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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 148 224
Rank change year-on-year +17 +76 +40
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 241 178 143
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.15% 1.68% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 1.85% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 101 95
10th Percentile £382 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £49.40
25th Percentile - - £53.38
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £67.50 £54.25
% change year-on-year +10.01% +24.42% -19.63%

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 10,062 9,598 14,284
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.61% 90.35% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,578 6,261 9,581
10th Percentile £345 £328 £339
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £732
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 190 522
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.21 £15.18
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.39 £22.67
Median hourly rate £56.80 £38.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.48% -15.00% -18.18%
75th Percentile £65.11 £64.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £79.88
UK median hourly rate £25.94 £33.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year -21.39% -0.20% -5.53%

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 25 February 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
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 11 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.49%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.24%) CICS
3 3 (1.24%) IIS
3 3 (1.24%) SAS
3 3 (1.24%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.83%) Apache
4 2 (0.83%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.83%) Confluence
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.83%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.66%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.24%) BASE24
3 3 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.24%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.41%) Magento
5 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 84 (34.85%) AWS
2 80 (33.20%) Azure
3 20 (8.30%) Amazon S3
3 20 (8.30%) GCP
4 19 (7.88%) Power Platform
5 18 (7.47%) Serverless
6 17 (7.05%) Snowflake
7 15 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (5.81%) dbt
9 13 (5.39%) GitHub
10 12 (4.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (4.56%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (3.73%) SaaS
14 8 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (2.49%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.64%) Firewall
2 11 (4.56%) VPN
3 9 (3.73%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.90%) Network Security
5 6 (2.49%) BGP
6 5 (2.07%) OSPF
6 5 (2.07%) SD-WAN
6 5 (2.07%) WAN
6 5 (2.07%) Wireless
7 4 (1.66%) HTTP
7 4 (1.66%) Internet
7 4 (1.66%) SSL
7 4 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.24%) DHCP
8 3 (1.24%) DNS
8 3 (1.24%) LAN
9 2 (0.83%) 802.11
9 2 (0.83%) MPLS
9 2 (0.83%) SAN
9 2 (0.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (12.45%) SQL Server
2 26 (10.79%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (9.96%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (8.30%) MongoDB
4 20 (8.30%) Relational Database
5 16 (6.64%) DB2
6 15 (6.22%) Power BI
7 14 (5.81%) Oracle Database
8 13 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (4.56%) Data Lake
10 10 (4.15%) NoSQL
11 9 (3.73%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (3.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (2.90%) DynamoDB
14 6 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (2.49%) Big Data
14 6 (2.49%) MySQL
14 6 (2.49%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (11.62%) Git
2 17 (7.05%) JUnit
3 16 (6.64%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.15%) GitLab
5 4 (1.66%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.24%) JIRA
6 3 (1.24%) Maven
7 2 (0.83%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.83%) Gatling
7 2 (0.83%) Gradle
7 2 (0.83%) JMeter
7 2 (0.83%) Mockito
7 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.41%) LSMW
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.41%) Toad
General
1 79 (32.78%) Social Skills
2 64 (26.56%) Finance
3 41 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (12.03%) Banking
5 24 (9.96%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.56%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.07%) Front Office
9 4 (1.66%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.66%) Legal
9 4 (1.66%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.66%) Marketing
9 4 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.24%) Publishing
11 2 (0.83%) Billing
11 2 (0.83%) Retail
12 1 (0.41%) German Language
12 1 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 66 (27.39%) Developer
2 37 (15.35%) Data Engineer
3 27 (11.20%) Architect
3 27 (11.20%) Senior
4 21 (8.71%) Lead
5 19 (7.88%) Java Developer
6 15 (6.22%) Consultant
6 15 (6.22%) DBA
6 15 (6.22%) Senior Developer
7 13 (5.39%) SQL Developer
8 10 (4.15%) Investment Banking Java Developer
9 9 (3.73%) Administrator
9 9 (3.73%) Oracle Developer
9 9 (3.73%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (3.32%) SQL DBA
11 7 (2.90%) Data Architect
11 7 (2.90%) Oracle DBA
11 7 (2.90%) Senior SQL Developer
11 7 (2.90%) Snowflake Engineer
12 6 (2.49%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.54%) Spring
2 22 (9.13%) Kafka
3 16 (6.64%) RESTful
4 13 (5.39%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.56%) .NET
5 11 (4.56%) REST
6 10 (4.15%) JMS
6 10 (4.15%) PySpark
6 10 (4.15%) React
7 8 (3.32%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (3.32%) JSON
8 7 (2.90%) AngularJS
8 7 (2.90%) Web Services
9 6 (2.49%) SOAP
10 5 (2.07%) Jest
10 5 (2.07%) Node.js
10 5 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (1.66%) 802.1X
11 4 (1.66%) Pandas
11 4 (1.66%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.47%) Data Structures
2 15 (6.22%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.39%) Replication
4 11 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.15%) Equities
6 9 (3.73%) Mainframe
6 9 (3.73%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.32%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (2.07%) Clustering
9 5 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.07%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.66%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.66%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.24%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.24%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (15.35%) Linux
2 18 (7.47%) Windows
3 9 (3.73%) Unix
4 8 (3.32%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.90%) zOS
6 5 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.24%) Android
7 3 (1.24%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.83%) AIX
8 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.83%) VMS
9 1 (0.41%) CentOS
9 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (31.54%) CI/CD
2 62 (25.73%) DevOps
3 52 (21.58%) Data Modelling
4 48 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (18.26%) Migration
6 43 (17.84%) Agile
7 36 (14.94%) Data Pipeline
8 32 (13.28%) Analytics
8 32 (13.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 31 (12.86%) ETL
10 29 (12.03%) Data Engineering
11 27 (11.20%) High Availability
12 26 (10.79%) Business Intelligence
12 26 (10.79%) Performance Optimisation
13 25 (10.37%) Containerisation
13 25 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (9.96%) Observability
14 24 (9.96%) Technical Leadership
15 19 (7.88%) Data Integration
15 19 (7.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 106 (43.98%) SQL
2 76 (31.54%) Python
3 40 (16.60%) Java
4 19 (7.88%) PowerShell
5 16 (6.64%) Shell Script
6 14 (5.81%) PL/SQL
7 13 (5.39%) C#
8 8 (3.32%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.49%) ABAP
9 6 (2.49%) Bash
9 6 (2.49%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.07%) C
10 5 (2.07%) Perl
10 5 (2.07%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.66%) COBOL
11 4 (1.66%) JCL
11 4 (1.66%) REXX
12 3 (1.24%) CLIST
12 3 (1.24%) PHP
12 3 (1.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (19.09%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.77%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.47%) Degree
4 7 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.49%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.07%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (1.66%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.66%) CCNP
7 4 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.66%) OCP
7 4 (1.66%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.24%) CCIE
8 3 (1.24%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.24%) VCAP
9 2 (0.83%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (0.83%) GSEC
9 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.54%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.64%) QA
3 13 (5.39%) GDPR
4 9 (3.73%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.07%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.07%) ISO 8583
5 5 (2.07%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (2.07%) SLA
6 2 (0.83%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.83%) PSD2
6 2 (0.83%) SEPA
7 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.41%) COBIT
7 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (14.11%) Docker
2 12 (4.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.56%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.49%) KVM
5 5 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.66%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.66%) NDS
6 4 (1.66%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 4 (1.66%) RACF
6 4 (1.66%) vSphere
7 3 (1.24%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 3 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.24%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.41%) HDFS
9 1 (0.41%) Lustre
9 1 (0.41%) NFS
9 1 (0.41%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 36 (14.94%) Terraform
2 30 (12.45%) Kubernetes
3 23 (9.54%) Ansible
4 10 (4.15%) Grafana
5 7 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.49%) Kibana
6 6 (2.49%) logstash
7 5 (2.07%) Argo
8 4 (1.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (1.66%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.66%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.24%) PowerCLI
9 3 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.24%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.83%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (0.83%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (0.83%) Puppet
10 2 (0.83%) SCCM
10 2 (0.83%) SCOM
Vendors
1 34 (14.11%) Oracle
2 30 (12.45%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.22%) Databricks
4 14 (5.81%) VMware
5 11 (4.56%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.56%) Sybase
6 10 (4.15%) SAP
7 8 (3.32%) Cisco
8 7 (2.90%) Google
8 7 (2.90%) IBM
8 7 (2.90%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.07%) Broadcom
9 5 (2.07%) Citrix
9 5 (2.07%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.07%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.66%) Adobe
10 4 (1.66%) Juniper
10 4 (1.66%) NetIQ
10 4 (1.66%) OpenText
10 4 (1.66%) Zscaler