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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 61 79
Rank change year-on-year +27 +18 -5
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 44 18 3
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.07% 2.39% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.95% 2.63% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 14 2
10th Percentile £357 - £535
25th Percentile £358 £425 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £578
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -19.48% -3.75%
75th Percentile £525 £527 £596
90th Percentile £544 £603 £598
Scotland median daily rate £500 £460 £488
% change year-on-year +8.70% -5.64% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All Process and 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 633 685 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 87.31% 90.85% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 434 537
10th Percentile £295 £303 £350
25th Percentile £400 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £625
90th Percentile £628 £660 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 17
10th Percentile £14.83 £16.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £16.45 £17.32 £15.42
Median hourly rate £24.98 £19.59 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.51% +22.44% -46.16%
75th Percentile £49.15 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.93 £40.10 £36.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%

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 23 December 2025.

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 7 (15.91%) Apache Spark
2 6 (13.64%) Apache
2 6 (13.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.27%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.91%) AWS
2 16 (36.36%) Azure
3 13 (29.55%) Snowflake
4 7 (15.91%) Power Platform
5 5 (11.36%) Serverless
6 3 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.82%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.82%) GCP
7 2 (4.55%) GitHub
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.27%) Datadog
8 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.27%) IaaS
8 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.82%) DB2
1 14 (31.82%) Relational Database
2 13 (29.55%) MongoDB
3 10 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (15.91%) Power BI
6 6 (13.64%) Big Data
6 6 (13.64%) Hadoop
7 5 (11.36%) Data Lake
8 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
9 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
9 2 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
10 1 (2.27%) GIS
10 1 (2.27%) MySQL
10 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
10 1 (2.27%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 19 (43.18%) JUnit
2 10 (22.73%) Git
3 5 (11.36%) Cypress.io
4 3 (6.82%) GitLab
4 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
5 2 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.27%) Mockito
General
1 28 (63.64%) Finance
2 23 (52.27%) Social Skills
3 21 (47.73%) Banking
4 16 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (29.55%) Front Office
5 13 (29.55%) Investment Banking
6 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (43.18%) Developer
2 18 (40.91%) Java Developer
3 13 (29.55%) SQL Developer
4 12 (27.27%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 12 (27.27%) Sybase Developer
5 9 (20.45%) Data Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Python Data Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Python Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Senior
7 4 (9.09%) Database Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Java Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) DBA
9 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 2 (4.55%) Senior Developer
9 2 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (4.55%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (47.73%) Spring
2 15 (34.09%) Kafka
3 13 (29.55%) JMS
4 11 (25.00%) RESTful
5 8 (18.18%) REST
5 8 (18.18%) Spring Boot
6 6 (13.64%) AngularJS
7 5 (11.36%) Jest
7 5 (11.36%) React
8 3 (6.82%) JSON
8 3 (6.82%) PySpark
9 2 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (2.27%) .NET
10 1 (2.27%) ActiveMQ
10 1 (2.27%) Apache Camel
10 1 (2.27%) Ext JS
10 1 (2.27%) J2EE
10 1 (2.27%) J2SE
10 1 (2.27%) NumPy
10 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.82%) Data Structures
2 12 (27.27%) Equities
3 5 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.55%) Replication
6 1 (2.27%) Derivative
6 1 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.27%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (47.73%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (65.91%) Agile
2 25 (56.82%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 14 (31.82%) SDLC
5 13 (29.55%) Database Tuning
6 12 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (27.27%) Multithreading
6 12 (27.27%) Open Source
7 10 (22.73%) DevOps
7 10 (22.73%) Observability
8 9 (20.45%) ETL
9 8 (18.18%) Containerisation
9 8 (18.18%) Data Modelling
10 7 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (15.91%) Data Integration
10 7 (15.91%) Microservices
11 6 (13.64%) Software Engineering
11 6 (13.64%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (13.64%) User Experience
11 6 (13.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 33 (75.00%) Python
2 25 (56.82%) Java
3 21 (47.73%) SQL
4 13 (29.55%) Shell Script
5 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.55%) Bash
6 2 (4.55%) Go
7 1 (2.27%) C#
7 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.27%) Perl
7 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) Degree
1 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.91%) QA
2 5 (11.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (29.55%) Ansible
2 12 (27.27%) Terraform
3 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.55%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (29.55%) Sybase
2 7 (15.91%) Databricks
3 6 (13.64%) Greenplum
4 5 (11.36%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.55%) Informatica
6 2 (4.55%) Splunk
6 2 (4.55%) Talend
7 1 (2.27%) Cloudera
7 1 (2.27%) Confluent
7 1 (2.27%) Google
7 1 (2.27%) Oracle