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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 119 173
Rank change year-on-year -8 +54 +49
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 296 221 169
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.20% 2.25% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 2.45% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 129 120
10th Percentile £400 £373 £372
25th Percentile £437 £431 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £600
90th Percentile £690 £755 £663
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £30.13 £49.00 -
25th Percentile £39.31 £56.88 £62.50
Median hourly rate £49.00 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £53.00 £73.75 £87.50
90th Percentile - £76.00 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -45.36% +13.64% -13.54%

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 12,092 9,024 11,307
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.90% 91.98% 87.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,594 6,025 7,497
10th Percentile £356 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 709 287 345
10th Percentile £16.33 £12.62 £18.50
25th Percentile £30.00 £18.17 £30.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £35.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -18.60% -14.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 (4.73%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.72%) Confluence
3 7 (2.36%) Apache
3 7 (2.36%) CICS
4 5 (1.69%) SAS
4 5 (1.69%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.35%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (1.01%) IIS
6 3 (1.01%) NetWeaver
6 3 (1.01%) nginx
6 3 (1.01%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.01%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.68%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.68%) WebSphere Portal
8 1 (0.34%) FileNet
8 1 (0.34%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (6.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.69%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.35%) SAP CRM
4 3 (1.01%) Aladdin
4 3 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.01%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.68%) Cerner Millennium
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.34%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.34%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.34%) Magento
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.34%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.34%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 97 (32.77%) Azure
2 75 (25.34%) AWS
3 29 (9.80%) GCP
4 27 (9.12%) Power Platform
5 24 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (6.42%) dbt
7 18 (6.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (5.74%) GitHub
9 16 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (5.41%) Amazon S3
9 16 (5.41%) Serverless
10 13 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (4.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (4.39%) Snowflake
11 9 (3.04%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.03%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 6 (2.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.73%) Firewall
2 12 (4.05%) Network Security
3 10 (3.38%) DNS
3 10 (3.38%) SSL
4 6 (2.03%) HTTP
5 5 (1.69%) BGP
5 5 (1.69%) OSPF
5 5 (1.69%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.35%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.35%) ICMP
6 4 (1.35%) SNMP
6 4 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.35%) VPN
6 4 (1.35%) VXLAN
7 3 (1.01%) Bluetooth
7 3 (1.01%) DHCP
7 3 (1.01%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.01%) Internet
7 3 (1.01%) SAN
7 3 (1.01%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (17.91%) Data Warehouse
1 53 (17.91%) SQL Server
2 31 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (9.80%) Relational Database
4 25 (8.45%) Power BI
5 20 (6.76%) Oracle Reports
6 19 (6.42%) Oracle Database
7 15 (5.07%) Azure SQL Database
7 15 (5.07%) MySQL
8 14 (4.73%) Db2
8 14 (4.73%) Oracle ODI
9 13 (4.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (4.39%) Star Schema
10 10 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (3.04%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (3.04%) SAP HANA
11 9 (3.04%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (2.70%) Data Lake
13 7 (2.36%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 39 (13.18%) Git
2 20 (6.76%) GitLab
3 18 (6.08%) JIRA
4 16 (5.41%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.69%) Postman
6 4 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.35%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.01%) JMeter
7 3 (1.01%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.01%) Maven
7 3 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.68%) Flyway
8 2 (0.68%) Introscope
8 2 (0.68%) JUnit
8 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.68%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.34%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.34%) Toad
General
1 80 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 62 (20.95%) Finance
3 44 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.12%) Banking
5 20 (6.76%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.36%) Retail
7 6 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.69%) Marketing
8 5 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.35%) Legal
9 4 (1.35%) Military
10 3 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.01%) Publishing
11 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.34%) Front Office
12 1 (0.34%) Games
12 1 (0.34%) Law
12 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 79 (26.69%) Developer
2 38 (12.84%) Data Engineer
3 36 (12.16%) Senior
4 32 (10.81%) DBA
5 21 (7.09%) Architect
6 19 (6.42%) Lead
6 19 (6.42%) SQL Developer
7 18 (6.08%) Administrator
8 15 (5.07%) Consultant
8 15 (5.07%) SQL DBA
