Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Performance Tuning
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 3.70% 1.75% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 2.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £449 - -
25th Percentile £449 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.83% - -
75th Percentile £450 £588 -
90th Percentile £450 - -
East London median daily rate £450 £575 -
% change year-on-year -21.83% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 53 50 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 98.15% 87.72% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 46 123
10th Percentile £431 £424 £427
25th Percentile £450 £495 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £578 £594
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% -2.78% +13.14%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £708 £638 £770
East London median daily rate £525 £528 £563
% change year-on-year -0.47% -6.22% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £15.13
25th Percentile - - £16.56
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +111.30% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East London median hourly rate £44.75 £28.60 £23.32
% change year-on-year +56.46% +22.64% +3.71%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Canary Wharf -3 2 £450 -21.83% 1
Performance Tuning
East London

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 (50.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Base SAS
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mart
1 1 (50.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) JSP
1 1 (50.00%) OSGi
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SAS Macro
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Marketo