Performance Tuning Jobs in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 444 380
Rank change year-on-year +167 -64 +55
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 714 331 612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.98% 0.57% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.59% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 285 222 411
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.91% +14.58%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,415 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £62,191
% change year-on-year -4.17% -3.52% +8.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,412 55,927 68,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.88% 95.59% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 41,658 28,858 41,200
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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
Scotland +118 283 £57,500 -10.20% 16
North of England +62 133 £57,500 +15.00% 11
South East +58 99 £57,500 -6.12% 64
Midlands +24 76 £57,500 +15.00% 22
North West +19 73 £55,000 +10.00% 6
Wales +59 57 £46,604 +21.05% 1
West Midlands +27 47 £60,000 +20.00% 15
South West -40 41 £57,500 +18.56% 4
Yorkshire +67 31 £48,507 -23.33% 3
East Midlands +15 29 £57,500 -4.17% 7
North East +10 29 £57,500 +43.75% 2
East of England -5 14 £57,500 +35.28% 9
Northern Ireland +30 11 £77,500 +3.33% 2
Performance Tuning
UK

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 231 (32.35%) Apache Spark
2 55 (7.70%) Apache
3 53 (7.42%) WebLogic
4 44 (6.16%) Oracle Service Bus
5 14 (1.96%) IIS
6 13 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.70%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.56%) CMS
9 4 (0.56%) Confluence
10 3 (0.42%) GlassFish
10 3 (0.42%) JBoss
10 3 (0.42%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.42%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 3 (0.42%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.28%) IBM Domino
12 1 (0.14%) CICS
12 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.14%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 57 (7.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (7.70%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (6.16%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.42%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 44 (6.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.96%) NEC Housing
3 12 (1.68%) Dynamics NAV
4 9 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.98%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.70%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.56%) SDL Web 8
8 3 (0.42%) Maximo
8 3 (0.42%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.14%) SAP CRM
10 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 283 (39.64%) AWS
2 185 (25.91%) Azure
3 111 (15.55%) Power Platform
4 53 (7.42%) Serverless
5 52 (7.28%) Amazon ECS
5 52 (7.28%) Amazon EKS
6 51 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 51 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
6 51 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
6 51 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (3.64%) OCI
8 20 (2.80%) SaaS
9 15 (2.10%) GCP
10 14 (1.96%) dbt
11 13 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
12 12 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (1.26%) Amazon S3
15 7 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (0.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 74 (10.36%) Broadband
2 31 (4.34%) DNS
3 27 (3.78%) DHCP
4 24 (3.36%) Firewall
5 20 (2.80%) SAN
6 18 (2.52%) DSL
7 9 (1.26%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.98%) Internet
9 6 (0.84%) VLAN
9 6 (0.84%) VPN
10 5 (0.70%) NAS
11 4 (0.56%) SSL
12 3 (0.42%) HTTP
12 3 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.42%) WLAN
13 2 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
13 2 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
13 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
13 2 (0.28%) LAN
14 1 (0.14%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (32.77%) Big Data
2 224 (31.37%) NoSQL
3 218 (30.53%) SQL Server
4 173 (24.23%) Oracle Database
5 121 (16.95%) Oracle Database 11g
6 116 (16.25%) PostgreSQL
7 111 (15.55%) Power BI
8 82 (11.48%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (7.28%) Hadoop
10 51 (7.14%) Electronic Patient Records
11 44 (6.16%) Oracle Database 10g
11 44 (6.16%) VLDB
12 42 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 34 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 31 (4.34%) MongoDB
15 27 (3.78%) Data Lake
15 27 (3.78%) Relational Database
16 25 (3.50%) DB2
17 21 (2.94%) MySQL
18 20 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 22 (3.08%) Git
2 11 (1.54%) JIRA
3 10 (1.40%) TeamCity
4 7 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (0.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.70%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.56%) Moq
7 4 (0.56%) NUnit
7 4 (0.56%) Toad
7 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.42%) GitLab
8 3 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
8 3 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.42%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.14%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.14%) git-flow
9 1 (0.14%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.14%) Sourcetree
9 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 300 (42.02%) Finance
2 257 (35.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 253 (35.43%) Law
4 186 (26.05%) Marketing
5 184 (25.77%) Social Skills
6 161 (22.55%) Influencing Skills
7 103 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
8 71 (9.94%) Financial Institution
9 53 (7.42%) Legal
10 50 (7.00%) Banking
11 36 (5.04%) Investment Banking
12 26 (3.64%) Police
13 24 (3.36%) Local Government
14 19 (2.66%) Retail
15 18 (2.52%) Public Sector
16 15 (2.10%) Games
17 14 (1.96%) Back Office
18 11 (1.54%) Manufacturing
19 10 (1.40%) Prime Brokerage
20 6 (0.84%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 181 (25.35%) Software Engineer
2 160 (22.41%) Big Data Engineer
2 160 (22.41%) Lead
3 159 (22.27%) Big Data Software Engineer
3 159 (22.27%) Scala Engineer
3 159 (22.27%) Scala Software Engineer
4 155 (21.71%) DBA
5 144 (20.17%) Senior
6 129 (18.07%) Developer
7 121 (16.95%) Lead Software Engineer
8 119 (16.67%) Java Engineer
8 119 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
9 108 (15.13%) Lead Big Data Engineer
10 107 (14.99%) Java Scala Software Engineer
11 106 (14.85%) Lead Java Engineer
12 91 (12.75%) SQL DBA
13 77 (10.78%) AWS Engineer
14 76 (10.64%) Database Developer
15 75 (10.50%) PostgreSQL Developer
16 71 (9.94%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.34%) Kafka
2 30 (4.20%) .NET
3 21 (2.94%) RESTful
4 15 (2.10%) Spring
5 14 (1.96%) CSS
5 14 (1.96%) HTML
5 14 (1.96%) Web Services
6 13 (1.82%) Spring Boot
7 12 (1.68%) ASP.NET
7 12 (1.68%) Middleware
8 10 (1.40%) SOAP
9 7 (0.98%) .NET Framework
10 6 (0.84%) .NET Core
10 6 (0.84%) Android SDK
10 6 (0.84%) jQuery
10 6 (0.84%) REST
11 5 (0.70%) Android Jetpack
11 5 (0.70%) Jetpack Compose
11 5 (0.70%) SAP Fiori
11 5 (0.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 97 (13.59%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.84%) Algorithms
3 36 (5.04%) Management Information System
3 36 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (4.20%) Replication
5 22 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 14 (1.96%) Driving Licence
7 13 (1.82%) Client/Server
7 13 (1.82%) Clustering
7 13 (1.82%) Data Centre
7 13 (1.82%) Online Games
8 9 (1.26%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.12%) PMI
10 6 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.56%) e-Learning
11 4 (0.56%) Legacy Code
11 4 (0.56%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.56%) NHS
11 4 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 113 (15.83%) Linux
2 78 (10.92%) VMS
3 73 (10.22%) Unix
4 55 (7.70%) Windows
5 48 (6.72%) Solaris
6 23 (3.22%) Windows Server
7 20 (2.80%) Windows 10
8 16 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 13 (1.82%) Android
9 13 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (1.68%) Windows XP
11 5 (0.70%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.56%) AIX
13 3 (0.42%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.28%) Debian
14 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (38.52%) Agile
2 264 (36.97%) Software Engineering
3 244 (34.17%) SDLC
4 216 (30.25%) CI/CD
5 201 (28.15%) Artificial Intelligence
6 189 (26.47%) Operational Stability
7 142 (19.89%) Business Intelligence
8 135 (18.91%) Disaster Recovery
9 124 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
10 118 (16.53%) Actionable Insight
11 112 (15.69%) High Availability
12 90 (12.61%) Migration
13 89 (12.46%) Mentoring
14 87 (12.18%) Community of Practice
15 86 (12.04%) Continuous Delivery
16 85 (11.90%) Machine Learning
17 83 (11.62%) Unit Testing
18 82 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
18 82 (11.48%) Data Migration
19 81 (11.34%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 612 (85.71%) SQL
2 262 (36.69%) Java
3 231 (32.35%) Scala
4 167 (23.39%) PL/SQL
5 137 (19.19%) T-SQL
6 48 (6.72%) Python
7 40 (5.60%) PowerShell
8 26 (3.64%) JavaScript
9 24 (3.36%) C#
10 7 (0.98%) VBA
11 6 (0.84%) ABAP
11 6 (0.84%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.56%) C
12 4 (0.56%) Ruby
13 3 (0.42%) Bash
13 3 (0.42%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.28%) PHP
15 1 (0.14%) C++
15 1 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 118 (16.53%) Degree
2 90 (12.61%) Microsoft Certification
3 79 (11.06%) Security Cleared
4 57 (7.98%) SC Cleared
5 39 (5.46%) Oracle Certification
6 37 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (3.50%) OCP
8 18 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (2.24%) CCNA
10 14 (1.96%) CCNP
10 14 (1.96%) DV Cleared
11 13 (1.82%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.12%) OCA
12 8 (1.12%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.98%) MCSE
14 4 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (0.56%) MCP
14 4 (0.56%) MCSA
15 3 (0.42%) CIPD
15 3 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (9.10%) SLA
2 25 (3.50%) QA
3 17 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 16 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.28%) GDPR
7 1 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 74 (10.36%) Virtual Machines
2 52 (7.28%) Oracle RAC
3 36 (5.04%) Active Directory
4 21 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (2.24%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (1.40%) Docker
8 4 (0.56%) vSphere
9 3 (0.42%) XenApp
10 2 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.28%) NFS
11 1 (0.14%) RACF
11 1 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 53 (7.42%) Oracle RMAN
2 51 (7.14%) Data Guard
3 35 (4.90%) Kubernetes
4 16 (2.24%) SCCM
4 16 (2.24%) WSUS
5 13 (1.82%) NetBackup
6 12 (1.68%) EMC NetWorker
6 12 (1.68%) SCOM
6 12 (1.68%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.70%) Oracle Statspack
8 3 (0.42%) Ansible
8 3 (0.42%) EMC VPLEX
8 3 (0.42%) Nagios
8 3 (0.42%) Perfmon
8 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.28%) Grafana
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 236 (33.05%) Oracle
2 186 (26.05%) Microsoft
3 44 (6.16%) Remedy
3 44 (6.16%) Sun
4 28 (3.92%) Sybase
5 23 (3.22%) Databricks
6 21 (2.94%) VMware
7 20 (2.80%) Cognos
8 19 (2.66%) Veeam
9 18 (2.52%) Alteryx
10 17 (2.38%) Cisco
11 15 (2.10%) EMC
12 14 (1.96%) Dell
12 14 (1.96%) HP
12 14 (1.96%) NEC
12 14 (1.96%) Palo Alto
13 12 (1.68%) Extreme Networks
13 12 (1.68%) IBM
13 12 (1.68%) Juniper
13 12 (1.68%) Symantec