Performance Optimisation Jobs

Performance Optimisation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 511 709
Rank change year-on-year +218 +198 +62
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 505 424 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 0.43% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.50% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 380 327 137
10th Percentile £49,140 £39,700 £43,050
25th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,315 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.53% -14.29% +12.90%
75th Percentile £80,625 £81,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £96,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,315 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +20.55% -8.00% +2.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +209 451 £69,315 +10.90% 414
UK excluding London +209 329 £69,315 +20.55% 250
North of England +179 180 £69,315 +15.53% 79
Work from Home +177 175 £71,991 +15.19% 234
North West +136 166 £69,315 +8.73% 55
London +88 115 £72,500 -1.69% 222
South East +126 75 £82,500 +37.50% 82
East of England +67 24 £51,000 -7.27% 21
Midlands +45 21 £52,500 -16.00% 35
South West +80 16 £75,000 +42.86% 21
West Midlands +35 14 £57,500 -8.00% 21
Scotland +104 10 £55,000 +7.32% 10
Yorkshire +64 8 £56,750 -1.30% 18
East Midlands +49 7 £52,500 -40.00% 10
North East +42 6 £62,500 +13.64% 7
Wales +34 3 £69,000 +48.06% 5

Performance 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 13 (2.57%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.38%) WordPress
3 10 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.78%) CMS
5 7 (1.39%) Apache
6 5 (0.99%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.99%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.59%) Confluence
8 2 (0.40%) IIS
8 2 (0.40%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.20%) CICS
9 1 (0.20%) Kentico
9 1 (0.20%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 9 (1.78%) Photoshop
2 5 (0.99%) Simulink
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.20%) Blender
3 1 (0.20%) InDesign
3 1 (0.20%) Maya
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.78%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 160 (31.68%) Azure
2 96 (19.01%) AWS
3 53 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (8.91%) GCP
5 39 (7.72%) Azure Service Bus
6 37 (7.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 35 (6.93%) SonarCloud
8 33 (6.53%) Power Platform
9 28 (5.54%) Snowflake
10 27 (5.35%) Serverless
11 26 (5.15%) GitHub
12 25 (4.95%) Google Analytics
13 20 (3.96%) Power Automate
14 16 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
15 15 (2.97%) Adobe Analytics
15 15 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 15 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
15 15 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (2.97%) IBM Cloud
15 15 (2.97%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.56%) Firewall
2 16 (3.17%) WAN
3 11 (2.18%) OSPF
4 10 (1.98%) BGP
4 10 (1.98%) Network Security
4 10 (1.98%) SAN
4 10 (1.98%) VPN
5 8 (1.58%) LAN
6 7 (1.39%) DNS
6 7 (1.39%) MPLS
6 7 (1.39%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.39%) VSAN
7 6 (1.19%) DHCP
7 6 (1.19%) IPsec
7 6 (1.19%) Wireless
8 5 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.99%) NAS
8 5 (0.99%) VLAN
9 2 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.40%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (10.30%) SQL Server
2 36 (7.13%) Elasticsearch
3 33 (6.53%) NoSQL
4 32 (6.34%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (5.54%) MongoDB
6 22 (4.36%) Power BI
7 20 (3.96%) Tableau
8 18 (3.56%) MySQL
9 17 (3.37%) Data Lake
9 17 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (3.37%) Relational Database
10 13 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (2.38%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.98%) Hadoop
12 10 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.78%) Big Data
14 8 (1.58%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.99%) Redis
Development Applications
1 101 (20.00%) Git
2 37 (7.33%) Visual Studio
3 35 (6.93%) MSBuild
3 35 (6.93%) Octopus Deploy
3 35 (6.93%) Team Foundation Server
4 21 (4.16%) Jenkins
4 21 (4.16%) Maven
5 19 (3.76%) GitLab
6 14 (2.77%) JIRA
7 7 (1.39%) webpack
8 6 (1.19%) Gradle
9 5 (0.99%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.79%) Selenium
11 3 (0.59%) Babel
11 3 (0.59%) MLflow
11 3 (0.59%) Vite
12 2 (0.40%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 259 (51.29%) Social Skills
2 63 (12.48%) Analytical Skills
2 63 (12.48%) Finance
3 41 (8.12%) Marketing
4 34 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (6.53%) Retail
6 30 (5.94%) Law
6 30 (5.94%) Public Sector
7 19 (3.76%) Banking
8 17 (3.37%) Advertising
9 8 (1.58%) Games
9 8 (1.58%) Police
10 7 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.19%) Automotive
12 5 (0.99%) Front Office
13 4 (0.79%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.79%) Back Office
13 4 (0.79%) Electronics
13 4 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 121 (23.96%) Commissioning Manager
2 110 (21.78%) Developer
3 74 (14.65%) Senior
4 66 (13.07%) Architect
5 48 (9.50%) Lead
6 39 (7.72%) Technical Architect
7 37 (7.33%) Senior Developer
8 27 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (5.35%) Data Engineer
9 26 (5.15%) Software Engineer
10 21 (4.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (3.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (3.37%) Software Developer
13 16 (3.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 15 (2.97%) Java Engineer
15 13 (2.57%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (2.57%) Data Scientist
15 13 (2.57%) Senior Data Scientist
15 13 (2.57%) Senior Java Engineer
16 12 (2.38%) Lead Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (18.42%) CSS
2 92 (18.22%) HTML
3 78 (15.45%) .NET
4 51 (10.10%) XML
5 45 (8.91%) JSON
5 45 (8.91%) React
6 43 (8.51%) REST
6 43 (8.51%) RESTful
7 42 (8.32%) gRPC
8 38 (7.52%) ASP.NET
9 36 (7.13%) Bootstrap
10 23 (4.55%) Kafka
11 20 (3.96%) Node.js
12 18 (3.56%) AngularJS
12 18 (3.56%) Middleware
13 17 (3.37%) HTML5
14 16 (3.17%) Web Services
15 15 (2.97%) CSS3
15 15 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
16 12 (2.38%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.34%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.36%) Blockchain
3 21 (4.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.56%) Mobile App
5 18 (3.56%) Virtual Team
6 16 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.97%) e-Learning
8 12 (2.38%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.38%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.38%) Social Media
9 10 (1.98%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.58%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.39%) IoT
11 7 (1.39%) Learning Management System
12 6 (1.19%) Mobile Games
12 6 (1.19%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.99%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 24 (4.75%) Windows
2 17 (3.37%) Linux
3 13 (2.57%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.58%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.19%) Android
6 3 (0.59%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.40%) Unix
8 1 (0.20%) Debian
8 1 (0.20%) Fedora
8 1 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.20%) Rocky
8 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
2 144 (28.51%) DevOps
3 122 (24.16%) People Management
4 101 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 94 (18.61%) Agile
6 74 (14.65%) Software Engineering
7 71 (14.06%) Analytics
7 71 (14.06%) Design Patterns
8 70 (13.86%) Microservices
9 62 (12.28%) Mentoring
10 61 (12.08%) User Experience
11 58 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
12 51 (10.10%) Data Modelling
13 50 (9.90%) Code Quality
13 50 (9.90%) Computer Science
14 48 (9.50%) Event-Driven
15 47 (9.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 47 (9.31%) Migration
16 44 (8.71%) ETL
16 44 (8.71%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 143 (28.32%) SQL
2 115 (22.77%) JavaScript
3 84 (16.63%) Python
4 74 (14.65%) C#
5 47 (9.31%) Java
6 32 (6.34%) TypeScript
7 29 (5.74%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.17%) C++
9 15 (2.97%) PHP
10 14 (2.77%) MATLAB
11 12 (2.38%) T-SQL
12 9 (1.78%) Go
13 7 (1.39%) C
13 7 (1.39%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.99%) Bash
14 5 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.79%) Rust
15 4 (0.79%) Scala
16 3 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 195 (38.61%) Degree
2 159 (31.49%) Master's Degree
3 121 (23.96%) MBA
4 113 (22.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (5.15%) Security Cleared
7 17 (3.37%) AWS Certification
7 17 (3.37%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.98%) DBS Check
11 7 (1.39%) CCNP
11 7 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.19%) CCIE
12 6 (1.19%) SC Cleared
13 5 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.59%) CISSP
15 2 (0.40%) DV Cleared
15 2 (0.40%) PhD
15 2 (0.40%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (9.11%) GDPR
2 29 (5.74%) QA
3 25 (4.95%) Accessibility
4 20 (3.96%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.57%) WCAG
6 10 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.79%) SLA
9 2 (0.40%) HAZOP
10 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.20%) NCSC
10 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 86 (17.03%) Docker
2 7 (1.39%) HDFS
3 6 (1.19%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.99%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.79%) Firmware
6 3 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (10.69%) Kubernetes
2 33 (6.53%) Terraform
3 24 (4.75%) Prometheus
4 14 (2.77%) Ansible
5 13 (2.57%) Grafana
6 10 (1.98%) Progress Chef
6 10 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.19%) Argo
8 4 (0.79%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.40%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.20%) Kiali
10 1 (0.20%) Kibana
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 80 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 52 (10.30%) Google
3 19 (3.76%) Databricks
4 18 (3.56%) Adobe
4 18 (3.56%) Salesforce
5 16 (3.17%) IBM
6 15 (2.97%) Red Hat
7 13 (2.57%) Marketo
7 13 (2.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 12 (2.38%) Oracle
9 11 (2.18%) MuleSoft
9 11 (2.18%) SAP
10 8 (1.58%) VMware
11 7 (1.39%) New Relic
12 5 (0.99%) Cisco
12 5 (0.99%) Nimble Storage
12 5 (0.99%) Splunk
13 4 (0.79%) Meraki
13 4 (0.79%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.79%) Teradata