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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 407 577
Rank change year-on-year -118 +170 +56
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 200 264 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.62% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.67% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 112 127 211
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,063 £38,125 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £84,375 £70,000 £60,625
90th Percentile £130,000 £75,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £52,609 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.81% +5.22% -

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 67,199 39,303 82,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.71% 92.91% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 41,762 22,588 59,681
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 1 May 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 1 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 -123 165 £57,500 - 86
UK excluding London -110 110 £48,500 -7.81% 64
London -50 73 £95,000 +43.40% 39
Work from Home -37 57 £51,250 -6.82% 41
South East -49 43 £35,000 -39.13% 19
North of England -70 20 £60,500 -3.20% 10
South West -52 13 £43,953 -17.71% 9
Scotland -20 9 - - 8
North West -38 9 £65,000 +8.33% 7
Yorkshire -55 9 - - 2
Midlands -57 9 £55,000 +37.50% 10
West Midlands -33 8 £55,500 -12.94% 7
Wales -33 5 £42,934 +12.71% 1
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland -35 4 £59,901 - 1
East of England -31 2 £48,500 -3.00% 8
North East -37 2 £47,500 -31.54% 1
East Midlands -60 1 £47,500 +89.22% 3

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 10 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.00%) Confluence
2 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.50%) IIS
4 3 (1.50%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) SAS
5 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.00%) Oracle Smart View
2 4 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.50%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.50%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.50%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (5.00%) Oracle Financials
2 8 (4.00%) Hyperion Planning
2 8 (4.00%) Oracle Assets
2 8 (4.00%) Oracle General Ledger
2 8 (4.00%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (4.00%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.50%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.50%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.50%) Shopify
4 1 (0.50%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 47 (23.50%) Azure
2 41 (20.50%) AWS
3 25 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 22 (11.00%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (8.50%) Amazon S3
5 17 (8.50%) Serverless
6 16 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (8.00%) Datadog
7 14 (7.00%) Entra ID
8 13 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (5.00%) OneDrive
10 9 (4.50%) Azure AKS
10 9 (4.50%) GCP
10 9 (4.50%) SaaS
11 7 (3.50%) OpenShift
12 6 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.00%) Nutanix
13 5 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.00%) TCP/IP
2 19 (9.50%) DNS
3 12 (6.00%) HTTP
3 12 (6.00%) WAN
4 11 (5.50%) LAN
5 10 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (5.00%) VPN
6 9 (4.50%) DHCP
7 8 (4.00%) SD-WAN
8 4 (2.00%) HTTPS
8 4 (2.00%) IPv4
8 4 (2.00%) SNMP
8 4 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (1.50%) Internet
9 3 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.00%) Firewall
10 2 (1.00%) Wireless
11 1 (0.50%) Intranet
11 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.50%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.50%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (9.00%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.00%) DynamoDB
4 12 (6.00%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.00%) Essbase
6 6 (3.00%) Redis
7 5 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.50%) Power BI
8 4 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.50%) Metadata
9 3 (1.50%) SAP HANA
10 2 (1.00%) Big Data
10 2 (1.00%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.00%) OLAP
10 2 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.00%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (15.50%) GitLab
2 29 (14.50%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.00%) CircleCI
4 15 (7.50%) Git
5 9 (4.50%) JIRA
6 8 (4.00%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (3.50%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.00%) Gatling
9 2 (1.00%) JMeter
9 2 (1.00%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.50%) Mocha
10 1 (0.50%) Postman
10 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.50%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.50%) Selenium
10 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 79 (39.50%) Finance
2 70 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.00%) Banking
4 18 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.00%) Marketing
5 15 (7.50%) Manufacturing
6 13 (6.50%) Aerospace
7 12 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (4.50%) Retail
9 6 (3.00%) Automotive
9 6 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.50%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.50%) Law
10 5 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.00%) Electronics
11 4 (2.00%) Legal
11 4 (2.00%) Local Government
11 4 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (36.50%) Senior
2 24 (12.00%) Developer
3 21 (10.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (10.50%) Lead
4 18 (9.00%) Senior Developer
5 17 (8.50%) Systems Engineer
6 15 (7.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (7.00%) Administrator
8 13 (6.50%) Analyst
9 11 (5.50%) Senior Manager
10 10 (5.00%) Security Engineer
10 10 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
10 10 (5.00%) Senior Security Engineer
10 10 (5.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 9 (4.50%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) Oracle Analyst
12 8 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.00%) Senior Oracle Analyst
13 7 (3.50%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
13 7 (3.50%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.50%) Kafka
2 17 (8.50%) RESTful
3 16 (8.00%) gRPC
3 16 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
3 16 (8.00%) web3js
4 7 (3.50%) REST
4 7 (3.50%) WebSockets
5 6 (3.00%) .NET
6 5 (2.50%) Django
7 4 (2.00%) HTML
7 4 (2.00%) NETCONF
7 4 (2.00%) RESTCONF
8 3 (1.50%) CSS
8 3 (1.50%) Middleware
8 3 (1.50%) React
9 2 (1.00%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.00%) EDI
9 2 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.00%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.50%) Blockchain
2 17 (8.50%) Driving Licence
3 16 (8.00%) Web3
4 13 (6.50%) Life Science
4 13 (6.50%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.00%) CCTV
5 10 (5.00%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.50%) Replication
7 7 (3.50%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.00%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.50%) Clustering
11 3 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.50%) Social Media
12 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.50%) Linux
2 26 (13.00%) Windows
3 20 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.00%) Apple iOS
4 10 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.50%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.00%) Unix
7 3 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.00%) Android
8 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.50%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (25.00%) DevOps
2 49 (24.50%) CI/CD
3 43 (21.50%) Agile
4 42 (21.00%) Analytics
5 36 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (17.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (14.50%) Containerisation
9 28 (14.00%) Continuous Integration
9 28 (14.00%) Observability
10 27 (13.50%) High Availability
10 27 (13.50%) Test Automation
11 26 (13.00%) Microservices
11 26 (13.00%) Risk Management
12 25 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 25 (12.50%) Roadmaps
13 24 (12.00%) Investment Management
13 24 (12.00%) Software Engineering
14 22 (11.00%) Continuous Delivery
15 20 (10.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.00%) Python
2 27 (13.50%) SQL
3 21 (10.50%) PowerShell
4 19 (9.50%) Bash
5 16 (8.00%) Go
6 15 (7.50%) Java
7 12 (6.00%) C#
8 9 (4.50%) Groovy
9 6 (3.00%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.50%) Bicep
11 3 (1.50%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.50%) JCL
13 1 (0.50%) R
13 1 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (19.50%) Degree
2 20 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.50%) Master's Degree
4 13 (6.50%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (5.50%) RHCSA
6 9 (4.50%) CCNP
6 9 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.50%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.50%) MCSE
8 5 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (2.00%) ACCA
9 4 (2.00%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.00%) CCIE
9 4 (2.00%) CCNA
9 4 (2.00%) CIMA
9 4 (2.00%) ISTQB
9 4 (2.00%) OSCP
9 4 (2.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.00%) QA
2 7 (3.50%) GMP
3 6 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.50%) GDPR
5 3 (1.50%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.00%) GAAP
6 2 (1.00%) IFRS
7 1 (0.50%) COBIT
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.50%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.50%) NIST
7 1 (0.50%) P3O
7 1 (0.50%) PMO
7 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (16.00%) Docker
2 27 (13.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (11.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.50%) KVM
5 4 (2.00%) Squid
5 4 (2.00%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.00%) vSphere
6 3 (1.50%) IAG
7 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 37 (18.50%) Terraform
3 17 (8.50%) Prometheus
4 13 (6.50%) Ansible
4 13 (6.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.50%) Nagios
6 5 (2.50%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (2.00%) Grafana
7 4 (2.00%) logstash
7 4 (2.00%) Packer
7 4 (2.00%) ZABBIX
8 3 (1.50%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.50%) Puppet
8 3 (1.50%) SCCM
9 2 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.00%) DatAdvantage
9 2 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.50%) Argo
10 1 (0.50%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 33 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.00%) VMware
3 19 (9.50%) Oracle
4 14 (7.00%) Cisco
4 14 (7.00%) Red Hat
5 8 (4.00%) Google
5 8 (4.00%) Hyperion
5 8 (4.00%) SAP
6 7 (3.50%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.50%) SolarWinds
6 7 (3.50%) Splunk
7 5 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.50%) HubSpot
7 5 (2.50%) Veeam
7 5 (2.50%) Zerto
8 4 (2.00%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.00%) Apple
9 2 (1.00%) iManage
9 2 (1.00%) Varonis