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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 113 170
Rank change year-on-year -12 +57 +47
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 320 230 174
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.35% 2.26% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 2.47% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 138 125
10th Percentile £385 £376 £360
25th Percentile £429 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year - +3.84% -8.29%
75th Percentile £575 £614 £600
90th Percentile £685 £775 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £31.75 £70.25 -
25th Percentile £40.38 £70.63 £62.50
Median hourly rate £53.00 £72.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.90% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile - £75.63 £87.50
90th Percentile £53.40 £76.75 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -45.36% +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 12,224 9,319 11,530
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.83% 91.74% 87.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,756 6,277 7,737
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -2.86% -2.33%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £721 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 692 280 404
10th Percentile £16.70 £12.62 £17.56
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.89 £30.69
Median hourly rate £53.00 £34.48 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.71% -19.81% -14.00%
75th Percentile £71.91 £65.00 £65.09
90th Percentile £85.00 £71.27 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 August 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 August 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 12 (3.75%) Confluence
1 12 (3.75%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.19%) Apache
3 7 (2.19%) CICS
3 7 (2.19%) SAS
4 5 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.25%) NetWeaver
5 4 (1.25%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.25%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.94%) IIS
6 3 (0.94%) nginx
6 3 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.94%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.63%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.63%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.63%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (5.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.56%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.25%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.94%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.94%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.31%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.31%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.31%) Magento
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.31%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.31%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 108 (33.75%) Azure
2 85 (26.56%) AWS
3 33 (10.31%) Power Platform
4 32 (10.00%) GCP
5 25 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (6.56%) Amazon S3
7 20 (6.25%) dbt
8 19 (5.94%) Serverless
9 18 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (5.31%) GitHub
10 17 (5.31%) Snowflake
11 16 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (2.81%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (2.81%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (2.19%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 6 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.69%) Firewall
2 12 (3.75%) Network Security
3 10 (3.13%) DNS
3 10 (3.13%) SSL
4 8 (2.50%) VPN
5 6 (1.88%) HTTP
6 5 (1.56%) BGP
6 5 (1.56%) OSPF
6 5 (1.56%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (1.25%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (1.25%) ICMP
7 4 (1.25%) Internet
7 4 (1.25%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.25%) SNMP
7 4 (1.25%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.25%) VXLAN
7 4 (1.25%) WAN
8 3 (0.94%) DHCP
8 3 (0.94%) LAN
8 3 (0.94%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (17.19%) SQL Server
2 47 (14.69%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (9.06%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (9.06%) Power BI
4 27 (8.44%) Relational Database
5 20 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (4.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (4.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (4.06%) Db2
7 13 (4.06%) MySQL
7 13 (4.06%) Oracle Database
7 13 (4.06%) Star Schema
8 12 (3.75%) Oracle ODI
9 11 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (3.13%) Data Lake
10 10 (3.13%) SAP HANA
10 10 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (2.81%) DynamoDB
12 7 (2.19%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 45 (14.06%) Git
2 21 (6.56%) GitLab
3 19 (5.94%) JIRA
4 18 (5.63%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.88%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.56%) JMeter
6 5 (1.56%) Postman
7 4 (1.25%) JUnit
7 4 (1.25%) Maven
7 4 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.63%) DbUnit
9 2 (0.63%) Introscope
9 2 (0.63%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.63%) Mockito
9 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.63%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
General
1 85 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 70 (21.88%) Finance
3 42 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.75%) Banking
5 22 (6.88%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.19%) Retail
7 6 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.56%) Marketing
8 5 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.56%) Publishing
9 4 (1.25%) Legal
9 4 (1.25%) Military
10 3 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.63%) Law
11 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.31%) Games
12 1 (0.31%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 84 (26.25%) Developer
2 46 (14.38%) Data Engineer
3 41 (12.81%) Senior
4 31 (9.69%) DBA
5 24 (7.50%) Lead
6 22 (6.88%) Architect
7 21 (6.56%) SQL Developer
8 18 (5.63%) SQL DBA
9 17 (5.31%) Administrator
10 14 (4.38%) Oracle Developer
11 13 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (3.75%) Consultant
12 12 (3.75%) Senior Data Engineer
13 11 (3.44%) Python Engineer
14 10 (3.13%) Senior Developer
15 9 (2.81%) .NET Developer
15 9 (2.81%) Linux Engineer
15 9 (2.81%) Network Engineer
15 9 (2.81%) Oracle DBA
15 9 (2.81%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.00%) REST
2 23 (7.19%) .NET
3 22 (6.88%) SOAP
4 20 (6.25%) Web Services
5 18 (5.63%) JSON
5 18 (5.63%) Kafka
5 18 (5.63%) Middleware
6 16 (5.00%) RESTful
7 14 (4.38%) PySpark
8 11 (3.44%) XML
9 10 (3.13%) Node.js
9 10 (3.13%) React
9 10 (3.13%) Spring
10 9 (2.81%) BAPI
10 9 (2.81%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.19%) .NET Framework
11 7 (2.19%) SAP Basis
12 6 (1.88%) Flask
12 6 (1.88%) IDoc
12 6 (1.88%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.19%) Replication
2 20 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (5.63%) Cloud Native
3 18 (5.63%) Data Centre
4 17 (5.31%) Clustering
5 12 (3.75%) Mainframe
6 11 (3.44%) Data Structures
6 11 (3.44%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.50%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.19%) CUDA
10 6 (1.88%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.88%) Legacy Code
10 6 (1.88%) Online Banking
10 6 (1.88%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.56%) DataPower
11 5 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 62 (19.38%) Linux
2 33 (10.31%) Windows
3 21 (6.56%) Windows Server
4 19 (5.94%) Unix
5 12 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.13%) zOS
7 4 (1.25%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.94%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.94%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (0.94%) VMS
9 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.63%) CentOS
9 2 (0.63%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.63%) MVS
9 2 (0.63%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.31%) AIX
10 1 (0.31%) Solaris
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (30.63%) CI/CD
2 80 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 80 (25.00%) DevOps
3 63 (19.69%) ETL
4 59 (18.44%) Migration
5 56 (17.50%) Analytics
6 55 (17.19%) High Availability
6 55 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
8 47 (14.69%) Agile
9 39 (12.19%) Data Engineering
10 37 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
10 37 (11.56%) Root Cause Analysis
11 36 (11.25%) AI
12 33 (10.31%) Capacity Planning
13 32 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
14 31 (9.69%) Observability
15 30 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
16 29 (9.06%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 136 (42.50%) SQL
2 95 (29.69%) Python
3 28 (8.75%) PowerShell
4 27 (8.44%) Java
5 26 (8.13%) T-SQL
6 21 (6.56%) C#
7 17 (5.31%) Bash
8 16 (5.00%) PL/SQL
9 15 (4.69%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.44%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.50%) ABAP
12 7 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (2.19%) JCL
12 7 (2.19%) Perl
13 5 (1.56%) C
13 5 (1.56%) C++
14 4 (1.25%) Bicep
14 4 (1.25%) Rust
14 4 (1.25%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.94%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 89 (27.81%) Security Cleared
2 82 (25.63%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.38%) Degree
4 13 (4.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (3.44%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.13%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.88%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.25%) OCP
11 4 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.25%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.94%) CCA
12 3 (0.94%) CESG Certified Professional
12 3 (0.94%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.63%) CISM
13 2 (0.63%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.44%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.00%) QA
3 10 (3.13%) GDPR
4 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.25%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.25%) SLA
5 3 (0.94%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 3 (0.94%) GMP
5 3 (0.94%) GxP
5 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 2 (0.63%) NIST
6 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.31%) COBIT
7 1 (0.31%) GRC
7 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 31 (9.69%) Docker
2 16 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.38%) vSphere
4 11 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (2.81%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (2.81%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.19%) Oracle RAC
7 6 (1.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (1.25%) RACF
9 3 (0.94%) ACF2
9 3 (0.94%) Firmware
9 3 (0.94%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.94%) KVM
9 3 (0.94%) Varnish
9 3 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.63%) NFS
10 2 (0.63%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.63%) Postfix
10 2 (0.63%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 34 (10.63%) Terraform
2 31 (9.69%) Kubernetes
3 29 (9.06%) Ansible
4 14 (4.38%) Grafana
5 13 (4.06%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.13%) PowerCLI
7 8 (2.50%) vCenter Server
8 7 (2.19%) Data Guard
9 6 (1.88%) Puppet
10 5 (1.56%) vMotion
11 4 (1.25%) Control-M
12 3 (0.94%) Argo
12 3 (0.94%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.63%) CA Wily
13 2 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.63%) Kibana
13 2 (0.63%) SnapMirror
13 2 (0.63%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 62 (19.38%) Oracle
2 56 (17.50%) Microsoft
3 29 (9.06%) SAP
4 28 (8.75%) VMware
5 15 (4.69%) ServiceNow
6 14 (4.38%) Informatica
7 13 (4.06%) Databricks
8 9 (2.81%) Google
8 9 (2.81%) IBM
8 9 (2.81%) MuleSoft
8 9 (2.81%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.19%) Dell
9 7 (2.19%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.19%) Sybase
10 6 (1.88%) Adobe
10 6 (1.88%) NVIDIA
10 6 (1.88%) Splunk
11 5 (1.56%) 3PAR
11 5 (1.56%) Cisco
11 5 (1.56%) Citrix