Performance Optimisation Job Trends in the East Midlands

Performance Optimisation
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Performance Optimisation 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 135 125 106
Rank change year-on-year -10 -19 +55
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 2 5 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.079% 0.22% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.099% 0.25% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 14
10th Percentile - £52,100 £47,875
25th Percentile £43,750 £72,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £51,250 £87,500 £65,938
90th Percentile - £92,000 £90,875
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,015 2,026 1,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.93% 88.09% 88.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,256 860 1,110
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,708 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,188 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% -2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,688
90th Percentile £75,900 £76,250 £72,550
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Leicestershire +8 1 £47,500 -36.67% 1
Derbyshire - 1 - -
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) GitOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft