Performance Tuning Jobs in the Midlands

Performance Tuning
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 247 286
Rank change year-on-year +31 +39 -23
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 36 76 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.51% 0.64% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.78% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 33 52 20
10th Percentile - £38,938 £37,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £48,438 £38,235
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £56,563
90th Percentile £68,750 £96,750 £67,875
England median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.93% -5.60% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Performance Tuning 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 6,435 9,747 8,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.65% 81.99% 96.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,650 7,159 4,536
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £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 £62,290 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the Midlands

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Performance Tuning in the Midlands

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Tuning in the Midlands

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands +37 35 £52,500 -12.50% 28
East Midlands +5 1 £52,500 -8.70% 10
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
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 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.78%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (38.89%) Google Workspace
2 5 (13.89%) Azure
3 4 (11.11%) SaaS
4 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.78%) AWS
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.78%) Datadog
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) IaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.78%) PaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Serverless
5 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (47.22%) DHCP
1 17 (47.22%) DNS
1 17 (47.22%) TCP/IP
2 14 (38.89%) BGP
2 14 (38.89%) Firewall
2 14 (38.89%) OSPF
2 14 (38.89%) VLAN
2 14 (38.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle Exadata
2 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.33%) Data Hub
3 3 (8.33%) SQL CLR
4 2 (5.56%) Metadata
4 2 (5.56%) Power BI
4 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.78%) DB2
5 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Git
General
1 19 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 15 (41.67%) Retail
3 14 (38.89%) Automotive
4 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (13.89%) Finance
6 4 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (8.33%) Back Office
8 2 (5.56%) Law
9 1 (2.78%) Banking
9 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
9 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) IT Engineer
1 14 (38.89%) Systems Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 7 (19.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) DBA
3 6 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
4 4 (11.11%) Oracle Applications DBA
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) Administrator
5 2 (5.56%) Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (5.56%) SaaS Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Microsoft Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior SQL Developer
5 2 (5.56%) SQL Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) .NET
1 8 (22.22%) .NET Core
1 8 (22.22%) .NET Framework
1 8 (22.22%) AngularJS
1 8 (22.22%) Entity Framework
2 7 (19.44%) Kendo UI
2 7 (19.44%) Middleware
2 7 (19.44%) NgRx
2 7 (19.44%) RxJS
3 6 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (16.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.78%) Dapper ORM
5 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.78%) Kafka
5 1 (2.78%) React
5 1 (2.78%) RESTful
5 1 (2.78%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 17 (47.22%) Management Information System
2 14 (38.89%) Smartphone
3 3 (8.33%) Private Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 24 (66.67%) Linux
1 24 (66.67%) Windows
2 17 (47.22%) Windows Server
3 15 (41.67%) Ubuntu
4 14 (38.89%) Mac OS X
4 14 (38.89%) Windows 10
4 14 (38.89%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (38.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (16.67%) Unix
6 3 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Computer Science
2 14 (38.89%) Business Case
2 14 (38.89%) Systems Engineering
3 9 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 8 (22.22%) API Development
5 6 (16.67%) Data Management
5 6 (16.67%) High Availability
6 5 (13.89%) Database Tuning
6 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (8.33%) Agile
7 3 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (8.33%) Data Privacy
7 3 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (8.33%) Fintech
7 3 (8.33%) Patch Management
7 3 (8.33%) Validation
7 3 (8.33%) Wealth Management
7 3 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 30 (83.33%) SQL
2 15 (41.67%) PowerShell
3 9 (25.00%) C#
4 6 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 5 (13.89%) Shell Script
6 4 (11.11%) Python
7 3 (8.33%) Bash
8 2 (5.56%) Perl
8 2 (5.56%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.78%) Java
9 1 (2.78%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 16 (44.44%) Degree
2 15 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (38.89%) HNC
3 14 (38.89%) HND
3 14 (38.89%) MCSE
3 14 (38.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (13.89%) OCA
4 5 (13.89%) OCP
4 5 (13.89%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
6 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.78%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.78%) NCSC
3 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (8.33%) Ansible
3 2 (5.56%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.56%) Puppet
3 2 (5.56%) SCOM
4 1 (2.78%) Grafana
4 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (52.78%) Microsoft
2 14 (38.89%) Apple
2 14 (38.89%) Cisco
2 14 (38.89%) Dell
2 14 (38.89%) Fortinet
2 14 (38.89%) Google
2 14 (38.89%) Ubiquiti
3 7 (19.44%) Oracle
3 7 (19.44%) Telerik
4 3 (8.33%) VMware
5 2 (5.56%) ArcSight
5 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.56%) Splunk
6 1 (2.78%) Databricks
6 1 (2.78%) IBM
6 1 (2.78%) SAP