1 to 25 of 94 Contract Performance Tuning Jobs in the UK

Oracle Developer - Batch Processing

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Government and Defence
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, North East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£600 - £650 per day
Cleared Oracle Developer - Batch Processing & Performance Tuning Central Government | Contract Duration: 12 Months Rate: £650 per day (Inside IR35 - all reasonable rates considered) Location: Newcastle or Manchester (predominantly remote with occasional on-site) Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance required We are looking for an experienced SC Cleared Oracle … major UK Central Government department on a long-term contract. This role is ideal for a specialist with strong expertise in Oracle batch processing, performance tuning, and Pro*C development , operating within secure and highly regulated environments. The Role As an Oracle Developer, you will focus ...

SQL Database Administrator / SQL DBA - 6 Month Contract

Hiring Organisation
Circle Group
Location
Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £475 per day
deliver effectively under time pressures. Looking for a start ASAP.; You will plan, execute, and optimise a full SQL Server migration while ensuring the performance, security, and stability of the environment throughout a 6-month transition period. Take full ownership of a business-critical SQL Server migration Immediate, high … access control , including permissions, encryption, and compliance requirements Strong T-SQL skills with the ability to write, optimise, and troubleshoot complex scripts Extensive performance tuning experience (execution plans, indexing, query optimisation, Query Store, Profiler) Strong experience with HA/DR solutions such as Always On, log shipping, clustering ...

SQL Database Administrator / SQL DBA - 6 Month Contract

Hiring Organisation
Circle Group
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £475 per day
deliver effectively under time pressures. Looking for a start ASAP.; You will plan, execute, and optimise a full SQL Server migration while ensuring the performance, security, and stability of the environment throughout a 6-month transition period. Take full ownership of a business-critical SQL Server migration Immediate, high … access control , including permissions, encryption, and compliance requirements Strong T-SQL skills with the ability to write, optimise, and troubleshoot complex scripts Extensive performance tuning experience (execution plans, indexing, query optimisation, Query Store, Profiler) Strong experience with HA/DR solutions such as Always On, log shipping, clustering ...

Performance Lead

Hiring Organisation
Primis
Location
Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £400 to £450 per day
Title: Performance Test Lead Industry: Public Sector Day Rate: £400 - £450 per day (Inside IR35) Duration: 4/5 months Location: Cardiff/Hybrid We are seeking an experienced Performance Test Lead to take a hands-on, foundational role within a critical, multi-wave cloud migration programme. This … greenfield opportunity for a client with no existing performance testing capability, requiring someone who can define, lead, and execute performance testing from the ground up. You will play a key role in ensuring platform stability and performance throughout major infrastructure changes, working closely with technical teams ...

Database Engineer - DBA - SC Clearance - Telford - 6 months

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
Telford, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£380 - £429/day
Hiring for an seeking an experienced Database Administrator (DBA) to join a secure data environment within Platform Services. You will be responsible for the performance, integrity, availability, and security of enterprise database systems supporting critical services. This is a hands-on DBA role within a highly secure, delivery-focused … environment. Responsibilities include: * Install, configure and maintain DBMS platforms * Monitor performance and optimise database operations * Troubleshoot and resolve database incidents * Manage backups and recovery processes * Implement and maintain database security controls * Manage user access, roles and privileges * Design and optimise database structures and queries * Perform performance tuning ...

SAP Support Engineer

Hiring Organisation
ARM
Location
Basildon, Essex, Pitsea, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£50 - £55/hour
Linux, Unix, and Windows platforms Handle installations, configurations, kernel upgrades, and patching Administer HANA DB, Sybase ASE, and other databases with backup, recovery, and performance tuning Conduct system copies, client administration, and transport management Monitor systems and troubleshoot incidents while ensuring compliance and security Collaborate with developers, functional … Administration Nice-to-Have/Future Skills: Automation & Scripting (Shell, Python, PowerShell) High Availability & Disaster Recovery SAP on Cloud (Azure) & S/4HANA Migration Performance Tuning & Solution Manager (SolMan) Security Audits & Compliance If this sounds of interest, please don't hesitate to contact Lewis @ ARM on (phone number ...

Akamai Security Engineers

Hiring Organisation
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 490 - 620 Daily
optimisation of Akamai security solutions across large-scale, high-traffic digital platforms. These are key engineering roles focused on strengthening web security, enhancing performance, and embedding best-practice Akamai configurations into global environments. Key Responsibilities Engineer Configure & maintain Akamai tools (KSD, WAF, Bot Manager, CDN) Support implementation of rulesets … policies & routing configs Monitor traffic, identify threats & assist in incident response Tune WAF & bot rules to reduce false positives Assist with CDN configuration, caching & performance tuning Manage certificates, redirects, and Akamai property updates Collaborate with application teams for secure deployments Produce documentation & support continuous improvement Senior Engineer Architect ...

GCP FinOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
LA International Computer Consultants Ltd
Location
Newport, Gwent, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 450 - 500 Daily
retention optimisation. * Implement storage tiering strategies based on access patterns and enforce life cycle rules to minimise cold data retention costs. * Improve relational database performance through index tuning, connection optimisation, and instance right sizing. * Enhance horizontally scalable database performance via autoscaling policies, index improvements, and mitigation … years of hands-on experience in Google Cloud * Strong understanding of GCP Data services (indexing, slots, pruning, partitioning, clustering) * Expert-level Kubernetes & GKE resource tuning * Hands-on experience with Dataflow job pipelines and worker optimisation * Strong Airflow/Composer knowledge (DAG design, scheduling, PodOperator) * Strong Dataflow processing pipelines development ...

GCP Finops Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Queen Square Recruitment Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £500/day
Hybrid) Contract Duration: 6 Months IR35 Status: Inside IR35 Role Overview We are seeking an experienced GCP FinOps Engineer to optimise cloud spend, performance, and operational efficiency across large-scale data analytics and containerised workloads. You will work closely with engineering, data, and product teams to embed cost-efficient … retention optimisation. Implement storage-tiering strategies based on access patterns and enforce lifecycle rules to minimise cold data retention costs. Improve relational database performance through index tuning, connection optimisation, and instance right-sizing. Enhance horizontally scalable database performance via autoscaling policies, index improvements, and mitigation of read ...

GCP FinOps Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
Newport, Gwent, Wales, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £400 to £450 per day
retention optimisation. Implement storage tiering strategies based on access patterns and enforce lifecycle rules to minimise cold data retention costs. Improve relational database performance through index tuning, connection optimisation, and instance right sizing. Enhance horizontally scalable database performance via autoscaling policies, index improvements, and mitigation of read … years of hands-on experience in Google Cloud Strong understanding of GCP Data services (indexing, slots, pruning, partitioning, clustering) Expert-level Kubernetes & GKE resource tuning Hands-on experience with Dataflow job pipelines and worker optimisation Strong Airflow/Composer knowledge (DAG design, scheduling, PodOperator) Strong Dataflow processing pipelines development ...

Senior Python Developer - Digital Trading Analytics

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£380 - £465 per day
looking for a Senior Python Developer to design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable solutions supporting financial market analytics. This is a high-impact role sitting at the intersection of complex data engineering and front-office trading systems. You will play a key role in shaping engineering practices, guiding … architectural decisions, and leading junior engineers to deliver business-critical solutions. Financial Engineering: Design and deploy scalable, high-performance software for data processing and trading analytics. Technical Leadership: Lead architectural decisions, conduct rigorous code reviews, and mentor junior engineers. Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with Traders, Quants, and Product Managers ...

Performance Technical Info Lead

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Bristol, Avon, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - 579 per day + None
Performance Information Technical Lead – Power BI/Microsoft Fabric Client: EDF Location: Bristol (Hybrid – on-site days TBC) Contract: Until 31/12/2026 Rate: £500–£579 per day (Inside IR35) Security Clearance: BPSS required Overview EDF is seeking a Performance Information Technical Lead … credential management Standardise use of enterprise tooling (e.g. DAX Studio, Tabular Editor, ALM Toolkit) Rationalise and optimise the existing estate to improve resilience, performance, and cost efficiency Operating Model & Lifecycle Management Define RACI across business owners, data owners, developers, Enterprise IT, and Information Management Establish lifecycle processes for onboarding ...

