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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 93 108
Rank change year-on-year +15 +15 +21
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 59 33 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.62% 1.86% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 1.98% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 14 11
10th Percentile £415 £427 £331
25th Percentile £463 £566 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £493
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +24.37% -21.20%
75th Percentile £690 £675 £556
90th Percentile £738 £748 £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 2,001 1,669 1,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.74% 94.24% 92.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,376 1,107 1,230
10th Percentile £368 £325 £387
25th Percentile £456 £420 £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 £763 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 17
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.20
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.75 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +4.91% -13.60%
75th Percentile £32.57 £53.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £51.54 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £31.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.19% -10.71% +27.27%

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 14 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 4 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.08%) Confluence
3 2 (3.39%) CICS
3 2 (3.39%) IIS
3 2 (3.39%) nginx
3 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.69%) Apache
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
Cloud Services
1 25 (42.37%) Azure
2 19 (32.20%) AWS
3 12 (20.34%) Power Platform
4 10 (16.95%) GitHub
5 9 (15.25%) Serverless
6 7 (11.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (10.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (8.47%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (8.47%) Amazon S3
8 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (6.78%) dbt
9 4 (6.78%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (6.78%) GCP
9 4 (6.78%) Power Automate
9 4 (6.78%) PowerApps
9 4 (6.78%) Snowflake
10 3 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (5.08%) Azure Service Bus
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 9 (15.25%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (13.56%) Power BI
2 8 (13.56%) SQL Server
3 7 (11.86%) NoSQL
4 5 (8.47%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (8.47%) DynamoDB
4 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (6.78%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (6.78%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (5.08%) RDBMS
6 3 (5.08%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (5.08%) Star Schema
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (3.39%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.39%) Milvus
7 2 (3.39%) Pinecone
7 2 (3.39%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (3.39%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Git
2 7 (11.86%) GitLab
3 5 (8.47%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.78%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.08%) Gradle
5 3 (5.08%) JIRA
5 3 (5.08%) Maven
5 3 (5.08%) Visual Studio
6 2 (3.39%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (3.39%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.39%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.69%) ER Studio
7 1 (1.69%) PHPUnit
General
1 25 (42.37%) Finance
2 24 (40.68%) Social Skills
3 16 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (27.12%) Banking
4 4 (6.78%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Front Office
5 3 (5.08%) Marketing
6 2 (3.39%) Back Office
6 2 (3.39%) Law
6 2 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.69%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Developer
2 10 (16.95%) Senior
3 8 (13.56%) Data Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Senior Developer
5 5 (8.47%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Data Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Middleware Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Consultant
7 3 (5.08%) DBA
7 3 (5.08%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Databricks Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.39%) GCP Data Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.34%) REST
2 9 (15.25%) Middleware
2 9 (15.25%) SOAP
3 8 (13.56%) RESTful
4 7 (11.86%) .NET
4 7 (11.86%) Kafka
5 6 (10.17%) Terraform
6 5 (8.47%) .NET Framework
7 4 (6.78%) JSON
7 4 (6.78%) React
7 4 (6.78%) Spring
7 4 (6.78%) Spring Boot
7 4 (6.78%) Web Services
7 4 (6.78%) XML
8 3 (5.08%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (3.39%) CrewAI
9 2 (3.39%) LangChain
9 2 (3.39%) LlamaIndex
9 2 (3.39%) PyTorch
9 2 (3.39%) Qwen
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Replication
2 7 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.86%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (10.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (6.78%) Clustering
4 4 (6.78%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.78%) Fixed Income
5 3 (5.08%) AI Agents
5 3 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.39%) DataPower
6 2 (3.39%) Derivative
6 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.39%) Mainframe
6 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.39%) Online Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.69%) AS400
7 1 (1.69%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.69%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.95%) Linux
2 7 (11.86%) Unix
3 2 (3.39%) zOS
4 1 (1.69%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (1.69%) Windows
4 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (47.46%) CI/CD
2 23 (38.98%) DevOps
3 18 (30.51%) Agile
4 17 (28.81%) Data Modelling
5 14 (23.73%) ETL
5 14 (23.73%) Integration Patterns
5 14 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (20.34%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (18.64%) Analytics
7 11 (18.64%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (15.25%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (15.25%) Data Engineering
8 9 (15.25%) Event-Driven
8 9 (15.25%) Microservices
8 9 (15.25%) Migration
8 9 (15.25%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (13.56%) High Availability
9 8 (13.56%) Observability
9 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (47.46%) SQL
2 23 (38.98%) Python
3 10 (16.95%) C#
4 6 (10.17%) Shell Script
5 5 (8.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (8.47%) Java
5 5 (8.47%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.47%) TypeScript
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%) JCL
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
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.17%) Degree
3 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.39%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.39%) PMP
6 1 (1.69%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.25%) Data Quality
2 7 (11.86%) QA
3 2 (3.39%) GDPR
4 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (10.17%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.69%) NFS
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.69%) Varnish
3 1 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.69%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (10.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.78%) Grafana
2 4 (6.78%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.08%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.39%) Ansible
5 1 (1.69%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.69%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.69%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.69%) SELinux
5 1 (1.69%) SnapMirror
5 1 (1.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) Oracle
3 5 (8.47%) Solace
4 3 (5.08%) Databricks
4 3 (5.08%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.08%) SAP
5 2 (3.39%) Axway
5 2 (3.39%) IBM
5 2 (3.39%) Informatica
5 2 (3.39%) MuleSoft
5 2 (3.39%) Sitecore
5 2 (3.39%) Software AG
5 2 (3.39%) VMware
5 2 (3.39%) webMethods
6 1 (1.69%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.69%) Aruba
6 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.69%) RedGate
6 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.69%) Zscaler