Performance Tuning Jobs in Scotland

Performance Tuning
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 91 199
Rank change year-on-year -50 +108 -3
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 20 283 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.67% 4.22% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 4.58% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 17 19 11
10th Percentile £45,750 £49,900 £51,833
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -10.20% +3.69%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £71,652
90th Percentile £73,486 £91,934 -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +1.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,772 6,185 4,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.68% 92.23% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,359 2,397 2,170
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,463
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,550 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Scotland

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Scotland.

Salary trend for Performance Tuning in Scotland

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Tuning in Scotland

Performance Tuning
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tuning within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 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
Edinburgh +25 16 £58,184 -30.38%
Glasgow +26 3 £50,000 -13.04% 7
Performance Tuning
UK

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) AWS
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) Datadog
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) HTTP
1 1 (5.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.00%) DB2
4 2 (10.00%) Power BI
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.00%) MariaDB
5 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.00%) MySQL
5 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (5.00%) Gradle
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Law
4 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) DBA
2 6 (30.00%) SQL DBA
3 5 (25.00%) Senior
3 5 (25.00%) SQL Server DBA
4 3 (15.00%) Database Team Leader
4 3 (15.00%) DB2 Programmer
4 3 (15.00%) DB2 Systems Programmer
4 3 (15.00%) Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Development Team Leader
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Mainframe Programmer
4 3 (15.00%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
4 3 (15.00%) Programmer
4 3 (15.00%) Systems Programmer
4 3 (15.00%) Team Leader
5 2 (10.00%) Database Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Database Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior SQL Developer
5 2 (10.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (5.00%) JPA
1 1 (5.00%) JWT
1 1 (5.00%) OAuth
1 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) RESTful
1 1 (5.00%) Spring
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) AIX
3 1 (5.00%) Debian
3 1 (5.00%) Solaris
3 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 5 (25.00%) Coaching
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Database Tuning
3 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Database Migration
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (15.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) PRINCE2
4 3 (15.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (10.00%) Change Control
5 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 2 (10.00%) Defect Tracking
5 2 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Fintech
5 2 (10.00%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) Go
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Grafana
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk