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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 430 572
Rank change year-on-year -133 +142 -25
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 223 274 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.55% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.62% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 132 152 185
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £34,850
25th Percentile £45,934 £45,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £79,211 £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 77,915 44,448 67,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.48% 89.27% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 53,724 25,250 43,771
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 12 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 12 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 -121 198 £60,500 -3.97% 257
UK excluding London -133 133 £52,500 -4.55% 157
London -62 80 £86,250 +23.21% 133
Work from Home -57 46 £55,000 -8.33% 92
South East -55 45 £46,078 -7.84% 48
South West -53 25 £55,000 +20.88% 18
North of England -75 23 £60,000 -7.69% 38
Midlands -19 14 £50,000 +17.44% 20
Yorkshire -23 13 £34,000 -41.25% 10
West Midlands -17 11 £50,000 -25.93% 9
East of England -35 9 £52,500 -4.55% 10
Wales -60 7 £42,934 +12.71% 9
North East -51 6 £65,000 -6.32% 7
Scotland - 5 £31,000 - 9
North West -52 4 £65,000 - 21
East Midlands -23 3 £38,500 -3.75% 11
Channel Islands - 3 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 2 £59,901 - 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 12 (5.38%) Confluence
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.90%) IIS
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.35%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.35%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (23.32%) Azure
2 42 (18.83%) AWS
3 19 (8.52%) AWS CloudFormation
3 19 (8.52%) Cloud Computing
3 19 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (8.52%) Serverless
4 18 (8.07%) Entra ID
5 16 (7.17%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (7.17%) Datadog
6 15 (6.73%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (6.73%) Amazon S3
7 12 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (4.93%) SaaS
9 10 (4.48%) GCP
9 10 (4.48%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.59%) PaaS
11 6 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.69%) Azure AKS
11 6 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.52%) TCP/IP
2 13 (5.83%) DNS
3 11 (4.93%) LAN
4 10 (4.48%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (3.59%) HTTP
5 8 (3.59%) IPv4
5 8 (3.59%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.79%) Firewall
6 4 (1.79%) Internet
6 4 (1.79%) VPN
7 3 (1.35%) DHCP
7 3 (1.35%) NAS
7 3 (1.35%) Network Security
7 3 (1.35%) SAN
8 2 (0.90%) VLAN
8 2 (0.90%) WAN
8 2 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.45%) Intranet
9 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.17%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.38%) DynamoDB
3 11 (4.93%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.04%) Power BI
5 5 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.24%) Redis
6 4 (1.79%) Metadata
7 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.35%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.90%) Big Data
8 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.90%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.45%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.45%) QlikView
9 1 (0.45%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.45%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 29 (13.00%) GitLab
2 24 (10.76%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.17%) Git
4 15 (6.73%) JIRA
5 11 (4.93%) CircleCI
6 8 (3.59%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.90%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.90%) Gatling
7 2 (0.90%) JMeter
7 2 (0.90%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.90%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.45%) NUnit
8 1 (0.45%) Postman
8 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.45%) Selenium
8 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.45%) Yeoman
General
1 95 (42.60%) Social Skills
2 82 (36.77%) Finance
3 51 (22.87%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (16.59%) Banking
5 31 (13.90%) Aerospace
6 19 (8.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (7.62%) Marketing
8 15 (6.73%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (6.28%) Manufacturing
10 11 (4.93%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (4.93%) Investment Banking
11 9 (4.04%) Front Office
11 9 (4.04%) Law
11 9 (4.04%) Public Sector
12 7 (3.14%) Legal
12 7 (3.14%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (2.24%) Automotive
14 4 (1.79%) Electronics
14 4 (1.79%) Local Government
14 4 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (22.42%) Senior
2 20 (8.97%) Lead
3 18 (8.07%) Administrator
3 18 (8.07%) Analyst
4 17 (7.62%) Architect
4 17 (7.62%) Developer
4 17 (7.62%) Systems Engineer
5 12 (5.38%) Senior Developer
6 10 (4.48%) Security Engineer
6 10 (4.48%) Senior Security Engineer
6 10 (4.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 10 (4.48%) Systems Administrator
7 9 (4.04%) Business Support Analyst
7 9 (4.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (4.04%) IT Manager
