Performance Tuning Contracts in England

Performance Tuning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 265 280
Rank change year-on-year +113 +15 +39
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 433 320 451
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.81% 0.87% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.01% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 230 267
10th Percentile £360 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £747 £700 £751
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 14
10th Percentile £61.87 £39.24 £61.50
25th Percentile £66.25 £57.89 £64.38
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.03% +61.11%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile £78.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £72.50
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.03% +52.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,854 31,539 42,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 85.92% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,225 20,657 30,069
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 952 2,292 1,514
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
Median % change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in England

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in England

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in England

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in England

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Tuning in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Tuning in England

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tuning within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +113 226 £550 +4.76% 300
North of England +51 77 £500 +4.17% 368
South East +2 52 £481 -19.83% 512
North West +28 42 £500 -1.96% 173
Yorkshire +31 37 £400 -5.88% 155
East of England +47 23 £475 +35.71% 244
South West +53 22 £460 +15.00% 185
Midlands +11 22 £465 +3.50% 313
West Midlands +28 20 £521 -10.26% 168
North East - 4 £650 - 41
East Midlands -7 2 £410 -8.69% 125
Performance Tuning
UK

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 38 (8.78%) Confluence
2 26 (6.00%) Apache
3 17 (3.93%) Apache Spark
4 14 (3.23%) IIS
5 11 (2.54%) Oracle Coherence
6 10 (2.31%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (1.85%) GemFire
8 6 (1.39%) NetWeaver
9 4 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.92%) Exchange Server 2010
9 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.92%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.92%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.92%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.69%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (0.69%) SAS
10 3 (0.69%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.46%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.62%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.39%) SAP IBP
5 5 (1.15%) Oracle EBS R12
5 5 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.92%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.92%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.69%) BASE24
7 3 (0.69%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.23%) FastStats
8 1 (0.23%) SAP CAR
8 1 (0.23%) SAP Convergent Charging
8 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.23%) SAP PLM
8 1 (0.23%) SAP POS DM
8 1 (0.23%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 94 (21.71%) AWS
2 88 (20.32%) Azure
3 48 (11.09%) GCP
4 33 (7.62%) Power Platform
5 18 (4.16%) Snowflake
6 17 (3.93%) IaaS
7 16 (3.70%) OCI
8 12 (2.77%) GitHub
9 11 (2.54%) Power Automate
10 10 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (2.08%) Serverless
12 8 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.62%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.62%) PowerApps
14 6 (1.39%) PaaS
14 6 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.70%) Network Security
2 13 (3.00%) Firewall
3 12 (2.77%) DNS
4 10 (2.31%) DHCP
5 8 (1.85%) HTTPS
5 8 (1.85%) SSH
6 7 (1.62%) SMTP
6 7 (1.62%) VPN
7 6 (1.39%) SSL
7 6 (1.39%) Telnet
8 5 (1.15%) SNMP
9 4 (0.92%) FTP
9 4 (0.92%) HTTP
9 4 (0.92%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.92%) PSTN
9 4 (0.92%) Skype
9 4 (0.92%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.92%) VSAN
10 3 (0.69%) Multicast
10 3 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (14.55%) SQL Server
2 55 (12.70%) Oracle Database
3 41 (9.47%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (9.47%) Relational Database
4 29 (6.70%) SAP HANA
5 27 (6.24%) Power BI
6 22 (5.08%) MongoDB
7 21 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (4.62%) Oracle Reports
9 19 (4.39%) Big Data
10 17 (3.93%) Hadoop
11 16 (3.70%) Data Lake
12 15 (3.46%) DB2
12 15 (3.46%) Snowflake Schema
13 14 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (2.77%) MySQL
15 11 (2.54%) NoSQL
15 11 (2.54%) RDBMS
15 11 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 9 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 32 (7.39%) Git
1 32 (7.39%) JIRA
2 30 (6.93%) Jenkins
3 23 (5.31%) GitLab
4 16 (3.70%) ScriptRunner
5 14 (3.23%) JUnit
6 5 (1.15%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.15%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.92%) DBeaver
7 4 (0.92%) JMeter
7 4 (0.92%) Liquibase
8 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.69%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.69%) LSMW
8 3 (0.69%) Maven
8 3 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.46%) Gatling
9 2 (0.46%) git-flow
9 2 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 132 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 109 (25.17%) Finance
3 98 (22.63%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (12.47%) Banking
5 32 (7.39%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.54%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.08%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.62%) Front Office
9 6 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.39%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.15%) Military
11 4 (0.92%) Legal
11 4 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.69%) Games
12 3 (0.69%) Retail
13 2 (0.46%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.46%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 96 (22.17%) Developer
2 93 (21.48%) Senior
3 48 (11.09%) DBA
4 46 (10.62%) Java Developer
5 40 (9.24%) Data Engineer
6 37 (8.55%) Administrator
7 32 (7.39%) Architect
7 32 (7.39%) Senior Developer
8 29 (6.70%) Senior Java Developer
9 28 (6.47%) Consultant
10 22 (5.08%) SQL DBA
11 21 (4.85%) Oracle Developer
12 18 (4.16%) SQL Developer
13 17 (3.93%) Investment Banking Java Developer
14 14 (3.23%) Lead
14 14 (3.23%) Linux Developer
14 14 (3.23%) Oracle DBA
14 14 (3.23%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
14 14 (3.23%) Senior SQL Developer
15 13 (3.00%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.47%) .NET
2 25 (5.77%) Kafka
3 24 (5.54%) Web Services
4 20 (4.62%) JMS
5 16 (3.70%) SOAP
5 16 (3.70%) Spring
6 15 (3.46%) Middleware
6 15 (3.46%) XML
7 14 (3.23%) HTML
8 13 (3.00%) REST
9 12 (2.77%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (2.77%) JSON
10 11 (2.54%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.54%) BAPI
10 11 (2.54%) SAP Fiori
11 10 (2.31%) ASP.NET
11 10 (2.31%) CSS
11 10 (2.31%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (1.85%) RESTful
12 8 (1.85%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.31%) Replication
2 22 (5.08%) Data Structures
3 19 (4.39%) Clustering
4 16 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (3.23%) Equities
6 14 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 13 (3.00%) Distributed Computing
8 11 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (2.31%) Onboarding
10 9 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (2.08%) Market Risk
11 7 (1.62%) Hedge funds
12 6 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.39%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.39%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 81 (18.71%) Linux
2 30 (6.93%) Unix
3 29 (6.70%) Windows
4 17 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.62%) Android
7 5 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.92%) Solaris
9 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.69%) Rocky
9 3 (0.69%) VMS
10 1 (0.23%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
2 100 (23.09%) Migration
3 99 (22.86%) Agile
4 66 (15.24%) Disaster Recovery
5 63 (14.55%) Data Modelling
5 63 (14.55%) High Availability
6 62 (14.32%) CI/CD
7 59 (13.63%) DevOps
8 58 (13.39%) ETL
9 54 (12.47%) Analytics
10 42 (9.70%) Database Tuning
11 40 (9.24%) Data Migration
12 39 (9.01%) Data Pipeline
13 37 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
14 35 (8.08%) Change Management
14 35 (8.08%) Problem Management
15 33 (7.62%) Incident Management
15 33 (7.62%) Performance Optimisation
16 30 (6.93%) Data Security
16 30 (6.93%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 183 (42.26%) SQL
2 111 (25.64%) Python
3 66 (15.24%) Java
4 35 (8.08%) Shell Script
5 28 (6.47%) PL/SQL
6 25 (5.77%) PowerShell
7 24 (5.54%) Bash
8 19 (4.39%) C#
8 19 (4.39%) JavaScript
9 16 (3.70%) Groovy
10 13 (3.00%) ABAP
11 10 (2.31%) Perl
12 9 (2.08%) ActionScript
12 9 (2.08%) ActionScript 2.0
13 8 (1.85%) C++
13 8 (1.85%) T-SQL
13 8 (1.85%) TypeScript
14 7 (1.62%) C
14 7 (1.62%) Ruby
14 7 (1.62%) Scala
Qualifications
1 89 (20.55%) Security Cleared
2 57 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.77%) Degree
4 19 (4.39%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.85%) Numerate Degree
7 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.62%) OCP
7 7 (1.62%) Oracle Certification
7 7 (1.62%) RHCE
8 6 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.69%) CCNP
12 2 (0.46%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.46%) IBM Certification
12 2 (0.46%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.46%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.54%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.85%) SLA
3 16 (3.70%) GDPR
4 10 (2.31%) HIPAA
4 10 (2.31%) PCI DSS
4 10 (2.31%) QA
5 6 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.15%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.92%) NIST
8 3 (0.69%) COBIT
8 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.46%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.23%) Basel III
10 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.23%) HL7
10 1 (0.23%) IFRS
10 1 (0.23%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (8.31%) Docker
2 18 (4.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.00%) Oracle RAC
4 12 (2.77%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.77%) vSphere
5 11 (2.54%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (1.85%) GridGain
7 7 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.39%) Hyper-V
9 5 (1.15%) Firmware
10 4 (0.92%) NFS
10 4 (0.92%) Samba
10 4 (0.92%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.69%) FreeRADIUS
11 3 (0.69%) iptables
12 2 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.23%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.23%) KVM
13 1 (0.23%) QEMU
13 1 (0.23%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 45 (10.39%) Ansible
2 41 (9.47%) Kubernetes
3 34 (7.85%) Terraform
4 21 (4.85%) Oracle RMAN
5 13 (3.00%) Grafana
5 13 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 10 (2.31%) vCenter Server
8 9 (2.08%) Puppet
9 7 (1.62%) logstash
10 6 (1.39%) Data Guard
10 6 (1.39%) Kibana
10 6 (1.39%) Nagios
10 6 (1.39%) vMotion
11 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (1.15%) NetApp OnCommand
11 5 (1.15%) WSUS
12 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
12 4 (0.92%) Netcool
12 4 (0.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 96 (22.17%) Oracle
2 56 (12.93%) Microsoft
3 43 (9.93%) SAP
4 26 (6.00%) VMware
5 22 (5.08%) IBM
6 20 (4.62%) Google
7 19 (4.39%) Sybase
8 18 (4.16%) Databricks
9 17 (3.93%) Commvault
10 16 (3.70%) Atlassian
10 16 (3.70%) Red Hat
11 13 (3.00%) ServiceNow
12 12 (2.77%) Cisco
13 10 (2.31%) Informatica
14 9 (2.08%) Splunk
15 8 (1.85%) IBM Sterling
16 6 (1.39%) HP
16 6 (1.39%) Salesforce
16 6 (1.39%) Siebel
16 6 (1.39%) Teradata