Performance Tuning Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Performance Tuning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 181 228
Rank change year-on-year +54 +47 +113
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 213 174 252
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.09% 1.19% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 1.37% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 125 166
10th Percentile £392 £360 £403
25th Percentile £450 £415 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £588
90th Percentile £775 £688 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -8.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile £70.25 £48.33 £62.50
25th Percentile £70.63 £50.69 £68.13
Median hourly rate £72.50 £61.75 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.41% -14.83% +48.72%
75th Percentile £75.63 £78.19 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £83.78 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +55.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,339 12,721 21,711
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.78% 87.31% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,324 8,559 15,315
10th Percentile £325 £325 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £751 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 553 523
10th Percentile £12.70 £15.03 £18.49
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.18 £26.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% -18.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.18
% change year-on-year -32.93% -1.77% +46.83%

Performance Tuning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Tuning trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Tuning.

Performance Tuning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Performance Tuning daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Tuning.

Performance Tuning hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (4.23%) Confluence
1 9 (4.23%) Oracle Coherence
2 8 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.76%) GemFire
3 4 (1.88%) Apache
3 4 (1.88%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.41%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.41%) SAS
5 2 (0.94%) CICS
5 2 (0.94%) OpenEdge
5 2 (0.94%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.47%) IIS
6 1 (0.47%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.88%) Aladdin
2 4 (1.88%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.41%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.41%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.41%) SAP PLM
3 3 (1.41%) SAP VC
4 1 (0.47%) BASE24
4 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.47%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.47%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 45 (21.13%) AWS
2 44 (20.66%) Azure
3 18 (8.45%) GCP
4 12 (5.63%) GitHub
5 11 (5.16%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.23%) Snowflake
7 8 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.82%) OCI
9 6 (2.82%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.35%) Datadog
10 5 (2.35%) IaaS
10 5 (2.35%) Serverless
11 4 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.88%) HTTPS
1 4 (1.88%) VPN
2 3 (1.41%) Firewall
2 3 (1.41%) Network Security
2 3 (1.41%) SD-WAN
2 3 (1.41%) SSL
2 3 (1.41%) WAN
3 2 (0.94%) DNS
3 2 (0.94%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.94%) NAS
3 2 (0.94%) SAN
3 2 (0.94%) SSH
3 2 (0.94%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.47%) ATM
4 1 (0.47%) BGP
4 1 (0.47%) DHCP
4 1 (0.47%) FTP
4 1 (0.47%) HTTP
4 1 (0.47%) LAN
4 1 (0.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (25.82%) Relational Database
2 42 (19.72%) DB2
3 41 (19.25%) MongoDB
4 32 (15.02%) SQL Server
5 28 (13.15%) Oracle Database
6 16 (7.51%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (6.10%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (4.69%) MySQL
9 9 (4.23%) SAP HANA
10 8 (3.76%) RDBMS
11 7 (3.29%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (2.82%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (2.35%) Data Lake
13 5 (2.35%) MariaDB
13 5 (2.35%) Power BI
14 4 (1.88%) Big Data
14 4 (1.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (17.37%) JUnit
2 15 (7.04%) Git
3 13 (6.10%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.76%) GitLab
4 8 (3.76%) JIRA
5 3 (1.41%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.41%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.94%) GCC
6 2 (0.94%) git-flow
6 2 (0.94%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.94%) Maven
6 2 (0.94%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.94%) ScriptRunner
6 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.47%) DBeaver
7 1 (0.47%) Flyway
7 1 (0.47%) Gatling
7 1 (0.47%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 94 (44.13%) Social Skills
2 73 (34.27%) Finance
3 69 (32.39%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (26.29%) Banking
5 41 (19.25%) Investment Banking
6 21 (9.86%) Front Office
7 8 (3.76%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.41%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.41%) French Language
8 3 (1.41%) Games
8 3 (1.41%) German Language
8 3 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.41%) Retail
9 2 (0.94%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.94%) Arabic Language
9 2 (0.94%) Japanese Language
9 2 (0.94%) Korean Language
9 2 (0.94%) Spanish Language
9 2 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (38.50%) Developer
2 56 (26.29%) Java Developer
3 45 (21.13%) Senior
4 33 (15.49%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 30 (14.08%) SQL Developer
6 28 (13.15%) DBA
6 28 (13.15%) Senior Developer
7 24 (11.27%) Senior Java Developer
8 16 (7.51%) Senior SQL Developer
9 15 (7.04%) Linux Developer
9 15 (7.04%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
10 13 (6.10%) Administrator
10 13 (6.10%) Data Engineer
10 13 (6.10%) Oracle Developer
10 13 (6.10%) Sybase Developer
11 12 (5.63%) Consultant
12 10 (4.69%) Architect
12 10 (4.69%) Lead
12 10 (4.69%) Oracle DBA
13 9 (4.23%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.19%) Kafka
2 38 (17.84%) Spring
3 34 (15.96%) JMS
4 13 (6.10%) AngularJS
5 9 (4.23%) .NET
5 9 (4.23%) React
6 8 (3.76%) ASP.NET
6 8 (3.76%) Web Services
7 7 (3.29%) Middleware
7 7 (3.29%) RESTful
8 6 (2.82%) BAPI
8 6 (2.82%) REST
8 6 (2.82%) XML
9 5 (2.35%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (2.35%) Node.js
9 5 (2.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 4 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.88%) GraphQL
10 4 (1.88%) SAP Basis
10 4 (1.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.19%) Data Structures
2 36 (16.90%) Equities
3 21 (9.86%) Clustering
4 15 (7.04%) Replication
5 11 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (3.29%) Cloud Native
9 7 (3.29%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.82%) Data Centre
11 5 (2.35%) Hedge funds
11 5 (2.35%) Mainframe
12 4 (1.88%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.88%) Derivative
12 4 (1.88%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.88%) Equity Derivative
12 4 (1.88%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.88%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 65 (30.52%) Linux
2 16 (7.51%) Windows
3 15 (7.04%) Unix
4 5 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.88%) AIX
5 4 (1.88%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.41%) Solaris
6 3 (1.41%) zOS
7 2 (0.94%) OS/2
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.47%) VMS
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (40.38%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (33.33%) Agile
3 55 (25.82%) Database Tuning
4 52 (24.41%) Migration
5 44 (20.66%) DevOps
6 41 (19.25%) High Availability
7 40 (18.78%) SDLC
8 37 (17.37%) Multithreading
9 36 (16.90%) Open Source
10 34 (15.96%) CI/CD
11 30 (14.08%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (8.45%) Software Engineering
13 17 (7.98%) ETL
13 17 (7.98%) Performance Optimisation
14 16 (7.51%) Computer Science
14 16 (7.51%) Data Modelling
14 16 (7.51%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (7.04%) Database Migration
16 14 (6.57%) Data Migration
16 14 (6.57%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 104 (48.83%) SQL
2 68 (31.92%) Java
3 67 (31.46%) Python
4 38 (17.84%) Shell Script
5 11 (5.16%) PL/SQL
5 11 (5.16%) PowerShell
6 10 (4.69%) Bash
6 10 (4.69%) Perl
7 9 (4.23%) ABAP
7 9 (4.23%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.76%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.35%) ActionScript
9 5 (2.35%) ActionScript 2.0
9 5 (2.35%) C++
9 5 (2.35%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.41%) C
10 3 (1.41%) COBOL
10 3 (1.41%) JCL
10 3 (1.41%) PL/1
10 3 (1.41%) REXX
Qualifications
1 18 (8.45%) Degree
2 17 (7.98%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.76%) Numerate Degree
5 7 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.94%) CISSP
9 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.47%) CISM
9 1 (0.47%) GIAC
9 1 (0.47%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.47%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.47%) OCP
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.47%) RHCE
9 1 (0.47%) VCAP
9 1 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.76%) QA
2 6 (2.82%) GDPR
2 6 (2.82%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.88%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.88%) NIST
5 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.94%) COBIT
5 2 (0.94%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.94%) HL7
5 2 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.47%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.47%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.47%) NCSC
6 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (6.10%) Docker
2 8 (3.76%) GridGain
2 8 (3.76%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (2.35%) vSphere
4 4 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.41%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.94%) Firmware
6 2 (0.94%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 2 (0.94%) NFS
6 2 (0.94%) RACF
6 2 (0.94%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.94%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.94%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.47%) GPFS
7 1 (0.47%) KVM
7 1 (0.47%) QEMU
7 1 (0.47%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 15 (7.04%) Kubernetes
1 15 (7.04%) Terraform
2 13 (6.10%) Oracle RMAN
3 11 (5.16%) Ansible
4 10 (4.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 6 (2.82%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.35%) Data Guard
7 4 (1.88%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 3 (1.41%) Grafana
8 3 (1.41%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.41%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.41%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.94%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.94%) OMEGAMON
9 2 (0.94%) TADDM
9 2 (0.94%) Tivoli NetView
10 1 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.47%) Oracle Flashback
10 1 (0.47%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.47%) SELinux
Vendors
1 49 (23.00%) Oracle
2 38 (17.84%) Sybase
3 18 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 18 (8.45%) SAP
4 12 (5.63%) IBM
5 8 (3.76%) Google
6 6 (2.82%) Commvault
6 6 (2.82%) Informatica
7 5 (2.35%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.35%) VMware
8 4 (1.88%) Databricks
8 4 (1.88%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.88%) IBM Sterling
8 4 (1.88%) Teradata
9 3 (1.41%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.41%) Refinitiv
9 3 (1.41%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.41%) Solace
9 3 (1.41%) Splunk
10 2 (0.94%) BMC