Performance Tuning Contracts with Work from Home Options

Performance Tuning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Performance Tuning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 186 222 334
Rank change year-on-year +36 +112 -96
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 167 264 311
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.14% 1.08% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.20% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 169 206
10th Percentile £330 £408 £400
25th Percentile £409 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £650
90th Percentile £688 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.86% -8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 8
10th Percentile - £30.50 £37.50
25th Percentile £46.75 £70.00 £45.94
Median hourly rate £48.50 £72.50 £57.77
Median % change year-on-year -33.10% +25.50% -11.80%
75th Percentile £50.25 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -15.03% +52.63% -27.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Performance Tuning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,922 21,983 40,479
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.64% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 15,568 29,399
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 508 539
10th Percentile £14.74 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Performance Tuning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Tuning trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 11 (6.59%) NetWeaver
2 7 (4.19%) Anypoint
2 7 (4.19%) Mule
3 6 (3.59%) Confluence
4 5 (2.99%) Mule ESB
4 5 (2.99%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.80%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.20%) CICS
6 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.20%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.60%) GemFire
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.60%) SAS
Business Applications
1 11 (6.59%) SAP IBP
2 6 (3.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.80%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.80%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.80%) Oracle FAH
3 3 (1.80%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (1.80%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.80%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.80%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.20%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.60%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 44 (26.35%) Azure
2 40 (23.95%) AWS
3 12 (7.19%) GCP
4 11 (6.59%) Power Platform
5 9 (5.39%) GitHub
5 9 (5.39%) PaaS
6 8 (4.79%) IaaS
7 6 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (3.59%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.59%) Nutanix
7 6 (3.59%) Rubrik
7 6 (3.59%) SaaS
8 5 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.99%) WhatsApp
9 4 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (2.40%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.40%) Serverless
10 3 (1.80%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.80%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.99%) SAN
2 9 (5.39%) Firewall
3 7 (4.19%) DHCP
3 7 (4.19%) DNS
4 6 (3.59%) Kerberos
4 6 (3.59%) NAS
4 6 (3.59%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.59%) VLAN
5 4 (2.40%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (1.80%) PuTTY
6 3 (1.80%) WAN
7 2 (1.20%) HTTP
7 2 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.20%) LAN
7 2 (1.20%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.20%) VoIP
7 2 (1.20%) Wireless
8 1 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (19.76%) SQL Server
2 29 (17.37%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (15.57%) Oracle Database
4 15 (8.98%) Oracle Database 11g
5 12 (7.19%) SAP HANA
6 11 (6.59%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (6.59%) MongoDB
6 11 (6.59%) SAP BW
7 9 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (5.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (4.79%) Power BI
9 7 (4.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (4.19%) DB2
9 7 (4.19%) MySQL
9 7 (4.19%) NoSQL
9 7 (4.19%) Oracle ODI
10 5 (2.99%) Metadata
10 5 (2.99%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (2.40%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 15 (8.98%) Git
2 11 (6.59%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.99%) JIRA
4 7 (4.19%) Visual Studio
5 6 (3.59%) Oracle APEX
5 6 (3.59%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.99%) MSI
6 5 (2.99%) WiX
7 3 (1.80%) Toad
8 2 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.20%) GitLab
9 1 (0.60%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.60%) LSMW
General
1 53 (31.74%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.76%) Finance
3 19 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.79%) Banking
6 7 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.59%) Retail
8 5 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.80%) Electronics
9 3 (1.80%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.80%) Marketing
10 2 (1.20%) Arabic Language
10 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.20%) French Language
10 2 (1.20%) Front Office
10 2 (1.20%) German Language
10 2 (1.20%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.20%) Korean Language
