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

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 398 393
Rank change year-on-year +99 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 951 853 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.97% 0.82% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.86% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 450 426 864
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,356 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,750 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,375 £108,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.58% -5.45% +15.18%

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 84,620 99,018 149,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,724 58,165 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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 4 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 4 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 +182 724 £57,500 +10.58% 94
England -18 571 £59,000 -5.60% 124
Work from Home +103 388 £57,500 -4.17% 63
Scotland +117 285 £57,500 -10.20% 15
London -51 197 £78,000 -0.18% 42
North of England +58 137 £57,500 +10.58% 13
South East +49 100 £57,500 -11.54% 20
North West +38 78 £56,250 +12.50% 9
Midlands +56 77 £57,500 +15.00% 30
Wales +58 58 £46,604 +21.05% 1
West Midlands +31 46 £60,000 +20.00% 14
South West -34 40 £57,500 +91.67% 5
East Midlands +12 31 £57,500 +27.78% 16
Yorkshire +67 30 £55,000 -8.33% 4
North East +14 29 £57,500 +43.75%
East of England +3 14 £57,500 +15.00% 9
Northern Ireland +36 13 £77,500 +6.90% 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
1 235 (24.71%) Apache Spark
2 60 (6.31%) Apache
3 54 (5.68%) WebLogic
4 45 (4.73%) Oracle Service Bus
5 27 (2.84%) CMS
6 18 (1.89%) IIS
7 13 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (1.16%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.74%) nginx
11 4 (0.42%) SAS
12 3 (0.32%) CICS
12 3 (0.32%) GlassFish
12 3 (0.32%) IBM Domino
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%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 67 (7.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (4.73%) MS Visio
4 14 (1.47%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.32%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 45 (4.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 27 (2.84%) SDL Web 8
3 16 (1.68%) NEC Housing
4 13 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 12 (1.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
7 5 (0.53%) Elite 3E
7 5 (0.53%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.32%) Maximo
8 3 (0.32%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 1 (0.11%) SAP CRM
10 1 (0.11%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 364 (38.28%) AWS
2 255 (26.81%) Azure
3 142 (14.93%) Power Platform
4 70 (7.36%) Serverless
5 56 (5.89%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
6 52 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
7 51 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
7 51 (5.36%) Amazon EMR
7 51 (5.36%) Amazon SQS
8 38 (4.00%) GCP
9 33 (3.47%) SaaS
10 30 (3.15%) OCI
11 23 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (2.21%) Amazon S3
13 15 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
13 15 (1.58%) GitHub
13 15 (1.58%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 14 (1.47%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 74 (7.78%) Broadband
2 47 (4.94%) DNS
3 44 (4.63%) Firewall
4 33 (3.47%) DHCP
5 22 (2.31%) SAN
6 20 (2.10%) TCP/IP
7 18 (1.89%) DSL
8 17 (1.79%) Internet
9 11 (1.16%) tcpdump
10 10 (1.05%) SNMP
11 7 (0.74%) AMQP
12 6 (0.63%) VLAN
12 6 (0.63%) VPN
13 5 (0.53%) SSL
14 4 (0.42%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (0.42%) NAS
15 3 (0.32%) HTTP
15 3 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
15 3 (0.32%) Wireless
15 3 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 305 (32.07%) SQL Server
2 238 (25.03%) Big Data
3 233 (24.50%) NoSQL
4 215 (22.61%) Oracle Database
5 170 (17.88%) PostgreSQL
6 153 (16.09%) Oracle Database 11g
7 140 (14.72%) Power BI
8 90 (9.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 74 (7.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 64 (6.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 59 (6.20%) MongoDB
12 54 (5.68%) Hadoop
13 51 (5.36%) Electronic Patient Records
14 45 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
14 45 (4.73%) Oracle Database 10g
14 45 (4.73%) VLDB
15 38 (4.00%) Relational Database
16 35 (3.68%) MySQL
17 32 (3.36%) Data Lake
18 31 (3.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 65 (6.83%) Git
2 50 (5.26%) JIRA
3 46 (4.84%) TeamCity
4 36 (3.79%) GitLab
5 33 (3.47%) Jenkins
6 27 (2.84%) Moq
6 27 (2.84%) NUnit
7 25 (2.63%) Visual Studio
8 20 (2.10%) Octopus Deploy
9 14 (1.47%) git-flow
9 14 (1.47%) Sourcetree
9 14 (1.47%) SpecFlow
10 9 (0.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 7 (0.74%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.74%) Mocha
12 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.21%) Mercurial
13 1 (0.11%) Liquibase
13 1 (0.11%) Toad
General
1 354 (37.22%) Finance
2 279 (29.34%) Law
3 266 (27.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 261 (27.44%) Social Skills
5 210 (22.08%) Marketing
6 161 (16.93%) Influencing Skills
7 139 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
8 75 (7.89%) Legal
9 71 (7.47%) Financial Institution
10 56 (5.89%) Banking
11 42 (4.42%) Investment Banking
12 28 (2.94%) Police
13 26 (2.73%) Local Government
13 26 (2.73%) Retail
14 23 (2.42%) Public Sector
15 16 (1.68%) Back Office
15 16 (1.68%) Games
16 15 (1.58%) Telecoms
17 13 (1.37%) Manufacturing
18 10 (1.05%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 232 (24.40%) Senior
2 221 (23.24%) Developer
3 194 (20.40%) DBA
4 188 (19.77%) Software Engineer
5 171 (17.98%) Lead
6 160 (16.82%) Big Data Engineer
7 159 (16.72%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 159 (16.72%) Scala Engineer
7 159 (16.72%) Scala Software Engineer
8 122 (12.83%) Lead Software Engineer
9 121 (12.72%) Senior Developer
10 119 (12.51%) Java Engineer
10 119 (12.51%) Java Software Engineer
11 113 (11.88%) SQL DBA
12 108 (11.36%) Lead Big Data Engineer
13 107 (11.25%) Java Scala Software Engineer
14 106 (11.15%) Database Developer
14 106 (11.15%) Lead Java Engineer
15 105 (11.04%) PostgreSQL Developer
16 94 (9.88%) Senior Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (7.89%) .NET
2 55 (5.78%) Kafka
2 55 (5.78%) RESTful
3 50 (5.26%) CSS
4 43 (4.52%) Web Services
5 41 (4.31%) HTML
5 41 (4.31%) React
6 36 (3.79%) ASP.NET
7 34 (3.58%) SOAP
8 31 (3.26%) .NET Framework
9 29 (3.05%) jQuery
10 27 (2.84%) ASP.NET MVC
10 27 (2.84%) ASP.NET MVC 5
10 27 (2.84%) Entity Framework
11 26 (2.73%) Semantic HTML
12 21 (2.21%) AngularJS
12 21 (2.21%) XML
13 20 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
14 19 (2.00%) Spring
15 15 (1.58%) Ninject
Miscellaneous
1 97 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.41%) Replication
3 60 (6.31%) Algorithms
4 49 (5.15%) Clustering
5 39 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
6 38 (4.00%) Management Information System
7 26 (2.73%) Legacy Code
7 26 (2.73%) Product Ownership
8 25 (2.63%) Data Centre
8 25 (2.63%) Public Cloud
9 20 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (1.68%) Driving Licence
11 13 (1.37%) Client/Server
11 13 (1.37%) Online Games
12 12 (1.26%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.84%) PMI
14 7 (0.74%) Onboarding
15 6 (0.63%) AS400
15 6 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 152 (15.98%) Linux
2 101 (10.62%) Windows
3 81 (8.52%) Unix
4 78 (8.20%) VMS
5 58 (6.10%) Solaris
6 39 (4.10%) Windows Server
7 20 (2.10%) Windows 10
8 18 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 15 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 15 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
10 14 (1.47%) Oracle Linux
11 13 (1.37%) Android
12 12 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
12 12 (1.26%) Windows XP
13 6 (0.63%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.53%) AIX
14 5 (0.53%) Ubuntu
15 4 (0.42%) zOS
16 3 (0.32%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (34.07%) Agile
2 294 (30.91%) Software Engineering
3 260 (27.34%) CI/CD
4 251 (26.39%) SDLC
5 241 (25.34%) Artificial Intelligence
6 191 (20.08%) Disaster Recovery
7 189 (19.87%) Operational Stability
8 178 (18.72%) Business Intelligence
9 169 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
10 165 (17.35%) High Availability
11 149 (15.67%) Actionable Insight
12 138 (14.51%) Migration
13 136 (14.30%) Unit Testing
14 113 (11.88%) Mentoring
15 112 (11.78%) Data Migration
16 111 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
17 105 (11.04%) Secure Coding
18 93 (9.78%) DevOps
19 91 (9.57%) Computer Science
20 90 (9.46%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 762 (80.13%) SQL
2 280 (29.44%) Java
3 234 (24.61%) Scala
4 216 (22.71%) T-SQL
5 203 (21.35%) PL/SQL
6 96 (10.09%) Python
7 83 (8.73%) C#
8 81 (8.52%) PowerShell
9 77 (8.10%) JavaScript
10 26 (2.73%) Bash
11 20 (2.10%) C
12 14 (1.47%) XPath
13 13 (1.37%) TypeScript
14 12 (1.26%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.26%) Perl
15 10 (1.05%) RPG
15 10 (1.05%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.74%) ABAP
16 7 (0.74%) VBA
17 4 (0.42%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 171 (17.98%) Degree
2 98 (10.30%) Microsoft Certification
3 85 (8.94%) Security Cleared
4 58 (6.10%) SC Cleared
5 54 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (4.42%) Oracle Certification
7 26 (2.73%) OCP
8 22 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (1.89%) CCNA
10 17 (1.79%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.68%) CCNP
12 15 (1.58%) MCSE
13 14 (1.47%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.95%) OCA
15 8 (0.84%) MCP
15 8 (0.84%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.63%) MCSA
17 4 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 4 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 3 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.94%) SLA
2 28 (2.94%) QA
3 22 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 18 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.32%) GDPR
8 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 79 (8.31%) Virtual Machines
2 61 (6.41%) Docker
3 57 (5.99%) Oracle RAC
4 48 (5.05%) Active Directory
5 38 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 36 (3.79%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (2.00%) Hyper-V
8 12 (1.26%) Firmware
9 6 (0.63%) vSphere
10 5 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.32%) NFS
11 3 (0.32%) RACF
11 3 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
11 3 (0.32%) XenApp
12 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.21%) Ceph
12 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.11%) GridGain
13 1 (0.11%) KVM
13 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 68 (7.15%) Kubernetes
2 57 (5.99%) Oracle RMAN
3 55 (5.78%) Data Guard
4 36 (3.79%) Ansible
5 27 (2.84%) Terraform
6 26 (2.73%) SCOM
7 24 (2.52%) Grafana
7 24 (2.52%) vCenter Server
8 20 (2.10%) Nagios
9 18 (1.89%) SCCM
9 18 (1.89%) WSUS
10 14 (1.47%) Prometheus
11 13 (1.37%) HAProxy
11 13 (1.37%) Puppet
12 12 (1.26%) EMC NetWorker
12 12 (1.26%) NetBackup
13 10 (1.05%) Graphite
14 7 (0.74%) Foglight
14 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Clustering
15 6 (0.63%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 294 (30.91%) Oracle
2 226 (23.76%) Microsoft
3 45 (4.73%) Remedy
3 45 (4.73%) Sun
4 39 (4.10%) VMware
5 31 (3.26%) Veeam
6 29 (3.05%) Databricks
6 29 (3.05%) Sybase
7 26 (2.73%) IBM
8 25 (2.63%) Dell
9 23 (2.42%) HP
10 21 (2.21%) Cisco
11 20 (2.10%) Cognos
12 18 (1.89%) Alteryx
13 16 (1.68%) NEC
14 15 (1.58%) Adobe
14 15 (1.58%) EMC
15 14 (1.47%) 3PAR
15 14 (1.47%) Cognizant
15 14 (1.47%) Palo Alto