Performance Tuning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 393 390
Rank change year-on-year +86 -3 +11
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 931 825 1,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.81% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.85% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 444 416 842
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,356 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £47,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,125 £108,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.58% -5.45% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the UK

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning.

Salary trend for Performance Tuning in the UK

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Tuning in the UK

Performance Tuning
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tuning within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +193 708 £57,500 +10.58% 96
England +2 557 £59,000 -5.60% 123
Work from Home +93 370 £57,500 -4.17% 62
Scotland +118 283 £57,500 -10.20% 17
London -54 194 £77,500 -0.82% 41
North of England +75 133 £57,500 +11.11% 13
South East +33 96 £57,500 -11.54% 21
Midlands +32 76 £57,500 +15.00% 31
North West +38 75 £57,500 +15.00% 9
Wales +48 57 £46,604 +21.05% 1
West Midlands +29 46 £60,000 +20.00% 15
South West -37 38 £57,500 +36.44% 4
East Midlands +9 30 £57,500 +9.52% 16
Yorkshire +72 29 £55,000 -8.33% 4
North East +13 29 £57,500 +43.75%
East of England +1 14 £57,500 +19.17% 8
Northern Ireland +34 11 £77,500 +5.08% 2

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 234 (25.13%) Apache Spark
2 60 (6.44%) Apache
3 53 (5.69%) WebLogic
4 44 (4.73%) Oracle Service Bus
5 27 (2.90%) CMS
6 18 (1.93%) IIS
7 13 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (1.18%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.75%) nginx
11 4 (0.43%) SAS
12 3 (0.32%) CICS
12 3 (0.32%) GlassFish
12 3 (0.32%) JBoss
12 3 (0.32%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 3 (0.32%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.32%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.21%) Confluence
13 2 (0.21%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 66 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (6.34%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (4.73%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.50%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.32%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 44 (4.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 27 (2.90%) SDL Web 8
3 19 (2.04%) NEC Housing
4 12 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (1.29%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.75%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.54%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.54%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.32%) Maximo
7 3 (0.32%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.11%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 347 (37.27%) AWS
2 250 (26.85%) Azure
3 137 (14.72%) Power Platform
4 69 (7.41%) Serverless
5 56 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
6 52 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
7 51 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
7 51 (5.48%) Amazon EMR
7 51 (5.48%) Amazon SQS
8 36 (3.87%) GCP
9 33 (3.54%) SaaS
10 31 (3.33%) OCI
11 21 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (2.04%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.72%) GitHub
14 15 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (1.50%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 14 (1.50%) dbt
15 14 (1.50%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 74 (7.95%) Broadband
2 48 (5.16%) DNS
3 44 (4.73%) Firewall
4 34 (3.65%) DHCP
5 22 (2.36%) SAN
6 21 (2.26%) TCP/IP
7 18 (1.93%) DSL
8 17 (1.83%) Internet
9 12 (1.29%) tcpdump
10 10 (1.07%) SNMP
11 7 (0.75%) AMQP
12 6 (0.64%) VLAN
12 6 (0.64%) VPN
13 5 (0.54%) SSL
14 4 (0.43%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (0.43%) NAS