7 9 (4.04%) Support Analyst
8 8 (3.59%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 8 (3.59%) Senior Manager
9 7 (3.14%) Linux Administrator
9 7 (3.14%) Senior QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.83%) RESTful
2 12 (5.38%) ModSecurity
3 11 (4.93%) gRPC
3 11 (4.93%) Kafka
3 11 (4.93%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (4.48%) LDAP
4 10 (4.48%) OAuth
4 10 (4.48%) web3js
5 9 (4.04%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (4.04%) OpenID
5 9 (4.04%) SAML
6 7 (3.14%) WebSockets
7 5 (2.24%) Django
8 4 (1.79%) .NET
8 4 (1.79%) boto
8 4 (1.79%) CSS
8 4 (1.79%) REST
9 3 (1.35%) Bootstrap
9 3 (1.35%) React
9 3 (1.35%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.76%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.62%) Driving Licence
3 14 (6.28%) Management Information System
3 14 (6.28%) Social Media
4 13 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.93%) Blockchain
5 11 (4.93%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (4.48%) CCTV
6 10 (4.48%) Web3
7 9 (4.04%) Fixed Income
8 8 (3.59%) Replication
9 6 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.69%) Life Science
10 5 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.24%) NHS
10 5 (2.24%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.24%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.59%) Linux
2 29 (13.00%) Windows
3 19 (8.52%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.24%) Unix
6 3 (1.35%) Android
6 3 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.90%) Rocky
7 2 (0.90%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.45%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (32.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 53 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (21.08%) DevOps
4 42 (18.83%) CI/CD
5 40 (17.94%) Agile
5 40 (17.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (17.49%) Decision-Making
7 34 (15.25%) Observability
8 33 (14.80%) Analytics
9 29 (13.00%) Containerisation
9 29 (13.00%) Mentoring
10 25 (11.21%) Incident Response
10 25 (11.21%) Microservices
10 25 (11.21%) Risk Management
11 24 (10.76%) AI
12 21 (9.42%) Coaching
12 21 (9.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 21 (9.42%) Migration
13 20 (8.97%) High Availability
13 20 (8.97%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (15.70%) Python
2 24 (10.76%) SQL
3 17 (7.62%) Java
4 15 (6.73%) Bash
4 15 (6.73%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.83%) Go
6 9 (4.04%) C++
7 8 (3.59%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.14%) C#
9 4 (1.79%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.35%) R
11 2 (0.90%) Bicep
11 2 (0.90%) Ruby
11 2 (0.90%) Scala
12 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.45%) Groovy
12 1 (0.45%) JCL
12 1 (0.45%) VBA
12 1 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (17.94%) Degree
2 33 (14.80%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.07%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.73%) RHCSA
5 13 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (5.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (5.83%) SC Cleared
6 11 (4.93%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.93%) CISM
7 10 (4.48%) CCNA
7 10 (4.48%) CISSP
8 9 (4.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (3.59%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.59%) ISTQB
9 8 (3.59%) OSCP
9 8 (3.59%) RHCE
10 6 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.69%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.35%) CCNP
11 3 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.97%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.38%) QA
3 8 (3.59%) GMP
4 7 (3.14%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.35%) PMO
6 2 (0.90%) GAAP
6 2 (0.90%) GDPR
6 2 (0.90%) IFRS
6 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.90%) SLA
7 1 (0.45%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.45%) GRC
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.45%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.45%) NIST
7 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (13.90%) Active Directory
2 26 (11.66%) Docker
3 24 (10.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.59%) Squid
4 8 (3.59%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.59%) vSphere
5 6 (2.69%) KVM
6 3 (1.35%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.35%) IAG
6 3 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (16.14%) Terraform
2 32 (14.35%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.73%) Prometheus
4 11 (4.93%) Ansible
5 10 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (3.59%) Packer
6 8 (3.59%) ZABBIX
7 7 (3.14%) Nagios
8 6 (2.69%) Grafana
9 5 (2.24%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (1.79%) SCCM
11 2 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.45%) Argo
12 1 (0.45%) DatAdvantage
12 1 (0.45%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.45%) Netcool
Vendors
1 44 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.21%) VMware
3 19 (8.52%) Oracle
4 15 (6.73%) Red Hat
5 11 (4.93%) Splunk
6 10 (4.48%) Cisco
7 9 (4.04%) FIS
7 9 (4.04%) ForgeRock
7 9 (4.04%) Okta
7 9 (4.04%) SunGard
8 8 (3.59%) Google
9 7 (3.14%) SolarWinds
10 6 (2.69%) Databricks
11 3 (1.35%) Adobe
11 3 (1.35%) IONA
11 3 (1.35%) Nexthink
11 3 (1.35%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.35%) Veeam
11 3 (1.35%) Xero
11 3 (1.35%) Zerto