Performance Monitoring Job Trends

Performance Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Performance Monitoring skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 420 581
Rank change year-on-year -151 +161 -22
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 218 275 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.55% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.62% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 133 153 185
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £34,261
25th Percentile £46,078 £45,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £79,040 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £86,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -11.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Monitoring 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 77,301 44,356 67,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.43% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 53,282 25,229 44,135
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -9.09%

Performance Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Performance Monitoring relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Performance Monitoring job vacancy trend in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Performance Monitoring.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Performance Monitoring

Performance Monitoring
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Monitoring over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Monitoring within the UK over the 6 months to 7 August 2026. 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 -134 192 £60,500 -3.59% 156
UK excluding London -114 129 £52,500 -4.55% 95
London -47 78 £87,500 +25.55% 75
Work from Home -61 46 £55,000 -13.73% 42
South East -51 43 £46,078 -7.84% 32
South West -55 25 £55,000 +24.29% 10
North of England -78 22 £65,000 - 26
Midlands -33 13 £50,000 +17.44% 13
Yorkshire -20 12 £34,000 -41.25% 5
West Midlands -28 11 £50,000 -25.93% 7
East of England -30 8 £53,106 -3.44% 6
Wales -65 7 £42,934 +12.71% 5
North East -49 6 £65,000 -6.32% 7
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
North West -44 4 £65,000 - 14
Scotland - 4 £31,000 - 3
East Midlands -30 2 £38,500 -3.75% 6
Northern Ireland - 2 £59,901 - 1

