Performance Tuning Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Performance Tuning
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 52 92
Rank change year-on-year -32 +40 +9
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 3 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 0.19% 0.70% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.88% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £53,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £46,000 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £48,507
% change year-on-year +25.00% +23.69% -24.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,007 453 1,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 65.39% 78.92% 79.29%
Number of salaries quoted 742 298 842
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,368
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £49,012
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.08% +8.92%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,825 £77,327
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Performance Tuning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Sheffield -22 3 £44,000 -18.14% 4
Performance Tuning
Yorkshire

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (66.67%) PowerApps
2 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) Power Query
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Kanban
1 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) KVM
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) PowerCLI
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware