Performance Tuning Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Performance Tuning
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 3 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.59% - 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% - 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £61,250
25th Percentile - - £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +82.35%
75th Percentile - - £83,125
90th Percentile - - £85,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 388 331 302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 76.53% 83.59% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 170 106 218
10th Percentile £27,225 £34,112 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,406 £45,000 £34,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,430 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% +18.86% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Performance Tuning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Performance Tuning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tuning within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
County Antrim - 2 - - 6
County Armagh - 1 - -
Performance Tuning
UK

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (66.67%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 2 (66.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Product Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Product Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) EDI
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mainframe
1 2 (66.67%) VSAM
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Human-Centred Design
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Product Backlog
2 2 (66.67%) Product Management
2 2 (66.67%) Product Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Telematics
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
3 1 (33.33%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) COBOL
1 2 (66.67%) JCL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAI