Performance Optimisation Job Trends in Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 148 176
Rank change year-on-year +13 +28 +91
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 28 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.83% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 21 4 3
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,975 £24,100
25th Percentile £63,750 £42,313 £27,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £46,250 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +72.97% +32.14% -46.15%
75th Percentile £82,500 £50,938 £46,125
90th Percentile - £54,875 £51,900
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,643 2,821 2,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 78.26% 90.62% 89.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,534 1,086 2,314
10th Percentile £27,575 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Performance Optimisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Performance Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Optimisation in Yorkshire

Performance Optimisation
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -3 27 £80,000 +72.97% 15
East Yorkshire - 1 £45,000 - 4
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 2 (7.14%) CMS
1 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
1 2 (7.14%) Umbraco
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
Business Applications
1 4 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) Azure
2 13 (46.43%) GCP
3 12 (42.86%) AWS
4 4 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.14%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (7.14%) dbt
5 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 2 (7.14%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.57%) Serverless
6 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Power BI
2 3 (10.71%) Spark SQL
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
3 2 (7.14%) Tableau
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.57%) Data Vault
4 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.57%) FileMaker
4 1 (3.57%) Looker
4 1 (3.57%) Metadata
4 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.57%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) GitLab
2 2 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) Selenium
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Retail
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Legal
3 2 (7.14%) Marketing
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Advertising
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) DevOps Engineer
1 9 (32.14%) Lead
1 9 (32.14%) Lead DevOps
1 9 (32.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Consultant
2 6 (21.43%) Principal Consultant
2 6 (21.43%) Principal SAP Consultant
2 6 (21.43%) SAP Consultant
3 4 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Development Consultant
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
4 3 (10.71%) Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Development Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Web Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Website Developer
6 1 (3.57%) ABAP Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Software Development Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) CSS
1 6 (21.43%) HTML
2 5 (17.86%) .NET
2 5 (17.86%) ASP.NET
3 3 (10.71%) .NET Framework
3 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
3 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (10.71%) PySpark
3 3 (10.71%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (10.71%) SAPUI5
4 2 (7.14%) Apache Cordova
4 2 (7.14%) HTML5
4 2 (7.14%) Ionic Framework
4 2 (7.14%) jQuery
4 2 (7.14%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.57%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.57%) React
5 1 (3.57%) Spring
5 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (89.29%) Agile
2 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 13 (46.43%) DevOps
3 13 (46.43%) Observability
4 12 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (39.29%) Line Management
6 10 (35.71%) Analytics
6 10 (35.71%) Incident Response
6 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (32.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 7 (25.00%) User Experience
9 5 (17.86%) Coaching
9 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
10 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (14.29%) Data Engineering
10 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) SQL
2 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 6 (21.43%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) C#
4 3 (10.71%) ABAP
4 3 (10.71%) Java
5 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) DBS Check
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) WCAG
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Grafana
1 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
1 10 (35.71%) Prometheus
1 10 (35.71%) Terraform
2 9 (32.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) SAP
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.71%) Databricks
4 2 (7.14%) Adobe
4 2 (7.14%) Google
5 1 (3.57%) New Relic