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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 379 458
Rank change year-on-year +157 +79 +136
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 180 133 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.44% 0.56% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 0.62% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 75 117 66
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £56,250 £60,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £92,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £124,000 £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 12,045 21,522 31,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.26% 90.48% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,842 15,847 22,804
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £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 £125,000 £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 28 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 28 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 +55 30 £75,000 +36.36% 16
South London +13 21 £55,000 -4.35%
West London - 16 - - 44
East London -7 10 - - 3
North London - 9 £72,500 -
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 5 (2.78%) 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
1 111 (61.67%) AWS
2 67 (37.22%) Pulumi
3 46 (25.56%) Azure
4 18 (10.00%) Serverless
5 17 (9.44%) GitHub
6 14 (7.78%) Datadog
7 13 (7.22%) GCP
8 12 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.56%) Amazon S3
9 10 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (5.00%) Power Platform
11 8 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (4.44%) PowerApps
12 7 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
12 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 82 (45.56%) NoSQL
2 67 (37.22%) RDBMS
2 67 (37.22%) Relational Database
3 15 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.56%) DynamoDB
5 9 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.89%) MySQL
6 7 (3.89%) Power BI
7 6 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (2.78%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.67%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.67%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.11%) Big Data
10 2 (1.11%) Looker
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.56%) DB2
11 1 (0.56%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 67 (37.22%) Jaeger
2 14 (7.78%) Git
2 14 (7.78%) GitLab
2 14 (7.78%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.44%) CircleCI
4 5 (2.78%) Gradle
4 5 (2.78%) Maven
5 2 (1.11%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.11%) Vite
5 2 (1.11%) webpack
6 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.56%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.56%) rollup.js
6 1 (0.56%) Xcode
General
1 76 (42.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 74 (41.11%) Social Skills
3 41 (22.78%) Finance
4 19 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.00%) Banking
6 9 (5.00%) Law
7 8 (4.44%) Marketing
7 8 (4.44%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.33%) Games
8 6 (3.33%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.78%) Front Office
10 3 (1.67%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.56%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 82 (45.56%) Lead
2 70 (38.89%) Team Leader
3 32 (17.78%) Developer
4 23 (12.78%) Senior
5 16 (8.89%) Architect
6 13 (7.22%) Senior Developer
7 12 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.44%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.44%) React Developer
10 7 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (3.89%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.33%) CRM Architect
11 6 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM Architect
11 6 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (2.78%) Consultant
12 5 (2.78%) Software Developer
12 5 (2.78%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 67 (37.22%) OpenTelemetry
3 22 (12.22%) 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 8 (4.44%) gRPC
7 8 (4.44%) web3js
8 6 (3.33%) CSS3
8 6 (3.33%) HTML5
8 6 (3.33%) Jest
8 6 (3.33%) JSON
8 6 (3.33%) Redux
9 5 (2.78%) .NET Framework
9 5 (2.78%) GraphQL
9 5 (2.78%) React Native
9 5 (2.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 8 (4.44%) Blockchain
3 8 (4.44%) Web3
4 7 (3.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.78%) Mobile Games
7 4 (2.22%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.22%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.22%) IoT
8 3 (1.67%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.67%) Derivative
8 3 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.11%) Equities
9 2 (1.11%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 72 (40.00%) Linux
2 70 (38.89%) Unix
3 5 (2.78%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.78%) Windows
3 5 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.67%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Debian
5 1 (0.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (61.67%) DevOps
2 95 (52.78%) Containerisation
3 92 (51.11%) Agile
4 91 (50.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 84 (46.67%) Mentoring
6 80 (44.44%) High Availability
7 77 (42.78%) Continuous Integration
8 73 (40.56%) Cost Optimisation
8 73 (40.56%) Roadmaps
9 72 (40.00%) GitOps
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 54 (30.00%) CI/CD
13 43 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (11.67%) Analytics
14 21 (11.67%) Migration
15 20 (11.11%) Microservices
15 20 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 87 (48.33%) JavaScript
2 86 (47.78%) Python
3 84 (46.67%) Java
4 78 (43.33%) Go
5 70 (38.89%) Bash
6 25 (13.89%) SQL
7 14 (7.78%) PowerShell
8 10 (5.56%) C#
9 9 (5.00%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.33%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (2.22%) C++
12 4 (2.22%) PHP
13 3 (1.67%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.56%) ABAP
14 1 (0.56%) JCL
14 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.56%) Rust
14 1 (0.56%) Smalltalk
14 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 75 (41.67%) AWS Certification
2 14 (7.78%) 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%) PhD
9 2 (1.11%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.44%) QA
2 7 (3.89%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.89%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.22%) SLA
4 4 (2.22%) WCAG
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 99 (55.00%) 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 89 (49.44%) Prometheus
3 86 (47.78%) Terraform
4 79 (43.89%) Ansible
5 72 (40.00%) Argo
6 67 (37.22%) Kustomize
7 9 (5.00%) Grafana
8 5 (2.78%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.22%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 75 (41.67%) Google
2 26 (14.44%) 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%) IBM
7 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.56%) Splunk