Performance Tuning Jobs in Scotland

Performance Tuning
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Performance Tuning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 207 195
Rank change year-on-year +118 -12 -21
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 285 13 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.23% 0.28% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 0.29% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 19 10 24
10th Percentile £49,900 £51,833 £37,925
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,266 £55,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,029 £63,375
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +1.03% +16.82%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,652 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £71,986 £80,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,250 4,435 5,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.80% 94.24% 90.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,224 2,804
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,491 £30,132
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Scotland

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Scotland.

Salary trend for Performance Tuning in Scotland

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Tuning in Scotland

Performance Tuning
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tuning within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +50 257 £57,500 -17.86% 7
Edinburgh +38 12 £83,577 +30.53% 4
Aberdeen - 9 £50,000 - 1
Dundee - 2 £57,500 -
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 -
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 £57,500 -
South Ayrshire - 1 £57,500 -
Performance Tuning
UK

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 230 (80.70%) Apache Spark
2 51 (17.89%) Apache
3 2 (0.70%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 166 (58.25%) AWS
2 51 (17.89%) Amazon EC2
2 51 (17.89%) Amazon ECS
2 51 (17.89%) Amazon EKS
2 51 (17.89%) Amazon EMR
2 51 (17.89%) Amazon SQS
2 51 (17.89%) AWS Lambda
2 51 (17.89%) Serverless
3 14 (4.91%) Azure
4 10 (3.51%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.11%) GCP
6 4 (1.40%) OCI
7 2 (0.70%) IaaS
7 2 (0.70%) PaaS
7 2 (0.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.32%) DSL
2 10 (3.51%) Broadband
3 3 (1.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (80.70%) Big Data
2 212 (74.39%) NoSQL
3 51 (17.89%) Electronic Patient Records
3 51 (17.89%) Hadoop
4 23 (8.07%) SQL Server
5 19 (6.67%) Oracle Database
6 18 (6.32%) Data Lake
6 18 (6.32%) DB2
6 18 (6.32%) MongoDB
6 18 (6.32%) Tableau
7 15 (5.26%) Oracle Database 11g
7 15 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (3.51%) Power BI
9 8 (2.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (2.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.75%) OLAP
12 2 (0.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (2.81%) Git
General
1 245 (85.96%) Finance
1 245 (85.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 242 (84.91%) Law
3 179 (62.81%) Marketing
4 161 (56.49%) Influencing Skills
5 71 (24.91%) Financial Institution
6 51 (17.89%) Legal
7 33 (11.58%) Banking
8 30 (10.53%) Investment Banking
9 18 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (4.21%) Social Skills
11 10 (3.51%) Prime Brokerage
12 5 (1.75%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.70%) Police
13 2 (0.70%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 171 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 159 (55.79%) Big Data Engineer
2 159 (55.79%) Big Data Software Engineer
2 159 (55.79%) Scala Engineer
2 159 (55.79%) Scala Software Engineer
3 119 (41.75%) Java Engineer
3 119 (41.75%) Java Software Engineer
3 119 (41.75%) Lead
4 118 (41.40%) Lead Software Engineer
5 108 (37.89%) Lead Big Data Engineer
6 107 (37.54%) Java Scala Software Engineer
7 106 (37.19%) Lead Java Engineer
8 71 (24.91%) Senior
9 63 (22.11%) AWS Engineer
9 63 (22.11%) AWS Software Engineer
10 53 (18.60%) Big Data Manager
10 53 (18.60%) Engineering Manager
10 53 (18.60%) Software Engineering Manager
11 51 (17.89%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
11 51 (17.89%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (10.53%) Kafka
2 12 (4.21%) Spring
3 10 (3.51%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.05%) Android Jetpack
4 3 (1.05%) Android SDK
4 3 (1.05%) Jetpack Compose
4 3 (1.05%) RESTful
4 3 (1.05%) Web Services
5 2 (0.70%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (0.70%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 87 (30.53%) Cloud Native
2 53 (18.60%) Algorithms
3 18 (6.32%) Management Information System
3 18 (6.32%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.32%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.05%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.05%) Online Banking
5 2 (0.70%) Life Science
6 1 (0.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.51%) VMS
2 3 (1.05%) Android
3 2 (0.70%) Linux
3 2 (0.70%) Unix
3 2 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (86.32%) Agile
2 244 (85.61%) Software Engineering
3 242 (84.91%) SDLC
4 191 (67.02%) CI/CD
5 189 (66.32%) Operational Stability
6 95 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 87 (30.53%) Community of Practice
8 84 (29.47%) Continuous Delivery
9 80 (28.07%) Machine Learning
10 59 (20.70%) Technical Leadership
11 58 (20.35%) Coaching
11 58 (20.35%) Mentoring
12 53 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (18.60%) Visualisation
13 51 (17.89%) Risk Management
13 51 (17.89%) Tech Ops
14 28 (9.82%) Architectural Design
14 28 (9.82%) Business Intelligence
14 28 (9.82%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 276 (96.84%) SQL
2 244 (85.61%) Java
3 230 (80.70%) Scala
4 35 (12.28%) PL/SQL
5 21 (7.37%) Python
6 17 (5.96%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.75%) VBA
8 3 (1.05%) C#
8 3 (1.05%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.05%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.70%) PHP
9 2 (0.70%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (3.51%) Degree
1 10 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.40%) OCP
3 4 (1.40%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
4 2 (0.70%) OCA
4 2 (0.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.32%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.40%) Docker
3 2 (0.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 22 (7.72%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
2 2 (0.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 47 (16.49%) Oracle
2 18 (6.32%) Alteryx
2 18 (6.32%) Cognos
2 18 (6.32%) Databricks
2 18 (6.32%) Sybase
3 17 (5.96%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.05%) Google
5 2 (0.70%) IBM