Performance Tuning Jobs in the North West

Performance Tuning
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 217 239
Rank change year-on-year -66 +22 +44
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 17 75 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.21% 0.75% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.91% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 12 44 46
10th Percentile £46,375 - £35,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £56,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +12.50% -14.89%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile - £73,550 £62,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.93% -5.60% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,691 8,218 7,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.87% 82.39% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,994 6,229 3,894
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
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 £77,500 £80,000 £81,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the North West

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Performance Tuning in the North West

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the North West over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Tuning in the North West

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Manchester +15 14 £63,750 +15.91% 22
Cheshire +5 1 £42,500 -26.09% 11
Cumbria -70 1 - -
Lancashire -74 1 £65,000 +13.04% 10
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
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 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) GemFire
3 1 (5.88%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
2 4 (23.53%) SaaS
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) BGP
1 1 (5.88%) DHCP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) EIGRP
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) MPLS
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
1 1 (5.88%) OSPF
1 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) SQL Server
2 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (23.53%) Data Hub
3 4 (23.53%) Power BI
3 4 (23.53%) SQL CLR
4 3 (17.65%) Metadata
4 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (11.76%) Apache Ignite
5 2 (11.76%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
5 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
5 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
5 2 (11.76%) Redis
5 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
6 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 8 (47.06%) Law
2 6 (35.29%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Back Office
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Front Office
4 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Database Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Developer
3 3 (17.65%) SaaS Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Microsoft Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior SQL Developer
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Database Team Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Development Team Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Java Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Server Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Server Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Head of Development
5 1 (5.88%) MicroStrategy Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
1 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
1 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
1 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (11.76%) Spring
2 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.88%) Blazor
2 1 (5.88%) CSS
2 1 (5.88%) CSS3
2 1 (5.88%) Dapper ORM
2 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) HTML5
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Private Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Data Structures
3 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.76%) Credit Derivative
3 2 (11.76%) Derivative
3 2 (11.76%) Equities
3 2 (11.76%) Fixed Income
3 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.88%) Replication
4 1 (5.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Unix
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (52.94%) Migration
3 8 (47.06%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) Coaching
4 6 (35.29%) Data Migration
4 6 (35.29%) Database Migration
4 6 (35.29%) Database Tuning
4 6 (35.29%) PRINCE2
5 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (23.53%) Data Privacy
5 4 (23.53%) Fintech
5 4 (23.53%) High Availability
5 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
5 4 (23.53%) Wealth Management
5 4 (23.53%) Workflow
6 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 3 (17.65%) Refactoring
6 3 (17.65%) Statistics
6 3 (17.65%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) T-SQL
3 2 (11.76%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) CCIE
2 1 (5.88%) CCNP
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.88%) JNCIE
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) ISO 9001
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Firmware
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) VMware
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle
4 2 (11.76%) Solace
4 2 (11.76%) TIBCO
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco
5 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.88%) Informatica
5 1 (5.88%) Juniper
5 1 (5.88%) MicroStrategy