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Hiring Organisation
MarkIT Placements
Location
Didcot, Oxfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £500 to £700 per day
e.g. Celery, Redis Streams, Kafka) to enable scalable async workloads, retries, and fault-tolerant integrations. Design data models and optimise relational databases (PostgreSQL) for performance, partitioning, and horizontal scale. Introduce caching, rate limiting, and queuing to meet performance budgets and latency goals. Integrate with AI pipelines and model … operating production REST APIs with OpenAPI/Swagger. Comfortable working in a React/TypeScript codebase. Deep understanding of relational database design, indexing, performance tuning, and migrations (PostgreSQL). Proficiency with containerisation (Docker) and Git-based workflows. Familiarity with AWS core services (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ALB/ ...

Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Solihull, West Midlands, West Midlands (County), United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Strong analytical and decision-making abilities. Desired Skills and Experience: Experience in Angular and Node JS. Experience in Jaspersoft reporting tool. DBA experience in performance tuning SQL queries and Postgres/Aurora DB config. Experience working with Spring Cloud, Spring Batch, and Spring Integration. Experience working with Activiti ...

Software Engineer - Database & Display

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £500 to £600 per day
Scripting C, C++, PERL, Java or equivalent for application interfacing and scripting Data Handling Real-time data acquisition, Historian integration, data replication, and logging Performance Tuning & Monitoring Query optimization, indexing, database health monitoring Version control with Git, SVN, or equivalent Design, develop and maintain databases and data models …/DMS/SCADA) Develop, enhance, and maintain display applications, dashboards, and HMI interfaces/Station displays for operators and engineers Ensure high performance, reliability, and integrity of database system under real-time operational loads Perform database tuning, indexing, query optimization, and performance monitoring Develop and maintain ...

Software Engineer - Database & Display

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £500 to £600 per day
Scripting C, C++, PERL, Java or equivalent for application interfacing and scripting Data Handling Real-time data acquisition, Historian integration, data replication, and logging Performance Tuning & Monitoring Query optimization, indexing, database health monitoring Version control with Git, SVN, or equivalent Design, develop and maintain databases and data models …/DMS/SCADA) Develop, enhance, and maintain display applications, dashboards, and HMI interfaces/Station displays for operators and engineers Ensure high performance, reliability, and integrity of database system under real-time operational loads Perform database tuning, indexing, query optimization, and performance monitoring Develop and maintain ...

Software Engineer - Database & Display

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £500 to £600 per day
Scripting C, C++, PERL, Java or equivalent for application interfacing and scripting Data Handling Real-time data acquisition, Historian integration, data replication, and logging Performance Tuning & Monitoring Query optimization, indexing, database health monitoring Version control with Git, SVN, or equivalent Design, develop and maintain databases and data models …/DMS/SCADA) Develop, enhance, and maintain display applications, dashboards, and HMI interfaces/Station displays for operators and engineers Ensure high performance, reliability, and integrity of database system under real-time operational loads Perform database tuning, indexing, query optimization, and performance monitoring Develop and maintain ...

Lead Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Infoplus Technologies UK Ltd
Location
Solihull, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £450 to £500 per day Outside IR35
Strong analytical and decision-making abilities. Desired Skills and Experience: Experience in Angular and Node JS. Experience in Jaspersoft reporting tool. DBA experience in performance tuning SQL queries and Postgres/Aurora DB config. Experience working with Spring Cloud, Spring Batch, and Spring Integration. Experience working with Activiti ...

Performance Info Technical Lead

Hiring Organisation
Mactech Energy Group
Location
Bristol, Avon, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£395.94 - 551.76 per hour
Title: Performance Info Technical Lead Pay: PAYE £395.94 or £551.76 Umbrella Location: Aztec West, Bristol Job ID: 1752 Job Purpose/Overview The Performance Information Technical Lead will define and implement the governance framework, operating model, and technical standards for the HPC Power BI and Microsoft Fabric estate. … Tabular Editor with Best Practice Analyzer) Ensure controlled deployments (ALM Toolkit) Rationalise existing platform assets to: Improve ownership clarity Enhance resilience Reduce duplication Optimise performance C. Operating Model & Lifecycle Management Define RACI across: Business Owners Data Owners Report Developers Enterprise IT Information Management Establish lifecycle management processes covering: Onboarding ...

System Administrator

Hiring Organisation
DCV Technologies Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £500 to £550 per day
large, enterprise-scale IBM Z environment. This is a hands-on role focused on DB2 for z/OS system-level administration, availability, performance, and resilience. Youll work on critical production systems, owning DB2 subsystem health, upgrades, tuning and recovery, while collaborating with infrastructure, security and vendor teams. … Responsibilities DB2 for z/OS installation, maintenance and upgrades using SMP/E Applying PTFs and managing DB2 subsystem lifecycle Performance monitoring and tuning (ZPARMS, buffer pools, EDM pools) Backup, recovery and disaster recovery for DB2 catalog and directory Administration of Broadcom/CA tools (Platinum, SYSVIEW ...

Tech Lead - Data Analytics & Data Engineering (AWS) - SC+NPPV3

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Government and Defence
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£550 - £600 per day
delivering data ingestion, transformation, and storage patterns using S3, AWS Glue, and Redshift Owning data architecture decisions, including data modelling, partitioning strategies, and performance optimisation Defining and enforcing engineering standards across code quality, testing, CI/CD, IaC, and observability Building and optimising ELT/ETL pipelines using Glue … domains Strong hands-on experience with: Amazon S3 (data lake patterns, partitioning, lifecycle management) AWS Glue (Jobs, Crawlers, PySpark, orchestration) Amazon Redshift (data modelling, performance tuning, WLM, Spectrum) Advanced Python (PySpark) and SQL skills Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code Proven ability to engage ...

Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
RT Consulting
Location
Solihull, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £400 to £500 per day Outside IR35
Supporting live, mission-critical systems and troubleshooting production issues Building high-quality Java microservices and APIs Contributing to Agile delivery teams focused on reliability, performance and secure coding Core Skills & Experience Java Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Integration, Spring Batch Microservices architecture REST & SOAP Web Services JPA/… DynamoDB, S3, KMS, CloudWatch) Experience supporting live environments Strong Agile mindset (Scrum, TDD, BDD) Nice to Have Angular/Node.js SQL performance tuning BPMN (Activiti) Jaspersoft Spring Cloud Exposure to secure or regulated environments (Gov, Defence, Policing) Why Join RT Consulting? Work on significant programmes Outside IR35 opportunities ...

PySpark Developer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£300 - £350 per day
Role Overview We are seeking a Lead PySpark Engineer to drive a large-scale data modernisation project, transitioning legacy data workflows into a high-performance AWS cloud environment. This is a hands-on technical role focused on converting legacy SAS code into production-ready PySpark pipelines within a complex … PySpark using automated tools (SAS2PY) and manual refactoring. Pipeline Engineering: Design, build, and troubleshoot complex ETL/ELT workflows and data marts on AWS. Performance Tuning: Optimise Spark workloads for execution efficiency, partitioning, and cost-effectiveness. Quality Assurance: Implement clean coding principles, modular design, and robust unit/ ...

SQL Server DBA

Hiring Organisation
Syntax Consultancy Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£350 - £400 Per Day Inside IR35
chance to work with a leading global IT and Digital transformation business specialising in Government projects: Experienced SQL Server DBA or similar role, Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO) Must have in-depth experienced, Manage SQL Server databases, Configure and maintain database servers and processes, Backups, restores and recovery … High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options for SQL Server and experience with Windows server, including Active Directory Monitor system's health and performance, including ensure high levels of performance, availability, sustainability and security Analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time and Refine and automate regular ...

Informatica MDM Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Stackstudio Digital Ltd
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £375 to £400 per day
IDMC Cloud components to meet business requirements. Troubleshoot issues related to MDM data models, hub servers, IDMC services, and integration points. Assist in performance tuning and optimization of MDM and IDMC processes. Document migration processes, architecture changes, and provide training/support to internal teams. Stay updated with ...