Performance Optimisation Job Trends in Glasgow

Performance Optimisation
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 62 126
Rank change year-on-year +13 +64 -22
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 3 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.45% 1.01% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.09% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile - £47,750 £40,700
25th Percentile £91,250 £48,125 £43,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £52,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% +2.94% -
75th Percentile £103,750 £56,125 £64,250
90th Percentile - £56,200 £70,700
Scotland median annual salary £97,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +85.71% +5.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 643 1,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 74.93% 92.78% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 312 285 494
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,150 £28,860
25th Percentile £31,000 £40,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £64,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Performance Optimisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Site Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
1 1 (33.33%) LangChain
1 1 (33.33%) Next.js
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Proactive Maintenance
1 2 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAI