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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 129 180
Rank change year-on-year -5 +51 +50
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 287 216 166
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.14% 2.20% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.39% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 125 119
10th Percentile £396 £368 £368
25th Percentile £431 £429 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year - +3.84% -8.29%
75th Percentile £571 £600 £600
90th Percentile £683 £738 £653
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% +2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £30.13 £49.00 -
25th Percentile £39.31 £56.88 £62.50
Median hourly rate £49.00 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -6.67% +1.69%
75th Percentile £53.00 £73.75 £87.50
90th Percentile - £76.00 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -45.36% +13.64% -12.00%

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 12,086 9,026 11,206
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.09% 92.10% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,556 6,025 7,355
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -2.33%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 719 276 333
10th Percentile £16.33 £12.62 £17.65
25th Percentile £30.11 £18.94 £30.12
Median hourly rate £48.81 £34.83 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.16% -19.01% -14.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 (4.88%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (3.83%) Confluence
3 10 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.09%) Apache
4 6 (2.09%) CICS
5 5 (1.74%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.74%) SAS
5 5 (1.74%) WebSphere
6 4 (1.39%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.05%) IIS
7 3 (1.05%) NetWeaver
7 3 (1.05%) nginx
7 3 (1.05%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.05%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.70%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.70%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.70%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (6.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.74%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.39%) SAP CRM
4 3 (1.05%) Aladdin
4 3 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.05%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.70%) Cerner Millennium
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.35%) Finacle
6 1 (0.35%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.35%) Magento
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.35%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.35%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.35%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.35%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.35%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 94 (32.75%) Azure
2 74 (25.78%) AWS
3 27 (9.41%) GCP
4 24 (8.36%) Power Platform
5 23 (8.01%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (6.62%) dbt
7 17 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (5.57%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (5.57%) Amazon S3
8 16 (5.57%) GitHub
9 15 (5.23%) Serverless
10 13 (4.53%) Snowflake
11 12 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.18%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (4.18%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (2.09%) Amazon EMR
13 6 (2.09%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 6 (2.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.88%) Firewall
2 13 (4.53%) Network Security
3 10 (3.48%) DNS
3 10 (3.48%) SSL
4 7 (2.44%) HTTP
5 5 (1.74%) BGP
5 5 (1.74%) OSPF
5 5 (1.74%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.39%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.39%) ICMP
6 4 (1.39%) SNMP
6 4 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.39%) VPN
6 4 (1.39%) VXLAN
7 3 (1.05%) Bluetooth
7 3 (1.05%) DHCP
7 3 (1.05%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.05%) Internet
7 3 (1.05%) SAN
7 3 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.47%) Data Warehouse
2 51 (17.77%) SQL Server
3 30 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (10.10%) Relational Database
5 24 (8.36%) Power BI
6 21 (7.32%) Oracle Reports
7 20 (6.97%) Oracle Database
8 15 (5.23%) MySQL
9 14 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 14 (4.88%) Oracle ODI
10 13 (4.53%) Db2
10 13 (4.53%) Star Schema
11 12 (4.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (3.14%) SAP HANA
13 9 (3.14%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (2.79%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (2.44%) Data Lake
15 7 (2.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 40 (13.94%) Git
2 20 (6.97%) GitLab
3 18 (6.27%) JIRA
4 17 (5.92%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.74%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (1.39%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.39%) Maven
6 4 (1.39%) Postman
7 3 (1.05%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.70%) Flyway
8 2 (0.70%) Introscope
8 2 (0.70%) JUnit
8 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.70%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.35%) JMeter
9 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.35%) Toad
General
1 79 (27.53%) Social Skills
2 61 (21.25%) Finance
3 47 (16.38%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.71%) Banking
5 19 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.09%) Retail
7 5 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.39%) Legal
8 4 (1.39%) Marketing
8 4 (1.39%) Military
9 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.05%) Publishing
10 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.35%) Back Office
11 1 (0.35%) Front Office
11 1 (0.35%) Law
11 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (27.53%) Developer
2 37 (12.89%) Data Engineer
3 36 (12.54%) Senior
4 31 (10.80%) DBA
5 20 (6.97%) Architect
6 19 (6.62%) SQL Developer
7 18 (6.27%) Administrator
7 18 (6.27%) Lead
8 15 (5.23%) SQL DBA
9 14 (4.88%) Consultant
10 13 (4.53%) Oracle Developer
11 11 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.83%) Senior Data Engineer
11 11 (3.83%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.48%) Linux Engineer
13 9 (3.14%) .NET Developer
13 9 (3.14%) Data Warehouse Developer
13 9 (3.14%) Lead Developer
13 9 (3.14%) Oracle DBA
13 9 (3.14%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.15%) REST
2 31 (10.80%) Terraform
3 23 (8.01%) .NET
4 20 (6.97%) Kafka
4 20 (6.97%) SOAP
5 18 (6.27%) Middleware
5 18 (6.27%) Web Services
6 16 (5.57%) JSON
7 13 (4.53%) XML
8 11 (3.83%) Spring
9 10 (3.48%) PySpark
9 10 (3.48%) React
9 10 (3.48%) RESTful
9 10 (3.48%) Spring Boot
10 9 (3.14%) BAPI
10 9 (3.14%) Node.js
11 8 (2.79%) .NET Framework
12 6 (2.09%) IDoc
12 6 (2.09%) OAuth
12 6 (2.09%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.01%) Replication
2 19 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.27%) Cloud Native
4 16 (5.57%) Clustering
5 14 (4.88%) Data Centre
5 14 (4.88%) Data Structures
6 11 (3.83%) Mainframe
6 11 (3.83%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.14%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.44%) CUDA
8 7 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.44%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.74%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.74%) PKI
10 5 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.39%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 65 (22.65%) Linux
2 35 (12.20%) Windows
3 24 (8.36%) Windows Server
4 20 (6.97%) Unix
5 13 (4.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (3.14%) zOS
7 4 (1.39%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.05%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (1.05%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (1.05%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (1.05%) VMS
8 3 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.70%) CentOS
9 2 (0.70%) MVS
9 2 (0.70%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.35%) AIX
10 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.35%) Solaris
10 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (31.36%) CI/CD
2 76 (26.48%) Data Modelling
3 74 (25.78%) DevOps
4 66 (23.00%) ETL
5 60 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (19.51%) Analytics
7 52 (18.12%) Migration
8 47 (16.38%) Agile
8 47 (16.38%) High Availability
9 42 (14.63%) Root Cause Analysis
10 40 (13.94%) Data Pipeline
11 35 (12.20%) Observability
12 33 (11.50%) Capacity Planning
12 33 (11.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (11.15%) Business Intelligence
13 32 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
14 30 (10.45%) Validation
15 29 (10.10%) AI
15 29 (10.10%) Data Engineering
15 29 (10.10%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 126 (43.90%) SQL
2 78 (27.18%) Python
3 24 (8.36%) PowerShell
3 24 (8.36%) T-SQL
4 22 (7.67%) Java
5 21 (7.32%) PL/SQL
6 20 (6.97%) C#
7 19 (6.62%) Bash
8 15 (5.23%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.83%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.79%) ABAP
10 8 (2.79%) Perl
11 7 (2.44%) C++
12 5 (1.74%) C
12 5 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.74%) JCL
13 4 (1.39%) REXX
13 4 (1.39%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.05%) Embedded C
14 3 (1.05%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 87 (30.31%) Security Cleared
2 80 (27.87%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (4.88%) Degree
5 11 (3.83%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.14%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.74%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.39%) OCP
10 4 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.39%) SnowPro
11 3 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.70%) CISM
12 2 (0.70%) CISSP
13 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (15.68%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.88%) QA
3 9 (3.14%) GDPR
4 4 (1.39%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.39%) GMP
4 4 (1.39%) GxP
4 4 (1.39%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 4 (1.39%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.39%) SLA
5 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.35%) GRC
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.35%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) PSD2
6 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 25 (8.71%) Docker
2 15 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.18%) vSphere
4 10 (3.48%) Active Directory
5 9 (3.14%) VMware NSX
6 8 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.79%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.44%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (2.09%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (1.39%) RACF
10 3 (1.05%) ACF2
10 3 (1.05%) Firmware
10 3 (1.05%) Varnish
11 2 (0.70%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.70%) SRDF
12 1 (0.35%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.35%) Postfix
12 1 (0.35%) XenApp
12 1 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (10.10%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.41%) Ansible
3 13 (4.53%) Prometheus
4 11 (3.83%) Grafana
5 7 (2.44%) Data Guard
6 6 (2.09%) PowerCLI
6 6 (2.09%) Puppet
7 5 (1.74%) Control-M
7 5 (1.74%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.74%) vMotion
8 4 (1.39%) Kibana
8 4 (1.39%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.05%) Argo
9 3 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.70%) CA Wily
10 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.70%) Nagios
10 2 (0.70%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 68 (23.69%) Oracle
2 52 (18.12%) Microsoft
3 27 (9.41%) VMware
4 26 (9.06%) SAP
5 14 (4.88%) Informatica
6 12 (4.18%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.83%) IBM
8 10 (3.48%) Databricks
9 9 (3.14%) MuleSoft
9 9 (3.14%) Red Hat
9 9 (3.14%) Splunk
10 7 (2.44%) Dell
11 6 (2.09%) Adobe
11 6 (2.09%) NVIDIA
11 6 (2.09%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.74%) 3PAR
12 5 (1.74%) Sybase
13 4 (1.39%) Cisco
13 4 (1.39%) Google
13 4 (1.39%) Nimble Storage