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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 229 212
Rank change year-on-year -3 -17 +73
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 39 66 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.38% 0.72% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.82% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 24 38 53
10th Percentile £54,000 £52,500 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,688 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - £87,500 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

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 8,326 8,020 7,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.48% 87.89% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,927 3,878 5,081
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,500 £45,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +8.49% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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
Kent -6 14 £48,500 -30.71% 5
Hampshire +31 10 £60,000 -7.69% 5
East Sussex +14 9 £85,000 +30.77% 5
Thames Valley -15 5 £65,000 +9.94% 28
Buckinghamshire +9 4 £65,000 +23.81% 6
Surrey -2 1 £60,000 - 7
Berkshire -30 1 - - 18
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 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.56%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) Azure
2 9 (23.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (10.26%) AWS
4 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.13%) GCP
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.56%) dbt
6 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.90%) DNS
2 13 (33.33%) DHCP
2 13 (33.33%) SAN
3 4 (10.26%) Firewall
4 3 (7.69%) WAN
5 2 (5.13%) LAN
5 2 (5.13%) SD-WAN
5 2 (5.13%) VPN
6 1 (2.56%) InfiniBand
6 1 (2.56%) IPsec
6 1 (2.56%) Junos
6 1 (2.56%) MPLS
6 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (25.64%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.82%) Oracle Database
2 5 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle Database 10g
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle Database 11g
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle Database 12c
4 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.13%) Power BI
6 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.56%) Looker
6 1 (2.56%) MySQL
6 1 (2.56%) Power Query
6 1 (2.56%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Git
1 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (2.56%) Banking
3 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (28.21%) Architect
3 9 (23.08%) Azure Architect
3 9 (23.08%) Azure Data Architect
3 9 (23.08%) Data Architect
4 6 (15.38%) Administrator
5 5 (12.82%) DBA
6 4 (10.26%) Senior
6 4 (10.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Lead
9 1 (2.56%) .NET Developer
9 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Azure Administrator
9 1 (2.56%) C# .NET Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Data Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Power BI Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (2.56%) Entity Framework
2 1 (2.56%) jQuery
2 1 (2.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Replication
2 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (38.46%) Windows
2 14 (35.90%) Windows Server
3 13 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 13 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (5.13%) Linux
5 1 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (43.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (41.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (38.46%) DevOps
5 13 (33.33%) Security Operations
6 12 (30.77%) Data Modelling
6 12 (30.77%) ETL
7 11 (28.21%) Data Security
7 11 (28.21%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (25.64%) Data Governance
8 10 (25.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (15.38%) High Availability
10 5 (12.82%) Migration
11 4 (10.26%) Database Migration
11 4 (10.26%) Database Mirroring
12 3 (7.69%) CI/CD
12 3 (7.69%) Computer Science
12 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
12 3 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) SQL
2 16 (41.03%) Python
3 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.13%) Bicep
5 1 (2.56%) Bash
5 1 (2.56%) C#
5 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.56%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) CCNA
3 1 (2.56%) CCNP
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.56%) JNCIA
3 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.56%) MCSE
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.21%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 13 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.56%) Ceph
2 1 (2.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Lustre
2 1 (2.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 13 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 13 (33.33%) SCCM
1 13 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 4 (10.26%) Terraform
3 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (48.72%) Microsoft
2 14 (35.90%) VMware
3 13 (33.33%) 3PAR
3 13 (33.33%) NetApp
3 13 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 13 (33.33%) Veeam
4 9 (23.08%) Databricks
5 6 (15.38%) Oracle
6 2 (5.13%) New Relic
7 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.56%) Cisco
7 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.56%) Fujitsu
7 1 (2.56%) IBM
7 1 (2.56%) Informatica
7 1 (2.56%) Infragistics
7 1 (2.56%) Juniper
7 1 (2.56%) Perforce