Performance Tuning Contracts in Glasgow

Performance Tuning
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 51 67
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 +6
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 37 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 4.63% 2.22% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.02% 2.44% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 11
10th Percentile £463 £319 £463
25th Percentile £475 £324 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £403 £600
Median % change year-on-year +36.48% -32.83% +31.15%
75th Percentile £577 £440 £619
90th Percentile £591 £538 £638
Scotland median daily rate £540 £428 £499
% change year-on-year +26.32% -14.29% +10.83%

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 737 696 855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.13% 90.74% 93.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 474 575
10th Percentile £300 £264 £350
25th Percentile £378 £379 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £577
90th Percentile £606 £629 £675
Scotland median daily rate £463 £453 £475
% change year-on-year +2.21% -4.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 32 41
10th Percentile £16.49 £11.59 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.92 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £40.94 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% +187.30% -61.93%
75th Percentile £26.21 £57.50 £18.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £73.75 £58.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £21.64 £14.50
% change year-on-year -7.58% +49.24% -59.96%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Glasgow over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) Amazon S3
2 5 (13.51%) AWS
2 5 (13.51%) OpenShift
3 4 (10.81%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (10.81%) Cohesity
4 3 (8.11%) OCI
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.70%) Datadog
5 1 (2.70%) Fivetran
5 1 (2.70%) GitHub
5 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.70%) IaaS
5 1 (2.70%) PaaS
5 1 (2.70%) Serverless
5 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) NAS
1 4 (10.81%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (67.57%) DB2
2 24 (64.86%) MongoDB
2 24 (64.86%) Relational Database
3 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.11%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 23 (62.16%) JUnit
2 5 (13.51%) Git
2 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) GitLab
3 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 32 (86.49%) Social Skills
2 29 (78.38%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (75.68%) Finance
4 19 (51.35%) Front Office
5 17 (45.95%) Banking
6 16 (43.24%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.41%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (62.16%) Developer
1 23 (62.16%) Java Developer
2 13 (35.14%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 13 (35.14%) SQL Developer
2 13 (35.14%) Sybase Developer
3 6 (16.22%) Database Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Database Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) NetBackup Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Administrator
7 1 (2.70%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Architect
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Backup Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) DBA
7 1 (2.70%) Senior Applications Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Sybase DBA
7 1 (2.70%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (67.57%) Kafka
2 24 (64.86%) Spring
3 21 (56.76%) JMS
4 2 (5.41%) MSMQ
5 1 (2.70%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.70%) Apache Camel
5 1 (2.70%) J2EE
5 1 (2.70%) JSON
5 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.70%) React
5 1 (2.70%) RESTful
5 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (62.16%) Data Structures
1 23 (62.16%) Equities
2 4 (10.81%) Clustering
2 4 (10.81%) Derivative
2 4 (10.81%) Equity Derivative
2 4 (10.81%) Replication
3 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (72.97%) Linux
2 8 (21.62%) Windows
3 5 (13.51%) Unix
4 4 (10.81%) AIX
4 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (10.81%) Solaris
4 4 (10.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (78.38%) Database Tuning
2 28 (75.68%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (67.57%) Agile
3 25 (67.57%) SDLC
4 23 (62.16%) Open Source
5 20 (54.05%) Multithreading
6 7 (18.92%) High Availability
7 6 (16.22%) CI/CD
8 5 (13.51%) Data Protection
8 5 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (13.51%) Task Automation
9 4 (10.81%) Data Deduplication
9 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (10.81%) ITIL
9 4 (10.81%) Observability
9 4 (10.81%) Problem Management
9 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
10 3 (8.11%) Decision-Making
10 3 (8.11%) DevOps
10 3 (8.11%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (81.08%) Python
2 27 (72.97%) SQL
3 24 (64.86%) Java
3 24 (64.86%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.70%) Bash
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.70%) Perl
4 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.51%) Data Guard
3 4 (10.81%) NetBackup
3 4 (10.81%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (10.81%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (8.11%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (8.11%) Oracle Flashback
5 1 (2.70%) Ansible
5 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (64.86%) Sybase
2 6 (16.22%) Oracle
3 4 (10.81%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.81%) Veritas
4 3 (8.11%) Dell
4 3 (8.11%) Dynatrace
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.70%) Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) Greenplum
5 1 (2.70%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.70%) Sun