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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 139 189
Rank change year-on-year +4 +50 +52
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 241 188 170
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.03% 1.86% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 2.05% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 118 117
10th Percentile £376 £376 £334
25th Percentile £426 £436 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year - +3.84% -8.29%
75th Percentile £605 £619 £600
90th Percentile £688 £741 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile - - £49.40
25th Percentile £53.00 - £53.38
Median hourly rate £53.50 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.57% +16.67% -18.64%
75th Percentile £84.75 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -24.29% +16.67% -18.64%

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 10,524 9,176 13,728
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.43% 90.91% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,819 6,291 9,166
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £415 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £759 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 224 546
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.20 £14.43
25th Percentile £27.01 £20.32 £23.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £38.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +51.32% -0.31% -30.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.18% -5.92%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 11 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.66%) CICS
2 4 (1.66%) IIS
2 4 (1.66%) NetWeaver
2 4 (1.66%) Oracle Application Server
2 4 (1.66%) SAS
3 3 (1.24%) Apache
3 3 (1.24%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.83%) Confluence
4 2 (0.83%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.83%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.83%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.83%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.83%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.66%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.66%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.24%) BASE24
3 3 (1.24%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.83%) Magento
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.41%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.41%) Shopify
5 1 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 88 (36.51%) Azure
2 79 (32.78%) AWS
3 25 (10.37%) Power Platform
4 24 (9.96%) GCP
5 19 (7.88%) Amazon S3
6 18 (7.47%) Snowflake
7 15 (6.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (6.22%) dbt
7 15 (6.22%) Serverless
8 13 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (4.15%) GitHub
10 10 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (3.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (2.90%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.90%) PaaS
13 6 (2.49%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (2.49%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.05%) Firewall
2 12 (4.98%) VPN
3 11 (4.56%) Network Security
4 9 (3.73%) BGP
5 8 (3.32%) OSPF
6 7 (2.90%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.49%) DNS
7 6 (2.49%) SD-WAN
7 6 (2.49%) WAN
8 5 (2.07%) Ethernet VPN
8 5 (2.07%) SSL
8 5 (2.07%) VXLAN
8 5 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.66%) DHCP
9 4 (1.66%) LAN
9 4 (1.66%) Wireless
10 3 (1.24%) HTTP
10 3 (1.24%) SAN
10 3 (1.24%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.83%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.94%) SQL Server
2 28 (11.62%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (8.30%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (7.88%) Power BI
5 14 (5.81%) Oracle Database
6 13 (5.39%) Data Lake
7 12 (4.98%) Relational Database
7 12 (4.98%) Star Schema
8 11 (4.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 11 (4.56%) Snowflake Schema
9 10 (4.15%) DynamoDB
9 10 (4.15%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (4.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (3.32%) DB2
11 7 (2.90%) NoSQL
12 6 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.49%) Delta Lake
12 6 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (2.49%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 21 (8.71%) Git
2 13 (5.39%) GitLab
3 12 (4.98%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.49%) JUnit
5 4 (1.66%) JIRA
5 4 (1.66%) JMeter
6 3 (1.24%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.24%) Maven
7 2 (0.83%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.83%) Gatling
7 2 (0.83%) Gradle
7 2 (0.83%) Introscope
7 2 (0.83%) Mockito
8 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.41%) LSMW
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.41%) Postman
8 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (27.80%) Social Skills
2 55 (22.82%) Finance
3 29 (12.03%) Banking
4 27 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.30%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.49%) Marketing
8 5 (2.07%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.24%) Publishing
11 2 (0.83%) Billing
11 2 (0.83%) Law
11 2 (0.83%) Legal
11 2 (0.83%) Retail
12 1 (0.41%) Back Office
12 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Military
12 1 (0.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (21.99%) Developer
2 39 (16.18%) Data Engineer
3 29 (12.03%) Senior
4 26 (10.79%) Architect
5 23 (9.54%) Lead
6 18 (7.47%) DBA
7 11 (4.56%) Oracle Developer
8 10 (4.15%) Network Engineer
8 10 (4.15%) Snowflake Engineer
8 10 (4.15%) SQL DBA
9 9 (3.73%) Administrator
9 9 (3.73%) Consultant
9 9 (3.73%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 7 (2.90%) C# Developer
11 7 (2.90%) Oracle DBA
11 7 (2.90%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.49%) .NET Developer
12 6 (2.49%) Data Architect
13 5 (2.07%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.05%) RESTful
2 15 (6.22%) Kafka
3 13 (5.39%) JSON
4 12 (4.98%) REST
4 12 (4.98%) Spring
4 12 (4.98%) Spring Boot
5 11 (4.56%) .NET
5 11 (4.56%) SOAP
6 9 (3.73%) PySpark
7 7 (2.90%) React
8 6 (2.49%) SAP Basis
8 6 (2.49%) Web Services
9 5 (2.07%) Middleware
9 5 (2.07%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (1.66%) 802.1X
10 4 (1.66%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.66%) Entity Framework
10 4 (1.66%) Jest
10 4 (1.66%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (5.39%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.39%) Clustering
2 13 (5.39%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.56%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.15%) Mainframe
4 10 (4.15%) Replication
5 9 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.90%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.49%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.07%) DataPower
9 4 (1.66%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.66%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.66%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.66%) NHS
9 4 (1.66%) Online Banking
10 3 (1.24%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.86%) Linux
2 30 (12.45%) Windows
3 16 (6.64%) Windows Server
4 14 (5.81%) Unix
5 9 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (3.32%) zOS
7 4 (1.66%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.24%) Android
8 3 (1.24%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.83%) AIX
9 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.83%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.83%) VMS
10 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.41%) MVS
10 1 (0.41%) Solaris
10 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (30.71%) CI/CD
2 59 (24.48%) DevOps
3 56 (23.24%) Data Modelling
4 54 (22.41%) Migration
5 43 (17.84%) ETL
6 37 (15.35%) Analytics
7 36 (14.94%) Data Pipeline
7 36 (14.94%) High Availability
8 35 (14.52%) Data Engineering
9 34 (14.11%) Agile
10 33 (13.69%) Performance Optimisation
11 29 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (10.79%) AI
12 26 (10.79%) Business Intelligence
12 26 (10.79%) Technical Leadership
13 25 (10.37%) Infrastructure as Code
14 23 (9.54%) Containerisation
15 22 (9.13%) Observability
16 21 (8.71%) Validation
17 20 (8.30%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 97 (40.25%) SQL
2 71 (29.46%) Python
3 27 (11.20%) Java
4 20 (8.30%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.81%) PL/SQL
6 13 (5.39%) C#
7 12 (4.98%) Shell Script
8 10 (4.15%) T-SQL
9 9 (3.73%) Bash
10 7 (2.90%) JCL
11 6 (2.49%) C
11 6 (2.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (2.49%) Perl
12 4 (1.66%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.66%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.24%) CLIST
13 3 (1.24%) COBOL
13 3 (1.24%) REXX
13 3 (1.24%) Rust
14 2 (0.83%) Swift
Qualifications
1 52 (21.58%) Security Cleared
2 44 (18.26%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.22%) Degree
4 8 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.49%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.49%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (1.66%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.24%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.24%) CCIE
8 3 (1.24%) CCNP
8 3 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.24%) CISSP
8 3 (1.24%) OCP
8 3 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.24%) SnowPro
8 3 (1.24%) VCAP
9 2 (0.83%) CCA
9 2 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.62%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.81%) QA
3 11 (4.56%) GDPR
4 6 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.49%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.07%) ISO 8583
5 5 (2.07%) SLA
6 3 (1.24%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.83%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.83%) NIST
7 2 (0.83%) PSD2
7 2 (0.83%) SEPA
8 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.41%) COBIT
System Software
1 27 (11.20%) Docker
2 16 (6.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.98%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (3.32%) vSphere
6 7 (2.90%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.07%) KVM
7 5 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.66%) Hyper-V
9 3 (1.24%) RACF
10 2 (0.83%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.83%) NFS
10 2 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.41%) ACF2
11 1 (0.41%) Ceph
11 1 (0.41%) etcd
11 1 (0.41%) Lustre
11 1 (0.41%) NetIQ eDirectory
11 1 (0.41%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 32 (13.28%) Terraform
2 30 (12.45%) Ansible
3 25 (10.37%) Kubernetes
4 10 (4.15%) Grafana
5 8 (3.32%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.49%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.07%) PowerCLI
8 4 (1.66%) Argo
8 4 (1.66%) Kibana
8 4 (1.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 4 (1.66%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.24%) logstash
9 3 (1.24%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.24%) SCCM
9 3 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.83%) CA Wily
10 2 (0.83%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (0.83%) SCOM
10 2 (0.83%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 42 (17.43%) Oracle
2 39 (16.18%) Microsoft
3 22 (9.13%) VMware
4 15 (6.22%) Databricks
5 12 (4.98%) Google
5 12 (4.98%) SAP
6 11 (4.56%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.73%) Red Hat
8 8 (3.32%) Cisco
8 8 (3.32%) IBM
9 7 (2.90%) Citrix
10 6 (2.49%) Informatica
11 5 (2.07%) Broadcom
11 5 (2.07%) Juniper
11 5 (2.07%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.07%) Salesforce
11 5 (2.07%) Sybase
12 4 (1.66%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.66%) Splunk
13 3 (1.24%) RedGate