Performance Optimisation Job Trends in Reading

Performance Optimisation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Performance Optimisation 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 48 75 -
Rank change year-on-year +27 - -
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.17% 0.14% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.16% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Berkshire median annual salary - £82,500 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 465 643 981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 79.35% 88.81% 91.43%
Number of salaries quoted 292 270 641
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +16.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,210 £83,438 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £112,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.78%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Reading

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks