Performance Tuning Contracts with Work from Home Options

Performance Tuning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 220 335
Rank change year-on-year +30 +115 -104
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 170 245 294
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.16% 1.03% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.15% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 160 178
10th Percentile £358 £400 £400
25th Percentile £414 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.86% -8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 6
10th Percentile £48.33 £62.88 £32.50
25th Percentile £50.69 £69.06 £45.31
Median hourly rate £61.75 £72.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.83% +48.72% -25.62%
75th Percentile £78.19 £75.00 £61.66
90th Percentile £83.78 - £65.54
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £71.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -13.54% +58.33% -31.34%

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 12,777 21,341 40,037
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.15% 89.59% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,596 15,082 29,180
10th Percentile £325 £358 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +1.89% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 504 517
10th Percentile £15.07 £17.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £24.88 £25.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.32 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +24.56% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.30 £67.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.06 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £36.25 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.45% +39.42% +14.89%

Performance Tuning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Tuning trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Tuning.

Performance Tuning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 28 June 2024.

Performance Tuning daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Tuning.

Performance Tuning hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 28 June 2024.

Performance Tuning hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.65%) NetWeaver
2 5 (2.94%) Anypoint
2 5 (2.94%) Mule
2 5 (2.94%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.76%) Confluence
3 3 (1.76%) Mule ESB
3 3 (1.76%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.18%) CICS
4 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.18%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.59%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.59%) GemFire
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.59%) SAS
5 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 13 (7.65%) SAP IBP
2 6 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.76%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.76%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.76%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.76%) Oracle FAH
3 3 (1.76%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (1.76%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.76%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.76%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.18%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.59%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (24.12%) Azure
2 33 (19.41%) AWS
3 11 (6.47%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.29%) GitHub
5 8 (4.71%) GCP
6 6 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.53%) OpenShift
6 6 (3.53%) PaaS
7 5 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.94%) IaaS
8 4 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (2.35%) Google Play
8 4 (2.35%) Serverless
9 3 (1.76%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.76%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.76%) Nutanix
9 3 (1.76%) Rubrik
9 3 (1.76%) SaaS
9 3 (1.76%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.12%) Firewall
1 7 (4.12%) SAN
2 4 (2.35%) DHCP
2 4 (2.35%) DNS
2 4 (2.35%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (1.76%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (1.76%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.76%) NAS
3 3 (1.76%) PuTTY
3 3 (1.76%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.76%) VLAN
3 3 (1.76%) WAN
4 2 (1.18%) HTTP
4 2 (1.18%) LAN
4 2 (1.18%) Network Security
4 2 (1.18%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.18%) VoIP
4 2 (1.18%) Wireless
5 1 (0.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.24%) SQL Server
2 29 (17.06%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (14.71%) Oracle Database
4 14 (8.24%) SAP BW
4 14 (8.24%) SAP HANA
5 12 (7.06%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (7.06%) Oracle Database 11g
6 11 (6.47%) MongoDB
7 9 (5.29%) MySQL
8 8 (4.71%) DB2
8 8 (4.71%) Power BI
8 8 (4.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (4.12%) Oracle ODI
10 6 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (3.53%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.94%) MariaDB
11 5 (2.94%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (8.24%) Git
2 7 (4.12%) JIRA
3 6 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.94%) MSI
4 5 (2.94%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.94%) WiX
5 3 (1.76%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.76%) Toad
6 2 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.18%) GitLab
6 2 (1.18%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.59%) Android Studio
General
1 52 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.53%) Finance
3 16 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.47%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.12%) Banking
5 7 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.35%) Retail
7 2 (1.18%) Arabic Language
7 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.18%) French Language
7 2 (1.18%) Front Office
7 2 (1.18%) German Language
7 2 (1.18%) Japanese Language
7 2 (1.18%) Korean Language
7 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.18%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.59%) Automotive
8 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (30.00%) Developer
2 40 (23.53%) DBA
3 16 (9.41%) Senior
4 15 (8.82%) Consultant
5 14 (8.24%) Oracle DBA
5 14 (8.24%) SAP Consultant
6 13 (7.65%) Administrator
6 13 (7.65%) SAP Basis Consultant
7 11 (6.47%) Architect
8 10 (5.88%) SQL DBA
9 9 (5.29%) PostgreSQL Developer
10 7 (4.12%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.53%) DB2 Specialist
11 6 (3.53%) Lead
11 6 (3.53%) z/OS Specialist
12 5 (2.94%) Data Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) MongoDB DBA
12 5 (2.94%) MuleSoft Developer
12 5 (2.94%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.94%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.41%) .NET
2 13 (7.65%) Entity Framework
2 13 (7.65%) SAP Basis
2 13 (7.65%) SAP Fiori
3 10 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 10 (5.88%) REST
4 8 (4.71%) ASP.NET
4 8 (4.71%) WCF
4 8 (4.71%) Web Services
5 7 (4.12%) ASP.NET Web API
5 7 (4.12%) JSON
5 7 (4.12%) XML
5 7 (4.12%) XSLT
6 6 (3.53%) Kafka
6 6 (3.53%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
7 5 (2.94%) Android SDK
7 5 (2.94%) LINQ
7 5 (2.94%) NHibernate
7 5 (2.94%) RESTful
7 5 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.24%) Replication
2 9 (5.29%) Clustering
3 6 (3.53%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.94%) Client/Server
4 5 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.94%) Web 2.0
5 4 (2.35%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.76%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.76%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.76%) Derivative
6 3 (1.76%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.18%) Equities
7 2 (1.18%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.18%) HP Storage
7 2 (1.18%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.18%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 43 (25.29%) Linux
2 29 (17.06%) Unix
3 21 (12.35%) Windows
4 8 (4.71%) AIX
5 7 (4.12%) Windows Server
6 6 (3.53%) Android
6 6 (3.53%) zOS
7 5 (2.94%) Solaris
8 4 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.76%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.59%) CentOS
10 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (25.29%) DevOps
2 41 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (23.53%) Migration
4 24 (14.12%) High Availability
5 23 (13.53%) Data Integration
5 23 (13.53%) Disaster Recovery
6 21 (12.35%) Agile
6 21 (12.35%) Software Engineering
7 20 (11.76%) Data Migration
8 19 (11.18%) Architectural Design
9 17 (10.00%) Incident Response
10 16 (9.41%) Data Modelling
11 15 (8.82%) CI/CD
12 13 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (7.65%) Data Security
12 13 (7.65%) SAP Security
13 12 (7.06%) Customer Requirements
13 12 (7.06%) Unit Testing
14 11 (6.47%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (6.47%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (38.82%) SQL
2 24 (14.12%) Python
3 23 (13.53%) PL/SQL
4 15 (8.82%) C#
5 13 (7.65%) Bash
6 12 (7.06%) Java
7 11 (6.47%) JavaScript
8 10 (5.88%) PowerShell
9 9 (5.29%) T-SQL
10 6 (3.53%) COBOL
10 6 (3.53%) REXX
11 5 (2.94%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.94%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.18%) Bicep
12 2 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.18%) Perl
12 2 (1.18%) Scala
12 2 (1.18%) XPath
13 1 (0.59%) C
13 1 (0.59%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (18.24%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.76%) Degree
4 9 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.71%) SAP Certification
6 7 (4.12%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.76%) MCITP
7 3 (1.76%) MCTS
7 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.59%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.59%) OCP
9 1 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.53%) QA
3 5 (2.94%) GDPR
4 3 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.59%) IFRS
5 1 (0.59%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 11 (6.47%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.29%) Docker
3 6 (3.53%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.76%) Firmware
5 1 (0.59%) GridGain
5 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (8.82%) Terraform
2 12 (7.06%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.88%) Ansible
3 10 (5.88%) Data Guard
4 8 (4.71%) Puppet
5 5 (2.94%) CloudHub
5 5 (2.94%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (2.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 3 (1.76%) Argo
6 3 (1.76%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (1.76%) Grafana
6 3 (1.76%) Istio
6 3 (1.76%) Kibana
6 3 (1.76%) Netcool
6 3 (1.76%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (1.76%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.76%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.76%) Tivoli
6 3 (1.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 2 (1.18%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 48 (28.24%) Oracle
2 31 (18.24%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.24%) SAP
4 12 (7.06%) Informatica
5 7 (4.12%) Cisco
5 7 (4.12%) IBM
6 6 (3.53%) Dell
6 6 (3.53%) VMware
7 5 (2.94%) Databricks
7 5 (2.94%) EMC
7 5 (2.94%) Google
7 5 (2.94%) HP
7 5 (2.94%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.35%) Brocade
8 4 (2.35%) Qualys
9 3 (1.76%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.76%) Isilon
9 3 (1.76%) Microgen
9 3 (1.76%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.76%) Serena