Performance Tuning Job Trends in Reading

Performance Tuning
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 66 86
Rank change year-on-year -5 +20 +16
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 4 1 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.32% 0.19% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.22% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 16
10th Percentile - - £56,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £81,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £87,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% +48.31% -36.22%
75th Percentile £58,750 £93,750 £70,000
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +18.64% -36.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 927 451 1,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 73.40% 83.99% 82.55%
Number of salaries quoted 641 245 937
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -12.80%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,000 £80,000
Berkshire median annual salary £50,001 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -6.84%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Reading

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Performance Tuning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
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 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (25.00%) iPaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database 11g
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Support
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Database Security
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) TQM
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Callidus
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) SAP