Performance Optimisation Jobs

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Optimisation over the 3 months to 22 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Performance Optimisation UK
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	689	719	775
Rank change year-on-year	+30	+56
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation	187	230	213
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.21%	0.23%	0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.23%	0.26%	0.22%
Number of salaries quoted	147	193	158
Median salary	£45,000	£50,000	£50,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-10.00%	-
90% offered a salary of more than	£38,300	£28,400	£37,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£80,000	£77,000	£75,000
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£40,000	£40,000
% change year-on-year	+6.25%	-

Performance Optimisation is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Process & Methodology Skills UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	79702	87753	97622
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	89.73%	88.97%	88.01%
Number of salaries quoted	64312	73316	79772
Median salary	£50,000	£50,000	£50,000
90% offered a salary of more than	£32,500	£32,500	£31,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£80,000	£75,000	£77,500
UK excluding London median salary	£45,000	£45,000	£44,000
% change year-on-year	-	+2.27%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Top 30 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 3 months to 22 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+15	182	£45,000	-10.00%	23
London	-4	90	£65,000	+18.18%	11
North West	-25	27	£41,250	-2.94%	3
Manchester	-18	20	£40,000	-13.51%	1
South East	+26	13	£45,000	-18.18%	4
Yorkshire	+14	13	£40,000	-5.88%
East of England	-3	13	£67,500	+76.47%	2
City of London	+20	11	£65,000	+35.41%	1
South West	+13	11	£45,000	+95.65%
Surrey	+42	10	£45,250	-30.38%	1
Cambridge	-5	10	£67,500	+107.69%	2
Cambridgeshire	-15	10	£67,500	+73.07%	2
Wiltshire	-	9	£45,000	-
West Midlands	+13	7	£45,000	+63.63%	3
Redhill	-	7	£42,500	-	1
Corsham	-	6	£45,000	-
East Midlands	+18	5	£40,000	-5.88%
Derbyshire	+7	5	£40,000	-
Derby	+3	5	£40,000	-
York	+15	4	£25,000	-41.17%
North Yorkshire	0	4	£25,000	-41.17%
Cheshire	-	4	£39,500	-	1
Warrington	-	4	£39,500	-
Bedfordshire	+19	3	£42,500	-1.16%
Scotland	+10	3	£40,000	+5.26%	1
Edinburgh	-6	3	£40,000	-20.00%
Merseyside	-	3	£42,500	-
Liverpool	-	3	£42,500	-
Oxfordshire	-	3	£45,000	-	1
Newcastle upon Tyne	+19	2	-	-

Performance Optimisation
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for Performance Optimisation.

1	147 (33.49%)	Agile Software Development
2	145 (33.03%)	TDD
3	120 (27.33%)	SQL Server
4	118 (26.88%)	Java
5	107 (24.37%)	User Experience
6	105 (23.92%)	SQL
7	102 (23.23%)	.NET
8	101 (23.01%)	Test Automation
9	96 (21.87%)	JavaScript
10	95 (21.64%)	Unit Testing
11	89 (20.27%)	Web Services
11	89 (20.27%)	Analytics
12	85 (19.36%)	Software Engineering
13	83 (18.91%)	C#
14	81 (18.45%)	Degree

14	81 (18.45%)	REST
15	80 (18.22%)	Linux
16	78 (17.77%)	BDD
17	77 (17.54%)	HTML
17	77 (17.54%)	CSS
18	75 (17.08%)	Computer Science
19	74 (16.86%)	Microsoft
20	73 (16.63%)	Spring
21	70 (15.95%)	RESTful
22	69 (15.72%)	SOAP
23	68 (15.49%)	E-Commerce
23	68 (15.49%)	SQL Server 2012
24	64 (14.58%)	Hibernate
25	62 (14.12%)	Finance
26	59 (13.44%)	QA

