Code Optimisation Jobs in England

Code Optimisation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Code Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Code Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 788 923
Rank change year-on-year +144 +135 +143
Permanent jobs citing Code Optimisation 4 34 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.009% 0.040% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.046% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 2 31 26
10th Percentile £49,000 - -
25th Percentile £53,125 £41,250 £40,371
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -31.25%
75th Percentile £73,125 £73,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £122,500 £140,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +22.73% -31.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Code 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,121 73,145 88,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.64% 85.85% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 23,789 53,950 52,293
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Code Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Code Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Code Optimisation in England

Code Optimisation
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Optimisation in England.

Salary trend for Code Optimisation in England

Code Optimisation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Optimisation in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Code Optimisation in England

Code Optimisation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Optimisation within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +107 4 £62,500 -16.67% 13
Code Optimisation
UK

Code Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Gatling
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Locust
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
1 1 (25.00%) Swaptions
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) OWASP
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Presales
2 1 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) OpenLink
1 2 (50.00%) Solace
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk