Performance Optimisation Jobs in the West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 224 262
Rank change year-on-year +82 +38 +22
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 40 26 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.98% 0.34% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.41% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 6 24 1
10th Percentile £34,875 - -
25th Percentile - £58,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £62,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +78.57% -30.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £37,500
90th Percentile £66,875 - -
England median annual salary £69,315 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.90% -10.71% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,740 6,301 5,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.24% 81.52% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,506 4,638 3,184
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,609
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Performance Optimisation in the West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Optimisation in the West Midlands

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Staffordshire - 16 - - 29
Birmingham +37 6 £60,000 - 39
Solihull +1 6 £62,500 - 1
Herefordshire - 6 £40,000 -
Warwickshire - 4 - - 4
Shropshire +17 2 - - 42
Coventry -6 1 - - 22
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (32.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 37 (92.50%) AWS
1 37 (92.50%) Azure
2 20 (50.00%) GCP
3 5 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 5 (12.50%) Snowflake
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.00%) Pulumi
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Broadband
2 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.50%) NoSQL
3 5 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (12.50%) BigQuery
4 2 (5.00%) Power BI
4 2 (5.00%) Power Query
4 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (60.00%) Bitbucket
1 24 (60.00%) Cucumber
1 24 (60.00%) GitLab
1 24 (60.00%) JIRA
1 24 (60.00%) Maven
1 24 (60.00%) Selenium
1 24 (60.00%) SonarQube
1 24 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (5.00%) Jaeger
General
1 31 (77.50%) Finance
2 26 (65.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (60.00%) Banking
4 11 (27.50%) Corporate Banking
4 11 (27.50%) Investment Banking
4 11 (27.50%) Retail
5 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.00%) Automotive
8 1 (2.50%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 24 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Lead
3 6 (15.00%) Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Data Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Lead Data Architect
5 4 (10.00%) Developer
6 3 (7.50%) ICT Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (5.00%) C++ Developer
7 2 (5.00%) C++ Software Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Team Leader
8 1 (2.50%) .NET Architect
8 1 (2.50%) 2nd Line Support
8 1 (2.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (60.00%) CSS
1 24 (60.00%) HTML
1 24 (60.00%) JPA
1 24 (60.00%) Kafka
1 24 (60.00%) React
1 24 (60.00%) Redux
1 24 (60.00%) Spring
1 24 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 13 (32.50%) Hibernate
3 11 (27.50%) CSS3
3 11 (27.50%) HTML5
3 11 (27.50%) Jest
3 11 (27.50%) REST
3 11 (27.50%) RESTful
3 11 (27.50%) Sass
4 3 (7.50%) ARM Templates
5 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (5.00%) OpenMP
5 2 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (2.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 24 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
1 24 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 5 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.00%) CUDA
3 2 (5.00%) SIMD
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (72.50%) Software Engineering
2 28 (70.00%) Agile
2 28 (70.00%) Containerisation
3 26 (65.00%) DevOps
4 25 (62.50%) Microservices
5 24 (60.00%) CI/CD
5 24 (60.00%) Front End Development
5 24 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (60.00%) SDLC
5 24 (60.00%) Test Automation
6 17 (42.50%) Migration
7 16 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (37.50%) Mentoring
9 13 (32.50%) Clean Code
9 13 (32.50%) TDD
10 11 (27.50%) Responsive Web Design
10 11 (27.50%) Strategic Thinking
10 11 (27.50%) User Experience
11 7 (17.50%) Data Modelling
12 6 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (72.50%) SQL
2 26 (65.00%) Java
2 26 (65.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (27.50%) TypeScript
4 7 (17.50%) Python
5 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.00%) Bash
6 2 (5.00%) C++
6 2 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (5.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (62.50%) QA
2 11 (27.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (70.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) Ansible
3 2 (5.00%) Argo
3 2 (5.00%) Kustomize
3 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (60.00%) Solace
2 7 (17.50%) Google
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco