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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 48 50
Rank change year-on-year -24 +2 +19
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 21 40 19
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.04% 5.00% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 5.46% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 18
10th Percentile £369 £440 £321
25th Percentile £398 £475 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £540 £421
Median % change year-on-year -25.56% +28.27% -27.41%
75th Percentile £460 £575 £457
90th Percentile £495 £588 £526
Scotland median daily rate £425 £525 £435
% change year-on-year -19.05% +20.69% -13.00%

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 868 733 642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.27% 91.63% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 476 454
10th Percentile £284 £300 £260
25th Percentile £358 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -8.91%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £675 £600 £646
Scotland median daily rate £450 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 19 23
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.82 £15.13
25th Percentile £14.45 £16.84 £19.05
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.59 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +78.66% -52.15% +182.34%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.68 £42.49
90th Percentile £77.50 £32.47 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £17.12 £20.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year -14.40% +0.31% +8.80%

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 29 July 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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 4 (19.05%) Snowflake
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 6 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 5 (23.81%) Data Lake
4 4 (19.05%) Relational Database
5 3 (14.29%) Oracle Database 10g
5 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.76%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
7 1 (4.76%) Star Schema
7 1 (4.76%) Tableau
7 1 (4.76%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Git
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (19.05%) GitLab
3 4 (19.05%) Subversion
4 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket
4 3 (14.29%) JIRA
4 3 (14.29%) PVCS
5 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (4.76%) Postman
6 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Financial Institution
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Law
5 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) DBA
1 6 (28.57%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Lead
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
4 3 (14.29%) Lead Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Oracle Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) SQL DBA
5 2 (9.52%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (4.76%) Administrator
6 1 (4.76%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Java Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Production DBA
6 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Tableau Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) JSON
1 3 (14.29%) XML
2 2 (9.52%) PySpark
2 2 (9.52%) Swagger
3 1 (4.76%) .NET
3 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.76%) ADO.NET
3 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (4.76%) Entity Framework
3 1 (4.76%) Fluent Bit
3 1 (4.76%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.76%) JPA
3 1 (4.76%) Kafka
3 1 (4.76%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (4.76%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) Spring
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Replication
2 3 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) CMDB
4 1 (4.76%) Credit Risk
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Data Modelling
2 8 (38.10%) Performance Optimisation
3 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 6 (28.57%) Statistics
4 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 5 (23.81%) ETL
4 5 (23.81%) SDLC
5 4 (19.05%) Agile
5 4 (19.05%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (19.05%) Database Security
5 4 (19.05%) Database Tuning
6 3 (14.29%) DevOps
6 3 (14.29%) Migration
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Task Automation
6 3 (14.29%) Use Case
6 3 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (9.52%) Microservices
7 2 (9.52%) Performance Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) SQL
2 7 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (23.81%) PL/SQL
4 4 (19.05%) Java
4 4 (19.05%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.76%) C#
5 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.76%) Scala
5 1 (4.76%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) etcd
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Fluentd
2 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Oracle
2 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) Google
3 3 (14.29%) Greenplum
3 3 (14.29%) Informatica
3 3 (14.29%) Talend
4 2 (9.52%) RedGate
4 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk