Code Optimisation Jobs in London

Code Optimisation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Code Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Code Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 495 605
Rank change year-on-year +99 +110 +221
Permanent jobs citing Code Optimisation 4 7 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.031% 0.030% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.032% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 15
10th Percentile £49,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £53,125 £67,500 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -11.76% +3.03%
75th Percentile £73,125 £78,750 £140,000
90th Percentile £78,000 - -
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -31.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Code 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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,242 21,582 33,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.05% 91.32% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,472 16,066 24,126
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £43,465
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Code Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Code Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Code Optimisation in London

Code Optimisation
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Optimisation in London.

Salary trend for Code Optimisation in London

Code Optimisation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Optimisation in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Code Optimisation in London

Code Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Gatling
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Locust
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
1 1 (25.00%) Swaptions
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) OWASP
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Presales
2 1 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) OpenLink
1 2 (50.00%) Solace
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk