Performance Tuning Contracts in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 115 138
Rank change year-on-year +36 +23 +3
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 42 11 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.36% 0.52% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 0.57% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 8 15
10th Percentile £400 £378 £440
25th Percentile £484 £462 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £509 £645
Median % change year-on-year +17.94% -21.12% -12.81%
75th Percentile £675 £547 £750
90th Percentile £759 £624 -
Central London median daily rate £600 £509 £645
% change year-on-year +17.94% -21.12% -11.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 -

All Process and 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 1,669 1,940 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.82% 91.04% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 1,350 2,115
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the City of London

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 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (14.29%) Apache
1 6 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.14%) Confluence
3 2 (4.76%) IIS
4 1 (2.38%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.76%) SAP MDG
2 2 (4.76%) SAP PLM
2 2 (4.76%) SAP VC
3 1 (2.38%) SAP Convergent Charging
3 1 (2.38%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.67%) Azure
2 6 (14.29%) AWS
3 5 (11.90%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (7.14%) GitHub
4 3 (7.14%) IaaS
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.76%) SaaS
6 1 (2.38%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Table
6 1 (2.38%) Datadog
6 1 (2.38%) GCP
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.38%) PaaS
6 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) HTTP
2 1 (2.38%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) Multicast
2 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (14.29%) Big Data
3 5 (11.90%) Hadoop
3 5 (11.90%) Oracle Database
3 5 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (11.90%) Power BI
4 4 (9.52%) MySQL
5 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.76%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (4.76%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (4.76%) Spotfire
7 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.38%) Metadata
7 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Git
2 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.90%) JIRA
4 3 (7.14%) GitLab
5 2 (4.76%) JMeter
5 2 (4.76%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.38%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (45.24%) Finance
2 13 (30.95%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Front Office
5 4 (9.52%) Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Advertising
6 2 (4.76%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Developer
2 7 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 6 (14.29%) DBA
4 5 (11.90%) Administrator
4 5 (11.90%) Apache Spark Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Senior
6 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) C++ Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Consultant
7 2 (4.76%) Database Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Database Specialist
7 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL Specialist
7 2 (4.76%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (4.76%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (4.76%) SAP PLM Consultant
7 2 (4.76%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (11.90%) Spark Streaming
3 3 (7.14%) .NET
4 2 (4.76%) WebSockets
5 1 (2.38%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.38%) ADO
5 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.38%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.38%) ONNX
5 1 (2.38%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.38%) REST
5 1 (2.38%) SAP Basis
5 1 (2.38%) SAP BSP
5 1 (2.38%) SOAP
5 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (11.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (11.90%) Market Risk
2 5 (11.90%) Replication
3 3 (7.14%) Clustering
3 3 (7.14%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.76%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.38%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Windows
3 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.38%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (26.19%) Agile
2 11 (26.19%) CI/CD
3 9 (21.43%) Analytics
4 8 (19.05%) High Availability
4 8 (19.05%) Regulatory Compliance
4 8 (19.05%) Risk Management
5 7 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 7 (16.67%) Stress Testing
6 6 (14.29%) Code Quality
6 6 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (14.29%) Migration
7 5 (11.90%) Batch Processing
7 5 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (11.90%) Data Engineering
7 5 (11.90%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (11.90%) Low Latency
7 5 (11.90%) Mathematics
7 5 (11.90%) Memory Management
7 5 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) Python
1 14 (33.33%) SQL
2 10 (23.81%) Java
3 5 (11.90%) C++
4 4 (9.52%) Bash
5 3 (7.14%) ABAP
5 3 (7.14%) C#
6 2 (4.76%) AWK
6 2 (4.76%) Groovy
6 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.76%) sed
7 1 (2.38%) Bicep
7 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) GPFS
2 2 (4.76%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 4 (9.52%) Terraform
3 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.76%) Ansible
4 2 (4.76%) Grafana
4 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.38%) Istio
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) SAP
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) Oracle
3 4 (9.52%) Databricks
4 2 (4.76%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.38%) HP
5 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.38%) Teradata