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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 140 203
Rank change year-on-year +16 +63 +57
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 252 185 165
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.15% 1.82% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 2.01% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 113 117
10th Percentile £377 £375 £346
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% -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 10,378 9,203 13,959
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.60% 90.44% 87.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,770 6,321 9,312
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.02%
75th Percentile £619 £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 470 212 544
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.23 £14.42
25th Percentile £25.50 £21.25 £23.40
Median hourly rate £57.50 £39.02 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +47.36% +2.36% -30.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.25 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -9.72%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.59%) NetWeaver
3 3 (1.19%) CICS
3 3 (1.19%) IIS
3 3 (1.19%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.19%) SAS
3 3 (1.19%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.79%) Confluence
4 2 (0.79%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.79%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.79%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.79%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.79%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.19%) BASE24
3 3 (1.19%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.19%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.40%) Magento
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 (37.30%) Azure
2 85 (33.73%) AWS
3 26 (10.32%) GCP
3 26 (10.32%) Power Platform
4 21 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 20 (7.94%) Snowflake
6 18 (7.14%) dbt
7 16 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (5.56%) Serverless
10 13 (5.16%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.37%) GitHub
11 11 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (2.38%) Azure Storage
15 6 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (2.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.75%) Firewall
2 11 (4.37%) VPN
3 8 (3.17%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.78%) Network Security
5 6 (2.38%) BGP
5 6 (2.38%) SSL
6 5 (1.98%) DNS
6 5 (1.98%) OSPF
6 5 (1.98%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.98%) WAN
7 4 (1.59%) HTTP
7 4 (1.59%) Internet
7 4 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.59%) Wireless
8 3 (1.19%) DHCP
8 3 (1.19%) LAN
8 3 (1.19%) SAN
9 2 (0.79%) 802.11
9 2 (0.79%) IPsec
9 2 (0.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (15.48%) SQL Server
2 28 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (7.94%) Power BI
5 18 (7.14%) Relational Database
6 15 (5.95%) Oracle Database
7 13 (5.16%) Data Lake
8 12 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (4.76%) Star Schema
9 11 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (3.97%) DB2
10 10 (3.97%) MongoDB
10 10 (3.97%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (3.57%) DynamoDB
11 9 (3.57%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (2.78%) NoSQL
13 6 (2.38%) Delta Lake
13 6 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (2.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 27 (10.71%) Git
2 16 (6.35%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.16%) GitLab
4 10 (3.97%) JUnit
5 5 (1.98%) JIRA
6 4 (1.59%) JMeter
7 3 (1.19%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.19%) Maven
8 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.79%) Gatling
8 2 (0.79%) Gradle
8 2 (0.79%) Introscope
8 2 (0.79%) Mockito
8 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.40%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.40%) Postman
9 1 (0.40%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 69 (27.38%) Social Skills
2 65 (25.79%) Finance
3 32 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (12.30%) Banking
5 20 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.98%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.98%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.98%) Marketing
8 5 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.59%) Legal
9 4 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.19%) Publishing
10 3 (1.19%) Retail
11 2 (0.79%) Billing
11 2 (0.79%) Front Office
12 1 (0.40%) German Language
12 1 (0.40%) Law
12 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (24.21%) Developer
2 42 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 28 (11.11%) Architect
4 27 (10.71%) Senior
5 24 (9.52%) Lead
6 19 (7.54%) DBA
7 14 (5.56%) Java Developer
8 12 (4.76%) Consultant
9 11 (4.37%) SQL DBA
10 10 (3.97%) Oracle Developer
11 9 (3.57%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.57%) Snowflake Engineer
12 8 (3.17%) Administrator
13 7 (2.78%) C# Developer
13 7 (2.78%) Data Architect
13 7 (2.78%) Oracle DBA
13 7 (2.78%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 7 (2.78%) SQL Developer
14 6 (2.38%) Python Engineer
14 6 (2.38%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.94%) Kafka
2 17 (6.75%) RESTful
3 16 (6.35%) Spring
4 12 (4.76%) .NET
4 12 (4.76%) JSON
4 12 (4.76%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.37%) PySpark
5 11 (4.37%) REST
6 9 (3.57%) React
7 8 (3.17%) SOAP
8 6 (2.38%) JMS
8 6 (2.38%) SAP Basis
9 5 (1.98%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.98%) Node.js
9 5 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (1.98%) Web Services
10 4 (1.59%) 802.1X
10 4 (1.59%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.59%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (4.37%) Onboarding
2 11 (4.37%) Replication
3 10 (3.97%) Clustering
3 10 (3.97%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.17%) Mainframe
6 6 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.98%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.59%) DataPower
8 4 (1.59%) Equities
8 4 (1.59%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.59%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.59%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.29%) Linux
2 28 (11.11%) Windows
3 15 (5.95%) Unix
4 13 (5.16%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.38%) zOS
7 4 (1.59%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.19%) Android
8 3 (1.19%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.79%) AIX
9 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.79%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.79%) 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 80 (31.75%) CI/CD
2 63 (25.00%) DevOps
3 61 (24.21%) Data Modelling
4 55 (21.83%) Migration
5 43 (17.06%) Data Pipeline
6 42 (16.67%) ETL
7 40 (15.87%) Data Engineering
8 39 (15.48%) Analytics
9 37 (14.68%) Agile
10 36 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (12.70%) High Availability
11 32 (12.70%) Performance Optimisation
12 30 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (10.32%) AI
14 25 (9.92%) Technical Leadership
15 22 (8.73%) Containerisation
15 22 (8.73%) Data Integration
15 22 (8.73%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (8.73%) Observability
16 20 (7.94%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 111 (44.05%) SQL
2 80 (31.75%) Python
3 34 (13.49%) Java
4 23 (9.13%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.56%) C#
5 14 (5.56%) PL/SQL
5 14 (5.56%) Shell Script
6 10 (3.97%) T-SQL
7 9 (3.57%) Bash
8 6 (2.38%) C
8 6 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (2.38%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.38%) Perl
9 5 (1.98%) JCL
9 5 (1.98%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.19%) COBOL
10 3 (1.19%) Rust
10 3 (1.19%) Scala
11 2 (0.79%) CLIST
11 2 (0.79%) Swift
Qualifications
1 49 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.27%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.35%) Degree
4 7 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.59%) VCAP
7 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.19%) CCIE
7 3 (1.19%) CCNP
7 3 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.19%) CISSP
7 3 (1.19%) OCP
7 3 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.19%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.10%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.35%) QA
3 12 (4.76%) GDPR
4 7 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.38%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.98%) ISO 8583
6 5 (1.98%) SLA
7 4 (1.59%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.79%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.79%) NIST
8 2 (0.79%) PSD2
8 2 (0.79%) SEPA
9 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.40%) COBIT
System Software
1 28 (11.11%) Docker
2 15 (5.95%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (2.38%) vSphere
5 5 (1.98%) KVM
5 5 (1.98%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.59%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.79%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 2 (0.79%) NDS
8 2 (0.79%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 2 (0.79%) NFS
8 2 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.79%) RACF
9 1 (0.40%) etcd
9 1 (0.40%) Firmware
9 1 (0.40%) Lustre
9 1 (0.40%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 30 (11.90%) Terraform
2 26 (10.32%) Kubernetes
3 25 (9.92%) Ansible
4 9 (3.57%) Grafana
5 7 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.38%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.98%) PowerCLI
8 4 (1.59%) Argo
8 4 (1.59%) Kibana
8 4 (1.59%) logstash
8 4 (1.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (1.59%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.19%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.79%) CA Wily
10 2 (0.79%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (0.79%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.79%) SCCM
10 2 (0.79%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 42 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 42 (16.67%) Oracle
2 18 (7.14%) VMware
3 17 (6.75%) Databricks
4 13 (5.16%) Google
5 12 (4.76%) SAP
6 11 (4.37%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.57%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.57%) Sybase
8 7 (2.78%) Cisco
8 7 (2.78%) IBM
9 6 (2.38%) Citrix
9 6 (2.38%) Informatica
10 5 (1.98%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.98%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.59%) Broadcom
11 4 (1.59%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.59%) Juniper
11 4 (1.59%) Splunk
11 4 (1.59%) Zscaler