Performance Optimisation Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Performance Optimisation
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 65 68
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 1 12 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.14% 1.53% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 1.76% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £47,500 £54,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £60,000 £57,007
Median % change year-on-year - +5.25% -
75th Percentile - £69,375 £59,102
90th Percentile - £72,750 -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £82,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.13% +11.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 526 681 679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 71.96% 86.64% 88.18%
Number of salaries quoted 369 334 562
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,650 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,135
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,170 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,750 £80,875 £79,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Performance Optimisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Abingdon - 1 - -
Performance Optimisation
South East

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Airbyte
1 1 (100.00%) Data Hub
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Sharing
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality