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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 402 580
Rank change year-on-year -117 +178 +34
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 198 262 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.60% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.65% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 119 128 211
10th Percentile £34,250 £27,450 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,250 £41,813 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £74,481 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £54,660 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.27% +9.32% -

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 67,106 40,605 82,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.79% 93.31% 85.17%
Number of salaries quoted 43,167 22,159 59,545
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -110 166 £57,500 - 73
UK excluding London -95 109 £48,500 -11.27% 57
London -56 73 £95,000 +38.80% 31
Work from Home -3 56 £53,712 -2.34% 30
South East -39 39 £35,000 -39.13% 21
North of England -49 20 £60,500 -6.92% 13
South West -46 17 £45,000 -15.75% 5
Scotland +4 9 £31,000 - 4
North West -20 9 £65,000 - 6
West Midlands -31 9 £55,000 -15.38% 4
Midlands -49 9 £55,000 +119.10% 9
Yorkshire -49 9 - - 6
Wales -36 5 £42,934 +12.71% 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East of England -18 3 £48,500 -3.00% 5
North East -37 2 £47,500 -31.54% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £59,901 -

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 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.54%) Confluence
3 5 (2.53%) IIS
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) CMS
4 1 (0.51%) SAS
4 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.03%) Oracle Smart View
2 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.52%) FrameMaker
4 3 (1.52%) MadCap Flare
4 3 (1.52%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.51%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (4.04%) Oracle Financials
2 6 (3.03%) Hyperion Planning
2 6 (3.03%) Oracle Assets
2 6 (3.03%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (3.03%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (3.03%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.51%) Shopify
4 1 (0.51%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 45 (22.73%) AWS
2 44 (22.22%) Azure
3 26 (13.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (10.61%) Cloud Computing
5 19 (9.60%) Serverless
6 18 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 18 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (8.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (8.59%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (8.08%) Datadog
9 12 (6.06%) Entra ID
10 11 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (5.05%) OneDrive
12 9 (4.55%) Azure AKS
12 9 (4.55%) GCP
13 8 (4.04%) SaaS
14 6 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (3.03%) IaaS
14 6 (3.03%) Nutanix
14 6 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.63%) TCP/IP
2 20 (10.10%) DNS
3 14 (7.07%) HTTP
4 12 (6.06%) LAN
5 11 (5.56%) WAN
6 10 (5.05%) Intrusion Detection
6 10 (5.05%) VPN
7 9 (4.55%) DHCP
8 8 (4.04%) SD-WAN
9 5 (2.53%) IPv4
9 5 (2.53%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (2.02%) Internet
11 3 (1.52%) HTTPS
11 3 (1.52%) SNMP
12 1 (0.51%) Broadband
12 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.51%) PSTN
12 1 (0.51%) VoIP
12 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.61%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 17 (8.59%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.04%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.03%) Essbase
5 6 (3.03%) Power BI
5 6 (3.03%) Redis
6 5 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.52%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.52%) SAP HANA
9 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.01%) OLAP
9 2 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.51%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 33 (16.67%) GitLab
2 28 (14.14%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.08%) CircleCI
4 15 (7.58%) Git
5 8 (4.04%) JIRA
6 6 (3.03%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.03%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.01%) Gatling
7 2 (1.01%) JMeter
7 2 (1.01%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.01%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.51%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.51%) Mocha
8 1 (0.51%) Selenium
8 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.51%) Yeoman
General
1 78 (39.39%) Finance
2 68 (34.34%) Social Skills
3 33 (16.67%) Banking
4 20 (10.10%) Marketing
5 19 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (7.07%) Manufacturing
7 13 (6.57%) Aerospace
8 12 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (4.04%) Retail
10 6 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.53%) Automotive
11 5 (2.53%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.53%) Law
11 5 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.53%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.02%) Electronics
12 4 (2.02%) Legal
12 4 (2.02%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 71 (35.86%) Senior
2 25 (12.63%) Developer
3 21 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (10.10%) Lead
5 19 (9.60%) Senior Developer
6 18 (9.09%) Administrator
7 17 (8.59%) Systems Engineer
8 15 (7.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.05%) Linux Administrator
9 10 (5.05%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 10 (5.05%) Security Engineer
9 10 (5.05%) Senior Security Engineer
9 10 (5.05%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 10 (5.05%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (4.55%) Analyst
10 9 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.55%) Senior Manager
11 7 (3.54%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 7 (3.54%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.03%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.59%) Kafka
1 17 (8.59%) RESTful
2 16 (8.08%) gRPC
2 16 (8.08%) RabbitMQ
2 16 (8.08%) web3js
3 10 (5.05%) WebSockets
4 5 (2.53%) .NET
4 5 (2.53%) Django
4 5 (2.53%) REST
5 4 (2.02%) HTML
6 3 (1.52%) CSS
6 3 (1.52%) NETCONF
6 3 (1.52%) RESTCONF
7 2 (1.01%) EDI
7 2 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.01%) React
8 1 (0.51%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.51%) JSON
8 1 (0.51%) Middleware
8 1 (0.51%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.61%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.59%) Blockchain
2 17 (8.59%) Driving Licence
3 16 (8.08%) Web3
4 12 (6.06%) Management Information System
5 11 (5.56%) Life Science
6 10 (5.05%) CCTV
6 10 (5.05%) Data Centre
6 10 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (5.05%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.55%) Replication
8 6 (3.03%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.02%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.52%) Clustering
11 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.52%) NHS
11 3 (1.52%) Social Media
12 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 34 (17.17%) Linux
2 22 (11.11%) Windows
3 19 (9.60%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (5.05%) Apple iOS
6 9 (4.55%) Windows 10
7 6 (3.03%) Unix
8 2 (1.01%) Android
8 2 (1.01%) Rocky
9 1 (0.51%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (25.25%) DevOps
2 46 (23.23%) CI/CD
3 40 (20.20%) Analytics
4 38 (19.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (18.69%) Agile
6 30 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (14.65%) Containerisation
8 28 (14.14%) Observability
9 27 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (13.13%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 26 (13.13%) Microservices
11 25 (12.63%) High Availability
11 25 (12.63%) Test Automation
12 24 (12.12%) Investment Management
13 23 (11.62%) Decision-Making
13 23 (11.62%) Risk Management
14 22 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
14 22 (11.11%) Roadmaps
14 22 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.18%) Python
2 28 (14.14%) SQL
3 21 (10.61%) Bash
4 19 (9.60%) PowerShell
5 16 (8.08%) Go
6 13 (6.57%) Java
7 11 (5.56%) C#
8 7 (3.54%) Groovy
9 6 (3.03%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.53%) Bicep
11 3 (1.52%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.01%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.51%) JCL
Qualifications
1 35 (17.68%) Degree
2 20 (10.10%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.58%) RHCSA
4 13 (6.57%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (5.56%) Master's Degree
6 10 (5.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.05%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.04%) CCNP
8 5 (2.53%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.53%) CCNA
8 5 (2.53%) ISTQB
8 5 (2.53%) MCSE
8 5 (2.53%) OSCP
8 5 (2.53%) RHCE
8 5 (2.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (2.02%) ACCA
9 4 (2.02%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.02%) CIMA
10 3 (1.52%) CCIE
10 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.05%) QA
2 8 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.54%) GMP
4 6 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.53%) GDPR
6 2 (1.01%) GAAP
6 2 (1.01%) IFRS
6 2 (1.01%) PMO
7 1 (0.51%) COBIT
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.51%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.51%) NIST
7 1 (0.51%) P3O
7 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (15.15%) Docker
2 29 (14.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (9.60%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.53%) KVM
4 5 (2.53%) Squid
4 5 (2.53%) VMware NSX
4 5 (2.53%) vSphere
5 3 (1.52%) IAG
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (19.70%) Terraform
2 38 (19.19%) Kubernetes
3 17 (8.59%) Prometheus
4 12 (6.06%) Ansible
5 11 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (5.05%) Nagios
7 5 (2.53%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.53%) Packer
7 5 (2.53%) ZABBIX
8 4 (2.02%) Grafana
8 4 (2.02%) logstash
9 3 (1.52%) SCCM
10 2 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.01%) DatAdvantage
10 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.51%) Argo
11 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 30 (15.15%) VMware
3 17 (8.59%) Oracle
4 16 (8.08%) Red Hat
5 13 (6.57%) Cisco
6 10 (5.05%) SolarWinds
7 8 (4.04%) Google
7 8 (4.04%) Salesforce
7 8 (4.04%) Splunk
8 6 (3.03%) Hyperion
8 6 (3.03%) SAP
9 5 (2.53%) HubSpot
9 5 (2.53%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.53%) Veeam
9 5 (2.53%) Zerto
10 4 (2.02%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.52%) Adobe
11 3 (1.52%) IONA
12 2 (1.01%) iManage
12 2 (1.01%) Varonis