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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 395 400
Rank change year-on-year +81 +5 -12
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 923 792 1,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.84% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.88% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 432 422 866
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,750 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,813 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,375 £108,750 £99,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.05% -0.48% +5.00%

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 89,168 89,599 164,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.34% 95.45% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 61,788 54,096 83,725
10th Percentile £29,500 £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 6 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 6 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 +142 700 £57,500 +10.05% 94
England -31 564 £59,000 -1.67% 138
Work from Home +68 365 £57,500 -4.17% 58
Scotland +105 270 £57,500 -7.28% 9
London -55 194 £77,500 - 55
North of England +36 130 £57,500 +11.65% 16
South East +39 101 £57,500 -4.17% 39
Midlands +24 75 £57,500 +9.52% 10
North West +4 71 £55,000 +10.00% 7
Wales +56 57 £46,604 +21.05% 1
West Midlands -14 47 £60,000 +14.29% 8
South West -52 43 £57,500 +16.75% 7
Yorkshire +55 30 £51,754 -19.17% 7
North East -1 29 £57,500 +43.75% 2
East Midlands +3 28 £57,500 +23.66% 2
East of England -34 15 £57,500 +49.32% 17
Northern Ireland +26 10 - -

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
1 218 (23.62%) Apache Spark
2 58 (6.28%) Apache
3 51 (5.53%) WebLogic
4 44 (4.77%) Oracle Service Bus
5 37 (4.01%) CMS
6 17 (1.84%) IIS
7 13 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (1.19%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.76%) nginx
11 4 (0.43%) Confluence
11 4 (0.43%) SAS
12 3 (0.33%) GlassFish
12 3 (0.33%) JBoss
12 3 (0.33%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.33%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.11%) GemFire
13 1 (0.11%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 67 (7.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (6.28%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (4.77%) MS Visio
4 19 (2.06%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.33%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.11%) Weka
6 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 44 (4.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 37 (4.01%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (2.38%) 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 (0.33%) Maximo
7 3 (0.33%) 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
1 331 (35.86%) AWS
2 237 (25.68%) Azure
3 137 (14.84%) Power Platform
4 66 (7.15%) Serverless
5 53 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
6 49 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
6 49 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
7 48 (5.20%) Amazon EC2
7 48 (5.20%) Amazon EMR
7 48 (5.20%) Amazon SQS
8 33 (3.58%) SaaS
9 31 (3.36%) GCP
10 30 (3.25%) OCI
11 21 (2.28%) GitHub
12 19 (2.06%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (2.06%) NuGet
13 17 (1.84%) Amazon S3
14 14 (1.52%) dbt
14 14 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (8.02%) Broadband
2 45 (4.88%) DNS
3 42 (4.55%) Firewall
4 33 (3.58%) DHCP
5 22 (2.38%) SAN
6 19 (2.06%) TCP/IP
7 15 (1.63%) DSL
7 15 (1.63%) Internet
8 11 (1.19%) tcpdump
9 8 (0.87%) SNMP
10 7 (0.76%) AMQP
11 6 (0.65%) VLAN
11 6 (0.65%) VPN
12 5 (0.54%) NAS
12 5 (0.54%) SSL
13 3 (0.33%) Fibre Channel
13 3 (0.33%) HTTP
13 3 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.33%) Wireshark
14 2 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 320 (34.67%) SQL Server
2 222 (24.05%) Big Data