Performance Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (5.50%) Confluence
2 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.92%) IIS
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.38%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.38%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (23.39%) Azure
2 44 (20.18%) AWS
3 19 (8.72%) AWS CloudFormation
3 19 (8.72%) Cloud Computing
3 19 (8.72%) Serverless
4 17 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (7.34%) Entra ID
6 15 (6.88%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (6.88%) Amazon S3
6 15 (6.88%) Datadog
7 12 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (5.05%) GCP
9 10 (4.59%) SaaS
10 9 (4.13%) Power Platform
11 7 (3.21%) IaaS
11 7 (3.21%) PaaS
12 6 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.75%) Nutanix
12 6 (2.75%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.72%) TCP/IP
2 13 (5.96%) DNS
3 11 (5.05%) LAN
4 10 (4.59%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (3.67%) HTTP
5 8 (3.67%) IPv4
5 8 (3.67%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (2.29%) VPN
7 4 (1.83%) Firewall
7 4 (1.83%) Internet
8 3 (1.38%) DHCP
8 3 (1.38%) NAS
8 3 (1.38%) Network Security
8 3 (1.38%) SAN
9 2 (0.92%) VLAN
9 2 (0.92%) WAN
9 2 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.46%) Intranet
10 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.34%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.50%) DynamoDB
3 11 (5.05%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.67%) Power BI
5 5 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.29%) Redis
6 4 (1.83%) Metadata
7 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.92%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.92%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.46%) Big Data
9 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.46%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.46%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 29 (13.30%) GitLab
2 24 (11.01%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.88%) Git
3 15 (6.88%) JIRA
4 11 (5.05%) CircleCI
5 8 (3.67%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.92%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.92%) Gatling
6 2 (0.92%) JMeter
6 2 (0.92%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.92%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.46%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.46%) NUnit
7 1 (0.46%) Postman
7 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.46%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.46%) Selenium
7 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.46%) Yeoman
General
1 92 (42.20%) Social Skills
2 79 (36.24%) Finance
3 47 (21.56%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (16.97%) Banking
5 29 (13.30%) Aerospace
6 18 (8.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (6.88%) Marketing
8 14 (6.42%) Manufacturing
9 13 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (5.05%) Investment Banking
11 9 (4.13%) Front Office
11 9 (4.13%) Law
11 9 (4.13%) Public Sector
12 7 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (2.75%) Legal
14 5 (2.29%) Automotive
15 4 (1.83%) Electronics
15 4 (1.83%) Local Government
16 3 (1.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (23.85%) Senior
2 19 (8.72%) Lead
3 18 (8.26%) Administrator
3 18 (8.26%) Analyst
4 17 (7.80%) Systems Engineer
5 16 (7.34%) Developer
6 15 (6.88%) Architect
7 13 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (5.50%) Senior Developer
9 10 (4.59%) Security Engineer
9 10 (4.59%) Senior Security Engineer
9 10 (4.59%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 10 (4.59%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (4.13%) Business Support Analyst
10 9 (4.13%) IT Manager
10 9 (4.13%) Support Analyst
11 8 (3.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (3.67%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 8 (3.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.67%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.96%) RESTful
2 11 (5.05%) gRPC
2 11 (5.05%) Kafka
2 11 (5.05%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (4.59%) ModSecurity
3 10 (4.59%) web3js
4 9 (4.13%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (3.67%) LDAP
5 8 (3.67%) OAuth
6 7 (3.21%) OpenID
6 7 (3.21%) SAML
6 7 (3.21%) WebSockets
7 5 (2.29%) Django
8 4 (1.83%) boto
8 4 (1.83%) CSS
9 3 (1.38%) Bootstrap
9 3 (1.38%) HTML
9 3 (1.38%) Middleware
9 3 (1.38%) Pandas
9 3 (1.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.09%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.80%) Driving Licence
3 14 (6.42%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (5.05%) Blockchain
5 11 (5.05%) Data Centre
5 11 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (5.05%) Social Media
6 10 (4.59%) CCTV
6 10 (4.59%) Replication
6 10 (4.59%) Web3
7 9 (4.13%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.75%) Life Science
9 5 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.29%) NHS
9 5 (2.29%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (16.51%) Linux
2 27 (12.39%) Windows
3 19 (8.72%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.29%) Unix
6 4 (1.83%) Android
6 4 (1.83%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.92%) Rocky
7 2 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.46%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (32.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 50 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (20.64%) DevOps
4 42 (19.27%) CI/CD
5 40 (18.35%) Agile
5 40 (18.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (16.06%) Decision-Making
7 32 (14.68%) Observability
8 30 (13.76%) Containerisation
9 29 (13.30%) Analytics
10 25 (11.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 24 (11.01%) Mentoring
11 24 (11.01%) Risk Management
12 23 (10.55%) Incident Response
12 23 (10.55%) Microservices
13 20 (9.17%) AI
13 20 (9.17%) High Availability
13 20 (9.17%) Migration
13 20 (9.17%) Performance Optimisation
14 19 (8.72%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 34 (15.60%) Python
2 23 (10.55%) SQL
3 16 (7.34%) Bash
3 16 (7.34%) PowerShell
4 15 (6.88%) Java
5 12 (5.50%) Go
6 9 (4.13%) C++
7 7 (3.21%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.29%) C#
9 3 (1.38%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.92%) Bicep
11 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.46%) Groovy
11 1 (0.46%) JCL
11 1 (0.46%) R
11 1 (0.46%) Ruby
11 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (17.89%) Degree
2 32 (14.68%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.34%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.88%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (6.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (6.88%) RHCSA
5 14 (6.42%) SC Cleared
6 10 (4.59%) CCNA
7 9 (4.13%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.13%) CISM
8 8 (3.67%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.67%) CISSP
8 8 (3.67%) ISTQB
8 8 (3.67%) OSCP
8 8 (3.67%) RHCE
9 7 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.75%) Master's Degree
11 5 (2.29%) CCNP
11 5 (2.29%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.72%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.96%) QA
3 8 (3.67%) GMP
4 7 (3.21%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.38%) GDPR
5 3 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.38%) PMO
6 2 (0.92%) GAAP
6 2 (0.92%) IFRS
6 2 (0.92%) NIST
6 2 (0.92%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.46%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (13.30%) Active Directory
2 26 (11.93%) Docker
2 26 (11.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.67%) KVM
3 8 (3.67%) Squid
3 8 (3.67%) VMware NSX
3 8 (3.67%) vSphere
4 3 (1.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.38%) IAG
5 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (16.06%) Terraform
2 31 (14.22%) Kubernetes
3 14 (6.42%) Prometheus
4 11 (5.05%) Ansible
5 8 (3.67%) Packer
5 8 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (3.67%) ZABBIX
6 7 (3.21%) Nagios
7 6 (2.75%) Grafana
8 5 (2.29%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (1.83%) SCCM
10 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.46%) Argo
12 1 (0.46%) DatAdvantage
12 1 (0.46%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.46%) Netcool
Vendors
1 43 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.39%) VMware
3 19 (8.72%) Oracle
4 15 (6.88%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.50%) Splunk
6 10 (4.59%) Cisco
7 9 (4.13%) FIS
7 9 (4.13%) SunGard
8 7 (3.21%) ForgeRock
8 7 (3.21%) Google
8 7 (3.21%) Okta
8 7 (3.21%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.29%) Veeam
9 5 (2.29%) Zerto
10 4 (1.83%) Databricks
11 3 (1.38%) Adobe
11 3 (1.38%) Apple
11 3 (1.38%) Nexthink
11 3 (1.38%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.38%) Xero