Performance Tuning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 224 266
Rank change year-on-year +75 +42 +46
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 223 182 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.75% 0.88% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.03% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 144 146
10th Percentile £339 £341 £388
25th Percentile £403 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £561
90th Percentile £650 £683 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 16
10th Percentile £61.87 £33.69 £41.25
25th Percentile £66.25 £51.63 £61.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.03% +25.54%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile £70.87 - -
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North of England +55 68 £500 +11.11% 70
Scotland +27 47 £533 +12.11% 16
South East +14 47 £482 -20.33% 107
North West +38 37 £500 -1.96% 39
Yorkshire +26 33 £400 -5.88% 28
South West +56 23 £475 +18.75% 36
Midlands +25 18 £575 -2.13% 39
West Midlands +22 16 £600 - 28
East of England +37 14 £450 +28.57% 47
Wales +4 6 £375 -31.82% 6
North East - 4 £650 - 4
East Midlands +5 2 £410 -28.70% 9
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 - 4
Performance Tuning
UK

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 27 (12.11%) Confluence
2 12 (5.38%) IIS
3 11 (4.93%) Apache
4 4 (1.79%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.79%) NetWeaver
4 4 (1.79%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.35%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.90%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle Service Bus
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.90%) SAS
6 2 (0.90%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) SAP IBP
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.45%) BASE24
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (23.77%) AWS
2 43 (19.28%) Azure
3 24 (10.76%) GCP
4 12 (5.38%) OCI
5 11 (4.93%) Amazon S3
6 10 (4.48%) Snowflake
7 8 (3.59%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.14%) IaaS
9 5 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.24%) GitHub
9 5 (2.24%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.79%) Cohesity
10 4 (1.79%) PaaS
11 3 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.35%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.35%) Miro
11 3 (1.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.04%) DNS
2 8 (3.59%) DHCP
2 8 (3.59%) SMTP
3 5 (2.24%) FTP
3 5 (2.24%) Network Security
4 4 (1.79%) NAS
4 4 (1.79%) PSTN
4 4 (1.79%) SAN
4 4 (1.79%) Skype
4 4 (1.79%) Telnet
5 3 (1.35%) Internet
5 3 (1.35%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.90%) Firewall
6 2 (0.90%) Wireless
7 1 (0.45%) 802.11
7 1 (0.45%) BGP
7 1 (0.45%) VLAN
7 1 (0.45%) WAN
7 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (21.08%) Oracle Database
2 34 (15.25%) SQL Server
3 25 (11.21%) MongoDB
4 24 (10.76%) Relational Database
4 24 (10.76%) SAP HANA
5 21 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (8.97%) DB2
7 14 (6.28%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (6.28%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (4.48%) Oracle Database 11g
9 8 (3.59%) MySQL
10 7 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (3.14%) Data Lake
10 7 (3.14%) Power BI
11 6 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (2.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.24%) NoSQL
12 5 (2.24%) SAP BW
12 5 (2.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (8.52%) JUnit
2 17 (7.62%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.17%) JIRA
4 13 (5.83%) Git
5 8 (3.59%) GitLab
6 6 (2.69%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (1.35%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.35%) DBeaver
8 2 (0.90%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.90%) Subversion
9 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.45%) Flyway
9 1 (0.45%) Gatling
9 1 (0.45%) JMeter
9 1 (0.45%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.45%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.45%) Storybook
9 1 (0.45%) Toad
General
1 71 (31.84%) Social Skills
2 60 (26.91%) Finance
3 59 (26.46%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (13.45%) Banking
5 22 (9.87%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.83%) Front Office
7 10 (4.48%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.69%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.79%) Legal
10 3 (1.35%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.90%) Military
12 1 (0.45%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Publishing
12 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (21.08%) Developer
2 24 (10.76%) Senior
3 23 (10.31%) DBA
4 21 (9.42%) Administrator
4 21 (9.42%) Java Developer
5 19 (8.52%) Data Engineer
6 15 (6.73%) Database Engineer
7 13 (5.83%) Architect
8 12 (5.38%) Backup Engineer
8 12 (5.38%) Commvault Engineer
9 11 (4.93%) Oracle Database Engineer
10 10 (4.48%) Consultant
11 9 (4.04%) ABAP Developer
11 9 (4.04%) SAP Developer
11 9 (4.04%) SQL DBA
