Performance Tuning Jobs with Work from Home Options

Performance Tuning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Performance Tuning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 365 402
Rank change year-on-year +108 +37 -88
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 391 344 536
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.16% 0.79% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 0.82% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 258 234 397
10th Percentile £45,750 £41,054 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,858 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £79,813 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £89,852 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Performance Tuning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,024 41,738 64,495
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.68% 96.08% 96.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23,594 28,877 41,026
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%

Performance Tuning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Tuning trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Tuning.

Performance Tuning salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Performance Tuning salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (4.09%) IIS
2 13 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.30%) WebLogic
4 6 (1.53%) nginx
5 3 (0.77%) Apache
5 3 (0.77%) CICS
5 3 (0.77%) GlassFish
5 3 (0.77%) JBoss
5 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.77%) Oracle Service Bus
5 3 (0.77%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.26%) GemFire
6 1 (0.26%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 10 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 166 (42.46%) AWS
2 142 (36.32%) Azure
3 110 (28.13%) Power Platform
4 24 (6.14%) GCP
5 23 (5.88%) SaaS
6 20 (5.12%) Amazon S3
7 13 (3.32%) Amazon Kinesis
7 13 (3.32%) dbt
8 12 (3.07%) Serverless
9 9 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.79%) GitHub
10 7 (1.79%) PaaS
11 6 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.53%) npm
11 6 (1.53%) Yarn
12 4 (1.02%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.02%) OCI
13 3 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.77%) Azure Storage
13 3 (0.77%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 74 (18.93%) Broadband
2 25 (6.39%) DNS
3 14 (3.58%) Firewall
4 13 (3.32%) DHCP
4 13 (3.32%) Internet
5 12 (3.07%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.56%) SNMP
6 10 (2.56%) tcpdump
7 6 (1.53%) AMQP
8 3 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.77%) SAN
9 2 (0.51%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (0.51%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.51%) VPN
10 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (41.69%) SQL Server
2 140 (35.81%) PostgreSQL
3 132 (33.76%) Oracle Database
4 110 (28.13%) Power BI
5 109 (27.88%) Oracle Database 11g
6 79 (20.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 46 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 34 (8.70%) MongoDB
9 31 (7.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 30 (7.67%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (4.09%) MySQL
11 16 (4.09%) Relational Database
12 15 (3.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 14 (3.58%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (2.30%) NoSQL
16 6 (1.53%) OLAP
17 5 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
18 4 (1.02%) Data Mining
18 4 (1.02%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 29 (7.42%) Jenkins
2 26 (6.65%) Git
3 17 (4.35%) GitLab
4 15 (3.84%) TeamCity
5 12 (3.07%) JIRA
6 6 (1.53%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.53%) Mocha
6 6 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.53%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.26%) Liquibase
General
1 149 (38.11%) Social Skills
2 59 (15.09%) Finance
3 35 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.65%) Law
5 17 (4.35%) Games
6 13 (3.32%) Banking
7 10 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.56%) Legal
7 10 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.05%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.05%) Retail
9 7 (1.79%) Private Banking
10 5 (1.28%) Marketing
11 4 (1.02%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.02%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.77%) Automotive
12 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (38.36%) Developer
2 143 (36.57%) Senior
3 124 (31.71%) DBA
4 106 (27.11%) Senior Developer
5 105 (26.85%) Database Developer
5 105 (26.85%) PostgreSQL Developer
6 98 (25.06%) SQL DBA
7 93 (23.79%) Senior Database Developer
8 34 (8.70%) Administrator
9 25 (6.39%) SQL Developer
10 20 (5.12%) Analyst
11 18 (4.60%) Lead
12 17 (4.35%) Data Engineer
13 16 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
14 15 (3.84%) AWS Engineer
15 14 (3.58%) Applications Support
15 14 (3.58%) AWS Data Engineer
15 14 (3.58%) Linux Engineer
16 13 (3.32%) Support Analyst
17 12 (3.07%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.16%) .NET
2 20 (5.12%) Kafka
2 20 (5.12%) RESTful
3 19 (4.86%) RabbitMQ
4 17 (4.35%) React
5 14 (3.58%) Django
6 13 (3.32%) CSS
7 10 (2.56%) AngularJS
7 10 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (2.56%) Middleware
7 10 (2.56%) YAML
8 7 (1.79%) Express.js
8 7 (1.79%) GraphQL
8 7 (1.79%) MEAN Stack
8 7 (1.79%) MERN Stack
8 7 (1.79%) NestJS
8 7 (1.79%) Node.js
8 7 (1.79%) Web Services
9 6 (1.53%) OAuth2
9 6 (1.53%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.46%) Clustering
2 25 (6.39%) Replication
3 20 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.32%) Client/Server
4 13 (3.32%) Online Games
5 8 (2.05%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.53%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.53%) PMI
7 6 (1.53%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.77%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.77%) NHS
9 3 (0.77%) Online Banking
9 3 (0.77%) VAX
9 3 (0.77%) VSAM
10 2 (0.51%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 78 (19.95%) VMS
2 47 (12.02%) Linux
3 35 (8.95%) Windows
4 15 (3.84%) Solaris
5 12 (3.07%) Windows Server
6 11 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.81%) Unix
7 9 (2.30%) Android
7 9 (2.30%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (1.02%) AIX
8 4 (1.02%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.77%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.77%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.77%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (32.48%) Business Intelligence
2 120 (30.69%) Migration
3 119 (30.43%) High Availability
4 118 (30.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 114 (29.16%) Artificial Intelligence
6 109 (27.88%) Unit Testing
7 108 (27.62%) Actionable Insight
8 106 (27.11%) Data Migration
9 105 (26.85%) Secure Coding
10 79 (20.20%) Collaborative Working
11 59 (15.09%) ETL
12 46 (11.76%) DevOps
13 45 (11.51%) Problem-Solving
14 44 (11.25%) CI/CD
15 40 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (10.23%) Data Modelling
16 31 (7.93%) Software Engineering
17 28 (7.16%) Database Tuning
18 25 (6.39%) Agile
18 25 (6.39%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 317 (81.07%) SQL
2 140 (35.81%) T-SQL
3 125 (31.97%) PL/SQL
4 57 (14.58%) Python
5 47 (12.02%) PowerShell
6 38 (9.72%) C#
7 33 (8.44%) JavaScript
8 21 (5.37%) Bash
9 15 (3.84%) Java
10 14 (3.58%) C
11 11 (2.81%) Kotlin
12 10 (2.56%) Perl
13 7 (1.79%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.77%) COBOL
14 3 (0.77%) JCL
14 3 (0.77%) REXX
15 2 (0.51%) PHP
15 2 (0.51%) Ruby
15 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.26%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 76 (19.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (4.86%) Degree
3 11 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.53%) OCP
4 6 (1.53%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (1.53%) PMI Certification
4 6 (1.53%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.28%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.28%) OCA
6 3 (0.77%) CIPD
6 3 (0.77%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.77%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.77%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.58%) QA
3 6 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.53%) SLA
System Software
1 74 (18.93%) Virtual Machines
2 46 (11.76%) Docker
3 17 (4.35%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (2.30%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.77%) RACF
7 3 (0.77%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.77%) XenApp
8 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.51%) NFS
9 1 (0.26%) Ceph
9 1 (0.26%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 37 (9.46%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.91%) Ansible
3 20 (5.12%) Grafana
3 20 (5.12%) Nagios
4 19 (4.86%) Terraform
5 12 (3.07%) Puppet
6 10 (2.56%) Graphite
6 10 (2.56%) HAProxy
6 10 (2.56%) Oracle RMAN
6 10 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.56%) vCenter Server
7 9 (2.30%) Data Guard
8 7 (1.79%) Foglight
8 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (1.02%) Oracle Statspack
10 3 (0.77%) EMC VPLEX
10 3 (0.77%) Istio
10 3 (0.77%) logstash
10 3 (0.77%) MAINVIEW
10 3 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 148 (37.85%) Oracle
2 127 (32.48%) Microsoft
3 10 (2.56%) Adaptive Insights
3 10 (2.56%) Anaplan
3 10 (2.56%) Jedox
3 10 (2.56%) Tagetik
4 9 (2.30%) Serena
5 7 (1.79%) ArcSight
5 7 (1.79%) Google
5 7 (1.79%) HP
5 7 (1.79%) IBM
6 6 (1.53%) New Relic
6 6 (1.53%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.02%) Aderant
7 4 (1.02%) SAP
7 4 (1.02%) VMware
8 3 (0.77%) Citrix
8 3 (0.77%) EMC
8 3 (0.77%) Remedy
8 3 (0.77%) Sybase