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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 430 588
Rank change year-on-year -121 +158 +30
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 192 252 330
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.56% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.61% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 117 131 220
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,625 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £51,200
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +22.07% -6.91%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £75,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% +2.04%

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 68,493 41,477 89,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 92.48% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,109 22,216 63,180
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 19 June 2026.

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 19 June 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 -135 165 £60,000 -4.00% 56
UK excluding London -105 104 £51,250 -10.87% 44
London -50 73 £93,750 +35.12% 29
Work from Home -17 45 £52,500 -16.00% 22
South East -51 34 £35,000 -34.88% 14
North of England -50 22 £56,000 -13.85% 10
South West -48 17 £55,000 -1.73% 5
Yorkshire -35 11 - - 2
West Midlands -14 8 £55,500 -17.78% 6
North West -24 8 £65,000 - 6
Midlands -26 8 £55,500 +22.93% 9
East of England -19 6 £53,106 -7.64% 3
Scotland +14 5 £31,000 - 4
Wales -52 5 £42,934 +12.71%
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
North East -42 3 £51,250 -26.14% 2
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 11 (5.73%) Confluence
2 8 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.04%) IIS
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.56%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.56%) MadCap Flare
4 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.52%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.52%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.52%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 49 (25.52%) AWS
2 37 (19.27%) Azure
3 24 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 22 (11.46%) Cloud Computing
4 22 (11.46%) Serverless
5 21 (10.94%) Amazon S3
5 21 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (9.38%) Datadog
8 17 (8.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (5.73%) Entra ID
11 10 (5.21%) GCP
11 10 (5.21%) OneDrive
12 6 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (3.13%) IaaS
12 6 (3.13%) Nutanix
13 5 (2.60%) dbt
13 5 (2.60%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.60%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.98%) TCP/IP
2 17 (8.85%) DNS
3 12 (6.25%) HTTP
4 11 (5.73%) LAN
5 10 (5.21%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (4.69%) VPN
6 9 (4.69%) WAN
7 8 (4.17%) DHCP
7 8 (4.17%) IPv4
7 8 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (3.65%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.08%) Internet
10 2 (1.04%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.04%) SNMP
11 1 (0.52%) Broadband
11 1 (0.52%) Intranet
11 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.52%) PSTN
11 1 (0.52%) VoIP
11 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.94%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (9.38%) NoSQL
3 17 (8.85%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.13%) Redis
5 5 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.60%) Power BI
6 3 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.56%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.56%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.04%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.52%) Big Data
8 1 (0.52%) Essbase
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.52%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.52%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 33 (17.19%) GitLab
2 28 (14.58%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.85%) Git
4 16 (8.33%) CircleCI
5 12 (6.25%) JIRA
6 8 (4.17%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.04%) Gatling
7 2 (1.04%) JMeter
7 2 (1.04%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.52%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.52%) Postman
8 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.52%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.52%) Selenium
8 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.52%) Yeoman
General
1 73 (38.02%) Finance
2 69 (35.94%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.67%) Banking
4 20 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (7.81%) Marketing
6 14 (7.29%) Aerospace
7 13 (6.77%) Manufacturing
8 12 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (4.69%) Law
10 7 (3.65%) Public Sector
11 6 (3.13%) Legal
11 6 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.60%) Automotive
13 4 (2.08%) Electronics
13 4 (2.08%) Local Government
13 4 (2.08%) Retail
14 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
15 2 (1.04%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 61 (31.77%) Senior
2 22 (11.46%) Developer
2 22 (11.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (11.46%) Lead
3 19 (9.90%) Administrator
4 17 (8.85%) Senior Developer
4 17 (8.85%) Systems Engineer
5 14 (7.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (5.21%) Security Engineer
6 10 (5.21%) Senior Security Engineer
6 10 (5.21%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 9 (4.69%) Linux Administrator
7 9 (4.69%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 9 (4.69%) Systems Administrator
8 8 (4.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 7 (3.65%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
9 7 (3.65%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.13%) Analyst
10 6 (3.13%) QA Manager
10 6 (3.13%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.85%) RESTful
2 16 (8.33%) gRPC
2 16 (8.33%) Kafka
2 16 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
2 16 (8.33%) web3js
3 9 (4.69%) WebSockets
4 5 (2.60%) CSS
4 5 (2.60%) Django
4 5 (2.60%) HTML
4 5 (2.60%) REST
5 4 (2.08%) boto
6 3 (1.56%) Bootstrap
6 3 (1.56%) HTML5
6 3 (1.56%) jQuery
7 2 (1.04%) .NET
7 2 (1.04%) EDI
7 2 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.04%) NETCONF
7 2 (1.04%) React
7 2 (1.04%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.85%) Blockchain
2 17 (8.85%) Driving Licence
3 16 (8.33%) Web3
4 14 (7.29%) Management Information System
5 13 (6.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (5.21%) CCTV
6 10 (5.21%) Life Science
7 9 (4.69%) Data Centre
7 9 (4.69%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.69%) Replication
8 5 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.60%) NHS
9 4 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.56%) Clustering
10 3 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.56%) Social Media
11 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.10%) Linux
2 25 (13.02%) Windows
3 21 (10.94%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.69%) Apple iOS
4 9 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.17%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.13%) Unix
7 2 (1.04%) Android
7 2 (1.04%) Rocky
8 1 (0.52%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (22.92%) DevOps
2 43 (22.40%) CI/CD
3 40 (20.83%) Agile
4 39 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (19.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (17.19%) Analytics
7 32 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 30 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (14.58%) Risk Management
10 26 (13.54%) Observability
11 25 (13.02%) Microservices
12 24 (12.50%) Investment Management
13 23 (11.98%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (11.98%) High Availability
14 22 (11.46%) Continuous Delivery
14 22 (11.46%) Decision-Making
14 22 (11.46%) Performance Optimisation
15 21 (10.94%) Test Automation
16 20 (10.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.19%) Python
2 20 (10.42%) SQL
3 18 (9.38%) Bash
3 18 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 16 (8.33%) Go
4 16 (8.33%) Java
5 8 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.13%) C#
7 3 (1.56%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.04%) Groovy
8 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.52%) Bicep
9 1 (0.52%) JCL
Qualifications
1 36 (18.75%) Degree
2 19 (9.90%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.85%) RHCSA
4 15 (7.81%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (6.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.21%) Master's Degree
6 10 (5.21%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 8 (4.17%) CCNA
7 8 (4.17%) ISTQB
7 8 (4.17%) OSCP
7 8 (4.17%) RHCE
8 7 (3.65%) CCNP
9 6 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.60%) MCSE
10 5 (2.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (2.08%) ACCA
11 4 (2.08%) CIMA
12 2 (1.04%) CCIE
12 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.29%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.73%) QA
3 7 (3.65%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.65%) GMP
4 4 (2.08%) PMO
5 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.04%) GAAP
6 2 (1.04%) GDPR
6 2 (1.04%) IFRS
7 1 (0.52%) COBIT
7 1 (0.52%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.52%) NIST
7 1 (0.52%) P3O
7 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (16.67%) Docker
2 30 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (10.94%) Active Directory
4 8 (4.17%) Squid
4 8 (4.17%) VMware NSX
4 8 (4.17%) vSphere
5 5 (2.60%) KVM
6 3 (1.56%) IAG
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (19.27%) Terraform
2 33 (17.19%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.38%) Prometheus
4 12 (6.25%) Ansible
5 10 (5.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (4.69%) Nagios
7 8 (4.17%) Packer
7 8 (4.17%) ZABBIX
8 5 (2.60%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (2.60%) Grafana
9 4 (2.08%) SCCM
10 2 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.04%) DatAdvantage
10 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.52%) Argo
11 1 (0.52%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.52%) Netcool
Vendors
1 40 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 31 (16.15%) VMware
3 17 (8.85%) Red Hat
4 16 (8.33%) Oracle
5 12 (6.25%) Cisco
5 12 (6.25%) Splunk
6 9 (4.69%) SolarWinds
7 7 (3.65%) Google
8 5 (2.60%) SAP
8 5 (2.60%) Veeam
8 5 (2.60%) Zerto
9 4 (2.08%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.56%) Adobe
10 3 (1.56%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.56%) IONA
10 3 (1.56%) Nexthink
10 3 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.56%) Xero
11 2 (1.04%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.04%) Samsung