Performance Optimisation Job Trends in East London

Performance Optimisation
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in East London requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 4 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in East London 1.66% - 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% - 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £36,873
25th Percentile - - £43,394
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £54,925
75th Percentile - - £65,794
90th Percentile - - £71,918
London median annual salary £100,000 £72,500 £76,000
% change year-on-year +37.93% -4.61% -8.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East London

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 East London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 220 237 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East London 91.29% 97.13% 83.49%
Number of salaries quoted 97 48 204
10th Percentile £31,150 £30,800 £27,965
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £28,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £46,750
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +39.04% -22.08%
75th Percentile £95,000 £81,250 £68,563
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £95,125
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in East London

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in East London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the East London region over the 6 months to 5 February 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
Havering - 2 - -
Dagenham - 1 - -
Tower Hamlets - 1 £60,000 -
Performance Optimisation
London

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Pulumi
3 1 (25.00%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jaeger
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead Systems Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) IoT Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Financial Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) IoT
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Budget Control
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) GitOps
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Product Management
2 2 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Quality Management
3 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Go
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Argo
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Kustomize
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google