Performance Optimisation Jobs in the Thames Valley

Performance Optimisation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 223 257
Rank change year-on-year +97 +34 +21
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 45 17 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.49% 0.25% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 0.30% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 36 10 4
10th Percentile £47,500 £49,250 -
25th Percentile £80,313 £52,165 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £65,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% -8.77% +35.71%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £75,938
90th Percentile - £88,750 £79,875
South East median annual salary £82,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +37.50% -4.00% -7.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,806 5,737 5,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.88% 85.18% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 4,015 3,158
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,833 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Berkshire +75 30 £82,500 - 4
Oxfordshire +52 13 £55,000 -3.52% 3
Buckinghamshire +38 2 - - 2
Performance Optimisation
South East

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (8.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.44%) Apache
3 1 (2.22%) CMS
3 1 (2.22%) Kentico
3 1 (2.22%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (2.22%) Sitefinity
3 1 (2.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 28 (62.22%) Azure
2 27 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (57.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 26 (57.78%) Azure Service Bus
3 26 (57.78%) SonarCloud
4 3 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.44%) AWS
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.22%) GCP
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.22%) Serverless
6 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) WAN
2 2 (4.44%) MQTT
3 1 (2.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (57.78%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (8.89%) Hadoop
3 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.44%) Big Data
4 2 (4.44%) Pinecone
4 2 (4.44%) Weaviate
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.22%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.22%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.22%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.22%) Impala
5 1 (2.22%) Power BI
5 1 (2.22%) PowerCenter
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (68.89%) Git
2 28 (62.22%) Visual Studio
3 26 (57.78%) MSBuild
3 26 (57.78%) Octopus Deploy
3 26 (57.78%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (4.44%) MLflow
5 1 (2.22%) ERwin
5 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 22 (48.89%) Retail
2 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Law
5 3 (6.67%) Advertising
6 2 (4.44%) Automotive
6 2 (4.44%) Finance
7 1 (2.22%) Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (57.78%) Architect
1 26 (57.78%) Technical Architect
2 4 (8.89%) Developer
3 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 2 (4.44%) Control Systems Engineer
3 2 (4.44%) Lead
3 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
3 2 (4.44%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (2.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (2.22%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (2.22%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (2.22%) Data Engineer
4 1 (2.22%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (2.22%) Digital Delivery Manager
4 1 (2.22%) Report Analyst
4 1 (2.22%) Senior
4 1 (2.22%) Support Engineer
4 1 (2.22%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (62.22%) gRPC
2 26 (57.78%) .NET
2 26 (57.78%) ASP.NET
2 26 (57.78%) Bootstrap
2 26 (57.78%) CSS
2 26 (57.78%) HTML
2 26 (57.78%) JSON
2 26 (57.78%) REST
2 26 (57.78%) XML
3 2 (4.44%) Kafka
3 2 (4.44%) NumPy
3 2 (4.44%) Pandas
3 2 (4.44%) PyTorch
3 2 (4.44%) scikit-learn
3 2 (4.44%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 3 (6.67%) Virtual Team
2 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.44%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (4.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (64.44%) DevOps
1 29 (64.44%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (57.78%) API Integration
2 26 (57.78%) Code Quality
2 26 (57.78%) Data Encryption
2 26 (57.78%) Design Patterns
2 26 (57.78%) Event-Driven
2 26 (57.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 26 (57.78%) Microservices
2 26 (57.78%) MVC
2 26 (57.78%) Performance Testing
3 22 (48.89%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (17.78%) Data Analysis
5 6 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 6 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 6 (13.33%) Validation
6 5 (11.11%) Data Science
6 5 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 4 (8.89%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (8.89%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 28 (62.22%) SQL
2 27 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 26 (57.78%) C#
4 13 (28.89%) Python
5 8 (17.78%) MATLAB
6 4 (8.89%) C++
7 3 (6.67%) Java
8 2 (4.44%) C
8 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.44%) R
9 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) Degree
2 8 (17.78%) Master's Degree
3 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (57.78%) GDPR
2 2 (4.44%) HAZOP
3 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (66.67%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Kubeflow
1 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) Grafana
2 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.22%) Cisco
1 1 (2.22%) Cloudera
1 1 (2.22%) Informatica
1 1 (2.22%) Optimizely
1 1 (2.22%) Sitecore