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	50 (11.39%)	IIS
2	39 (8.88%)	Tomcat
2	39 (8.88%)	WebSphere
3	14 (3.19%)	SharePoint
4	13 (2.96%)	Apache
4	13 (2.96%)	CMS
5	12 (2.73%)	JBoss
6	10 (2.28%)	Apache Spark
6	10 (2.28%)	SharePoint 2010
7	9 (2.05%)	Cloud Foundry
8	8 (1.82%)	Elasticsearch
9	6 (1.37%)	Confluence
9	6 (1.37%)	MS Exchange
10	4 (0.91%)	Apache Pig
10	4 (0.91%)	Skype for Business
11	3 (0.68%)	Drupal
11	3 (0.68%)	Oracle Coherence
11	3 (0.68%)	WordPress
12	2 (0.46%)	nginx
12	2 (0.46%)	SAS

Applications
1	28 (6.38%)	Microsoft Excel
2	17 (3.87%)	Microsoft Office
3	12 (2.73%)	Photoshop
4	7 (1.59%)	Adobe Creative Suite
5	4 (0.91%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	3 (0.68%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	12 (2.73%)	SAP Hybris
2	7 (1.59%)	Magento
3	5 (1.14%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	4 (0.91%)	Oracle Applications
4	4 (0.91%)	Shopify
5	2 (0.46%)	Dynamics CRM
5	2 (0.46%)	FastStats
5	2 (0.46%)	Oracle CRM
5	2 (0.46%)	Siebel CRM
6	1 (0.23%)	Dynamics AX
6	1 (0.23%)	Dynamics NAV
6	1 (0.23%)	Eloqua
6	1 (0.23%)	Temenos T24

Cloud Services
1	46 (10.48%)	Amazon AWS
2	25 (5.69%)	Microsoft Azure
3	19 (4.33%)	Google Play
4	12 (2.73%)	SaaS
5	8 (1.82%)	GitHub
6	6 (1.37%)	Azure Machine Learning
7	5 (1.14%)	Office 365
8	2 (0.46%)	IaaS
8	2 (0.46%)	Oracle CX
8	2 (0.46%)	Yammer
9	1 (0.23%)	Cloud Computing
9	1 (0.23%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	1 (0.23%)	Oracle Service Cloud
9	1 (0.23%)	PaaS
9	1 (0.23%)	Responsys
9	1 (0.23%)	Virtual Private Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	17 (3.87%)	FIX Connectivity
2	11 (2.51%)	HTTP
3	10 (2.28%)	DNS
4	8 (1.82%)	Internet
5	7 (1.59%)	TCP/IP
6	4 (0.91%)	Kerberos
6	4 (0.91%)	LDAP
6	4 (0.91%)	Skype
7	3 (0.68%)	DHCP
7	3 (0.68%)	Firewall
7	3 (0.68%)	MIMO
7	3 (0.68%)	OFDM
7	3 (0.68%)	Wireless
8	2 (0.46%)	Cisco ASA
8	2 (0.46%)	Cisco Nexus
8	2 (0.46%)	LAN
8	2 (0.46%)	Network Security
8	2 (0.46%)	SMTP
8	2 (0.46%)	VoIP
8	2 (0.46%)	WAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	120 (27.33%)	SQL Server
2	68 (15.49%)	SQL Server 2012
3	57 (12.98%)	Data Warehouse
4	41 (9.34%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	31 (7.06%)	SQL Server 2008
6	30 (6.83%)	MySQL
7	28 (6.38%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
8	26 (5.92%)	Hadoop
9	23 (5.24%)	SQL Server 2014
10	20 (4.56%)	Big Data
10	20 (4.56%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
11	16 (3.64%)	Oracle Reports
12	15 (3.42%)	KDB
13	14 (3.19%)	OLTP
13	14 (3.19%)	Oracle Database
14	13 (2.96%)	Oracle BI EE
14	13 (2.96%)	Oracle Database 11g
14	13 (2.96%)	Oracle Database 12c
14	13 (2.96%)	Relational Database
15	10 (2.28%)	QlikView

Development Applications
1	53 (12.07%)	Visual Studio
2	52 (11.85%)	Git (software)
3	45 (10.25%)	Eclipse
4	42 (9.57%)	Maven
5	41 (9.34%)	Subversion
6	24 (5.47%)	JIRA
6	24 (5.47%)	Xcode
7	19 (4.33%)	Jenkins
8	15 (3.42%)	Team Foundation Server
9	13 (2.96%)	gulp
9	13 (2.96%)	JUnit
9	13 (2.96%)	Selenium
10	12 (2.73%)	Mockito
10	12 (2.73%)	Spock
11	10 (2.28%)	Clang
11	10 (2.28%)	Grunt
11	10 (2.28%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12	5 (1.14%)	Cucumber
12	5 (1.14%)	SpecFlow
12	5 (1.14%)	webpack

General
1	62 (14.12%)	Finance
2	29 (6.61%)	Front Office
3	27 (6.15%)	Marketing
4	25 (5.69%)	Retail
5	22 (5.01%)	Banking
6	19 (4.33%)	Advertising
7	18 (4.10%)	Electronics
8	15 (3.42%)	Investment Banking
9	12 (2.73%)	Publishing
10	9 (2.05%)	Games
10	9 (2.05%)	Telecoms
11	5 (1.14%)	Manufacturing
12	3 (0.68%)	Automotive
13	2 (0.46%)	Back Office
13	2 (0.46%)	Pharmaceutical
14	1 (0.23%)	Aerospace
14	1 (0.23%)	Billing
14	1 (0.23%)	Financial Institution
14	1 (0.23%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	233 (53.08%)	Developer
2	61 (13.90%)	Software Engineer
3	38 (8.66%)	Senior Developer
4	33 (7.52%)	Java Developer
4	33 (7.52%)	Java Engineer
5	28 (6.38%)	Java Software Engineer
6	24 (5.47%)	iOS Developer
7	23 (5.24%)	Business Intelligence Developer
7	23 (5.24%)	SQL Developer
8	20 (4.56%)	.NET Software Engineer
9	19 (4.33%)	Administrator
9	19 (4.33%)	Android Developer
10	18 (4.10%)	C# Software Engineer
10	18 (4.10%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11	17 (3.87%)	Node.js Developer
12	16 (3.64%)	C++ Developer
12	16 (3.64%)	DBA
12	16 (3.64%)	JavaScript Developer
13	14 (3.19%)	C++ Software Engineer
13	14 (3.19%)	PHP Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	102 (23.23%)	.NET
2	89 (20.27%)	Web Services
3	81 (18.45%)	REST
4	77 (17.54%)	CSS
4	77 (17.54%)	HTML
5	73 (16.63%)	Spring
6	70 (15.95%)	RESTful
7	69 (15.72%)	SOAP
8	64 (14.58%)	Hibernate
9	59 (13.44%)	.NET Framework
10	57 (12.98%)	XML
11	55 (12.53%)	HTML5
12	52 (11.85%)	CSS3
13	51 (11.62%)	EJB
14	50 (11.39%)	ASP.NET
15	49 (11.16%)	JSON
16	43 (9.79%)	ASP.NET Web API
17	42 (9.57%)	ASP.NET MVC
18	39 (8.88%)	Java SE
19	37 (8.43%)	Middleware

Miscellaneous
1	107 (24.37%)	User Experience
2	75 (17.08%)	Computer Science
3	47 (10.71%)	Algorithms
4	40 (9.11%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
5	34 (7.74%)	Mainframe
6	30 (6.83%)	Analytical Skills
7	22 (5.01%)	Greenfield Project
8	21 (4.78%)	Social Media
9	20 (4.56%)	Mobile App
10	18 (4.10%)	Digital Media
11	17 (3.87%)	Replication
12	14 (3.19%)	Data Structures
13	12 (2.73%)	Management Information System
14	10 (2.28%)	SystemC
15	9 (2.05%)	Equities
16	8 (1.82%)	Clustering
17	7 (1.59%)	Fixed Income
17	7 (1.59%)	Hedge funds
18	6 (1.37%)	Fat Client
18	6 (1.37%)	Thin Client

Operating Systems
1	80 (18.22%)	Linux
2	38 (8.66%)	Windows
3	35 (7.97%)	Apple iOS
4	31 (7.06%)	Android
5	23 (5.24%)	Unix
6	18 (4.10%)	Windows Server
7	13 (2.96%)	Windows Server 2012
8	11 (2.51%)	Windows Server 2008
9	2 (0.46%)	Mac OS
9	2 (0.46%)	Ubuntu
10	1 (0.23%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Processes & Methodologies
1	147 (33.49%)	Agile Software Development
2	145 (33.03%)	TDD
3	101 (23.01%)	Test Automation
4	95 (21.64%)	Unit Testing
5	89 (20.27%)	Analytics
6	85 (19.36%)	Software Engineering
7	78 (17.77%)	BDD
8	68 (15.49%)	E-Commerce
9	57 (12.98%)	Business Intelligence
9	57 (12.98%)	MVC
10	53 (12.07%)	Mobile Development
11	49 (11.16%)	Continuous Deployment
12	47 (10.71%)	SOLID
13	44 (10.02%)	ETL
13	44 (10.02%)	Multithreading
14	42 (9.57%)	Open Source
15	41 (9.34%)	Customer Insight
16	39 (8.88%)	Responsive Web Design
17	38 (8.66%)	Low Latency
17	38 (8.66%)	OOP

Programming Languages
1	118 (26.88%)	Java
2	105 (23.92%)	SQL
3	96 (21.87%)	JavaScript
4	83 (18.91%)	C#
5	54 (12.30%)	C++
6	43 (9.79%)	T-SQL
7	28 (6.38%)	Python
8	25 (5.69%)	Objective-C
9	24 (5.47%)	Apple Swift
9	24 (5.47%)	PHP
10	21 (4.78%)	PowerShell
11	16 (3.64%)	ES6
12	15 (3.42%)	Shell Script
13	14 (3.19%)	C
14	13 (2.96%)	PL/SQL
14	13 (2.96%)	Ruby
15	6 (1.37%)	Bash Shell
16	5 (1.14%)	Perl
17	4 (0.91%)	R
18	3 (0.68%)	Scala

Qualifications
1	81 (18.45%)	Degree
2	30 (6.83%)	Computer Science Degree
3	19 (4.33%)	Security Cleared
4	17 (3.87%)	PhD
5	10 (2.28%)	MCP
6	7 (1.59%)	Microsoft Certification
7	6 (1.37%)	BC Cleared
7	6 (1.37%)	Numerate Degree
8	4 (0.91%)	DV Cleared
8	4 (0.91%)	MCITP
8	4 (0.91%)	SC Cleared
9	2 (0.46%)	CCNP
9	2 (0.46%)	Cisco Certification
9	2 (0.46%)	Master's Degree
10	1 (0.23%)	CISM
10	1 (0.23%)	CISSP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	59 (13.44%)	QA
2	39 (8.88%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
2	39 (8.88%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	10 (2.28%)	SLA
4	7 (1.59%)	Data Quality
5	4 (0.91%)	Government Security Classifications
6	3 (0.68%)	PCI DSS

System Software
1	14 (3.19%)	Docker
2	11 (2.51%)	Active Directory
3	7 (1.59%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	3 (0.68%)	HDFS
5	1 (0.23%)	Varnish
5	1 (0.23%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	8 (1.82%)	Puppet
2	6 (1.37%)	Ansible
3	4 (0.91%)	Microsoft Clustering
3	4 (0.91%)	Nagios
3	4 (0.91%)	NetBackup
3	4 (0.91%)	Oozie
3	4 (0.91%)	SCCM
3	4 (0.91%)	ZABBIX
4	3 (0.68%)	Opscode Chef
5	2 (0.46%)	Failover Clustering
5	2 (0.46%)	Plesk
6	1 (0.23%)	Cobbler
6	1 (0.23%)	Control-M
6	1 (0.23%)	QRadar

Vendors
1	74 (16.86%)	Microsoft
2	39 (8.88%)	IBM
3	29 (6.61%)	Oracle
4	23 (5.24%)	Google
5	22 (5.01%)	Tableau
6	18 (4.10%)	SAP
7	15 (3.42%)	Bloomberg
7	15 (3.42%)	Cognizant
8	13 (2.96%)	Adobe
9	12 (2.73%)	hybris
9	12 (2.73%)	Riverbed
10	8 (1.82%)	Apple
11	7 (1.59%)	Vertica
11	7 (1.59%)	VMware
12	6 (1.37%)	TOWER Software
13	5 (1.14%)	Cisco
13	5 (1.14%)	Intel
13	5 (1.14%)	New Relic
13	5 (1.14%)	Splunk
14	4 (0.91%)	Hortonworks