Performance Tuning Jobs in the North of England

Performance Tuning
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 262 324
Rank change year-on-year -52 +62 -36
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 35 134 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.76% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.91% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 28 91 88
10th Percentile £42,275 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,308 £47,500 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% +15.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,883 £78,750 £69,795
England median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.93% -5.60% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,141 14,663 16,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.00% 83.15% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,753 11,257 7,869
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £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 £77,500 £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 Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the North of England

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Performance Tuning in the North of England

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Tuning in the North of England

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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 -58 17 £63,750 +13.33% 32
Yorkshire +47 15 £60,000 +15.93% 24
North East +15 3 £60,000 +4.35% 2
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
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 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.71%) Apache
2 2 (5.71%) GemFire
3 1 (2.86%) IIS
3 1 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 17 (48.57%) Azure
2 10 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 5 (14.29%) GitHub
4 4 (11.43%) AWS
4 4 (11.43%) SaaS
5 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.71%) GCP
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) SAN
2 2 (5.71%) DNS
2 2 (5.71%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) NAS
3 1 (2.86%) BGP
3 1 (2.86%) DHCP
3 1 (2.86%) EIGRP
3 1 (2.86%) MPLS
3 1 (2.86%) Network Security
3 1 (2.86%) OSPF
3 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.86%) VPN
3 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (62.86%) SQL Server
2 10 (28.57%) Power BI
3 7 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 7 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (11.43%) Biml
6 4 (11.43%) Data Hub
6 4 (11.43%) Data Lake
6 4 (11.43%) SQL CLR
7 3 (8.57%) Metadata
8 2 (5.71%) Apache Ignite
8 2 (5.71%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
8 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
8 2 (5.71%) RDBMS
8 2 (5.71%) Redis
8 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Git
2 5 (14.29%) JIRA
3 4 (11.43%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.86%) Selenium
General
1 14 (40.00%) Finance
2 9 (25.71%) Law
3 5 (14.29%) Banking
3 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Back Office
5 3 (8.57%) Advertising
5 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Front Office
6 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.86%) Games
7 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Senior
2 9 (25.71%) Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) .NET Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Administrator
4 4 (11.43%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Database Developer
4 4 (11.43%) DBA
4 4 (11.43%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) SQL DBA
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Developer
5 3 (8.57%) SaaS Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Microsoft Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Senior SQL Developer
5 3 (8.57%) SQL Developer
5 3 (8.57%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) .NET
1 6 (17.14%) .NET Framework
2 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
2 2 (5.71%) CSS
2 2 (5.71%) CSS3
2 2 (5.71%) HTML
2 2 (5.71%) HTML5
2 2 (5.71%) Kafka
2 2 (5.71%) Middleware
2 2 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (5.71%) React
2 2 (5.71%) RESTful
2 2 (5.71%) Spring
3 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.86%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (2.86%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.86%) Node.js
3 1 (2.86%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (2.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Data Structures
1 4 (11.43%) Private Cloud
2 3 (8.57%) Hedge funds
2 3 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.71%) Credit Derivative
3 2 (5.71%) Derivative
3 2 (5.71%) Equities
3 2 (5.71%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.86%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.86%) Clustering
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Replication
4 1 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Linux
2 4 (11.43%) Windows
2 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.71%) Unix
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Agile
2 14 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (34.29%) Migration
4 10 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (28.57%) Coaching
4 10 (28.57%) High Availability
5 9 (25.71%) Mentoring
6 8 (22.86%) Fintech
7 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 7 (20.00%) Clean Code
7 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 6 (17.14%) Data Migration
8 6 (17.14%) Database Migration
8 6 (17.14%) Database Tuning
8 6 (17.14%) PRINCE2
9 5 (14.29%) ETL
9 5 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (14.29%) Unit Testing
10 4 (11.43%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (77.14%) SQL
2 7 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 6 (17.14%) C#
3 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.71%) Java
4 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.71%) Python
5 1 (2.86%) Bash
5 1 (2.86%) C++
5 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
3 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) CCNP
4 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.86%) CCIE
5 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.86%) HP ASE
5 1 (2.86%) JNCIE
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.86%) NCIE
5 1 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) ISO 9001
2 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (8.57%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (8.57%) vSphere
4 1 (2.86%) Firmware
4 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (8.57%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
3 1 (2.86%) NetApp OnCommand
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.86%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (25.71%) VMware
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle
4 3 (8.57%) Nimble Storage
5 2 (5.71%) Cisco
5 2 (5.71%) NetApp
5 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.71%) Solace
5 2 (5.71%) TIBCO
6 1 (2.86%) Brocade
6 1 (2.86%) Dell
6 1 (2.86%) EMC
6 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.86%) HP
6 1 (2.86%) Informatica
6 1 (2.86%) Juniper
6 1 (2.86%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (2.86%) Pure Storage