3 219 (23.73%) NoSQL
4 203 (21.99%) Oracle Database
5 163 (17.66%) PostgreSQL
6 138 (14.95%) Oracle Database 11g
7 134 (14.52%) Power BI
8 88 (9.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 74 (8.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 64 (6.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 55 (5.96%) MongoDB
12 50 (5.42%) Hadoop
13 48 (5.20%) Electronic Patient Records
14 44 (4.77%) Oracle Database 10g
14 44 (4.77%) VLDB
15 43 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
16 41 (4.44%) Relational Database
17 33 (3.58%) MySQL
18 31 (3.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 26 (2.82%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 79 (8.56%) Git
2 66 (7.15%) JIRA
3 57 (6.18%) TeamCity
4 42 (4.55%) GitLab
5 37 (4.01%) Jenkins
5 37 (4.01%) Moq
5 37 (4.01%) NUnit
6 30 (3.25%) Visual Studio
7 25 (2.71%) Octopus Deploy
8 19 (2.06%) git-flow
8 19 (2.06%) Sourcetree
8 19 (2.06%) SpecFlow
9 10 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (0.76%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.76%) Mocha
11 4 (0.43%) Toad
12 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.33%) IBM UrbanCode
12 3 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 351 (38.03%) Finance
2 266 (28.82%) Social Skills
3 261 (28.28%) Law
4 251 (27.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 209 (22.64%) Marketing
6 152 (16.47%) Influencing Skills
7 135 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
8 70 (7.58%) Legal
9 65 (7.04%) Financial Institution
10 51 (5.53%) Banking
11 35 (3.79%) Investment Banking
12 34 (3.68%) Police
13 32 (3.47%) Local Government
14 30 (3.25%) Retail
15 29 (3.14%) Public Sector
16 22 (2.38%) Back Office
17 18 (1.95%) Manufacturing
18 16 (1.73%) Games
19 13 (1.41%) Telecoms
20 10 (1.08%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 221 (23.94%) Senior
2 212 (22.97%) Developer
3 189 (20.48%) DBA
4 187 (20.26%) Software Engineer
5 169 (18.31%) Lead
6 151 (16.36%) Big Data Engineer
7 150 (16.25%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 150 (16.25%) Scala Engineer
7 150 (16.25%) Scala Software Engineer
8 120 (13.00%) Lead Software Engineer
9 118 (12.78%) Java Engineer
9 118 (12.78%) Java Software Engineer
10 114 (12.35%) Senior Developer
11 110 (11.92%) SQL DBA
12 106 (11.48%) Java Scala Software Engineer
12 106 (11.48%) Lead Java Engineer
13 102 (11.05%) Lead Big Data Engineer
14 92 (9.97%) Database Developer
15 91 (9.86%) PostgreSQL Developer
16 85 (9.21%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (8.45%) .NET
2 75 (8.13%) RESTful
3 60 (6.50%) CSS
4 53 (5.74%) Web Services
5 51 (5.53%) Kafka
6 50 (5.42%) HTML
7 47 (5.09%) React
8 46 (4.98%) ASP.NET
9 43 (4.66%) SOAP
10 41 (4.44%) .NET Framework
11 39 (4.23%) jQuery
12 37 (4.01%) ASP.NET MVC
12 37 (4.01%) ASP.NET MVC 5
12 37 (4.01%) Entity Framework
13 36 (3.90%) Semantic HTML
14 23 (2.49%) XML
15 21 (2.28%) Django
16 20 (2.17%) Autofac
16 20 (2.17%) Ninject
16 20 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 91 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.72%) Replication
3 56 (6.07%) Algorithms
4 46 (4.98%) Clustering
4 46 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
5 36 (3.90%) Legacy Code
6 33 (3.58%) Management Information System
7 25 (2.71%) Data Centre
7 25 (2.71%) Greenfield Project
7 25 (2.71%) Product Ownership
8 22 (2.38%) Driving Licence
9 19 (2.06%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.52%) Client/Server
11 13 (1.41%) Online Games
12 11 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.87%) Onboarding
13 8 (0.87%) PMI
14 7 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 6 (0.65%) AS400
15 6 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 152 (16.47%) Linux
2 98 (10.62%) Windows
3 84 (9.10%) Unix
4 78 (8.45%) VMS
5 58 (6.28%) Solaris
6 36 (3.90%) Windows Server
7 20 (2.17%) Windows 10
8 17 (1.84%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (1.63%) Oracle Linux
