Performance Optimisation Job Trends in the North of England

Performance Optimisation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 145 300
Rank change year-on-year -117 +155 +19
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 92 184 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.42% 1.92% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 2.15% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 69 63 29
10th Percentile £27,646 £39,450 £39,150
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £70,400 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% -7.80%

All Process & 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 15,501 8,546 11,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.21% 89.13% 78.65%
Number of salaries quoted 11,612 4,276 7,831
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in the North of England

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Performance Optimisation

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 12 August 2026.

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 12 August 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
North West -82 61 £62,500 +4.17% 47
Yorkshire -26 19 £46,250 -35.76% 10
North East -51 12 £62,500 +30.21% 8
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (7.61%) WordPress
2 3 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.26%) CMS
2 3 (3.26%) IIS
3 2 (2.17%) Apache
4 1 (1.09%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.09%) Confluence
4 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.09%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (5.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.26%) SAP GTS
2 3 (3.26%) SAP SD
2 3 (3.26%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (1.09%) Primavera
3 1 (1.09%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 33 (35.87%) Azure
2 16 (17.39%) AWS
3 14 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.87%) Power Platform
5 9 (9.78%) Figma
5 9 (9.78%) Snowflake
6 8 (8.70%) GitHub
7 7 (7.61%) GCP
7 7 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (7.61%) SaaS
8 4 (4.35%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.35%) Serverless
9 3 (3.26%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.26%) dbt
10 2 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.17%) IaaS
10 2 (2.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.17%) DHCP
2 2 (2.17%) DNS
2 2 (2.17%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.17%) SNMP
2 2 (2.17%) WAN
3 1 (1.09%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.87%) Power BI
2 8 (8.70%) MySQL
2 8 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.43%) SAP HANA
4 4 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (3.26%) BigQuery
5 3 (3.26%) ClickHouse
5 3 (3.26%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.26%) Star Schema
6 2 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.17%) Metadata
6 2 (2.17%) phpMyAdmin
6 2 (2.17%) Tableau
7 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (31.52%) Git
2 3 (3.26%) GitLab
2 3 (3.26%) JIRA
3 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.17%) NUnit
4 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.65%) Marketing
3 13 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.70%) Finance
5 6 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.43%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.26%) Banking
8 3 (3.26%) Billing
8 3 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.17%) Law
9 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.17%) Retail
10 1 (1.09%) Advertising
10 1 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 40 (43.48%) Developer
2 24 (26.09%) Senior
3 17 (18.48%) Data Engineer
4 11 (11.96%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (11.96%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 11 (11.96%) Software Developer
5 10 (10.87%) Architect
5 10 (10.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 8 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.61%) Snowflake Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Lead
9 5 (5.43%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (4.35%) C# Developer
10 4 (4.35%) Lead Developer
11 3 (3.26%) Consultant
11 3 (3.26%) DBA
11 3 (3.26%) Java Developer
11 3 (3.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.48%) CSS
2 16 (17.39%) HTML
3 15 (16.30%) React
4 14 (15.22%) .NET
5 9 (9.78%) REST
6 8 (8.70%) Middleware
7 7 (7.61%) JSON
7 7 (7.61%) RESTful
8 6 (6.52%) .NET Framework
9 5 (5.43%) ASP.NET
9 5 (5.43%) Entity Framework
9 5 (5.43%) Node.js
9 5 (5.43%) OpenAPI
9 5 (5.43%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (5.43%) Swagger
10 4 (4.35%) .NET Core
10 4 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (4.35%) CSS3
10 4 (4.35%) HTML5
10 4 (4.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (9.78%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (9.78%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.61%) Operational Technology
4 6 (6.52%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.26%) Clustering
7 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.09%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.09%) Media Streaming
8 1 (1.09%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.17%) Windows
1 2 (2.17%) Windows Server
1 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (52.17%) CI/CD
2 29 (31.52%) Mentoring
3 28 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (27.17%) DevOps
5 24 (26.09%) Analytics
6 22 (23.91%) Agile
7 20 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
8 17 (18.48%) Technical Leadership
8 17 (18.48%) Web Development
9 16 (17.39%) Data Modelling
9 16 (17.39%) Front End Development
10 15 (16.30%) AI
10 15 (16.30%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (16.30%) Observability
10 15 (16.30%) Roadmaps
11 14 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (15.22%) Collaborative Working
11 14 (15.22%) User Experience
12 13 (14.13%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 35 (38.04%) SQL
2 31 (33.70%) JavaScript
3 22 (23.91%) TypeScript
4 19 (20.65%) Python
5 12 (13.04%) C#
6 7 (7.61%) Bash
6 7 (7.61%) PHP
7 6 (6.52%) Java
8 4 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (3.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.17%) Bicep
10 2 (2.17%) R
11 1 (1.09%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.09%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (11.96%) SC Cleared
1 11 (11.96%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.87%) Degree
3 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.87%) Accessibility
3 9 (9.78%) QA
4 2 (2.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (7.61%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.17%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 12 (13.04%) Terraform
2 8 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.35%) Istio
3 4 (4.35%) linkerd
4 1 (1.09%) CloudHub
4 1 (1.09%) Grafana
4 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.43%) Google
2 5 (5.43%) SAP
3 4 (4.35%) Databricks
4 3 (3.26%) Splunk
5 2 (2.17%) Adobe
5 2 (2.17%) DevExpress
5 2 (2.17%) OpenText
5 2 (2.17%) Oracle
5 2 (2.17%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.17%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.17%) VMware
5 2 (2.17%) WooCommerce
6 1 (1.09%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.09%) Infor
6 1 (1.09%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.09%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.09%) Sage