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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 45 63
Rank change year-on-year 0 +18 +9
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 36 20 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 4.95% 2.94% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.43% 3.28% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 7
10th Percentile £361 £321 £485
25th Percentile £438 £413 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £435 £560
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% -22.32% +8.74%
75th Percentile £538 £471 £638
90th Percentile £570 £526 £681
Scotland median daily rate £500 £436 £500
% change year-on-year +14.68% -12.80% -9.09%

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 663 609 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.07% 89.56% 91.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 434 501
10th Percentile £300 £269 £338
25th Percentile £370 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £580
90th Percentile £613 £670 £688
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 25
10th Percentile £14.32 £15.77 £12.05
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.05 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.45 £24.15 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.76% +66.55% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £38.50 £47.73
90th Percentile £26.21 £55.12 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.59
% change year-on-year -4.48% +6.88% -8.88%

Performance Tuning
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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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 19 September 2025.

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 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 6 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 4 (11.11%) Apache
2 4 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.78%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) AWS
1 6 (16.67%) Snowflake
2 5 (13.89%) Azure
3 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Storage
5 1 (2.78%) Datadog
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.78%) Serverless
5 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (63.89%) DB2
1 23 (63.89%) Relational Database
2 21 (58.33%) MongoDB
3 7 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (11.11%) Big Data
4 4 (11.11%) Hadoop
4 4 (11.11%) Power BI
5 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
6 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.78%) GIS
7 1 (2.78%) MySQL
7 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.78%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 24 (66.67%) JUnit
2 8 (22.22%) Git
3 3 (8.33%) GitLab
3 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.78%) Mockito
General
1 31 (86.11%) Finance
2 26 (72.22%) Social Skills
3 23 (63.89%) Banking
4 22 (61.11%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (55.56%) Front Office
6 19 (52.78%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 25 (69.44%) Developer
2 24 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 18 (50.00%) SQL Developer
4 17 (47.22%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 17 (47.22%) Sybase Developer
5 8 (22.22%) Data Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) Python Data Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Analyst
8 1 (2.78%) Architect
8 1 (2.78%) Data Analyst
8 1 (2.78%) GIS Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Oracle Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (72.22%) Spring
2 23 (63.89%) Kafka
3 21 (58.33%) JMS
4 8 (22.22%) RESTful
5 5 (13.89%) REST
5 5 (13.89%) Spring Boot
6 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
6 3 (8.33%) PySpark
7 2 (5.56%) Jest
7 2 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (5.56%) React
8 1 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (2.78%) Apache Camel
8 1 (2.78%) Ext JS
8 1 (2.78%) J2EE
8 1 (2.78%) J2SE
8 1 (2.78%) JSON
8 1 (2.78%) NumPy
8 1 (2.78%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 21 (58.33%) Data Structures
2 20 (55.56%) Equities
3 3 (8.33%) Derivative
3 3 (8.33%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (69.44%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (91.67%) Agile
2 26 (72.22%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (58.33%) Database Tuning
4 20 (55.56%) Open Source
4 20 (55.56%) SDLC
5 19 (52.78%) Multithreading
6 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 6 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 6 (16.67%) ETL
7 5 (13.89%) Data Integration
7 5 (13.89%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (13.89%) Sprint Review
8 4 (11.11%) API Integration
8 4 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (11.11%) DevOps
8 4 (11.11%) Microservices
8 4 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
8 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (80.56%) Java
1 29 (80.56%) Python
2 26 (72.22%) SQL
3 21 (58.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.78%) Perl
4 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
1 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (58.33%) Sybase
2 6 (16.67%) Databricks
3 4 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.78%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.78%) Greenplum
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle