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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 85 118
Rank change year-on-year +9 +33 +24
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 61 42 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.49% 2.26% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 2.41% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 21 8
10th Percentile £375 £400 £378
25th Percentile £463 £481 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £509
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +17.94% -21.12%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £547
90th Percentile £725 £760 £624
Central London median daily rate £525 £600 £509
% change year-on-year -12.50% +17.94% -21.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £48.50

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 2,114 1,741 1,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.18% 93.85% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 1,120 1,359
10th Percentile £364 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.96% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £560
% change year-on-year -0.18% -1.61% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.21
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.00 £31.00 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +16.43% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.13 £56.75 £40.46
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £64.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £32.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -24.72% +20.37% -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 9 July 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 8 (13.11%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.56%) CICS
3 3 (4.92%) Apache
4 2 (3.28%) IIS
5 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.64%) Confluence
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.64%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.64%) Magento
1 1 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.64%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.64%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.64%) SAP CRM
1 1 (1.64%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (47.54%) Azure
2 23 (37.70%) AWS
3 11 (18.03%) Power Platform
4 10 (16.39%) GitHub
5 9 (14.75%) Snowflake
6 8 (13.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (13.11%) Serverless
7 7 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (11.48%) GCP
8 6 (9.84%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (9.84%) Amazon S3
8 6 (9.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (8.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (8.20%) dbt
9 5 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.92%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (4.92%) Matillion
11 2 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.48%) VPN
2 4 (6.56%) Internet
3 3 (4.92%) FTP
3 3 (4.92%) Multicast
4 2 (3.28%) Firewall
4 2 (3.28%) HTTPS
4 2 (3.28%) Intranet
4 2 (3.28%) LAN
4 2 (3.28%) Network Security
4 2 (3.28%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.28%) WAN
4 2 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.64%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.39%) NoSQL
1 10 (16.39%) SQL Server
2 8 (13.11%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (13.11%) DynamoDB
2 8 (13.11%) Power BI
3 7 (11.48%) Relational Database
3 7 (11.48%) Snowflake Schema
4 5 (8.20%) Db2
4 5 (8.20%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.56%) RDBMS
5 4 (6.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (6.56%) Star Schema
6 3 (4.92%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (4.92%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.92%) Tableau
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.28%) Pinecone
7 2 (3.28%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (3.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Git
2 7 (11.48%) GitLab
3 4 (6.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.92%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.92%) Gradle
4 3 (4.92%) Maven
5 2 (3.28%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.28%) JIRA
5 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.64%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.64%) JUnit
6 1 (1.64%) PHPUnit
6 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 18 (29.51%) Finance
3 16 (26.23%) Banking
4 13 (21.31%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Law
5 3 (4.92%) Publishing
6 2 (3.28%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Front Office
7 1 (1.64%) Legal
7 1 (1.64%) Local Government
7 1 (1.64%) Marketing
7 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (29.51%) Developer
2 12 (19.67%) Data Engineer
3 9 (14.75%) Senior
4 8 (13.11%) Senior Developer
5 7 (11.48%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 7 (11.48%) Snowflake Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Architect
6 4 (6.56%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Junior
6 4 (6.56%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Middleware Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Cloud Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Desktop Technician
8 2 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Junior Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Junior Technical Architect
8 2 (3.28%) NetApp Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.67%) Kafka
2 11 (18.03%) RESTful
3 10 (16.39%) SOAP
4 9 (14.75%) REST
5 6 (9.84%) JSON
5 6 (9.84%) Spring
5 6 (9.84%) Web Services
6 5 (8.20%) .NET
7 4 (6.56%) Middleware
7 4 (6.56%) React
7 4 (6.56%) Spring Boot
7 4 (6.56%) WSDL
7 4 (6.56%) XML
8 3 (4.92%) .NET Framework
8 3 (4.92%) GeoJSON
8 3 (4.92%) Matplotlib
8 3 (4.92%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (4.92%) Pandas
8 3 (4.92%) Polars
8 3 (4.92%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Cloud Native
1 10 (16.39%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (11.48%) Clustering
3 5 (8.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (6.56%) DataPower
4 4 (6.56%) Mainframe
4 4 (6.56%) Online Banking
4 4 (6.56%) Replication
5 3 (4.92%) AI Agents
5 3 (4.92%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.28%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.28%) Derivative
6 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.64%) Equities
7 1 (1.64%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Unix
3 4 (6.56%) zOS
4 2 (3.28%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.64%) Windows
5 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (42.62%) CI/CD
2 21 (34.43%) DevOps
3 18 (29.51%) Data Modelling
4 15 (24.59%) Agile
4 15 (24.59%) AI
4 15 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (21.31%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (21.31%) ETL
6 11 (18.03%) Analytics
6 11 (18.03%) Data Engineering
6 11 (18.03%) Microservices
7 10 (16.39%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (16.39%) Integration Patterns
7 10 (16.39%) Observability
8 9 (14.75%) Event-Driven
8 9 (14.75%) Migration
9 8 (13.11%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (13.11%) Containerisation
9 8 (13.11%) Data Governance
9 8 (13.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (52.46%) SQL
2 25 (40.98%) Python
3 8 (13.11%) C#
4 7 (11.48%) Shell Script
5 6 (9.84%) Java
6 4 (6.56%) JCL
7 3 (4.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.92%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.92%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.28%) ActionScript
8 2 (3.28%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (3.28%) Scala
8 2 (3.28%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.64%) COBOL
9 1 (1.64%) Elixir
9 1 (1.64%) PHP
9 1 (1.64%) RPG
9 1 (1.64%) Ruby
9 1 (1.64%) X++
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Degree
2 7 (11.48%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.28%) SnowPro
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.64%) PMP
7 1 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.95%) Data Quality
2 8 (13.11%) QA
3 3 (4.92%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) Docker
2 3 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.28%) NFS
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.64%) Varnish
4 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (16.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.92%) Grafana
2 3 (4.92%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.28%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (3.28%) SnapMirror
3 2 (3.28%) Terraform
4 1 (1.64%) Ansible
4 1 (1.64%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.64%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (24.59%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.48%) Oracle
3 5 (8.20%) Informatica
4 4 (6.56%) Google
4 4 (6.56%) Solace
5 3 (4.92%) Databricks
5 3 (4.92%) SAP
5 3 (4.92%) VMware
6 2 (3.28%) Aruba
6 2 (3.28%) Axway
6 2 (3.28%) Cisco
6 2 (3.28%) Juniper
6 2 (3.28%) NetApp
6 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.28%) Sitecore
6 2 (3.28%) Software AG
6 2 (3.28%) webMethods
6 2 (3.28%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.64%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.64%) RedGate