Performance Tuning Contracts in Edinburgh

Performance Tuning
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 69 78
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 +49
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 15 4 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.27% 0.48% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 0.57% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 16
10th Percentile - £450 £416
25th Percentile £425 £469 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £525
90th Percentile £568 £635 £533
Scotland median daily rate £525 £435 £500
% change year-on-year +20.69% -13.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 622 704 1,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.24% 85.13% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 392 688
10th Percentile £304 £210 £213
25th Percentile £413 £345 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £599 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 5
10th Percentile £17.15 £13.09 £24.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.78 £41.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.19 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -65.36% +196.28%
75th Percentile £37.09 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £39.70 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +2.09% +3.49% -13.95%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Edinburgh

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in Edinburgh

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in Edinburgh

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 6 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (40.00%) GCP
4 4 (26.67%) GitHub
4 4 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (20.00%) Firebase
5 3 (20.00%) Serverless
5 3 (20.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) CloudFront
6 1 (6.67%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (6.67%) IaaS
6 1 (6.67%) PaaS
6 1 (6.67%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (13.33%) PowerCenter
5 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
5 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (6.67%) MySQL
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (6.67%) Power Query
5 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
5 1 (6.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 3 (20.00%) Storybook
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) React Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Database Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DBA
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Database Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) RESTful
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Amplify
2 3 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (20.00%) CSS
2 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (20.00%) Jest
2 3 (20.00%) React
2 3 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (6.67%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (6.67%) JSON
3 1 (6.67%) Playwright
3 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (26.67%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (20.00%) Legacy Code
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Clustering
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (6.67%) Low-Code
4 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) AIX
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Solaris
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Migration
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) High Availability
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (26.67%) Microservices
4 4 (26.67%) Unit Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) API Design
5 3 (20.00%) API Development
5 3 (20.00%) Black-Box Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (20.00%) OWASP
5 3 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
5 3 (20.00%) Secure Coding
5 3 (20.00%) User Experience
5 3 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) Perl
3 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (13.33%) Python
5 1 (6.67%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) Bicep
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Data Guard
2 1 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Teradata
3 2 (13.33%) Dynatrace
3 2 (13.33%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) Informatica
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) TSYS