Performance Tuning Job Trends in the East Midlands

Performance Tuning
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 133 159
Rank change year-on-year -9 +26 -5
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 14 1 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.31% 0.055% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.060% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 15
10th Percentile £46,750 - £46,750
25th Percentile £61,500 £51,250 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,050 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.00% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £69,250 £53,750 £61,250
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +5.93% -5.60%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,232 1,656 3,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 71.36% 90.39% 79.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,975 917 2,481
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,575 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £44,225
Median % change year-on-year - +1.75% -11.55%
75th Percentile £63,875 £61,250 £56,200
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Tuning in the East Midlands

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Leicestershire - 11 £64,050 - 1
Northamptonshire - 3 - - 5
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) npm
3 5 (35.71%) NuGet
3 5 (35.71%) SonarCloud
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
1 3 (21.43%) LoRaWAN
1 3 (21.43%) MQTT
1 3 (21.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
2 5 (35.71%) NoSQL
3 3 (21.43%) MySQL
3 3 (21.43%) Neo4j
4 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) XCUITest
General
1 5 (35.71%) Law
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Manufacturing
3 3 (21.43%) Marketing
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Senior
2 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Senior DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) DBA
3 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) iOS Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior iOS Developer
4 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) .NET
1 5 (35.71%) .NET Core
1 5 (35.71%) .NET Framework
1 5 (35.71%) Node.js
1 5 (35.71%) React
1 5 (35.71%) YAML
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
2 3 (21.43%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (21.43%) Driving Licence
2 3 (21.43%) IoT
2 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
2 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 3 (21.43%) Replication
3 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 3 (21.43%) Apple iOS
3 3 (21.43%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.14%) Solaris
4 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (35.71%) DevSecOps
3 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (35.71%) Microservices
3 5 (35.71%) Migration
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
4 4 (28.57%) High Availability
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) iOS Development
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (21.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Bash
1 5 (35.71%) C#
1 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Swift
3 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (21.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Galera Cluster
2 3 (21.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) CrowdStrike
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Apple
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Sybase