Performance Optimisation Job Trends in Herefordshire

Performance Optimisation
West Midlands > Herefordshire

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Herefordshire 2.26% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +41.18% -22.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 104 54 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Herefordshire 78.20% 90.00% 88.37%
Number of salaries quoted 67 25 27
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,505 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £26,000 £21,426
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £28,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +92.98% -32.94%
75th Percentile £64,375 £63,000 £31,633
90th Percentile £100,000 £70,000 £49,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in Herefordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Hereford - 3 £57,500 - 1
Performance Optimisation
West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Meraki
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft