Performance Optimisation Jobs

Performance Optimisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 695 730
Rank change year-on-year +162 +35 -30
Permanent jobs citing Performance Optimisation 424 256 594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.27% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.28% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 325 151 185
10th Percentile £36,750 £46,250 £42,494
25th Percentile £48,750 £54,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.90% +3.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,500 £95,000 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £61,250 £61,040
% change year-on-year -6.12% +0.34% +16.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Optimisation 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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
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 Optimisation within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +161 376 £62,500 -10.71% 125
UK excluding London +152 283 £57,500 -6.12% 59
Work from Home +121 181 £70,000 +3.70% 59
London +98 132 £75,000 -9.09% 70
South East +46 69 £48,750 -27.24% 11
North of England +72 68 £60,000 +4.35% 18
South West +18 52 £51,250 -14.58% 4
North West +10 37 £67,500 +12.50% 9
Midlands +20 34 £62,500 +78.57% 14
Scotland -46 29 £52,500 -2.93% 4
West Midlands +12 27 £62,500 +78.57% 11
North East +6 17 £55,000 +29.41% 7
East of England +1 17 £57,500 +2.22% 5
Yorkshire +72 14 £57,500 +55.41% 2
Wales +17 9 £46,604 -22.33% 2
East Midlands - 7 £87,500 - 3
Northern Ireland +25 5 - - 2

Performance Optimisation
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 13 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.83%) WordPress
3 8 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.18%) Apache
4 5 (1.18%) IIS
5 3 (0.71%) JBoss
5 3 (0.71%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.71%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.71%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.71%) WildFly
6 2 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.24%) TYPO3
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.65%) Magento
2 4 (0.94%) Shopify
3 3 (0.71%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 114 (26.89%) Azure
2 83 (19.58%) AWS
3 67 (15.80%) Power Platform
4 44 (10.38%) PowerApps
5 43 (10.14%) Power Automate
6 28 (6.60%) Serverless
7 26 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (5.90%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (4.95%) GCP
9 21 (4.95%) SaaS
10 20 (4.72%) Amazon S3
11 15 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (3.54%) Entra ID
12 14 (3.30%) Azure Functions
12 14 (3.30%) GitHub
13 10 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (2.36%) IaaS
13 10 (2.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.19%) Firewall
2 16 (3.77%) HTTP
3 13 (3.07%) DNS
3 13 (3.07%) VPN
4 8 (1.89%) MQTT
4 8 (1.89%) Network Security
5 7 (1.65%) DHCP
5 7 (1.65%) VLAN
6 6 (1.42%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (1.18%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.94%) Wireless
9 3 (0.71%) OSPF
9 3 (0.71%) SAN
9 3 (0.71%) SSH
10 2 (0.47%) BGP
10 2 (0.47%) IPv4
10 2 (0.47%) IPv6
10 2 (0.47%) LAN
10 2 (0.47%) SSL
10 2 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (15.33%) Power BI
2 51 (12.03%) MySQL
3 42 (9.91%) Relational Database
4 37 (8.73%) SQL Server
5 24 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (5.19%) NoSQL
7 21 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (3.07%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (2.12%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.89%) CockroachDB
11 8 (1.89%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.65%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.65%) Star Schema
13 6 (1.42%) Data Vault
13 6 (1.42%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 54 (12.74%) Git
2 20 (4.72%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.89%) Jaeger
3 8 (1.89%) JIRA
3 8 (1.89%) Maven
3 8 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
4 7 (1.65%) GitLab
5 6 (1.42%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.42%) webpack
6 4 (0.94%) JUnit
6 4 (0.94%) Selenium
7 3 (0.71%) Babel
7 3 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.71%) ERwin
7 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.71%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.47%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 146 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 60 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
2 60 (14.15%) Finance
3 48 (11.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 43 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.37%) Manufacturing
6 20 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (4.25%) Law
8 15 (3.54%) Marketing
9 14 (3.30%) Banking
10 13 (3.07%) Electronics
11 12 (2.83%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.59%) Front Office
12 11 (2.59%) Retail
13 10 (2.36%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.36%) Legal
14 6 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.42%) Games
14 6 (1.42%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.94%) Police
Job Titles
1 211 (49.76%) Developer
2 94 (22.17%) Senior
3 87 (20.52%) Architect
4 56 (13.21%) Senior Developer
5 47 (11.08%) Lead
6 43 (10.14%) .NET Developer
7 41 (9.67%) Platform Architect
7 41 (9.67%) Power Platform Architect
8 34 (8.02%) Technical Architect
9 33 (7.78%) Full Stack Developer
10 29 (6.84%) Solutions Architect
11 27 (6.37%) Lead Developer
11 27 (6.37%) Web Developer
12 23 (5.42%) Senior Architect
13 20 (4.72%) Dynamics 365 Architect
13 20 (4.72%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
13 20 (4.72%) Power Platform Developer
13 20 (4.72%) Senior Solutions Architect
14 19 (4.48%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 19 (4.48%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (24.53%) HTML
2 96 (22.64%) CSS
3 89 (20.99%) .NET
4 47 (11.08%) React
5 46 (10.85%) RESTful
6 32 (7.55%) .NET Core
7 25 (5.90%) AngularJS
8 22 (5.19%) Web Services
9 19 (4.48%) .NET Framework
9 19 (4.48%) jQuery
9 19 (4.48%) Laravel
9 19 (4.48%) Vue
10 18 (4.25%) Kafka
11 16 (3.77%) LAMP
12 15 (3.54%) React Native
13 13 (3.07%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (3.07%) REST
14 12 (2.83%) Node.js
15 11 (2.59%) ASP.NET
15 11 (2.59%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.90%) Algorithms
2 24 (5.66%) Mobile App
3 23 (5.42%) Cloud Native
4 21 (4.95%) Video\Live Streaming
5 20 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.72%) Management Information System
6 14 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.07%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.12%) IoT
9 9 (2.12%) Replication
10 8 (1.89%) Blockchain
10 8 (1.89%) e-Learning
11 7 (1.65%) Arduino
11 7 (1.65%) Raspberry Pi
12 6 (1.42%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.18%) Animation
13 5 (1.18%) Driving Licence
13 5 (1.18%) Hedge funds
13 5 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 47 (11.08%) Linux
2 44 (10.38%) Windows
3 21 (4.95%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.42%) Android
5 5 (1.18%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.18%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.94%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.94%) Unix
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (34.20%) Problem-Solving
2 107 (25.24%) Computer Science
3 91 (21.46%) Data Modelling
3 91 (21.46%) Mentoring
4 73 (17.22%) Business Intelligence
4 73 (17.22%) User Experience
5 71 (16.75%) Artificial Intelligence
6 70 (16.51%) Full Stack Development
7 68 (16.04%) DevOps
8 66 (15.57%) Agile
9 64 (15.09%) Machine Learning
10 63 (14.86%) Analytics
11 56 (13.21%) Front End Development
12 50 (11.79%) Software Engineering
13 46 (10.85%) CI/CD
13 46 (10.85%) Web Development
14 45 (10.61%) Design Patterns
15 41 (9.67%) Visualisation
16 39 (9.20%) ETL
17 38 (8.96%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 122 (28.77%) JavaScript
2 113 (26.65%) C#
3 101 (23.82%) SQL
4 62 (14.62%) Python
5 36 (8.49%) PHP
6 34 (8.02%) Java
6 34 (8.02%) TypeScript
7 24 (5.66%) C++
8 11 (2.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (2.12%) Go
9 9 (2.12%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.65%) Bash
11 5 (1.18%) R
11 5 (1.18%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.94%) Rust
13 3 (0.71%) C
13 3 (0.71%) Perl
13 3 (0.71%) Scala
14 2 (0.47%) Dart
14 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 118 (27.83%) Degree
2 98 (23.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (12.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 40 (9.43%) Master's Degree
5 26 (6.13%) Security Cleared
6 23 (5.42%) SC Cleared
7 19 (4.48%) CCNP
7 19 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (4.25%) AWS Certification
8 18 (4.25%) Azure Certification
9 13 (3.07%) MCSE
10 10 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (2.12%) PhD
12 6 (1.42%) CCNA
13 4 (0.94%) CISM
13 4 (0.94%) CISSP
14 3 (0.71%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.47%) JNCIA
16 1 (0.24%) ISEB
16 1 (0.24%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.72%) QA
2 17 (4.01%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.07%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.83%) GDPR
5 10 (2.36%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.94%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (9.67%) Docker
2 31 (7.31%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.65%) Firmware
3 7 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.47%) Ceph
5 2 (0.47%) HDFS
5 2 (0.47%) NFS
5 2 (0.47%) PowerDNS
6 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.24%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 41 (9.67%) Kubernetes
2 24 (5.66%) Terraform
3 17 (4.01%) Ansible
4 15 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.89%) Kiali
6 6 (1.42%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.94%) Istio
8 3 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.71%) Puppet
9 2 (0.47%) Grafana
9 2 (0.47%) Kibana
10 1 (0.24%) Iperf
10 1 (0.24%) Nmap
10 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 112 (26.42%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.01%) VMware
3 16 (3.77%) Cisco
4 12 (2.83%) SAP
4 12 (2.83%) Splunk
5 11 (2.59%) IBM
6 8 (1.89%) AppDynamics
6 8 (1.89%) Databricks
6 8 (1.89%) Google
6 8 (1.89%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.65%) NVIDIA
8 6 (1.42%) Oracle
8 6 (1.42%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.18%) Apple
9 5 (1.18%) Mapbox
9 5 (1.18%) Xamarin
10 4 (0.94%) BiZZdesign
11 3 (0.71%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.71%) Dell
11 3 (0.71%) Informatica