Performance Optimisation Jobs in Manchester

Performance Optimisation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 181 220
Rank change year-on-year +81 +39 +23
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 63 34 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.74% 0.65% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 0.75% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 34 27 18
10th Percentile £50,150 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +14.89% -3.75%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,000 £73,750
North West median annual salary £69,315 £67,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year +2.69% +14.89% -3.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,188 4,520 4,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.30% 86.01% 96.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 3,440 2,520
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £68,777 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £82,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Manchester

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Performance Optimisation in Manchester

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Optimisation in Manchester

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 20 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
Altrincham - 3 - - 3
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - - 2
Bolton - 3 - - 5
Oldham - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Salford - 3 - -
Stockport - 3 - - 2
Wigan - 3 - -
Performance Optimisation
North West

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 9 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.59%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 43 (68.25%) AWS
2 34 (53.97%) Azure
3 16 (25.40%) GCP
4 4 (6.35%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (6.35%) Serverless
5 2 (3.17%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.59%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.59%) Cloudflare Workers
6 1 (1.59%) Datadog
6 1 (1.59%) dbt
6 1 (1.59%) GitHub
6 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.59%) SaaS
6 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.59%) Stitch
6 1 (1.59%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) DHCP
1 5 (7.94%) DNS
1 5 (7.94%) NAS
1 5 (7.94%) SAN
1 5 (7.94%) VSAN
2 2 (3.17%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (3.17%) Firewall
2 2 (3.17%) Network Security
2 2 (3.17%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.17%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (3.17%) TACACS
2 2 (3.17%) VPN
2 2 (3.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (69.84%) SQL Server
2 17 (26.98%) MongoDB
3 5 (7.94%) NoSQL
3 5 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.76%) Redis
5 2 (3.17%) Hazelcast
5 2 (3.17%) MySQL
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.59%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (1.59%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.59%) Looker
6 1 (1.59%) Metadata
6 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (42.86%) Bitbucket
1 27 (42.86%) Cucumber
1 27 (42.86%) GitLab
1 27 (42.86%) JIRA
1 27 (42.86%) Maven
1 27 (42.86%) Selenium
1 27 (42.86%) SonarQube
1 27 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (7.94%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.59%) Git
3 1 (1.59%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.59%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (1.59%) Storybook
General
1 34 (53.97%) Finance
2 32 (50.79%) Banking
3 27 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (38.10%) Retail
5 18 (28.57%) Corporate Banking
5 18 (28.57%) Investment Banking
6 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
7 6 (9.52%) Back Office
8 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (50.79%) Software Engineer
2 12 (19.05%) Developer
3 10 (15.87%) .NET Developer
4 8 (12.70%) Lead
5 7 (11.11%) Senior
6 6 (9.52%) Senior .NET Developer
6 6 (9.52%) Senior Developer
7 5 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) JavaScript Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Principal Engineer
10 1 (1.59%) Full-Stack Developer
10 1 (1.59%) MySQL DBA
10 1 (1.59%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (58.73%) React
2 33 (52.38%) CSS
2 33 (52.38%) HTML
3 30 (47.62%) Kafka
4 28 (44.44%) Redux
4 28 (44.44%) Spring
4 28 (44.44%) Spring Boot
5 27 (42.86%) JPA
6 21 (33.33%) RESTful
7 19 (30.16%) Jest
7 19 (30.16%) Sass
8 18 (28.57%) CSS3
8 18 (28.57%) HTML5
8 18 (28.57%) REST
9 11 (17.46%) .NET
10 10 (15.87%) Hibernate
11 7 (11.11%) Node.js
12 6 (9.52%) .NET Core
12 6 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web API
12 6 (9.52%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 31 (49.21%) Product Ownership
2 27 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (7.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.94%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.17%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.59%) Blog
5 1 (1.59%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Life Science
5 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Robotics
5 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Linux
1 6 (9.52%) Windows
2 1 (1.59%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (82.54%) Agile
2 37 (58.73%) Microservices
3 36 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 36 (57.14%) DevOps
4 34 (53.97%) Software Engineering
5 31 (49.21%) Front End Development
5 31 (49.21%) Full-Stack Development
6 30 (47.62%) Containerisation
7 28 (44.44%) Test Automation
8 27 (42.86%) SDLC
9 26 (41.27%) Mentoring
10 23 (36.51%) User Experience
11 19 (30.16%) Responsive Web Design
12 18 (28.57%) Migration
12 18 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
13 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (20.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (17.46%) Clean Code
16 9 (14.29%) Kanban
16 9 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 37 (58.73%) JavaScript
2 34 (53.97%) SQL
3 29 (46.03%) Java
4 28 (44.44%) TypeScript
5 10 (15.87%) C#
6 3 (4.76%) Python
7 1 (1.59%) Bash
7 1 (1.59%) C++
7 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.94%) Azure Certification
1 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (7.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (3.17%) CCIE
2 2 (3.17%) CCNP
2 2 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.17%) CISSP
3 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (42.86%) QA
2 20 (31.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (47.62%) Docker
2 5 (7.94%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.52%) Terraform
3 5 (7.94%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.59%) Grafana
4 1 (1.59%) Kibana
Vendors
1 27 (42.86%) Solace
2 7 (11.11%) Google
3 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.94%) Oracle
3 5 (7.94%) VMware
4 3 (4.76%) Splunk
5 2 (3.17%) Cisco
6 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.59%) Talend