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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 218 212
Rank change year-on-year -14 -6 +80
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 36 93 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.37% 0.88% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 1.04% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 23 50 49
10th Percentile £47,900 £52,500 £38,900
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £87,500 £77,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - £87,500 £63,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +4.17% -

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 8,093 8,944 6,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 82.84% 84.38% 92.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4,943 4,660 4,782
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,725 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +4.59% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 5 December 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 5 December 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
Kent +7 11 £48,500 - 4
Hampshire +33 10 £60,000 -7.69% 10
Thames Valley -24 9 £60,000 +1.48% 15
Buckinghamshire +20 8 £60,000 -2.44% 8
East Sussex +13 5 £85,000 +30.77% 3
Surrey +4 1 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Berkshire -35 1 - - 6
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 (2.78%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.78%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.78%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 5 (13.89%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.78%) dbt
6 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (33.33%) DNS
2 10 (27.78%) DHCP
2 10 (27.78%) SAN
3 6 (16.67%) Firewall
4 5 (13.89%) WAN
5 4 (11.11%) LAN
5 4 (11.11%) VPN
6 2 (5.56%) SD-WAN
7 1 (2.78%) InfiniBand
7 1 (2.78%) IPsec
7 1 (2.78%) Junos
7 1 (2.78%) MPLS
7 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (36.11%) SQL Server
2 9 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (13.89%) Oracle Database
3 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (13.89%) Power BI
4 4 (11.11%) Oracle Database 10g
4 4 (11.11%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (11.11%) Oracle Database 12c
4 4 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 3 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.78%) Looker
6 1 (2.78%) MySQL
6 1 (2.78%) Power Query
6 1 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Git
1 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Architect
3 6 (16.67%) Administrator
3 6 (16.67%) Senior
3 6 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Azure Architect
4 5 (13.89%) Azure Data Architect
4 5 (13.89%) Data Architect
4 5 (13.89%) DBA
5 3 (8.33%) Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Report Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Lead
7 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Administrator
7 1 (2.78%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (2.78%) Entity Framework
2 1 (2.78%) jQuery
2 1 (2.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 4 (11.11%) Replication
2 3 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (36.11%) Windows
2 12 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 10 (27.78%) Windows Server 2012
3 10 (27.78%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (5.56%) Linux
5 1 (2.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (33.33%) DevOps
5 11 (30.56%) ETL
6 10 (27.78%) Security Operations
7 9 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (22.22%) Data Modelling
8 8 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (19.44%) Data Security
10 6 (16.67%) Data Governance
10 6 (16.67%) High Availability
10 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (13.89%) Migration
12 4 (11.11%) Database Migration
12 4 (11.11%) Database Mirroring
12 4 (11.11%) Process Improvement
13 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
13 3 (8.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) SQL
2 12 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.33%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.56%) Bicep
6 1 (2.78%) Bash
6 1 (2.78%) C#
6 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.78%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) MCSE
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (5.56%) CCNP
3 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) CCNA
4 1 (2.78%) JNCIA
4 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (27.78%) Active Directory
1 10 (27.78%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.78%) Ceph
2 1 (2.78%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Lustre
2 1 (2.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (27.78%) SCCM
1 10 (27.78%) vCenter Server
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (36.11%) VMware
3 10 (27.78%) 3PAR
3 10 (27.78%) NetApp
3 10 (27.78%) SolarWinds
3 10 (27.78%) Veeam
4 6 (16.67%) Oracle
5 5 (13.89%) Databricks
6 2 (5.56%) Cisco
6 2 (5.56%) New Relic
7 1 (2.78%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.78%) Fujitsu
7 1 (2.78%) IBM
7 1 (2.78%) Informatica
7 1 (2.78%) Infragistics
7 1 (2.78%) Juniper
7 1 (2.78%) Perforce