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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 224 273
Rank change year-on-year -7 +49 +42
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 56 31 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.43% 0.46% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.52% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 47 27 71
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £66,250 £61,250
90th Percentile - £81,500 £62,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% +1.69% -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 9,763 6,015 13,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 74.12% 89.83% 84.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6,300 3,268 9,583
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -1 20 £60,000 +0.73% 23
East Sussex - 19 £85,000 - 1
Buckinghamshire -15 15 £60,000 - 10
Hampshire -10 10 £62,500 +13.64% 16
Kent -36 6 £48,500 -42.94% 5
Berkshire +6 3 £57,500 -2.75% 9
Oxfordshire - 2 £65,000 - 4
Surrey -39 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 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.79%) Apache
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.79%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.79%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 38 (67.86%) Azure
2 19 (33.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 10 (17.86%) AWS
4 7 (12.50%) GCP
5 5 (8.93%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.57%) GitHub
7 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.57%) SaaS
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.79%) dbt
8 1 (1.79%) iPaaS
8 1 (1.79%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (19.64%) DNS
2 9 (16.07%) Firewall
3 7 (12.50%) WAN
4 6 (10.71%) LAN
4 6 (10.71%) VPN
5 5 (8.93%) DHCP
5 5 (8.93%) SAN
6 1 (1.79%) InfiniBand
6 1 (1.79%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (44.64%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (32.14%) SQL Server
3 6 (10.71%) Oracle Database
4 5 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (8.93%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (7.14%) Oracle Database 10g
5 4 (7.14%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (7.14%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.57%) Power BI
6 2 (3.57%) Tableau
7 1 (1.79%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.79%) Impala
7 1 (1.79%) Looker
7 1 (1.79%) Parquet
7 1 (1.79%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (51.79%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Finance
4 2 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Games
5 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (41.07%) Architect
2 19 (33.93%) Azure Architect
2 19 (33.93%) Azure Data Architect
2 19 (33.93%) Data Architect
3 16 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (19.64%) Senior
5 9 (16.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Data Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Administrator
7 5 (8.93%) DBA
7 5 (8.93%) Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) IT Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Lead
9 2 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) .NET
2 3 (5.36%) .NET Framework
2 3 (5.36%) ASP.NET
2 3 (5.36%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (1.79%) EDI
3 1 (1.79%) IDoc
3 1 (1.79%) jQuery
3 1 (1.79%) JSON
3 1 (1.79%) Kafka
3 1 (1.79%) OAuth
3 1 (1.79%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.79%) OpenID
3 1 (1.79%) Pandas
3 1 (1.79%) PySpark
3 1 (1.79%) REST
3 1 (1.79%) RESTful
3 1 (1.79%) XML
3 1 (1.79%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.79%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.43%) Windows
2 11 (19.64%) Windows Server
3 5 (8.93%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (8.93%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.57%) Linux
5 1 (1.79%) Android
5 1 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (53.57%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (44.64%) Data Modelling
3 24 (42.86%) Data Governance
3 24 (42.86%) ETL
3 24 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (39.29%) Technical Leadership
5 20 (35.71%) Data Security
6 16 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 15 (26.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (21.43%) Agile
8 12 (21.43%) DevOps
9 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
9 11 (19.64%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (14.29%) AI
11 7 (12.50%) Analytics
11 7 (12.50%) High Availability
11 7 (12.50%) ITIL
12 6 (10.71%) Data Engineering
12 6 (10.71%) Migration
12 6 (10.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 34 (60.71%) SQL
2 30 (53.57%) Python
3 6 (10.71%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.36%) C#
4 3 (5.36%) R
5 2 (3.57%) Bicep
5 2 (3.57%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.79%) Bash
6 1 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.14%) Degree
2 3 (5.36%) MCSE
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (5.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (41.07%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) SLA
3 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (8.93%) Active Directory
1 5 (8.93%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.79%) Ceph
3 1 (1.79%) Docker
3 1 (1.79%) Lustre
3 1 (1.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Terraform
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (8.93%) SCCM
2 5 (8.93%) vCenter Server
3 2 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (39.29%) Databricks
2 21 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 11 (19.64%) VMware
4 6 (10.71%) Oracle
5 5 (8.93%) 3PAR
5 5 (8.93%) NetApp
5 5 (8.93%) SolarWinds
5 5 (8.93%) Veeam
6 2 (3.57%) IBM
6 2 (3.57%) Informatica
6 2 (3.57%) New Relic
7 1 (1.79%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.79%) Callidus
7 1 (1.79%) Infragistics
7 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.79%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.79%) Rollbar
7 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.79%) webMethods
7 1 (1.79%) Xamarin