Performance Optimisation Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Performance Optimisation
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 92 93
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +45
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 6 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.50% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.20% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £67,875
25th Percentile - £55,000 £68,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -1.75% +35.71%
75th Percentile - £85,000 £73,438
90th Percentile - - £73,625
South East median annual salary £82,500 £65,000 £67,000
% change year-on-year +26.92% -2.99% +12.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,093 1,012 928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 91.16% 84.26% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 430 560 631
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,225 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,875 £38,000 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,625 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% -11.81% -1.82%
75th Percentile £62,875 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Buckinghamshire

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 2 September 2025. 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
Milton Keynes +24 3 £65,000 - 2
Buckingham - 1 - -
Newport Pagnell - 1 - -
Bletchley - 1 - - 1
Performance Optimisation
South East

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 4 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
1 4 (66.67%) Maven
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
1 4 (66.67%) SonarQube
1 4 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DBA
3 1 (16.67%) SQL BI Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) JPA
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
1 4 (66.67%) React
1 4 (66.67%) Redux
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 4 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Solace