Performance Optimisation Jobs in the South West

Performance Optimisation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 235 264
Rank change year-on-year +76 +29 +36
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 22 51 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.63% 0.54% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.66% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5 49 4
10th Percentile £61,750 £34,200 £32,977
25th Percentile - £42,500 £36,046
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -11.89% +13.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £61,250 £77,500
90th Percentile - £81,250 -
England median annual salary £69,315 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.90% -10.71% +12.00%

All Process and 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 3,244 7,782 6,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.16% 82.74% 94.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,816 5,594 3,507
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £39,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,650
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the South West

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the South West.

Salary trend for Performance Optimisation in the South West

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the South West over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

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 23 May 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
Bristol +54 9 £62,500 -19.35% 23
Wiltshire +43 7 £75,000 +50.00% 20
Devon +23 3 - - 43
Gloucestershire +58 2 - - 41
Somerset +6 1 - - 32
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (31.82%) WordPress
2 4 (18.18%) CMS
2 4 (18.18%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
1 7 (31.82%) Stripe
2 6 (27.27%) Pulumi
3 2 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) Broadband
2 2 (9.09%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) NoSQL
1 6 (27.27%) RDBMS
1 6 (27.27%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Git
2 6 (27.27%) Jaeger
General
1 7 (31.82%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Marketing
5 3 (13.64%) Aerospace
5 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (13.64%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Lead
3 7 (31.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (31.82%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
3 7 (31.82%) Web Developer
3 7 (31.82%) Website Developer
4 6 (27.27%) Team Leader
5 4 (18.18%) Digital Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Electronics Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior
6 3 (13.64%) Senior Electronics Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Lead Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Flutter Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) CSS
1 11 (50.00%) HTML
2 6 (27.27%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (27.27%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
3 4 (18.18%) Node.js
3 4 (18.18%) React
4 1 (4.55%) Flutter
4 1 (4.55%) JSON
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Learning Management System
2 3 (13.64%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.64%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.09%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (9.09%) Social Media
4 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
1 6 (27.27%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Android
2 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Web Development
2 9 (40.91%) E-Commerce
3 8 (36.36%) Product Management
3 8 (36.36%) User Experience
4 7 (31.82%) Change Management
4 7 (31.82%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 7 (31.82%) Front End Development
4 7 (31.82%) Line Management
4 7 (31.82%) Project Management
4 7 (31.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 6 (27.27%) Agile
5 6 (27.27%) Budget Control
5 6 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 6 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (27.27%) High Availability
5 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 6 (27.27%) Resource Management
5 6 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 6 (27.27%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) JavaScript
2 7 (31.82%) PHP
3 6 (27.27%) Bash
3 6 (27.27%) Go
3 6 (27.27%) Java
3 6 (27.27%) Python
4 3 (13.64%) MATLAB
5 1 (4.55%) Dart
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) AWS Certification
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) Accessibility
1 7 (31.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Ansible
1 6 (27.27%) Argo
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 6 (27.27%) Kustomize
1 6 (27.27%) Prometheus
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) Google