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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 151 246
Rank change year-on-year +23 +95 +6
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 218 166 121
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.14% 1.52% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 1.70% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 96 83
10th Percentile £381 £369 £323
25th Percentile £425 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -16.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
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 9,165 9,790 14,470
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.15% 89.82% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,022 6,179 9,749
10th Percentile £330 £325 £349
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% - -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 331 191 414
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £15.35
25th Percentile £20.43 £23.11 £24.43
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% -24.49% -14.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +17.96%

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 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 (5.96%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.59%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.75%) Apache
4 4 (1.83%) IIS
5 3 (1.38%) CICS
5 3 (1.38%) Confluence
5 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.92%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.92%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.46%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.46%) nginx
7 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.46%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.83%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.38%) BASE24
3 3 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.38%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.92%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.46%) Magento
5 1 (0.46%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.46%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.46%) Shopify
5 1 (0.46%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 78 (35.78%) Azure
2 73 (33.49%) AWS
3 16 (7.34%) GCP
3 16 (7.34%) Power Platform
4 14 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (6.42%) Snowflake
5 12 (5.50%) Amazon S3
5 12 (5.50%) dbt
5 12 (5.50%) GitHub
5 12 (5.50%) Serverless
6 10 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (4.13%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.21%) SaaS
10 6 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.88%) Firewall
2 7 (3.21%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.29%) BGP
3 5 (2.29%) HTTP
3 5 (2.29%) Network Security
3 5 (2.29%) VPN
3 5 (2.29%) Wireless
4 4 (1.83%) OSPF
4 4 (1.83%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.83%) SSL
4 4 (1.83%) WAN
5 3 (1.38%) DNS
5 3 (1.38%) Internet
6 2 (0.92%) 802.11
6 2 (0.92%) DHCP
6 2 (0.92%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.92%) LAN
6 2 (0.92%) MPLS
6 2 (0.92%) SAN
6 2 (0.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.30%) MongoDB
2 26 (11.93%) Relational Database
2 26 (11.93%) SQL Server
3 23 (10.55%) DB2
3 23 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (10.09%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (6.42%) Oracle Database
6 13 (5.96%) Power BI
7 12 (5.50%) Data Lake
8 11 (5.05%) NoSQL
9 10 (4.59%) Big Data
10 9 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (3.21%) Hadoop
12 7 (3.21%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (2.29%) MySQL
14 5 (2.29%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 24 (11.01%) JUnit
2 20 (9.17%) Git
3 17 (7.80%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.67%) GitLab
5 6 (2.75%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.83%) JIRA
7 2 (0.92%) Gatling
7 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.46%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.46%) LSMW
8 1 (0.46%) Maven
8 1 (0.46%) Storybook
8 1 (0.46%) Toad
8 1 (0.46%) Vagrant
General
1 81 (37.16%) Social Skills
2 67 (30.73%) Finance
3 44 (20.18%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (18.81%) Banking
5 25 (11.47%) Public Sector
6 20 (9.17%) Investment Banking
7 11 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (4.13%) Front Office
9 8 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.75%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.83%) Legal
12 4 (1.83%) Marketing
13 3 (1.38%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.46%) Electronics
14 1 (0.46%) Military
14 1 (0.46%) Publishing
14 1 (0.46%) Retail
14 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (29.82%) Developer
2 28 (12.84%) Java Developer
3 27 (12.39%) Data Engineer
4 24 (11.01%) Architect
4 24 (11.01%) Senior
5 21 (9.63%) SQL Developer
6 19 (8.72%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 17 (7.80%) Senior Developer
8 16 (7.34%) Consultant
8 16 (7.34%) Lead
9 14 (6.42%) DBA
10 12 (5.50%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (4.59%) Senior SQL Developer
12 9 (4.13%) Linux Developer
12 9 (4.13%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
12 9 (4.13%) Sybase Developer
13 8 (3.67%) Administrator
13 8 (3.67%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.67%) Oracle DBA
14 6 (2.75%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.06%) Kafka
1 35 (16.06%) Spring
2 18 (8.26%) JMS
3 17 (7.80%) RESTful
4 16 (7.34%) Spring Boot
5 14 (6.42%) REST
6 13 (5.96%) .NET
7 10 (4.59%) React
8 9 (4.13%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (3.21%) OAuth
9 7 (3.21%) OpenID
10 6 (2.75%) Jest
10 6 (2.75%) JSON
10 6 (2.75%) OAuth2
11 5 (2.29%) HTML
11 5 (2.29%) PySpark
11 5 (2.29%) SOAP
12 4 (1.83%) 802.1X
12 4 (1.83%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.93%) Data Structures
2 18 (8.26%) Equities
3 13 (5.96%) Replication
4 12 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.05%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.59%) Mainframe
7 8 (3.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.38%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.38%) Clustering
9 3 (1.38%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.38%) EMV
9 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.38%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.38%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.38%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.38%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.38%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 48 (22.02%) Linux
2 18 (8.26%) Windows
3 9 (4.13%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.67%) Unix
5 7 (3.21%) zOS
6 4 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.83%) VMS
7 2 (0.92%) AIX
7 2 (0.92%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.46%) Android
8 1 (0.46%) CentOS
8 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (31.65%) CI/CD
2 62 (28.44%) DevOps
3 55 (25.23%) Agile
4 54 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (20.18%) Data Modelling
6 33 (15.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (15.14%) Migration
7 29 (13.30%) Data Pipeline
7 29 (13.30%) Observability
8 28 (12.84%) Analytics
9 27 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (12.39%) Containerisation
9 27 (12.39%) ETL
10 23 (10.55%) Microservices
11 22 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (10.09%) Database Tuning
11 22 (10.09%) High Availability
11 22 (10.09%) Open Source
11 22 (10.09%) SDLC
12 21 (9.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 93 (42.66%) SQL
2 68 (31.19%) Python
3 50 (22.94%) Java
4 22 (10.09%) Shell Script
5 15 (6.88%) PowerShell
6 14 (6.42%) C#
7 12 (5.50%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.13%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.75%) ABAP
9 6 (2.75%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.29%) Bash
10 5 (2.29%) Perl
10 5 (2.29%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.83%) C
11 4 (1.83%) COBOL
11 4 (1.83%) REXX
12 3 (1.38%) CLIST
12 3 (1.38%) JCL
12 3 (1.38%) PHP
12 3 (1.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (16.97%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.76%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.72%) Degree
4 7 (3.21%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.38%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.38%) CCNP
7 3 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.38%) CISSP
7 3 (1.38%) OCP
7 3 (1.38%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (1.38%) VCAP
7 3 (1.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.92%) CCIE
8 2 (0.92%) GSEC
8 2 (0.92%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.46%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.55%) QA
2 20 (9.17%) Data Quality
3 12 (5.50%) GDPR
4 10 (4.59%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.75%) SLA
6 5 (2.29%) ISO 8583
6 5 (2.29%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.83%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.92%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.92%) PSD2
8 2 (0.92%) SEPA
9 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 37 (16.97%) Docker
2 10 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.13%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.29%) RACF
4 5 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.83%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 4 (1.83%) NDS
5 4 (1.83%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 4 (1.83%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.38%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.38%) KVM
7 2 (0.92%) HDFS
7 2 (0.92%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.46%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.46%) Lustre
8 1 (0.46%) Postfix
8 1 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (16.51%) Terraform
2 26 (11.93%) Kubernetes
3 24 (11.01%) Ansible
4 8 (3.67%) Grafana
5 7 (3.21%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.29%) Argo
6 5 (2.29%) Kibana
6 5 (2.29%) logstash
6 5 (2.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 5 (2.29%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (2.29%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.38%) Data Guard
7 3 (1.38%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.92%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.92%) Oozie
8 2 (0.92%) Puppet
8 2 (0.92%) SCCM
8 2 (0.92%) SCOM
Vendors
1 29 (13.30%) Oracle
2 26 (11.93%) Microsoft
3 18 (8.26%) Sybase
4 14 (6.42%) Databricks
5 11 (5.05%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.59%) SAP
6 10 (4.59%) VMware
7 8 (3.67%) IBM
8 6 (2.75%) Cisco
8 6 (2.75%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.29%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.83%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.83%) NetIQ
10 4 (1.83%) Okta
10 4 (1.83%) OpenText
10 4 (1.83%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.38%) Adobe
11 3 (1.38%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.38%) Solace
11 3 (1.38%) Zscaler