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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 439 599
Rank change year-on-year -121 +160 -14
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 199 268 306
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.56% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.61% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 126 144 215
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £46,375 £45,688 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £90,938 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £78,550 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,106 £55,971 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.12% +11.94% -

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 71,935 43,736 84,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 90.86% 82.47%
Number of salaries quoted 49,710 24,302 59,641
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,068 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.14% - -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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -134 174 £60,500 -3.20% 79
UK excluding London -116 103 £53,106 -5.12% 60
London -42 82 £95,000 +36.31% 32
Work from Home -34 44 £55,000 -13.73% 60
South East -63 32 £35,000 -30.00% 15
North of England -66 22 £65,000 - 14
South West -51 17 £55,000 -1.73% 6
Yorkshire -23 11 - - 3
West Midlands -14 8 £55,500 -17.78% 9
East of England -26 8 £53,106 -3.44% 4
Midlands -28 8 £55,500 +30.36% 15
North West -39 7 £69,651 +7.15% 9
Wales -58 5 £42,934 +12.71% 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Scotland +13 4 £31,000 - 3
North East -44 4 £55,000 -20.73% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £59,901 - 2

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 (5.53%) Confluence
2 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.02%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.01%) IIS
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.51%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.51%) MadCap Flare
4 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.50%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.50%) Shopify
1 1 (0.50%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 48 (24.12%) AWS
2 36 (18.09%) Azure
3 24 (12.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 23 (11.56%) Cloud Computing
5 22 (11.06%) Serverless
6 20 (10.05%) Amazon S3
6 20 (10.05%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (9.55%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (8.54%) Datadog
9 16 (8.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (6.53%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (5.03%) GCP
12 9 (4.52%) Entra ID
13 7 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (3.52%) OneDrive
13 7 (3.52%) Power Platform
14 6 (3.02%) IaaS
14 6 (3.02%) Nutanix
15 5 (2.51%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 5 (2.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.05%) TCP/IP
2 14 (7.04%) DNS
3 12 (6.03%) HTTP
4 11 (5.53%) LAN
5 10 (5.03%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (4.02%) IPv4
6 8 (4.02%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (3.02%) VPN
7 6 (3.02%) WAN
8 5 (2.51%) DHCP
9 4 (2.01%) Internet
9 4 (2.01%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.01%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.01%) SNMP
11 1 (0.50%) Broadband
11 1 (0.50%) Intranet
11 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.50%) PSTN
11 1 (0.50%) VoIP
11 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.05%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (8.04%) DynamoDB
2 16 (8.04%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.52%) Power BI
4 6 (3.02%) Redis
5 5 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.51%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.51%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.51%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.01%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.50%) Metadata
8 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.50%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 33 (16.58%) GitLab
2 28 (14.07%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.54%) Git
4 15 (7.54%) CircleCI
5 12 (6.03%) JIRA
6 8 (4.02%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.01%) Gatling
7 2 (1.01%) JMeter
7 2 (1.01%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.50%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.50%) Mocha
8 1 (0.50%) Postman
8 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.50%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.50%) Selenium
8 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.50%) Yeoman
General
1 77 (38.69%) Finance
2 70 (35.18%) Social Skills
3 39 (19.60%) Banking
4 26 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.54%) Aerospace
6 16 (8.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (7.04%) Marketing
8 13 (6.53%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (6.53%) Manufacturing
9 11 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (4.52%) Law
11 7 (3.52%) Investment Banking
11 7 (3.52%) Public Sector
12 6 (3.02%) Legal
12 6 (3.02%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (2.51%) Automotive
13 5 (2.51%) Front Office
14 4 (2.01%) Electronics
14 4 (2.01%) Local Government
15 3 (1.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (27.64%) Senior
2 21 (10.55%) Lead
3 19 (9.55%) Administrator
3 19 (9.55%) Developer
3 19 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (8.54%) Systems Engineer
5 15 (7.54%) Senior Developer
6 11 (5.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (5.03%) Security Engineer
7 10 (5.03%) Senior Security Engineer
7 10 (5.03%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 9 (4.52%) Analyst
8 9 (4.52%) IT Manager
8 9 (4.52%) Linux Administrator
8 9 (4.52%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 9 (4.52%) Systems Administrator
9 8 (4.02%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 7 (3.52%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 7 (3.52%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.04%) RESTful
2 15 (7.54%) gRPC
2 15 (7.54%) Kafka
2 15 (7.54%) RabbitMQ
3 14 (7.04%) web3js
4 9 (4.52%) WebSockets
5 5 (2.51%) Django
5 5 (2.51%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (2.01%) boto
6 4 (2.01%) CSS
6 4 (2.01%) HTML
6 4 (2.01%) REST
7 3 (1.51%) Bootstrap
7 3 (1.51%) HTML5
7 3 (1.51%) jQuery
8 2 (1.01%) EDI
8 2 (1.01%) JSON
8 2 (1.01%) NumPy
8 2 (1.01%) Pandas
8 2 (1.01%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.55%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.54%) Driving Licence
3 15 (7.54%) Blockchain
3 15 (7.54%) Management Information System
4 14 (7.04%) Web3
5 13 (6.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (5.03%) CCTV
7 9 (4.52%) Data Centre
7 9 (4.52%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.52%) Replication
8 8 (4.02%) Life Science
9 5 (2.51%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.51%) NHS
10 4 (2.01%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.51%) Clustering
11 3 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.51%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 35 (17.59%) Linux
2 24 (12.06%) Windows
3 20 (10.05%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.02%) Apple iOS
5 6 (3.02%) Unix
6 5 (2.51%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.01%) Android
7 2 (1.01%) Rocky
8 1 (0.50%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (24.12%) Continuous Improvement
2 44 (22.11%) DevOps
3 43 (21.61%) CI/CD
4 42 (21.11%) Agile
5 38 (19.10%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (17.09%) Analytics
7 33 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (15.58%) Containerisation
9 29 (14.57%) Risk Management
10 27 (13.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 25 (12.56%) Observability
12 24 (12.06%) Microservices
13 23 (11.56%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (11.56%) Decision-Making
14 22 (11.06%) High Availability
14 22 (11.06%) Investment Management
15 21 (10.55%) Continuous Delivery
15 21 (10.55%) Performance Optimisation
16 19 (9.55%) ITIL
16 19 (9.55%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.09%) Python
2 22 (11.06%) SQL
3 18 (9.05%) Bash
3 18 (9.05%) PowerShell
4 16 (8.04%) Java
5 15 (7.54%) Go
6 7 (3.52%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.51%) C#
7 5 (2.51%) C++
8 2 (1.01%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.50%) Bicep
9 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.50%) Groovy
9 1 (0.50%) JCL
Qualifications
1 37 (18.59%) Degree
2 22 (11.06%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.54%) RHCSA
4 15 (7.54%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (6.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.03%) SC Cleared
7 9 (4.52%) Master's Degree
8 8 (4.02%) AWS Certification
8 8 (4.02%) CCNA
8 8 (4.02%) ISTQB
8 8 (4.02%) OSCP
8 8 (4.02%) RHCE
9 7 (3.52%) CCNP
10 6 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (2.51%) MCSE
11 5 (2.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (2.01%) ACCA
12 4 (2.01%) CIMA
12 4 (2.01%) DV Cleared
13 2 (1.01%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.55%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.53%) QA
3 7 (3.52%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.52%) GMP
4 3 (1.51%) GDPR
4 3 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.51%) PMO
5 2 (1.01%) GAAP
5 2 (1.01%) IFRS
6 1 (0.50%) COBIT
6 1 (0.50%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.50%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (15.58%) Docker
2 29 (14.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (10.55%) Active Directory
4 8 (4.02%) Squid
4 8 (4.02%) VMware NSX
4 8 (4.02%) vSphere
5 5 (2.51%) KVM
6 3 (1.51%) IAG
7 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (18.59%) Terraform
2 33 (16.58%) Kubernetes
3 17 (8.54%) Prometheus
4 13 (6.53%) Ansible
5 9 (4.52%) Nagios
6 8 (4.02%) Packer
6 8 (4.02%) ZABBIX
7 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.51%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (2.51%) Grafana
9 4 (2.01%) SCCM
10 2 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.01%) DatAdvantage
10 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.50%) Argo
11 1 (0.50%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.50%) Netcool
Vendors
1 42 (21.11%) Microsoft
2 30 (15.08%) VMware
3 17 (8.54%) Oracle
3 17 (8.54%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.03%) Cisco
4 12 (6.03%) Splunk
5 9 (4.52%) SolarWinds
6 7 (3.52%) Google
7 5 (2.51%) FIS
7 5 (2.51%) SAP
7 5 (2.51%) SunGard
7 5 (2.51%) Veeam
7 5 (2.51%) Zerto
8 3 (1.51%) Adobe
8 3 (1.51%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.51%) IONA
8 3 (1.51%) Nexthink
8 3 (1.51%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.51%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.51%) Xero