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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 388 388
Rank change year-on-year +83 0 +16
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 933 829 1,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 0.84% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.88% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 436 427 850
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,342 £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 £81,250 £79,688
90th Percentile £96,875 £108,750 £98,875
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 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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% +10.53%

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 23 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 23 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 +189 713 £57,500 +10.58% 124
England -11 559 £59,000 -5.60% 153
Work from Home +72 366 £57,500 -4.17% 57
Scotland +121 283 £57,500 -10.20% 16
London -49 191 £78,000 -0.18% 72
North of England +63 133 £57,500 +15.00% 13
South East +46 99 £57,500 -6.12% 60
Midlands +31 76 £57,500 +15.00% 24
North West +20 73 £55,000 +10.00% 8
Wales +55 57 £46,604 +21.05% 1
West Midlands +23 47 £60,000 +20.00% 17
South West -35 40 £57,500 +18.56% 3
Yorkshire +69 31 £48,507 -23.33% 3
East Midlands +19 29 £57,500 -4.17% 7
North East +11 29 £57,500 +43.75% 2
East of England -10 14 £57,500 +35.28% 7
Northern Ireland +33 11 £77,500 +3.33% 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
1 233 (24.97%) Apache Spark
2 60 (6.43%) Apache
3 53 (5.68%) WebLogic
4 44 (4.72%) Oracle Service Bus
5 33 (3.54%) CMS
6 17 (1.82%) IIS
7 13 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (1.18%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.75%) 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 (0.21%) IBM Domino
14 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 66 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (4.72%) MS Visio
4 16 (1.71%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.32%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 44 (4.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 33 (3.54%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (2.36%) 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
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
1 344 (36.87%) AWS
2 242 (25.94%) Azure
3 138 (14.79%) Power Platform
4 69 (7.40%) Serverless
5 56 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
6 52 (5.57%) Amazon EKS
7 51 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
7 51 (5.47%) Amazon EMR
7 51 (5.47%) Amazon SQS
8 32 (3.43%) GCP
8 32 (3.43%) SaaS
9 30 (3.22%) OCI
10 19 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (2.04%) GitHub
11 18 (1.93%) Amazon S3
12 16 (1.71%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 16 (1.71%) NuGet
13 14 (1.50%) dbt
13 14 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (7.93%) Broadband
2 45 (4.82%) DNS
3 43 (4.61%) Firewall
4 32 (3.43%) DHCP
5 22 (2.36%) SAN
6 20 (2.14%) TCP/IP
7 18 (1.93%) DSL
8 16 (1.71%) Internet
9 11 (1.18%) tcpdump
10 9 (0.96%) SNMP
11 7 (0.75%) AMQP
12 6 (0.64%) VLAN
12 6 (0.64%) 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%) WLAN
15 2 (0.21%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 314 (33.65%) SQL Server
2 237 (25.40%) Big Data
3 231 (24.76%) NoSQL
4 203 (21.76%) Oracle Database
5 162 (17.36%) PostgreSQL
6 138 (14.79%) Oracle Database 11g
7 136 (14.58%) Power BI
8 87 (9.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 73 (7.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 63 (6.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 58 (6.22%) MongoDB
12 53 (5.68%) Hadoop
13 51 (5.47%) Electronic Patient Records
14 44 (4.72%) Oracle Database 10g
14 44 (4.72%) VLDB
15 43 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
16 39 (4.18%) Relational Database
17 33 (3.54%) MySQL
18 31 (3.32%) Data Lake
19 30 (3.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 72 (7.72%) Git
2 60 (6.43%) JIRA
3 53 (5.68%) TeamCity
4 41 (4.39%) GitLab
5 38 (4.07%) Jenkins
6 33 (3.54%) Moq
6 33 (3.54%) NUnit
7 27 (2.89%) Visual Studio
8 22 (2.36%) Octopus Deploy
9 16 (1.71%) git-flow
9 16 (1.71%) Sourcetree
9 16 (1.71%) SpecFlow
10 10 (1.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 7 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.75%) Mocha
12 4 (0.43%) Toad
13 3 (0.32%) IBM UrbanCode
13 3 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
General
1 364 (39.01%) Finance
2 278 (29.80%) Law
3 266 (28.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 266 (28.51%) Social Skills
4 216 (23.15%) Marketing
5 161 (17.26%) Influencing Skills
6 141 (15.11%) Analytical Skills
7 74 (7.93%) Legal
8 71 (7.61%) Financial Institution
9 55 (5.89%) Banking
10 39 (4.18%) Investment Banking
11 34 (3.64%) Police
12 32 (3.43%) Local Government
13 29 (3.11%) Public Sector
14 28 (3.00%) Retail
15 22 (2.36%) Back Office
16 16 (1.71%) Games
17 15 (1.61%) Manufacturing
18 14 (1.50%) Telecoms
19 10 (1.07%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 218 (23.37%) Senior
2 207 (22.19%) Developer
3 193 (20.69%) DBA
3 193 (20.69%) Software Engineer
4 172 (18.44%) Lead
5 160 (17.15%) Big Data Engineer
6 159 (17.04%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 159 (17.04%) Scala Engineer
6 159 (17.04%) Scala Software Engineer
7 124 (13.29%) Lead Software Engineer
8 119 (12.75%) Java Engineer
8 119 (12.75%) Java Software Engineer
9 110 (11.79%) SQL DBA
10 109 (11.68%) Senior Developer
11 108 (11.58%) Lead Big Data Engineer
12 107 (11.47%) Java Scala Software Engineer
13 106 (11.36%) Lead Java Engineer
14 92 (9.86%) Database Developer
15 91 (9.75%) PostgreSQL Developer
16 87 (9.32%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (8.25%) .NET
2 65 (6.97%) RESTful
3 54 (5.79%) CSS
3 54 (5.79%) Kafka
4 48 (5.14%) Web Services
5 44 (4.72%) HTML
6 42 (4.50%) ASP.NET
6 42 (4.50%) React
7 40 (4.29%) SOAP
8 37 (3.97%) .NET Framework
9 34 (3.64%) jQuery
10 33 (3.54%) ASP.NET MVC
10 33 (3.54%) ASP.NET MVC 5
10 33 (3.54%) Entity Framework
11 32 (3.43%) Semantic HTML
12 21 (2.25%) XML
13 20 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
14 18 (1.93%) Django
14 18 (1.93%) Spring
15 17 (1.82%) Ninject
Miscellaneous
1 97 (10.40%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.65%) Replication
3 59 (6.32%) Algorithms
4 47 (5.04%) Clustering
5 45 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
6 36 (3.86%) Management Information System
7 32 (3.43%) Legacy Code
8 28 (3.00%) Product Ownership
9 25 (2.68%) Data Centre
10 22 (2.36%) Driving Licence
10 22 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
10 22 (2.36%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.39%) Client/Server
11 13 (1.39%) Online Games
12 11 (1.18%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.86%) Onboarding
13 8 (0.86%) PMI
14 6 (0.64%) AS400
14 6 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 154 (16.51%) Linux
2 97 (10.40%) Windows
3 85 (9.11%) Unix
4 78 (8.36%) VMS
5 58 (6.22%) Solaris
6 36 (3.86%) Windows Server
7 20 (2.14%) Windows 10
8 17 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (1.61%) Oracle Linux
11 14 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (1.39%) Android
13 12 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
13 12 (1.29%) Windows XP
14 6 (0.64%) Apple iOS
14 6 (0.64%) Ubuntu
15 4 (0.43%) AIX
16 3 (0.32%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.21%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (35.26%) Agile
2 297 (31.83%) Software Engineering
3 256 (27.44%) CI/CD
4 252 (27.01%) SDLC
5 226 (24.22%) Artificial Intelligence
6 189 (20.26%) Disaster Recovery
6 189 (20.26%) Operational Stability
7 175 (18.76%) Business Intelligence
8 174 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
9 163 (17.47%) High Availability
10 135 (14.47%) Actionable Insight
11 128 (13.72%) Unit Testing
12 120 (12.86%) Migration
13 115 (12.33%) Mentoring
14 111 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
15 98 (10.50%) Data Migration
16 94 (10.08%) Computer Science
16 94 (10.08%) DevOps
17 92 (9.86%) Secure Coding
18 87 (9.32%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 743 (79.64%) SQL
2 277 (29.69%) Java
3 232 (24.87%) Scala
4 218 (23.37%) T-SQL
5 192 (20.58%) PL/SQL
6 96 (10.29%) Python
7 85 (9.11%) C#
8 80 (8.57%) PowerShell
9 79 (8.47%) JavaScript
10 26 (2.79%) Bash
11 20 (2.14%) C
12 16 (1.71%) XPath
13 15 (1.61%) TypeScript
14 13 (1.39%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.39%) Perl
14 13 (1.39%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.07%) RPG
16 7 (0.75%) VBA
17 6 (0.64%) ABAP
18 4 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 173 (18.54%) Degree
2 97 (10.40%) Microsoft Certification
3 90 (9.65%) Security Cleared
4 57 (6.11%) SC Cleared
5 52 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (5.04%) Oracle Certification
7 25 (2.68%) OCP
8 21 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.82%) CCNA
9 17 (1.82%) DV Cleared
10 16 (1.71%) CCNP
11 14 (1.50%) Azure Certification
11 14 (1.50%) MCSE
12 8 (0.86%) MCP
12 8 (0.86%) OCA
12 8 (0.86%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.64%) MCSA
14 4 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 3 (0.32%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.97%) SLA
2 26 (2.79%) QA
3 24 (2.57%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.25%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.21%) GDPR
8 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 77 (8.25%) Virtual Machines
2 62 (6.65%) Docker
3 54 (5.79%) Oracle RAC
4 44 (4.72%) Active Directory
5 37 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
6 34 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (2.04%) Hyper-V
8 11 (1.18%) Firmware
9 6 (0.64%) vSphere
10 4 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.32%) NFS
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%) RACF
13 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 70 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 55 (5.89%) Oracle RMAN
3 53 (5.68%) Data Guard
4 37 (3.97%) Ansible
5 28 (3.00%) Terraform
6 25 (2.68%) Grafana
6 25 (2.68%) SCOM
7 22 (2.36%) vCenter Server
8 19 (2.04%) Nagios
9 17 (1.82%) SCCM
9 17 (1.82%) WSUS
10 15 (1.61%) Prometheus
11 13 (1.39%) NetBackup
11 13 (1.39%) Puppet
12 12 (1.29%) EMC NetWorker
12 12 (1.29%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.96%) Graphite
14 7 (0.75%) Foglight
14 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Clustering
15 5 (0.54%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 286 (30.65%) Oracle
2 221 (23.69%) Microsoft
3 44 (4.72%) Remedy
3 44 (4.72%) Sun
4 38 (4.07%) VMware
5 30 (3.22%) Veeam
6 29 (3.11%) Sybase
7 28 (3.00%) Databricks
8 25 (2.68%) Dell
9 23 (2.47%) IBM
10 22 (2.36%) HP
10 22 (2.36%) NEC
11 20 (2.14%) Cisco
11 20 (2.14%) Cognos
12 18 (1.93%) Alteryx
13 16 (1.71%) Adobe
13 16 (1.71%) Cognizant
14 15 (1.61%) EMC
15 14 (1.50%) Palo Alto
15 14 (1.50%) Red Hat