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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 489 698
Rank change year-on-year +237 +209 +34
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 600 366 238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.25% 0.43% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.50% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 353 300 118
10th Percentile £50,000 £39,925 £44,975
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 £80,000 £81,250 £83,938
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £69,315 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.53% -14.29% +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 45,091 73,310 86,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.02% 85.47% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 23,996 53,944 51,053
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,308
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 £76,250 £73,332 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 9 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 9 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 +182 259 £69,315 +15.53% 92
North West +149 240 £69,315 +2.69% 60
London +92 111 £72,500 +1.75% 287
Midlands +108 80 £52,500 -16.00% 43
South East +107 75 £82,500 +37.50% 125
East Midlands +83 44 £52,500 -40.00% 10
East of England +60 39 £52,000 -5.45% 28
West Midlands +66 36 £40,000 -36.00% 31
South West +79 16 £70,000 +33.33% 21
Yorkshire +59 11 £57,500 - 26
North East +42 8 £62,500 +13.64% 7
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 (18.50%) Confluence
2 12 (2.00%) WordPress
3 11 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.33%) CMS
5 7 (1.17%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.83%) Apache
6 5 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.67%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.33%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.17%) CICS
9 1 (0.17%) Kentico
9 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Sitefinity
9 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (0.83%) Simulink
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.17%) Blender
2 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.17%) InDesign
2 1 (0.17%) Maya
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.50%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Magento
4 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 302 (50.33%) Azure
2 251 (41.83%) AWS
3 146 (24.33%) GCP
4 46 (7.67%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (6.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 36 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 34 (5.67%) SonarCloud
7 29 (4.83%) Serverless
8 27 (4.50%) Power Platform
9 22 (3.67%) Snowflake
10 21 (3.50%) GitHub
11 17 (2.83%) Power Automate
12 16 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
13 15 (2.50%) Amazon S3
13 15 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
13 15 (2.50%) PowerApps
14 14 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (2.33%) SaaS
15 13 (2.17%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.00%) Firewall
2 17 (2.83%) WAN
3 10 (1.67%) Network Security
3 10 (1.67%) SAN
3 10 (1.67%) VPN
4 8 (1.33%) LAN
4 8 (1.33%) SD-WAN
5 7 (1.17%) DNS
5 7 (1.17%) VSAN
6 6 (1.00%) DHCP
6 6 (1.00%) OSPF
6 6 (1.00%) Wireless
7 5 (0.83%) BGP
7 5 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.83%) NAS
7 5 (0.83%) VLAN
8 2 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.33%) MPLS
8 2 (0.33%) SMS
8 2 (0.33%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (35.67%) SQL Server
2 35 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
3 33 (5.50%) NoSQL
4 27 (4.50%) MongoDB
5 25 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (2.83%) Power BI
7 16 (2.67%) MySQL
8 15 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (2.50%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.83%) Data Lake
9 11 (1.83%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.00%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.83%) Big Data
13 5 (0.83%) Redis
14 4 (0.67%) Hadoop
15 3 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 179 (29.83%) GitLab
2 176 (29.33%) JIRA
3 167 (27.83%) Maven
3 167 (27.83%) Selenium
4 164 (27.33%) Bitbucket
5 162 (27.00%) Cucumber
5 162 (27.00%) SonarQube
5 162 (27.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 80 (13.33%) Git
7 36 (6.00%) Visual Studio
8 34 (5.67%) MSBuild
8 34 (5.67%) Octopus Deploy
8 34 (5.67%) Team Foundation Server
9 20 (3.33%) Jenkins
10 6 (1.00%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.83%) Gradle
11 5 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (0.83%) webpack
12 3 (0.50%) Babel
12 3 (0.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 244 (40.67%) Social Skills
2 223 (37.17%) Finance
3 182 (30.33%) Banking
4 167 (27.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 86 (14.33%) Retail
6 58 (9.67%) Investment Banking
7 54 (9.00%) Corporate Banking
8 42 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (3.00%) Marketing
10 15 (2.50%) Public Sector
11 14 (2.33%) Law
12 10 (1.67%) Advertising
13 7 (1.17%) Games
13 7 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.00%) Automotive
15 5 (0.83%) Back Office
15 5 (0.83%) Front Office
16 4 (0.67%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.67%) Electronics
17 3 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 186 (31.00%) Software Engineer
2 121 (20.17%) Commissioning Manager
3 94 (15.67%) Developer
4 59 (9.83%) Architect
5 51 (8.50%) Senior
6 38 (6.33%) Technical Architect
7 32 (5.33%) Lead
8 28 (4.67%) Senior Developer
9 26 (4.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 25 (4.17%) Data Engineer
11 22 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 19 (3.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (2.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 14 (2.33%) Azure Engineer
15 11 (1.83%) .NET Developer
15 11 (1.83%) DevOps Engineer
15 11 (1.83%) Web Developer
16 10 (1.67%) AWS Engineer
16 10 (1.67%) DBA
16 10 (1.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (41.50%) CSS
2 247 (41.17%) HTML
3 205 (34.17%) React
4 183 (30.50%) Kafka
5 175 (29.17%) Redux
6 171 (28.50%) Spring
7 166 (27.67%) Spring Boot
8 162 (27.00%) JPA
9 109 (18.17%) Hibernate
10 97 (16.17%) REST
11 92 (15.33%) RESTful
12 71 (11.83%) .NET
13 68 (11.33%) HTML5
14 67 (11.17%) CSS3
15 63 (10.50%) Jest
16 57 (9.50%) Sass
17 49 (8.17%) XML
18 44 (7.33%) JSON
19 42 (7.00%) gRPC
20 35 (5.83%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 167 (27.83%) Product Ownership
2 164 (27.33%) Enterprise Software
3 31 (5.17%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.00%) Mobile App
5 16 (2.67%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.50%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
9 8 (1.33%) Blockchain
9 8 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.17%) IoT
10 7 (1.17%) Learning Management System
10 7 (1.17%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.00%) Web3
12 5 (0.83%) Mobile Games
13 4 (0.67%) Fixed Income
13 4 (0.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.17%) Windows
2 16 (2.67%) Linux
3 14 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.83%) Android
6 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.33%) Unix
8 1 (0.17%) Debian
8 1 (0.17%) Fedora
8 1 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.17%) Rocky
8 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (45.50%) DevOps
2 247 (41.17%) CI/CD
3 242 (40.33%) Agile
4 230 (38.33%) Microservices
5 211 (35.17%) Software Engineering
6 199 (33.17%) Containerisation
6 199 (33.17%) Front End Development
7 186 (31.00%) Test Automation
8 174 (29.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 166 (27.67%) SDLC
10 141 (23.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 128 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
12 124 (20.67%) Clean Code
13 122 (20.33%) People Management
14 119 (19.83%) TDD
15 109 (18.17%) User Experience
16 95 (15.83%) Migration
17 94 (15.67%) Mentoring
18 70 (11.67%) Strategic Thinking
19 65 (10.83%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 276 (46.00%) SQL
2 265 (44.17%) JavaScript
3 188 (31.33%) Java
4 84 (14.00%) TypeScript
5 66 (11.00%) C#
6 63 (10.50%) Python
7 28 (4.67%) PowerShell
8 15 (2.50%) PHP
9 14 (2.33%) MATLAB
10 12 (2.00%) C++
10 12 (2.00%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.67%) Go
12 7 (1.17%) C
13 5 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.67%) Bash
14 4 (0.67%) Rust
14 4 (0.67%) Scala
15 3 (0.50%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 171 (28.50%) Degree
2 141 (23.50%) Master's Degree
3 121 (20.17%) MBA
4 113 (18.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.17%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.67%) Security Cleared
10 7 (1.17%) CCNP
10 7 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.00%) CCIE
11 6 (1.00%) SC Cleared
12 5 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.50%) CISSP
14 2 (0.33%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.33%) DV Cleared
15 1 (0.17%) CCNA
15 1 (0.17%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (30.50%) QA
2 77 (12.83%) Accessibility
3 44 (7.33%) GDPR
4 14 (2.33%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.83%) WCAG
6 10 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.67%) SLA
9 2 (0.33%) HAZOP
10 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 242 (40.33%) Docker
2 6 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.83%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.67%) Firmware
5 3 (0.50%) HDFS
5 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 209 (34.83%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.50%) Terraform
3 23 (3.83%) Prometheus
4 13 (2.17%) Ansible
5 12 (2.00%) Grafana
6 10 (1.67%) Progress Chef
6 10 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.83%) Argo
8 4 (0.67%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.33%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.17%) Kibana
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 162 (27.00%) Solace
2 64 (10.67%) Microsoft
3 23 (3.83%) Google
4 11 (1.83%) Databricks
4 11 (1.83%) MuleSoft
5 8 (1.33%) Oracle
5 8 (1.33%) VMware
6 6 (1.00%) Cisco
6 6 (1.00%) New Relic
7 5 (0.83%) Nimble Storage
7 5 (0.83%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.67%) Adobe
8 4 (0.67%) Meraki
9 3 (0.50%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.50%) Splunk
10 2 (0.33%) Dell
10 2 (0.33%) Dell Compellent
10 2 (0.33%) Proofpoint
10 2 (0.33%) SAP
10 2 (0.33%) Veeam