Performance Tuning Jobs in the South East

Performance Tuning
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 275 320
Rank change year-on-year +12 +45 -9
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 48 113 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.47% 0.65% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.80% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 28 70 38
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,188 £53,703 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,250 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.90% +2.08%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,250 £81,200
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,162 14,128 11,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 89.97% 81.81% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,815 9,674 7,278
10th Percentile £28,100 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the South East

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the South East.

Salary trend for Performance Tuning in the South East

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the South East over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Tuning in the South East

Performance Tuning
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tuning within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Thames Valley +8 33 £60,000 +1.69% 17
Berkshire -13 16 £70,000 +18.52% 7
Buckinghamshire +35 15 £60,000 +41.18% 6
Surrey +53 10 £65,000 +13.04% 9
Hampshire +56 2 £75,000 +20.00% 10
Oxfordshire +39 2 £57,500 +6.84% 4
Kent +34 2 - - 6
Middlesex -14 1 - - 3
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (20.83%) Apache Spark
2 5 (10.42%) Apache
3 1 (2.08%) GemFire
Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (68.75%) Azure
2 21 (43.75%) AWS
3 19 (39.58%) GCP
4 15 (31.25%) Power Platform
5 13 (27.08%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.17%) IaaS
9 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.08%) Datadog
9 1 (2.08%) Serverless
9 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) LAN
1 5 (10.42%) WAN
2 3 (6.25%) DNS
2 3 (6.25%) VPN
3 2 (4.17%) DHCP
3 2 (4.17%) Firewall
3 2 (4.17%) SAN
4 1 (2.08%) IPsec
4 1 (2.08%) Junos
4 1 (2.08%) MPLS
4 1 (2.08%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
1 15 (31.25%) Power BI
2 14 (29.17%) SQL Server
3 11 (22.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (22.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (20.83%) Big Data
5 4 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 4 (8.33%) Parquet
6 2 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (4.17%) MySQL
7 1 (2.08%) Apache Ignite
7 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.08%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.08%) Redis
7 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) JIRA
1 6 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.17%) Git
General
1 21 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 15 (31.25%) Finance
3 14 (29.17%) Law
4 13 (27.08%) Legal
5 7 (14.58%) Retail
6 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Front Office
8 1 (2.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (39.58%) Senior
2 13 (27.08%) Senior Manager
3 9 (18.75%) Analyst
4 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 5 (10.42%) DBA
6 5 (10.42%) Lead
7 4 (8.33%) Design Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Development Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) C# Software Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Report Analyst
8 3 (6.25%) Software Developer
8 3 (6.25%) SQL DBA
9 2 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
9 2 (4.17%) C# Software Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Lead Software Developer
9 2 (4.17%) MySQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.08%) Hugging Face
1 13 (27.08%) LangChain
1 13 (27.08%) PyTorch
1 13 (27.08%) TensorFlow
2 6 (12.50%) .NET
2 6 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 6 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 6 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
2 6 (12.50%) Pandas
3 4 (8.33%) REST
4 3 (6.25%) Kafka
5 2 (4.17%) React
6 1 (2.08%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.08%) Middleware
6 1 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.08%) RESTful
6 1 (2.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Data Structures
2 8 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 7 (14.58%) Algorithms
4 6 (12.50%) Public Cloud
5 3 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.08%) Clustering
6 1 (2.08%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (2.08%) Derivative
6 1 (2.08%) Equities
6 1 (2.08%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Windows
1 3 (6.25%) Windows Server
2 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (2.08%) Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (41.67%) Computer Science
1 20 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 17 (35.42%) Machine Learning
3 16 (33.33%) High Availability
4 15 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (31.25%) Roadmaps
5 14 (29.17%) Cloud Security
5 14 (29.17%) ITIL
5 14 (29.17%) Observability
5 14 (29.17%) Service Delivery
5 14 (29.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 13 (27.08%) Artificial Intelligence
6 13 (27.08%) Change Management
6 13 (27.08%) Enterprise Architecture
6 13 (27.08%) Generative AI
6 13 (27.08%) Incident Management
6 13 (27.08%) LLM
6 13 (27.08%) MLOps
6 13 (27.08%) Problem Management
6 13 (27.08%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (45.83%) SQL
2 11 (22.92%) Python
3 7 (14.58%) C#
4 6 (12.50%) Bash
4 6 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 4 (8.33%) T-SQL
6 3 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (52.08%) Degree
2 14 (29.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (27.08%) Master's Degree
4 6 (12.50%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (6.25%) MCSE
5 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (4.17%) CCNP
6 2 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.08%) CCNA
7 1 (2.08%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 4 (8.33%) GDPR
2 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (31.25%) Grafana
1 15 (31.25%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.17%) SCCM
2 2 (4.17%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) OpenAI
2 12 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.50%) VMware
4 5 (10.42%) Oracle
5 2 (4.17%) 3PAR
5 2 (4.17%) Cisco
5 2 (4.17%) NetApp
5 2 (4.17%) Rollbar
5 2 (4.17%) SolarWinds
5 2 (4.17%) Veeam
6 1 (2.08%) Databricks
6 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.08%) Fujitsu
6 1 (2.08%) Juniper
6 1 (2.08%) Solace
6 1 (2.08%) TIBCO