.60%) Azure
2 83 (33.20%) AWS
3 26 (10.40%) Power Platform
4 25 (10.00%) GCP
5 21 (8.40%) Amazon S3
5 21 (8.40%) Snowflake
6 19 (7.60%) dbt
7 16 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (5.60%) Serverless
10 13 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (4.40%) GitHub
11 11 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (2.80%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.80%) PaaS
14 6 (2.40%) Amazon EMR
14 6 (2.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.20%) Firewall
2 12 (4.80%) VPN
3 9 (3.60%) Network Security
4 8 (3.20%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.80%) BGP
6 6 (2.40%) OSPF
6 6 (2.40%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.40%) SSL
6 6 (2.40%) WAN
7 5 (2.00%) DNS
7 5 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.60%) HTTP
8 4 (1.60%) LAN
8 4 (1.60%) Wireless
9 3 (1.20%) DHCP
9 3 (1.20%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (1.20%) SAN
9 3 (1.20%) VXLAN
10 2 (0.80%) IPFIX
10 2 (0.80%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (15.60%) SQL Server
2 29 (11.60%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (8.00%) Power BI
5 15 (6.00%) Relational Database
6 14 (5.60%) Oracle Database
7 13 (5.20%) Data Lake
8 12 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (4.80%) Star Schema
9 11 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (4.40%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (3.60%) DynamoDB
10 9 (3.60%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (3.20%) DB2
11 8 (3.20%) MongoDB
12 7 (2.80%) NoSQL
13 6 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (2.40%) Delta Lake
13 6 (2.40%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (10.80%) Git
2 15 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.20%) GitLab
4 8 (3.20%) JUnit
5 4 (1.60%) JIRA
5 4 (1.60%) JMeter
6 3 (1.20%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.20%) Maven
7 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.80%) Gatling
7 2 (0.80%) Gradle
7 2 (0.80%) Introscope
7 2 (0.80%) Mockito
7 2 (0.80%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.40%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.40%) Postman
8 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 70 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 61 (24.40%) Finance
3 31 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (11.60%) Banking
5 20 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.00%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.00%) Marketing
8 5 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.60%) Legal
9 4 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.20%) Publishing
10 3 (1.20%) Retail
11 2 (0.80%) Billing
11 2 (0.80%) Law
12 1 (0.40%) Front Office
12 1 (0.40%) German Language
12 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 59 (23.60%) Developer
2 42 (16.80%) Data Engineer
3 28 (11.20%) Architect
4 27 (10.80%) Senior
5 24 (9.60%) Lead
6 19 (7.60%) DBA
7 12 (4.80%) Consultant
7 12 (4.80%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.40%) SQL DBA
9 10 (4.00%) Oracle Developer
10 9 (3.60%) Snowflake Engineer
11 8 (3.20%) Administrator
11 8 (3.20%) Data Architect
11 8 (3.20%) Network Engineer
11 8 (3.20%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.80%) C# Developer
12 7 (2.80%) Oracle DBA
12 7 (2.80%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 6 (2.40%) .NET Developer
13 6 (2.40%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.20%) Kafka
2 17 (6.80%) RESTful
3 14 (5.60%) Spring
4 12 (4.80%) .NET
4 12 (4.80%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.40%) JSON
6 10 (4.00%) PySpark
6 10 (4.00%) REST
7 8 (3.20%) React
7 8 (3.20%) SOAP
8 6 (2.40%) SAP Basis
9 5 (2.00%) .NET Framework
9 5 (2.00%) Middleware
9 5 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (2.00%) Web Services
10 4 (1.60%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.60%) ASP.NET
10 4 (1.60%) Entity Framework
10 4 (1.60%) JMS
10 4 (1.60%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.60%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.40%) Clustering
2 11 (4.40%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (4.40%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.00%) Replication
4 9 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.20%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.80%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.80%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.40%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.60%) DataPower
8 4 (1.60%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.60%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.60%) NHS
9 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.20%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.20%) Linux
2 29 (11.60%) Windows
3 15 (6.00%) Unix
4 14 (5.60%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.40%) zOS
7 4 (1.60%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.20%) Android
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.80%) AIX
9 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.80%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.80%) VMS
10 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.40%) Rocky
10 1 (0.40%) Solaris
10 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (32.40%) CI/CD
2 64 (25.60%) DevOps
3 62 (24.80%) Data Modelling
4 56 (22.40%) Migration
5 42 (16.80%) ETL
6 41 (16.40%) Data Pipeline
7 39 (15.60%) Analytics
7 39 (15.60%) Data Engineering
8 36 (14.40%) Agile
9 34 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (13.20%) Performance Optimisation
11 32 (12.80%) High Availability
12 29 (11.60%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (10.40%) AI
13 26 (10.40%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (9.20%) Containerisation
14 23 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (8.80%) Observability
16 21 (8.40%) Data Integration
16 21 (8.40%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 111 (44.40%) SQL
2 78 (31.20%) Python
3 32 (12.80%) Java
4 23 (9.20%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.60%) C#
5 14 (5.60%) PL/SQL
6 12 (4.80%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.00%) T-SQL
8 9 (3.60%) Bash
9 6 (2.40%) C
9 6 (2.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.40%) Perl
10 5 (2.00%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.00%) JCL
11 4 (1.60%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.20%) COBOL
12 3 (1.20%) Rust
12 3 (1.20%) Scala
13 2 (0.80%) Ruby
13 2 (0.80%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 51 (20.40%) Security Cleared
2 43 (17.20%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.40%) Degree
4 7 (2.80%) Azure Certification
4 7 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.60%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.60%) VCAP
7 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.20%) CCIE
7 3 (1.20%) CCNP
7 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.20%) CISSP
7 3 (1.20%) OCP
7 3 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.20%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.80%) CCA
8 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.20%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.40%) QA
3 12 (4.80%) GDPR
4 7 (2.80%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.40%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.00%) ISO 8583
6 5 (2.00%) SLA
7 4 (1.60%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.80%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.80%) NIST
8 2 (0.80%) PSD2
8 2 (0.80%) SEPA
9 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.40%) COBIT
System Software
1 28 (11.20%) Docker
2 16 (6.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (6.00%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.80%) vSphere
6 6 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.40%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.00%) KVM
8 4 (1.60%) Hyper-V
9 3 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.80%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.80%) NDS
10 2 (0.80%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 2 (0.80%) NFS
10 2 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.80%) RACF
11 1 (0.40%) etcd
11 1 (0.40%) Firmware
11 1 (0.40%) Postfix
11 1 (0.40%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 32 (12.80%) Terraform
2 27 (10.80%) Ansible
3 26 (10.40%) Kubernetes
4 9 (3.60%) Grafana
5 7 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.40%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.00%) Argo
7 5 (2.00%) PowerCLI
8 4 (1.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.20%) Kibana
9 3 (1.20%) logstash
9 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.80%) CA Wily
10 2 (0.80%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (0.80%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.80%) SCCM
10 2 (0.80%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 42 (16.80%) Microsoft
2 41 (16.40%) Oracle
3 20 (8.00%) VMware
4 17 (6.80%) Databricks
5 13 (5.20%) Google
6 12 (4.80%) SAP
7 11 (4.40%) ServiceNow
8 9 (3.60%) Red Hat
9 8 (3.20%) Cisco
10 7 (2.80%) IBM
10 7 (2.80%) Sybase
11 6 (2.40%) Citrix
11 6 (2.40%) Informatica
12 5 (2.00%) Juniper
12 5 (2.00%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.00%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.60%) Broadcom
13 4 (1.60%) Fortinet
13 4 (1.60%) Splunk
14 3 (1.20%) HP