Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Performance Tuning
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 54 75
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 +2
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 24 30 8
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.39% 3.65% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 3.90% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 22 7
10th Percentile £358 £429 -
25th Percentile £375 £468 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £350
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +52.14% -41.67%
75th Percentile £525 £573 £519
90th Percentile £606 £589 £600
Scotland median daily rate £467 £525 £430
% change year-on-year -11.05% +22.09% -13.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £43.75 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 579 769 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 81.90% 93.55% 92.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 490 546
10th Percentile £308 £308 £313
25th Percentile £375 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £494
Median % change year-on-year - -8.86% +3.95%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £675 £607 £694
Scotland median daily rate £450 £456 £480
% change year-on-year -1.21% -5.10% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 39
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £23.17 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.85% +28.69% +44.00%
75th Percentile £46.61 £67.56 £47.35
90th Percentile £54.00 £77.63 £65.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% +10.05%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Tuning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Glasgow

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (8.33%) Apache
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (70.83%) AWS
2 14 (58.33%) Azure
3 10 (41.67%) Snowflake
4 6 (25.00%) GCP
5 5 (20.83%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (16.67%) Serverless
7 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
8 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
9 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (4.17%) GitHub
9 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (4.17%) IaaS
9 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
9 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
9 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
9 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 5 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (12.50%) Power BI
6 2 (8.33%) Big Data
6 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
6 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
7 1 (4.17%) DB2
7 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
1 4 (16.67%) JUnit
2 3 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 3 (12.50%) GitLab
3 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Banking
2 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Database Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) DBA
2 4 (16.67%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Site Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Java Architect
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Spring
2 4 (16.67%) JSON
2 4 (16.67%) REST
2 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 3 (12.50%) Jest
3 3 (12.50%) Kafka
3 3 (12.50%) React
3 3 (12.50%) RESTful
3 3 (12.50%) XML
4 2 (8.33%) PySpark
5 1 (4.17%) .NET
5 1 (4.17%) Fluent Bit
5 1 (4.17%) Hibernate
5 1 (4.17%) JMS
5 1 (4.17%) JPA
5 1 (4.17%) OpenAPI
5 1 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (4.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 4 (16.67%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) CMDB
3 1 (4.17%) Equities
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) CI/CD
2 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (37.50%) Observability
3 8 (33.33%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (29.17%) Performance Optimisation
4 7 (29.17%) Task Automation
5 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 6 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (25.00%) DevOps
5 6 (25.00%) ETL
6 5 (20.83%) Data Governance
7 4 (16.67%) Database Security
7 4 (16.67%) High Availability
7 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
7 4 (16.67%) Microservices
7 4 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) Python
2 10 (41.67%) SQL
3 8 (33.33%) Java
4 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.33%) Bash
5 2 (8.33%) Go
5 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.17%) C#
6 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.17%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (12.50%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) etcd
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) Ansible
2 9 (37.50%) Terraform
3 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
4 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.17%) Fluentd
5 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Greenplum
2 4 (16.67%) Informatica
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Talend
3 3 (12.50%) Google
3 3 (12.50%) Splunk
4 2 (8.33%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) Confluent
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) Sybase