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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 317 396
Rank change year-on-year +195 +79 +28
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 296 65 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.55% 0.36% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 0.44% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 169 43 21
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £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% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,708 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,108 - £73,750
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
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 10,934 14,895 16,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.33% 81.86% 96.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,434 11,380 7,847
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,074 £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 £61,992 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
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 29 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 29 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 +157 273 £69,315 +2.69% 46
Yorkshire +57 12 £60,000 +4.35% 20
North East +40 11 £60,000 +9.09% 11
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 (14.19%) Confluence
2 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.34%) InDesign
2 1 (0.34%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.34%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 138 (46.62%) AWS
2 130 (43.92%) Azure
3 51 (17.23%) GCP
4 7 (2.36%) Serverless
5 4 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (1.35%) Pulumi
6 3 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.01%) Google Analytics
7 2 (0.68%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (0.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (0.68%) GitHub
7 2 (0.68%) SaaS
8 1 (0.34%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.34%) Cloudflare Workers
8 1 (0.34%) dbt
8 1 (0.34%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.34%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.34%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.38%) SAN
2 5 (1.69%) DHCP
2 5 (1.69%) DNS
2 5 (1.69%) NAS
2 5 (1.69%) VSAN
3 4 (1.35%) Broadband
4 2 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.68%) Firewall
4 2 (0.68%) Network Security
4 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.68%) TACACS
4 2 (0.68%) VPN
4 2 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (47.64%) SQL Server
2 22 (7.43%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.05%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.03%) MySQL
5 6 (2.03%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.69%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.69%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.01%) Redis
8 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.68%) Endeca
8 2 (0.68%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.34%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (0.34%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 117 (39.53%) Selenium
2 116 (39.19%) GitLab
3 114 (38.51%) JIRA
4 113 (38.18%) Bitbucket
5 112 (37.84%) Cucumber
5 112 (37.84%) Maven
5 112 (37.84%) SonarQube
5 112 (37.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.69%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.35%) Git
7 4 (1.35%) Jaeger
8 3 (1.01%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.34%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.34%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.34%) Storybook
General
1 134 (45.27%) Social Skills
2 127 (42.91%) Finance
3 117 (39.53%) Banking
4 116 (39.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 80 (27.03%) Retail
6 72 (24.32%) Corporate Banking
6 72 (24.32%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.03%) Back Office
7 6 (2.03%) Marketing
8 5 (1.69%) Advertising
9 2 (0.68%) Law
9 2 (0.68%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.34%) Games
Job Titles
1 121 (40.88%) Commissioning Manager
1 121 (40.88%) Software Engineer
2 18 (6.08%) Developer
3 12 (4.05%) Lead
3 12 (4.05%) Senior
4 11 (3.72%) .NET Developer
5 7 (2.36%) DBA
6 6 (2.03%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 6 (2.03%) Senior .NET Developer
6 6 (2.03%) Senior Developer
7 5 (1.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (1.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (1.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (1.69%) SQL DBA
8 4 (1.35%) Team Leader
9 3 (1.01%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (1.01%) AWS Software Engineer
9 3 (1.01%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (1.01%) JavaScript Engineer
9 3 (1.01%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (43.58%) React
2 124 (41.89%) CSS
3 123 (41.55%) HTML
4 117 (39.53%) Kafka
5 115 (38.85%) Redux
6 114 (38.51%) Spring
6 114 (38.51%) Spring Boot
7 112 (37.84%) JPA
8 80 (27.03%) RESTful
9 76 (25.68%) HTML5
10 75 (25.34%) CSS3
10 75 (25.34%) Jest
11 74 (25.00%) REST
12 73 (24.66%) Sass
13 42 (14.19%) Hibernate
14 17 (5.74%) .NET
15 11 (3.72%) Node.js
16 9 (3.04%) OpenTelemetry
17 7 (2.36%) .NET Core
17 7 (2.36%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 116 (39.19%) Product Ownership
2 112 (37.84%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (2.36%) Mobile App
4 5 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.01%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.01%) Hedge funds
5 3 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.68%) Social Media
7 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.34%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.34%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.34%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.34%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.34%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.34%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.38%) Linux
2 6 (2.03%) Windows
3 4 (1.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (52.36%) Agile
2 136 (45.95%) DevOps
3 130 (43.92%) CI/CD
4 128 (43.24%) Software Engineering
5 123 (41.55%) Microservices
5 123 (41.55%) People Management
6 121 (40.88%) Containerisation
7 120 (40.54%) Front End Development
8 119 (40.20%) Full-Stack Development
9 115 (38.85%) Test Automation
10 113 (38.18%) SDLC
11 87 (29.39%) Mentoring
12 85 (28.72%) User Experience
13 76 (25.68%) Responsive Web Design
14 74 (25.00%) Migration
15 73 (24.66%) Strategic Thinking
16 47 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
17 44 (14.86%) Clean Code
18 40 (13.51%) TDD
19 16 (5.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 135 (45.61%) JavaScript
2 130 (43.92%) SQL
3 122 (41.22%) Java
4 87 (29.39%) TypeScript
5 14 (4.73%) C#
6 7 (2.36%) Python
7 5 (1.69%) Bash
7 5 (1.69%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.35%) Go
9 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.34%) Elixir
10 1 (0.34%) Elm
10 1 (0.34%) Erlang
10 1 (0.34%) F#
10 1 (0.34%) Haskell
10 1 (0.34%) Lisp
10 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.34%) PureScript
10 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 131 (44.26%) Degree
2 121 (40.88%) Master's Degree
2 121 (40.88%) MBA
3 113 (38.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.36%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.03%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (0.68%) CCIE
7 2 (0.68%) CCNP
7 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (39.19%) QA
2 76 (25.68%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.34%) GDPR
3 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 123 (41.55%) Docker
2 5 (1.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 123 (41.55%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.72%) Terraform
3 5 (1.69%) Ansible
3 5 (1.69%) Progress Chef
3 5 (1.69%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.35%) Argo
4 4 (1.35%) Kustomize
5 2 (0.68%) Grafana
6 1 (0.34%) Kibana
Vendors
1 112 (37.84%) Solace
2 13 (4.39%) Google
3 10 (3.38%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.70%) Oracle
5 5 (1.69%) Nimble Storage
5 5 (1.69%) Splunk
5 5 (1.69%) VMware
6 2 (0.68%) Adobe
6 2 (0.68%) Cisco
6 2 (0.68%) Talend
7 1 (0.34%) CyberSource
7 1 (0.34%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.34%) Informatica
7 1 (0.34%) New Relic
7 1 (0.34%) RedGate
7 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow