Performance Tuning Job Trends in the East of England

Performance Tuning
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 172 167
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 -33
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 32 8 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.44% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.26% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 13 6 7
10th Percentile £46,400 £45,000 £50,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,125 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% - +53.33%
75th Percentile £88,000 £67,500 £63,125
90th Percentile - £75,625 £67,250
England median annual salary £70,400 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.57% +3.70% +12.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,136 3,028 3,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.46% 87.79% 73.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,663 1,624 2,226
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,309
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £82,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in the East of England

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Tuning in the East of England

Performance Tuning
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Hertfordshire -4 23 £80,000 +45.45% 4
Essex - 6 £65,000 - 1
Norfolk - 2 £47,500 -
Cambridgeshire -27 1 £49,000 -24.62% 11
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 9 (28.13%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (28.13%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.38%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) AWS
1 9 (28.13%) GCP
2 8 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (21.88%) Azure
4 6 (18.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (18.75%) dbt
4 6 (18.75%) Snowflake
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.38%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) BigQuery
1 9 (28.13%) Tableau
2 8 (25.00%) Power BI
3 7 (21.88%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (18.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (18.75%) Data Lake
4 6 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (18.75%) Looker
4 6 (18.75%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
6 3 (9.38%) Apache Hive
6 3 (9.38%) Impala
6 3 (9.38%) Oracle Database
6 3 (9.38%) Parquet
6 3 (9.38%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (9.38%) Spark SQL
7 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) MLflow
2 4 (12.50%) Git
3 3 (9.38%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Aerospace
3 4 (12.50%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (9.38%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Splunk Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Senior
3 6 (18.75%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Banking Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Business Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Data Business Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Transformation Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) DBA
6 2 (6.25%) Senior DBA
6 2 (6.25%) SQL Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Junior Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Junior Web Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (3.13%) SQL DBA
7 1 (3.13%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) Kafka
1 6 (18.75%) LangChain
1 6 (18.75%) LlamaIndex
1 6 (18.75%) pgvector
1 6 (18.75%) PyTorch
1 6 (18.75%) scikit-learn
1 6 (18.75%) TensorFlow
2 3 (9.38%) Node.js
2 3 (9.38%) Pandas
2 3 (9.38%) PySpark
3 2 (6.25%) .NET
4 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.13%) CSS
4 1 (3.13%) Django
4 1 (3.13%) HTML
4 1 (3.13%) REST
4 1 (3.13%) Shiny
4 1 (3.13%) WinForms
4 1 (3.13%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (40.63%) Clustering
2 9 (28.13%) Cloud Native
3 6 (18.75%) Onboarding
3 6 (18.75%) Public Cloud
3 6 (18.75%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 13 (40.63%) AI
2 13 (40.63%) Data Ingestion
2 13 (40.63%) Platform Engineering
2 13 (40.63%) Security Monitoring
3 12 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 12 (37.50%) Use Case
4 11 (34.38%) Analytics
4 11 (34.38%) Performance Optimisation
5 10 (31.25%) Data Modelling
5 10 (31.25%) ETL
6 9 (28.13%) Data Engineering
6 9 (28.13%) Data Governance
6 9 (28.13%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (21.88%) Agile
8 7 (21.88%) Dimensional Modelling
8 7 (21.88%) High Availability
8 7 (21.88%) Machine Learning
8 7 (21.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) SQL
2 14 (43.75%) Python
3 6 (18.75%) Kusto Query Language
3 6 (18.75%) Search Processing Language
4 4 (12.50%) T-SQL
5 3 (9.38%) C#
6 1 (3.13%) Delphi
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.13%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (40.63%) Data Quality
2 7 (21.88%) GDPR
3 6 (18.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Ansible
2 6 (18.75%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Splunk
2 7 (21.88%) Databricks
3 6 (18.75%) Cloudera
3 6 (18.75%) Dell
4 4 (12.50%) Red Hat
5 3 (9.38%) Oracle
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds