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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 89 100
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +25
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 55 32 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.54% 1.85% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 1.96% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 17 12
10th Percentile £397 £417 £336
25th Percentile £463 £513 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £487
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +23.27% -22.12%
75th Percentile £719 £675 £547
90th Percentile £768 £735 £575
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £509
% change year-on-year -4.17% +17.94% -18.60%

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 1,949 1,633 1,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.11% 94.50% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,347 1,096 1,210
10th Percentile £367 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £423 £463
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 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 20
10th Percentile - £16.96 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% -22.54% +13.60%
75th Percentile £31.00 £39.88 £97.38
90th Percentile £61.50 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +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 5 October 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 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (5.45%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) IIS
2 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.82%) CICS
3 1 (1.82%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.82%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.82%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.82%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.18%) Azure
2 14 (25.45%) AWS
3 11 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 10 (18.18%) Serverless
5 9 (16.36%) GitHub
6 7 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (12.73%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (10.91%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (9.09%) Amazon S3
8 5 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (9.09%) PowerApps
9 4 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (7.27%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (7.27%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (7.27%) Power Automate
10 3 (5.45%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (5.45%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (5.45%) Azure Functions
10 3 (5.45%) dbt
10 3 (5.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) VPN
2 4 (7.27%) Multicast
3 3 (5.45%) FTP
4 2 (3.64%) HTTPS
4 2 (3.64%) Internet
4 2 (3.64%) Intranet
5 1 (1.82%) Firewall
5 1 (1.82%) OpenVPN
5 1 (1.82%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.82%) SSH
5 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.82%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.73%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (12.73%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.91%) Power BI
3 5 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (7.27%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.27%) Relational Database
4 4 (7.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (5.45%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (5.45%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.64%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.64%) KDB
6 2 (3.64%) Kdb+
6 2 (3.64%) Milvus
6 2 (3.64%) Pinecone
6 2 (3.64%) Weaviate
7 1 (1.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (1.82%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (14.55%) GitLab
2 6 (10.91%) Bitbucket
2 6 (10.91%) Git
3 4 (7.27%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.27%) JIRA
4 3 (5.45%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.64%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (3.64%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.64%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.82%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.82%) Postman
6 1 (1.82%) QUnit
General
1 26 (47.27%) Finance
2 21 (38.18%) Social Skills
3 16 (29.09%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (27.27%) Banking
5 5 (9.09%) Front Office
6 4 (7.27%) Investment Banking
7 3 (5.45%) Back Office
7 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (5.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.64%) Marketing
8 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.82%) Law
9 1 (1.82%) Legal
9 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (32.73%) Developer
2 8 (14.55%) Data Engineer
2 8 (14.55%) Senior
3 5 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Architect
4 4 (7.27%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Middleware Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) C# Developer
5 3 (5.45%) Consultant
5 3 (5.45%) DBA
5 3 (5.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 3 (5.45%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Database Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (3.64%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) KDB Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Power BI Consultant
6 2 (3.64%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.82%) REST
2 9 (16.36%) Middleware
3 7 (12.73%) .NET
3 7 (12.73%) SOAP
3 7 (12.73%) Terraform
4 5 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 5 (9.09%) JSON
4 5 (9.09%) XML
5 4 (7.27%) Kafka
5 4 (7.27%) React
5 4 (7.27%) RESTful
6 3 (5.45%) PySpark
6 3 (5.45%) Web Services
7 2 (3.64%) ADO.NET
7 2 (3.64%) Ajax
7 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.64%) OAuth
7 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.64%) XSL
7 2 (3.64%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Replication
2 6 (10.91%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (9.09%) Fixed Income
4 4 (7.27%) Data Centre
4 4 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.45%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.64%) Clustering
6 2 (3.64%) Derivative
6 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.64%) PropTech
6 2 (3.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.82%) AS400
7 1 (1.82%) DataPower
7 1 (1.82%) Equities
7 1 (1.82%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.82%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.00%) Linux
2 8 (14.55%) Unix
3 1 (1.82%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.82%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (47.27%) CI/CD
2 20 (36.36%) Agile
2 20 (36.36%) DevOps
3 16 (29.09%) Data Modelling
4 13 (23.64%) Integration Patterns
5 12 (21.82%) Analytics
5 12 (21.82%) ETL
5 12 (21.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (16.36%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (16.36%) Migration
8 9 (16.36%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (14.55%) Capacity Planning
9 8 (14.55%) Data Engineering
9 8 (14.55%) Event-Driven
9 8 (14.55%) High Availability
9 8 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (14.55%) Scrum
9 8 (14.55%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 26 (47.27%) SQL
2 22 (40.00%) Python
3 10 (18.18%) C#
4 5 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 5 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (5.45%) Korn
6 3 (5.45%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.64%) ActionScript
7 2 (3.64%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (3.64%) Bash
7 2 (3.64%) CQL
7 2 (3.64%) Java
7 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.64%) XMLA
8 1 (1.82%) Cypher
8 1 (1.82%) SOQL
8 1 (1.82%) SOSL
8 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.91%) Degree
2 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.64%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.64%) PMP
5 1 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.45%) QA
3 2 (3.64%) GDPR
4 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.82%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) ITRS Geneos
1 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
1 3 (5.45%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.64%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.82%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.82%) Grafana
3 1 (1.82%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.82%) SELinux
3 1 (1.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.91%) Oracle
3 5 (9.09%) Databricks
3 5 (9.09%) Solace
4 4 (7.27%) SAP
5 3 (5.45%) MuleSoft
5 3 (5.45%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.64%) Axway
6 2 (3.64%) IBM
6 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.64%) Sitecore
6 2 (3.64%) Software AG
6 2 (3.64%) webMethods
7 1 (1.82%) Dell
7 1 (1.82%) Foundry
7 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.82%) RedGate
7 1 (1.82%) Splunk
7 1 (1.82%) Sybase