Performance Optimisation Job Trends in Shropshire

Performance Optimisation
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 20 30
Rank change year-on-year -22 +10 -
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 1 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Shropshire 0.31% 0.83% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 1.02% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55,000 - £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £65,000 - £90,000
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £58,750 £58,750
% change year-on-year -2.13% - +6.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 246 98 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Shropshire 76.88% 81.67% 80.85%
Number of salaries quoted 141 43 110
10th Percentile £26,750 £36,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,875 £72,188
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in Shropshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 5 February 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
Telford -4 1 £60,000 -25.00% 1
Performance Optimisation
West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SAS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Scheduling
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Analytics
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared