Performance Tuning Job Trends in the South East

Performance Tuning
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 245 262
Rank change year-on-year -30 +17 +43
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 54 48 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.33% 0.55% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.63% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 48 26 52
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,375 £45,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,125 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £59,563
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +0.73% -0.73%
75th Percentile £72,188 £65,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £92,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process & 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 11,816 7,661 11,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.75% 88.27% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,429 4,086 7,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £29,175
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £38,742
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,047
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.09% -9.01%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,920 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% +1.67% -11.29%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in the South East

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Performance Tuning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the South East over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

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 31 July 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
Thames Valley -6 27 £52,500 -12.50% 8
Buckinghamshire -6 20 £52,500 -12.50%
Surrey -21 10 £65,000 - 1
East Sussex - 6 £85,000 -
Hampshire -36 5 £65,000 -13.33% 5
Berkshire +8 4 £57,500 -34.29% 4
West Sussex - 4 £85,000 -
Oxfordshire -19 3 £65,000 +13.04% 4
Kent -25 1 - - 1
Home Counties - 1 - -
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (9.26%) IIS
1 5 (9.26%) nginx
2 1 (1.85%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (1.85%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 46 (85.19%) Azure
2 10 (18.52%) AWS
2 10 (18.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 9 (16.67%) SaaS
4 7 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (12.96%) GCP
5 6 (11.11%) Cloudflare
6 5 (9.26%) Azure AKS
6 5 (9.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (9.26%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (9.26%) Azure Pipelines
6 5 (9.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (5.56%) GitHub
8 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.70%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.11%) DNS
1 6 (11.11%) Firewall
1 6 (11.11%) LAN
1 6 (11.11%) VPN
1 6 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (51.85%) SQL Server
2 15 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (14.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (12.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.56%) Oracle Database
7 2 (3.70%) MS Access
7 2 (3.70%) MySQL
7 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.85%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.85%) Impala
8 1 (1.85%) Parquet
8 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.85%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Git
2 6 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.85%) GitLab
3 1 (1.85%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (1.85%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Finance
3 1 (1.85%) Banking
3 1 (1.85%) Games
3 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (27.78%) Senior
2 13 (24.07%) Architect
3 10 (18.52%) Azure Architect
3 10 (18.52%) Azure Data Architect
3 10 (18.52%) Data Architect
4 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (14.81%) Software Support Engineer
4 8 (14.81%) Support Engineer
5 7 (12.96%) DBA
5 7 (12.96%) Developer
6 6 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
6 6 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Data Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Senior Developer
8 4 (7.41%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (29.63%) .NET
2 5 (9.26%) ARM Templates
2 5 (9.26%) Loki
3 4 (7.41%) RESTful
4 3 (5.56%) .NET Framework
4 3 (5.56%) ASP.NET
4 3 (5.56%) Entity Framework
5 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (3.70%) CakePHP
5 2 (3.70%) CSS
5 2 (3.70%) HTML
5 2 (3.70%) HTML5
5 2 (3.70%) Laravel
5 2 (3.70%) Nuxt
5 2 (3.70%) Symfony
5 2 (3.70%) Vue
6 1 (1.85%) IDoc
6 1 (1.85%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.85%) OpenID
6 1 (1.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.22%) Windows
2 9 (16.67%) Linux
3 7 (12.96%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.70%) Android
4 2 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (31.48%) CI/CD
1 17 (31.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (29.63%) Data Modelling
2 16 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (27.78%) Data Governance
3 15 (27.78%) DevOps
4 13 (24.07%) ETL
4 13 (24.07%) Root Cause Analysis
4 13 (24.07%) Technical Leadership
5 12 (22.22%) Agile
6 10 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (18.52%) Data Security
7 8 (14.81%) High Availability
7 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (14.81%) Performance Optimisation
7 8 (14.81%) Software Engineering
8 7 (12.96%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (12.96%) Microservices
9 6 (11.11%) Analytics
9 6 (11.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 36 (66.67%) SQL
2 18 (33.33%) C#
3 16 (29.63%) Python
4 14 (25.93%) T-SQL
5 8 (14.81%) PowerShell
6 5 (9.26%) Bicep
7 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.70%) PHP
7 2 (3.70%) R
8 1 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.41%) Degree
2 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) MCSE
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.70%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 7 (12.96%) QA
3 2 (3.70%) SLA
4 1 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (14.81%) Docker
2 5 (9.26%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (12.96%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.11%) Terraform
3 5 (9.26%) Grafana
3 5 (9.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.70%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.85%) Ansible
5 1 (1.85%) Argo
Vendors
1 24 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 13 (24.07%) Databricks
3 7 (12.96%) Oracle
3 7 (12.96%) VMware
4 2 (3.70%) JD Edwards
4 2 (3.70%) RedGate
4 2 (3.70%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.85%) Callidus
5 1 (1.85%) EMC
5 1 (1.85%) Google
5 1 (1.85%) IBM
5 1 (1.85%) Informatica
5 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.85%) New Relic
5 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.85%) Rollbar
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.85%) SAP
5 1 (1.85%) webMethods