Performance Tuning Job Trends in Cheshire

Performance Tuning
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 55 59
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +37
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 2 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.15% 0.35% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.40% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £60,500 - £48,200
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.84% +41.82%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £64,500 - -
North West median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +3.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,091 506 484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.22% 89.24% 82.59%
Number of salaries quoted 434 254 395
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £23,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £66,778
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £77,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,084 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.79% -4.55%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Performance Tuning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tuning within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Crewe - 1 £65,000 - 1
Macclesfield - 1 £60,000 -
Performance Tuning
North West

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft