Performance Optimisation Jobs in the North of England

Performance Optimisation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 328 399
Rank change year-on-year +199 +71 +21
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 289 63 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.50% 0.36% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 0.43% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 167 41 22
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £64,923 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,315 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.53% +4.35% -5.80%
75th Percentile £73,708 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,800 - £73,625
England median annual salary £69,315 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.90% -10.71% +13.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,969 14,596 16,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.96% 83.43% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5,881 11,211 7,960
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the North of England

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the North of England.

Salary trend for Performance Optimisation in the North of England

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Optimisation in the North of England

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 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
North West +156 269 £69,315 +2.69% 62
Yorkshire +65 11 £57,500 - 29
North East +44 9 £62,500 +13.64% 8
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 42 (14.53%) Confluence
2 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.35%) CMS
2 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.35%) Blender
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.35%) InDesign
1 1 (0.35%) Maya
1 1 (0.35%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 132 (45.67%) AWS
2 127 (43.94%) Azure
3 49 (16.96%) GCP
4 7 (2.42%) Serverless
5 4 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.69%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (0.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (0.69%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.35%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.35%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (0.35%) Cloudflare Workers
8 1 (0.35%) Datadog
8 1 (0.35%) dbt
8 1 (0.35%) GitHub
8 1 (0.35%) SaaS
8 1 (0.35%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.46%) SAN
2 5 (1.73%) DHCP
2 5 (1.73%) DNS
2 5 (1.73%) NAS
2 5 (1.73%) VSAN
3 2 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.69%) Firewall
3 2 (0.69%) Network Security
3 2 (0.69%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (0.69%) TACACS
3 2 (0.69%) VPN
3 2 (0.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (47.40%) SQL Server
2 20 (6.92%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.77%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.08%) MySQL
6 5 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.73%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.38%) Redis
8 3 (1.04%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.69%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.69%) Endeca
10 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.35%) Cloud Spanner
10 1 (0.35%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.35%) Looker
10 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 116 (40.14%) Selenium
2 115 (39.79%) GitLab
3 114 (39.45%) JIRA
4 112 (38.75%) Bitbucket
4 112 (38.75%) Cucumber
4 112 (38.75%) Maven
4 112 (38.75%) SonarQube
4 112 (38.75%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (2.42%) Git
6 5 (1.73%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.04%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.35%) Babel
9 1 (0.35%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.35%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.35%) Storybook
9 1 (0.35%) webpack
General
1 136 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 125 (43.25%) Finance
3 117 (40.48%) Banking
4 112 (38.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 79 (27.34%) Retail
6 72 (24.91%) Corporate Banking
6 72 (24.91%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.08%) Marketing
8 5 (1.73%) Advertising
8 5 (1.73%) Back Office
9 2 (0.69%) Games
9 2 (0.69%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.35%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Law
10 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 121 (41.87%) Commissioning Manager
1 121 (41.87%) Software Engineer
2 18 (6.23%) Developer
3 9 (3.11%) .NET Developer
3 9 (3.11%) Senior
4 7 (2.42%) Lead
5 6 (2.08%) DBA
5 6 (2.08%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 5 (1.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (1.73%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (1.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (1.73%) Senior .NET Developer
6 5 (1.73%) Senior Developer
7 4 (1.38%) SQL DBA
8 3 (1.04%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (1.04%) AWS Software Engineer
8 3 (1.04%) JavaScript Engineer
8 3 (1.04%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (1.04%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (1.04%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (44.98%) React
2 126 (43.60%) CSS
3 125 (43.25%) HTML
4 115 (39.79%) Kafka
4 115 (39.79%) Redux
5 113 (39.10%) Spring
5 113 (39.10%) Spring Boot
6 112 (38.75%) JPA
7 79 (27.34%) RESTful
8 76 (26.30%) HTML5
9 75 (25.95%) CSS3
9 75 (25.95%) Jest
10 74 (25.61%) REST
11 73 (25.26%) Sass
12 41 (14.19%) Hibernate
13 15 (5.19%) .NET
14 12 (4.15%) Node.js
15 7 (2.42%) AngularJS
16 6 (2.08%) .NET Core
16 6 (2.08%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 116 (40.14%) Product Ownership
2 112 (38.75%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (2.42%) Mobile App
4 5 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.04%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.69%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.69%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.69%) Educational Technology
6 2 (0.69%) Social Media
7 1 (0.35%) Animation
7 1 (0.35%) Blog
7 1 (0.35%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.35%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.35%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.35%) Interactive Media
7 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.35%) State Machine
7 1 (0.35%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.08%) Linux
1 6 (2.08%) Windows
2 1 (0.35%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (50.52%) Agile
2 130 (44.98%) DevOps
3 129 (44.64%) CI/CD
4 126 (43.60%) Software Engineering
5 123 (42.56%) Microservices
6 122 (42.21%) People Management
7 120 (41.52%) Front End Development
7 120 (41.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 117 (40.48%) Containerisation
9 114 (39.45%) Test Automation
10 113 (39.10%) SDLC
11 85 (29.41%) User Experience
12 82 (28.37%) Mentoring
13 77 (26.64%) Responsive Web Design
14 74 (25.61%) Migration
15 73 (25.26%) Strategic Thinking
16 46 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
17 43 (14.88%) Clean Code
18 40 (13.84%) TDD
19 19 (6.57%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 133 (46.02%) JavaScript
2 128 (44.29%) SQL
3 117 (40.48%) Java
4 88 (30.45%) TypeScript
5 12 (4.15%) C#
6 5 (1.73%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.38%) Python
8 1 (0.35%) Bash
8 1 (0.35%) C++
8 1 (0.35%) Elixir
8 1 (0.35%) Elm
8 1 (0.35%) Erlang
8 1 (0.35%) F#
8 1 (0.35%) Haskell
8 1 (0.35%) Lisp
8 1 (0.35%) PHP
8 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.35%) PureScript
8 1 (0.35%) Scala
8 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 132 (45.67%) Degree
2 121 (41.87%) Master's Degree
2 121 (41.87%) MBA
3 113 (39.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.42%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.69%) CCIE
7 2 (0.69%) CCNP
7 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (40.48%) QA
2 76 (26.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.35%) GDPR
3 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 117 (40.48%) Docker
2 5 (1.73%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 117 (40.48%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.08%) Terraform
3 5 (1.73%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.35%) Grafana
4 1 (0.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 112 (38.75%) Solace
2 10 (3.46%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.77%) Google
3 8 (2.77%) Oracle
4 5 (1.73%) Nimble Storage
4 5 (1.73%) VMware
5 3 (1.04%) Splunk
6 2 (0.69%) Adobe
6 2 (0.69%) Cisco
7 1 (0.35%) CyberSource
7 1 (0.35%) New Relic
7 1 (0.35%) Talend