9 14 (4.73%) Oracle Developer
10 11 (3.72%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (3.38%) Linux Engineer
11 10 (3.38%) Senior Data Engineer
12 9 (3.04%) .NET Developer
12 9 (3.04%) Data Warehouse Developer
12 9 (3.04%) Oracle DBA
12 9 (3.04%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.04%) SC Cleared DBA
12 9 (3.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (11.15%) Terraform
2 30 (10.14%) REST
3 23 (7.77%) .NET
4 19 (6.42%) Kafka
4 19 (6.42%) SOAP
5 18 (6.08%) Middleware
5 18 (6.08%) Web Services
6 16 (5.41%) JSON
7 13 (4.39%) RESTful
8 11 (3.72%) XML
9 10 (3.38%) React
9 10 (3.38%) Spring
10 9 (3.04%) BAPI
10 9 (3.04%) Node.js
10 9 (3.04%) PySpark
10 9 (3.04%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.36%) .NET Framework
12 6 (2.03%) IDoc
12 6 (2.03%) OAuth
12 6 (2.03%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.77%) Replication
2 19 (6.42%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.74%) Clustering
5 15 (5.07%) Data Centre
6 14 (4.73%) Data Structures
7 12 (4.05%) Mainframe
8 10 (3.38%) Onboarding
9 9 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (2.70%) Management Information System
11 7 (2.36%) CUDA
11 7 (2.36%) Product Ownership
12 6 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.69%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.69%) Online Banking
13 5 (1.69%) PKI
13 5 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (21.28%) Linux
2 33 (11.15%) Windows
3 22 (7.43%) Windows Server
4 20 (6.76%) Unix
5 13 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.38%) zOS
7 4 (1.35%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (1.01%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (1.01%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (1.01%) VMS
9 2 (0.68%) CentOS
9 2 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.68%) MVS
9 2 (0.68%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.34%) AIX
10 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.34%) Solaris
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (31.08%) CI/CD
2 79 (26.69%) Data Modelling
3 75 (25.34%) DevOps
4 68 (22.97%) ETL
5 59 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (18.92%) Analytics
7 54 (18.24%) Migration
8 49 (16.55%) High Availability
9 46 (15.54%) Agile
10 43 (14.53%) Data Pipeline
11 39 (13.18%) Root Cause Analysis
12 35 (11.82%) Capacity Planning
12 35 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
14 33 (11.15%) Observability
15 32 (10.81%) AI
16 31 (10.47%) Data Engineering
16 31 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
16 31 (10.47%) Validation
17 30 (10.14%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 127 (42.91%) SQL
2 79 (26.69%) Python
3 25 (8.45%) PowerShell
3 25 (8.45%) T-SQL
4 24 (8.11%) Java
5 21 (7.09%) PL/SQL
6 20 (6.76%) C#
7 19 (6.42%) Bash
8 17 (5.74%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.72%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.70%) ABAP
10 8 (2.70%) Perl
11 7 (2.36%) C++
12 6 (2.03%) C
12 6 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (2.03%) JCL
13 4 (1.35%) Bicep
13 4 (1.35%) REXX
13 4 (1.35%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.01%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 87 (29.39%) Security Cleared
2 80 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.07%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (4.73%) Degree
5 10 (3.38%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.38%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.35%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.35%) OCP
9 4 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.35%) SnowPro
10 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.68%) CISM
11 2 (0.68%) CISSP
12 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (15.54%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.39%) QA
3 9 (3.04%) GDPR
4 4 (1.35%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.35%) SLA
5 3 (1.01%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 3 (1.01%) GMP
5 3 (1.01%) GxP
5 3 (1.01%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
6 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.34%) NIST
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (8.78%) Docker
2 16 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.05%) vSphere
4 11 (3.72%) Active Directory
5 9 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (3.04%) VMware NSX
6 8 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.36%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (2.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (1.35%) Firmware
9 4 (1.35%) RACF
10 3 (1.01%) ACF2
10 3 (1.01%) Varnish
11 2 (0.68%) NFS
11 2 (0.68%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.68%) SRDF
12 1 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.34%) Postfix
12 1 (0.34%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 29 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.12%) Ansible
3 12 (4.05%) Prometheus
4 11 (3.72%) Grafana
5 7 (2.36%) Data Guard
5 7 (2.36%) PowerCLI
6 6 (2.03%) Puppet
6 6 (2.03%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.69%) Control-M
7 5 (1.69%) vMotion
8 4 (1.35%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.01%) Argo
9 3 (1.01%) Kibana
9 3 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.68%) CA Wily
10 2 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.68%) SCOM
10 2 (0.68%) SnapMirror
10 2 (0.68%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 67 (22.64%) Oracle
2 55 (18.58%) Microsoft
3 28 (9.46%) VMware
4 27 (9.12%) SAP
5 14 (4.73%) Informatica
6 12 (4.05%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.72%) IBM
8 10 (3.38%) Databricks
9 9 (3.04%) MuleSoft
9 9 (3.04%) Red Hat
10 7 (2.36%) Dell
10 7 (2.36%) Google
10 7 (2.36%) Splunk
11 6 (2.03%) Adobe
11 6 (2.03%) NVIDIA
11 6 (2.03%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.69%) 3PAR
12 5 (1.69%) Sybase
13 4 (1.35%) Cisco
13 4 (1.35%) Nimble Storage