Performance Tuning Jobs with Work from Home Options

Performance Tuning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 287 362 392
Rank change year-on-year +75 +30 -47
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 365 303 665
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.05% 0.79% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 0.82% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 247 218 439
10th Percentile £47,000 £39,507 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £89,897 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,322 36,922 72,167
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.16% 96.00% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,561 26,118 41,820
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Performance Tuning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Tuning trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

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 16 (4.38%) IIS
2 13 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.64%) nginx
3 6 (1.64%) WebLogic
4 3 (0.82%) Apache
4 3 (0.82%) GlassFish
4 3 (0.82%) JBoss
4 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.82%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.27%) CICS
6 1 (0.27%) GemFire
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 10 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 151 (41.37%) AWS
2 137 (37.53%) Azure
3 111 (30.41%) Power Platform
4 24 (6.58%) GCP
4 24 (6.58%) SaaS
5 17 (4.66%) Amazon S3
6 13 (3.56%) Amazon Kinesis
6 13 (3.56%) dbt
7 11 (3.01%) Serverless
8 9 (2.47%) GitHub
9 7 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.64%) npm
10 6 (1.64%) Yarn
11 5 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.37%) OCI
11 5 (1.37%) PaaS
12 4 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (0.55%) Entra ID
14 2 (0.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (20.27%) Broadband
2 22 (6.03%) DNS
3 12 (3.29%) DHCP
3 12 (3.29%) Firewall
4 11 (3.01%) Internet
5 10 (2.74%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.19%) SNMP
6 8 (2.19%) tcpdump
7 6 (1.64%) AMQP
8 3 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.82%) SAN
9 2 (0.55%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (0.55%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (44.11%) SQL Server
2 127 (34.79%) PostgreSQL
3 113 (30.96%) Oracle Database
4 110 (30.14%) Power BI
5 94 (25.75%) Oracle Database 11g
6 79 (21.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 46 (12.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 32 (8.77%) MongoDB
9 31 (8.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 29 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (5.75%) Relational Database
12 16 (4.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 13 (3.56%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (3.56%) MySQL
14 9 (2.47%) NoSQL
15 8 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.64%) OLAP
17 5 (1.37%) InfluxDB
18 4 (1.10%) Data Mining
18 4 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (7.67%) Jenkins
2 27 (7.40%) Git
3 18 (4.93%) GitLab
4 16 (4.38%) TeamCity
5 13 (3.56%) JIRA
6 6 (1.64%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.64%) Mocha
6 6 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.64%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.27%) Liquibase
General
1 144 (39.45%) Social Skills
2 60 (16.44%) Finance
3 28 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.85%) Law
5 16 (4.38%) Games
6 11 (3.01%) Banking
7 10 (2.74%) Legal
7 10 (2.74%) Retail
8 9 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.19%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.19%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.64%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.37%) Private Banking
12 4 (1.10%) Marketing
13 3 (0.82%) Automotive
13 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.82%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (35.89%) Developer
2 125 (34.25%) Senior
3 119 (32.60%) DBA
4 97 (26.58%) SQL DBA
5 91 (24.93%) Database Developer
5 91 (24.93%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 91 (24.93%) Senior Developer
6 79 (21.64%) Senior Database Developer
7 32 (8.77%) Administrator
8 24 (6.58%) SQL Developer
9 22 (6.03%) Lead
10 16 (4.38%) Analyst
11 15 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (3.84%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.56%) AWS Data Engineer
14 12 (3.29%) Linux Engineer
15 11 (3.01%) Applications Support
15 11 (3.01%) Consultant
15 11 (3.01%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.40%) RESTful
2 22 (6.03%) .NET
3 20 (5.48%) Django
3 20 (5.48%) Kafka
4 19 (5.21%) RabbitMQ
5 18 (4.93%) React
