Performance Optimisation Job Trends in Leicestershire

Performance Optimisation
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 65 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 1 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 0.20% 0.32% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.38% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43,750 £72,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £75,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% - -
75th Percentile £51,250 £77,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £75,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -40.00% +22.45% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 405 533 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 80.04% 86.39% 91.63%
Number of salaries quoted 271 230 252
10th Percentile £24,000 £27,500 £26,375
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,125 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £59,375 £58,438 £59,063
90th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £51,716
% change year-on-year -10.53% -8.15% +3.43%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 1 December 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
Leicester +11 1 £47,500 -36.67% 1
Performance Optimisation
East Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft