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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 89 113
Rank change year-on-year +3 +24 +23
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 58 38 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.50% 2.11% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 2.24% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 17 10
10th Percentile £418 £400 £329
25th Percentile £463 £481 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £487
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +23.27% -22.12%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £538
90th Percentile £725 £735 £591
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £493
% change year-on-year -8.33% +21.83% -19.59%

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 2,035 1,697 1,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.75% 94.28% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 1,116 1,250
10th Percentile £381 £323 £375
25th Percentile £460 £424 £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 £774 £790
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 27 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 6 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.17%) Confluence
3 2 (3.45%) Apache
3 2 (3.45%) CICS
3 2 (3.45%) IIS
3 2 (3.45%) nginx
4 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.72%) Magento
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.72%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.72%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (46.55%) Azure
2 19 (32.76%) AWS
3 13 (22.41%) Power Platform
4 10 (17.24%) GitHub
5 7 (12.07%) Serverless
6 6 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (10.34%) dbt
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (8.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (8.62%) GCP
7 5 (8.62%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.62%) Snowflake
8 4 (6.90%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (6.90%) Power Automate
8 4 (6.90%) PowerApps
9 3 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) VPN
2 4 (6.90%) Multicast
3 3 (5.17%) FTP
3 3 (5.17%) Internet
4 2 (3.45%) Firewall
4 2 (3.45%) HTTPS
4 2 (3.45%) Intranet
5 1 (1.72%) LAN
5 1 (1.72%) Network Security
5 1 (1.72%) OpenVPN
5 1 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.72%) SSH
5 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.72%) VSAN
5 1 (1.72%) WAN
5 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (15.52%) NoSQL
1 9 (15.52%) Power BI
1 9 (15.52%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.34%) Relational Database
3 5 (8.62%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (8.62%) DynamoDB
3 5 (8.62%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (6.90%) RDBMS
4 4 (6.90%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (6.90%) Star Schema
5 3 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.45%) Db2
6 2 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (3.45%) Pinecone
6 2 (3.45%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (3.45%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 9 (15.52%) Git
2 6 (10.34%) GitLab
3 4 (6.90%) Bitbucket
3 4 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.17%) Gradle
4 3 (5.17%) JIRA
4 3 (5.17%) Maven
4 3 (5.17%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.45%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (3.45%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.72%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.72%) PHPUnit
General
1 23 (39.66%) Social Skills
2 21 (36.21%) Finance
3 15 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (24.14%) Banking
5 4 (6.90%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.17%) Marketing
7 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Law
7 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.72%) Front Office
8 1 (1.72%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (34.48%) Developer
2 8 (13.79%) Senior
3 7 (12.07%) Data Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Senior Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Architect
5 4 (6.90%) Java Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Middleware Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Consultant
6 3 (5.17%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Junior
6 3 (5.17%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (3.45%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Power BI Consultant
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.69%) REST
2 9 (15.52%) Kafka
2 9 (15.52%) Middleware
2 9 (15.52%) SOAP
3 8 (13.79%) RESTful
4 7 (12.07%) .NET
5 5 (8.62%) .NET Framework
5 5 (8.62%) Spring
5 5 (8.62%) Terraform
6 4 (6.90%) JSON
6 4 (6.90%) React
6 4 (6.90%) Spring Boot
6 4 (6.90%) Web Services
6 4 (6.90%) XML
7 3 (5.17%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (3.45%) CrewAI
8 2 (3.45%) LangChain
8 2 (3.45%) LlamaIndex
8 2 (3.45%) PySpark
8 2 (3.45%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Replication
2 6 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.34%) Clustering
2 6 (10.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (6.90%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.17%) AI Agents
4 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.45%) DataPower
5 2 (3.45%) Derivative
5 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.45%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.45%) Online Banking
5 2 (3.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.72%) AS400
6 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.72%) Equities
6 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.52%) Linux
2 6 (10.34%) Unix
3 2 (3.45%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (3.45%) zOS
4 1 (1.72%) Windows
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) CI/CD
2 25 (43.10%) DevOps
3 18 (31.03%) Agile
4 15 (25.86%) Data Modelling
5 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (18.97%) Data Pipeline
6 11 (18.97%) ETL
6 11 (18.97%) Integration Patterns
7 10 (17.24%) AI
7 10 (17.24%) Analytics
7 10 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (17.24%) Microservices
8 9 (15.52%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (15.52%) Data Engineering
8 9 (15.52%) Observability
8 9 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (15.52%) Test Automation
9 8 (13.79%) Migration
9 8 (13.79%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (13.79%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 28 (48.28%) SQL
2 21 (36.21%) Python
3 10 (17.24%) C#
4 6 (10.34%) Java
4 6 (10.34%) Shell Script
5 5 (8.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.62%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.90%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.45%) ActionScript
7 2 (3.45%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (3.45%) Bash
7 2 (3.45%) CQL
7 2 (3.45%) JCL
7 2 (3.45%) Korn
7 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.45%) XMLA
8 1 (1.72%) Scala
8 1 (1.72%) SOQL
8 1 (1.72%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.07%) Degree
3 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.45%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.45%) PMP
5 2 (3.45%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) Data Quality
2 7 (12.07%) QA
3 2 (3.45%) GDPR
4 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (12.07%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.45%) NFS
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.72%) Varnish
4 1 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.90%) Grafana
2 4 (6.90%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.17%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (3.45%) Ansible
4 2 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.45%) SnapMirror
5 1 (1.72%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.72%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.72%) SELinux
5 1 (1.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (29.31%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.07%) Oracle
3 5 (8.62%) Solace
4 4 (6.90%) Informatica
5 3 (5.17%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.17%) SAP
5 3 (5.17%) VMware
6 2 (3.45%) Axway
6 2 (3.45%) Databricks
6 2 (3.45%) Google
6 2 (3.45%) IBM
6 2 (3.45%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.45%) NetApp
6 2 (3.45%) Sitecore
6 2 (3.45%) Software AG
6 2 (3.45%) webMethods
7 1 (1.72%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.72%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.72%) Zscaler