11 14 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (1.30%) Android
12 12 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
12 12 (1.30%) Windows XP
13 7 (0.76%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.65%) Apple iOS
15 4 (0.43%) AIX
16 3 (0.33%) CentOS
16 3 (0.33%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (34.99%) Agile
2 286 (30.99%) Software Engineering
3 243 (26.33%) CI/CD
4 238 (25.79%) SDLC
5 220 (23.84%) Artificial Intelligence
6 189 (20.48%) Disaster Recovery
7 177 (19.18%) Operational Stability
8 170 (18.42%) Business Intelligence
8 170 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
9 164 (17.77%) High Availability
10 135 (14.63%) Actionable Insight
11 133 (14.41%) Unit Testing
12 120 (13.00%) Migration
13 117 (12.68%) Mentoring
14 106 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 100 (10.83%) DevOps
16 99 (10.73%) Computer Science
16 99 (10.73%) Data Migration
17 93 (10.08%) Secure Coding
18 86 (9.32%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 729 (78.98%) SQL
2 265 (28.71%) Java
3 221 (23.94%) T-SQL
4 217 (23.51%) Scala
5 191 (20.69%) PL/SQL
6 96 (10.40%) Python
7 88 (9.53%) C#
8 84 (9.10%) JavaScript
9 79 (8.56%) PowerShell
10 26 (2.82%) Bash
11 20 (2.17%) C
12 19 (2.06%) XPath
13 17 (1.84%) TypeScript
14 14 (1.52%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.41%) Perl
15 13 (1.41%) Shell Script
16 10 (1.08%) RPG
17 7 (0.76%) VBA
18 6 (0.65%) ABAP
19 4 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 181 (19.61%) Degree
2 97 (10.51%) Microsoft Certification
3 91 (9.86%) Security Cleared
4 57 (6.18%) SC Cleared
5 53 (5.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (4.88%) Oracle Certification
7 23 (2.49%) OCP
8 20 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.84%) CCNA
9 17 (1.84%) DV Cleared
10 15 (1.63%) CCNP
11 14 (1.52%) Azure Certification
12 13 (1.41%) MCSE
13 8 (0.87%) MCP
13 8 (0.87%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.65%) MCSA
14 6 (0.65%) OCA
15 4 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 3 (0.33%) CIPD
16 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.72%) SLA
2 27 (2.93%) QA
3 24 (2.60%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.28%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.33%) GDPR
8 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 78 (8.45%) Virtual Machines
2 62 (6.72%) Docker
3 52 (5.63%) Oracle RAC
4 44 (4.77%) Active Directory
5 37 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
6 33 (3.58%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (1.95%) Hyper-V
8 11 (1.19%) Firmware
9 6 (0.65%) vSphere
10 4 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.33%) KVM
11 3 (0.33%) NFS
11 3 (0.33%) XenApp
12 2 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.22%) Ceph
12 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.11%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 69 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 54 (5.85%) Oracle RMAN
3 52 (5.63%) Data Guard
4 37 (4.01%) Ansible
5 29 (3.14%) Terraform
6 26 (2.82%) Grafana
7 25 (2.71%) SCOM
8 21 (2.28%) vCenter Server
9 18 (1.95%) Nagios
10 17 (1.84%) SCCM
10 17 (1.84%) WSUS
11 16 (1.73%) Prometheus
12 13 (1.41%) NetBackup
12 13 (1.41%) Puppet
13 12 (1.30%) EMC NetWorker
14 11 (1.19%) HAProxy
15 8 (0.87%) Graphite
16 7 (0.76%) Foglight
16 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Clustering
17 5 (0.54%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 283 (30.66%) Oracle
2 216 (23.40%) Microsoft
3 44 (4.77%) Remedy
3 44 (4.77%) Sun
4 39 (4.23%) VMware
5 30 (3.25%) Veeam
6 26 (2.82%) Sybase
7 25 (2.71%) Dell
8 24 (2.60%) Databricks
9 22 (2.38%) HP
9 22 (2.38%) IBM
9 22 (2.38%) NEC
10 19 (2.06%) Adobe
10 19 (2.06%) Cisco
10 19 (2.06%) Cognizant
11 17 (1.84%) Cognos
12 15 (1.63%) Alteryx
12 15 (1.63%) EMC
12 15 (1.63%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.41%) Palo Alto