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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 45 45
Rank change year-on-year -34 0 +16
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 25 38 22
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.10% 5.09% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 5.58% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 20
10th Percentile £379 £361 £322
25th Percentile £400 £438 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £436
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +14.81% -22.23%
75th Percentile £484 £538 £475
90th Percentile £508 £570 £603
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £436
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.68% -12.80%

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 999 681 616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.81% 91.29% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 415 435
10th Percentile £275 £285 £262
25th Percentile £363 £373 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £557
90th Percentile £675 £613 £674
Scotland median daily rate £470 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +0.53% +3.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 22 13
10th Percentile £13.39 £14.40 £15.56
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.72 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +97.49% -9.53% +35.10%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.95 £25.17
90th Percentile £77.50 £54.37 £40.90
Scotland median hourly rate £16.49 £19.97 £19.59
% change year-on-year -17.45% +1.94% +2.14%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Glasgow over the 6 months to 27 September 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 3 (12.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) Snowflake
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (12.00%) GCP
4 3 (12.00%) Serverless
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (28.00%) Oracle Database
3 6 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (24.00%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (16.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (12.00%) Data Lake
5 3 (12.00%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (4.00%) Flink
7 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
7 1 (4.00%) MySQL
7 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.00%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (4.00%) Star Schema
7 1 (4.00%) Tableau
7 1 (4.00%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Git
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (16.00%) Subversion
4 3 (12.00%) JIRA
4 3 (12.00%) PVCS
5 2 (8.00%) GitLab
5 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.00%) Maven
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (4.00%) Postman
6 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (56.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Banking
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Law
5 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Senior
3 6 (24.00%) DBA
4 5 (20.00%) Lead
4 5 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Lead Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Senior Integration Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Java Developer
7 2 (8.00%) SQL DBA
7 2 (8.00%) SQL Server DBA
8 1 (4.00%) AWS Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Senior SQL Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.00%) JSON
2 3 (12.00%) REST
2 3 (12.00%) XML
3 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (8.00%) React
3 2 (8.00%) Spring
3 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.00%) JPA
4 1 (4.00%) JWT
4 1 (4.00%) Kafka
4 1 (4.00%) OAuth
4 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.00%) RESTful
4 1 (4.00%) Spring MVC
4 1 (4.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Replication
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (12.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Credit Risk
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (32.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (28.00%) DevOps
4 6 (24.00%) ETL
4 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (24.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (24.00%) SDLC
4 6 (24.00%) Statistics
5 5 (20.00%) Database Tuning
5 5 (20.00%) Migration
5 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (16.00%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (16.00%) Database Security
6 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (16.00%) Secure Coding
6 4 (16.00%) Validation
7 3 (12.00%) Analytics
7 3 (12.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) SQL
2 10 (40.00%) Python
3 5 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 5 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 3 (12.00%) Java
5 2 (8.00%) Perl
6 1 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) C#
6 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.00%) Scala
6 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Ansible
2 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
3 1 (4.00%) Kibana
3 1 (4.00%) logstash
3 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.00%) Puppet
3 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Oracle
2 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) Google
3 3 (12.00%) Greenplum
3 3 (12.00%) Informatica
3 3 (12.00%) Talend
4 2 (8.00%) RedGate
4 2 (8.00%) SaltStack
4 2 (8.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.00%) Splunk
4 2 (8.00%) VMware
5 1 (4.00%) AppDynamics
5 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.00%) webMethods