Performance Tuning Jobs

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 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 321 377 396
Rank change year-on-year +56 +19 +7
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 927 804 1,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 0.85% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.89% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 435 425 859
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +10.58% -3.26% +7.50%

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 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 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 1 June 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 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
UK excluding London +157 706 £57,500 +10.58% 81
England -39 562 £59,000 -1.67% 118
Work from Home +75 365 £57,500 -4.17% 48
Scotland +105 274 £57,500 -10.20% 14
London -41 192 £77,500 -0.41% 52
North of England +54 132 £57,500 +15.00% 12
South East +34 102 £57,500 -4.17% 30
Midlands +21 74 £57,500 +9.52% 10
North West +12 72 £55,000 +10.00% 7
Wales +55 57 £46,604 +21.05%
West Midlands -3 47 £60,000 +14.29% 7
South West -47 42 £57,500 +18.56% 2
Yorkshire +51 31 £48,507 -23.33% 4
North East +6 29 £57,500 +43.75% 1
East Midlands +5 27 £57,500 -4.17% 3
East of England -21 14 £57,500 +49.32% 19
Northern Ireland +27 11 £77,500 +3.33%

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
1 223 (24.06%) Apache Spark
2 59 (6.36%) Apache
3 51 (5.50%) WebLogic
4 44 (4.75%) Oracle Service Bus
5 36 (3.88%) CMS
6 17 (1.83%) IIS
7 13 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (1.19%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.76%) nginx
11 4 (0.43%) Confluence
11 4 (0.43%) SAS
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 (0.22%) IBM Domino
14 1 (0.11%) CICS
Applications
1 67 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (6.36%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (4.75%) MS Visio
4 19 (2.05%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.32%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 44 (4.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 36 (3.88%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (2.37%) NEC Housing
4 11 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (1.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.76%) 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 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.11%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 336 (36.25%) AWS
2 240 (25.89%) Azure
3 138 (14.89%) Power Platform
4 67 (7.23%) Serverless
5 54 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
6 50 (5.39%) Amazon ECS
6 50 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
7 49 (5.29%) Amazon EC2
7 49 (5.29%) Amazon EMR
7 49 (5.29%) Amazon SQS
8 33 (3.56%) SaaS
9 31 (3.34%) GCP
10 30 (3.24%) OCI
11 21 (2.27%) GitHub
12 19 (2.05%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (2.05%) NuGet
13 17 (1.83%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (1.51%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 74 (7.98%) Broadband
2 45 (4.85%) DNS
3 42 (4.53%) Firewall
4 33 (3.56%) DHCP
5 22 (2.37%) SAN
6 20 (2.16%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.73%) DSL
8 15 (1.62%) Internet
9 11 (1.19%) tcpdump
10 8 (0.86%) SNMP
11 7 (0.76%) AMQP
12 6 (0.65%) VLAN
12 6 (0.65%) VPN
13 5 (0.54%) NAS
13 5 (0.54%) SSL
14 3 (0.32%) Fibre Channel
14 3 (0.32%) HTTP
14 3 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
14 3 (0.32%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (34.41%) SQL Server
2 227 (24.49%) Big Data
3 223 (24.06%) NoSQL
4 201 (21.68%) Oracle Database
5 164 (17.69%) PostgreSQL
6 138 (14.89%) Oracle Database 11g
7 135 (14.56%) Power BI
8 88 (9.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 74 (7.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 64 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 55 (5.93%) MongoDB
12 51 (5.50%) Hadoop
13 49 (5.29%) Electronic Patient Records
14 44 (4.75%) Oracle Database 10g
14 44 (4.75%) VLDB
15 43 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
16 41 (4.42%) Relational Database
17 33 (3.56%) MySQL
18 31 (3.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 27 (2.91%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 78 (8.41%) Git
2 65 (7.01%) JIRA
3 56 (6.04%) TeamCity
4 41 (4.42%) GitLab
5 37 (3.99%) Jenkins
6 36 (3.88%) Moq
6 36 (3.88%) NUnit
7 30 (3.24%) Visual Studio
8 25 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
9 19 (2.05%) git-flow
9 19 (2.05%) Sourcetree
9 19 (2.05%) SpecFlow
10 10 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 7 (0.76%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.76%) Mocha
12 4 (0.43%) Toad
13 3 (0.32%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.32%) IBM UrbanCode
13 3 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 355 (38.30%) Finance
2 267 (28.80%) Law
3 265 (28.59%) Social Skills
4 256 (27.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 212 (22.87%) Marketing
6 155 (16.72%) Influencing Skills
7 136 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
8 72 (7.77%) Legal
9 67 (7.23%) Financial Institution
10 52 (5.61%) Banking
11 36 (3.88%) Investment Banking
12 34 (3.67%) Police
13 32 (3.45%) Local Government
14 29 (3.13%) Public Sector
14 29 (3.13%) Retail
15 22 (2.37%) Back Office
16 17 (1.83%) Manufacturing
17 16 (1.73%) Games
18 13 (1.40%) Telecoms
19 10 (1.08%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 222 (23.95%) Senior
2 211 (22.76%) Developer
3 191 (20.60%) DBA
4 189 (20.39%) Software Engineer
5 169 (18.23%) Lead
6 154 (16.61%) Big Data Engineer
7 153 (16.50%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 153 (16.50%) Scala Engineer
7 153 (16.50%) Scala Software Engineer
8 121 (13.05%) Lead Software Engineer
9 119 (12.84%) Java Engineer
9 119 (12.84%) Java Software Engineer
10 114 (12.30%) Senior Developer
11 110 (11.87%) SQL DBA
12 107 (11.54%) Java Scala Software Engineer
13 106 (11.43%) Lead Java Engineer
14 104 (11.22%) Lead Big Data Engineer
15 92 (9.92%) Database Developer
16 91 (9.82%) PostgreSQL Developer
17 85 (9.17%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (8.31%) .NET
2 72 (7.77%) RESTful
3 59 (6.36%) CSS
4 52 (5.61%) Kafka
4 52 (5.61%) Web Services
5 49 (5.29%) HTML
6 47 (5.07%) React
7 45 (4.85%) ASP.NET
8 42 (4.53%) SOAP
9 40 (4.31%) .NET Framework
10 38 (4.10%) jQuery
11 36 (3.88%) ASP.NET MVC
11 36 (3.88%) ASP.NET MVC 5
11 36 (3.88%) Entity Framework
12 35 (3.78%) Semantic HTML
13 24 (2.59%) XML
14 20 (2.16%) Autofac
14 20 (2.16%) Django
14 20 (2.16%) Ninject
14 20 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 93 (10.03%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.69%) Replication
3 57 (6.15%) Algorithms
4 46 (4.96%) Clustering
4 46 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
5 35 (3.78%) Legacy Code
6 34 (3.67%) Management Information System
7 26 (2.80%) Product Ownership
8 25 (2.70%) Data Centre
8 25 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (2.37%) Driving Licence
10 20 (2.16%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.40%) Client/Server
11 13 (1.40%) Online Games
12 11 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.86%) Onboarding
13 8 (0.86%) PMI
14 7 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 6 (0.65%) AS400
15 6 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 153 (16.50%) Linux
2 97 (10.46%) Windows
3 85 (9.17%) Unix
4 78 (8.41%) VMS
5 58 (6.26%) Solaris
6 36 (3.88%) Windows Server
7 20 (2.16%) Windows 10
8 17 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (1.62%) Oracle Linux
11 14 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (1.40%) Android
13 12 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
13 12 (1.29%) Windows XP
14 7 (0.76%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
16 4 (0.43%) AIX
17 3 (0.32%) CentOS
17 3 (0.32%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (35.06%) Agile
2 291 (31.39%) Software Engineering
3 248 (26.75%) CI/CD
4 242 (26.11%) SDLC
5 222 (23.95%) Artificial Intelligence
6 189 (20.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 181 (19.53%) Operational Stability
8 172 (18.55%) Business Intelligence
8 172 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
9 164 (17.69%) High Availability
10 135 (14.56%) Actionable Insight
11 131 (14.13%) Unit Testing
12 119 (12.84%) Migration
13 117 (12.62%) Mentoring
14 107 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
15 99 (10.68%) DevOps
16 98 (10.57%) Computer Science
16 98 (10.57%) Data Migration
17 93 (10.03%) Secure Coding
18 85 (9.17%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 736 (79.40%) SQL
2 269 (29.02%) Java
3 222 (23.95%) Scala
4 221 (23.84%) T-SQL
5 191 (20.60%) PL/SQL
6 96 (10.36%) Python
7 87 (9.39%) C#
8 83 (8.95%) JavaScript
9 79 (8.52%) PowerShell
10 26 (2.80%) Bash
11 20 (2.16%) C
12 19 (2.05%) XPath
13 16 (1.73%) TypeScript
14 14 (1.51%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.51%) Shell Script
15 13 (1.40%) Perl
16 10 (1.08%) RPG
17 7 (0.76%) VBA
18 6 (0.65%) ABAP
19 4 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 179 (19.31%) Degree
2 98 (10.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 90 (9.71%) Security Cleared
4 57 (6.15%) SC Cleared
5 53 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (4.85%) Oracle Certification
7 23 (2.48%) OCP
8 21 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.83%) CCNA
9 17 (1.83%) DV Cleared
10 16 (1.73%) CCNP
11 14 (1.51%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.51%) MCSE
12 8 (0.86%) MCP
12 8 (0.86%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.65%) MCSA
13 6 (0.65%) OCA
14 4 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 3 (0.32%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.80%) SLA
2 27 (2.91%) QA
3 24 (2.59%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.32%) GDPR
8 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 78 (8.41%) Virtual Machines
2 63 (6.80%) Docker
3 52 (5.61%) Oracle RAC
4 44 (4.75%) Active Directory
5 38 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 33 (3.56%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (2.05%) Hyper-V
8 11 (1.19%) Firmware
9 6 (0.65%) vSphere
10 4 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.32%) KVM
11 3 (0.32%) NFS
11 3 (0.32%) XenApp
12 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.22%) Ceph
12 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.11%) GridGain
13 1 (0.11%) RACF
13 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 71 (7.66%) Kubernetes
2 53 (5.72%) Oracle RMAN
3 51 (5.50%) Data Guard
4 37 (3.99%) Ansible
5 29 (3.13%) Terraform
6 26 (2.80%) Grafana
7 25 (2.70%) SCOM
8 21 (2.27%) vCenter Server
9 18 (1.94%) Nagios
10 17 (1.83%) SCCM
10 17 (1.83%) WSUS
11 16 (1.73%) Prometheus
12 13 (1.40%) NetBackup
12 13 (1.40%) Puppet
13 12 (1.29%) EMC NetWorker
14 11 (1.19%) HAProxy
15 8 (0.86%) Graphite
16 7 (0.76%) Foglight
16 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Clustering
17 5 (0.54%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 283 (30.53%) Oracle
2 219 (23.62%) Microsoft
3 44 (4.75%) Remedy
3 44 (4.75%) Sun
4 39 (4.21%) VMware
5 30 (3.24%) Veeam
6 28 (3.02%) Sybase
7 25 (2.70%) Databricks
7 25 (2.70%) Dell
8 23 (2.48%) IBM
9 22 (2.37%) HP
9 22 (2.37%) NEC
10 20 (2.16%) Cisco
11 19 (2.05%) Adobe
11 19 (2.05%) Cognizant
12 18 (1.94%) Cognos
13 16 (1.73%) Alteryx
14 15 (1.62%) EMC
14 15 (1.62%) Red Hat
15 14 (1.51%) Palo Alto