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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 128 97
Rank change year-on-year -2 -31 +29
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 7 2 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.28% 0.090% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.10% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 28
10th Percentile £45,250 - £43,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,250 £52,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £69,350 - £61,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

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 1,989 1,976 1,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.85% 88.69% 85.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 832 1,280
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,775 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 11 January 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 11 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
Leicestershire - 6 £48,500 - 7
Nottinghamshire - 1 £57,500 - 7
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 2 (28.57%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) npm
2 2 (28.57%) NuGet
2 2 (28.57%) SonarCloud
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
3 3 (42.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Law
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DBA
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) SQL DBA
3 2 (28.57%) Administrator
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Core
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
1 2 (28.57%) React
1 2 (28.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (42.86%) Data Structures
3 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (57.14%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Reverse Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) DataOps
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (14.29%) Coaching
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks