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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 210 233
Rank change year-on-year +86 +23 +83
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 254 199 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.99% 0.98% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 1.17% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 161 152
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £400 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £575 £608 £550
90th Percentile £650 £673 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 17
10th Percentile £61.87 £41.67 £45.00
25th Percentile £66.25 - £61.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.03% +48.72%
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile £78.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £72.50
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.03% +52.63%

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 11,596 17,041 20,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.69% 84.15% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,235 10,189 14,096
10th Percentile £231 £250 £259
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,063 1,256
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +59 74 £500 +11.73% 72
South East +11 53 £482 -19.67% 121
Scotland +29 51 £533 +22.13% 18
North West +35 40 £500 -1.96% 40
Yorkshire +30 36 £400 -5.88% 29
South West +45 24 £475 +18.75% 21
Midlands +16 23 £521 +2.06% 23
East of England +41 22 £475 +35.71% 28
West Midlands +26 21 £535 -7.72% 15
Wales +8 8 £375 -31.82% 8
North East - 4 £650 - 4
East Midlands -6 2 £410 -8.69% 6
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 (10.63%) Confluence
2 13 (5.12%) IIS
3 12 (4.72%) Apache
4 6 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (2.36%) Oracle Workflow
4 6 (2.36%) WebLogic
5 4 (1.57%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.57%) NetWeaver
5 4 (1.57%) Skype for Business
6 3 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.18%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (1.18%) Oracle Service Bus
6 3 (1.18%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.79%) SAS
8 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.39%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.97%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.57%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (1.57%) SAP IBP
3 3 (1.18%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.39%) BASE24
5 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (24.02%) AWS
2 51 (20.08%) Azure
3 26 (10.24%) GCP
4 18 (7.09%) OCI
5 14 (5.51%) Amazon S3
6 12 (4.72%) Power Platform
6 12 (4.72%) Snowflake
7 9 (3.54%) IaaS
8 8 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (3.15%) GitHub
9 6 (2.36%) PaaS
10 5 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.97%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.57%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.54%) DNS
2 8 (3.15%) DHCP
3 7 (2.76%) SMTP
4 5 (1.97%) Network Security
5 4 (1.57%) FTP
5 4 (1.57%) Internet
5 4 (1.57%) NAS
5 4 (1.57%) PSTN
5 4 (1.57%) SAN
5 4 (1.57%) Skype
6 3 (1.18%) Telnet
7 2 (0.79%) Firewall
7 2 (0.79%) tcpdump
7 2 (0.79%) Wireless
8 1 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.39%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (0.39%) IPFIX
8 1 (0.39%) Multicast
8 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (18.50%) Oracle Database
2 41 (16.14%) SQL Server
3 32 (12.60%) Relational Database
4 26 (10.24%) MongoDB
5 24 (9.45%) SAP HANA
6 23 (9.06%) DB2
7 21 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (7.87%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (6.69%) Oracle Reports
10 11 (4.33%) Power BI
11 9 (3.54%) Data Lake
11 9 (3.54%) MySQL
12 8 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (2.76%) Hadoop
14 6 (2.36%) Big Data
14 6 (2.36%) Oracle Database 11g
14 6 (2.36%) Siebel EIM
14 6 (2.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (8.66%) Jenkins
2 20 (7.87%) JUnit
3 16 (6.30%) JIRA
4 15 (5.91%) Git
5 9 (3.54%) GitLab
6 6 (2.36%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (1.18%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.18%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.18%) DBeaver
7 3 (1.18%) Storybook
7 3 (1.18%) Subversion
8 2 (0.79%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.39%) JMeter
9 1 (0.39%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.39%) Toad
General
1 87 (34.25%) Social Skills
2 66 (25.98%) Finance
3 62 (24.41%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.99%) Banking
5 24 (9.45%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.91%) Front Office
7 12 (4.72%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.15%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.18%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.18%) Legal
10 3 (1.18%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.79%) Military
12 1 (0.39%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.39%) Publishing
12 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (21.65%) Developer
2 30 (11.81%) DBA
2 30 (11.81%) Senior
3 26 (10.24%) Administrator
4 24 (9.45%) Data Engineer
5 22 (8.66%) Java Developer
6 16 (6.30%) Architect
7 15 (5.91%) Database Engineer
8 12 (4.72%) Backup Engineer
8 12 (4.72%) Commvault Engineer
8 12 (4.72%) SQL DBA
9 11 (4.33%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 11 (4.33%) Oracle Developer
10 10 (3.94%) Oracle DBA
10 10 (3.94%) SQL Developer
11 9 (3.54%) ABAP Developer
11 9 (3.54%) Consultant
11 9 (3.54%) SAP Developer
12 8 (3.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.15%) Sybase Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.63%) Kafka
2 24 (9.45%) JMS
3 20 (7.87%) Spring
3 20 (7.87%) Web Services
4 11 (4.33%) Middleware
4 11 (4.33%) SOAP
5 9 (3.54%) .NET
5 9 (3.54%) BAPI
6 8 (3.15%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (2.76%) HTML
8 6 (2.36%) Apache NiFi
8 6 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.36%) RESTful
9 5 (1.97%) CSS
9 5 (1.97%) React
9 5 (1.97%) REST
9 5 (1.97%) SAP Basis
9 5 (1.97%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (1.57%) ARM Templates
10 4 (1.57%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.06%) Data Structures
2 19 (7.48%) Equities
2 19 (7.48%) Replication
3 17 (6.69%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.15%) Clustering
6 6 (2.36%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.97%) Derivative
7 5 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.97%) Oracle Licensing
8 4 (1.57%) Blackberry
8 4 (1.57%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.57%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (1.57%) Handset
9 3 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 60 (23.62%) Linux
2 24 (9.45%) Windows
3 20 (7.87%) Unix
4 15 (5.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (4.72%) Windows Server
6 9 (3.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.76%) Solaris
8 6 (2.36%) AIX
9 5 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (1.97%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.57%) Android
11 2 (0.79%) VMS
12 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (40.55%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (23.62%) Migration
3 50 (19.69%) Agile
4 49 (19.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 40 (15.75%) Database Tuning
6 38 (14.96%) CI/CD
7 37 (14.57%) Data Modelling
8 36 (14.17%) High Availability
9 34 (13.39%) Change Management
10 33 (12.99%) Problem Management
11 32 (12.60%) Data Migration
11 32 (12.60%) SDLC
12 30 (11.81%) ETL
13 26 (10.24%) Incident Management
14 24 (9.45%) DevOps
15 23 (9.06%) Analytics
15 23 (9.06%) ITIL
16 20 (7.87%) Open Source
17 19 (7.48%) Task Automation
18 18 (7.09%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 113 (44.49%) SQL
2 75 (29.53%) Python
3 36 (14.17%) Shell Script
4 31 (12.20%) Java
5 21 (8.27%) PL/SQL
6 17 (6.69%) Bash
7 15 (5.91%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.54%) ABAP
8 9 (3.54%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.76%) Perl
9 7 (2.76%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.36%) C#
10 6 (2.36%) Groovy
11 5 (1.97%) Ruby
12 4 (1.57%) Bicep
12 4 (1.57%) Scala
12 4 (1.57%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.18%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
14 2 (0.79%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 72 (28.35%) Security Cleared
2 44 (17.32%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.69%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.12%) Degree
5 10 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.36%) OCP
7 6 (2.36%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (2.36%) RHCE
8 5 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.79%) CCNP
11 2 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.79%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.39%) CISSP
12 1 (0.39%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.39%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.48%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.72%) SLA
3 8 (3.15%) GDPR
4 6 (2.36%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.97%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.57%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.18%) COBIT
7 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.18%) NIST
7 3 (1.18%) QA
8 1 (0.39%) Basel III
8 1 (0.39%) HL7
8 1 (0.39%) IFRS
8 1 (0.39%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.39%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (6.30%) Docker
1 16 (6.30%) Oracle RAC
2 12 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.94%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.36%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (2.36%) vSphere
5 4 (1.57%) Firmware
5 4 (1.57%) NFS
5 4 (1.57%) Samba
6 1 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.39%) KVM
6 1 (0.39%) QEMU
6 1 (0.39%) Xen
Systems Management
1 31 (12.20%) Ansible
2 27 (10.63%) Kubernetes
2 27 (10.63%) Oracle RMAN
3 14 (5.51%) Terraform
4 11 (4.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 10 (3.94%) Data Guard
6 9 (3.54%) Microsoft Clustering
7 8 (3.15%) Grafana
8 6 (2.36%) Prometheus
8 6 (2.36%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.97%) Kibana
9 5 (1.97%) logstash
9 5 (1.97%) NetApp OnCommand
9 5 (1.97%) vMotion
9 5 (1.97%) WSUS
10 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 4 (1.57%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.57%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.57%) Oracle Flashback
11 3 (1.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 82 (32.28%) Oracle
2 40 (15.75%) Microsoft
3 26 (10.24%) SAP
4 22 (8.66%) Sybase
5 19 (7.48%) Commvault
5 19 (7.48%) Red Hat
6 14 (5.51%) VMware
7 13 (5.12%) Google
8 10 (3.94%) Dynatrace
8 10 (3.94%) ServiceNow
9 8 (3.15%) IBM
10 7 (2.76%) Databricks
10 7 (2.76%) Informatica
11 6 (2.36%) Atlassian
11 6 (2.36%) Cisco
11 6 (2.36%) Siebel
12 5 (1.97%) Dell
13 4 (1.57%) Clearswift
13 4 (1.57%) HP
13 4 (1.57%) Veritas