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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 110 122
Rank change year-on-year +27 +12 +10
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 33 18 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.88% 0.87% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 0.94% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 17
10th Percentile £427 £331 £463
25th Percentile £566 £416 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £493 £625
Median % change year-on-year +24.37% -21.20% -11.23%
75th Percentile £675 £556 £688
90th Percentile £748 £575 £792
Central London median daily rate £600 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +14.29% -16.00% -3.85%

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 1,649 1,913 2,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.17% 92.10% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,220 1,918
10th Percentile £325 £384 £363
25th Percentile £418 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £712
90th Percentile £763 £788 £815
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 15
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £15.43
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -1.82% -36.05%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -10.71% +30.84% -37.06%

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
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 September 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 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 (18.18%) Apache
1 6 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.09%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) IIS
3 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.06%) SAP MDG
2 2 (6.06%) SAP PLM
2 2 (6.06%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
3 3 (9.09%) AWS
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (9.09%) GitHub
3 3 (9.09%) IaaS
4 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (6.06%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.06%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Table
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Run
5 1 (3.03%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) HTTP
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) Big Data
2 5 (15.15%) Hadoop
3 4 (12.12%) Power BI
3 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.06%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.06%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.03%) Metadata
5 1 (3.03%) MySQL
5 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.03%) Star Schema
5 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.18%) Git
3 5 (15.15%) JIRA
4 2 (6.06%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.03%) GitLab
5 1 (3.03%) JMeter
5 1 (3.03%) LoadRunner
5 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (45.45%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Banking
4 4 (12.12%) Front Office
5 2 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.03%) Advertising
6 1 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Retail
6 1 (3.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Developer
2 8 (24.24%) Java Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Architect
4 5 (15.15%) Apache Spark Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Administrator
6 2 (6.06%) Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Database Specialist
6 2 (6.06%) DBA
6 2 (6.06%) Lead Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Pega Architect
6 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL Specialist
6 2 (6.06%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) SAP PLM Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (15.15%) Spark Streaming
3 4 (12.12%) .NET
4 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.03%) ADO
4 1 (3.03%) CSS
4 1 (3.03%) CSS3
4 1 (3.03%) HTML
4 1 (3.03%) HTML5
4 1 (3.03%) LESS
4 1 (3.03%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (3.03%) React
4 1 (3.03%) REST
4 1 (3.03%) RESTful
4 1 (3.03%) SAP Basis
4 1 (3.03%) Sass
4 1 (3.03%) Spring
4 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.03%) Swing
4 1 (3.03%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (15.15%) Distributed Computing
1 5 (15.15%) Market Risk
2 3 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Clustering
3 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.06%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.06%) Replication
4 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (36.36%) Agile
3 10 (30.30%) CI/CD
4 8 (24.24%) Analytics
4 8 (24.24%) Regulatory Compliance
5 7 (21.21%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (18.18%) Code Quality
6 6 (18.18%) DevOps
6 6 (18.18%) Mathematics
6 6 (18.18%) Stress Testing
7 5 (15.15%) Batch Processing
7 5 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (15.15%) Data Modelling
7 5 (15.15%) Greeks
7 5 (15.15%) Memory Management
7 5 (15.15%) Risk Analytics
7 5 (15.15%) Risk Management
8 4 (12.12%) Low Latency
8 4 (12.12%) Scrum
8 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Python
2 10 (30.30%) Java
3 9 (27.27%) SQL
4 4 (12.12%) Bash
5 3 (9.09%) C#
5 3 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.06%) ABAP
6 2 (6.06%) AWK
6 2 (6.06%) C++
6 2 (6.06%) Groovy
6 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.06%) sed
7 1 (3.03%) Bicep
7 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.03%) PhD
3 1 (3.03%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.03%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) GPFS
2 2 (6.06%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Grafana
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.06%) Terraform
3 1 (3.03%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle
1 3 (9.09%) SAP
2 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
2 2 (6.06%) Databricks
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Pega
2 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.03%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) HP
3 1 (3.03%) Teradata