Performance Management Jobs

Performance Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Performance Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Performance Management over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 273 376
Rank change year-on-year -70 +103 +128
Permanent jobs citing Performance Management 439 1,096 861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 1.07% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.27% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 249 415 430
10th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,297 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -16.48% +6.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £89,392
90th Percentile £103,000 £92,250 £115,005
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £57,965 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.47% -3.39% +0.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Performance Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Performance Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Management in the UK

Performance Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Management.

Salary trend for Performance Management in the UK

Performance Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Management in the UK

Performance Management
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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
England -100 406 £55,000 -5.17% 1,154
UK excluding London +57 344 £54,793 -5.47% 977
Work from Home -161 146 £70,996 +11.80% 571
North of England +44 127 £54,793 -5.47% 224
North West +35 101 £54,793 -5.47% 105
South East -32 79 £73,750 +22.92% 301
London -176 78 £85,000 +17.24% 297
South West +135 56 £52,600 +12.02% 105
East of England +26 33 £55,000 - 126
Midlands +17 32 £65,000 +15.49% 173
Yorkshire +37 23 £71,991 +24.20% 91
West Midlands +35 20 £67,500 +16.45% 92
East Midlands +24 11 £65,000 +33.33% 69
Scotland +104 10 £75,000 +51.52% 41
Wales +48 4 - - 27
Northern Ireland +42 3 - - 12
North East +39 3 - - 28

Performance Management
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 15 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.46%) nginx
2 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.46%) ThingWorx
3 1 (0.23%) Moodle
3 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (7.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (5.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (2.28%) Simulink
5 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.23%) SPSS
6 1 (0.23%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 9 (2.05%) Magento
1 9 (2.05%) Shopify
2 4 (0.91%) Maximo
2 4 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.46%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (8.66%) Azure
2 25 (5.69%) SaaS
3 24 (5.47%) Power Platform
4 13 (2.96%) AWS
5 9 (2.05%) BigCommerce
6 8 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.14%) GCP
8 4 (0.91%) OCI
9 3 (0.68%) Asana
9 3 (0.68%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.68%) IaaS
9 3 (0.68%) PaaS
10 2 (0.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.46%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.23%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.23%) ClickUp
11 1 (0.23%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.14%) Firewall
2 4 (0.91%) DNS
2 4 (0.91%) Network Security
3 2 (0.46%) BGP
3 2 (0.46%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.46%) DHCP
3 2 (0.46%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.46%) Intranet
3 2 (0.46%) IPsec
3 2 (0.46%) MPLS
3 2 (0.46%) NAS
3 2 (0.46%) NetScaler
3 2 (0.46%) OSPF
3 2 (0.46%) SAN
3 2 (0.46%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.46%) SNMP
3 2 (0.46%) VPN
3 2 (0.46%) VXLAN
3 2 (0.46%) WAN
3 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.24%) Power BI
2 18 (4.10%) BusinessObjects
2 18 (4.10%) Data Mining
3 10 (2.28%) NoSQL
4 9 (2.05%) Big Data
4 9 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.91%) DB2
7 3 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.46%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.46%) Cloud Spanner
8 2 (0.46%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.46%) MySQL
8 2 (0.46%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.23%) DTS
9 1 (0.23%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (0.91%) JIRA
2 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 155 (35.31%) Finance
2 141 (32.12%) Social Skills
3 89 (20.27%) Aeronautics
3 89 (20.27%) Aerospace
4 74 (16.86%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (8.88%) Legal
6 38 (8.66%) Retail
7 37 (8.43%) Law
8 36 (8.20%) Public Sector
9 33 (7.52%) Marketing
10 31 (7.06%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (5.24%) Banking
13 15 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.59%) Police
16 6 (1.37%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.91%) Local Government
17 4 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
18 3 (0.68%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 131 (29.84%) Lead
2 128 (29.16%) Senior
3 104 (23.69%) Systems Engineer
4 103 (23.46%) Lead Systems Engineer
5 89 (20.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 89 (20.27%) Team Leader
6 25 (5.69%) Developer
7 22 (5.01%) Analyst
8 20 (4.56%) Architect
9 18 (4.10%) Head of AI
9 18 (4.10%) Head of Analytics
9 18 (4.10%) Junior
9 18 (4.10%) Junior Developer
9 18 (4.10%) Senior Manager
10 15 (3.42%) Supplier Manager
11 14 (3.19%) Business Manager
12 12 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (2.51%) Project Manager
14 10 (2.28%) Operations Manager
15 9 (2.05%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.82%) .NET
1 8 (1.82%) React
2 7 (1.59%) .NET Core
2 7 (1.59%) AngularJS
3 6 (1.37%) HTML
4 4 (0.91%) Kafka
4 4 (0.91%) Web Services
5 3 (0.68%) EDI
6 2 (0.46%) RESTful
6 2 (0.46%) Spring
7 1 (0.23%) Hibernate
7 1 (0.23%) Node.js
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.16%) Management Information System
2 29 (6.61%) Product Ownership
3 20 (4.56%) Data Structures
3 20 (4.56%) Onboarding
4 16 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.19%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.73%) GNSS
7 11 (2.51%) Driving Licence
8 9 (2.05%) EPoS
8 9 (2.05%) Virtual Team
9 8 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.37%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.14%) Social Media
12 4 (0.91%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.91%) Learning Management System
13 3 (0.68%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.68%) CSOC
13 3 (0.68%) Industrial Internet of Things
13 3 (0.68%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.64%) Windows
2 5 (1.14%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.46%) Android
5 2 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.46%) Linux
5 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.23%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (42.82%) Coaching
2 106 (24.15%) Systems Engineering
3 94 (21.41%) Cost Control
3 94 (21.41%) Mathematics
3 94 (21.41%) Project Management
4 90 (20.50%) Physics
5 84 (19.13%) Mentoring
6 83 (18.91%) Risk Management
7 79 (18.00%) Agile
8 77 (17.54%) Decision-Making
9 73 (16.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 69 (15.72%) Line Management
10 69 (15.72%) Roadmaps
11 67 (15.26%) Analytics
12 65 (14.81%) People Management
13 51 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (9.57%) Data Analysis
14 42 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (9.34%) Business Case
16 39 (8.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (7.29%) Java
2 23 (5.24%) SQL
3 19 (4.33%) VBA
4 16 (3.64%) C
4 16 (3.64%) C#
5 13 (2.96%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.59%) Python
7 6 (1.37%) Delphi
8 5 (1.14%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.68%) C++
10 2 (0.46%) Bash
11 1 (0.23%) Groovy
11 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.23%) R
11 1 (0.23%) Scala
11 1 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 165 (37.59%) Degree
2 90 (20.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 31 (7.06%) Security Cleared
4 29 (6.61%) SC Cleared
5 22 (5.01%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.33%) Master's Degree
7 15 (3.42%) HND
7 15 (3.42%) PMP
8 14 (3.19%) PMI Certification
9 10 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.59%) ACCA
11 7 (1.59%) CIMA
11 7 (1.59%) CISM
11 7 (1.59%) CISSP
11 7 (1.59%) CRISC
12 6 (1.37%) MBA
13 3 (0.68%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.68%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.68%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.19%) PMO
2 13 (2.96%) GDPR
3 12 (2.73%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 6 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.37%) QA
7 4 (0.91%) SLA
8 3 (0.68%) NCSC
9 2 (0.46%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.23%) IFRS
System Software
1 15 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.59%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.91%) Docker
5 3 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (1.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.91%) Terraform
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.68%) QRadar
4 2 (0.46%) Ansible
4 2 (0.46%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.46%) Grafana
4 2 (0.46%) HAProxy
4 2 (0.46%) Istio
4 2 (0.46%) linkerd
4 2 (0.46%) NetBackup
4 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 97 (22.10%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.33%) Facebook
3 15 (3.42%) SAP
4 13 (2.96%) VMware
5 10 (2.28%) MathWorks
6 9 (2.05%) Google
6 9 (2.05%) YouTube
7 6 (1.37%) TikTok
8 5 (1.14%) Adobe
8 5 (1.14%) Ariba
8 5 (1.14%) Citrix
8 5 (1.14%) Mitel
8 5 (1.14%) Oracle
9 4 (0.91%) IBM
9 4 (0.91%) Splunk
9 4 (0.91%) Workday
10 3 (0.68%) Apple
10 3 (0.68%) Isilon
10 3 (0.68%) Meraki
10 3 (0.68%) Palo Alto