10 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 57 (34.13%) Developer
2 40 (23.95%) DBA
3 17 (10.18%) Senior
4 15 (8.98%) SQL DBA
5 13 (7.78%) Administrator
5 13 (7.78%) PostgreSQL Developer
6 11 (6.59%) Consultant
6 11 (6.59%) Oracle DBA
6 11 (6.59%) SAP Basis Consultant
6 11 (6.59%) SAP Consultant
7 10 (5.99%) Architect
8 8 (4.79%) Senior Developer
9 7 (4.19%) MuleSoft Developer
10 6 (3.59%) Lead
10 6 (3.59%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.99%) Data Engineer
11 5 (2.99%) DB2 Specialist
11 5 (2.99%) Java Developer
11 5 (2.99%) MongoDB DBA
11 5 (2.99%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.78%) .NET
2 13 (7.78%) Entity Framework
3 12 (7.19%) REST
4 11 (6.59%) SAP Basis
4 11 (6.59%) SAP Fiori
5 10 (5.99%) .NET Framework
6 8 (4.79%) ASP.NET
6 8 (4.79%) WCF
6 8 (4.79%) Web Services
7 7 (4.19%) ASP.NET Web API
7 7 (4.19%) JSON
7 7 (4.19%) LDAP
7 7 (4.19%) SOAP
7 7 (4.19%) XML
7 7 (4.19%) XSLT
8 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
9 5 (2.99%) Kafka
9 5 (2.99%) LINQ
9 5 (2.99%) NHibernate
10 4 (2.40%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.38%) Replication
2 9 (5.39%) Clustering
3 5 (2.99%) Client/Server
3 5 (2.99%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.99%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.99%) NHS
3 5 (2.99%) Web 2.0
4 3 (1.80%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.80%) Derivative
4 3 (1.80%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.20%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (1.20%) Equities
5 2 (1.20%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.20%) HP Storage
5 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 43 (25.75%) Linux
2 25 (14.97%) Unix
2 25 (14.97%) Windows
3 13 (7.78%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.79%) AIX
4 8 (4.79%) Solaris
5 7 (4.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.59%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (2.99%) zOS
8 1 (0.60%) Android
8 1 (0.60%) CentOS
8 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (28.14%) DevOps
2 43 (25.75%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (24.55%) Migration
4 29 (17.37%) High Availability
5 24 (14.37%) Software Engineering
6 23 (13.77%) Architectural Design
6 23 (13.77%) Data Migration
7 22 (13.17%) Data Integration
7 22 (13.17%) Disaster Recovery
8 21 (12.57%) Agile
9 17 (10.18%) Data Security
10 16 (9.58%) CI/CD
10 16 (9.58%) Data Modelling
11 15 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (8.98%) Unit Testing
12 13 (7.78%) Clean Code
12 13 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (7.78%) Secure Coding
12 13 (7.78%) Software Testing
13 12 (7.19%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 74 (44.31%) SQL
2 29 (17.37%) Python
3 28 (16.77%) PL/SQL
4 16 (9.58%) Bash
4 16 (9.58%) C#
5 12 (7.19%) PowerShell
6 11 (6.59%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.99%) Java
8 9 (5.39%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.99%) COBOL
9 5 (2.99%) REXX
9 5 (2.99%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.20%) Bicep
10 2 (1.20%) Scala
10 2 (1.20%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.20%) VBA
10 2 (1.20%) XPath
11 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.60%) Go
11 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (17.96%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.37%) SC Cleared
3 22 (13.17%) Degree
4 11 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.79%) SAP Certification
6 6 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.80%) MCITP
7 3 (1.80%) MCTS
7 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.60%) OCP
9 1 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.79%) GDPR
3 6 (3.59%) QA
3 6 (3.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.60%) IFRS
4 1 (0.60%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 17 (10.18%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.19%) Docker
3 9 (5.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.59%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.80%) Firmware
6 1 (0.60%) GridGain
6 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (10.78%) Terraform
2 13 (7.78%) Ansible
2 13 (7.78%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.99%) Data Guard
4 8 (4.79%) EMC NetWorker
4 8 (4.79%) Puppet
5 7 (4.19%) CloudHub
6 6 (3.59%) Netcool
6 6 (3.59%) Tivoli
6 6 (3.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 5 (2.99%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (1.80%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (1.80%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (1.80%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.20%) HP Data Protector
9 2 (1.20%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.20%) Oracle Flashback
9 2 (1.20%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.60%) Nessus
10 1 (0.60%) SCCM
Vendors
1 54 (32.34%) Oracle
2 32 (19.16%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.98%) SAP
4 12 (7.19%) Informatica
5 10 (5.99%) Cisco
6 9 (5.39%) Dell
6 9 (5.39%) IBM
6 9 (5.39%) VMware
7 8 (4.79%) EMC
7 8 (4.79%) HP
8 7 (4.19%) MuleSoft
8 7 (4.19%) Qualys
9 6 (3.59%) CyberArk
9 6 (3.59%) Databricks
9 6 (3.59%) Isilon
9 6 (3.59%) Serena
9 6 (3.59%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.59%) Splunk
10 5 (2.99%) Salesforce
11 4 (2.40%) Brocade