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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 212 218
Rank change year-on-year -23 +6 +48
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 47 102 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.52% 0.90% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.10% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 22 57 50
10th Percentile £47,200 £52,500 £39,075
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,688 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,250 £89,500 £63,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -

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 7,844 9,237 7,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 87.42% 81.45% 93.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,416 4,865 5,108
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 October 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 31 October 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 -15 26 £60,000 +1.48% 37
Berkshire -19 14 £87,500 +47.99% 34
Kent +17 11 £48,500 - 2
Buckinghamshire +11 10 £60,000 -2.44% 3
Hampshire +26 8 £60,000 -7.69% 1
Oxfordshire +19 2 £57,500 +6.84%
Surrey +18 1 £60,000 +9.09% 8
East Sussex -4 1 £85,000 +30.77% 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 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.13%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.13%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 22 (46.81%) Azure
2 19 (40.43%) AWS
3 18 (38.30%) GCP
4 13 (27.66%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (10.64%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (25.53%) DNS
2 10 (21.28%) DHCP
2 10 (21.28%) SAN
3 6 (12.77%) WAN
4 5 (10.64%) Firewall
4 5 (10.64%) LAN
5 4 (8.51%) VPN
6 2 (4.26%) SD-WAN
7 1 (2.13%) InfiniBand
7 1 (2.13%) IPsec
7 1 (2.13%) Junos
7 1 (2.13%) MPLS
7 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.64%) Oracle Database
3 4 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.51%) Oracle Database 10g
3 4 (8.51%) Oracle Database 11g
3 4 (8.51%) Oracle Database 12c
3 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.51%) Power BI
4 3 (6.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (6.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.26%) MySQL
6 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.13%) Power Query
6 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Git
General
1 29 (61.70%) Social Skills
2 16 (34.04%) Finance
3 13 (27.66%) Law
3 13 (27.66%) Legal
4 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (40.43%) Senior
2 16 (34.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (27.66%) Senior Manager
4 8 (17.02%) DBA
5 7 (14.89%) Administrator
6 6 (12.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Architect
8 3 (6.38%) Analyst
8 3 (6.38%) Report Analyst
9 2 (4.26%) Lead
9 2 (4.26%) MySQL DBA
9 2 (4.26%) Technical Architect
10 1 (2.13%) AWS Architect
10 1 (2.13%) Azure Administrator
10 1 (2.13%) Azure Architect
10 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Architect
10 1 (2.13%) Azure Engineer
10 1 (2.13%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 1 (2.13%) Power BI Developer
10 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Production DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) Hugging Face
1 13 (27.66%) LangChain
1 13 (27.66%) PyTorch
1 13 (27.66%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.13%) .NET
2 1 (2.13%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Replication
2 4 (8.51%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.13%) Clustering
5 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.13%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (25.53%) Windows
1 12 (25.53%) Windows Server
2 10 (21.28%) Windows Server 2012
2 10 (21.28%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (4.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (61.70%) Continuous Improvement
2 21 (44.68%) High Availability
3 16 (34.04%) Computer Science
3 16 (34.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (31.91%) ITIL
4 15 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (31.91%) Roadmaps
5 14 (29.79%) AI
5 14 (29.79%) Change Management
5 14 (29.79%) Cloud Security
5 14 (29.79%) Machine Learning
5 14 (29.79%) Observability
5 14 (29.79%) Proactive Monitoring
5 14 (29.79%) Service Delivery
5 14 (29.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 13 (27.66%) Data Science
6 13 (27.66%) Generative AI
6 13 (27.66%) LLM
6 13 (27.66%) Runbook
6 13 (27.66%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.66%) SQL
2 7 (14.89%) Python
3 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.51%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.13%) Bash
4 1 (2.13%) Bicep
4 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (42.55%) Degree
2 15 (31.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (29.79%) Master's Degree
4 4 (8.51%) MCSE
4 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (4.26%) CCNP
5 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.13%) CCNA
6 1 (2.13%) JNCIA
6 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.26%) GDPR
1 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) Active Directory
1 10 (21.28%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.26%) Docker
3 1 (2.13%) Ceph
3 1 (2.13%) Lustre
3 1 (2.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 14 (29.79%) Grafana
1 14 (29.79%) Prometheus
2 10 (21.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (21.28%) SCCM
2 10 (21.28%) vCenter Server
3 2 (4.26%) Terraform
4 1 (2.13%) Ansible
4 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (36.17%) Microsoft
2 14 (29.79%) VMware
3 13 (27.66%) OpenAI
4 10 (21.28%) 3PAR
4 10 (21.28%) NetApp
4 10 (21.28%) SolarWinds
4 10 (21.28%) Veeam
5 6 (12.77%) Oracle
6 2 (4.26%) Cisco
6 2 (4.26%) Rollbar
7 1 (2.13%) Databricks
7 1 (2.13%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.13%) Fujitsu
7 1 (2.13%) IBM
7 1 (2.13%) Juniper
7 1 (2.13%) New Relic