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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 102 114
Rank change year-on-year +36 +12 +39
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 60 21 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.40% 1.01% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 1.16% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 20 38
10th Percentile £425 £309 £413
25th Percentile £475 £323 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £403 £499
Median % change year-on-year +30.27% -19.20% +10.83%
75th Percentile £575 £454 £535
90th Percentile £589 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.54%
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 £70.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +51.35%

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 1,628 1,814 2,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.19% 87.21% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 1,123 1,780
10th Percentile £256 £213 £250
25th Percentile £368 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £555 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 82 67
10th Percentile £16.60 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.13 £12.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.62 £15.99
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% +28.92% -55.85%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £33.75
90th Percentile £50.48 £60.75 £59.64
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 0 40 £547 +35.79% 5
Edinburgh +24 20 £500 +11.11% 5
Performance Tuning
UK

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 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (30.00%) AWS
2 15 (25.00%) Azure
3 14 (23.33%) Amazon S3
4 6 (10.00%) GCP
5 5 (8.33%) GitHub
5 5 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 4 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (6.67%) Cohesity
6 4 (6.67%) OCI
6 4 (6.67%) Serverless
6 4 (6.67%) Snowflake
7 3 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (5.00%) Firebase
8 2 (3.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) NAS
1 4 (6.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (48.33%) Relational Database
2 27 (45.00%) DB2
3 26 (43.33%) MongoDB
4 11 (18.33%) SQL Server
5 7 (11.67%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (6.67%) Oracle Database
7 4 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (3.33%) PowerCenter
10 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.67%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.67%) MySQL
10 1 (1.67%) Power Query
10 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.67%) Redis
10 1 (1.67%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 25 (41.67%) JUnit
2 9 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (13.33%) Git
4 4 (6.67%) GitLab
5 3 (5.00%) Cypress.io
5 3 (5.00%) Storybook
6 1 (1.67%) JIRA
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle APEX
General
1 42 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 35 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (53.33%) Finance
4 24 (40.00%) Banking
5 21 (35.00%) Front Office
6 17 (28.33%) Investment Banking
7 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.33%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (55.00%) Developer
2 26 (43.33%) Java Developer
3 15 (25.00%) SQL Developer
4 14 (23.33%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 14 (23.33%) Sybase Developer
5 7 (11.67%) Database Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) DBA
6 5 (8.33%) Senior
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Database Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
7 4 (6.67%) React Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Administrator
8 3 (5.00%) NetBackup Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Oracle DBA
9 2 (3.33%) Architect
9 2 (3.33%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Lead
9 2 (3.33%) PL/SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (43.33%) Kafka
1 26 (43.33%) Spring
2 23 (38.33%) JMS
3 7 (11.67%) RESTful
4 4 (6.67%) React
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Amplify
5 3 (5.00%) AWS CDK
5 3 (5.00%) CSS
5 3 (5.00%) GraphQL
5 3 (5.00%) Jest
5 3 (5.00%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (3.33%) JSON
6 2 (3.33%) MSMQ
7 1 (1.67%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.67%) Ext JS
7 1 (1.67%) OAuth
7 1 (1.67%) OpenID
7 1 (1.67%) Playwright
7 1 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (40.00%) Data Structures
1 24 (40.00%) Equities
2 8 (13.33%) Replication
3 5 (8.33%) Clustering
3 5 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (8.33%) Derivative
3 5 (8.33%) Equity Derivative
3 5 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.00%) Legacy Code
5 3 (5.00%) Oracle Licensing
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.67%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (50.00%) Linux
2 9 (15.00%) Windows
3 6 (10.00%) Unix
4 5 (8.33%) AIX
4 5 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (8.33%) Solaris
5 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (55.00%) Database Tuning
3 31 (51.67%) Agile
4 27 (45.00%) SDLC
5 24 (40.00%) Open Source
6 21 (35.00%) Multithreading
7 12 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 12 (20.00%) Migration
8 11 (18.33%) High Availability
9 10 (16.67%) Data Protection
10 8 (13.33%) DevOps
11 7 (11.67%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (11.67%) Task Automation
12 6 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (10.00%) Problem Management
13 5 (8.33%) Incident Management
13 5 (8.33%) ITIL
13 5 (8.33%) Microservices
13 5 (8.33%) Observability
13 5 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (65.00%) SQL
2 33 (55.00%) Python
3 31 (51.67%) Java
4 26 (43.33%) Shell Script
5 5 (8.33%) Perl
5 5 (8.33%) PL/SQL
6 4 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.00%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.33%) Bash
8 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.67%) Bicep
9 1 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (8.33%) Degree
2 4 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (15.00%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.67%) Oracle RMAN
3 6 (10.00%) Data Guard
4 5 (8.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 4 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (6.67%) NetBackup
5 4 (6.67%) Oracle Flashback
6 3 (5.00%) Ansible
6 3 (5.00%) Terraform
7 2 (3.33%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (43.33%) Sybase
2 16 (26.67%) Oracle
3 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 5 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 4 (6.67%) Dell
5 4 (6.67%) Veritas
6 3 (5.00%) Teradata
7 2 (3.33%) Google
7 2 (3.33%) Informatica
8 1 (1.67%) Databricks
8 1 (1.67%) Greenplum
8 1 (1.67%) SAP
8 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.67%) Splunk
8 1 (1.67%) Sun
8 1 (1.67%) TSYS