Performance Optimisation Job Trends in Berkshire

Performance Optimisation
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 86 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 13 35 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.66% 2.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 2.31% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 29 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £82,500 -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £82,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.13% +11.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Performance Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,621 1,515 1,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.33% 92.60% 88.65%
Number of salaries quoted 742 656 1,308
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £38,552
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,625 £93,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Performance Optimisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Slough -25 4 - - 28
Windsor -35 4 - -
Maidenhead - 4 - -
Reading +24 1 - - 2
Performance Optimisation
South East

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 12 (92.31%) Law
1 12 (92.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Architect
1 12 (92.31%) Cloud Architect
1 12 (92.31%) GCP Architect
1 12 (92.31%) Platform Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Analytics
2 12 (92.31%) Architectural Design
2 12 (92.31%) Cloud Security
2 12 (92.31%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (92.31%) Cost Management
2 12 (92.31%) Cost Optimisation
2 12 (92.31%) Data Science
2 12 (92.31%) Mentoring
2 12 (92.31%) Roadmaps
2 12 (92.31%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (7.69%) AI
3 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Data Governance
3 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling
3 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (7.69%) Data Validation
3 1 (7.69%) ETL
3 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
3 1 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (92.31%) Go
2 12 (92.31%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks