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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 53 71
Rank change year-on-year +7 +18 +4
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 27 31 7
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.86% 3.77% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 4.05% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 6
10th Percentile £358 £425 -
25th Percentile £375 £460 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £344
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +57.09% -42.71%
75th Percentile £525 £585 £525
90th Percentile £606 £623 £591
Scotland median daily rate £469 £525 £445
% change year-on-year -10.67% +17.98% -11.00%
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 578 766 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.69% 93.19% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 484 539
10th Percentile £306 £308 £324
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.32%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £613 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 35
10th Percentile £14.79 £16.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.17 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £19.83 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% +10.17% +49.19%
75th Percentile £48.30 £53.75 £40.94
90th Percentile £58.35 £75.24 £68.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.57% +17.31% +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 12 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Glasgow

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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 (7.41%) Apache
1 2 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) AWS
2 14 (51.85%) Azure
3 10 (37.04%) Snowflake
4 5 (18.52%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (18.52%) GCP
5 4 (14.81%) Serverless
6 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
7 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.70%) IaaS
8 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
8 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
8 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (22.22%) Data Lake
3 5 (18.52%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (14.81%) DB2
4 4 (14.81%) MongoDB
4 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
4 4 (14.81%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (11.11%) Power BI
6 2 (7.41%) Big Data
6 2 (7.41%) Hadoop
6 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) JUnit
2 4 (14.81%) Cypress.io
2 4 (14.81%) Git
3 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.41%) GitLab
General
1 11 (40.74%) Finance
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (37.04%) Banking
3 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 5 (18.52%) Investment Banking
6 4 (14.81%) Front Office
7 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Developer
1 7 (25.93%) Java Developer
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Database Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) DBA
3 4 (14.81%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) SQL Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Sybase Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Site Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Power Platform Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) Spring
2 6 (22.22%) Kafka
3 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
3 4 (14.81%) Jest
3 4 (14.81%) JMS
3 4 (14.81%) JSON
3 4 (14.81%) React
3 4 (14.81%) RESTful
3 4 (14.81%) Spring Boot
4 3 (11.11%) REST
4 3 (11.11%) XML
5 2 (7.41%) PySpark
6 1 (3.70%) .NET
6 1 (3.70%) Fluent Bit
6 1 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Data Structures
2 5 (18.52%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (14.81%) Equities
3 4 (14.81%) Replication
4 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.70%) CMDB
5 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Unix
3 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Agile
2 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
2 11 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (33.33%) Observability
5 7 (25.93%) Containerisation
5 7 (25.93%) DevOps
5 7 (25.93%) Task Automation
6 6 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (22.22%) ETL
6 6 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
6 6 (22.22%) SDLC
7 5 (18.52%) Data Governance
7 5 (18.52%) Data Modelling
7 5 (18.52%) User Experience
8 4 (14.81%) Database Tuning
8 4 (14.81%) Multithreading
8 4 (14.81%) Open Source
8 4 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (14.81%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 21 (77.78%) Python
2 12 (44.44%) SQL
3 11 (40.74%) Java
4 5 (18.52%) Shell Script
5 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.41%) Bash
6 2 (7.41%) Go
7 1 (3.70%) C#
7 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.70%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Accessibility
2 4 (14.81%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) etcd
Systems Management
1 14 (51.85%) Ansible
2 10 (37.04%) Terraform
3 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.70%) Fluentd
5 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Greenplum
2 4 (14.81%) Informatica
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Sybase
2 4 (14.81%) Talend
3 3 (11.11%) Google
3 3 (11.11%) Splunk
4 2 (7.41%) Databricks
5 1 (3.70%) Confluent
5 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow