Performance Tuning Jobs in the West Midlands

Performance Tuning
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 210 225
Rank change year-on-year +52 +15 -4
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 35 47 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.85% 0.60% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.74% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 29 36 23
10th Percentile - £37,563 £37,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £46,250 £38,741
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £88,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £101,250 £66,500
England median annual salary £63,750 £59,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.05% -1.67% -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,747 6,332 5,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.17% 81.48% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 4,654 3,182
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,605
25th Percentile £37,000 £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 £78,750 £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 Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the West Midlands

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Performance Tuning in the West Midlands

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Tuning in the West Midlands

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Birmingham +16 14 £60,000 -4.00% 7
Staffordshire +33 12 £35,000 -24.32% 5
Warwickshire - 6 £52,500 - 2
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Wolverhampton - 1 £85,000 -
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
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 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.71%) Confluence
2 2 (5.71%) IIS
2 2 (5.71%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.71%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) Google Workspace
2 7 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) SaaS
4 3 (8.57%) AWS
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.71%) AWS KMS
5 2 (5.71%) GitHub
5 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.71%) Route 53
5 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.86%) Serverless
6 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (48.57%) DNS
2 15 (42.86%) DHCP
2 15 (42.86%) TCP/IP
3 14 (40.00%) Firewall
4 12 (34.29%) BGP
4 12 (34.29%) OSPF
4 12 (34.29%) VLAN
4 12 (34.29%) WLAN
5 2 (5.71%) FTP
5 2 (5.71%) HTTP
5 2 (5.71%) IMAP
5 2 (5.71%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (5.71%) SMTP
5 2 (5.71%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) Oracle Database
1 6 (17.14%) Oracle Exadata
2 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.43%) Data Hub
3 4 (11.43%) SQL CLR
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.71%) Metadata
4 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.71%) Power BI
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.86%) DB2
5 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.71%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) Vagrant
General
1 19 (54.29%) Social Skills
2 12 (34.29%) Automotive
2 12 (34.29%) Retail
3 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Finance
5 4 (11.43%) Back Office
5 4 (11.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.71%) Law
7 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Banking
8 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) IT Engineer
1 12 (34.29%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) DBA
2 6 (17.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 6 (17.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 4 (11.43%) Senior
4 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Developer
4 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) SaaS Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Senior SQL Developer
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) .NET
1 8 (22.86%) .NET Core
1 8 (22.86%) .NET Framework
1 8 (22.86%) Entity Framework
2 7 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 7 (20.00%) Middleware
3 6 (17.14%) Kendo UI
3 6 (17.14%) NgRx
3 6 (17.14%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (17.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 6 (17.14%) RxJS
4 2 (5.71%) Dapper ORM
4 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.71%) LDAP
5 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.86%) Kafka
5 1 (2.86%) React
5 1 (2.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 12 (34.29%) Smartphone
3 4 (11.43%) Private Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.71%) Replication
4 2 (5.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 25 (71.43%) Windows
2 24 (68.57%) Linux
3 16 (45.71%) Windows Server
4 15 (42.86%) Ubuntu
5 12 (34.29%) Mac OS X
5 12 (34.29%) Windows 10
5 12 (34.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (34.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (17.14%) Unix
7 3 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (5.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Computer Science
2 12 (34.29%) Business Case
2 12 (34.29%) Systems Engineering
3 9 (25.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (25.71%) Software Engineering
4 7 (20.00%) API Development
4 7 (20.00%) High Availability
5 6 (17.14%) Data Management
5 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (14.29%) Database Tuning
6 5 (14.29%) Patch Management
7 4 (11.43%) Agile
7 4 (11.43%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (11.43%) Configuration Management
7 4 (11.43%) Data Privacy
7 4 (11.43%) Fintech
7 4 (11.43%) Wealth Management
7 4 (11.43%) Workflow
8 3 (8.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (85.71%) SQL
2 15 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 9 (25.71%) C#
4 6 (17.14%) PL/SQL
4 6 (17.14%) Python
5 5 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 3 (8.57%) Bash
7 2 (5.71%) Groovy
7 2 (5.71%) Perl
7 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (45.71%) Degree
2 13 (37.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (34.29%) HNC
3 12 (34.29%) HND
3 12 (34.29%) MCSE
3 12 (34.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (14.29%) OCA
4 5 (14.29%) OCP
4 5 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.86%) NCSC
3 1 (2.86%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.57%) Docker
4 2 (5.71%) DFS Replication
4 2 (5.71%) Dovecot
4 2 (5.71%) Postfix
4 2 (5.71%) Squid
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (8.57%) Ansible
2 3 (8.57%) Grafana
2 3 (8.57%) Prometheus
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
3 2 (5.71%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (5.71%) Nessus
3 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.71%) Proxmox
3 2 (5.71%) Puppet
3 2 (5.71%) SCOM
4 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (51.43%) Microsoft
2 12 (34.29%) Apple
2 12 (34.29%) Cisco
2 12 (34.29%) Dell
2 12 (34.29%) Fortinet
2 12 (34.29%) Google
2 12 (34.29%) Ubiquiti
3 7 (20.00%) Oracle
4 6 (17.14%) Telerik
5 4 (11.43%) ServiceNow
5 4 (11.43%) VMware
6 2 (5.71%) ArcSight
6 2 (5.71%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.71%) Splunk
7 1 (2.86%) Databricks
7 1 (2.86%) IBM