Performance Optimisation Job Trends in the Midlands

Performance Optimisation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 164 266
Rank change year-on-year -77 +102 -48
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 48 72 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.30% 1.28% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 1.47% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 31 6 10
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,625 £49,975
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,438 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -28.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,125 £85,625
90th Percentile £69,750 £53,750 £95,875
England median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +4.48%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,092 4,897 7,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.40% 86.83% 80.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7,832 2,827 3,564
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,175 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,949
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Optimisation in the Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 October 2026. 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
East Midlands -41 32 £43,125 -13.75% 25
West Midlands -47 16 £52,500 +60.31% 31
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (20.83%) CMS
1 10 (20.83%) Headless CMS
2 3 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.17%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Notion
2 1 (2.08%) EPLAN
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (20.83%) Magento
2 3 (6.25%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.08%) Maximo
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (37.50%) AWS
2 13 (27.08%) Azure
2 13 (27.08%) Power Platform
3 7 (14.58%) Serverless
4 6 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 4 (8.33%) SaaS
6 3 (6.25%) Cloudflare
6 3 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (6.25%) OCI
6 3 (6.25%) Oracle CX
6 3 (6.25%) Power Automate
6 3 (6.25%) PowerApps
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.17%) GitHub
7 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.08%) GCP
8 1 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.25%) DNS
1 3 (6.25%) Firewall
1 3 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 3 (6.25%) VPN
2 1 (2.08%) BIG-IP
2 1 (2.08%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) Power BI
2 4 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.33%) Star Schema
3 3 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (6.25%) Oracle Database
3 3 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (6.25%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.17%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (4.17%) Big Data
4 2 (4.17%) Metadata
4 2 (4.17%) SAP HANA
4 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.08%) Db2
5 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (4.17%) Cypress.io
2 2 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (2.08%) Git
3 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.75%) Finance
4 7 (14.58%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.17%) Banking
6 2 (4.17%) Retail
7 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.08%) Automotive
7 1 (2.08%) Games
7 1 (2.08%) Law
7 1 (2.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (50.00%) Developer
2 9 (18.75%) React Developer
3 7 (14.58%) Administrator
3 7 (14.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (14.58%) Senior
4 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Architect
5 5 (10.42%) Data Architect
6 4 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (8.33%) E-Commerce Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Power BI Developer
7 3 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Network Administrator
7 3 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.25%) SQL Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.17%) CMS Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.17%) SAP Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (41.67%) React
2 10 (20.83%) GraphQL
2 10 (20.83%) Next.js
3 6 (12.50%) AWS CDK
4 3 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (6.25%) REST
5 2 (4.17%) .NET
5 2 (4.17%) CSS
5 2 (4.17%) CSS3
5 2 (4.17%) HTML
5 2 (4.17%) HTML5
5 2 (4.17%) Jest
5 2 (4.17%) Material-UI
5 2 (4.17%) Node.js
5 2 (4.17%) Playwright
5 2 (4.17%) PySpark
5 2 (4.17%) Redux
5 2 (4.17%) RESTful
5 2 (4.17%) Semantic HTML
5 2 (4.17%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (10.42%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.25%) Reference Data
3 3 (6.25%) Replication
4 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.08%) Clustering
5 1 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.08%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.08%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Windows
1 3 (6.25%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (41.67%) Agile
2 16 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (31.25%) Mentoring
4 13 (27.08%) Decision-Making
5 12 (25.00%) E-Commerce
6 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (20.83%) B2B
7 10 (20.83%) B2C
8 9 (18.75%) Analytics
8 9 (18.75%) Data Modelling
8 9 (18.75%) Observability
8 9 (18.75%) Test Automation
9 8 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
10 7 (14.58%) Clean Code
10 7 (14.58%) Data Ingestion
10 7 (14.58%) ETL
10 7 (14.58%) Front End Development
10 7 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (41.67%) TypeScript
2 13 (27.08%) SQL
3 7 (14.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.33%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.17%) C#
7 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.08%) Python
7 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (4.17%) Degree
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 5 (10.42%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.25%) GDPR
4 2 (4.17%) WCAG
5 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) Oracle
3 3 (6.25%) Infor
3 3 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.17%) Pega
4 2 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.08%) Databricks
5 1 (2.08%) F5
5 1 (2.08%) Rockwell
5 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.08%) Siemens