Performance Optimisation Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Performance Optimisation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 352 446
Rank change year-on-year -4 +94 +246
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 161 222 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.61% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.69% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 95 126 88
10th Percentile £41,163 £46,750 £40,875
25th Percentile £52,250 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +31.82% -5.98%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £76,875
UK median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,182 32,357 28,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.09% 88.47% 89.85%
Number of salaries quoted 18,966 14,690 21,477
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,329
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,778
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
North of England +32 69 £65,000 +5.67% 116
South East -18 45 £60,000 -27.27% 256
North West +3 34 £60,000 -4.00% 48
Yorkshire +16 28 £78,750 +75.00% 61
Midlands +20 13 £57,500 -8.00% 97
East of England +16 13 £75,000 +3.45% 106
Scotland -3 12 £97,500 +85.71% 26
West Midlands +25 11 £57,500 -4.17% 50
North East +10 7 £42,500 -43.33% 7
South West -7 7 £45,000 -14.29% 76
Wales - 4 £41,000 - 17
East Midlands -8 2 £47,500 -36.67% 41
Performance Optimisation
UK

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (11.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (6.21%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.11%) nginx
4 3 (1.86%) CMS
5 2 (1.24%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Weka
2 1 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.62%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.62%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.62%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 59 (36.65%) Azure
2 44 (27.33%) GCP
3 32 (19.88%) AWS
4 19 (11.80%) Power Platform
5 12 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (7.45%) PowerApps
6 9 (5.59%) Entra ID
7 8 (4.97%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (4.35%) Serverless
9 6 (3.73%) SaaS
10 5 (3.11%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.86%) Nutanix
13 2 (1.24%) Azure AKS
13 2 (1.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (1.24%) dbt
13 2 (1.24%) Pulumi
13 2 (1.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.70%) VPN
2 8 (4.97%) Firewall
3 7 (4.35%) DHCP
3 7 (4.35%) DNS
4 6 (3.73%) VLAN
5 5 (3.11%) WAN
6 4 (2.48%) Internet
7 3 (1.86%) LAN
7 3 (1.86%) SSL
7 3 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.24%) Broadband
8 2 (1.24%) Intranet
8 2 (1.24%) SAN
8 2 (1.24%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.62%) HTTP
9 1 (0.62%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.62%) PCoIP
9 1 (0.62%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.62%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (13.04%) BigQuery
2 19 (11.80%) SQL Server
3 12 (7.45%) MySQL
4 11 (6.83%) Power BI
5 8 (4.97%) NoSQL
6 7 (4.35%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.73%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.11%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.86%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.86%) Metadata
10 3 (1.86%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.86%) Tableau
11 2 (1.24%) Data Mining
11 2 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.24%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.62%) FileMaker
12 1 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (10.56%) Git
2 12 (7.45%) GitLab
3 6 (3.73%) Storybook
4 4 (2.48%) Selenium
5 3 (1.86%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.86%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.24%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.24%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (20.50%) Marketing
2 26 (16.15%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.66%) Law
4 16 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.32%) Finance
6 7 (4.35%) Retail
7 4 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.48%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.24%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.24%) Legal
9 2 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.62%) Advertising
10 1 (0.62%) Back Office
10 1 (0.62%) Electronics
10 1 (0.62%) Games
10 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.62%) Publishing
10 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (28.57%) Developer
2 27 (16.77%) Senior
3 26 (16.15%) Architect
4 21 (13.04%) Cloud Architect
5 20 (12.42%) GCP Architect
5 20 (12.42%) Platform Architect
6 19 (11.80%) Lead
7 13 (8.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (6.83%) iOS Developer
8 11 (6.83%) Lead DevOps
9 10 (6.21%) Consultant
9 10 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (6.21%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 10 (6.21%) Senior Developer
9 10 (6.21%) Software Engineer
10 9 (5.59%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.35%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.91%) .NET
2 15 (9.32%) CSS
2 15 (9.32%) HTML
3 13 (8.07%) React
3 13 (8.07%) RESTful
4 12 (7.45%) SwiftUI
5 8 (4.97%) .NET Core
5 8 (4.97%) .NET Framework
5 8 (4.97%) JSON
6 7 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
6 7 (4.35%) Next.js
6 7 (4.35%) REST
6 7 (4.35%) Spring
6 7 (4.35%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.73%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.73%) Hibernate
7 6 (3.73%) JSON-LD
7 6 (3.73%) Web Services
8 5 (3.11%) ASP.NET
8 5 (3.11%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 44 (27.33%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.18%) Mobile App
3 9 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.86%) Animation
4 3 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (1.86%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (1.86%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.86%) Robotics
5 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.24%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.24%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.24%) PKI
6 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.62%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.62%) Social Media
6 1 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.18%) Apple iOS
2 17 (10.56%) Android
3 16 (9.94%) Windows
4 12 (7.45%) Windows Server
5 10 (6.21%) Linux
6 4 (2.48%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (32.92%) Continuous Improvement
2 52 (32.30%) Agile
3 47 (29.19%) CI/CD
3 47 (29.19%) Roadmaps
4 41 (25.47%) Mentoring
5 40 (24.84%) Analytics
6 36 (22.36%) Cloud Security
7 35 (21.74%) DevOps
7 35 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (18.01%) Cost Management
9 25 (15.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 23 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 23 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 22 (13.66%) Architectural Design
11 22 (13.66%) Cost Optimisation
11 22 (13.66%) Strategic Roadmap
12 21 (13.04%) Data Science
13 19 (11.80%) Mobile Development
14 18 (11.18%) User Experience
15 17 (10.56%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 38 (23.60%) Python
2 32 (19.88%) Java
3 29 (18.01%) SQL
4 24 (14.91%) Go
5 22 (13.66%) JavaScript
6 19 (11.80%) C#
7 14 (8.70%) Swift
7 14 (8.70%) TypeScript
8 13 (8.07%) Kotlin
9 8 (4.97%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.73%) PHP
10 6 (3.73%) T-SQL
11 5 (3.11%) C++
12 4 (2.48%) Bash
13 3 (1.86%) ABAP
13 3 (1.86%) Erlang
14 1 (0.62%) Bicep
14 1 (0.62%) C
14 1 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (8.07%) Degree
2 7 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.73%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.73%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.48%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.86%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.24%) CISM
6 2 (1.24%) CISSP
6 2 (1.24%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.83%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.59%) WCAG
3 6 (3.73%) QA
4 4 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.48%) GDPR
4 4 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.24%) GxP
7 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (18.01%) Docker
2 14 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.48%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.86%) vSphere
6 1 (0.62%) Firmware
6 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (31.68%) Kubernetes
2 21 (13.04%) Terraform
3 17 (10.56%) Ansible
4 13 (8.07%) Prometheus
5 11 (6.83%) Grafana
6 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.48%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.86%) ZABBIX
9 2 (1.24%) Argo
9 2 (1.24%) CASB
9 2 (1.24%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.24%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.24%) Puppet
9 2 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (16.77%) Google
2 21 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.59%) SAP
3 9 (5.59%) VMware
4 5 (3.11%) Databricks
5 3 (1.86%) Adobe
5 3 (1.86%) Cisco
5 3 (1.86%) Meraki
6 2 (1.24%) Netskope
7 1 (0.62%) Advent
7 1 (0.62%) Huawei
7 1 (0.62%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.62%) New Relic
7 1 (0.62%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (0.62%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.62%) Oracle