Performance Optimisation Jobs in Kent

Performance Optimisation
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 68 80 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 5 26 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.61% 1.72% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 2.12% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 26 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
South East median annual salary £82,500 £60,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +37.50% -9.09% -2.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 686 1,229 1,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 83.05% 81.34% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 319 894 508
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,625
South East median annual salary £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -9.09% -

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Kent

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Performance Optimisation in Kent

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the Kent 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
Dartford - 1 £45,000 -
Tunbridge Wells - 1 - -
Performance Optimisation
South East

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Pulumi
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Broadband
2 1 (20.00%) Bluetooth
2 1 (20.00%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (60.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jaeger
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (60.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) JPA
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) pytest
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Redux
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Product Management
3 3 (60.00%) Budget Control
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (60.00%) GitOps
3 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Resource Management
3 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) Go
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Argo
2 3 (60.00%) Kustomize
2 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Solace