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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 92 100
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 +24
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 55 34 26
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.55% 1.97% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 2.09% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 21 13
10th Percentile £379 £404 £340
25th Percentile £422 £513 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £493
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +21.83% -21.20%
75th Percentile £719 £675 £538
90th Percentile £768 £719 £575
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -20.00%

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 1,967 1,625 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.06% 94.26% 91.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,360 1,114 1,215
10th Percentile £365 £326 £371
25th Percentile £455 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 18
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.90 £17.15
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.63 £24.09
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.04 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% -33.25% +29.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £35.88 £107.13
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £27.04 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.38% -22.76% +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 15 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 2 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.82%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.82%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (34.55%) Azure
2 15 (27.27%) AWS
3 11 (20.00%) Serverless
4 10 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 9 (16.36%) GitHub
6 7 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (12.73%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 5 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (7.27%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (7.27%) PowerApps
9 3 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.45%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (5.45%) Azure Functions
9 3 (5.45%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (5.45%) dbt
9 3 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (5.45%) Power Automate
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
2 6 (10.91%) Power BI
2 6 (10.91%) SQL Server
3 5 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (7.27%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.27%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.45%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (5.45%) RDBMS
5 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
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%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.64%) KDB
6 2 (3.64%) Kdb+
6 2 (3.64%) Milvus
6 2 (3.64%) Pinecone
6 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.64%) Weaviate
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 27 (49.09%) Finance
2 21 (38.18%) Social Skills
3 15 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (27.27%) Banking
4 5 (9.09%) Front Office
5 4 (7.27%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.45%) Back Office
6 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.64%) Marketing
7 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.64%) Retail
8 1 (1.82%) Law
8 1 (1.82%) Legal
8 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
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%) C# Developer
4 4 (7.27%) Middleware Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Consultant
5 3 (5.45%) DBA
5 3 (5.45%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (3.64%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Databricks Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Dynamics 365 Developer
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
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.82%) REST
2 9 (16.36%) Middleware
3 8 (14.55%) Terraform
4 7 (12.73%) SOAP
5 6 (10.91%) .NET
6 5 (9.09%) JSON
6 5 (9.09%) XML
7 4 (7.27%) .NET Framework
7 4 (7.27%) Kafka
7 4 (7.27%) React
7 4 (7.27%) RESTful
8 3 (5.45%) PySpark
8 3 (5.45%) Web Services
9 2 (3.64%) ADO.NET
9 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET
9 2 (3.64%) EDI
9 2 (3.64%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (3.64%) XSL
9 2 (3.64%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Replication
2 7 (12.73%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (9.09%) Fixed Income
5 4 (7.27%) Data Centre
6 3 (5.45%) AI Agents
6 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.64%) Derivative
7 2 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.64%) PropTech
7 2 (3.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.82%) DataPower
8 1 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.82%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.82%) Online Banking
8 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.00%) Linux
2 8 (14.55%) Unix
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
4 13 (23.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (21.82%) Analytics
5 12 (21.82%) ETL
6 10 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
6 10 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (16.36%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (16.36%) Migration
8 8 (14.55%) Capacity Planning
8 8 (14.55%) Data Engineering
8 8 (14.55%) Event-Driven
8 8 (14.55%) High Availability
8 8 (14.55%) Scrum
9 7 (12.73%) Microservices
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%) Java
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%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.64%) XMLA
8 1 (1.82%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.82%) Cypher
8 1 (1.82%) Scala
8 1 (1.82%) SOQL
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%) AWS Certification
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 3 (5.45%) 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 14 (25.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.91%) Oracle
3 5 (9.09%) Databricks
3 5 (9.09%) Solace
4 3 (5.45%) MuleSoft
4 3 (5.45%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.45%) SAP
5 2 (3.64%) Axway
5 2 (3.64%) IBM
5 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.64%) Sitecore
5 2 (3.64%) Software AG
5 2 (3.64%) webMethods
6 1 (1.82%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.82%) Dell
6 1 (1.82%) Foundry
6 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.82%) Splunk
6 1 (1.82%) Sybase