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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 247 248
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +40
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 38 92 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.42% 0.71% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.88% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 17 49 36
10th Percentile £47,250 £52,500 £39,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £92,500 £88,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +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 7,893 10,489 8,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 88.01% 80.96% 93.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,221 5,907 5,741
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,151 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -20 27 £60,000 +1.48% 14
Berkshire -20 14 £87,500 +47.99% 9
Buckinghamshire +1 11 £60,000 -13.36% 4
Kent +12 7 - - 1
Surrey +37 3 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Oxfordshire +21 2 £57,500 +6.84% 2
Hampshire +48 1 £55,000 -15.38% 13
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.89%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (60.53%) Azure
2 19 (50.00%) AWS
2 19 (50.00%) GCP
3 13 (34.21%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (21.05%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.05%) DNS
2 7 (18.42%) DHCP
2 7 (18.42%) SAN
3 5 (13.16%) LAN
3 5 (13.16%) WAN
4 3 (7.89%) VPN
5 2 (5.26%) Firewall
6 1 (2.63%) IPsec
6 1 (2.63%) Junos
6 1 (2.63%) MPLS
6 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (21.05%) Power BI
1 8 (21.05%) SQL Server
1 8 (21.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 8 (21.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (7.89%) Big Data
3 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.26%) MySQL
4 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Git
General
1 26 (68.42%) Social Skills
2 14 (36.84%) Finance
3 13 (34.21%) Law
3 13 (34.21%) Legal
4 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Senior
2 13 (34.21%) Senior Manager
3 12 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Analyst
5 5 (13.16%) DBA
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Report Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) SQL DBA
8 2 (5.26%) Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Lead
8 2 (5.26%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) MySQL DBA
9 1 (2.63%) AWS Architect
9 1 (2.63%) Business Analyst
9 1 (2.63%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
9 1 (2.63%) Production DBA
9 1 (2.63%) SQL Server DBA
9 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Production DBA
9 1 (2.63%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (34.21%) Hugging Face
1 13 (34.21%) LangChain
1 13 (34.21%) PyTorch
1 13 (34.21%) TensorFlow
2 3 (7.89%) Pandas
3 1 (2.63%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (7.89%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.63%) Clustering
2 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) Windows
1 8 (21.05%) Windows Server
2 7 (18.42%) Windows Server 2012
2 7 (18.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) Continuous Improvement
2 16 (42.11%) High Availability
3 15 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (36.84%) Cloud Security
4 14 (36.84%) Computer Science
4 14 (36.84%) ITIL
4 14 (36.84%) Roadmaps
4 14 (36.84%) Service Delivery
4 14 (36.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 13 (34.21%) Artificial Intelligence
5 13 (34.21%) Change Management
5 13 (34.21%) Enterprise Architecture
5 13 (34.21%) Generative AI
5 13 (34.21%) Incident Management
5 13 (34.21%) LLM
5 13 (34.21%) MLOps
5 13 (34.21%) ModelOps
5 13 (34.21%) Observability
5 13 (34.21%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (34.21%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) SQL
2 4 (10.53%) T-SQL
3 3 (7.89%) Bash
3 3 (7.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.89%) Python
4 1 (2.63%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (47.37%) Degree
2 14 (36.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (34.21%) Master's Degree
4 3 (7.89%) MCSE
4 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (7.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (5.26%) CCNP
5 2 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.63%) CCNA
6 1 (2.63%) JNCIA
6 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) GDPR
2 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.63%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Active Directory
1 7 (18.42%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (36.84%) Grafana
1 14 (36.84%) Prometheus
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (18.42%) SCCM
2 7 (18.42%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (34.21%) OpenAI
2 11 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 11 (28.95%) VMware
3 7 (18.42%) 3PAR
3 7 (18.42%) NetApp
3 7 (18.42%) SolarWinds
3 7 (18.42%) Veeam
4 2 (5.26%) Cisco
4 2 (5.26%) Rollbar
5 1 (2.63%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.63%) Fujitsu
5 1 (2.63%) Juniper