Performance Tuning Jobs with Work from Home Options

Performance Tuning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 373 376
Rank change year-on-year +98 +3 -34
Permanent jobs citing Performance Tuning 366 317 640
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.08% 0.78% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.81% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 249 224 438
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,047 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £89,956 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £61,750
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.83% +7.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,838 38,971 69,157
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.04% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,338 27,094 41,652
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Performance Tuning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Tuning trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Tuning.

Performance Tuning salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Performance Tuning salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (4.37%) IIS
2 13 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.19%) WebLogic
4 6 (1.64%) nginx
5 3 (0.82%) Apache
5 3 (0.82%) GlassFish
5 3 (0.82%) JBoss
5 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.82%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.27%) CICS
7 1 (0.27%) GemFire
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.09%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 151 (41.26%) AWS
2 139 (37.98%) Azure
3 110 (30.05%) Power Platform
4 24 (6.56%) GCP
5 23 (6.28%) SaaS
6 18 (4.92%) Amazon S3
7 13 (3.55%) Amazon Kinesis
7 13 (3.55%) dbt
8 11 (3.01%) Serverless
9 8 (2.19%) GitHub
10 7 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.64%) npm
11 6 (1.64%) Yarn
12 5 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.37%) OCI
12 5 (1.37%) PaaS
13 3 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (0.55%) Azure Storage
14 2 (0.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 74 (20.22%) Broadband
2 23 (6.28%) DNS
3 13 (3.55%) Firewall
4 12 (3.28%) DHCP
4 12 (3.28%) Internet
5 11 (3.01%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.46%) SNMP
6 9 (2.46%) tcpdump
7 6 (1.64%) AMQP
8 3 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.82%) SAN
9 2 (0.55%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (0.55%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (43.72%) SQL Server
2 126 (34.43%) PostgreSQL
3 116 (31.69%) Oracle Database
4 110 (30.05%) Power BI
5 94 (25.68%) Oracle Database 11g
6 79 (21.58%) Azure SQL Database
7 45 (12.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 33 (9.02%) MongoDB
9 30 (8.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 29 (7.92%) Data Warehouse
11 18 (4.92%) Relational Database
12 15 (4.10%) MySQL
12 15 (4.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 13 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (2.46%) NoSQL
15 6 (1.64%) OLAP
16 5 (1.37%) InfluxDB
16 5 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
17 4 (1.09%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 28 (7.65%) Jenkins
2 26 (7.10%) Git
3 17 (4.64%) GitLab
4 16 (4.37%) TeamCity
5 11 (3.01%) JIRA
6 6 (1.64%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.64%) Mocha
6 6 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.64%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.27%) Liquibase
General
1 146 (39.89%) Social Skills
2 58 (15.85%) Finance
3 30 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.83%) Law
5 16 (4.37%) Games
6 12 (3.28%) Banking
7 10 (2.73%) Legal
8 9 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.46%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.19%) Retail
10 7 (1.91%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.64%) Private Banking
12 5 (1.37%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.09%) Marketing
13 4 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.82%) Automotive
14 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.82%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (35.79%) Developer
2 126 (34.43%) Senior
3 122 (33.33%) DBA
4 98 (26.78%) SQL DBA
5 91 (24.86%) Database Developer
5 91 (24.86%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 91 (24.86%) Senior Developer
6 79 (21.58%) Senior Database Developer
7 34 (9.29%) Administrator
8 24 (6.56%) SQL Developer
9 19 (5.19%) Lead
10 18 (4.92%) Analyst
11 15 (4.10%) Data Engineer
11 15 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (3.55%) AWS Data Engineer
13 13 (3.55%) Linux Engineer
14 12 (3.28%) Applications Support
15 11 (3.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 11 (3.01%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.83%) .NET
2 22 (6.01%) RESTful
3 20 (5.46%) Kafka
4 19 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
5 16 (4.37%) Django
5 16 (4.37%) React
6 11 (3.01%) CSS
7 9 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (2.46%) Middleware
7 9 (2.46%) YAML
8 8 (2.19%) AngularJS
8 8 (2.19%) Node.js
9 7 (1.91%) Express.js
9 7 (1.91%) GraphQL
9 7 (1.91%) MEAN Stack
9 7 (1.91%) MERN Stack
9 7 (1.91%) NestJS
9 7 (1.91%) Web Services
10 6 (1.64%) JWT
10 6 (1.64%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.11%) Clustering
2 26 (7.10%) Replication
3 19 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.55%) Client/Server
4 13 (3.55%) Online Games
5 8 (2.19%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.19%) PMI
6 7 (1.91%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.91%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.64%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (0.82%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.82%) NHS
9 3 (0.82%) Online Banking
9 3 (0.82%) VAX
10 2 (0.55%) Life Science
11 1 (0.27%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.27%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 78 (21.31%) VMS
2 45 (12.30%) Linux
3 31 (8.47%) Windows
4 15 (4.10%) Solaris
5 12 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (2.73%) Oracle Linux
6 10 (2.73%) Unix
6 10 (2.73%) Windows Server
7 8 (2.19%) Android
8 4 (1.09%) AIX
9 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.82%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.82%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.27%) Debian
10 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (34.70%) Business Intelligence
2 121 (33.06%) High Availability
3 120 (32.79%) Disaster Recovery
4 107 (29.23%) Migration
5 99 (27.05%) Artificial Intelligence
6 94 (25.68%) Unit Testing
7 93 (25.41%) Actionable Insight
8 92 (25.14%) Data Migration
9 91 (24.86%) Secure Coding
10 80 (21.86%) Collaborative Working
11 57 (15.57%) ETL
12 44 (12.02%) DevOps
12 44 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (11.48%) CI/CD
14 39 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (10.38%) Data Modelling
16 32 (8.74%) Software Engineering
17 27 (7.38%) Database Tuning
18 25 (6.83%) Agile
18 25 (6.83%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 295 (80.60%) SQL
2 139 (37.98%) T-SQL
3 110 (30.05%) PL/SQL
4 57 (15.57%) Python
5 45 (12.30%) PowerShell
6 35 (9.56%) C#
7 30 (8.20%) JavaScript
8 21 (5.74%) Bash
9 15 (4.10%) Java
10 14 (3.83%) C
11 11 (3.01%) Kotlin
12 9 (2.46%) Perl
13 8 (2.19%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.55%) PHP
14 2 (0.55%) Ruby
14 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.27%) COBOL
15 1 (0.27%) JCL
15 1 (0.27%) REXX
15 1 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 75 (20.49%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (4.92%) Degree
3 11 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (2.19%) PMI Certification
5 6 (1.64%) OCP
5 6 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (1.37%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.37%) OCA
6 5 (1.37%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.82%) CIPD
7 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.82%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.55%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.01%) QA
3 6 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 74 (20.22%) Virtual Machines
2 46 (12.57%) Docker
3 15 (4.10%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.19%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.82%) XenApp
7 2 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.55%) NFS
8 1 (0.27%) Ceph
8 1 (0.27%) GridGain
8 1 (0.27%) RACF
8 1 (0.27%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 38 (10.38%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.10%) Ansible
3 21 (5.74%) Grafana
4 20 (5.46%) Terraform
5 19 (5.19%) Nagios
6 11 (3.01%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.01%) Puppet
7 9 (2.46%) Graphite
7 9 (2.46%) HAProxy
7 9 (2.46%) Oracle RMAN
7 9 (2.46%) vCenter Server
8 8 (2.19%) Data Guard
9 7 (1.91%) Foglight
9 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Clustering
10 4 (1.09%) Istio
10 4 (1.09%) Oracle Statspack
11 3 (0.82%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.82%) logstash
11 3 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 133 (36.34%) Oracle
2 125 (34.15%) Microsoft
3 10 (2.73%) Adaptive Insights
3 10 (2.73%) Anaplan
3 10 (2.73%) Jedox
3 10 (2.73%) Serena
3 10 (2.73%) Tagetik
4 8 (2.19%) Google
5 7 (1.91%) ArcSight
5 7 (1.91%) HP
6 6 (1.64%) New Relic
6 6 (1.64%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.37%) IBM
8 4 (1.09%) Aderant
9 3 (0.82%) Centreon
9 3 (0.82%) NGA Human Resources
9 3 (0.82%) RedGate
9 3 (0.82%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.82%) Sybase
9 3 (0.82%) Veeam