Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Performance Tuning
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 72 86
Rank change year-on-year -2 +14 +22
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 17 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.29% 0.33% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 0.39% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 3
10th Percentile £270 £484 £323
25th Percentile £402 £495 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £528 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.55% -15.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £588 £583 £638
90th Percentile £693 £608 -
South East median daily rate £472 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -24.48% - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,097 774 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.04% 84.22% 86.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 540 615
10th Percentile £313 £356 £318
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £649
90th Percentile £725 £689 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £523
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.44% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 48 73
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.00 £21.05
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £51.42
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -31.93% +18.21%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £49.63 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.27 £50.00 £53.94
% change year-on-year -55.47% -7.31% +43.85%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Tuning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Hampshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Hampshire

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tuning within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Farnborough -4 5 £411 -31.50%
Fleet - 3 £447 -
Havant - 3 £469 -
Southampton - 1 £75 - 2
Fareham - 1 £375 -
Performance Tuning
South East

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 1 (5.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (5.88%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) OCI
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.88%) Cohesity
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.88%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Firewall
2 3 (17.65%) BGP
2 3 (17.65%) MPLS
2 3 (17.65%) OSPF
2 3 (17.65%) VPN
3 2 (11.76%) DHCP
3 2 (11.76%) DNS
3 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) SAP HANA
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Gatling
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JMeter
1 1 (5.88%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) DBA
1 3 (17.65%) Developer
1 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
1 3 (17.65%) IP Engineer
1 3 (17.65%) IP Network Engineer
1 3 (17.65%) Network Engineer
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle DBA
1 3 (17.65%) Technical Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) ABAP Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Linux Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) SAP Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Database Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Database Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) BAPI
1 2 (11.76%) SAP Smart Forms
1 2 (11.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) SCADA
2 1 (5.88%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Unix
3 2 (11.76%) CentOS
3 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Task Automation
2 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (23.53%) Integration Testing
2 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Validation
3 3 (17.65%) Migration
3 3 (17.65%) Network Optimisation
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
4 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
4 2 (11.76%) Database Security
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.76%) High Availability
4 2 (11.76%) OO
4 2 (11.76%) OOP
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Security Management
4 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
3 5 (29.41%) Bash
4 3 (17.65%) Perl
5 2 (11.76%) ABAP
5 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.88%) C#
6 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.76%) OCP
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (11.76%) RHCE
3 2 (11.76%) RHCSA
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) KVM
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Ansible
2 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
3 2 (11.76%) Puppet
3 2 (11.76%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) Data Guard
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (5.88%) Grafana
4 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.88%) systemd
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Cisco
2 3 (17.65%) Nokia
2 3 (17.65%) Palo Alto
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) Veeam