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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 85 108
Rank change year-on-year 0 +23 +27
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 57 39 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.45% 2.15% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 2.28% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 18 11
10th Percentile £418 £400 £331
25th Percentile £463 £502 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £493
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +24.37% -21.20%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £556
90th Percentile £725 £765 £575
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £509
% change year-on-year -8.33% +17.94% -16.94%

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 2,042 1,709 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.87% 94.26% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,404 1,129 1,242
10th Percentile £382 £325 £375
25th Percentile £462 £421 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £49.64 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -22.86%

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 30 August 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 5 (8.77%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.26%) Confluence
3 2 (3.51%) CICS
3 2 (3.51%) IIS
3 2 (3.51%) nginx
4 1 (1.75%) Apache
4 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.75%) Magento
2 1 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.75%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.75%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (47.37%) Azure
2 20 (35.09%) AWS
3 13 (22.81%) Power Platform
4 10 (17.54%) GitHub
5 8 (14.04%) Serverless
6 6 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (8.77%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (8.77%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (8.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (8.77%) dbt
7 5 (8.77%) GCP
7 5 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.77%) Snowflake
8 4 (7.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (7.02%) Power Automate
8 4 (7.02%) PowerApps
9 3 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.53%) VPN
2 4 (7.02%) Multicast
3 3 (5.26%) FTP
3 3 (5.26%) Internet
4 2 (3.51%) Firewall
4 2 (3.51%) HTTPS
4 2 (3.51%) Intranet
5 1 (1.75%) LAN
5 1 (1.75%) Network Security
5 1 (1.75%) OpenVPN
5 1 (1.75%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.75%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.75%) SSH
5 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.75%) VSAN
5 1 (1.75%) WAN
5 1 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) Power BI
2 8 (14.04%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (14.04%) NoSQL
2 8 (14.04%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.77%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (8.77%) DynamoDB
3 5 (8.77%) Relational Database
3 5 (8.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (7.02%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.02%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (7.02%) Star Schema
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (5.26%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.51%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.51%) Milvus
6 2 (3.51%) Pinecone
6 2 (3.51%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (3.51%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 9 (15.79%) Git
2 6 (10.53%) GitLab
3 4 (7.02%) Bitbucket
3 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.26%) Gradle
4 3 (5.26%) JIRA
4 3 (5.26%) Maven
4 3 (5.26%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.51%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (3.51%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.51%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.75%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.75%) PHPUnit
General
1 23 (40.35%) Social Skills
2 21 (36.84%) Finance
3 15 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (26.32%) Banking
4 4 (7.02%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.26%) Marketing
6 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Front Office
6 2 (3.51%) Law
6 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.75%) Back Office
7 1 (1.75%) Legal
7 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Developer
2 8 (14.04%) Senior
3 7 (12.28%) Data Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Architect
5 4 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Middleware Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Junior
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Consultant
7 2 (3.51%) DBA
7 2 (3.51%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) SQL DBA
7 2 (3.51%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) REST
2 9 (15.79%) Middleware
2 9 (15.79%) SOAP
3 8 (14.04%) Kafka
3 8 (14.04%) RESTful
4 7 (12.28%) .NET
5 5 (8.77%) .NET Framework
5 5 (8.77%) Spring
5 5 (8.77%) Terraform
6 4 (7.02%) JSON
6 4 (7.02%) React
6 4 (7.02%) Spring Boot
6 4 (7.02%) Web Services
6 4 (7.02%) XML
7 3 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (3.51%) CrewAI
8 2 (3.51%) LangChain
8 2 (3.51%) LlamaIndex
8 2 (3.51%) PyTorch
8 2 (3.51%) Qwen
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Replication
2 7 (12.28%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.53%) Clustering
3 6 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (7.02%) Fixed Income
5 3 (5.26%) AI Agents
5 3 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.51%) DataPower
6 2 (3.51%) Derivative
6 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.51%) Mainframe
6 2 (3.51%) Online Banking
6 2 (3.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.75%) AS400
7 1 (1.75%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.75%) Equities
7 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Linux
2 6 (10.53%) Unix
3 2 (3.51%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (3.51%) zOS
4 1 (1.75%) Windows
4 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (49.12%) CI/CD
2 25 (43.86%) DevOps
3 18 (31.58%) Agile
4 16 (28.07%) Data Modelling
5 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (21.05%) Integration Patterns
7 11 (19.30%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (19.30%) ETL
8 10 (17.54%) AI
8 10 (17.54%) Analytics
8 10 (17.54%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (17.54%) Microservices
9 9 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
9 9 (15.79%) Data Engineering
9 9 (15.79%) Observability
9 9 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (14.04%) Data Governance
10 8 (14.04%) Migration
10 8 (14.04%) Test Automation
10 8 (14.04%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 28 (49.12%) SQL
2 22 (38.60%) Python
3 10 (17.54%) C#
4 6 (10.53%) Java
4 6 (10.53%) Shell Script
5 5 (8.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (8.77%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.77%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.51%) ActionScript
7 2 (3.51%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (3.51%) Bash
7 2 (3.51%) CQL
7 2 (3.51%) JCL
7 2 (3.51%) Korn
7 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.51%) XMLA
8 1 (1.75%) SOQL
8 1 (1.75%) SOSL
8 1 (1.75%) X++
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.28%) Degree
3 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.51%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.51%) PMP
5 2 (3.51%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 7 (12.28%) QA
3 2 (3.51%) GDPR
4 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (10.53%) Docker
2 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.51%) NFS
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.75%) Varnish
4 1 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (12.28%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.02%) Grafana
2 4 (7.02%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.26%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (3.51%) Ansible
4 2 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.51%) SnapMirror
5 1 (1.75%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.75%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.75%) SELinux
5 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (29.82%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) Oracle
3 5 (8.77%) Solace
4 3 (5.26%) Informatica
4 3 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.26%) SAP
4 3 (5.26%) VMware
5 2 (3.51%) Axway
5 2 (3.51%) Databricks
5 2 (3.51%) Google
5 2 (3.51%) IBM
5 2 (3.51%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.51%) NetApp
5 2 (3.51%) Sitecore
5 2 (3.51%) Software AG
5 2 (3.51%) webMethods
6 1 (1.75%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.75%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.75%) Zscaler