Performance Tuning Job Trends in Birmingham

Performance Tuning
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Performance Tuning 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 97 127 92
Rank change year-on-year +30 -35 +42
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 8 6 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.46% 0.33% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.36% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 12
10th Percentile £55,375 £38,600 £48,125
25th Percentile £61,563 £50,000 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -20.00% +30.43%
75th Percentile - £63,750 £82,984
90th Percentile - £67,500 £91,934
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £35,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +35.71% -53.33% +52.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Performance Tuning 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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,372 1,678 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.21% 93.27% 88.11%
Number of salaries quoted 971 782 1,015
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,125 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Performance Tuning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Birmingham over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Tuning in Birmingham

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
1 2 (25.00%) nginx
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) Route 53
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) FTP
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
1 2 (25.00%) IMAP
1 2 (25.00%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (25.00%) SMTP
1 2 (25.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Legal
3 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) DBA
2 3 (37.50%) SQL DBA
3 2 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Clustering
2 2 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) VMS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Change Control
1 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Runbook
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Budgeting
4 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) T-SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Groovy
3 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) DFS Replication
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
1 2 (25.00%) Dovecot
1 2 (25.00%) Postfix
1 2 (25.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Nessus
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (25.00%) Proxmox
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft