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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 166 251
Rank change year-on-year +50 +85 +18
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 240 163 149
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.35% 1.34% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 1.52% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 91 104
10th Percentile £375 £383 £363
25th Percentile £447 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -3.16% -12.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £538
90th Percentile £708 £663 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £46.63 - -
25th Percentile £50.94 £62.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £61.25 £75.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £70.94 £87.50 £69.06
90th Percentile £74.88 - £69.63
UK median hourly rate £74.63 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year +21.15% +2.67% -

All Process and 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 9,371 10,713 16,406
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.74% 87.83% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,219 6,683 11,433
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £744 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 213 401
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.65 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £26.24
Median hourly rate £37.50 £39.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -23.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.75 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.38% +24.04%

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 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025.

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 17 (7.08%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.58%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.33%) Apache
4 5 (2.08%) CICS
5 4 (1.67%) Confluence
6 3 (1.25%) SAS
7 2 (0.83%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.42%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.42%) CMS
8 1 (0.42%) IIS
8 1 (0.42%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.42%) nginx
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.42%) SugarCRM
8 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.42%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.67%) SAP MDG
2 4 (1.67%) SAP PLM
2 4 (1.67%) SAP VC
3 2 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.83%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.83%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.42%) Magento
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.42%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.42%) Shopify
4 1 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 74 (30.83%) Azure
2 67 (27.92%) AWS
3 18 (7.50%) GitHub
4 17 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (6.25%) GCP
5 15 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.25%) Snowflake
6 14 (5.83%) Amazon S3
6 14 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (5.00%) dbt
7 12 (5.00%) Serverless
8 11 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (3.75%) Datadog
11 7 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (2.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.33%) Firewall
2 6 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.08%) HTTP
4 4 (1.67%) DNS
4 4 (1.67%) SSL
5 3 (1.25%) Internet
6 2 (0.83%) DHCP
6 2 (0.83%) Network Security
6 2 (0.83%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.83%) VPN
6 2 (0.83%) WebEx
7 1 (0.42%) FTP
7 1 (0.42%) LAN
7 1 (0.42%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.42%) SMTP
7 1 (0.42%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (16.67%) DB2
1 40 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 40 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 29 (12.08%) SQL Server
3 24 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (9.58%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (6.67%) Oracle Database
6 14 (5.83%) Power BI
7 11 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (4.17%) MySQL
9 9 (3.75%) Data Lake
10 8 (3.33%) Big Data
10 8 (3.33%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (2.92%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (2.92%) Hadoop
11 7 (2.92%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (2.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 5 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 39 (16.25%) JUnit
2 28 (11.67%) Git
3 16 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.33%) GitLab
5 7 (2.92%) JIRA
6 6 (2.50%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.25%) Maven
8 2 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.83%) GCC
8 2 (0.83%) git-flow
8 2 (0.83%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.83%) LSMW
8 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.42%) Gatling
9 1 (0.42%) Postman
9 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.42%) Storybook
9 1 (0.42%) tSQLt
General
1 102 (42.50%) Social Skills
2 76 (31.67%) Finance
3 58 (24.17%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (21.67%) Banking
5 37 (15.42%) Investment Banking
6 22 (9.17%) Public Sector
7 18 (7.50%) Front Office
8 10 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.92%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.08%) Marketing
12 3 (1.25%) German Language
12 3 (1.25%) Legal
12 3 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.83%) Automotive
13 2 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.83%) Electronics
13 2 (0.83%) Retail
13 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.42%) Billing
Job Titles
1 87 (36.25%) Developer
2 47 (19.58%) Java Developer
3 37 (15.42%) SQL Developer
4 36 (15.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 34 (14.17%) Senior
6 26 (10.83%) Senior Developer
7 25 (10.42%) Data Engineer
8 22 (9.17%) Consultant
9 19 (7.92%) DBA
9 19 (7.92%) Lead
9 19 (7.92%) Senior Java Developer
10 18 (7.50%) Senior SQL Developer
11 16 (6.67%) Linux Developer
11 16 (6.67%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
11 16 (6.67%) Sybase Developer
12 14 (5.83%) Architect
13 12 (5.00%) Administrator
14 9 (3.75%) SAP Consultant
15 8 (3.33%) Java Engineer
16 7 (2.92%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (20.83%) Kafka
2 48 (20.00%) Spring
3 33 (13.75%) JMS
4 22 (9.17%) RESTful
5 15 (6.25%) REST
6 14 (5.83%) Spring Boot
7 11 (4.58%) React
8 9 (3.75%) .NET
8 9 (3.75%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (3.33%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (2.92%) HTML
10 7 (2.92%) OAuth
10 7 (2.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 6 (2.50%) AWS CDK
11 6 (2.50%) CSS
11 6 (2.50%) Web Services
12 5 (2.08%) Jest
12 5 (2.08%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.08%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.25%) Data Structures
2 32 (13.33%) Equities
3 21 (8.75%) Replication
4 17 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (6.25%) Clustering
6 14 (5.83%) Cloud Native
7 12 (5.00%) Mainframe
8 10 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (2.92%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.67%) Algorithms
13 4 (1.67%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.67%) Product Ownership
14 3 (1.25%) Legacy Code
14 3 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
14 3 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
15 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
15 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 68 (28.33%) Linux
2 13 (5.42%) Windows
3 8 (3.33%) zOS
4 6 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.08%) Unix
6 3 (1.25%) AIX
6 3 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.25%) VMS
7 2 (0.83%) OS/2
7 2 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.42%) CentOS
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (30.42%) DevOps
3 71 (29.58%) Agile
4 70 (29.17%) CI/CD
5 43 (17.92%) Data Modelling
6 40 (16.67%) Database Tuning
7 36 (15.00%) Multithreading
8 35 (14.58%) Migration
9 34 (14.17%) Open Source
9 34 (14.17%) SDLC
10 32 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (12.08%) Analytics
13 28 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
13 28 (11.67%) ETL
14 26 (10.83%) Containerisation
15 23 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (9.58%) High Availability
15 23 (9.58%) Microservices
16 22 (9.17%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 103 (42.92%) SQL
2 81 (33.75%) Python
3 75 (31.25%) Java
4 33 (13.75%) Shell Script
5 12 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 11 (4.58%) ABAP
6 11 (4.58%) C#
7 10 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.17%) PL/SQL
8 6 (2.50%) Bash
8 6 (2.50%) Perl
8 6 (2.50%) REXX
9 5 (2.08%) JCL
9 5 (2.08%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.67%) Assembly Language
10 4 (1.67%) CLIST
11 3 (1.25%) Korn
11 3 (1.25%) PL/1
11 3 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (12.08%) Security Cleared
2 26 (10.83%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.08%) Degree
4 7 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.25%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.25%) OCP
7 3 (1.25%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.83%) OCA
8 2 (0.83%) VCAP
8 2 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.42%) CCNP
9 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.42%) RHCE
9 1 (0.42%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.75%) QA
2 19 (7.92%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.75%) GDPR
4 8 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.50%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.67%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.67%) SLA
8 2 (0.83%) COBIT
8 2 (0.83%) HL7
8 2 (0.83%) NIST
9 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.42%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 35 (14.58%) Docker
2 10 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.50%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (2.50%) RACF
5 5 (2.08%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 4 (1.67%) NDS
6 4 (1.67%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 3 (1.25%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.83%) HDFS
8 2 (0.83%) vSphere
9 1 (0.42%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.42%) GPFS
9 1 (0.42%) KVM
9 1 (0.42%) Squid
9 1 (0.42%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (13.75%) Terraform
2 23 (9.58%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.25%) Ansible
4 8 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.50%) Data Guard
5 6 (2.50%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (2.08%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.67%) Grafana
7 4 (1.67%) Kibana
7 4 (1.67%) logstash
7 4 (1.67%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.83%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (0.83%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.83%) OMEGAMON
9 2 (0.83%) Puppet
9 2 (0.83%) SCCM
9 2 (0.83%) SCOM
9 2 (0.83%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 33 (13.75%) Sybase
2 31 (12.92%) Oracle
3 20 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 16 (6.67%) SAP
5 13 (5.42%) Databricks
6 9 (3.75%) IBM
7 7 (2.92%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.92%) VMware
8 6 (2.50%) Solace
9 5 (2.08%) Informatica
10 4 (1.67%) Bloomberg
10 4 (1.67%) Google
10 4 (1.67%) NetIQ
10 4 (1.67%) Okta
10 4 (1.67%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.67%) Refinitiv
11 3 (1.25%) Broadcom
11 3 (1.25%) OpenText
11 3 (1.25%) Teradata
11 3 (1.25%) Zscaler