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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 443 374
Rank change year-on-year +78 -69 +22
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 633 544 1,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.67% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.71% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 296 391 906
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £48,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £101,250 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £54,882 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.77% -0.21% +10.00%

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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +74 454 £57,500 +4.77% 43
England -9 417 £62,500 +4.17% 42
Work from Home +8 202 £57,500 -4.17% 38
Scotland +87 161 £57,500 -3.40% 7
London +57 156 £83,750 +11.67% 13
South East +48 91 £59,563 -2.76% 9
North of England -30 64 £57,500 +4.77% 4
Midlands -4 59 £57,500 - 5
West Midlands +9 44 £57,500 -2.13% 4
North West -23 38 £57,500 +15.00% 3
Wales +53 35 £42,500 +10.39% 1
South West -31 28 £57,500 +9.11% 8
Yorkshire +32 18 £48,507 -21.78% 1
East Midlands -23 15 £50,000 - 1
East of England -25 15 £57,500 +49.32% 5
North East -11 8 £57,500 +24.09%
Northern Ireland +18 3 - - 3

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
1 123 (19.43%) Apache Spark
2 38 (6.00%) Apache
3 37 (5.85%) CMS
4 30 (4.74%) WebLogic
5 27 (4.27%) Oracle Service Bus
6 10 (1.58%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.42%) IIS
8 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.95%) nginx
10 5 (0.79%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.63%) MQSeries
11 4 (0.63%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 4 (0.63%) SAS
12 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.47%) Confluence
12 3 (0.47%) GlassFish
12 3 (0.47%) JBoss
12 3 (0.47%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.47%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 52 (8.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (7.11%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (4.27%) MS Visio
4 18 (2.84%) Photoshop
5 7 (1.11%) Siemens NX
6 2 (0.32%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.32%) Windchill
7 1 (0.16%) Weka
Business Applications
1 37 (5.85%) SDL Web 8
2 32 (5.06%) NEC Housing
3 27 (4.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (1.11%) Teamcenter
5 6 (0.95%) SAP ERP
6 5 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.79%) Elite 3E
7 4 (0.63%) Maximo
8 3 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.16%) SAP BPC
10 1 (0.16%) SAP CRM
10 1 (0.16%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.16%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 173 (27.33%) AWS
2 170 (26.86%) Azure
3 101 (15.96%) Power Platform
4 41 (6.48%) Serverless
5 37 (5.85%) SaaS
6 31 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
7 30 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
7 30 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (4.58%) Amazon EMR
8 29 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
8 29 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (3.95%) GCP
10 22 (3.48%) GitHub
11 20 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (2.84%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 18 (2.84%) NuGet
13 14 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (2.05%) OCI
15 9 (1.42%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 42 (6.64%) Broadband
2 27 (4.27%) Firewall
3 26 (4.11%) DNS
4 22 (3.48%) DHCP
5 20 (3.16%) TCP/IP
6 14 (2.21%) VLAN
7 13 (2.05%) SAN
8 10 (1.58%) VPN
9 9 (1.42%) BGP
10 8 (1.26%) WLAN
11 6 (0.95%) AMQP
11 6 (0.95%) HTTP
11 6 (0.95%) Internet
11 6 (0.95%) OSPF
12 5 (0.79%) NAS
12 5 (0.79%) SSL
13 4 (0.63%) tcpdump
14 3 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
14 3 (0.47%) Wireshark
15 2 (0.32%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (36.97%) SQL Server
2 131 (20.70%) NoSQL
3 128 (20.22%) Big Data
4 114 (18.01%) Oracle Database
5 97 (15.32%) Power BI
6 78 (12.32%) PostgreSQL
7 57 (9.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 55 (8.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 54 (8.53%) Oracle Database 11g
10 53 (8.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 41 (6.48%) Data Warehouse
12 31 (4.90%) Oracle Database 12c
13 30 (4.74%) Hadoop
13 30 (4.74%) Relational Database
14 29 (4.58%) Electronic Patient Records
15 27 (4.27%) Oracle Database 10g
15 27 (4.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 27 (4.27%) VLDB
16 22 (3.48%) MySQL
17 19 (3.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 78 (12.32%) Git
2 57 (9.00%) TeamCity
3 51 (8.06%) JIRA
4 37 (5.85%) Moq
4 37 (5.85%) NUnit
5 31 (4.90%) GitLab
6 24 (3.79%) Octopus Deploy
6 24 (3.79%) Visual Studio
7 23 (3.63%) Jenkins
8 18 (2.84%) git-flow
8 18 (2.84%) Sourcetree
8 18 (2.84%) SpecFlow
9 13 (2.05%) Oracle APEX
10 10 (1.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 7 (1.11%) Android Studio
12 6 (0.95%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.95%) Mocha
13 4 (0.63%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.63%) Toad
14 3 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 252 (39.81%) Finance
2 215 (33.97%) Social Skills
3 149 (23.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 148 (23.38%) Law
5 136 (21.48%) Marketing
6 98 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
7 93 (14.69%) Influencing Skills
8 39 (6.16%) Legal
8 39 (6.16%) Local Government
8 39 (6.16%) Police
8 39 (6.16%) Public Sector
9 36 (5.69%) Financial Institution
10 30 (4.74%) Retail
11 29 (4.58%) Banking
12 25 (3.95%) Back Office
13 17 (2.69%) Investment Banking
14 13 (2.05%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.58%) Prime Brokerage
15 10 (1.58%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.26%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 136 (21.48%) Developer
2 127 (20.06%) DBA
2 127 (20.06%) Software Engineer
3 125 (19.75%) Senior
4 120 (18.96%) Lead
5 91 (14.38%) Big Data Engineer
6 90 (14.22%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 90 (14.22%) Scala Engineer
6 90 (14.22%) Scala Software Engineer
7 78 (12.32%) Lead Software Engineer
8 74 (11.69%) Java Engineer
8 74 (11.69%) Java Software Engineer
9 71 (11.22%) Lead Java Engineer
10 67 (10.58%) SQL DBA
11 63 (9.95%) Administrator
12 61 (9.64%) Java Scala Software Engineer
12 61 (9.64%) Lead Big Data Engineer
13 57 (9.00%) Analyst
14 51 (8.06%) Senior Developer
15 39 (6.16%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (10.58%) RESTful
2 63 (9.95%) .NET
3 55 (8.69%) CSS
4 53 (8.37%) HTML
5 51 (8.06%) SOAP
6 49 (7.74%) Web Services
7 41 (6.48%) .NET Framework
7 41 (6.48%) jQuery
8 39 (6.16%) ASP.NET
9 37 (5.85%) ASP.NET MVC
9 37 (5.85%) ASP.NET MVC 5
9 37 (5.85%) Entity Framework
9 37 (5.85%) React
9 37 (5.85%) Semantic HTML
10 35 (5.53%) XML
11 21 (3.32%) Kafka
11 21 (3.32%) REST
12 19 (3.00%) Classic ASP
13 18 (2.84%) Autofac
13 18 (2.84%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 55 (8.69%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.95%) Replication
3 41 (6.48%) Algorithms
4 37 (5.85%) Legacy Code
4 37 (5.85%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (4.58%) Clustering
6 23 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (3.48%) Driving Licence
8 21 (3.32%) Management Information System
9 14 (2.21%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.58%) NHS
11 9 (1.42%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.26%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.26%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 6 (0.95%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.95%) Smartphone
15 5 (0.79%) PMI
16 4 (0.63%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 112 (17.69%) Linux
2 78 (12.32%) Windows
3 71 (11.22%) Unix
4 46 (7.27%) VMS
5 41 (6.48%) Solaris
6 28 (4.42%) Windows Server
7 18 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (2.69%) Windows 10
9 14 (2.21%) Oracle Linux
9 14 (2.21%) Ubuntu
10 13 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (1.58%) Android
11 10 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.95%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.79%) Apple iOS
14 4 (0.63%) AIX
14 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.63%) Windows XP
15 3 (0.47%) CentOS
15 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (34.91%) Agile
2 174 (27.49%) Software Engineering
3 159 (25.12%) CI/CD
4 147 (23.22%) Problem-Solving
5 146 (23.06%) SDLC
6 135 (21.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 115 (18.17%) High Availability
8 104 (16.43%) Artificial Intelligence
8 104 (16.43%) Business Intelligence
9 102 (16.11%) Operational Stability
10 101 (15.96%) Computer Science
11 86 (13.59%) DevOps
11 86 (13.59%) Mentoring
12 72 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 67 (10.58%) Unit Testing
14 54 (8.53%) Coaching
15 52 (8.21%) Actionable Insight
15 52 (8.21%) Capacity Planning
15 52 (8.21%) Collaborative Working
16 49 (7.74%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 458 (72.35%) SQL
2 189 (29.86%) Java
3 149 (23.54%) T-SQL
4 122 (19.27%) Scala
5 94 (14.85%) PL/SQL
6 69 (10.90%) PowerShell
7 60 (9.48%) Python
8 58 (9.16%) JavaScript
9 56 (8.85%) C#
10 20 (3.16%) Bash
11 18 (2.84%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.84%) XPath
12 17 (2.69%) C
12 17 (2.69%) TypeScript
13 14 (2.21%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.74%) Ruby
15 8 (1.26%) Perl
16 7 (1.11%) ABAP
17 5 (0.79%) VBA
18 4 (0.63%) C++
Qualifications
1 161 (25.43%) Degree
2 92 (14.53%) Security Cleared
3 64 (10.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 57 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (5.53%) SC Cleared
6 33 (5.21%) Oracle Certification
7 17 (2.69%) MCSE
8 11 (1.74%) OCP
9 10 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.58%) DBS Check
10 9 (1.42%) CCNA
10 9 (1.42%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.26%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.26%) MCP
12 6 (0.95%) CCNP
12 6 (0.95%) HNC
12 6 (0.95%) HND
12 6 (0.95%) MCSA
13 5 (0.79%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.06%) Accessibility
2 30 (4.74%) SLA
3 16 (2.53%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.53%) QA
4 12 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.79%) GDPR
6 3 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.47%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.16%) ITGC
System Software
1 47 (7.42%) Docker
1 47 (7.42%) Virtual Machines
2 31 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 30 (4.74%) Oracle RAC
4 19 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.42%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.79%) Ceph
8 4 (0.63%) vSphere
9 3 (0.47%) Firmware
9 3 (0.47%) GPFS
9 3 (0.47%) KVM
9 3 (0.47%) Lustre
9 3 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.47%) XenApp
10 2 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.16%) GridGain
11 1 (0.16%) NFS
11 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (8.06%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.21%) Oracle RMAN
3 31 (4.90%) Data Guard
4 29 (4.58%) Terraform
5 28 (4.42%) Ansible
6 21 (3.32%) Grafana
7 16 (2.53%) Prometheus
8 9 (1.42%) Nagios
8 9 (1.42%) SCCM
9 8 (1.26%) WSUS
10 7 (1.11%) NetBackup
10 7 (1.11%) SCOM
10 7 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.79%) Foglight
11 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (0.79%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
12 4 (0.63%) Istio
12 4 (0.63%) Puppet
13 3 (0.47%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 165 (26.07%) Oracle
2 133 (21.01%) Microsoft
3 32 (5.06%) NEC
4 27 (4.27%) Remedy
4 27 (4.27%) Sun
5 22 (3.48%) VMware
6 18 (2.84%) Adobe
6 18 (2.84%) Cognizant
6 18 (2.84%) Dell
7 17 (2.69%) SAP
8 16 (2.53%) Google
9 14 (2.21%) Cisco
9 14 (2.21%) IBM
9 14 (2.21%) Veeam
10 13 (2.05%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.90%) Databricks
11 12 (1.90%) Serena
12 11 (1.74%) HP
12 11 (1.74%) Sybase
13 10 (1.58%) Apple