Performance Tuning Contracts in Scotland

Performance Tuning
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 94 110
Rank change year-on-year +21 +16 +36
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 46 34 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.85% 1.53% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 1.73% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 28 41
10th Percentile £423 £324 £431
25th Percentile £475 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% - +11.73%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £580
90th Percentile £589 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.79
Median hourly rate - - £23.86
75th Percentile - - £26.93
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £72.50
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.03% +45.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,509 1,967 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.49% 88.60% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,198 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Scotland

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in Scotland

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Scotland

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in Scotland

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Glasgow +26 32 £547 +41.23% 5
Edinburgh -4 14 £513 -2.38% 3
Performance Tuning
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Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) Azure
2 11 (23.91%) AWS
3 10 (21.74%) Amazon S3
4 5 (10.87%) OpenShift
5 4 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (8.70%) Cohesity
5 4 (8.70%) OCI
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (6.52%) GCP
6 3 (6.52%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.35%) IaaS
7 2 (4.35%) PaaS
8 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub
8 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.17%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (2.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.17%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) NAS
1 4 (8.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (45.65%) MongoDB
2 20 (43.48%) Relational Database
3 19 (41.30%) DB2
4 11 (23.91%) SQL Server
5 6 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (8.70%) Oracle Database
6 4 (8.70%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.35%) PowerCenter
8 2 (4.35%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.17%) MariaDB
9 1 (2.17%) MySQL
9 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.17%) Power Query
9 1 (2.17%) Redis
9 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (2.17%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 19 (41.30%) JUnit
2 5 (10.87%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.52%) GitLab
4 1 (2.17%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle APEX
General
1 29 (63.04%) Analytical Skills
1 29 (63.04%) Social Skills
2 24 (52.17%) Finance
3 16 (34.78%) Banking
4 13 (28.26%) Front Office
5 10 (21.74%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (50.00%) Developer
2 20 (43.48%) Java Developer
3 7 (15.22%) Database Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 7 (15.22%) SQL Developer
3 7 (15.22%) Sybase Developer
4 5 (10.87%) DBA
4 5 (10.87%) Senior
4 5 (10.87%) Senior Database Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Administrator
5 3 (6.52%) NetBackup Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Lead
6 2 (4.35%) PL/SQL Developer
7 1 (2.17%) Data Administrator
7 1 (2.17%) Data Analyst
7 1 (2.17%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (41.30%) Kafka
1 19 (41.30%) Spring
2 17 (36.96%) JMS
3 2 (4.35%) MSMQ
4 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.17%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (2.17%) JSON
4 1 (2.17%) Middleware
4 1 (2.17%) OAuth
4 1 (2.17%) OpenID
4 1 (2.17%) React
4 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (41.30%) Data Structures
2 17 (36.96%) Equities
3 8 (17.39%) Replication
4 5 (10.87%) Clustering
5 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
5 3 (6.52%) Derivative
5 3 (6.52%) Equity Derivative
5 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle Licensing
6 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
7 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (52.17%) Linux
2 9 (19.57%) Windows
3 5 (10.87%) AIX
3 5 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (10.87%) Solaris
4 4 (8.70%) Unix
4 4 (8.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (71.74%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (56.52%) Database Tuning
3 23 (50.00%) Agile
4 22 (47.83%) SDLC
5 19 (41.30%) Open Source
6 15 (32.61%) Multithreading
7 11 (23.91%) High Availability
8 9 (19.57%) Migration
9 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
10 7 (15.22%) Data Protection
10 7 (15.22%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (15.22%) Task Automation
11 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (13.04%) Problem Management
12 5 (10.87%) Incident Management
12 5 (10.87%) ITIL
12 5 (10.87%) Observability
13 4 (8.70%) Cost Optimisation
13 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 4 (8.70%) Proactive Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 32 (69.57%) SQL
2 27 (58.70%) Python
3 21 (45.65%) Java
4 19 (41.30%) Shell Script
5 5 (10.87%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.52%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.35%) Bash
7 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.17%) Bicep
8 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.17%) Perl
8 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (8.70%) Degree
2 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (19.57%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (4.35%) Docker
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
1 7 (15.22%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (13.04%) Data Guard
3 5 (10.87%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (8.70%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (8.70%) NetBackup
4 4 (8.70%) Oracle Flashback
5 3 (6.52%) Ansible
6 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.35%) Terraform
7 1 (2.17%) Grafana
7 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (41.30%) Sybase
2 15 (32.61%) Oracle
3 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.87%) Dynatrace
4 5 (10.87%) Red Hat
5 4 (8.70%) Dell
5 4 (8.70%) Veritas
6 3 (6.52%) Teradata
7 2 (4.35%) Google
7 2 (4.35%) Informatica
8 1 (2.17%) SAP
8 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.17%) Splunk
8 1 (2.17%) Sun
8 1 (2.17%) TSYS