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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 44 49
Rank change year-on-year -27 +5 +17
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 22 39 19
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.99% 5.32% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 5.83% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 18
10th Percentile £375 £448 £321
25th Percentile £400 £475 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +16.28% -28.33%
75th Percentile £485 £558 £457
90th Percentile £508 £575 £526
Scotland median daily rate £425 £500 £436
% change year-on-year -15.00% +14.81% -12.90%

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 931 669 624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.41% 91.27% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 417 444
10th Percentile £270 £300 £247
25th Percentile £363 £363 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +0.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £588 £650
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 19 13
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.82 £15.38
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.83 £24.26
Median % change year-on-year +76.50% -18.24% +67.28%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.68 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £32.47 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £17.24 £20.00 £18.69
% change year-on-year -13.80% +7.02% -1.93%

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 28 August 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 (13.64%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) GCP
3 4 (18.18%) Snowflake
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) Oracle Database
2 6 (27.27%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 5 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
5 3 (13.64%) Data Lake
5 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database 10g
5 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.55%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
7 1 (4.55%) Star Schema
7 1 (4.55%) Tableau
7 1 (4.55%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Git
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (18.18%) Subversion
4 3 (13.64%) JIRA
4 3 (13.64%) PVCS
5 2 (9.09%) GitLab
5 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (4.55%) Postman
6 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
5 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.55%) Law
6 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) DBA
1 6 (27.27%) Developer
1 6 (27.27%) Senior
2 5 (22.73%) Lead
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Lead Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Oracle Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Integration Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) SQL DBA
4 2 (9.09%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (4.55%) Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Java Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Tableau Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) JSON
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
1 3 (13.64%) XML
2 2 (9.09%) Swagger
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.55%) ADO.NET
3 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (4.55%) Entity Framework
3 1 (4.55%) Fluent Bit
3 1 (4.55%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.55%) JPA
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) Middleware
3 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) Spring
3 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Replication
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) CMDB
4 1 (4.55%) Credit Risk
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Data Modelling
2 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 7 (31.82%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 6 (27.27%) Statistics
5 5 (22.73%) ETL
5 5 (22.73%) SDLC
6 4 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (18.18%) Database Security
6 4 (18.18%) Database Tuning
6 4 (18.18%) DevOps
6 4 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 3 (13.64%) High Availability
7 3 (13.64%) Migration
7 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.64%) Release Management
7 3 (13.64%) Use Case
7 3 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) SQL
2 8 (36.36%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) PL/SQL
4 4 (18.18%) T-SQL
5 2 (9.09%) Java
6 1 (4.55%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) Perl
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.55%) Scala
6 1 (4.55%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) etcd
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Ansible
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Fluentd
2 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Google
3 3 (13.64%) Greenplum
3 3 (13.64%) Informatica
3 3 (13.64%) Talend
4 2 (9.09%) RedGate
4 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.55%) SaltStack
5 1 (4.55%) Splunk
5 1 (4.55%) VMware