Code Optimisation Jobs

Code Optimisation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Code Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Code Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 721 870 844
Rank change year-on-year +149 -26 +308
Permanent jobs citing Code Optimisation 7 23 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.023% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.028% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 4 20 34
10th Percentile - £41,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,188 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.21% -6.45% -3.13%
75th Percentile £56,875 £77,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £71,500 £83,125 £119,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £72,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -37.93% +26.09% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Code 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54,165 82,033 80,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.66% 82.41% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 28,573 55,458 51,533
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Code Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Code Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Code Optimisation in the UK

Code Optimisation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Code Optimisation.

Salary trend for Code Optimisation in the UK

Code Optimisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Code Optimisation over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Code Optimisation in the UK

Code Optimisation
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Code Optimisation within the UK over the 6 months to 19 July 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
UK excluding London +117 5 £45,000 -37.93% 9
England +104 4 £46,250 -33.93% 10
Scotland +94 3 - - 1
Work from Home +84 3 £45,000 +2.86% 8
London +87 2 £62,500 -15.25% 4
South West - 2 £45,000 -

Code Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) Dagster
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub Copilot
2 3 (42.86%) Prefect
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Big Data
1 3 (42.86%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Gatling
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JMeter
1 1 (14.29%) Locust
1 1 (14.29%) Postman
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (42.86%) Law
1 3 (42.86%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (28.57%) IoT
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Legacy Code
3 1 (14.29%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Architectural Design
3 3 (42.86%) Community of Practice
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (42.86%) Information Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Operational Stability
3 3 (42.86%) Refactoring
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
5 1 (14.29%) API Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
5 1 (14.29%) Kanban
5 1 (14.29%) OWASP
5 1 (14.29%) Presales
5 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C
3 2 (28.57%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) Go
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk