Performance Tuning Job Trends in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 157 150
Rank change year-on-year +43 -7 +41
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 19 12 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.91% 0.44% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.46% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 15 9 17
10th Percentile £77,500 £50,500 £54,300
25th Percentile £81,875 £85,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,000 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.56% +20.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £140,000 £112,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £141,900 - £145,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +20.00% -25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,833 2,593 2,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.54% 95.47% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,357 1,694 2,415
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,350
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Tuning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Tuning in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Serverless
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (10.53%) dbt
4 2 (10.53%) Fivetran
4 2 (10.53%) GCP
4 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle Database
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
3 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.53%) Metadata
4 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.26%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.26%) Redis
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Front Office
3 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Architect
2 6 (31.58%) Database Architect
2 6 (31.58%) Oracle Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Endur Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Front Office Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) OpenLink Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Architect
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (15.79%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (10.53%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) VMS
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Data Modelling
2 8 (42.11%) Cost Optimisation
3 7 (36.84%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (31.58%) Budgeting
4 6 (31.58%) Computer Science
4 6 (31.58%) Contract Negotiation
4 6 (31.58%) DataOps
4 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (26.32%) AI
5 5 (26.32%) DevOps
5 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
6 4 (21.05%) Agile
6 4 (21.05%) Low Latency
6 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
6 4 (21.05%) Scrum
6 4 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (15.79%) Benchmarking
7 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
7 3 (15.79%) Observability
7 3 (15.79%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Bicep
1 3 (15.79%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Degree
2 6 (31.58%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (31.58%) OCP
2 6 (31.58%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.53%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) QA
1 1 (5.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Data Guard
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle RMAN
1 6 (31.58%) Terraform
2 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Delphix
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) AppDynamics
2 3 (15.79%) New Relic
3 2 (10.53%) OpenLink
4 1 (5.26%) Sybase