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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 100 118
Rank change year-on-year +13 +18 +18
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 38 22 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.07% 1.06% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 1.15% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 10 16
10th Percentile £343 £371 £431
25th Percentile £434 £408 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £619 £496 £688
90th Percentile £755 £530 £819
Central London median daily rate £538 £466 £550
% change year-on-year +15.47% -15.36% -8.33%

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 1,658 1,907 2,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.50% 92.21% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 1,165 1,592
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £421 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £761 £789 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 10
10th Percentile £20.02 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £41.94 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £54.95 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -24.84% +30.84% -35.93%

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 24 December 2025.

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 5 (13.16%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (10.53%) Apache Spark
3 3 (7.89%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.26%) Apache
4 2 (5.26%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.63%) BASE24
2 1 (2.63%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.63%) SAP MDG
2 1 (2.63%) SAP PLM
2 1 (2.63%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) AWS
2 8 (21.05%) Azure
3 7 (18.42%) dbt
4 6 (15.79%) Amazon S3
5 5 (13.16%) Snowflake
6 4 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (10.53%) GCP
6 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 4 (10.53%) Serverless
7 3 (7.89%) Apigee
7 3 (7.89%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (7.89%) Firebase
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (5.26%) Dagster
8 2 (5.26%) Google Play
8 2 (5.26%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (10.53%) Power BI
3 3 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (7.89%) Data Lake
3 3 (7.89%) DynamoDB
3 3 (7.89%) Metadata
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle Database
3 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.26%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (5.26%) SQLite
4 2 (5.26%) SQLPlus
4 2 (5.26%) Star Schema
4 2 (5.26%) Tableau
5 1 (2.63%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (2.63%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Git
2 9 (23.68%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) CocoaPods
3 2 (5.26%) Crashlytics
3 2 (5.26%) fastlane
3 2 (5.26%) JIRA
3 2 (5.26%) JUnit
3 2 (5.26%) Toad
3 2 (5.26%) Xcode
4 1 (2.63%) GitLab
4 1 (2.63%) Mockito
General
1 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 12 (31.58%) Finance
3 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Banking
4 4 (10.53%) Front Office
5 3 (7.89%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.63%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.63%) Retail
7 1 (2.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Developer
2 8 (21.05%) Data Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Architect
3 6 (15.79%) Senior
4 5 (13.16%) Lead
5 3 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) iOS Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Applications Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Applications Support
6 2 (5.26%) Applications Support Manager
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Senior iOS Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Support Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (7.89%) Kafka
3 2 (5.26%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (5.26%) AVFoundation
3 2 (5.26%) Core Animation
3 2 (5.26%) Core Data
3 2 (5.26%) HTML
3 2 (5.26%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (5.26%) JWT
3 2 (5.26%) Middleware
3 2 (5.26%) Node.js
3 2 (5.26%) OAuth
3 2 (5.26%) PySpark
3 2 (5.26%) RESTful
3 2 (5.26%) RxJava
3 2 (5.26%) RxSwift
3 2 (5.26%) UIKit
4 1 (2.63%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (10.53%) Data Structures
4 3 (7.89%) Algorithms
4 3 (7.89%) Derivative
4 3 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.89%) Fixed Income
4 3 (7.89%) Mobile App
5 2 (5.26%) Animation
5 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.63%) EMV
6 1 (2.63%) Equities
6 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.63%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.63%) Replication
6 1 (2.63%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Unix
2 4 (10.53%) Linux
3 3 (7.89%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.26%) Android
5 1 (2.63%) Windows
5 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) CI/CD
2 14 (36.84%) Analytics
2 14 (36.84%) DevOps
3 13 (34.21%) Agile
4 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (26.32%) Data Modelling
5 10 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (21.05%) ETL
6 8 (21.05%) Mentoring
7 7 (18.42%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (18.42%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (15.79%) AI
8 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
8 6 (15.79%) Data Engineering
8 6 (15.79%) Low Latency
8 6 (15.79%) Unit Testing
9 5 (13.16%) Data Integration
9 5 (13.16%) Design Patterns
9 5 (13.16%) Machine Learning
9 5 (13.16%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 21 (55.26%) SQL
2 16 (42.11%) Python
3 5 (13.16%) Java
4 4 (10.53%) Perl
4 4 (10.53%) PL/SQL
5 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.26%) C++
6 2 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (5.26%) Kotlin
6 2 (5.26%) Objective-C
6 2 (5.26%) PHP
6 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.26%) Swift
7 1 (2.63%) ABAP
7 1 (2.63%) C
7 1 (2.63%) C#
7 1 (2.63%) COBOL
7 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.63%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.68%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 4 (10.53%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.63%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Terraform
2 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.89%) Ansible
3 3 (7.89%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.63%) Argo
5 1 (2.63%) Grafana
5 1 (2.63%) Karpenter
5 1 (2.63%) Kibana
5 1 (2.63%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.79%) Databricks
2 6 (15.79%) Google
3 4 (10.53%) Oracle
4 3 (7.89%) SAP
4 3 (7.89%) Splunk
5 2 (5.26%) AppDynamics
5 2 (5.26%) Apple
5 2 (5.26%) Bloomberg
5 2 (5.26%) MarketAxess
5 2 (5.26%) Pega
5 2 (5.26%) Tradeweb
6 1 (2.63%) HP
6 1 (2.63%) Solace
6 1 (2.63%) TIBCO