Performance Optimisation Jobs in London

Performance Optimisation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 373 463
Rank change year-on-year +151 +90 +119
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 180 127 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.40% 0.54% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 0.59% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 77 113 65
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £55,140 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £92,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £121,750 £122,500
England median annual salary £69,315 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.90% -10.71% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,397 21,536 32,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.18% 91.13% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,220 15,919 23,171
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,477
25th Percentile £56,000 £51,532 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in London

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Performance Optimisation in London

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Optimisation in London

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +44 29 £75,000 +36.36% 13
South London +19 21 £55,000 -4.35%
West London - 16 - - 3
East London -4 10 - - 2
North London - 8 £70,000 -
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.67%) WordPress
3 2 (1.11%) Apache
3 2 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.11%) CMS
3 2 (1.11%) IIS
4 1 (0.56%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.56%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (3.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (60.00%) AWS
2 67 (37.22%) Pulumi
3 47 (26.11%) Azure
4 18 (10.00%) GitHub
5 17 (9.44%) Serverless
6 13 (7.22%) Datadog
6 13 (7.22%) GCP
7 11 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.56%) Power Platform
9 9 (5.00%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.44%) PowerApps
11 7 (3.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (3.89%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (3.89%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 67 (37.22%) Broadband
2 6 (3.33%) Firewall
3 5 (2.78%) BGP
3 5 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (2.78%) LAN
3 5 (2.78%) Network Security
3 5 (2.78%) OSPF
3 5 (2.78%) VPN
3 5 (2.78%) WAN
4 4 (2.22%) VLAN
4 4 (2.22%) Wireless
5 2 (1.11%) DNS
5 2 (1.11%) VSAN
6 1 (0.56%) MPLS
6 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (46.11%) NoSQL
2 68 (37.78%) Relational Database
3 67 (37.22%) RDBMS
4 16 (8.89%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (4.44%) DynamoDB
6 8 (4.44%) Power BI
6 8 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.89%) MySQL
8 5 (2.78%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.22%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.67%) Big Data
11 2 (1.11%) ClickHouse
11 2 (1.11%) Looker
11 2 (1.11%) Parquet
12 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 67 (37.22%) Jaeger
2 14 (7.78%) GitLab
3 13 (7.22%) Git
3 13 (7.22%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.89%) CircleCI
5 5 (2.78%) Gradle
5 5 (2.78%) Maven
6 2 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.11%) webpack
7 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.56%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.56%) JUnit
7 1 (0.56%) rollup.js
7 1 (0.56%) Selenium
7 1 (0.56%) Vite
7 1 (0.56%) Xcode
General
1 72 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 71 (39.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 38 (21.11%) Finance
4 20 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.22%) Banking
6 8 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.33%) Games
7 6 (3.33%) Marketing
8 4 (2.22%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.22%) Law
9 3 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.67%) Front Office
10 1 (0.56%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.56%) Automotive
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (43.89%) Lead
2 70 (38.89%) Team Leader
3 36 (20.00%) Developer
4 19 (10.56%) Senior
5 16 (8.89%) Architect
6 13 (7.22%) Senior Developer
7 11 (6.11%) Data Engineer
8 9 (5.00%) React Developer
9 8 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.44%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.33%) CRM Architect
10 6 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM Architect
11 5 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) Consultant
11 5 (2.78%) Senior Software Developer
11 5 (2.78%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 67 (37.22%) OpenTelemetry
3 23 (12.78%) RESTful
4 17 (9.44%) .NET
4 17 (9.44%) Kafka
4 17 (9.44%) React
5 14 (7.78%) CSS
5 14 (7.78%) HTML
6 13 (7.22%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (3.89%) CSS3
7 7 (3.89%) gRPC
7 7 (3.89%) HTML5
7 7 (3.89%) JSON
7 7 (3.89%) Redux
7 7 (3.89%) web3js
8 5 (2.78%) .NET Framework
8 5 (2.78%) GraphQL
8 5 (2.78%) Jest
8 5 (2.78%) React Native
8 5 (2.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 9 (5.00%) Blockchain
4 7 (3.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (3.89%) Web3
5 6 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.78%) Mobile Games
7 4 (2.22%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.22%) IoT
8 3 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.11%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.11%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.56%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.56%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (39.44%) Linux
2 69 (38.33%) Unix
3 5 (2.78%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.22%) Windows
4 4 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.67%) Android
6 1 (0.56%) Debian
6 1 (0.56%) Fedora
6 1 (0.56%) Rocky
6 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (61.67%) DevOps
2 93 (51.67%) Containerisation
3 90 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (48.89%) Agile
5 84 (46.67%) Mentoring
6 78 (43.33%) High Availability
7 76 (42.22%) Continuous Integration
8 73 (40.56%) Cost Optimisation
9 72 (40.00%) GitOps
9 72 (40.00%) Roadmaps
10 71 (39.44%) Product Management
11 67 (37.22%) Budget Control
11 67 (37.22%) Resource Management
11 67 (37.22%) Task Automation
12 52 (28.89%) CI/CD
13 46 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (11.67%) Analytics
15 20 (11.11%) Migration
16 18 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
16 18 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 89 (49.44%) JavaScript
1 89 (49.44%) Python
2 82 (45.56%) Java
3 77 (42.78%) Go
4 71 (39.44%) Bash
5 27 (15.00%) SQL
6 16 (8.89%) PowerShell
7 13 (7.22%) C#
8 8 (4.44%) T-SQL
8 8 (4.44%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.22%) C++
10 4 (2.22%) PHP
11 3 (1.67%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.67%) Rust
12 1 (0.56%) C
12 1 (0.56%) COBOL
12 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.56%) Scala
12 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 75 (41.67%) AWS Certification
2 13 (7.22%) Degree
3 10 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.78%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.22%) CCIE
7 4 (2.22%) CCNP
7 4 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.67%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.67%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.11%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.11%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) PhD
10 1 (0.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.44%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.44%) QA
3 6 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.78%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (2.22%) SLA
5 4 (2.22%) WCAG
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 100 (55.56%) Docker
2 3 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.11%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 87 (48.33%) Prometheus
3 85 (47.22%) Terraform
4 79 (43.89%) Ansible
5 72 (40.00%) Argo
6 67 (37.22%) Kustomize
7 7 (3.89%) Grafana
8 5 (2.78%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.22%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 75 (41.67%) Google
2 29 (16.11%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.33%) Databricks
4 5 (2.78%) New Relic
4 5 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.22%) Meraki
6 2 (1.11%) Adobe
6 2 (1.11%) Dell
6 2 (1.11%) Dell Compellent
6 2 (1.11%) ExaGrid
6 2 (1.11%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.11%) Okta
6 2 (1.11%) Proofpoint
6 2 (1.11%) SAP
6 2 (1.11%) Veeam
6 2 (1.11%) VMware
7 1 (0.56%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.56%) IBM
7 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow