Performance Optimisation Jobs in the Midlands

Performance Optimisation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 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 199 274 324
Rank change year-on-year +75 +50 +32
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 52 37 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.74% 0.32% 0.021%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.38% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 10 35 2
10th Percentile £38,975 £41,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £58,750 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £59,375 £66,250 £58,125
90th Percentile £65,375 £90,750 £62,250
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
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 6,397 9,656 9,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.31% 82.42% 96.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,672 7,129 4,625
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,438 £34,834 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,475 £75,000 £78,500
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Performance Optimisation in the Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

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 4 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
East Midlands +62 28 £52,500 -40.00% 11
West Midlands +47 24 £40,000 -36.00% 31
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 25 (48.08%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 46 (88.46%) Azure
2 41 (78.85%) AWS
3 32 (61.54%) GCP
4 5 (9.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (9.62%) Snowflake
5 3 (5.77%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.85%) IaaS
6 2 (3.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.54%) WAN
2 3 (5.77%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.85%) Firewall
3 2 (3.85%) LAN
3 2 (3.85%) Network Security
3 2 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (59.62%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.62%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (9.62%) BigQuery
2 5 (9.62%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.77%) Power BI
3 3 (5.77%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 31 (59.62%) Bitbucket
1 31 (59.62%) Cucumber
1 31 (59.62%) GitLab
1 31 (59.62%) JIRA
1 31 (59.62%) Maven
1 31 (59.62%) Selenium
1 31 (59.62%) SonarQube
1 31 (59.62%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (73.08%) Finance
2 31 (59.62%) Banking
2 31 (59.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 6 (11.54%) Corporate Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Investment Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Retail
5 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.85%) Automotive
6 2 (3.85%) Law
6 2 (3.85%) Legal
7 1 (1.92%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 34 (65.38%) Software Engineer
2 7 (13.46%) Developer
3 5 (9.62%) Architect
3 5 (9.62%) Data Architect
3 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (9.62%) Lead
3 5 (9.62%) Lead Architect
3 5 (9.62%) Lead Data Architect
4 3 (5.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 3 (5.77%) Embedded Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) ICT Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (3.85%) C++ Developer
5 2 (3.85%) C++ Software Developer
5 2 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Python Developer
5 2 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (59.62%) CSS
1 31 (59.62%) HTML
1 31 (59.62%) JPA
1 31 (59.62%) Kafka
1 31 (59.62%) React
1 31 (59.62%) Redux
1 31 (59.62%) Spring
1 31 (59.62%) Spring Boot
2 25 (48.08%) Hibernate
3 6 (11.54%) CSS3
3 6 (11.54%) HTML5
3 6 (11.54%) Jest
3 6 (11.54%) REST
3 6 (11.54%) RESTful
3 6 (11.54%) Sass
4 3 (5.77%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.85%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (59.62%) Enterprise Software
1 31 (59.62%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.62%) Data Structures
2 5 (9.62%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (5.77%) ARM Cortex
3 3 (5.77%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.85%) CUDA
4 2 (3.85%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 34 (65.38%) Agile
3 33 (63.46%) Containerisation
3 33 (63.46%) DevOps
4 31 (59.62%) CI/CD
4 31 (59.62%) Front End Development
4 31 (59.62%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (59.62%) Microservices
4 31 (59.62%) SDLC
4 31 (59.62%) Test Automation
5 30 (57.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (48.08%) Clean Code
6 25 (48.08%) TDD
7 13 (25.00%) Migration
8 9 (17.31%) Mentoring
9 8 (15.38%) Data Modelling
10 7 (13.46%) Data Analysis
11 6 (11.54%) Responsive Web Design
11 6 (11.54%) Strategic Thinking
11 6 (11.54%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 36 (69.23%) SQL
2 31 (59.62%) Java
2 31 (59.62%) JavaScript
3 7 (13.46%) Python
4 6 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.77%) C
6 3 (5.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.85%) C++
7 2 (3.85%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) Azure Certification
2 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.85%) Degree
3 2 (3.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (61.54%) QA
2 6 (11.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (63.46%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) Firmware
3 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (63.46%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (59.62%) Solace
2 5 (9.62%) Google
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.77%) Databricks
4 1 (1.92%) Cisco