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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 86 111
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 +22
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 61 41 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.58% 2.19% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.33% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 20 10
10th Percentile £418 £400 £329
25th Percentile £464 £480 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £487
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +20.70% -24.53%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £538
90th Percentile £724 £762 £591
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £487
% change year-on-year -4.35% +18.13% -24.53%

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 2,071 1,760 1,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.46% 94.22% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 1,155 1,282
10th Percentile £380 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £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 £770 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £32.05 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £57.49 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

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 12 August 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 5 (8.20%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.56%) CICS
3 3 (4.92%) Apache
4 2 (3.28%) Confluence
4 2 (3.28%) IIS
4 2 (3.28%) nginx
5 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.64%) Magento
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.64%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.64%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.64%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (45.90%) Azure
2 20 (32.79%) AWS
3 13 (21.31%) Power Platform
4 10 (16.39%) GitHub
5 8 (13.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (13.11%) Serverless
6 6 (9.84%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (9.84%) Snowflake
7 5 (8.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (8.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (8.20%) GCP
7 5 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.56%) dbt
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (4.92%) Power Automate
9 3 (4.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.48%) VPN
2 4 (6.56%) Internet
2 4 (6.56%) Multicast
3 3 (4.92%) Firewall
3 3 (4.92%) FTP
4 2 (3.28%) HTTPS
4 2 (3.28%) Intranet
4 2 (3.28%) LAN
4 2 (3.28%) Network Security
4 2 (3.28%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.28%) WAN
4 2 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.64%) OpenVPN
5 1 (1.64%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.64%) SSH
5 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.64%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.03%) NoSQL
2 10 (16.39%) SQL Server
3 9 (14.75%) Power BI
4 8 (13.11%) DynamoDB
5 7 (11.48%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (9.84%) Relational Database
7 5 (8.20%) Db2
7 5 (8.20%) MongoDB
7 5 (8.20%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (6.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (6.56%) RDBMS
8 4 (6.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (6.56%) Star Schema
9 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (3.28%) MySQL
10 2 (3.28%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (3.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Git
2 7 (11.48%) GitLab
3 5 (8.20%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.92%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.92%) Gradle
4 3 (4.92%) Maven
5 2 (3.28%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.28%) JIRA
5 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.28%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.64%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.64%) JUnit
6 1 (1.64%) PHPUnit
6 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 20 (32.79%) Finance
3 15 (24.59%) Banking
4 13 (21.31%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Law
6 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.28%) Marketing
6 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.64%) Front Office
7 1 (1.64%) Legal
7 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.64%) Publishing
7 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (31.15%) Developer
2 10 (16.39%) Senior
3 8 (13.11%) Data Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Senior Developer
4 5 (8.20%) Architect
5 4 (6.56%) Java Developer
5 4 (6.56%) Junior
5 4 (6.56%) Middleware Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (6.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Snowflake Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Consultant
6 3 (4.92%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.28%) C# Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (3.28%) DBA
7 2 (3.28%) Junior Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Junior Java Architect
7 2 (3.28%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) Kafka
1 11 (18.03%) REST
1 11 (18.03%) RESTful
1 11 (18.03%) SOAP
2 8 (13.11%) Middleware
3 6 (9.84%) .NET
3 6 (9.84%) JSON
3 6 (9.84%) Spring
3 6 (9.84%) Web Services
4 4 (6.56%) .NET Framework
4 4 (6.56%) React
4 4 (6.56%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.56%) WSDL
4 4 (6.56%) XML
5 3 (4.92%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (3.28%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.28%) LangChain
6 2 (3.28%) PySpark
6 2 (3.28%) PyTorch
6 2 (3.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (14.75%) Cloud Native
3 7 (11.48%) Clustering
3 7 (11.48%) Replication
4 6 (9.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (6.56%) DataPower
5 4 (6.56%) Fixed Income
5 4 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (6.56%) Mainframe
5 4 (6.56%) Online Banking
6 3 (4.92%) AI Agents
6 3 (4.92%) Data Centre
7 2 (3.28%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (3.28%) Derivative
7 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.64%) AS400
8 1 (1.64%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.64%) Equities
8 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.75%) Linux
2 6 (9.84%) Unix
3 4 (6.56%) zOS
4 2 (3.28%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.64%) Windows
5 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (42.62%) CI/CD
2 23 (37.70%) DevOps
3 15 (24.59%) Agile
4 14 (22.95%) AI
4 14 (22.95%) Data Modelling
5 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (19.67%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (19.67%) Integration Patterns
6 12 (19.67%) Microservices
7 11 (18.03%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (16.39%) Analytics
8 10 (16.39%) Data Engineering
8 10 (16.39%) ETL
8 10 (16.39%) Observability
9 9 (14.75%) Capacity Planning
9 9 (14.75%) Event-Driven
9 9 (14.75%) Migration
10 8 (13.11%) Containerisation
10 8 (13.11%) High Availability
10 8 (13.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (50.82%) SQL
2 22 (36.07%) Python
3 9 (14.75%) C#
4 8 (13.11%) Shell Script
5 7 (11.48%) Java
6 5 (8.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.56%) JCL
7 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.92%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.28%) ActionScript
9 2 (3.28%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (3.28%) Scala
9 2 (3.28%) XMLA
10 1 (1.64%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.64%) CQL
10 1 (1.64%) Elixir
10 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.64%) SOQL
10 1 (1.64%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Degree
1 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.64%) PMP
4 1 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.75%) Data Quality
2 8 (13.11%) QA
3 2 (3.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) Docker
2 3 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.28%) NFS
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.64%) Varnish
4 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (16.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.92%) Grafana
2 3 (4.92%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (4.92%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.92%) Terraform
3 2 (3.28%) Ansible
3 2 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.28%) SnapMirror
4 1 (1.64%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.64%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.64%) SELinux
4 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.48%) Oracle
3 5 (8.20%) Solace
4 4 (6.56%) Google
4 4 (6.56%) Informatica
5 3 (4.92%) Databricks
5 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.92%) SAP
5 3 (4.92%) VMware
6 2 (3.28%) Aruba
6 2 (3.28%) Axway
6 2 (3.28%) Cisco
6 2 (3.28%) Juniper
6 2 (3.28%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.28%) NetApp
6 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.28%) Sitecore
6 2 (3.28%) Software AG
6 2 (3.28%) webMethods
6 2 (3.28%) Zscaler