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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 431 505
Rank change year-on-year -11 +74 +140
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 216 312 218
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.56% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.63% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 125 162 139
10th Percentile £36,322 £36,250 £39,950
25th Percentile £44,336 £37,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,660 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -0.62% -6.78%
75th Percentile £78,750 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile £97,500 £77,925 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,825
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.80% +9.65%

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 48,671 49,754 47,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.04% 89.85% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 28,569 24,792 36,014
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.67%

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 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
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 Monitoring within the UK over the 6 months to 29 December 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 -25 172 £58,500 +17.00% 224
UK excluding London -10 143 £55,000 +10.00% 198
Work from Home +24 101 £56,750 +8.80% 130
London +13 58 £70,000 -8.50% 53
South East +10 34 £66,250 +32.50% 56
North of England +12 33 £65,000 -6.22% 48
South West +5 26 £36,000 -6.49% 18
North West +23 17 £65,000 +4.00% 27
Midlands -4 15 £42,500 - 35
Yorkshire +5 13 £65,000 +52.94% 16
Northern Ireland +3 13 £73,801 +6.48% 4
Scotland 0 12 £73,801 +6.48% 11
East of England +20 11 £55,000 +10.00% 23
East Midlands -24 8 £42,000 +67.31% 17
West Midlands +13 7 £59,527 -4.76% 16
Wales +3 6 £44,336 -36.03% 6
North East +12 3 £73,801 +6.48% 5

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 8 (3.70%) Confluence
1 8 (3.70%) IIS
2 7 (3.24%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.31%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.93%) CMS
5 2 (0.93%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.93%) WinCC
6 1 (0.46%) Appian
6 1 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (13.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.63%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (5.09%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (4.63%) Hyperion Planning
2 10 (4.63%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (4.63%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (4.63%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (4.63%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (2.31%) PlanetPress Connect
4 4 (1.85%) SAP ERP
4 4 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (1.39%) SAP APO
5 3 (1.39%) SAP CO
5 3 (1.39%) SAP FI
5 3 (1.39%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (1.39%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.93%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.93%) OpenCart
6 2 (0.93%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 63 (29.17%) Azure
2 36 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 27 (12.50%) AWS
4 16 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 16 (7.41%) GCP
5 14 (6.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (5.56%) SaaS
8 10 (4.63%) Entra ID
8 10 (4.63%) GitHub
9 8 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.70%) dbt
9 8 (3.70%) Pulumi
10 7 (3.24%) Azure AKS
10 7 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.24%) Serverless
11 6 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.70%) DNS
3 5 (2.31%) Firewall
3 5 (2.31%) LAN
3 5 (2.31%) WAN
4 4 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.85%) Wireless
5 3 (1.39%) DHCP
5 3 (1.39%) HTTP
5 3 (1.39%) Internet
5 3 (1.39%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.39%) VPN
6 2 (0.93%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.93%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.93%) SNMP
7 1 (0.46%) Intranet
7 1 (0.46%) Multicast
7 1 (0.46%) Network Security
7 1 (0.46%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.74%) Power BI
2 27 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 16 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (6.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (4.63%) Essbase
7 9 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.70%) Redis
9 7 (3.24%) Tableau
10 5 (2.31%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.85%) Metadata
11 4 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.39%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.39%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.39%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.93%) MySQL
13 2 (0.93%) OLAP
13 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 13 (6.02%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.63%) GitLab
2 10 (4.63%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (4.17%) Git
3 9 (4.17%) JIRA
4 4 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (1.85%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.39%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.39%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.93%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.93%) JMeter
6 2 (0.93%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.46%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 107 (49.54%) Social Skills
2 82 (37.96%) Finance
3 56 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (12.04%) Law
5 21 (9.72%) Retail
6 15 (6.94%) Legal
6 15 (6.94%) Marketing
7 12 (5.56%) Billing
7 12 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 9 (4.17%) Banking
8 9 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.78%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.78%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.31%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.85%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.85%) Automotive
13 3 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (24.54%) Senior
2 47 (21.76%) Analyst
3 21 (9.72%) Developer
4 19 (8.80%) Lead
5 14 (6.48%) Senior Analyst
6 12 (5.56%) Commercial Analyst
6 12 (5.56%) Insight Analyst
7 11 (5.09%) IT Manager
7 11 (5.09%) Support Analyst
8 10 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (4.63%) Oracle Analyst
8 10 (4.63%) Senior Oracle Analyst
9 8 (3.70%) Senior Developer
9 8 (3.70%) Site Engineer
9 8 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (3.24%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.24%) Product Manager
10 7 (3.24%) Senior Manager
11 6 (2.78%) Digital Product Manager
11 6 (2.78%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.02%) HTML
2 11 (5.09%) CSS
3 10 (4.63%) JSON
3 10 (4.63%) XML
4 9 (4.17%) .NET
5 8 (3.70%) Django
6 7 (3.24%) Kafka
6 7 (3.24%) Middleware
7 6 (2.78%) REST
7 6 (2.78%) RESTful
8 3 (1.39%) gRPC
8 3 (1.39%) Node.js
8 3 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.39%) React
8 3 (1.39%) SOAP
8 3 (1.39%) web3js
9 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.93%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.93%) NETCONF
9 2 (0.93%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.96%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.02%) Management Information System
4 12 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.70%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.78%) Life Science
8 5 (2.31%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.85%) FMCG
10 3 (1.39%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.39%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.39%) Blog
10 3 (1.39%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.39%) Social Media
10 3 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.39%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.39%) Web3
11 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.35%) Windows
2 23 (10.65%) Linux
3 21 (9.72%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.70%) Unix
5 5 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.85%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.85%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.39%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.46%) Android
8 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (30.09%) Analytics
3 56 (25.93%) Agile
4 50 (23.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (20.37%) DevOps
6 39 (18.06%) CI/CD
6 39 (18.06%) ITIL
7 38 (17.59%) Business Intelligence
8 36 (16.67%) Decision-Making
9 34 (15.74%) Roadmaps
10 32 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
11 29 (13.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 27 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
13 25 (11.57%) ITSM
13 25 (11.57%) Service Management
14 24 (11.11%) Process Improvement
15 23 (10.65%) AI
15 23 (10.65%) Observability
15 23 (10.65%) Service Delivery
15 23 (10.65%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 59 (27.31%) SQL
2 35 (16.20%) Python
3 18 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 17 (7.87%) PowerShell
5 13 (6.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (5.56%) Bash
7 10 (4.63%) C#
7 10 (4.63%) Groovy
8 9 (4.17%) VBA
9 8 (3.70%) Java
10 5 (2.31%) Bicep
11 4 (1.85%) Go
11 4 (1.85%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.93%) R
13 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.46%) Perl
13 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.46%) Swift
13 1 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (25.93%) Degree
2 19 (8.80%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.94%) Master's Degree
4 12 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (5.09%) SC Cleared
6 9 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.31%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.31%) PMP
9 4 (1.85%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.85%) MCP
10 3 (1.39%) CISA
10 3 (1.39%) CISM
10 3 (1.39%) CISSP
10 3 (1.39%) CRISC
10 3 (1.39%) CSPO
10 3 (1.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 18 (8.33%) GDPR
2 7 (3.24%) QA
3 6 (2.78%) GRC
3 6 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.39%) ISO 20022
4 3 (1.39%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.39%) ISO 8583
4 3 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 3 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 3 (1.39%) SEPA
5 2 (0.93%) SLA
6 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.46%) COBIT
6 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.46%) P3O
6 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.46%) PMO
6 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (9.72%) Docker
2 17 (7.87%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.46%) Squid
Systems Management
1 26 (12.04%) Terraform
2 25 (11.57%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.63%) Ansible
4 7 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.31%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.85%) logstash
6 4 (1.85%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.85%) Puppet
7 2 (0.93%) AssetCenter
7 2 (0.93%) Grafana
7 2 (0.93%) Kibana
7 2 (0.93%) SCCM
8 1 (0.46%) Argo
8 1 (0.46%) Control-M
8 1 (0.46%) Nagios
Vendors
1 46 (21.30%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.87%) Oracle
3 15 (6.94%) Google
3 15 (6.94%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.56%) SAP
5 11 (5.09%) VMware
6 10 (4.63%) Hyperion
7 8 (3.70%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.31%) Cisco
8 5 (2.31%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.31%) HubSpot
8 5 (2.31%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.85%) Adobe
9 4 (1.85%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.39%) Ahrefs
10 3 (1.39%) Databricks
11 2 (0.93%) Kepware
11 2 (0.93%) Planon
11 2 (0.93%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.93%) TikTok