Hybrid/Remote Performance Optimisation Job Trends

Performance Optimisation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 293 385
Rank change year-on-year +55 +92 +212
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 140 154 89
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.91% 0.88% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.95% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 100 100 75
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £63,438 £53,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +25.00% -9.43%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,641 16,190 18,834
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.02% 92.72% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,739 9,805 15,142
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.46% -2.40%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Performance Optimisation and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Performance Optimisation salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.43%) CMS
2 7 (5.00%) JBoss
2 7 (5.00%) WebSphere
3 6 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.86%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.14%) Apache
5 3 (2.14%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.14%) Drupal
5 3 (2.14%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.43%) nginx
7 1 (0.71%) Confluence
7 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.14%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (1.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 57 (40.71%) Azure
2 49 (35.00%) AWS
3 25 (17.86%) GCP
4 15 (10.71%) SaaS
5 14 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (8.57%) Serverless
7 8 (5.71%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.57%) Power Automate
8 5 (3.57%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.86%) Figma
9 4 (2.86%) GitHub
9 4 (2.86%) OCI
9 4 (2.86%) PaaS
10 3 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.14%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.29%) Firewall
2 4 (2.86%) VPN
3 3 (2.14%) InfiniBand
4 2 (1.43%) Broadband
4 2 (1.43%) DNS
4 2 (1.43%) Intranet
4 2 (1.43%) LAN
4 2 (1.43%) WAN
4 2 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.71%) DHCP
5 1 (0.71%) Internet
5 1 (0.71%) Network Security
5 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.71%) SSL
5 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.71%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.29%) MongoDB
3 8 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.00%) Power BI
5 6 (4.29%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.29%) Tableau
6 5 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (3.57%) MySQL
7 4 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.86%) Metadata
8 3 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.14%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.14%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.43%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.43%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (10.00%) Git
2 12 (8.57%) GitLab
3 7 (5.00%) Storybook
4 3 (2.14%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.43%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.43%) MSBuild
5 2 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.43%) Selenium
5 2 (1.43%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.43%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.43%) Vite
5 2 (1.43%) WebDriver
5 2 (1.43%) webpack
6 1 (0.71%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.71%) JIRA
General
1 36 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.71%) Finance
3 14 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.86%) Marketing
5 6 (4.29%) Retail
6 4 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.14%) Back Office
7 3 (2.14%) Front Office
7 3 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.43%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.43%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Advertising
9 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Games
9 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (25.71%) Lead
2 33 (23.57%) Developer
3 30 (21.43%) Senior
4 15 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (10.00%) Architect
6 13 (9.29%) Lead DevOps
7 12 (8.57%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 8 (5.71%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.00%) .NET Developer
9 7 (5.00%) Consultant
9 7 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
9 7 (5.00%) Senior Architect
9 7 (5.00%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) Principal Consultant
10 6 (4.29%) Principal SAP Consultant
10 6 (4.29%) Technical Leader
11 5 (3.57%) Administrator
11 5 (3.57%) Senior .NET Developer
12 4 (2.86%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (23.57%) .NET
2 26 (18.57%) REST
3 21 (15.00%) React
4 20 (14.29%) CSS
5 18 (12.86%) HTML
6 13 (9.29%) Middleware
7 11 (7.86%) GraphQL
7 11 (7.86%) JSON
7 11 (7.86%) SOAP
8 9 (6.43%) .NET Core
9 8 (5.71%) Node.js
9 8 (5.71%) Spring
10 7 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (5.00%) Hibernate
10 7 (5.00%) Kafka
10 7 (5.00%) RESTful
10 7 (5.00%) WebSockets
11 6 (4.29%) gRPC
11 6 (4.29%) Next.js
11 6 (4.29%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.86%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.71%) Mobile App
3 7 (5.00%) DataPower
4 5 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.86%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.14%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.14%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.14%) NVMe
6 3 (2.14%) PCIe
7 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.71%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.71%) FPGA
8 1 (0.71%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.86%) Apple iOS
2 8 (5.71%) Android
3 5 (3.57%) Linux
4 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.71%) Unix
4 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (45.71%) CI/CD
2 58 (41.43%) Agile
3 56 (40.00%) DevOps
4 41 (29.29%) AI
5 32 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (22.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (20.00%) Analytics
8 28 (20.00%) Microservices
8 28 (20.00%) Observability
9 26 (18.57%) Software Engineering
10 24 (17.14%) User Experience
11 22 (15.71%) Containerisation
12 20 (14.29%) Roadmaps
13 18 (12.86%) Mentoring
13 18 (12.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 18 (12.86%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (12.86%) Test Automation
14 17 (12.14%) Code Quality
15 16 (11.43%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 35 (25.00%) SQL
2 29 (20.71%) JavaScript
3 20 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 19 (13.57%) Python
5 16 (11.43%) C#
6 12 (8.57%) Java
7 11 (7.86%) Bash
8 7 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.00%) Swift
9 6 (4.29%) T-SQL
10 5 (3.57%) PHP
11 4 (2.86%) Bicep
11 4 (2.86%) Kotlin
12 3 (2.14%) ABAP
12 3 (2.14%) Erlang
12 3 (2.14%) Go
13 2 (1.43%) C++
14 1 (0.71%) Groovy
14 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (9.29%) Degree
2 10 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.43%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.43%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.71%) CCIE
5 1 (0.71%) CCNP
5 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.71%) CISSP
5 1 (0.71%) MCP
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.71%) Accessibility
2 18 (12.86%) WCAG
3 9 (6.43%) GDPR
3 9 (6.43%) QA
4 7 (5.00%) Data Quality
5 6 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.86%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.14%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.71%) PERC
System Software
1 31 (22.14%) Docker
2 3 (2.14%) GPFS
2 3 (2.14%) Lustre
3 1 (0.71%) Firmware
3 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.71%) vCloud
3 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (22.86%) Terraform
2 28 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 19 (13.57%) Ansible
4 16 (11.43%) Prometheus
5 15 (10.71%) Grafana
6 2 (1.43%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.43%) Puppet
7 1 (0.71%) Argo
7 1 (0.71%) CASB
7 1 (0.71%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.71%) SAP
3 5 (3.57%) Palo Alto
4 4 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (2.86%) Fortinet
4 4 (2.86%) Google
4 4 (2.86%) Oracle
5 3 (2.14%) New Relic
5 3 (2.14%) NVIDIA
6 2 (1.43%) Apple
6 2 (1.43%) Cisco
6 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.71%) Adobe
7 1 (0.71%) Aruba
7 1 (0.71%) HP
7 1 (0.71%) Juniper
7 1 (0.71%) Meraki
7 1 (0.71%) NetApp
7 1 (0.71%) SendGrid
7 1 (0.71%) VMware