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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 138 201
Rank change year-on-year +4 +63 +57
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 250 184 160
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.14% 1.82% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.01% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 111 113
10th Percentile £377 £375 £350
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 £588 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -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 10,366 9,138 14,003
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.75% 90.48% 87.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,754 6,277 9,330
10th Percentile £350 £331 £331
25th Percentile £417 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.37%
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 474 209 549
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.44 £14.24
25th Percentile £25.41 £21.25 £23.25
Median hourly rate £57.05 £39.04 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +46.13% +2.41% -30.69%
75th Percentile £68.56 £66.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% -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 27 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 27 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 (5.60%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.60%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.60%) NetWeaver
3 3 (1.20%) CICS
3 3 (1.20%) IIS
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.20%) SAS
3 3 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.80%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.80%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.80%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.80%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.80%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.40%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.60%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.20%) BASE24
3 3 (1.20%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.80%) 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 91 (36.40%) Azure
2 84 (33.60%) AWS
3 26 (10.40%) Power Platform
4 25 (10.00%) GCP
5 21 (8.40%) Amazon S3
6 20 (8.00%) Snowflake
7 18 (7.20%) dbt
8 15 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (5.60%) Serverless
10 13 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (4.40%) GitHub
12 10 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (2.40%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (2.40%) Azure Storage
15 6 (2.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (2.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.80%) Firewall
2 11 (4.40%) VPN
3 8 (3.20%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.80%) Network Security
5 6 (2.40%) BGP
5 6 (2.40%) SSL
6 5 (2.00%) OSPF
6 5 (2.00%) SD-WAN
6 5 (2.00%) WAN
7 4 (1.60%) DNS
7 4 (1.60%) HTTP
7 4 (1.60%) Internet
7 4 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.60%) Wireless
8 3 (1.20%) LAN
8 3 (1.20%) SAN
9 2 (0.80%) 802.11
9 2 (0.80%) DHCP
9 2 (0.80%) IPsec
9 2 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.20%) SQL Server
2 28 (11.20%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (8.00%) Power BI
5 18 (7.20%) Relational Database
6 15 (6.00%) Oracle Database
7 13 (5.20%) Data Lake
8 12 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (4.80%) Star Schema
9 11 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (4.00%) DB2
10 10 (4.00%) MongoDB
10 10 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (3.60%) DynamoDB
11 9 (3.60%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (2.80%) NoSQL
13 6 (2.40%) Delta Lake
13 6 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 27 (10.80%) Git
2 16 (6.40%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.20%) GitLab
4 10 (4.00%) JUnit
5 5 (2.00%) JIRA
6 4 (1.60%) JMeter
7 3 (1.20%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.20%) Maven
8 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.80%) Gatling
8 2 (0.80%) Gradle
8 2 (0.80%) Introscope
8 2 (0.80%) Mockito
8 2 (0.80%) 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 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 65 (26.00%) Finance
3 32 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (12.40%) Banking
5 20 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.00%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.00%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.00%) Marketing
8 5 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.60%) Legal
9 4 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.20%) Publishing
10 3 (1.20%) Retail
11 2 (0.80%) Billing
11 2 (0.80%) Front Office
12 1 (0.40%) German Language
12 1 (0.40%) Law
12 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (24.40%) Developer
2 42 (16.80%) Data Engineer
3 28 (11.20%) Architect
4 27 (10.80%) Senior
5 24 (9.60%) Lead
6 19 (7.60%) DBA
7 14 (5.60%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.40%) Consultant
8 11 (4.40%) SQL DBA
9 10 (4.00%) Oracle Developer
10 9 (3.60%) Senior Developer
10 9 (3.60%) Snowflake Engineer
11 8 (3.20%) Administrator
12 7 (2.80%) C# Developer
12 7 (2.80%) Data Architect
12 7 (2.80%) Oracle DBA
12 7 (2.80%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 7 (2.80%) SQL Developer
13 6 (2.40%) Python Engineer
13 6 (2.40%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.00%) Kafka
2 17 (6.80%) RESTful
3 16 (6.40%) Spring
4 12 (4.80%) .NET
4 12 (4.80%) JSON
4 12 (4.80%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.40%) PySpark
5 11 (4.40%) REST
6 8 (3.20%) React
6 8 (3.20%) SOAP
7 6 (2.40%) JMS
8 5 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.00%) Node.js
8 5 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (2.00%) SAP Basis
8 5 (2.00%) Web Services
9 4 (1.60%) 802.1X
9 4 (1.60%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.60%) Jest
9 4 (1.60%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.60%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (4.40%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.00%) Clustering
3 10 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.00%) Replication
4 9 (3.60%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.20%) Mainframe
6 7 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.40%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.00%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.60%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.60%) DataPower
9 4 (1.60%) Equities
9 4 (1.60%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.60%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.60%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.40%) Linux
2 28 (11.20%) Windows
3 15 (6.00%) Unix
4 13 (5.20%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.40%) zOS
7 4 (1.60%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.20%) Android
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.80%) AIX
9 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.80%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.80%) 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 79 (31.60%) CI/CD
2 61 (24.40%) Data Modelling
2 61 (24.40%) DevOps
3 56 (22.40%) Migration
4 43 (17.20%) Data Pipeline
5 42 (16.80%) ETL
6 40 (16.00%) Data Engineering
7 39 (15.60%) Analytics
8 37 (14.80%) Agile
9 36 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (12.80%) High Availability
10 32 (12.80%) Performance Optimisation
11 30 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (10.80%) AI
13 24 (9.60%) Technical Leadership
14 22 (8.80%) Containerisation
14 22 (8.80%) Data Integration
14 22 (8.80%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (8.80%) Observability
15 20 (8.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 111 (44.40%) SQL
2 80 (32.00%) Python
3 34 (13.60%) Java
4 22 (8.80%) PowerShell
5 15 (6.00%) PL/SQL
6 14 (5.60%) C#
6 14 (5.60%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.00%) T-SQL
8 9 (3.60%) Bash
9 6 (2.40%) C
9 6 (2.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.40%) Perl
10 5 (2.00%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.00%) JCL
11 4 (1.60%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.20%) COBOL
12 3 (1.20%) PHP
12 3 (1.20%) Rust
12 3 (1.20%) Scala
13 2 (0.80%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 48 (19.20%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.40%) Degree
4 7 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.40%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.60%) VCAP
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.20%) CCIE
8 3 (1.20%) CCNP
8 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.20%) CISSP
8 3 (1.20%) OCP
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.20%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.20%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.40%) QA
3 11 (4.40%) GDPR
4 7 (2.80%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.40%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.00%) ISO 8583
6 5 (2.00%) SLA
7 4 (1.60%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.80%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.80%) PSD2
8 2 (0.80%) SEPA
9 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.40%) COBIT
9 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (11.20%) Docker
2 15 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.60%) Active Directory
4 8 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.40%) vSphere
6 5 (2.00%) KVM
6 5 (2.00%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.60%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.80%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.80%) NDS
9 2 (0.80%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 2 (0.80%) NFS
9 2 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.80%) RACF
10 1 (0.40%) etcd
10 1 (0.40%) Firmware
10 1 (0.40%) Lustre
10 1 (0.40%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 30 (12.00%) Terraform
2 26 (10.40%) Kubernetes
3 25 (10.00%) Ansible
4 9 (3.60%) Grafana
5 7 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.40%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.00%) PowerCLI
8 4 (1.60%) Argo
8 4 (1.60%) Kibana
8 4 (1.60%) logstash
8 4 (1.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.80%) CA Wily
10 2 (0.80%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (0.80%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.80%) SCCM
10 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.80%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 43 (17.20%) Oracle
2 41 (16.40%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.20%) VMware
4 17 (6.80%) Databricks
5 13 (5.20%) Google
6 11 (4.40%) SAP
6 11 (4.40%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.60%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.60%) Sybase
8 7 (2.80%) Cisco
8 7 (2.80%) IBM
9 6 (2.40%) Citrix
9 6 (2.40%) Informatica
10 5 (2.00%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.00%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.60%) Broadcom
11 4 (1.60%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.60%) Juniper
11 4 (1.60%) Splunk
11 4 (1.60%) Zscaler