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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 58 78
Rank change year-on-year +30 +20 0
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 44 19 3
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.40% 2.59% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.36% 2.84% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 2
10th Percentile £358 £421 £535
25th Percentile £367 £425 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £578
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -20.35% -3.75%
75th Percentile £525 £516 £596
90th Percentile £593 £595 £598
Scotland median daily rate £500 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 - -

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 598 668 784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.92% 90.88% 91.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 408 523
10th Percentile £289 £311 £350
25th Percentile £391 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £443 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -11.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £566 £538 £625
90th Percentile £638 £641 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 16
10th Percentile £14.66 £16.75 £13.71
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.50 £15.86
Median hourly rate £28.09 £24.15 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.31% +42.06% -42.80%
75th Percentile £55.00 £34.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £62.12 £43.73 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £18.80
% change year-on-year -15.22% +25.51% +0.24%

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 7 January 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 7 (15.91%) Apache Spark
2 6 (13.64%) Apache
2 6 (13.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.27%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 20 (45.45%) AWS
2 19 (43.18%) Azure
3 15 (34.09%) Snowflake
4 7 (15.91%) Power Platform
5 5 (11.36%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (11.36%) GCP
6 4 (9.09%) Serverless
7 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.27%) GitHub
8 1 (2.27%) IaaS
8 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.27%) DB2
1 12 (27.27%) Relational Database
2 11 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 10 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (15.91%) Data Lake
4 7 (15.91%) Power BI
5 6 (13.64%) Big Data
5 6 (13.64%) Hadoop
6 4 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
8 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.27%) GIS
9 1 (2.27%) MySQL
9 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.27%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 18 (40.91%) JUnit
2 10 (22.73%) Git
3 6 (13.64%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.55%) GitLab
4 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.27%) Mockito
General
1 27 (61.36%) Finance
2 22 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (45.45%) Banking
4 14 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (25.00%) Front Office
5 11 (25.00%) Investment Banking
6 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (40.91%) Developer
2 17 (38.64%) Java Developer
3 11 (25.00%) SQL Developer
4 10 (22.73%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 10 (22.73%) Sybase Developer
5 9 (20.45%) Data Engineer
6 6 (13.64%) Senior
7 5 (11.36%) Python Data Engineer
7 5 (11.36%) Python Engineer
8 4 (9.09%) Database Engineer
8 4 (9.09%) DBA
8 4 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Java Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Java Software Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Senior Developer
9 3 (6.82%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (6.82%) Software Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 2 (4.55%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (43.18%) Spring
2 12 (27.27%) Kafka
3 11 (25.00%) JMS
3 11 (25.00%) RESTful
4 8 (18.18%) REST
4 8 (18.18%) Spring Boot
5 7 (15.91%) AngularJS
6 6 (13.64%) Jest
6 6 (13.64%) React
7 4 (9.09%) JSON
8 3 (6.82%) PySpark
8 3 (6.82%) XML
9 1 (2.27%) .NET
9 1 (2.27%) Ext JS
9 1 (2.27%) J2SE
9 1 (2.27%) NumPy
9 1 (2.27%) Pandas
9 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.82%) Data Structures
2 10 (22.73%) Equities
3 5 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 4 (9.09%) Replication
5 1 (2.27%) Derivative
5 1 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.27%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (43.18%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (61.36%) Agile
2 23 (52.27%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (27.27%) SDLC
6 11 (25.00%) Database Tuning
6 11 (25.00%) ETL
6 11 (25.00%) Observability
7 10 (22.73%) Data Modelling
7 10 (22.73%) DevOps
7 10 (22.73%) Multithreading
7 10 (22.73%) Open Source
8 9 (20.45%) Containerisation
9 7 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (15.91%) Data Integration
9 7 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (15.91%) Microservices
9 7 (15.91%) Task Automation
9 7 (15.91%) Translating Business Requirements
9 7 (15.91%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 33 (75.00%) Python
2 23 (52.27%) Java
3 21 (47.73%) SQL
4 11 (25.00%) 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 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) QA
2 6 (13.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (36.36%) Ansible
2 12 (27.27%) Terraform
3 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (25.00%) Sybase
2 8 (18.18%) Greenplum
3 7 (15.91%) Databricks
4 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
4 5 (11.36%) ServiceNow
5 4 (9.09%) Informatica
5 4 (9.09%) Talend
6 3 (6.82%) Google
7 2 (4.55%) Splunk
8 1 (2.27%) Cloudera
8 1 (2.27%) Confluent
8 1 (2.27%) Oracle