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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 211 233
Rank change year-on-year +54 +22 -25
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 33 47 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.79% 0.63% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.76% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 29 36 19
10th Percentile - £37,563 £37,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £46,250 £38,356
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 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £101,250 £63,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.93% -5.60% -

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 3,809 6,182 5,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.12% 82.39% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,534 4,565 3,136
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,313 £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 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,050 £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 22 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 22 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 +35 12 £35,000 -24.32% 5
Birmingham +15 12 £60,000 -4.00% 8
Warwickshire - 6 £52,500 - 3
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 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) IIS
2 1 (3.03%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) Google Workspace
2 6 (18.18%) Azure
3 4 (12.12%) SaaS
4 2 (6.06%) AWS
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.03%) AWS KMS
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) PaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Route 53
5 1 (3.03%) Serverless
5 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (48.48%) DNS
2 15 (45.45%) DHCP
2 15 (45.45%) TCP/IP
3 13 (39.39%) Firewall
4 12 (36.36%) BGP
4 12 (36.36%) OSPF
4 12 (36.36%) VLAN
4 12 (36.36%) WLAN
5 1 (3.03%) FTP
5 1 (3.03%) HTTP
5 1 (3.03%) IMAP
5 1 (3.03%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (3.03%) SMTP
5 1 (3.03%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle Database
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle Exadata
2 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.09%) Data Hub
3 3 (9.09%) SQL CLR
4 2 (6.06%) Metadata
4 2 (6.06%) Power BI
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.03%) DB2
5 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Vagrant
General
1 17 (51.52%) Social Skills
2 12 (36.36%) Automotive
2 12 (36.36%) Retail
3 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (9.09%) Back Office
6 2 (6.06%) Law
6 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.03%) Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) IT Engineer
1 12 (36.36%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) DBA
2 6 (18.18%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (12.12%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 4 (12.12%) Senior
4 2 (6.06%) Administrator
4 2 (6.06%) Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (6.06%) SaaS Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Microsoft Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior SQL Developer
4 2 (6.06%) SQL Developer
5 1 (3.03%) IT Support
5 1 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) .NET
1 7 (21.21%) .NET Core
1 7 (21.21%) .NET Framework
1 7 (21.21%) AngularJS
1 7 (21.21%) Entity Framework
1 7 (21.21%) Middleware
2 6 (18.18%) Kendo UI
2 6 (18.18%) NgRx
2 6 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (18.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 6 (18.18%) RxJS
3 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.03%) Dapper ORM
4 1 (3.03%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.03%) Kafka
4 1 (3.03%) LDAP
4 1 (3.03%) React
4 1 (3.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (42.42%) Management Information System
2 12 (36.36%) Smartphone
3 3 (9.09%) Private Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.03%) Replication
5 1 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 23 (69.70%) Linux
1 23 (69.70%) Windows
2 15 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 14 (42.42%) Ubuntu
4 12 (36.36%) Mac OS X
4 12 (36.36%) Windows 10
4 12 (36.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (36.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (18.18%) Unix
6 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Computer Science
2 12 (36.36%) Business Case
2 12 (36.36%) Systems Engineering
3 8 (24.24%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (24.24%) Software Engineering
4 7 (21.21%) API Development
5 6 (18.18%) Data Management
5 6 (18.18%) High Availability
6 5 (15.15%) Database Tuning
6 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) Patch Management
8 3 (9.09%) Agile
8 3 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (9.09%) Configuration Management
8 3 (9.09%) Data Privacy
8 3 (9.09%) Fintech
8 3 (9.09%) Validation
8 3 (9.09%) Wealth Management
8 3 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 28 (84.85%) SQL
2 14 (42.42%) PowerShell
3 8 (24.24%) C#
4 6 (18.18%) PL/SQL
5 5 (15.15%) Python
5 5 (15.15%) Shell Script
6 3 (9.09%) Bash
7 2 (6.06%) Perl
7 2 (6.06%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.03%) Groovy
8 1 (3.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) Degree
2 13 (39.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (36.36%) HNC
3 12 (36.36%) HND
3 12 (36.36%) MCSE
3 12 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (15.15%) OCA
4 5 (15.15%) OCP
4 5 (15.15%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
6 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Accessibility
2 3 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.03%) NCSC
3 1 (3.03%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.06%) Docker
4 1 (3.03%) DFS Replication
4 1 (3.03%) Dovecot
4 1 (3.03%) Postfix
4 1 (3.03%) Squid
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (9.09%) Ansible
3 2 (6.06%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (6.06%) Grafana
3 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
3 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.06%) Puppet
3 2 (6.06%) SCOM
3 2 (6.06%) Terraform
4 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.03%) Nessus
4 1 (3.03%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) Microsoft
2 12 (36.36%) Apple
2 12 (36.36%) Cisco
2 12 (36.36%) Dell
2 12 (36.36%) Fortinet
2 12 (36.36%) Google
2 12 (36.36%) Ubiquiti
3 7 (21.21%) Oracle
4 6 (18.18%) Telerik
5 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 3 (9.09%) VMware
6 2 (6.06%) ArcSight
6 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.06%) Splunk
7 1 (3.03%) Databricks
7 1 (3.03%) IBM
7 1 (3.03%) Jaspersoft