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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 392 391
Rank change year-on-year +80 -1 +12
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 931 829 1,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 0.83% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.87% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 436 425 855
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -2.83% +7.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.58% -5.45% +15.79%

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 85,150 95,114 154,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.20% 95.57% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 59,851 56,202 82,517
10th Percentile £29,079 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +10.43%

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 19 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 19 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 +182 713 £57,500 +10.58% 108
England -27 557 £59,000 -5.60% 143
Work from Home +80 367 £57,500 -4.17% 53
Scotland +114 283 £57,500 -10.20% 12
London -61 189 £78,000 +0.65% 62
North of England +68 135 £57,500 +15.00% 13
South East +31 97 £57,500 -11.54% 44
Midlands +41 76 £57,500 +15.00% 28
North West +23 75 £56,250 +12.50% 9
Wales +51 57 £46,604 +21.05% 1
West Midlands +29 47 £60,000 +20.00% 20
South West -29 40 £57,500 +18.56% 3
Yorkshire +70 31 £48,507 -23.33% 1
North East +15 29 £57,500 +43.75% 3
East Midlands +14 29 £57,500 -4.17% 8
East of England -18 14 £57,500 +23.66% 5
Northern Ireland +31 11 £77,500 +5.08% 3

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 (25.03%) Apache Spark
2 60 (6.44%) Apache
3 53 (5.69%) WebLogic
4 44 (4.73%) Oracle Service Bus
5 31 (3.33%) CMS
6 18 (1.93%) IIS
7 13 (1.40%) 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%) CICS
13 2 (0.21%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 66 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (6.34%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (4.73%) MS Visio
4 16 (1.72%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.32%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 44 (4.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 31 (3.33%) 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
1 345 (37.06%) AWS
2 245 (26.32%) Azure
3 138 (14.82%) Power Platform
4 69 (7.41%) Serverless
5 56 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
6 52 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
6 52 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
7 51 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
7 51 (5.48%) Amazon EMR
7 51 (5.48%) Amazon SQS
8 33 (3.54%) GCP
8 33 (3.54%) 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 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 16 (1.72%) NuGet
13 14 (1.50%) dbt
13 14 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (7.95%) Broadband
2 46 (4.94%) DNS
3 43 (4.62%) Firewall
4 33 (3.54%) DHCP
5 23 (2.47%) SAN
6 20 (2.15%) TCP/IP
7 18 (1.93%) DSL
8 16 (1.72%) Internet
9 11 (1.18%) tcpdump
10 9 (0.97%) 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 4 (0.43%) Fibre Channel
15 3 (0.32%) HTTP
15 3 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
15 3 (0.32%) WLAN
16 2 (0.21%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 313 (33.62%) SQL Server
2 237 (25.46%) Big Data
3 231 (24.81%) NoSQL
4 204 (21.91%) Oracle Database
5 162 (17.40%) PostgreSQL
6 138 (14.82%) Oracle Database 11g
7 136 (14.61%) Power BI
8 88 (9.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 73 (7.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 63 (6.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 58 (6.23%) MongoDB
12 53 (5.69%) Hadoop
13 51 (5.48%) Electronic Patient Records
14 44 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
14 44 (4.73%) Oracle Database 10g
14 44 (4.73%) VLDB
15 38 (4.08%) Relational Database
16 34 (3.65%) MySQL
17 31 (3.33%) Data Lake
18 30 (3.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 69 (7.41%) Git
2 57 (6.12%) JIRA
3 51 (5.48%) TeamCity
4 38 (4.08%) GitLab
5 37 (3.97%) Jenkins
6 31 (3.33%) Moq
6 31 (3.33%) NUnit
7 27 (2.90%) Visual Studio
8 22 (2.36%) Octopus Deploy
9 16 (1.72%) git-flow
9 16 (1.72%) Sourcetree
9 16 (1.72%) 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
1 361 (38.78%) Finance
2 278 (29.86%) Law
3 266 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 265 (28.46%) Social Skills
5 214 (22.99%) Marketing
6 161 (17.29%) Influencing Skills
7 141 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
8 74 (7.95%) Legal
9 71 (7.63%) Financial Institution
10 55 (5.91%) Banking
11 39 (4.19%) Investment Banking
12 34 (3.65%) Police
13 32 (3.44%) Local Government
14 29 (3.11%) Public Sector
15 27 (2.90%) Retail
16 22 (2.36%) Back Office
17 16 (1.72%) Games
18 14 (1.50%) Manufacturing
18 14 (1.50%) Telecoms
19 10 (1.07%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 216 (23.20%) Senior
2 204 (21.91%) Developer
3 195 (20.95%) DBA
4 193 (20.73%) Software Engineer
5 170 (18.26%) Lead
6 160 (17.19%) Big Data Engineer
7 159 (17.08%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 159 (17.08%) Scala Engineer
7 159 (17.08%) Scala Software Engineer
8 123 (13.21%) Lead Software Engineer
9 119 (12.78%) Java Engineer
9 119 (12.78%) Java Software Engineer
10 111 (11.92%) SQL DBA
11 108 (11.60%) Lead Big Data Engineer
11 108 (11.60%) Senior Developer
12 107 (11.49%) Java Scala Software Engineer
13 106 (11.39%) Lead Java Engineer
14 92 (9.88%) Database Developer
15 91 (9.77%) PostgreSQL Developer
16 87 (9.34%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (8.16%) .NET
2 60 (6.44%) RESTful
3 54 (5.80%) Kafka
4 51 (5.48%) CSS
5 46 (4.94%) Web Services
6 42 (4.51%) HTML
6 42 (4.51%) React
7 40 (4.30%) ASP.NET
8 38 (4.08%) SOAP
9 35 (3.76%) .NET Framework
10 32 (3.44%) jQuery
11 31 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC
11 31 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC 5
11 31 (3.33%) Entity Framework
12 30 (3.22%) Semantic HTML
13 22 (2.36%) XML
14 20 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
15 18 (1.93%) AngularJS
15 18 (1.93%) Spring
16 17 (1.83%) Ninject
Miscellaneous
1 97 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 63 (6.77%) Replication
3 59 (6.34%) Algorithms
4 47 (5.05%) Clustering
5 45 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
6 36 (3.87%) Management Information System
7 30 (3.22%) Legacy Code
8 28 (3.01%) Product Ownership
9 25 (2.69%) Data Centre
10 22 (2.36%) Driving Licence
10 22 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
10 22 (2.36%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.40%) Client/Server
11 13 (1.40%) 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 (16.54%) Linux
2 97 (10.42%) Windows
3 85 (9.13%) Unix
4 78 (8.38%) VMS
5 58 (6.23%) Solaris
6 37 (3.97%) Windows Server
7 20 (2.15%) Windows 10
8 18 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 16 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (1.61%) Oracle Linux
10 15 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (1.29%) Android
11 12 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (1.29%) Windows XP
12 6 (0.64%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
14 4 (0.43%) AIX
15 3 (0.32%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (34.91%) Agile
2 297 (31.90%) Software Engineering
3 255 (27.39%) CI/CD
4 251 (26.96%) SDLC
5 226 (24.27%) Artificial Intelligence
6 189 (20.30%) Disaster Recovery
6 189 (20.30%) Operational Stability
7 175 (18.80%) Business Intelligence
7 175 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
8 163 (17.51%) High Availability
9 135 (14.50%) Actionable Insight
10 126 (13.53%) Unit Testing
11 120 (12.89%) Migration
12 114 (12.24%) Mentoring
13 111 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 98 (10.53%) Data Migration
15 93 (9.99%) Computer Science
16 92 (9.88%) DevOps
17 91 (9.77%) Secure Coding
18 87 (9.34%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 742 (79.70%) SQL
2 276 (29.65%) Java
3 232 (24.92%) Scala
4 217 (23.31%) T-SQL
5 191 (20.52%) PL/SQL
6 94 (10.10%) Python
7 83 (8.92%) C#
8 80 (8.59%) PowerShell
9 77 (8.27%) JavaScript
10 26 (2.79%) Bash
11 20 (2.15%) C
12 16 (1.72%) XPath
13 14 (1.50%) TypeScript
14 13 (1.40%) Perl
14 13 (1.40%) Shell Script
15 12 (1.29%) Kotlin
16 10 (1.07%) RPG
17 7 (0.75%) VBA
18 6 (0.64%) ABAP
19 4 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 172 (18.47%) Degree
2 98 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 90 (9.67%) Security Cleared
4 57 (6.12%) SC Cleared
5 53 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (5.05%) Oracle Certification
7 25 (2.69%) OCP
8 22 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (1.93%) CCNA
10 17 (1.83%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.72%) CCNP
12 15 (1.61%) MCSE
13 14 (1.50%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.86%) MCP
14 8 (0.86%) OCA
14 8 (0.86%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.64%) MCSA
16 4 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 4 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 3 (0.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.98%) SLA
2 26 (2.79%) QA
3 24 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.26%) 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 78 (8.38%) Virtual Machines
2 61 (6.55%) Docker
3 54 (5.80%) Oracle RAC
4 45 (4.83%) Active Directory
5 38 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 35 (3.76%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (2.04%) Hyper-V
8 12 (1.29%) Firmware
9 6 (0.64%) vSphere
10 5 (0.54%) 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
12 2 (0.21%) RACF
12 2 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.11%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 70 (7.52%) Kubernetes
2 55 (5.91%) Oracle RMAN
3 53 (5.69%) Data Guard
4 37 (3.97%) Ansible
5 28 (3.01%) Terraform
6 26 (2.79%) SCOM
7 25 (2.69%) Grafana
8 23 (2.47%) vCenter Server
9 19 (2.04%) Nagios
10 18 (1.93%) WSUS
11 17 (1.83%) SCCM
12 15 (1.61%) Prometheus
13 13 (1.40%) NetBackup
13 13 (1.40%) Puppet
14 12 (1.29%) EMC NetWorker
14 12 (1.29%) HAProxy
15 9 (0.97%) Graphite
16 7 (0.75%) Foglight
16 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Clustering
17 5 (0.54%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 287 (30.83%) Oracle
2 223 (23.95%) Microsoft
3 44 (4.73%) Remedy
3 44 (4.73%) Sun
4 39 (4.19%) VMware
5 31 (3.33%) Veeam
6 29 (3.11%) Sybase
7 28 (3.01%) Databricks
8 25 (2.69%) Dell
9 24 (2.58%) IBM
10 23 (2.47%) HP
11 22 (2.36%) NEC
12 21 (2.26%) Cisco
13 20 (2.15%) Cognos
14 18 (1.93%) Alteryx
15 16 (1.72%) Adobe
15 16 (1.72%) Cognizant
16 15 (1.61%) EMC
17 14 (1.50%) 3PAR
17 14 (1.50%) Red Hat