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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 158 246
Rank change year-on-year +41 +88 +6
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 227 167 120
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.24% 1.52% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 1.70% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 98 83
10th Percentile £371 £371 £323
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -16.28%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £575
90th Percentile £691 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43.75 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £60.00
75th Percentile £51.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £64.13 £63.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +0.60% +6.24% -14.29%

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 9,155 9,844 14,171
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.28% 89.58% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,014 6,207 9,574
10th Percentile £330 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 184 378
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.65 £15.95
25th Percentile £20.36 £22.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.14 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.37% -29.72% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%

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 15 January 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 13 (5.73%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.41%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.64%) Apache
4 4 (1.76%) IIS
5 3 (1.32%) CICS
5 3 (1.32%) Confluence
5 3 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.88%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.88%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.44%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.44%) CMS
7 1 (0.44%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.44%) nginx
7 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.44%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.44%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (2.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.76%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.32%) BASE24
3 3 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.88%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.44%) Magento
5 1 (0.44%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.44%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.44%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.44%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.44%) SAP VC
5 1 (0.44%) Shopify
5 1 (0.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 81 (35.68%) Azure
2 76 (33.48%) AWS
3 16 (7.05%) GCP
3 16 (7.05%) Power Platform
4 14 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (6.17%) Snowflake
5 13 (5.73%) Amazon S3
5 13 (5.73%) GitHub
5 13 (5.73%) Serverless
6 12 (5.29%) dbt
7 11 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (3.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.08%) SaaS
10 6 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.61%) Firewall
2 7 (3.08%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.64%) BGP
4 5 (2.20%) HTTP
4 5 (2.20%) Network Security
4 5 (2.20%) OSPF
4 5 (2.20%) VPN
4 5 (2.20%) Wireless
5 4 (1.76%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.76%) SSL
5 4 (1.76%) WAN
6 3 (1.32%) DNS
6 3 (1.32%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.32%) Internet
6 3 (1.32%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.88%) 802.11
7 2 (0.88%) LAN
7 2 (0.88%) MPLS
7 2 (0.88%) SAN
7 2 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.78%) MongoDB
2 26 (11.45%) Relational Database
2 26 (11.45%) SQL Server
3 23 (10.13%) DB2
3 23 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (9.69%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (7.49%) Oracle Database
6 13 (5.73%) Power BI
7 12 (5.29%) Data Lake
8 11 (4.85%) NoSQL
9 10 (4.41%) Big Data
10 9 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (3.08%) Hadoop
12 7 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (2.20%) MySQL
14 5 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 24 (10.57%) JUnit
2 20 (8.81%) Git
3 18 (7.93%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.52%) GitLab
5 6 (2.64%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.76%) JIRA
7 2 (0.88%) Gatling
7 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.44%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.44%) LSMW
8 1 (0.44%) Maven
8 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.44%) Storybook
8 1 (0.44%) Toad
8 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 85 (37.44%) Social Skills
2 68 (29.96%) Finance
3 45 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (18.50%) Banking
5 24 (10.57%) Public Sector
6 20 (8.81%) Investment Banking
7 11 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.41%) Front Office
9 8 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.64%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.76%) Legal
12 4 (1.76%) Marketing
12 4 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.32%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.44%) Billing
14 1 (0.44%) Electronics
14 1 (0.44%) Publishing
14 1 (0.44%) Retail
14 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (30.40%) Developer
2 30 (13.22%) Java Developer
3 27 (11.89%) Data Engineer
4 25 (11.01%) Architect
4 25 (11.01%) Senior
5 21 (9.25%) SQL Developer
6 19 (8.37%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 18 (7.93%) Senior Developer
8 17 (7.49%) Consultant
8 17 (7.49%) Lead
9 16 (7.05%) DBA
10 13 (5.73%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (4.41%) Oracle DBA
11 10 (4.41%) Senior SQL Developer
12 9 (3.96%) Linux Developer
12 9 (3.96%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
12 9 (3.96%) Sybase Developer
13 8 (3.52%) Administrator
14 7 (3.08%) Java Engineer
15 6 (2.64%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.42%) Kafka
1 35 (15.42%) Spring
2 19 (8.37%) RESTful
3 18 (7.93%) JMS
4 16 (7.05%) REST
4 16 (7.05%) Spring Boot
5 14 (6.17%) .NET
6 10 (4.41%) React
7 9 (3.96%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (3.08%) OAuth
8 7 (3.08%) OpenID
9 6 (2.64%) Jest
9 6 (2.64%) JSON
9 6 (2.64%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.20%) .NET Framework
10 5 (2.20%) AWS CDK
10 5 (2.20%) HTML
10 5 (2.20%) PySpark
10 5 (2.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.45%) Data Structures
2 18 (7.93%) Equities
3 14 (6.17%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (5.73%) Replication
5 10 (4.41%) Mainframe
6 8 (3.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.76%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.32%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.32%) EMV
8 3 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.32%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.32%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 51 (22.47%) Linux
2 18 (7.93%) Windows
3 9 (3.96%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.52%) Unix
5 7 (3.08%) zOS
6 4 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.76%) VMS
7 2 (0.88%) AIX
7 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.44%) Android
8 1 (0.44%) CentOS
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (31.28%) CI/CD
2 66 (29.07%) DevOps
3 57 (25.11%) Agile
3 57 (25.11%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (19.82%) Data Modelling
5 34 (14.98%) Migration
6 33 (14.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (12.78%) Analytics
7 29 (12.78%) Data Pipeline
7 29 (12.78%) Observability
8 28 (12.33%) Containerisation
9 27 (11.89%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (11.89%) ETL
10 24 (10.57%) Microservices
11 23 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (9.69%) Database Tuning
12 22 (9.69%) High Availability
12 22 (9.69%) Open Source
12 22 (9.69%) SDLC
13 21 (9.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 95 (41.85%) SQL
2 69 (30.40%) Python
3 51 (22.47%) Java
4 22 (9.69%) Shell Script
5 15 (6.61%) C#
5 15 (6.61%) PL/SQL
5 15 (6.61%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.96%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.08%) ABAP
8 6 (2.64%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.20%) Bash
9 5 (2.20%) Perl
9 5 (2.20%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.76%) C
10 4 (1.76%) COBOL
10 4 (1.76%) REXX
11 3 (1.32%) CLIST
11 3 (1.32%) JCL
11 3 (1.32%) PHP
11 3 (1.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.22%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.69%) Degree
4 8 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.08%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.20%) OCP
6 5 (2.20%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.32%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.32%) CCNP
8 3 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.32%) CISSP
8 3 (1.32%) VCAP
8 3 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.88%) CCIE
9 2 (0.88%) GSEC
9 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.88%) OCA
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.57%) QA
2 20 (8.81%) Data Quality
3 12 (5.29%) GDPR
4 10 (4.41%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.64%) SLA
6 5 (2.20%) ISO 8583
6 5 (2.20%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.76%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.88%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.88%) PSD2
8 2 (0.88%) SEPA
9 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 38 (16.74%) Docker
2 10 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.96%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.64%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (2.20%) RACF
5 5 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.76%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 4 (1.76%) NDS
6 4 (1.76%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 4 (1.76%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.32%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.32%) KVM
8 2 (0.88%) HDFS
8 2 (0.88%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.44%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.44%) Lustre
9 1 (0.44%) Postfix
9 1 (0.44%) Squid
9 1 (0.44%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (16.30%) Terraform
2 26 (11.45%) Ansible
2 26 (11.45%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.52%) Grafana
4 7 (3.08%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (3.08%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.64%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.20%) Argo
6 5 (2.20%) Data Guard
6 5 (2.20%) Kibana
6 5 (2.20%) logstash
6 5 (2.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 5 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.88%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 2 (0.88%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (0.88%) Oozie
8 2 (0.88%) SCCM
8 2 (0.88%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (14.10%) Oracle
2 26 (11.45%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.93%) Sybase
4 14 (6.17%) Databricks
5 11 (4.85%) SAP
5 11 (4.85%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.41%) VMware
7 8 (3.52%) IBM
8 7 (3.08%) Cisco
9 6 (2.64%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.20%) Broadcom
11 4 (1.76%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.76%) NetIQ
11 4 (1.76%) Okta
11 4 (1.76%) OpenText
11 4 (1.76%) Palo Alto
12 3 (1.32%) Adobe
12 3 (1.32%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.32%) Solace
12 3 (1.32%) Zscaler