Performance Tuning Jobs in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 276 453
Rank change year-on-year -144 +177 -63
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 152 714 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.97% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 1.17% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 116 285 229
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +10.58% -5.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £73,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Midlands +21 37 £52,500 -8.70% 24
North of England -53 36 £62,500 +8.70% 63
West Midlands +52 35 £52,500 -12.50% 15
South East +24 33 £65,000 +13.04% 56
Scotland -52 21 £50,000 -13.04% 9
North West -53 19 £62,500 +13.64% 36
South West +92 15 £57,000 -0.87% 16
Yorkshire +45 14 £60,000 +23.69% 22
East of England +35 6 £57,500 - 20
North East +22 3 £60,000 +4.35% 6
Northern Ireland +34 2 £69,000 -10.97% 4
East Midlands +12 2 £48,750 -15.22% 8
Wales -8 1 £60,000 +28.75% 6
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
Performance Tuning
UK

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (7.24%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (5.26%) Apache
4 4 (2.63%) IIS
5 3 (1.97%) Confluence
5 3 (1.97%) GemFire
6 2 (1.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.66%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (11.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (3.95%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.63%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (48.68%) Azure
2 42 (27.63%) AWS
3 34 (22.37%) Power Platform
4 17 (11.18%) SaaS
5 16 (10.53%) GCP
6 13 (8.55%) Google Workspace
7 11 (7.24%) GitHub
8 10 (6.58%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (5.92%) Amazon S3
9 9 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (4.61%) Datadog
11 6 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (3.95%) Snowflake
12 5 (3.29%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (3.29%) Serverless
13 4 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (1.97%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.82%) DNS
2 17 (11.18%) DHCP
2 17 (11.18%) Firewall
3 16 (10.53%) TCP/IP
4 13 (8.55%) BGP
4 13 (8.55%) OSPF
5 12 (7.89%) VLAN
5 12 (7.89%) WLAN
6 6 (3.95%) SAN
7 4 (2.63%) NAS
8 3 (1.97%) HTTP
9 2 (1.32%) FTP
9 2 (1.32%) IMAP
9 2 (1.32%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (1.32%) SMTP
9 2 (1.32%) SSH
9 2 (1.32%) VPN
9 2 (1.32%) WAN
10 1 (0.66%) MQTT
10 1 (0.66%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (36.18%) SQL Server
2 34 (22.37%) Power BI
3 21 (13.82%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 16 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (8.55%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (7.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (6.58%) Big Data
9 9 (5.92%) Data Hub
9 9 (5.92%) Data Lake
9 9 (5.92%) Oracle Database
9 9 (5.92%) SQL CLR
9 9 (5.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (4.61%) MongoDB
10 7 (4.61%) NoSQL
11 6 (3.95%) Oracle Exadata
12 5 (3.29%) Metadata
12 5 (3.29%) MySQL
12 5 (3.29%) RDBMS
12 5 (3.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (13.16%) Git
2 13 (8.55%) JIRA
3 10 (6.58%) Visual Studio
4 6 (3.95%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.97%) Maven
6 2 (1.32%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.32%) IDA Disassembler
6 2 (1.32%) Subversion
6 2 (1.32%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.66%) Gradle
7 1 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.66%) Selenium
7 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.66%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (30.92%) Finance
2 44 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.11%) Law
4 24 (15.79%) Retail
5 21 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (10.53%) Banking
7 12 (7.89%) Automotive
7 12 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (5.92%) Back Office
9 7 (4.61%) Legal
10 6 (3.95%) Public Sector
10 6 (3.95%) Retail Banking
11 5 (3.29%) Advertising
11 5 (3.29%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.97%) Front Office
13 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.66%) Military
14 1 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (18.42%) Developer
2 26 (17.11%) Senior
3 22 (14.47%) Lead
4 20 (13.16%) DBA
5 17 (11.18%) Software Engineer
6 13 (8.55%) IT Engineer
6 13 (8.55%) SQL Developer
7 12 (7.89%) SQL DBA
7 12 (7.89%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) Analyst
9 8 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.26%) SQL Server DBA
10 7 (4.61%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 7 (4.61%) Java Engineer
10 7 (4.61%) Senior SQL Developer
11 6 (3.95%) Administrator
11 6 (3.95%) Database Developer
11 6 (3.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (3.95%) Oracle DBA
11 6 (3.95%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.13%) .NET
2 17 (11.18%) AngularJS
3 15 (9.87%) .NET Framework
4 13 (8.55%) Kafka
5 11 (7.24%) .NET Core
6 10 (6.58%) Entity Framework
6 10 (6.58%) Middleware
7 9 (5.92%) React
7 9 (5.92%) RESTful
8 7 (4.61%) Spring
9 6 (3.95%) ASP.NET
9 6 (3.95%) GraphQL
9 6 (3.95%) Hugging Face
9 6 (3.95%) LangChain
9 6 (3.95%) NgRx
9 6 (3.95%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 6 (3.95%) Pandas
9 6 (3.95%) PyTorch
9 6 (3.95%) RxJS
9 6 (3.95%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.18%) Management Information System
2 16 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.89%) Algorithms
3 12 (7.89%) Data Structures
3 12 (7.89%) Smartphone
4 10 (6.58%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.95%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.95%) Replication
6 5 (3.29%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (2.63%) Equities
7 4 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.97%) Credit Derivative
8 3 (1.97%) Derivative
8 3 (1.97%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.97%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.97%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.32%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 44 (28.95%) Linux
2 32 (21.05%) Windows
3 23 (15.13%) Windows Server
4 16 (10.53%) Ubuntu
5 14 (9.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (8.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (7.89%) Mac OS X
7 12 (7.89%) Windows 10
8 9 (5.92%) Unix
9 8 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (1.32%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (1.32%) VMS
11 1 (0.66%) Debian
11 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (29.61%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (24.34%) Agile
3 34 (22.37%) Business Intelligence
4 33 (21.71%) Computer Science
4 33 (21.71%) Software Engineering
5 31 (20.39%) High Availability
6 26 (17.11%) Mentoring
7 23 (15.13%) CI/CD
7 23 (15.13%) Migration
8 20 (13.16%) Coaching
8 20 (13.16%) Data Modelling
8 20 (13.16%) DevOps
9 17 (11.18%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (11.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (10.53%) Database Tuning
11 15 (9.87%) Data Privacy
11 15 (9.87%) ETL
11 15 (9.87%) Fintech
11 15 (9.87%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 98 (64.47%) SQL
2 32 (21.05%) Python
3 30 (19.74%) PowerShell
4 29 (19.08%) C#
5 17 (11.18%) T-SQL
6 16 (10.53%) Java
7 15 (9.87%) Bash
8 12 (7.89%) PL/SQL
9 9 (5.92%) JavaScript
10 6 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (3.29%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.97%) C++
12 3 (1.97%) Perl
13 2 (1.32%) C
13 2 (1.32%) Groovy
14 1 (0.66%) Go
14 1 (0.66%) SAPscript
14 1 (0.66%) Scala
14 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.66%) VC++
Qualifications
1 43 (28.29%) Degree
2 27 (17.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (9.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (7.89%) HNC
4 12 (7.89%) HND
4 12 (7.89%) MCSE
5 10 (6.58%) Security Cleared
6 9 (5.92%) AWS Certification
7 8 (5.26%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.95%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.95%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (3.95%) SC Cleared
9 5 (3.29%) OCA
9 5 (3.29%) OCP
9 5 (3.29%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.32%) CCNP
11 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.92%) Accessibility
1 9 (5.92%) GDPR
1 9 (5.92%) ISO 9001
2 6 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.32%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.32%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.66%) NCSC
5 1 (0.66%) NIST
5 1 (0.66%) QA
5 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (11.84%) Active Directory
2 16 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (8.55%) Docker
4 5 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.63%) vSphere
6 3 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.32%) DFS Replication
7 2 (1.32%) Dovecot
7 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.32%) Postfix
7 2 (1.32%) Squid
8 1 (0.66%) Firmware
8 1 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (11.18%) Grafana
1 17 (11.18%) Prometheus
2 11 (7.24%) Ansible
3 10 (6.58%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.58%) Terraform
4 7 (4.61%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (3.29%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (2.63%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.97%) Nessus
7 3 (1.97%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.97%) Puppet
8 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.32%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.32%) SCOM
9 1 (0.66%) Nagios
9 1 (0.66%) NetApp OnCommand
9 1 (0.66%) OpenVAS
9 1 (0.66%) QRadar
9 1 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.66%) VxRail
Vendors
1 54 (35.53%) Microsoft
2 21 (13.82%) Oracle
3 20 (13.16%) VMware
4 19 (12.50%) Google
5 15 (9.87%) Cisco
6 13 (8.55%) Dell
6 13 (8.55%) Fortinet
7 12 (7.89%) Apple
7 12 (7.89%) Ubiquiti
8 7 (4.61%) Databricks
8 7 (4.61%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.95%) OpenAI
9 6 (3.95%) Telerik
10 4 (2.63%) NetApp
10 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.63%) Splunk
11 3 (1.97%) Nimble Storage
11 3 (1.97%) SAP
11 3 (1.97%) Solace
11 3 (1.97%) TIBCO