Performance Optimisation Jobs in the North West

Performance Optimisation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 252 271
Rank change year-on-year +151 +19 +43
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 272 35 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.50% 0.34% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 0.42% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 151 28 17
10th Percentile £61,250 £56,000 -
25th Percentile £64,923 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,315 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% +12.50% -1.70%
75th Percentile £73,708 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - £77,375 £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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,443 8,321 7,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.84% 81.39% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 6,289 3,873
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,011
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the North West

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Performance Optimisation in the North West

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Optimisation in the North West

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Cumbria - 122 £69,315 - 1
Manchester +96 63 £65,000 -3.70% 110
Cheshire +60 59 £43,750 +16.67% 55
Lancashire -51 18 - - 39
Merseyside - 10 - - 29
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 39 (14.34%) Confluence
2 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.37%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.37%) InDesign
1 1 (0.37%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 128 (47.06%) AWS
2 118 (43.38%) Azure
3 47 (17.28%) GCP
4 4 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (1.47%) Serverless
5 3 (1.10%) Google Analytics
5 3 (1.10%) Pulumi
6 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.37%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.37%) Cloudflare Workers
6 1 (0.37%) Datadog
6 1 (0.37%) dbt
6 1 (0.37%) GitHub
6 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.37%) SaaS
6 1 (0.37%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.37%) Stitch
6 1 (0.37%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.84%) DHCP
1 5 (1.84%) DNS
1 5 (1.84%) NAS
1 5 (1.84%) SAN
1 5 (1.84%) VSAN
2 3 (1.10%) Broadband
3 2 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.74%) Firewall
3 2 (0.74%) Network Security
3 2 (0.74%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (0.74%) TACACS
3 2 (0.74%) VPN
3 2 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (46.32%) SQL Server
2 17 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.10%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.10%) Redis
7 2 (0.74%) Hazelcast
7 2 (0.74%) MySQL
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.37%) Cloud Spanner
8 1 (0.37%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.37%) Looker
8 1 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 109 (40.07%) Bitbucket
1 109 (40.07%) Cucumber
1 109 (40.07%) GitLab
1 109 (40.07%) JIRA
1 109 (40.07%) Maven
1 109 (40.07%) Selenium
1 109 (40.07%) SonarQube
1 109 (40.07%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (1.84%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.10%) Jaeger
4 2 (0.74%) Git
5 1 (0.37%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.37%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.37%) Storybook
General
1 132 (48.53%) Social Skills
2 117 (43.01%) Finance
3 114 (41.91%) Banking
4 112 (41.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 77 (28.31%) Retail
6 70 (25.74%) Corporate Banking
6 70 (25.74%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.21%) Back Office
8 3 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 121 (44.49%) Commissioning Manager
2 115 (42.28%) Software Engineer
3 12 (4.41%) Developer
4 10 (3.68%) .NET Developer
4 10 (3.68%) Lead
5 8 (2.94%) Senior
6 6 (2.21%) Senior .NET Developer
6 6 (2.21%) Senior Developer
7 5 (1.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (1.84%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (1.84%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 5 (1.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (1.10%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (1.10%) AWS Software Engineer
8 3 (1.10%) JavaScript Engineer
8 3 (1.10%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (1.10%) Team Leader
9 2 (0.74%) Engineering Manager
9 2 (0.74%) Software Engineering Manager
9 2 (0.74%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (44.12%) React
2 116 (42.65%) CSS
2 116 (42.65%) HTML
3 113 (41.54%) Kafka
4 111 (40.81%) Spring
4 111 (40.81%) Spring Boot
5 110 (40.44%) Redux
6 109 (40.07%) JPA
7 74 (27.21%) RESTful
8 71 (26.10%) CSS3
8 71 (26.10%) HTML5
8 71 (26.10%) Jest
8 71 (26.10%) Sass
9 70 (25.74%) REST
10 41 (15.07%) Hibernate
11 12 (4.41%) .NET
12 7 (2.57%) .NET Core
12 7 (2.57%) Blazor
12 7 (2.57%) Node.js
12 7 (2.57%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 113 (41.54%) Product Ownership
2 109 (40.07%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (1.84%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.37%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.37%) Blog
5 1 (0.37%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.37%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.37%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.37%) Graphic Design
5 1 (0.37%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.37%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.37%) Life Science
5 1 (0.37%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.37%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.37%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.37%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.31%) Linux
2 6 (2.21%) Windows
3 3 (1.10%) Unix
4 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (51.84%) Agile
2 123 (45.22%) DevOps
2 123 (45.22%) People Management
3 120 (44.12%) Microservices
4 119 (43.75%) CI/CD
5 118 (43.38%) Software Engineering
6 115 (42.28%) Containerisation
7 113 (41.54%) Front End Development
7 113 (41.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 110 (40.44%) Test Automation
9 109 (40.07%) SDLC
10 81 (29.78%) Mentoring
11 78 (28.68%) User Experience
12 71 (26.10%) Responsive Web Design
13 70 (25.74%) Migration
13 70 (25.74%) Strategic Thinking
14 43 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (15.07%) Clean Code
16 39 (14.34%) TDD
17 13 (4.78%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 123 (45.22%) JavaScript
2 118 (43.38%) SQL
3 115 (42.28%) Java
4 81 (29.78%) TypeScript
5 11 (4.04%) C#
6 5 (1.84%) Python
7 4 (1.47%) Bash
8 3 (1.10%) Go
9 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (45.22%) Degree
2 121 (44.49%) Master's Degree
2 121 (44.49%) MBA
3 113 (41.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.84%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (1.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.74%) CCIE
6 2 (0.74%) CCNP
6 2 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.74%) CISSP
6 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (40.07%) QA
2 72 (26.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
System Software
1 116 (42.65%) Docker
2 5 (1.84%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 116 (42.65%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.31%) Terraform
3 5 (1.84%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.10%) Ansible
4 3 (1.10%) Argo
4 3 (1.10%) Kustomize
4 3 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.37%) Grafana
5 1 (0.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 109 (40.07%) Solace
2 11 (4.04%) Google
3 5 (1.84%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.84%) Oracle
3 5 (1.84%) VMware
4 4 (1.47%) Splunk
5 2 (0.74%) Cisco
6 1 (0.37%) Adobe
6 1 (0.37%) Hotjar
6 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.37%) Talend