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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 108 124
Rank change year-on-year +26 +16 +17
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 39 21 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.19% 0.97% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 1.06% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 9 16
10th Percentile £404 £366 £431
25th Percentile £513 £406 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.54% -12.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £656 £525 £688
90th Percentile £738 £545 £819
Central London median daily rate £575 £493 £550
% change year-on-year +16.75% -10.45% -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 1,654 1,982 2,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.87% 91.51% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,217 1,711
10th Percentile £339 £375 £363
25th Percentile £421 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 13
10th Percentile £20.02 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +54.55% -47.12%
75th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.84% -47.55%

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 29 November 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 (12.82%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (10.26%) Apache Spark
3 3 (7.69%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.13%) Apache
4 2 (5.13%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.56%) SAP MDG
2 1 (2.56%) SAP PLM
2 1 (2.56%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.08%) AWS
1 9 (23.08%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) dbt
3 5 (12.82%) Snowflake
4 4 (10.26%) Amazon S3
4 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.69%) Firebase
5 3 (7.69%) GCP
5 3 (7.69%) Serverless
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.13%) Apigee
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.13%) Dagster
6 2 (5.13%) Google Play
6 2 (5.13%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (12.82%) Oracle Database
2 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.26%) Power BI
4 3 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.13%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.13%) Metadata
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (5.13%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.13%) SQLite
5 2 (5.13%) SQLPlus
5 2 (5.13%) Star Schema
5 2 (5.13%) Tableau
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.56%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.56%) Kdb+
6 1 (2.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Git
1 9 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) CocoaPods
2 2 (5.13%) Crashlytics
2 2 (5.13%) fastlane
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) JUnit
2 2 (5.13%) Toad
2 2 (5.13%) Xcode
3 1 (2.56%) Mockito
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 13 (33.33%) Finance
3 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Front Office
4 4 (10.26%) Banking
5 3 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
7 1 (2.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Architect
3 6 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Lead
5 3 (7.69%) iOS Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Applications Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Applications Support
6 2 (5.13%) Applications Support Manager
6 2 (5.13%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Database Specialist
6 2 (5.13%) DBA
6 2 (5.13%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Support Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (7.69%) Kafka
3 2 (5.13%) .NET
3 2 (5.13%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (5.13%) AVFoundation
3 2 (5.13%) Core Animation
3 2 (5.13%) Core Data
3 2 (5.13%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (5.13%) JWT
3 2 (5.13%) Middleware
3 2 (5.13%) Node.js
3 2 (5.13%) OAuth
3 2 (5.13%) RESTful
3 2 (5.13%) RxJava
3 2 (5.13%) RxSwift
3 2 (5.13%) UIKit
4 1 (2.56%) CSS
4 1 (2.56%) SAP Basis
4 1 (2.56%) Swing
4 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.69%) Derivative
3 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.69%) Fixed Income
3 3 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.69%) Replication
4 2 (5.13%) Animation
4 2 (5.13%) Clustering
4 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.13%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.56%) Equities
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Linux
2 5 (12.82%) Unix
3 3 (7.69%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.13%) Android
4 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.56%) Windows
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 13 (33.33%) Agile
2 13 (33.33%) Analytics
2 13 (33.33%) DevOps
2 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (25.64%) Technical Leadership
4 9 (23.08%) Data Modelling
5 8 (20.51%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (20.51%) Mentoring
6 7 (17.95%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (17.95%) Low Latency
7 6 (15.38%) Data Engineering
7 6 (15.38%) ETL
7 6 (15.38%) Unit Testing
8 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
8 5 (12.82%) Data Integration
8 5 (12.82%) Design Patterns
8 5 (12.82%) Machine Learning
8 5 (12.82%) Scrum
9 4 (10.26%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) SQL
2 15 (38.46%) Python
3 5 (12.82%) Java
4 4 (10.26%) Perl
4 4 (10.26%) PL/SQL
5 3 (7.69%) C++
5 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.13%) AWK
6 2 (5.13%) Bash
6 2 (5.13%) C#
6 2 (5.13%) Kotlin
6 2 (5.13%) Objective-C
6 2 (5.13%) PHP
6 2 (5.13%) sed
6 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.13%) Swift
7 1 (2.56%) ABAP
7 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.26%) Accessibility
2 4 (10.26%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) GPFS
2 2 (5.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Terraform
2 3 (7.69%) Ansible
2 3 (7.69%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.56%) Kibana
4 1 (2.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) Databricks
2 6 (15.38%) Oracle
3 5 (12.82%) Google
4 2 (5.13%) AppDynamics
4 2 (5.13%) Apple
4 2 (5.13%) Bloomberg
4 2 (5.13%) MarketAxess
4 2 (5.13%) Pega
4 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.13%) SAP
4 2 (5.13%) Splunk
4 2 (5.13%) Tradeweb
5 1 (2.56%) Solace
5 1 (2.56%) TIBCO