Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Performance Tuning
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 54 73
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 -13
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 6 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.52% 1.07% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 1.20% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £469 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -23.81% -6.67%
75th Percentile £556 £481 £563
90th Percentile £568 £515 £585
South East median daily rate £488 £605 £625
% change year-on-year -19.42% -3.20% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 362 416 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 91.65% 88.70% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 289 506
10th Percentile £204 £203 £195
25th Percentile £250 £263 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £515
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.62% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £678 £638 £676
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.01% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 16 36
10th Percentile £25.15 £16.77 £19.87
25th Percentile £27.88 - £44.07
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -60.77% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.72 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £54.36 £52.50
% change year-on-year -59.53% +3.54% +21.84%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Surrey

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Camberley +5 3 £500 -4.76% 1
Horley - 1 - -
Staines - 1 £525 -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - -
Performance Tuning
South East

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
4 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DBA
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) JSP 440
2 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Data Guard
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Sybase
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft