Performance Optimisation Job Trends in the South West

Performance Optimisation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 166 200
Rank change year-on-year -3 +34 +76
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 8 23 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.16% 0.55% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.65% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 14
10th Percentile £39,050 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -7.12%
75th Percentile £47,500 £72,500 £64,063
90th Percentile £50,500 £99,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Performance Optimisation 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,639 3,549 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 85.58% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,776 3,216
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,454 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Performance Optimisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in the South West

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the South West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Optimisation in the South West

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Devon +6 5 £45,000 +12.50% 14
Gloucestershire - 2 - - 10
Cornwall - 1 - -
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
1 3 (37.50%) SaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Figma
3 1 (12.50%) Firebase
3 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Jaeger
2 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Team Leader
4 1 (12.50%) UI Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Core
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
2 3 (37.50%) Dapper ORM
2 3 (37.50%) Entity Framework
2 3 (37.50%) REST
3 2 (25.00%) Middleware
3 2 (25.00%) ZeroMQ
4 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (12.50%) Flutter
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) LESS
4 1 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (12.50%) React
4 1 (12.50%) React Native
4 1 (12.50%) Sass
4 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (25.00%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (25.00%) Cross-Platform Development
4 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (25.00%) OOD
4 2 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 2 (25.00%) UX Design
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bash
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
3 1 (12.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) QA
1 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Argo
2 1 (12.50%) Kustomize
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google