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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 114 182
Rank change year-on-year -27 +68 +50
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 291 225 164
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.15% 2.30% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 2.49% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 134 109
10th Percentile £400 £375 £387
25th Percentile £429 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% -7.62%
75th Percentile £553 £597 £600
90th Percentile £674 £725 £653
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +0.20% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £25.25 £49.00 -
25th Percentile £30.13 £56.88 £62.50
Median hourly rate £38.25 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.36% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £42.88 £73.75 £87.50
90th Percentile £45.65 £76.00 -
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £70.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -45.36% +13.64% -10.40%

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 12,218 9,041 11,179
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.18% 92.29% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,637 6,004 7,142
10th Percentile £355 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 749 275 296
10th Percentile £15.81 £12.62 £17.88
25th Percentile £30.00 £20.50 £29.63
Median hourly rate £48.84 £36.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.67% -16.28% -18.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £67.14
90th Percentile £82.50 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 (4.81%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (3.78%) Confluence
3 8 (2.75%) CICS
4 6 (2.06%) Apache
5 5 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.72%) SAS
6 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.37%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.03%) IIS
7 3 (1.03%) nginx
8 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.69%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.34%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.34%) Documentum
9 1 (0.34%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.34%) JBoss
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (5.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.41%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.37%) SAP CRM
4 3 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.69%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.69%) Cerner Millennium
5 2 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.69%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.34%) Finacle
6 1 (0.34%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.34%) Magento
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.34%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.34%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.34%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.34%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 93 (31.96%) Azure
2 74 (25.43%) AWS
3 28 (9.62%) GCP
4 24 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (7.22%) GitHub
6 20 (6.87%) Power Platform
7 17 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (5.50%) dbt
9 15 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (5.15%) Serverless
10 14 (4.81%) Amazon S3
11 13 (4.47%) Snowflake
12 12 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (3.78%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
15 7 (2.41%) Boomi
15 7 (2.41%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.12%) Network Security
2 11 (3.78%) Firewall
3 9 (3.09%) DNS
3 9 (3.09%) SSL
4 6 (2.06%) HTTP
5 5 (1.72%) BGP
5 5 (1.72%) OSPF
5 5 (1.72%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.37%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.37%) ICMP
6 4 (1.37%) SNMP
6 4 (1.37%) VPN
6 4 (1.37%) VXLAN
7 3 (1.03%) Bluetooth
7 3 (1.03%) DHCP
7 3 (1.03%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.03%) Internet
7 3 (1.03%) SAN
7 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (16.84%) Data Warehouse
1 49 (16.84%) SQL Server
2 32 (11.00%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (9.62%) Relational Database
4 20 (6.87%) Oracle Database
4 20 (6.87%) Oracle Reports
4 20 (6.87%) Power BI
5 15 (5.15%) MySQL
6 14 (4.81%) Oracle ODI
7 13 (4.47%) Db2
8 12 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (3.09%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (2.75%) Star Schema
12 7 (2.41%) BigQuery
12 7 (2.41%) RDBMS
12 7 (2.41%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.06%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 45 (15.46%) Git
2 20 (6.87%) GitLab
2 20 (6.87%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.53%) JIRA
4 6 (2.06%) Postman
5 5 (1.72%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.37%) Maven
7 3 (1.03%) Liquibase
7 3 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.69%) Flyway
8 2 (0.69%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.69%) JUnit
8 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.69%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.34%) Introscope
9 1 (0.34%) Toad
General
1 87 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 62 (21.31%) Finance
3 49 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.62%) Banking
5 19 (6.53%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.75%) Retail
7 7 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.37%) Legal
9 4 (1.37%) Marketing
9 4 (1.37%) Military
9 4 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.03%) Publishing
11 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.34%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.34%) Law
12 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (27.84%) Developer
2 40 (13.75%) Senior
3 33 (11.34%) Data Engineer
4 31 (10.65%) DBA
5 25 (8.59%) Architect
6 19 (6.53%) Administrator
6 19 (6.53%) SQL Developer
7 16 (5.50%) Lead
8 13 (4.47%) Oracle Developer
9 12 (4.12%) Consultant
9 12 (4.12%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (4.12%) SQL DBA
10 11 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (3.78%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.44%) .NET Developer
12 9 (3.09%) Data Warehouse Developer
12 9 (3.09%) Lead Developer
12 9 (3.09%) Linux Engineer
12 9 (3.09%) Oracle DBA
12 9 (3.09%) SC Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.03%) REST
2 33 (11.34%) Terraform
3 24 (8.25%) .NET
4 21 (7.22%) SOAP
5 20 (6.87%) Kafka
6 19 (6.53%) Middleware
7 18 (6.19%) Web Services
8 16 (5.50%) JSON
9 13 (4.47%) XML
10 12 (4.12%) Spring
11 11 (3.78%) BAPI
11 11 (3.78%) React
11 11 (3.78%) RESTful
11 11 (3.78%) Spring Boot
12 10 (3.44%) Node.js
12 10 (3.44%) PySpark
13 8 (2.75%) .NET Framework
13 8 (2.75%) OAuth
14 7 (2.41%) IDoc
14 7 (2.41%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.25%) Replication
2 21 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.53%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.81%) Data Centre
4 14 (4.81%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.47%) Data Structures
5 13 (4.47%) Mainframe
6 12 (4.12%) Clustering
7 9 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.09%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.75%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.41%) CUDA
9 7 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.72%) PKI
10 5 (1.72%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 60 (20.62%) Linux
2 29 (9.97%) Windows
3 22 (7.56%) Windows Server
4 15 (5.15%) Unix
5 11 (3.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.78%) zOS
6 4 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.03%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (1.03%) VMS
7 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.69%) CentOS
8 2 (0.69%) MVS
9 1 (0.34%) AIX
9 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (32.30%) CI/CD
2 74 (25.43%) DevOps
3 72 (24.74%) Data Modelling
4 66 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (21.65%) ETL
6 55 (18.90%) Analytics
7 51 (17.53%) Agile
8 48 (16.49%) Migration
9 47 (16.15%) High Availability
10 41 (14.09%) Root Cause Analysis
11 39 (13.40%) Observability
11 39 (13.40%) Stakeholder Management
12 38 (13.06%) Data Pipeline
12 38 (13.06%) Infrastructure as Code
13 37 (12.71%) Capacity Planning
14 31 (10.65%) Microservices
15 30 (10.31%) AI
15 30 (10.31%) Disaster Recovery
16 29 (9.97%) Validation
17 28 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 124 (42.61%) SQL
2 72 (24.74%) Python
3 25 (8.59%) PowerShell
3 25 (8.59%) T-SQL
4 22 (7.56%) Java
5 21 (7.22%) C#
6 19 (6.53%) PL/SQL
7 18 (6.19%) Bash
8 14 (4.81%) Shell Script
9 12 (4.12%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.09%) ABAP
11 7 (2.41%) C++
11 7 (2.41%) Perl
12 6 (2.06%) JCL
13 5 (1.72%) C
13 5 (1.72%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.37%) COBOL
14 4 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (1.37%) Korn
14 4 (1.37%) REXX
Qualifications
1 83 (28.52%) Security Cleared
2 76 (26.12%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (4.81%) Degree
5 12 (4.12%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.09%) Azure Certification
6 9 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.72%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.37%) OCP
9 4 (1.37%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.69%) CISM
11 2 (0.69%) CISSP
12 1 (0.34%) CCA
12 1 (0.34%) Citrix Certification
12 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.09%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.81%) QA
3 9 (3.09%) GDPR
4 4 (1.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.37%) GMP
4 4 (1.37%) GxP
4 4 (1.37%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.03%) SLA
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%) PSD2
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 27 (9.28%) Docker
2 16 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.12%) vSphere
4 9 (3.09%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.75%) Active Directory
5 8 (2.75%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.41%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (2.06%) RACF
7 6 (2.06%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (1.03%) ACF2
8 3 (1.03%) Firmware
8 3 (1.03%) Varnish
9 2 (0.69%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.69%) SRDF
9 2 (0.69%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.34%) Postfix
10 1 (0.34%) XenApp
10 1 (0.34%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 33 (11.34%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.28%) Ansible
3 13 (4.47%) Prometheus
4 11 (3.78%) Grafana
5 7 (2.41%) Data Guard
6 6 (2.06%) PowerCLI
6 6 (2.06%) Puppet
7 5 (1.72%) Control-M
7 5 (1.72%) vCenter Server
7 5 (1.72%) vMotion
8 4 (1.37%) Kibana
8 4 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.03%) Argo
10 2 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.69%) Nagios
10 2 (0.69%) QRadar
10 2 (0.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 63 (21.65%) Oracle
2 50 (17.18%) Microsoft
3 28 (9.62%) VMware
4 25 (8.59%) SAP
5 14 (4.81%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.81%) Splunk
6 12 (4.12%) IBM
7 11 (3.78%) Informatica
7 11 (3.78%) MuleSoft
8 10 (3.44%) Databricks
9 9 (3.09%) Dell
10 7 (2.41%) Red Hat
11 6 (2.06%) Adobe
11 6 (2.06%) NVIDIA
11 6 (2.06%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.72%) 3PAR
13 4 (1.37%) Broadcom
13 4 (1.37%) Cisco
13 4 (1.37%) Google
13 4 (1.37%) Nimble Storage