Performance Optimisation Jobs in England

Performance Optimisation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 491 694
Rank change year-on-year +300 +203 +41
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 853 362 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.73% 0.42% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 0.49% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 354 296 120
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £41,925
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,315 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.90% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £81,875 £81,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £69,315 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.90% -10.71% +12.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,536 73,513 84,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.12% 85.20% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,795 53,935 50,179
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,308
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £75,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in England

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Performance Optimisation in England

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Optimisation in England

Performance 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 Performance Optimisation within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North of England +190 295 £69,315 +15.53% 83
North West +151 273 £69,315 +2.69% 51
London +155 180 £72,500 -3.33% 185
South East +117 97 £82,500 +37.50% 98
Midlands +115 88 £52,500 -16.00% 37
East of England +98 68 £54,000 -1.82% 18
East Midlands +62 48 £52,500 -40.00% 7
West Midlands +69 40 £40,000 -36.00% 29
South West +83 22 £70,000 +36.59% 20
Yorkshire +61 12 £60,000 +4.35% 22
North East +35 10 £62,500 +13.64% 12
Performance Optimisation
UK

Performance 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:

Application Platforms
1 111 (13.01%) Confluence
2 13 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.41%) WordPress
4 8 (0.94%) CMS
5 7 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.59%) Apache
6 5 (0.59%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.47%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.23%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.12%) CICS
9 1 (0.12%) Kentico
9 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Sitefinity
9 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Simulink
2 1 (0.12%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Blender
2 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) InDesign
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.06%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) Magento
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 507 (59.44%) AWS
2 340 (39.86%) Azure
3 215 (25.21%) Pulumi
4 146 (17.12%) GCP
5 46 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (4.22%) Azure Service Bus
7 35 (4.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 33 (3.87%) SonarCloud
9 31 (3.63%) Serverless
10 29 (3.40%) Power Platform
11 22 (2.58%) Snowflake
12 21 (2.46%) GitHub
13 18 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
14 17 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (1.99%) Power Automate
14 17 (1.99%) PowerApps
15 16 (1.88%) Amazon S3
16 15 (1.76%) SaaS
17 14 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 215 (25.21%) Broadband
2 20 (2.34%) Firewall
3 17 (1.99%) WAN
4 10 (1.17%) Network Security
4 10 (1.17%) SAN
4 10 (1.17%) VPN
5 8 (0.94%) LAN
5 8 (0.94%) SD-WAN
6 7 (0.82%) DNS
6 7 (0.82%) VSAN
7 6 (0.70%) DHCP
7 6 (0.70%) OSPF
7 6 (0.70%) Wireless
8 5 (0.59%) BGP
8 5 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.59%) NAS
8 5 (0.59%) VLAN
9 2 (0.23%) MPLS
9 2 (0.23%) SMS
9 2 (0.23%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 251 (29.43%) SQL Server
2 247 (28.96%) NoSQL
3 230 (26.96%) Relational Database
4 215 (25.21%) RDBMS
5 34 (3.99%) Elasticsearch
6 26 (3.05%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (1.88%) Power BI
9 15 (1.76%) MySQL
9 15 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (1.52%) DynamoDB
11 12 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.29%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.70%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.59%) Big Data
17 4 (0.47%) Hadoop
17 4 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 217 (25.44%) GitLab
2 215 (25.21%) Jaeger
3 212 (24.85%) JIRA
4 203 (23.80%) Maven
4 203 (23.80%) Selenium
5 200 (23.45%) Bitbucket
6 198 (23.21%) Cucumber
6 198 (23.21%) SonarQube
6 198 (23.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 79 (9.26%) Git
8 34 (3.99%) Visual Studio
9 33 (3.87%) MSBuild
9 33 (3.87%) Octopus Deploy
9 33 (3.87%) Team Foundation Server
10 20 (2.34%) Jenkins
11 7 (0.82%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.59%) Gradle
12 5 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
13 4 (0.47%) webpack
14 3 (0.35%) MLflow
General
1 418 (49.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 260 (30.48%) Finance
3 246 (28.84%) Social Skills
4 218 (25.56%) Banking
5 123 (14.42%) Retail
6 94 (11.02%) Investment Banking
7 90 (10.55%) Corporate Banking
8 41 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (2.11%) Marketing
10 15 (1.76%) Public Sector
11 13 (1.52%) Law
12 10 (1.17%) Advertising
13 8 (0.94%) Games
14 7 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.70%) Back Office
16 5 (0.59%) Automotive
17 4 (0.47%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.47%) Electronics
17 4 (0.47%) Front Office
18 3 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 249 (29.19%) Lead
2 222 (26.03%) Software Engineer
3 218 (25.56%) Team Leader
4 121 (14.19%) Commissioning Manager
5 94 (11.02%) Developer
6 59 (6.92%) Architect
7 52 (6.10%) Senior
8 38 (4.45%) Technical Architect
9 29 (3.40%) Senior Developer
10 28 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
11 24 (2.81%) Data Engineer
11 24 (2.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 21 (2.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (1.88%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (1.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 13 (1.52%) DevOps Engineer
16 12 (1.41%) .NET Developer
16 12 (1.41%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
17 11 (1.29%) Web Developer
18 10 (1.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 282 (33.06%) CSS
2 280 (32.83%) HTML
3 239 (28.02%) React
4 221 (25.91%) Elastic Stack
5 220 (25.79%) Kafka
6 218 (25.56%) OpenTelemetry
7 210 (24.62%) Redux
8 207 (24.27%) Spring
9 202 (23.68%) Spring Boot
10 198 (23.21%) JPA
11 132 (15.47%) REST
12 128 (15.01%) RESTful
13 109 (12.78%) Hibernate
14 103 (12.08%) HTML5
15 102 (11.96%) CSS3
16 99 (11.61%) Jest
17 93 (10.90%) Sass
18 72 (8.44%) .NET
19 48 (5.63%) XML
20 43 (5.04%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 203 (23.80%) Product Ownership
2 200 (23.45%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (3.87%) Cloud Native
4 19 (2.23%) Mobile App
5 16 (1.88%) Virtual Team
6 14 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.29%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.06%) Blockchain
8 9 (1.06%) Data Structures
9 8 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
9 8 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (0.82%) IoT
10 7 (0.82%) Learning Management System
10 7 (0.82%) Management Information System
10 7 (0.82%) Web3
11 6 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.59%) Mobile Games
13 4 (0.47%) Fixed Income
13 4 (0.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 230 (26.96%) Linux
2 217 (25.44%) Unix
3 26 (3.05%) Windows
4 16 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.59%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) Fedora
8 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.12%) Rocky
8 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (61.90%) DevOps
2 493 (57.80%) Agile
3 452 (52.99%) Containerisation
4 347 (40.68%) Mentoring
5 287 (33.65%) CI/CD
6 265 (31.07%) Microservices
7 255 (29.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 247 (28.96%) Software Engineering
9 238 (27.90%) High Availability
10 235 (27.55%) Continuous Integration
11 234 (27.43%) Front End Development
11 234 (27.43%) Roadmaps
12 224 (26.26%) Cost Optimisation
12 224 (26.26%) Product Management
13 223 (26.14%) Test Automation
14 220 (25.79%) GitOps
15 216 (25.32%) Task Automation
16 215 (25.21%) Budget Control
16 215 (25.21%) Resource Management
17 210 (24.62%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 513 (60.14%) JavaScript
2 439 (51.47%) Java
3 308 (36.11%) SQL
4 277 (32.47%) Python
5 226 (26.49%) Go
6 220 (25.79%) Bash
7 119 (13.95%) TypeScript
8 65 (7.62%) C#
9 28 (3.28%) PowerShell
10 15 (1.76%) PHP
11 13 (1.52%) MATLAB
12 11 (1.29%) C++
13 10 (1.17%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.70%) C
15 5 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.47%) Rust
16 4 (0.47%) Scala
17 3 (0.35%) Apex Code
18 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 228 (26.73%) AWS Certification
2 171 (20.05%) Degree
3 140 (16.41%) Master's Degree
4 121 (14.19%) MBA
5 113 (13.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.76%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.17%) Security Cleared
11 7 (0.82%) CCNP
11 7 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.70%) CCIE
12 6 (0.70%) SC Cleared
13 5 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.35%) CISSP
15 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.23%) DV Cleared
16 1 (0.12%) SAP Certification
16 1 (0.12%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (25.67%) QA
2 112 (13.13%) Accessibility
3 43 (5.04%) GDPR
4 13 (1.52%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.29%) WCAG
6 10 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.47%) SLA
9 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.12%) HAZOP
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 495 (58.03%) Docker
2 6 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.59%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.47%) Firmware
5 3 (0.35%) HDFS
5 3 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 463 (54.28%) Kubernetes
2 251 (29.43%) Terraform
3 240 (28.14%) Prometheus
4 229 (26.85%) Ansible
5 220 (25.79%) Argo
6 215 (25.21%) Kustomize
7 13 (1.52%) Grafana
8 10 (1.17%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.47%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.12%) Kibana
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 238 (27.90%) Google
2 198 (23.21%) Solace
3 65 (7.62%) Microsoft
4 11 (1.29%) MuleSoft
5 10 (1.17%) Databricks
6 8 (0.94%) Oracle
6 8 (0.94%) VMware
7 6 (0.70%) New Relic
8 5 (0.59%) Cisco
8 5 (0.59%) Nimble Storage
8 5 (0.59%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.47%) Adobe
9 4 (0.47%) Meraki
9 4 (0.47%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.35%) Splunk
11 2 (0.23%) Dell
11 2 (0.23%) Dell Compellent
11 2 (0.23%) Proofpoint
11 2 (0.23%) SAP
11 2 (0.23%) Veeam