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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 134 190
Rank change year-on-year +11 +56 +33
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 267 194 164
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.19% 2.03% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 2.22% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 123 122
10th Percentile £358 £378 £341
25th Percentile £425 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £688 £770 £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% -34.24%
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 10,816 8,733 12,874
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.53% 91.33% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,974 5,978 8,669
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -3.31%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 519 207 573
10th Percentile £17.23 £13.85 £14.90
25th Percentile £30.88 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £36.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.72% -16.28% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £27.59 £36.05
% change year-on-year +52.71% -23.47% -0.22%

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 May 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 25 May 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 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 5 (1.87%) Apache
3 5 (1.87%) CICS
4 4 (1.50%) NetWeaver
4 4 (1.50%) SAS
4 4 (1.50%) WebLogic
4 4 (1.50%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.12%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.12%) Confluence
5 3 (1.12%) IIS
5 3 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.12%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.75%) IBM HTTP Server
6 2 (0.75%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.75%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.37%) Documentum
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.25%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (1.87%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.50%) SAP MDG
5 3 (1.12%) Aladdin
5 3 (1.12%) BASE24
5 3 (1.12%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (1.12%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.37%) Magento
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.37%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 96 (35.96%) Azure
2 82 (30.71%) AWS
3 28 (10.49%) GCP
4 27 (10.11%) Power Platform
5 22 (8.24%) Amazon S3
6 17 (6.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (6.37%) Snowflake
7 16 (5.99%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (5.99%) Serverless
8 13 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.87%) dbt
9 11 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (3.75%) GitHub
11 9 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.00%) PaaS
13 7 (2.62%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.25%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.37%) Firewall
2 13 (4.87%) Network Security
3 12 (4.49%) VPN
4 10 (3.75%) BGP
4 10 (3.75%) DNS
5 9 (3.37%) OSPF
6 7 (2.62%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.25%) Ethernet VPN
7 6 (2.25%) SD-WAN
7 6 (2.25%) VXLAN
7 6 (2.25%) WAN
7 6 (2.25%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (1.87%) SSL
9 4 (1.50%) DHCP
9 4 (1.50%) LAN
9 4 (1.50%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (1.50%) Wireless
10 3 (1.12%) HTTP
10 3 (1.12%) SAN
11 2 (0.75%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.11%) SQL Server
2 34 (12.73%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (7.87%) Power BI
4 20 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (5.99%) Oracle Database
6 15 (5.62%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (5.62%) Relational Database
7 13 (4.87%) Data Lake
7 13 (4.87%) Star Schema
8 10 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (3.75%) DB2
8 10 (3.75%) DynamoDB
8 10 (3.75%) Snowflake Schema
8 10 (3.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (3.00%) Oracle ODI
10 6 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 35 (13.11%) Git
2 13 (4.87%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.49%) GitLab
4 10 (3.75%) JIRA
5 5 (1.87%) JUnit
6 4 (1.50%) JMeter
6 4 (1.50%) Maven
6 4 (1.50%) Postman
7 3 (1.12%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.12%) Mockito
8 2 (0.75%) DbUnit
8 2 (0.75%) Gatling
8 2 (0.75%) Gradle
8 2 (0.75%) Introscope
8 2 (0.75%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.75%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.37%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 73 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 62 (23.22%) Finance
3 35 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (11.24%) Banking
5 18 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.25%) Marketing
8 5 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.12%) Publishing
10 3 (1.12%) Retail
11 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.75%) Law
11 2 (0.75%) Legal
11 2 (0.75%) Military
12 1 (0.37%) Back Office
12 1 (0.37%) Billing
12 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (22.10%) Developer
2 39 (14.61%) Data Engineer
3 31 (11.61%) Senior
4 28 (10.49%) Architect
5 21 (7.87%) Lead
6 20 (7.49%) DBA
7 12 (4.49%) Network Engineer
7 12 (4.49%) Oracle Developer
8 10 (3.75%) Administrator
9 9 (3.37%) Oracle DBA
9 9 (3.37%) Python Engineer
9 9 (3.37%) Snowflake Engineer
9 9 (3.37%) SQL DBA
9 9 (3.37%) SQL Developer
9 9 (3.37%) Systems Engineer
10 8 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (3.00%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 7 (2.62%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.24%) REST
2 17 (6.37%) JSON
2 17 (6.37%) Kafka
2 17 (6.37%) RESTful
3 13 (4.87%) SOAP
4 12 (4.49%) .NET
5 11 (4.12%) Middleware
5 11 (4.12%) Spring
5 11 (4.12%) Spring Boot
6 10 (3.75%) PySpark
7 8 (3.00%) Web Services
8 7 (2.62%) OAuth
8 7 (2.62%) React
9 6 (2.25%) Node.js
9 6 (2.25%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.25%) SAP Basis
10 5 (1.87%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (1.50%) Entity Framework
11 4 (1.50%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.74%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.99%) Clustering
2 16 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.24%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.87%) Replication
5 11 (4.12%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.37%) Mainframe
8 7 (2.62%) CUDA
8 7 (2.62%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.62%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.25%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.25%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.87%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.87%) NHS
10 5 (1.87%) Online Banking
11 4 (1.50%) DataPower
11 4 (1.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 49 (18.35%) Linux
2 32 (11.99%) Windows
3 19 (7.12%) Unix
4 16 (5.99%) Windows Server
5 12 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.37%) zOS
7 4 (1.50%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.12%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (1.12%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.75%) Android
9 2 (0.75%) CentOS
9 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.75%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.75%) VMS
10 1 (0.37%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.37%) Solaris
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (30.34%) CI/CD
2 64 (23.97%) Data Modelling
3 62 (23.22%) DevOps
4 53 (19.85%) Migration
5 51 (19.10%) ETL
6 45 (16.85%) High Availability
7 44 (16.48%) Analytics
8 40 (14.98%) Data Pipeline
8 40 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (13.48%) Agile
10 34 (12.73%) Data Engineering
11 28 (10.49%) AI
11 28 (10.49%) Business Intelligence
11 28 (10.49%) Performance Optimisation
12 25 (9.36%) Capacity Planning
12 25 (9.36%) Infrastructure as Code
13 24 (8.99%) Observability
14 23 (8.61%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (8.61%) Validation
15 22 (8.24%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 105 (39.33%) SQL
2 82 (30.71%) Python
3 27 (10.11%) Java
4 25 (9.36%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.24%) C#
5 14 (5.24%) T-SQL
6 13 (4.87%) PL/SQL
6 13 (4.87%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.49%) Bash
8 7 (2.62%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.62%) Perl
9 6 (2.25%) C
9 6 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.25%) JCL
10 5 (1.87%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.50%) Bicep
11 4 (1.50%) Rust
12 3 (1.12%) COBOL
12 3 (1.12%) Ruby
13 2 (0.75%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 63 (23.60%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.22%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.62%) Degree
4 9 (3.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (3.00%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.50%) CISSP
8 4 (1.50%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.50%) SnowPro
9 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.12%) OCP
9 3 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.12%) VCAP
10 2 (0.75%) CCA
10 2 (0.75%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.75%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.86%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.49%) QA
3 11 (4.12%) GDPR
4 6 (2.25%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.87%) ISO 8583
5 5 (1.87%) SLA
6 4 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.75%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.75%) NIST
8 2 (0.75%) PSD2
8 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.75%) SEPA
9 1 (0.37%) COBIT
9 1 (0.37%) GRC
System Software
1 28 (10.49%) Docker
2 14 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.87%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.87%) vSphere
4 9 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.37%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.62%) VMware NSX
6 6 (2.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 5 (1.87%) KVM
8 4 (1.50%) Hyper-V
9 3 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (1.12%) RACF
10 2 (0.75%) Postfix
10 2 (0.75%) Varnish
10 2 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.37%) ACF2
11 1 (0.37%) Ceph
11 1 (0.37%) etcd
11 1 (0.37%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 37 (13.86%) Ansible
2 32 (11.99%) Terraform
3 26 (9.74%) Kubernetes
4 13 (4.87%) Grafana
5 10 (3.75%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.37%) PowerCLI
7 6 (2.25%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (2.25%) Puppet
7 6 (2.25%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.87%) vMotion
9 4 (1.50%) Argo
9 4 (1.50%) Data Guard
9 4 (1.50%) Kibana
9 4 (1.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (1.12%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.75%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 2 (0.75%) logstash
11 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.75%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 48 (17.98%) Oracle
2 40 (14.98%) Microsoft
3 25 (9.36%) VMware
4 17 (6.37%) Databricks
5 16 (5.99%) SAP
6 15 (5.62%) ServiceNow
7 12 (4.49%) Google
8 9 (3.37%) IBM
9 8 (3.00%) Splunk
10 7 (2.62%) Red Hat
11 6 (2.25%) Cisco
11 6 (2.25%) Citrix
11 6 (2.25%) Informatica
11 6 (2.25%) NVIDIA
11 6 (2.25%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.25%) Sybase
12 5 (1.87%) MuleSoft
13 4 (1.50%) Dell
13 4 (1.50%) Nimble Storage
13 4 (1.50%) Palo Alto