Performance Tuning Jobs

Performance Tuning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 305 397
Rank change year-on-year -136 +92 -2
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 282 934 821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.94% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 1.10% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 212 441 411
10th Percentile £41,300 £41,250 £38,356
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £51,750
% change year-on-year +4.35% +11.11% -5.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,098 84,818 95,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.84% 85.52% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,512 59,706 56,022
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the UK

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Performance Tuning in the UK

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Tuning in the UK

Performance Tuning
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 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
England -66 236 £62,500 +5.93% 413
Work from Home -34 152 £60,000 +4.35% 229
UK excluding London -154 143 £60,000 +4.35% 258
London +30 110 £73,750 -5.45% 239
Midlands +23 35 £52,500 -8.70% 20
North of England -46 35 £61,250 +6.52% 64
West Midlands +44 34 £52,500 -12.50% 14
South East +30 28 £65,000 +13.04% 118
Scotland -57 20 £50,000 -13.04% 11
North West -52 17 £63,750 +13.33% 38
Yorkshire +53 15 £60,000 +15.93% 25
South West +84 14 £55,000 -4.35% 18
East of England +37 8 £62,500 +8.70% 27
North East +19 3 £60,000 +4.35% 2
Northern Ireland +31 2 £69,000 -10.97% 2
East Midlands +4 1 £52,500 -8.70% 5
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

