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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 250 277
Rank change year-on-year -34 +27 -8
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 51 41 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.29% 0.45% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.52% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 45 20 44
10th Percentile - £46,875 £52,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £54,375 £53,818
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £85,625
90th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +7.44%

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 12,541 7,936 11,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.32% 87.76% 80.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9,010 4,272 7,016
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,200 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,460
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.59% -8.94%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 +11 24 £52,500 -12.50% 14
Buckinghamshire +3 17 £52,500 -12.50% 5
Surrey -20 9 £65,000 - 3
Hampshire -41 6 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Berkshire +14 4 £57,500 -34.29% 5
East Sussex - 4 £85,000 - 1
West Sussex - 4 £85,000 -
Kent -19 3 £57,500 -
Oxfordshire -21 3 £65,000 +13.04% 4
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 (9.80%) IIS
1 5 (9.80%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (1.96%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 44 (86.27%) Azure
2 9 (17.65%) SaaS
3 8 (15.69%) AWS
3 8 (15.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (11.76%) Cloudflare
5 6 (11.76%) GCP
6 5 (9.80%) Azure AKS
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Pipelines
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (5.88%) GitHub
7 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.92%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.96%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) DNS
1 5 (9.80%) Firewall
1 5 (9.80%) LAN
1 5 (9.80%) VPN
1 5 (9.80%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (54.90%) SQL Server
2 11 (21.57%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (19.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (9.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (5.88%) MySQL
6 2 (3.92%) MS Access
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.96%) Metadata
7 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.96%) Power BI
7 1 (1.96%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Git
2 6 (11.76%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.96%) GitLab
3 1 (1.96%) JIRA
3 1 (1.96%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (19.61%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.69%) Finance
3 5 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Games
Job Titles
1 15 (29.41%) Senior
2 11 (21.57%) Architect
3 10 (19.61%) Developer
4 8 (15.69%) Azure Architect
4 8 (15.69%) Azure Data Architect
4 8 (15.69%) Data Architect
4 8 (15.69%) Software Support Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Support Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) DBA
5 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support
6 6 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Senior Developer
7 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) SQL DBA
8 4 (7.84%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (31.37%) .NET
2 6 (11.76%) Terraform
3 5 (9.80%) ARM Templates
3 5 (9.80%) Loki
3 5 (9.80%) RESTful
4 3 (5.88%) .NET Framework
4 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET
4 3 (5.88%) CakePHP
4 3 (5.88%) CSS
4 3 (5.88%) Entity Framework
4 3 (5.88%) HTML
4 3 (5.88%) HTML5
4 3 (5.88%) Laravel
4 3 (5.88%) Nuxt
4 3 (5.88%) Symfony
4 3 (5.88%) Vue
5 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (1.96%) IDoc
6 1 (1.96%) Kafka
6 1 (1.96%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.92%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.57%) Windows
2 10 (19.61%) Linux
3 6 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.92%) Android
4 2 (3.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 16 (31.37%) DevOps
3 15 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (23.53%) Data Modelling
5 12 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (19.61%) Agile
6 10 (19.61%) Data Governance
6 10 (19.61%) ETL
6 10 (19.61%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (15.69%) Data Security
7 8 (15.69%) High Availability
7 8 (15.69%) Microservices
7 8 (15.69%) Software Engineering
8 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (11.76%) Test Automation
10 5 (9.80%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (64.71%) SQL
2 18 (35.29%) C#
3 16 (31.37%) T-SQL
4 11 (21.57%) Python
5 8 (15.69%) PowerShell
6 5 (9.80%) Bicep
7 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.88%) PHP
8 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.96%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.84%) Degree
2 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.96%) MCSE
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.96%) PMP
3 1 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 8 (15.69%) QA
3 2 (3.92%) SLA
4 1 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (17.65%) Docker
2 5 (9.80%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.80%) Grafana
2 5 (9.80%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.92%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.96%) Ansible
4 1 (1.96%) Argo
Vendors
1 23 (45.10%) Microsoft
2 9 (17.65%) Databricks
3 6 (11.76%) Oracle
3 6 (11.76%) VMware
4 2 (3.92%) JD Edwards
4 2 (3.92%) RedGate
4 2 (3.92%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.96%) Callidus
5 1 (1.96%) EMC
5 1 (1.96%) Google
5 1 (1.96%) IBM
5 1 (1.96%) Informatica
5 1 (1.96%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.96%) New Relic
5 1 (1.96%) Rollbar
5 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.96%) SAP
5 1 (1.96%) webMethods