12 8 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.59%) Oracle Developer
12 8 (3.59%) SAP Consultant
12 8 (3.59%) SQL Developer
13 7 (3.14%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.31%) Kafka
2 22 (9.87%) JMS
3 19 (8.52%) Spring
4 17 (7.62%) Web Services
5 12 (5.38%) Middleware
6 9 (4.04%) BAPI
7 8 (3.59%) HTML
8 7 (3.14%) .NET
9 6 (2.69%) SAP Basis
9 6 (2.69%) SOAP
10 5 (2.24%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (2.24%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (1.79%) RESTful
12 3 (1.35%) CSS
12 3 (1.35%) JSON
12 3 (1.35%) LDAP
12 3 (1.35%) MSMQ
12 3 (1.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.87%) Data Structures
2 17 (7.62%) Data Centre
2 17 (7.62%) Equities
3 16 (7.17%) Replication
4 8 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.14%) Clustering
6 5 (2.24%) Oracle Licensing
6 5 (2.24%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.79%) Blackberry
7 4 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.79%) Derivative
7 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.79%) Handset
8 3 (1.35%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.35%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 58 (26.01%) Linux
2 22 (9.87%) Windows
3 16 (7.17%) Unix
4 15 (6.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (4.48%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (3.14%) Solaris
8 6 (2.69%) AIX
9 4 (1.79%) Android
9 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.90%) VMS
11 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (42.15%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (26.91%) Migration
3 46 (20.63%) Agile
4 41 (18.39%) Disaster Recovery
5 36 (16.14%) Data Migration
6 33 (14.80%) Change Management
6 33 (14.80%) CI/CD
6 33 (14.80%) High Availability
6 33 (14.80%) Problem Management
7 30 (13.45%) Database Tuning
7 30 (13.45%) SDLC
8 26 (11.66%) Incident Management
9 25 (11.21%) Data Modelling
10 21 (9.42%) DevOps
10 21 (9.42%) ETL
10 21 (9.42%) ITIL
11 19 (8.52%) Analytics
11 19 (8.52%) Open Source
11 19 (8.52%) Root Cause Analysis
12 16 (7.17%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 93 (41.70%) SQL
2 67 (30.04%) Python
3 31 (13.90%) Shell Script
4 29 (13.00%) Java
5 21 (9.42%) PL/SQL
6 16 (7.17%) Bash
7 14 (6.28%) PowerShell
8 9 (4.04%) ABAP
8 9 (4.04%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.69%) Groovy
10 5 (2.24%) C#
10 5 (2.24%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.79%) Perl
11 4 (1.79%) Ruby
12 3 (1.35%) Bicep
12 3 (1.35%) Scala
13 2 (0.90%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.90%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
Qualifications
1 72 (32.29%) Security Cleared
2 45 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.62%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.48%) Degree
5 8 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.69%) OCP
6 6 (2.69%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (2.24%) RHCE
8 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.35%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.90%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.90%) CCNP
10 2 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.90%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.45%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.93%) SLA
3 8 (3.59%) GDPR
4 6 (2.69%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.24%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.45%) Basel III
7 1 (0.45%) IFRS
7 1 (0.45%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.45%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.45%) QA
7 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (6.28%) Docker
2 13 (5.83%) Oracle RAC
3 11 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (4.48%) Active Directory
5 6 (2.69%) vSphere
6 5 (2.24%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.24%) NFS
6 5 (2.24%) Samba
6 5 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.79%) Firmware
8 1 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.45%) KVM
8 1 (0.45%) QEMU
8 1 (0.45%) Xen
Systems Management
1 29 (13.00%) Ansible
2 24 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.76%) Oracle RMAN
3 12 (5.38%) Terraform
4 10 (4.48%) Data Guard
5 8 (3.59%) Microsoft Clustering
5 8 (3.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 6 (2.69%) Grafana
7 5 (2.24%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.79%) Kibana
8 4 (1.79%) logstash
8 4 (1.79%) NetApp OnCommand
8 4 (1.79%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.79%) Oracle Flashback
8 4 (1.79%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.79%) vMotion
8 4 (1.79%) WSUS
8 4 (1.79%) yum
9 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 75 (33.63%) Oracle
2 33 (14.80%) Microsoft
3 27 (12.11%) SAP
4 20 (8.97%) Sybase
5 19 (8.52%) Red Hat
6 18 (8.07%) Commvault
7 14 (6.28%) VMware
8 11 (4.93%) Google
9 9 (4.04%) Dynatrace
10 8 (3.59%) ServiceNow
11 7 (3.14%) IBM
12 6 (2.69%) Atlassian
13 5 (2.24%) Dell
13 5 (2.24%) HP
13 5 (2.24%) Siebel
14 4 (1.79%) Cisco
14 4 (1.79%) Clearswift
14 4 (1.79%) Ribbon
14 4 (1.79%) Splunk
14 4 (1.79%) Veritas