Performance Optimisation Jobs

Performance Optimisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 698 784
Rank change year-on-year +183 +86 -102
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 422 279 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.27% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.28% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 326 134 192
10th Percentile £39,625 £44,500 £41,300
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.90% +3.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £61,040
% change year-on-year -8.00% +2.39% +10.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Optimisation 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +206 367 £62,500 -10.71% 108
UK excluding London +188 277 £57,500 -8.00% 58
Work from Home +153 177 £62,500 -10.71% 56
London +92 129 £72,500 -9.38% 52
North of England +78 65 £60,000 +4.35% 22
South East +79 62 £60,000 -4.00% 9
South West +45 51 £52,500 -30.00% 7
Midlands +43 37 £62,500 +25.00% 8
North West +24 35 £63,750 +8.51% 13
Scotland -40 34 £51,250 -5.24% 5
West Midlands +54 30 £62,500 +25.00% 3
North East +13 16 £55,000 +29.41% 5
East of England +11 15 £55,000 - 7
Yorkshire +93 14 £57,500 +55.41% 4
Wales - 8 £46,604 - 2
East Midlands - 7 £87,500 - 5
Northern Ireland +34 5 - - 2

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (3.08%) WordPress
2 8 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.18%) Apache
4 4 (0.95%) IIS
5 3 (0.71%) JBoss
5 3 (0.71%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.71%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.71%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.71%) WildFly
6 2 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.24%) TYPO3
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.42%) Magento
2 4 (0.95%) Shopify
3 3 (0.71%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 109 (25.83%) Azure
2 67 (15.88%) AWS
3 64 (15.17%) Power Platform
4 38 (9.00%) PowerApps
5 37 (8.77%) Power Automate
6 30 (7.11%) Serverless
7 26 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (6.16%) SaaS
8 22 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (4.98%) Amazon S3
10 19 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (4.50%) GCP
11 17 (4.03%) Entra ID
11 17 (4.03%) GitHub
12 15 (3.55%) Azure Functions
13 14 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (3.08%) IaaS
15 12 (2.84%) PaaS
16 10 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.03%) Firewall
1 17 (4.03%) HTTP
2 15 (3.55%) DNS
3 11 (2.61%) VPN
4 9 (2.13%) DHCP
4 9 (2.13%) MQTT
5 7 (1.66%) SAN
6 6 (1.42%) NAS
7 5 (1.18%) VLAN
8 4 (0.95%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.71%) Network Security
9 3 (0.71%) Wireless
10 2 (0.47%) BGP
10 2 (0.47%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.47%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.47%) OSPF
10 2 (0.47%) SSH
11 1 (0.24%) IPv4
11 1 (0.24%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (14.93%) Power BI
2 46 (10.90%) MySQL
3 40 (9.48%) Relational Database
4 36 (8.53%) SQL Server
5 29 (6.87%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (3.55%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (2.13%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.13%) Hadoop
9 9 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.90%) CockroachDB
11 7 (1.66%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.66%) MariaDB
11 7 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.66%) RDBMS
11 7 (1.66%) Star Schema
12 6 (1.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 58 (13.74%) Git
2 19 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.90%) Jaeger
3 8 (1.90%) Maven
3 8 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (1.66%) GitLab
4 7 (1.66%) JIRA
5 6 (1.42%) webpack
6 5 (1.18%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.95%) Selenium
7 4 (0.95%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.71%) Babel
8 3 (0.71%) ERwin
8 3 (0.71%) JUnit
8 3 (0.71%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 145 (34.36%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.59%) Finance
3 58 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (10.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (9.24%) Public Sector
6 28 (6.64%) Manufacturing
7 19 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
8 18 (4.27%) Law
9 17 (4.03%) Marketing
10 14 (3.32%) Electronics
11 13 (3.08%) Banking
11 13 (3.08%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.61%) Financial Institution
12 11 (2.61%) Legal
13 10 (2.37%) Front Office
13 10 (2.37%) Retail
14 7 (1.66%) Games
15 6 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.18%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.95%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 210 (49.76%) Developer
2 95 (22.51%) Senior
3 76 (18.01%) Architect
4 52 (12.32%) Senior Developer
5 47 (11.14%) Lead
6 41 (9.72%) .NET Developer
7 36 (8.53%) Platform Architect
7 36 (8.53%) Power Platform Architect
8 31 (7.35%) Technical Architect
9 30 (7.11%) Web Developer
10 29 (6.87%) Full Stack Developer
11 26 (6.16%) Lead Developer
12 24 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
13 22 (5.21%) Senior Architect
13 22 (5.21%) Software Engineer
14 19 (4.50%) Power Platform Developer
14 19 (4.50%) Senior .NET Developer
14 19 (4.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
15 18 (4.27%) Dynamics 365 Developer
15 18 (4.27%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (24.88%) HTML
2 97 (22.99%) CSS
3 86 (20.38%) .NET
4 48 (11.37%) RESTful
5 47 (11.14%) React
6 31 (7.35%) .NET Core
7 23 (5.45%) AngularJS
8 20 (4.74%) jQuery
8 20 (4.74%) Kafka
8 20 (4.74%) Web Services
9 19 (4.50%) Laravel
9 19 (4.50%) Vue
10 17 (4.03%) React Native
11 16 (3.79%) LAMP
12 15 (3.55%) .NET Framework
13 12 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (2.61%) JSON
14 11 (2.61%) Redux
14 11 (2.61%) REST
15 10 (2.37%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.16%) Mobile App
3 24 (5.69%) Algorithms
4 20 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (4.03%) Video\Live Streaming
6 16 (3.79%) Management Information System
7 15 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (3.08%) Virtual Team
9 10 (2.37%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.13%) IoT
10 9 (2.13%) Replication
11 8 (1.90%) Arduino
11 8 (1.90%) Blockchain
11 8 (1.90%) e-Learning
11 8 (1.90%) Raspberry Pi
12 7 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.18%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.18%) Driving Licence
13 5 (1.18%) Hedge funds
13 5 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (13.03%) Windows
2 49 (11.61%) Linux
3 23 (5.45%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.13%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.66%) Unix
6 6 (1.42%) Android
7 5 (1.18%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Solaris
9 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (33.89%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (23.46%) Computer Science
3 92 (21.80%) Mentoring
4 89 (21.09%) Data Modelling
5 77 (18.25%) Analytics
6 75 (17.77%) User Experience
7 74 (17.54%) Business Intelligence
8 73 (17.30%) DevOps
9 70 (16.59%) Agile
9 70 (16.59%) Full Stack Development
10 66 (15.64%) Artificial Intelligence
11 59 (13.98%) Machine Learning
12 57 (13.51%) Front End Development
13 53 (12.56%) Software Engineering
14 50 (11.85%) Web Development
15 48 (11.37%) CI/CD
16 44 (10.43%) Design Patterns
16 44 (10.43%) ETL
17 43 (10.19%) Visualisation
18 41 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 122 (28.91%) JavaScript
2 111 (26.30%) C#
3 100 (23.70%) SQL
4 53 (12.56%) Python
5 36 (8.53%) PHP
6 33 (7.82%) Java
7 29 (6.87%) TypeScript
8 22 (5.21%) C++
9 15 (3.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (2.13%) Go
11 7 (1.66%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.42%) Dart
12 6 (1.42%) R
13 5 (1.18%) Bash
14 4 (0.95%) Rust
14 4 (0.95%) Scala
14 4 (0.95%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.71%) C
16 2 (0.47%) Perl
16 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 106 (25.12%) Degree
2 87 (20.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 47 (11.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 39 (9.24%) Master's Degree
5 22 (5.21%) Security Cleared
6 19 (4.50%) SC Cleared
7 18 (4.27%) Azure Certification
8 17 (4.03%) CCNP
8 17 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (3.08%) AWS Certification
10 12 (2.84%) MCSE
11 9 (2.13%) PhD
12 6 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.18%) CCNA
14 2 (0.47%) JNCIA
15 1 (0.24%) CCIE
15 1 (0.24%) ISEB
15 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.45%) QA
2 18 (4.27%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.61%) GDPR
5 10 (2.37%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.95%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (8.53%) Active Directory
1 36 (8.53%) Docker
2 11 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.90%) Firmware
4 6 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.71%) Ceph
7 2 (0.47%) HDFS
7 2 (0.47%) NFS
8 1 (0.24%) PowerDNS
8 1 (0.24%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 40 (9.48%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.03%) Terraform
3 15 (3.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (3.32%) Ansible
5 8 (1.90%) Kiali
6 7 (1.66%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.95%) Istio
8 3 (0.71%) Grafana
8 3 (0.71%) Kibana
9 1 (0.24%) Iperf
9 1 (0.24%) Nmap
9 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 113 (26.78%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.69%) VMware
3 15 (3.55%) Cisco
3 15 (3.55%) Dell
4 13 (3.08%) SAP
5 11 (2.61%) IBM
6 9 (2.13%) Databricks
6 9 (2.13%) Splunk
7 8 (1.90%) AppDynamics
7 8 (1.90%) NVIDIA
7 8 (1.90%) Oracle
7 8 (1.90%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.42%) Google
8 6 (1.42%) NetApp
8 6 (1.42%) Veeam
9 5 (1.18%) Apple
9 5 (1.18%) Mapbox
9 5 (1.18%) Xamarin
10 4 (0.95%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.71%) Informatica