Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 95 107
Rank change year-on-year +12 +12 +17
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 59 32 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.64% 1.83% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 1.95% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 16 11
10th Percentile £399 £414 £331
25th Percentile £463 £542 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £493
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +24.37% -21.20%
75th Percentile £715 £681 £556
90th Percentile £753 £739 £575
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -16.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 1,643 1,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.33% 94.21% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 1,101 1,216
10th Percentile £368 £325 £371
25th Percentile £456 £423 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £773 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £50.59 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.30% -18.57% +30.84%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Tuning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (5.08%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) IIS
2 2 (3.39%) nginx
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.69%) Apache
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.69%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.69%) Magento
2 1 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.69%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.69%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.69%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (38.98%) Azure
2 16 (27.12%) AWS
3 11 (18.64%) GitHub
3 11 (18.64%) Power Platform
4 10 (16.95%) Serverless
5 7 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (11.86%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (10.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (8.47%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (8.47%) PowerApps
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (6.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (6.78%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (6.78%) Power Automate
9 3 (5.08%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Functions
9 3 (5.08%) dbt
9 3 (5.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) VPN
2 4 (6.78%) Multicast
3 3 (5.08%) FTP
3 3 (5.08%) Internet
4 2 (3.39%) Firewall
4 2 (3.39%) HTTPS
4 2 (3.39%) Intranet
5 1 (1.69%) LAN
5 1 (1.69%) Network Security
5 1 (1.69%) OpenVPN
5 1 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.69%) SSH
5 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.69%) VSAN
5 1 (1.69%) WAN
5 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.86%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (11.86%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.17%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.17%) Power BI
3 5 (8.47%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (6.78%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (6.78%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (5.08%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.08%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.39%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.39%) KDB
6 2 (3.39%) Kdb+
6 2 (3.39%) Milvus
6 2 (3.39%) Pinecone
6 2 (3.39%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Git
2 8 (13.56%) GitLab
3 6 (10.17%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.78%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.78%) JIRA
5 3 (5.08%) Visual Studio
6 2 (3.39%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (3.39%) Gradle
6 2 (3.39%) Maven
6 2 (3.39%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.69%) ER Studio
7 1 (1.69%) PHPUnit
7 1 (1.69%) Postman
7 1 (1.69%) QUnit
General
1 25 (42.37%) Finance
2 24 (40.68%) Social Skills
3 17 (28.81%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (25.42%) Banking
5 5 (8.47%) Front Office
6 4 (6.78%) Investment Banking
7 3 (5.08%) Back Office
7 3 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.08%) Marketing
7 3 (5.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.39%) Law
8 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.69%) Legal
9 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (35.59%) Developer
2 10 (16.95%) Senior
3 9 (15.25%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Senior Developer
5 4 (6.78%) AWS Data Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Middleware Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Architect
6 3 (5.08%) C# Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Consultant
6 3 (5.08%) DBA
6 3 (5.08%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Network Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Database Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Junior
7 2 (3.39%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (3.39%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.03%) REST
2 10 (16.95%) Middleware
3 8 (13.56%) SOAP
4 7 (11.86%) .NET
4 7 (11.86%) Terraform
5 6 (10.17%) Kafka
5 6 (10.17%) RESTful
6 5 (8.47%) .NET Framework
6 5 (8.47%) JSON
6 5 (8.47%) XML
7 4 (6.78%) React
8 3 (5.08%) PySpark
8 3 (5.08%) Spring
8 3 (5.08%) Spring Boot
8 3 (5.08%) Web Services
9 2 (3.39%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (3.39%) ADO.NET
9 2 (3.39%) Ajax
9 2 (3.39%) OAuth
9 2 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Replication
2 7 (11.86%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (10.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (8.47%) Fixed Income
5 4 (6.78%) Data Centre
6 3 (5.08%) AI Agents
6 3 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (3.39%) Clustering
7 2 (3.39%) Derivative
7 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.39%) PropTech
7 2 (3.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.69%) AS400
8 1 (1.69%) DataPower
8 1 (1.69%) Equities
8 1 (1.69%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.69%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Linux
2 8 (13.56%) Unix
3 1 (1.69%) Windows
3 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) CI/CD
2 23 (38.98%) DevOps
3 20 (33.90%) Agile
4 17 (28.81%) Data Modelling
5 14 (23.73%) Integration Patterns
6 13 (22.03%) ETL
6 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (22.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (18.64%) Analytics
7 11 (18.64%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (15.25%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (15.25%) Event-Driven
8 9 (15.25%) Migration
8 9 (15.25%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (13.56%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (13.56%) Data Integration
9 8 (13.56%) High Availability
9 8 (13.56%) Scrum
9 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
9 8 (13.56%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 28 (47.46%) SQL
2 23 (38.98%) Python
3 11 (18.64%) C#
4 5 (8.47%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.47%) Shell Script
4 5 (8.47%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (6.78%) Java
6 3 (5.08%) Korn
6 3 (5.08%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.39%) ActionScript
7 2 (3.39%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (3.39%) Bash
7 2 (3.39%) CQL
7 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.39%) XMLA
8 1 (1.69%) Cypher
8 1 (1.69%) SOQL
8 1 (1.69%) SOSL
8 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.17%) Degree
2 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.39%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.39%) PMP
5 1 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.56%) Data Quality
2 6 (10.17%) QA
3 2 (3.39%) GDPR
4 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (8.47%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.69%) Varnish
2 1 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.69%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.08%) Grafana
2 3 (5.08%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
2 3 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.39%) Ansible
4 1 (1.69%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.69%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.69%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.69%) SELinux
4 1 (1.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) Oracle
3 5 (8.47%) Solace
4 4 (6.78%) Databricks
4 4 (6.78%) SAP
5 3 (5.08%) MuleSoft
5 3 (5.08%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.39%) Axway
6 2 (3.39%) IBM
6 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.39%) Sitecore
6 2 (3.39%) Software AG
6 2 (3.39%) webMethods
7 1 (1.69%) Adobe
7 1 (1.69%) Aruba
7 1 (1.69%) Cisco
7 1 (1.69%) Dell
7 1 (1.69%) Juniper
7 1 (1.69%) RedGate
7 1 (1.69%) Splunk