Performance Optimisation Job Trends in Cardiff

Performance Optimisation
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.10% - 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 - -
South Wales median annual salary £53,135 £52,000 -
% change year-on-year +2.18% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 767 234 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 77.63% 87.64% 72.52%
Number of salaries quoted 587 162 336
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,313 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £66,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,082 £79,225
South Wales median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership