Performance Tuning Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Performance Tuning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 264 382
Rank change year-on-year -11 +118 +6
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 145 391 320
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.96% 1.16% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.26% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 115 258 223
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £41,107
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £79,813 £78,125
90th Percentile £76,840 £91,934 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,134 30,993 40,912
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 23,560 28,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Performance Tuning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Tuning trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

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 13 (8.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (8.28%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.76%) Apache
3 4 (2.76%) IIS
4 3 (2.07%) GemFire
5 2 (1.38%) CMS
6 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Oracle Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (37.93%) Azure
2 37 (25.52%) AWS
3 36 (24.83%) Power Platform
4 23 (15.86%) SaaS
5 18 (12.41%) Serverless
6 16 (11.03%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (8.97%) AWS KMS
8 12 (8.28%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (7.59%) GitHub
10 6 (4.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (4.14%) GCP
11 5 (3.45%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.76%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.76%) Snowflake
13 3 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (1.38%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.97%) Network Security
2 7 (4.83%) DNS
3 4 (2.76%) DHCP
4 3 (2.07%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.38%) VSAN
6 1 (0.69%) HTTP
6 1 (0.69%) MQTT
6 1 (0.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (44.14%) SQL Server
2 35 (24.14%) Power BI
3 24 (16.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 23 (15.86%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (15.17%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (13.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (8.97%) Data Hub
7 13 (8.97%) Metadata
7 13 (8.97%) SQL CLR
7 13 (8.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 12 (8.28%) Big Data
9 6 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (4.14%) Oracle Database
10 5 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (3.45%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.76%) Apache Hive
11 4 (2.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.76%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.76%) Biml
11 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 14 (9.66%) Git
2 11 (7.59%) JIRA
3 10 (6.90%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.76%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.69%) GitLab
5 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 44 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 39 (26.90%) Finance
3 26 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (17.24%) Law
5 13 (8.97%) Back Office
6 12 (8.28%) Banking
7 7 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.83%) Retail
8 4 (2.76%) Advertising
9 3 (2.07%) Front Office
10 2 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.38%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.69%) Games
11 1 (0.69%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.69%) Military
11 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (24.83%) Developer
2 28 (19.31%) Senior
3 22 (15.17%) Architect
4 19 (13.10%) DBA
5 17 (11.72%) Cloud Architect
5 17 (11.72%) Lead
6 14 (9.66%) SQL DBA
6 14 (9.66%) SQL Developer
7 13 (8.97%) AWS Architect
7 13 (8.97%) Senior Developer
8 11 (7.59%) Database Team Leader
8 11 (7.59%) Development Team Leader
8 11 (7.59%) Team Leader
9 10 (6.90%) Microsoft Developer
9 10 (6.90%) Senior Microsoft Developer
10 9 (6.21%) Analyst
10 9 (6.21%) SaaS Developer
10 9 (6.21%) Senior SQL Developer
10 9 (6.21%) Software Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.62%) .NET
2 17 (11.72%) .NET Framework
2 17 (11.72%) Kafka
3 15 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (9.66%) .NET Core
4 14 (9.66%) AngularJS
5 11 (7.59%) Entity Framework
6 9 (6.21%) Middleware
7 8 (5.52%) Pandas
8 7 (4.83%) Kendo UI
8 7 (4.83%) NgRx
8 7 (4.83%) RxJS
9 6 (4.14%) ASP.NET
9 6 (4.14%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (3.45%) REST
10 5 (3.45%) Spring
11 4 (2.76%) Dapper ORM
11 4 (2.76%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (2.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 4 (2.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.03%) Management Information System
2 14 (9.66%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.66%) Private Cloud
3 11 (7.59%) Algorithms
3 11 (7.59%) Data Structures
4 7 (4.83%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.83%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.45%) Replication
6 4 (2.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (2.07%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (2.07%) Derivative
7 3 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.07%) Equities
7 3 (2.07%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.07%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.38%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.38%) Clustering
8 2 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.38%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 31 (21.38%) Linux
2 16 (11.03%) Windows
3 10 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.83%) Unix
5 6 (4.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.07%) AIX
6 3 (2.07%) Solaris
7 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.69%) Debian
8 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (42.07%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (28.28%) Agile
2 41 (28.28%) Mentoring
3 38 (26.21%) High Availability
4 37 (25.52%) Business Intelligence
4 37 (25.52%) Software Engineering
5 36 (24.83%) Migration
6 35 (24.14%) DevOps
7 33 (22.76%) CI/CD
8 30 (20.69%) Computer Science
9 26 (17.93%) ETL
10 25 (17.24%) Coaching
11 23 (15.86%) Database Tuning
12 22 (15.17%) Design Patterns
13 21 (14.48%) Microservices
14 19 (13.10%) Data Migration
15 18 (12.41%) Database Migration
15 18 (12.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 17 (11.72%) Full-Stack Development
16 17 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 100 (68.97%) SQL
2 26 (17.93%) C#
2 26 (17.93%) T-SQL
3 19 (13.10%) Java
3 19 (13.10%) Python
4 16 (11.03%) PowerShell
5 11 (7.59%) Bash
5 11 (7.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (6.90%) PL/SQL
7 8 (5.52%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.76%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.38%) C++
9 2 (1.38%) Perl
9 2 (1.38%) Rust
10 1 (0.69%) ABAP
10 1 (0.69%) PHP
10 1 (0.69%) SAPscript
10 1 (0.69%) SHACL
10 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.69%) VC++
Qualifications
1 33 (22.76%) Degree
2 23 (15.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (11.72%) Security Cleared
4 15 (10.34%) SC Cleared
5 14 (9.66%) AWS Certification
6 13 (8.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (5.52%) Oracle Certification
8 6 (4.14%) Master's Degree
8 6 (4.14%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (2.76%) OCA
9 4 (2.76%) OCP
10 3 (2.07%) DBS Check
10 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.07%) SAP Certification
11 2 (1.38%) CCNA
11 2 (1.38%) CCNP
11 2 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.38%) MCP
11 2 (1.38%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.03%) GDPR
2 15 (10.34%) ISO 9001
3 13 (8.97%) HIPAA
4 9 (6.21%) Accessibility
5 5 (3.45%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.76%) QA
7 3 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (11.72%) Docker
1 17 (11.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.76%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.76%) HDFS
3 3 (2.07%) Firmware
3 3 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.07%) vSphere
4 2 (1.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (1.38%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.38%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (11.03%) Kubernetes
1 16 (11.03%) Terraform
2 14 (9.66%) Grafana
2 14 (9.66%) Prometheus
3 11 (7.59%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (2.76%) Ansible
4 4 (2.76%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (2.07%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.38%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (1.38%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.38%) Puppet
6 2 (1.38%) SCOM
6 2 (1.38%) vRealize
6 2 (1.38%) VxRail
6 2 (1.38%) WSUS
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 22 (15.17%) Oracle
3 17 (11.72%) VMware
4 8 (5.52%) SAP
5 7 (4.83%) Telerik
6 6 (4.14%) Databricks
6 6 (4.14%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.45%) Google
8 4 (2.76%) Teradata
9 3 (2.07%) Solace
9 3 (2.07%) TIBCO
10 2 (1.38%) ArcSight
10 2 (1.38%) Dell
10 2 (1.38%) EMC
10 2 (1.38%) Isilon
10 2 (1.38%) McAfee
10 2 (1.38%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.38%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.38%) Splunk
11 1 (0.69%) MicroStrategy