Performance Tuning
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 18 (6.38%) Apache Spark
1 18 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.84%) Apache
3 6 (2.13%) IIS
4 4 (1.42%) CMS
4 4 (1.42%) Confluence
5 3 (1.06%) GemFire
5 3 (1.06%) nginx
6 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) Appian
7 1 (0.35%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 7 (2.48%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.77%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (1.42%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.71%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 127 (45.04%) Azure
2 83 (29.43%) AWS
3 63 (22.34%) Power Platform
4 35 (12.41%) SaaS
5 26 (9.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 26 (9.22%) Serverless
6 23 (8.16%) GCP
7 21 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (5.32%) Amazon S3
9 15 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (4.96%) AWS KMS
10 14 (4.96%) Google Workspace
10 14 (4.96%) Snowflake
11 13 (4.61%) GitHub
12 10 (3.55%) Datadog
12 10 (3.55%) Power Automate
13 9 (3.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (3.19%) PowerApps
14 7 (2.48%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.51%) Firewall
2 23 (8.16%) DNS
3 22 (7.80%) Network Security
4 18 (6.38%) DHCP
4 18 (6.38%) TCP/IP
5 14 (4.96%) BGP
5 14 (4.96%) OSPF
5 14 (4.96%) VLAN
6 13 (4.61%) WLAN
7 8 (2.84%) SAN
8 7 (2.48%) VPN
9 6 (2.13%) NAS
10 4 (1.42%) NetScaler
11 2 (0.71%) HTTP
11 2 (0.71%) SNMP
11 2 (0.71%) WAN
11 2 (0.71%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.35%) FTP
12 1 (0.35%) LAN
12 1 (0.35%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (32.62%) SQL Server
2 61 (21.63%) Power BI
3 34 (12.06%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (10.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 26 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (8.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 19 (6.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (6.38%) Big Data
9 16 (5.67%) Data Hub
9 16 (5.67%) SQL CLR
10 15 (5.32%) Data Lake
10 15 (5.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 14 (4.96%) Metadata
12 12 (4.26%) NoSQL
13 11 (3.90%) Oracle Database
14 10 (3.55%) MongoDB
15 8 (2.84%) Relational Database
16 7 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
16 7 (2.48%) MySQL
16 7 (2.48%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 24 (8.51%) Git
2 14 (4.96%) JIRA
3 10 (3.55%) Visual Studio
4 6 (2.13%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.06%) GitLab
6 2 (0.71%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.71%) IDA Disassembler
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.35%) Gradle
7 1 (0.35%) Maven
7 1 (0.35%) NUnit
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
7 1 (0.35%) Subversion
7 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 85 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 81 (28.72%) Finance
3 41 (14.54%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.93%) Law
5 27 (9.57%) Retail
6 26 (9.22%) Banking
7 16 (5.67%) Back Office
8 13 (4.61%) Automotive
9 12 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (3.19%) Advertising
10 9 (3.19%) Front Office
11 8 (2.84%) Retail Banking
12 7 (2.48%) Public Sector
13 6 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.77%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.42%) Marketing
16 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
16 3 (1.06%) Legal
16 3 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 68 (24.11%) Developer
2 59 (20.92%) Senior
3 37 (13.12%) Lead
4 36 (12.77%) Architect
5 33 (11.70%) DBA
6 22 (7.80%) Senior Developer
6 22 (7.80%) SQL DBA
7 21 (7.45%) SQL Developer
8 19 (6.74%) Cloud Architect
9 18 (6.38%) Software Engineer
10 17 (6.03%) IT Engineer
11 14 (4.96%) AWS Architect
11 14 (4.96%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.96%) Systems Engineer
12 12 (4.26%) Senior SQL Developer
12 12 (4.26%) SQL Server DBA
13 11 (3.90%) Database Team Leader
13 11 (3.90%) Development Team Leader
13 11 (3.90%) Microsoft Developer
13 11 (3.90%) Senior Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.12%) .NET
2 32 (11.35%) Kafka
3 20 (7.09%) .NET Framework
4 19 (6.74%) .NET Core
4 19 (6.74%) REST
5 17 (6.03%) AngularJS
5 17 (6.03%) Elastic Stack
6 16 (5.67%) Middleware
6 16 (5.67%) RESTful
7 13 (4.61%) Entity Framework
8 11 (3.90%) SOAP
9 10 (3.55%) ASP.NET
9 10 (3.55%) GraphQL
9 10 (3.55%) Pandas
10 8 (2.84%) HTML
10 8 (2.84%) React
11 7 (2.48%) Dapper ORM
11 7 (2.48%) Oracle Fusion
11 7 (2.48%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 6 (2.13%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (12.41%) Management Information System
2 29 (10.28%) Cloud Native
3 22 (7.80%) Data Structures
4 19 (6.74%) Algorithms
5 18 (6.38%) Private Cloud
6 15 (5.32%) Fixed Income
7 13 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (4.61%) Smartphone
8 11 (3.90%) Replication
9 10 (3.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (2.84%) Public Cloud
11 6 (2.13%) Clustering
11 6 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (2.13%) Hedge funds
11 6 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 5 (1.77%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (1.42%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 62 (21.99%) Linux
2 41 (14.54%) Windows
3 31 (10.99%) Windows Server
4 18 (6.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (5.67%) Ubuntu
6 15 (5.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (4.61%) Mac OS X
7 13 (4.61%) Windows 10
8 11 (3.90%) Unix
9 9 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (1.42%) Solaris
11 3 (1.06%) AIX
12 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.35%) Android
12 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.35%) Debian
12 1 (0.35%) VMS
12 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (32.98%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (23.05%) Business Intelligence
3 64 (22.70%) Mentoring
4 63 (22.34%) Agile
5 60 (21.28%) CI/CD
6 59 (20.92%) High Availability
7 58 (20.57%) Computer Science
8 57 (20.21%) DevOps
9 53 (18.79%) Migration
10 50 (17.73%) Software Engineering
11 43 (15.25%) Data Modelling
12 42 (14.89%) ETL
13 36 (12.77%) Containerisation
14 34 (12.06%) Microservices
15 33 (11.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 32 (11.35%) Design Patterns
17 30 (10.64%) Coaching
17 30 (10.64%) Database Tuning
17 30 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
18 29 (10.28%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 168 (59.57%) SQL
2 60 (21.28%) Python
3 45 (15.96%) PowerShell
4 44 (15.60%) C#
5 40 (14.18%) Java
6 34 (12.06%) T-SQL
7 22 (7.80%) Bash
8 19 (6.74%) PL/SQL
9 16 (5.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 11 (3.90%) JavaScript
11 7 (2.48%) C++
12 5 (1.77%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.42%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.06%) Go
14 3 (1.06%) Rust
15 2 (0.71%) C
15 2 (0.71%) Perl
16 1 (0.35%) ABAP
16 1 (0.35%) COBOL
16 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 67 (23.76%) Degree
2 49 (17.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (8.51%) AWS Certification
3 24 (8.51%) Security Cleared
4 22 (7.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (6.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (6.74%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.61%) HNC
6 13 (4.61%) HND
6 13 (4.61%) MCSE
7 11 (3.90%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.19%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.84%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (2.13%) Numerate Degree
10 6 (2.13%) OCP
11 5 (1.77%) OCA
11 5 (1.77%) SAP Certification
11 5 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.51%) GDPR
2 16 (5.67%) HIPAA
3 15 (5.32%) ISO 9001
4 13 (4.61%) Data Quality
4 13 (4.61%) QA
5 12 (4.26%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.06%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.35%) NCSC
8 1 (0.35%) NIST
8 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (12.41%) Docker
2 29 (10.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (8.51%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.19%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.42%) HDFS
7 4 (1.42%) vSphere
8 2 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.35%) ACF2
9 1 (0.35%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.35%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.35%) Firmware
9 1 (0.35%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 1 (0.35%) Postfix
9 1 (0.35%) RACF
9 1 (0.35%) Squid
9 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 35 (12.41%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.35%) Grafana
2 32 (11.35%) Prometheus
3 30 (10.64%) Terraform
4 13 (4.61%) Ansible
5 10 (3.55%) Failover Clustering
6 8 (2.84%) Oracle RMAN
6 8 (2.84%) vCenter Server
7 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.42%) Puppet
9 4 (1.42%) SCCM
9 4 (1.42%) SCOM
10 3 (1.06%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.71%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.71%) Istio
11 2 (0.71%) linkerd
11 2 (0.71%) Nessus
12 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.35%) Nagios
Vendors
1 92 (32.62%) Microsoft
2 34 (12.06%) VMware
3 33 (11.70%) Oracle
4 28 (9.93%) Google
5 21 (7.45%) Cisco
6 19 (6.74%) Databricks
7 18 (6.38%) Fortinet
8 15 (5.32%) Dell
9 13 (4.61%) Apple
9 13 (4.61%) Ubiquiti
10 11 (3.90%) SAP
11 10 (3.55%) Solace
12 8 (2.84%) NetApp
12 8 (2.84%) Red Hat
12 8 (2.84%) Splunk
13 6 (2.13%) Telerik
14 5 (1.77%) Bloomberg
14 5 (1.77%) Veeam
15 4 (1.42%) Citrix
15 4 (1.42%) Mitel