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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 49 49
Rank change year-on-year -24 0 +18
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 16 34 17
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.69% 4.39% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 4.76% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 16
10th Percentile £374 £463 £319
25th Percentile £396 £475 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £403
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +36.48% -32.83%
75th Percentile £497 £577 £440
90th Percentile £515 £591 £538
Scotland median daily rate £458 £540 £430
% change year-on-year -15.28% +25.58% -13.57%

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 800 714 699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.30% 92.13% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 460 469
10th Percentile £285 £300 £263
25th Percentile £358 £377 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £553
90th Percentile £675 £600 £620
Scotland median daily rate £459 £463 £453
% change year-on-year -0.81% +2.10% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 19 33
10th Percentile £13.49 £16.49 £11.68
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.83 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% -51.56% +184.80%
75th Percentile £55.00 £26.21 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £59.00 £72.50
Scotland median hourly rate £18.92 £20.00 £19.55
% change year-on-year -5.43% +2.33% +22.23%

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

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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 29 June 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

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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 (18.75%) Confluence
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
3 4 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle Database
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (31.25%) Data Lake
2 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database 10g
3 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (18.75%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
5 1 (6.25%) Tableau
5 1 (6.25%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Git
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (25.00%) Subversion
4 3 (18.75%) GitLab
4 3 (18.75%) JIRA
4 3 (18.75%) PVCS
5 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
6 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle APEX
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Banking
4 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Law
5 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle Developer
2 4 (25.00%) DBA
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Lead
3 3 (18.75%) Lead Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Oracle Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Java Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Production DBA
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Tableau Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) JSON
1 3 (18.75%) XML
2 2 (12.50%) PySpark
3 1 (6.25%) Fluent Bit
3 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
3 1 (6.25%) JPA
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
3 1 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (18.75%) Data Structures
2 3 (18.75%) Replication
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) CMDB
4 1 (6.25%) Credit Risk
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (31.25%) ETL
3 5 (31.25%) SDLC
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) Database Security
5 3 (18.75%) Database Tuning
5 3 (18.75%) Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Statistics
6 2 (12.50%) Analytics
6 2 (12.50%) Data Mapping
6 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 2 (12.50%) Memory Management
6 2 (12.50%) Microservices
6 2 (12.50%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) PL/SQL
4 3 (18.75%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) etcd
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Fluentd
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (18.75%) Google
3 3 (18.75%) Greenplum
3 3 (18.75%) Informatica
3 3 (18.75%) Talend
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk