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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 225 309
Rank change year-on-year -26 +84 +3
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 53 43 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.37% 0.55% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.61% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 45 26 66
10th Percentile £50,500 £47,500 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £66,875 £61,250
90th Percentile - £90,625 £81,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £63,750 £59,000
% change year-on-year +13.73% +8.05% -1.67%

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 10,400 7,047 14,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.90% 90.51% 82.46%
Number of salaries quoted 7,168 3,313 10,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £35,363 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

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 June 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 5 June 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 +3 24 £58,250 -2.92% 13
Buckinghamshire +1 18 £52,500 -12.50% 3
East Sussex - 14 £85,000 -
Kent -27 5 - - 1
West Sussex - 4 £85,000 - 4
Berkshire -2 3 £57,500 -17.86% 8
Oxfordshire -7 3 £65,000 +13.04% 2
Surrey -27 3 £81,250 +25.00% 4
Hampshire -30 3 £65,000 -31.58% 8
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 (1.89%) Apache
1 1 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 41 (77.36%) Azure
2 18 (33.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 10 (18.87%) AWS
4 7 (13.21%) SaaS
5 6 (11.32%) GCP
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.66%) GitHub
8 2 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.89%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.89%) iPaaS
9 1 (1.89%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.87%) DNS
2 6 (11.32%) Firewall
2 6 (11.32%) LAN
2 6 (11.32%) VPN
2 6 (11.32%) WAN
3 4 (7.55%) DHCP
3 4 (7.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (43.40%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (33.96%) SQL Server
3 5 (9.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (7.55%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.89%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.89%) Impala
7 1 (1.89%) Metadata
7 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.89%) Parquet
7 1 (1.89%) Power BI
7 1 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.89%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) GitLab
2 1 (1.89%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (1.89%) JIRA
2 1 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (50.94%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Finance
4 1 (1.89%) Banking
4 1 (1.89%) Games
4 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (39.62%) Architect
2 18 (33.96%) Azure Architect
2 18 (33.96%) Azure Data Architect
2 18 (33.96%) Data Architect
3 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (22.64%) Senior
4 6 (11.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Data Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Software Support Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) 3rd Line Support
6 3 (5.66%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) DBA
6 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Lead
6 3 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) .NET
2 3 (5.66%) .NET Framework
2 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET
2 3 (5.66%) Entity Framework
3 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (3.77%) RESTful
4 1 (1.89%) EDI
4 1 (1.89%) IDoc
4 1 (1.89%) JSON
4 1 (1.89%) Kafka
4 1 (1.89%) OAuth
4 1 (1.89%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.89%) OpenID
4 1 (1.89%) Pandas
4 1 (1.89%) PySpark
4 1 (1.89%) XML
4 1 (1.89%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.77%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.75%) Windows
1 11 (20.75%) Windows Server
2 4 (7.55%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (7.55%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (3.77%) Android
4 1 (1.89%) Linux
4 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (52.83%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (49.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (43.40%) Data Governance
4 22 (41.51%) Data Modelling
5 21 (39.62%) ETL
5 21 (39.62%) Technical Leadership
6 18 (33.96%) Data Security
7 12 (22.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (20.75%) CI/CD
9 10 (18.87%) Agile
10 9 (16.98%) DevOps
10 9 (16.98%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (11.32%) AI
11 6 (11.32%) Analytics
11 6 (11.32%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (11.32%) ITIL
12 5 (9.43%) Data Engineering
12 5 (9.43%) High Availability
12 5 (9.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (64.15%) SQL
2 23 (43.40%) Python
3 9 (16.98%) T-SQL
4 8 (15.09%) C#
5 3 (5.66%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.77%) R
7 1 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.89%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (5.66%) Degree
2 2 (3.77%) MCSE
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.89%) PMP
3 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (37.74%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) SLA
3 1 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Active Directory
1 4 (7.55%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.77%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (11.32%) Terraform
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (7.55%) SCCM
2 4 (7.55%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
3 1 (1.89%) Argo
3 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 21 (39.62%) Databricks
2 20 (37.74%) Microsoft
3 11 (20.75%) VMware
4 4 (7.55%) 3PAR
4 4 (7.55%) NetApp
4 4 (7.55%) SolarWinds
4 4 (7.55%) Veeam
5 3 (5.66%) Oracle
6 2 (3.77%) Xamarin
7 1 (1.89%) Callidus
7 1 (1.89%) EMC
7 1 (1.89%) IBM
7 1 (1.89%) Informatica
7 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.89%) New Relic
7 1 (1.89%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.89%) Rollbar
7 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.89%) SAP
7 1 (1.89%) webMethods