6 13 (3.56%) CSS
7 10 (2.74%) Node.js
8 8 (2.19%) AngularJS
8 8 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.19%) Middleware
8 8 (2.19%) YAML
9 7 (1.92%) Express.js
9 7 (1.92%) GraphQL
9 7 (1.92%) MEAN Stack
9 7 (1.92%) MERN Stack
9 7 (1.92%) NestJS
9 7 (1.92%) Web Services
10 6 (1.64%) JWT
10 6 (1.64%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.86%) Clustering
2 26 (7.12%) Replication
3 20 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.56%) Client/Server
4 13 (3.56%) Online Games
5 8 (2.19%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.19%) PMI
6 7 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.64%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (0.82%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.82%) NHS
9 3 (0.82%) Online Banking
9 3 (0.82%) VAX
10 2 (0.55%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.55%) Life Science
11 1 (0.27%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 78 (21.37%) VMS
2 43 (11.78%) Linux
3 30 (8.22%) Windows
4 15 (4.11%) Solaris
5 12 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (2.74%) Oracle Linux
6 10 (2.74%) Unix
6 10 (2.74%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.92%) Android
8 4 (1.10%) AIX
9 3 (0.82%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.82%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.55%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.55%) Debian
11 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (34.79%) Business Intelligence
2 120 (32.88%) High Availability
3 119 (32.60%) Disaster Recovery
4 106 (29.04%) Migration
5 99 (27.12%) Artificial Intelligence
6 94 (25.75%) Unit Testing
7 93 (25.48%) Actionable Insight
8 92 (25.21%) Data Migration
9 91 (24.93%) Secure Coding
10 82 (22.47%) Collaborative Working
11 55 (15.07%) ETL
12 46 (12.60%) DevOps
13 43 (11.78%) CI/CD
14 40 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
15 38 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (10.14%) Data Modelling
17 35 (9.59%) Software Engineering
18 26 (7.12%) Agile
18 26 (7.12%) Database Tuning
18 26 (7.12%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 295 (80.82%) SQL
2 139 (38.08%) T-SQL
3 110 (30.14%) PL/SQL
4 60 (16.44%) Python
5 44 (12.05%) PowerShell
6 34 (9.32%) C#
7 32 (8.77%) JavaScript
8 20 (5.48%) Bash
9 15 (4.11%) Java
10 14 (3.84%) C
11 11 (3.01%) Kotlin
12 10 (2.74%) TypeScript
13 8 (2.19%) Perl
14 2 (0.55%) PHP
14 2 (0.55%) Ruby
14 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.27%) COBOL
15 1 (0.27%) JCL
15 1 (0.27%) REXX
15 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 76 (20.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (5.75%) Degree
3 13 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.19%) PMI Certification
5 6 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.37%) Security Cleared
7 4 (1.10%) OCP
7 4 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.82%) CIPD
8 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.82%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.82%) OCA
9 2 (0.55%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.93%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.01%) QA
3 6 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.37%) SLA
5 1 (0.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 74 (20.27%) Virtual Machines
2 47 (12.88%) Docker
3 15 (4.11%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.82%) XenApp
7 2 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.55%) NFS
8 1 (0.27%) Ceph
8 1 (0.27%) GridGain
8 1 (0.27%) RACF
8 1 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 40 (10.96%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.85%) Ansible
3 21 (5.75%) Grafana
4 20 (5.48%) Terraform
5 18 (4.93%) Nagios
6 11 (3.01%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.74%) Puppet
8 8 (2.19%) Graphite
8 8 (2.19%) HAProxy
8 8 (2.19%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.92%) Foglight
9 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Clustering
9 7 (1.92%) Oracle RMAN
10 6 (1.64%) Data Guard
11 4 (1.10%) Istio
11 4 (1.10%) Oracle Statspack
12 3 (0.82%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.82%) logstash
12 3 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 129 (35.34%) Oracle
2 125 (34.25%) Microsoft
3 10 (2.74%) Adaptive Insights
3 10 (2.74%) Anaplan
3 10 (2.74%) Jedox
3 10 (2.74%) Serena
3 10 (2.74%) Tagetik
4 8 (2.19%) Google
5 7 (1.92%) ArcSight
5 7 (1.92%) HP
6 6 (1.64%) New Relic
6 6 (1.64%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.37%) IBM
8 4 (1.10%) Aderant
9 3 (0.82%) Centreon
9 3 (0.82%) EMC
9 3 (0.82%) RedGate
9 3 (0.82%) SAP
9 3 (0.82%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.82%) Sybase