15 3 (0.32%) HTTP
15 3 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
15 3 (0.32%) Wireless
15 3 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 308 (33.08%) SQL Server
2 238 (25.56%) Big Data
3 232 (24.92%) NoSQL
4 202 (21.70%) Oracle Database
5 158 (16.97%) PostgreSQL
6 138 (14.82%) Oracle Database 11g
7 135 (14.50%) Power BI
8 90 (9.67%) Azure SQL Database
9 73 (7.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 63 (6.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 59 (6.34%) MongoDB
12 54 (5.80%) Hadoop
13 51 (5.48%) Electronic Patient Records
14 44 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
14 44 (4.73%) Oracle Database 10g
14 44 (4.73%) VLDB
15 38 (4.08%) Relational Database
16 35 (3.76%) MySQL
17 31 (3.33%) Data Lake
18 30 (3.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 65 (6.98%) Git
2 51 (5.48%) JIRA
3 47 (5.05%) TeamCity
4 36 (3.87%) GitLab
5 35 (3.76%) Jenkins
6 27 (2.90%) Moq
6 27 (2.90%) NUnit
7 25 (2.69%) Visual Studio
8 20 (2.15%) Octopus Deploy
9 14 (1.50%) git-flow
9 14 (1.50%) Sourcetree
9 14 (1.50%) SpecFlow
10 10 (1.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 7 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.75%) Mocha
12 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.21%) Mercurial
12 2 (0.21%) Toad
13 1 (0.11%) Liquibase
13 1 (0.11%) SonarQube
General
1 356 (38.24%) Finance
2 278 (29.86%) Law
3 266 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 261 (28.03%) Social Skills
5 210 (22.56%) Marketing
6 161 (17.29%) Influencing Skills
7 139 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
8 74 (7.95%) Legal
9 71 (7.63%) Financial Institution
10 55 (5.91%) Banking
11 41 (4.40%) Investment Banking
12 31 (3.33%) Police
13 29 (3.11%) Local Government
14 26 (2.79%) Public Sector
14 26 (2.79%) Retail
15 19 (2.04%) Back Office
16 16 (1.72%) Games
17 15 (1.61%) Telecoms
18 13 (1.40%) Manufacturing
19 10 (1.07%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 218 (23.42%) Senior
2 202 (21.70%) Developer
3 196 (21.05%) DBA
4 189 (20.30%) Software Engineer
5 169 (18.15%) Lead
6 160 (17.19%) Big Data Engineer
7 159 (17.08%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 159 (17.08%) Scala Engineer
7 159 (17.08%) Scala Software Engineer
8 122 (13.10%) Lead Software Engineer
9 119 (12.78%) Java Engineer
9 119 (12.78%) Java Software Engineer
10 113 (12.14%) SQL DBA
11 108 (11.60%) Lead Big Data Engineer
12 107 (11.49%) Java Scala Software Engineer
13 106 (11.39%) Lead Java Engineer
13 106 (11.39%) Senior Developer
14 92 (9.88%) Database Developer
15 91 (9.77%) PostgreSQL Developer
16 87 (9.34%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (7.73%) .NET
2 55 (5.91%) Kafka
2 55 (5.91%) RESTful
3 48 (5.16%) CSS
4 43 (4.62%) Web Services
5 41 (4.40%) React
6 39 (4.19%) HTML
7 36 (3.87%) ASP.NET
8 34 (3.65%) SOAP
9 31 (3.33%) .NET Framework
10 29 (3.11%) jQuery
11 27 (2.90%) ASP.NET MVC
11 27 (2.90%) ASP.NET MVC 5
11 27 (2.90%) Entity Framework
12 26 (2.79%) Semantic HTML
13 21 (2.26%) XML
14 20 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
15 19 (2.04%) AngularJS
15 19 (2.04%) Spring
16 15 (1.61%) Ninject
Miscellaneous
1 97 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.66%) Replication
3 59 (6.34%) Algorithms
4 50 (5.37%) Clustering
5 42 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
6 36 (3.87%) Management Information System
7 27 (2.90%) Product Ownership
8 26 (2.79%) Legacy Code
9 25 (2.69%) Data Centre
10 23 (2.47%) Public Cloud
11 20 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (2.04%) Driving Licence
13 13 (1.40%) Client/Server
13 13 (1.40%) Online Games
14 12 (1.29%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.86%) Onboarding
15 8 (0.86%) PMI
16 6 (0.64%) AS400
16 6 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
16 6 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 153 (16.43%) Linux
2 101 (10.85%) Windows
3 82 (8.81%) Unix
4 78 (8.38%) VMS
5 58 (6.23%) Solaris
6 39 (4.19%) Windows Server
7 20 (2.15%) Windows 10
8 18 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (1.61%) Oracle Linux
10 15 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (1.29%) Android
11 12 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (1.29%) Windows XP
12 6 (0.64%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.54%) AIX
13 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
14 4 (0.43%) zOS
15 3 (0.32%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (34.59%) Agile
2 294 (31.58%) Software Engineering
3 257 (27.60%) CI/CD
4 251 (26.96%) SDLC
5 226 (24.27%) Artificial Intelligence
6 193 (20.73%) Disaster Recovery
7 189 (20.30%) Operational Stability
8 174 (18.69%) Business Intelligence
9 170 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
10 167 (17.94%) High Availability
11 134 (14.39%) Actionable Insight
12 124 (13.32%) Migration
13 122 (13.10%) Unit Testing
14 112 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 112 (12.03%) Mentoring
15 98 (10.53%) Data Migration
16 91 (9.77%) Secure Coding
17 90 (9.67%) DevOps
18 89 (9.56%) Computer Science
19 87 (9.34%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 744 (79.91%) SQL
2 279 (29.97%) Java
3 233 (25.03%) Scala
4 214 (22.99%) T-SQL
5 190 (20.41%) PL/SQL
6 94 (10.10%) Python
7 82 (8.81%) C#
7 82 (8.81%) PowerShell
8 75 (8.06%) JavaScript
9 28 (3.01%) Bash
10 20 (2.15%) C
11 14 (1.50%) XPath
12 13 (1.40%) Perl
12 13 (1.40%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.29%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.18%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.07%) RPG
16 7 (0.75%) ABAP
16 7 (0.75%) VBA
17 4 (0.43%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 168 (18.05%) Degree
2 98 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 87 (9.34%) Security Cleared
4 57 (6.12%) SC Cleared
5 52 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (4.83%) Oracle Certification
7 26 (2.79%) OCP
8 22 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (1.93%) CCNA
10 17 (1.83%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.72%) CCNP
12 15 (1.61%) MCSE
13 14 (1.50%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.97%) OCA
15 8 (0.86%) MCP
15 8 (0.86%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.64%) MCSA
17 4 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 4 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 3 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.98%) SLA
2 26 (2.79%) QA
3 21 (2.26%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.21%) GDPR
7 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 80 (8.59%) Virtual Machines
2 62 (6.66%) Docker
3 55 (5.91%) Oracle RAC
4 48 (5.16%) Active Directory
5 39 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 36 (3.87%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (2.04%) Hyper-V
8 12 (1.29%) Firmware
9 6 (0.64%) vSphere
10 5 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.32%) NFS
11 3 (0.32%) RACF
11 3 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.32%) XenApp
12 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.21%) Ceph
12 2 (0.21%) KVM
12 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.11%) GridGain
13 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 70 (7.52%) Kubernetes
2 55 (5.91%) Oracle RMAN
3 54 (5.80%) Data Guard
4 37 (3.97%) Ansible
5 28 (3.01%) Terraform
6 26 (2.79%) Grafana
6 26 (2.79%) SCOM
7 24 (2.58%) vCenter Server
8 20 (2.15%) Nagios
9 18 (1.93%) SCCM
9 18 (1.93%) WSUS
10 16 (1.72%) Prometheus
11 14 (1.50%) Puppet
12 13 (1.40%) HAProxy
13 12 (1.29%) EMC NetWorker
13 12 (1.29%) NetBackup
14 10 (1.07%) Graphite
15 7 (0.75%) Foglight
15 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Clustering
16 6 (0.64%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 284 (30.50%) Oracle
2 225 (24.17%) Microsoft
3 44 (4.73%) Remedy
3 44 (4.73%) Sun
4 40 (4.30%) VMware
5 31 (3.33%) Veeam
6 29 (3.11%) Sybase
7 27 (2.90%) Databricks
8 26 (2.79%) IBM
9 25 (2.69%) Dell
10 23 (2.47%) HP
11 21 (2.26%) Cisco
12 20 (2.15%) Cognos
13 19 (2.04%) NEC
14 18 (1.93%) Alteryx
15 15 (1.61%) Adobe
15 15 (1.61%) EMC
16 14 (1.50%) 3PAR
16 14 (1.50%) Cognizant
16 14 (1.50%) Red Hat