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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 85 122
Rank change year-on-year +16 +37 +12
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 61 33 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.65% 1.90% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 2.03% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 17 2
10th Percentile £360 £400 £533
25th Percentile £463 £425 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -16.00% -7.06%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £688
90th Percentile £753 £759 £718
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £625
% change year-on-year - -16.00% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £48.50

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 1,948 1,624 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.51% 93.55% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,327 1,020 1,377
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 12
10th Percentile £17.84 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.16 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%

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 19 May 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 7 (11.48%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.56%) CICS
3 3 (4.92%) Apache
4 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.64%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Chatbot
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.64%) BASE24
2 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.64%) Magento
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.64%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 30 (49.18%) Azure
2 25 (40.98%) AWS
3 13 (21.31%) GitHub
4 10 (16.39%) Power Platform
4 10 (16.39%) Serverless
5 9 (14.75%) GCP
6 8 (13.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (13.11%) Snowflake
7 7 (11.48%) Amazon S3
7 7 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (11.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (9.84%) Amazon Kinesis
8 6 (9.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (6.56%) Azure AKS
9 4 (6.56%) dbt
10 3 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.92%) Azure Storage
10 3 (4.92%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) VPN
2 2 (3.28%) Firewall
2 2 (3.28%) FTP
2 2 (3.28%) Internet
2 2 (3.28%) LAN
2 2 (3.28%) Network Security
2 2 (3.28%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.28%) WAN
2 2 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.64%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.64%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.03%) NoSQL
2 9 (14.75%) DynamoDB
3 7 (11.48%) Power BI
3 7 (11.48%) Snowflake Schema
4 6 (9.84%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (9.84%) Relational Database
4 6 (9.84%) SQL Server
5 5 (8.20%) DB2
6 4 (6.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (6.56%) MongoDB
7 3 (4.92%) Data Lake
7 3 (4.92%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (4.92%) Metadata
7 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (4.92%) RDBMS
7 3 (4.92%) Redis
7 3 (4.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (4.92%) Star Schema
7 3 (4.92%) Tableau
8 2 (3.28%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 14 (22.95%) Git
2 7 (11.48%) GitLab
3 5 (8.20%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.92%) Gradle
4 3 (4.92%) JUnit
4 3 (4.92%) Maven
5 2 (3.28%) Gatling
5 2 (3.28%) Toad
6 1 (1.64%) JIRA
6 1 (1.64%) Mockito
6 1 (1.64%) PHPUnit
6 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 19 (31.15%) Finance
3 15 (24.59%) Banking
4 8 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Publishing
6 2 (3.28%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.28%) Law
7 1 (1.64%) Front Office
7 1 (1.64%) Legal
7 1 (1.64%) Local Government
7 1 (1.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (31.15%) Developer
2 13 (21.31%) Data Engineer
3 9 (14.75%) Senior
4 8 (13.11%) Senior Developer
5 7 (11.48%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 7 (11.48%) Snowflake Engineer
6 6 (9.84%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.92%) Architect
8 3 (4.92%) Python Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Azure Architect
9 2 (3.28%) Desktop Support
9 2 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Junior
9 2 (3.28%) NetApp Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Support Technician
9 2 (3.28%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.31%) Kafka
2 12 (19.67%) RESTful
3 8 (13.11%) Spring
4 7 (11.48%) JSON
4 7 (11.48%) SOAP
5 6 (9.84%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (9.84%) REST
5 6 (9.84%) Spring Boot
6 5 (8.20%) React
7 4 (6.56%) Pandas
7 4 (6.56%) Web Services
7 4 (6.56%) WSDL
8 3 (4.92%) .NET
8 3 (4.92%) GeoJSON
8 3 (4.92%) Matplotlib
8 3 (4.92%) Polars
8 3 (4.92%) PySpark
8 3 (4.92%) scikit-learn
9 2 (3.28%) CrewAI
9 2 (3.28%) Jetpack Compose
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.03%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.75%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (11.48%) Clustering
4 4 (6.56%) AI Agents
4 4 (6.56%) DataPower
4 4 (6.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (6.56%) Mainframe
4 4 (6.56%) Online Banking
5 3 (4.92%) Derivative
5 3 (4.92%) Fixed Income
6 2 (3.28%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.64%) IoT
7 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.20%) Unix
2 4 (6.56%) zOS
3 3 (4.92%) Linux
4 2 (3.28%) Android
4 2 (3.28%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.64%) Windows
5 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (47.54%) CI/CD
2 22 (36.07%) DevOps
3 18 (29.51%) AI
3 18 (29.51%) Data Modelling
4 16 (26.23%) ETL
4 16 (26.23%) Observability
5 15 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (21.31%) Data Pipeline
7 12 (19.67%) Event-Driven
7 12 (19.67%) Microservices
8 11 (18.03%) Agile
8 11 (18.03%) Containerisation
8 11 (18.03%) Data Engineering
9 10 (16.39%) Analytics
9 10 (16.39%) Test Automation
10 9 (14.75%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (13.11%) Data Governance
11 8 (13.11%) Integration Patterns
11 8 (13.11%) Migration
11 8 (13.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 38 (62.30%) SQL
2 26 (42.62%) Python
3 9 (14.75%) Java
4 7 (11.48%) Shell Script
5 6 (9.84%) C#
6 5 (8.20%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.56%) JCL
7 4 (6.56%) Perl
8 3 (4.92%) PHP
8 3 (4.92%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.28%) Bicep
9 2 (3.28%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.28%) Scala
9 2 (3.28%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.64%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (1.64%) Elixir
10 1 (1.64%) Ruby
10 1 (1.64%) X++
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.28%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.95%) Data Quality
2 7 (11.48%) QA
3 3 (4.92%) ISO 8583
4 2 (3.28%) GDPR
4 2 (3.28%) ISO 20022
4 2 (3.28%) PSD2
4 2 (3.28%) SEPA
5 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
System Software
1 11 (18.03%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) NFS
2 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.64%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 12 (19.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.84%) Grafana
3 5 (8.20%) Prometheus
3 5 (8.20%) Terraform
4 4 (6.56%) Ansible
5 3 (4.92%) Argo
5 3 (4.92%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (3.28%) SnapMirror
7 1 (1.64%) Karpenter
7 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.48%) Google
3 5 (8.20%) Informatica
3 5 (8.20%) Oracle
4 3 (4.92%) Databricks
4 3 (4.92%) Splunk
5 2 (3.28%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.28%) Aruba
5 2 (3.28%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.28%) Cisco
5 2 (3.28%) Confluent
5 2 (3.28%) Juniper
5 2 (3.28%) MarketAxess
5 2 (3.28%) NetApp
5 2 (3.28%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.28%) SAP
5 2 (3.28%) Tradeweb
5 2 (3.28%) VMware
5 2 (3.28%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.64%) webMethods