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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 728 764
Rank change year-on-year +214 +36 -77
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 420 269 507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.26% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.28% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 322 138 189
10th Percentile £38,800 £43,225 £42,345
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 £97,250 £95,000 £92,750
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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 8 May 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 8 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
England +186 363 £62,500 -10.71% 107
UK excluding London +163 277 £57,500 -8.00% 65
Work from Home +134 174 £65,000 -7.14% 64
London +93 127 £70,000 -8.20% 48
South East +66 63 £60,000 -4.00% 5
North of England +66 63 £60,000 +4.35% 27
South West +20 51 £52,500 -30.00% 9
Midlands +37 35 £62,500 +25.00% 10
North West +17 34 £67,500 +14.89% 13
Scotland -35 34 £52,500 -2.93% 5
West Midlands +39 29 £62,500 +25.00% 6
North East +13 16 £55,000 +29.41% 9
East of England +11 16 £55,000 +4.76% 4
Yorkshire +79 13 £57,500 +55.41% 5
Wales - 10 £46,604 - 2
East Midlands - 6 £87,500 - 4
Northern Ireland +30 5 - - 4

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 (3.10%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (3.10%) WordPress
2 8 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.19%) 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 (0.48%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.48%) 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 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.43%) Magento
2 4 (0.95%) Shopify
3 3 (0.71%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 111 (26.43%) Azure
2 68 (16.19%) AWS
2 68 (16.19%) Power Platform
3 41 (9.76%) PowerApps
4 40 (9.52%) Power Automate
5 29 (6.90%) Serverless
6 26 (6.19%) SaaS
7 25 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (5.00%) GCP
10 20 (4.76%) Amazon S3
10 20 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (3.81%) Entra ID
11 16 (3.81%) GitHub
12 15 (3.57%) Azure Functions
13 13 (3.10%) IaaS
14 12 (2.86%) PaaS
15 11 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.05%) Firewall
2 16 (3.81%) HTTP
3 13 (3.10%) DNS
4 11 (2.62%) VPN
5 8 (1.90%) MQTT
6 7 (1.67%) DHCP
7 5 (1.19%) SAN
7 5 (1.19%) VLAN
8 4 (0.95%) NAS
8 4 (0.95%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.71%) Network Security
9 3 (0.71%) Wireless
10 2 (0.48%) BGP
10 2 (0.48%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.48%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.48%) OSPF
10 2 (0.48%) SSH
10 2 (0.48%) SSL
11 1 (0.24%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (15.71%) Power BI
2 46 (10.95%) MySQL
3 40 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 36 (8.57%) SQL Server
5 30 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (3.81%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (2.14%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.14%) Hadoop
9 9 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.90%) CockroachDB
11 7 (1.67%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.67%) Star Schema
12 6 (1.43%) Data Vault
12 6 (1.43%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.43%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 57 (13.57%) Git
2 19 (4.52%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.90%) Jaeger
3 8 (1.90%) Maven
3 8 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (1.67%) GitLab
4 7 (1.67%) JIRA
5 6 (1.43%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.43%) webpack
6 4 (0.95%) Selenium
6 4 (0.95%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.71%) Babel
7 3 (0.71%) ERwin
7 3 (0.71%) JUnit
7 3 (0.71%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.24%) gulp
9 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 141 (33.57%) Social Skills
2 66 (15.71%) Finance
3 60 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (9.05%) Public Sector
6 27 (6.43%) Manufacturing
7 20 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
8 18 (4.29%) Law
9 15 (3.57%) Marketing
10 13 (3.10%) Banking
10 13 (3.10%) Electronics
11 12 (2.86%) Legal
11 12 (2.86%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.62%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.38%) Front Office
13 10 (2.38%) Retail
14 7 (1.67%) Games
15 6 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.19%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.95%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 213 (50.71%) Developer
2 96 (22.86%) Senior
3 79 (18.81%) Architect
4 53 (12.62%) Senior Developer
5 47 (11.19%) Lead
6 41 (9.76%) .NET Developer
7 38 (9.05%) Platform Architect
7 38 (9.05%) Power Platform Architect
8 31 (7.38%) Technical Architect
9 29 (6.90%) Full Stack Developer
9 29 (6.90%) Web Developer
10 27 (6.43%) Lead Developer
10 27 (6.43%) Solutions Architect
11 23 (5.48%) Senior Architect
12 22 (5.24%) Software Engineer
13 20 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Architect
13 20 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
13 20 (4.76%) Power Platform Developer
13 20 (4.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
14 19 (4.52%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (24.76%) HTML
2 96 (22.86%) CSS
3 85 (20.24%) .NET
4 49 (11.67%) RESTful
5 46 (10.95%) React
6 30 (7.14%) .NET Core
7 23 (5.48%) AngularJS
8 20 (4.76%) jQuery
8 20 (4.76%) Web Services
9 19 (4.52%) Kafka
9 19 (4.52%) Laravel
9 19 (4.52%) Vue
10 17 (4.05%) React Native
11 16 (3.81%) .NET Framework
11 16 (3.81%) LAMP
12 11 (2.62%) JSON
12 11 (2.62%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (2.62%) Redux
12 11 (2.62%) REST
13 10 (2.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 26 (6.19%) Mobile App
3 24 (5.71%) Algorithms
4 19 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.29%) Video\Live Streaming
6 16 (3.81%) Management Information System
7 14 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (3.10%) Virtual Team
9 10 (2.38%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.14%) IoT
11 8 (1.90%) Blockchain
11 8 (1.90%) e-Learning
11 8 (1.90%) Replication
12 7 (1.67%) Arduino
12 7 (1.67%) Raspberry Pi
13 6 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.19%) Animation
14 5 (1.19%) Driving Licence
14 5 (1.19%) Hedge funds
14 5 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (12.62%) Windows
2 49 (11.67%) Linux
3 21 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.14%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.43%) Android
6 5 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.19%) Unix
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Solaris
8 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (33.57%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (23.57%) Computer Science
3 93 (22.14%) Data Modelling
3 93 (22.14%) Mentoring
4 77 (18.33%) Analytics
5 76 (18.10%) Business Intelligence
5 76 (18.10%) User Experience
6 71 (16.90%) DevOps
7 70 (16.67%) Agile
8 68 (16.19%) Artificial Intelligence
8 68 (16.19%) Full Stack Development
9 61 (14.52%) Machine Learning
10 56 (13.33%) Front End Development
11 52 (12.38%) Software Engineering
12 47 (11.19%) CI/CD
12 47 (11.19%) Visualisation
12 47 (11.19%) Web Development
13 45 (10.71%) ETL
14 44 (10.48%) Design Patterns
15 43 (10.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 121 (28.81%) JavaScript
2 112 (26.67%) C#
3 101 (24.05%) SQL
4 53 (12.62%) Python
5 36 (8.57%) PHP
6 33 (7.86%) Java
7 31 (7.38%) TypeScript
8 23 (5.48%) C++
9 16 (3.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (2.14%) Go
11 6 (1.43%) Bash
11 6 (1.43%) Dart
11 6 (1.43%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.43%) R
12 5 (1.19%) Rust
12 5 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.95%) Scala
14 3 (0.71%) C
15 2 (0.48%) Perl
15 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 106 (25.24%) Degree
2 86 (20.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 48 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 39 (9.29%) Master's Degree
5 23 (5.48%) Security Cleared
6 20 (4.76%) SC Cleared
7 18 (4.29%) Azure Certification
7 18 (4.29%) CCNP
7 18 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (3.33%) AWS Certification
9 13 (3.10%) MCSE
10 9 (2.14%) PhD
11 6 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.19%) CCNA
13 2 (0.48%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.24%) CCIE
14 1 (0.24%) ISEB
14 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.71%) QA
2 17 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.62%) GDPR
5 10 (2.38%) 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 (8.57%) Docker
2 34 (8.10%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.67%) Firmware
3 7 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.71%) Ceph
5 3 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.48%) HDFS
6 2 (0.48%) NFS
7 1 (0.24%) PowerDNS
7 1 (0.24%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 38 (9.05%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.81%) Terraform
3 15 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (3.33%) Ansible
5 8 (1.90%) Kiali
6 7 (1.67%) 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 (26.90%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.76%) VMware
3 16 (3.81%) Cisco
4 13 (3.10%) Dell
5 12 (2.86%) SAP
6 11 (2.62%) IBM
7 9 (2.14%) Splunk
8 8 (1.90%) AppDynamics
8 8 (1.90%) Databricks
8 8 (1.90%) Oracle
8 8 (1.90%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.67%) Google
9 7 (1.67%) NVIDIA
10 5 (1.19%) Apple
10 5 (1.19%) Mapbox
10 5 (1.19%) Veeam
10 5 (1.19%) Xamarin
11 4 (0.95%) BiZZdesign
11 4 (0.95%) NetApp
12 3 (0.71%) Informatica