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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 475 510
Rank change year-on-year +62 +35 +194
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 247 306 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.46% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.54% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 147 166 150
10th Percentile £38,046 £37,250 £39,925
25th Percentile £44,043 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,527 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.32% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile £96,750 £81,875 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Process and 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 45,730 56,495 47,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.51% 85.27% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 27,916 29,477 36,918
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% -0.94%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 +49 204 £60,000 +14.29% 96
UK excluding London +30 165 £55,000 +10.00% 84
Work from Home +41 101 £59,527 +3.53% 38
London +65 66 £70,000 -8.50% 42
South East +43 47 £67,500 +50.00% 41
North of England +65 41 £65,000 +4.00% 14
North West +62 25 £62,500 - 8
South West +9 23 £39,977 +3.84% 9
Midlands +30 18 £41,000 -3.53% 10
East of England +28 15 £55,000 +10.00% 6
Northern Ireland +12 13 £73,801 +6.48%
Yorkshire +9 13 £65,000 +52.94% 5
East Midlands +14 12 £40,000 -3.61% 4
Scotland -13 9 £73,801 +39.25% 1
West Midlands +43 6 £59,527 -4.76% 5
Wales +11 6 £44,336 -36.03% 4
North East +15 3 £73,801 +6.48% 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 8 (3.24%) Confluence
2 6 (2.43%) IIS
3 5 (2.02%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.62%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.81%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.81%) WinCC
6 1 (0.40%) Appian
6 1 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (13.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.83%) Oracle Smart View
3 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.83%) Hyperion Planning
1 7 (2.83%) Oracle Assets
1 7 (2.83%) Oracle Financials
1 7 (2.83%) Oracle General Ledger
1 7 (2.83%) Oracle Payables
1 7 (2.83%) Oracle Receivables
2 6 (2.43%) SAP WM
3 5 (2.02%) PlanetPress Connect
4 4 (1.62%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (1.62%) SAP ERP
4 4 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (1.21%) SAP APO
5 3 (1.21%) SAP CO
5 3 (1.21%) SAP FI
5 3 (1.21%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (1.21%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.81%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.81%) OpenCart
7 1 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 67 (27.13%) Azure
2 40 (16.19%) Power Platform
3 33 (13.36%) AWS
4 20 (8.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (7.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (6.88%) GCP
7 15 (6.07%) Vertex AI
8 10 (4.05%) Serverless
9 9 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (3.64%) GitHub
9 9 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.64%) SaaS
10 8 (3.24%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.24%) dbt
10 8 (3.24%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.24%) Pulumi
11 5 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.24%) Firewall
1 8 (3.24%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.62%) DNS
2 4 (1.62%) LAN
2 4 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (1.62%) Wireless
3 2 (0.81%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.81%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (0.81%) HTTP
3 2 (0.81%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.81%) SAN
3 2 (0.81%) SNMP
3 2 (0.81%) WAN
4 1 (0.40%) Internet
4 1 (0.40%) Intranet
4 1 (0.40%) Multicast
4 1 (0.40%) Network Security
4 1 (0.40%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.38%) Power BI
2 26 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 17 (6.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (6.07%) Data Mining
4 15 (6.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.64%) Redis
8 8 (3.24%) DynamoDB
9 7 (2.83%) Essbase
9 7 (2.83%) Tableau
10 4 (1.62%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.21%) Metadata
11 3 (1.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.81%) Big Data
12 2 (0.81%) MySQL
12 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (4.45%) Git
2 10 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.64%) JIRA
4 7 (2.83%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (2.43%) GitLab
6 4 (1.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.62%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.21%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.81%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.81%) JMeter
8 2 (0.81%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.40%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 131 (53.04%) Social Skills
2 84 (34.01%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (31.17%) Finance
4 48 (19.43%) Law
5 36 (14.57%) Retail
6 14 (5.67%) Legal
6 14 (5.67%) Marketing
6 14 (5.67%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.86%) Billing
8 7 (2.83%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.43%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.02%) Automotive
10 5 (2.02%) Banking
10 5 (2.02%) Games
10 5 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.62%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 67 (27.13%) Senior
2 50 (20.24%) Analyst
3 35 (14.17%) Lead
4 22 (8.91%) Developer
5 13 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
6 12 (4.86%) Commercial Analyst
6 12 (4.86%) Insight Analyst
7 11 (4.45%) IT Manager
8 10 (4.05%) Support Analyst
9 9 (3.64%) Consultant
9 9 (3.64%) Data Analyst
10 8 (3.24%) Product Manager
10 8 (3.24%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.24%) Site Engineer
10 8 (3.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (2.83%) Oracle Analyst
11 7 (2.83%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (2.83%) Senior Oracle Analyst
12 6 (2.43%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.43%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.07%) HTML
2 14 (5.67%) CSS
2 14 (5.67%) JSON
2 14 (5.67%) XML
3 9 (3.64%) Middleware
3 9 (3.64%) REST
4 8 (3.24%) .NET
4 8 (3.24%) Django
5 7 (2.83%) React
6 6 (2.43%) SOAP
7 5 (2.02%) Kafka
7 5 (2.02%) RESTful
8 4 (1.62%) Amazon Corretto
8 4 (1.62%) Node.js
9 3 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (0.81%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.81%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.81%) OAuth
10 2 (0.81%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.81%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.34%) Analytical Mindset
2 21 (8.50%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (7.29%) Algorithms
4 14 (5.67%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.26%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.05%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.24%) e-Learning
8 6 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.02%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.02%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.62%) FMCG
10 4 (1.62%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.62%) Social Media
10 4 (1.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.21%) Life Science
11 3 (1.21%) Taxonomies
12 2 (0.81%) Blog
12 2 (0.81%) IoT
12 2 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.96%) Windows
2 21 (8.50%) Linux
2 21 (8.50%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.24%) Unix
4 6 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.62%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.62%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.21%) VMS
7 2 (0.81%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.40%) Android
8 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (32.79%) Analytics
3 78 (31.58%) Agile
4 63 (25.51%) DevOps
5 60 (24.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 54 (21.86%) ITIL
7 47 (19.03%) Roadmaps
8 42 (17.00%) AI
8 42 (17.00%) Business Intelligence
8 42 (17.00%) Visualisation
9 40 (16.19%) CI/CD
10 39 (15.79%) Decision-Making
11 31 (12.55%) Actionable Insight
12 28 (11.34%) Data Science
12 28 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (11.34%) ITSM
12 28 (11.34%) Problem Management
12 28 (11.34%) Product Management
12 28 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (10.53%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 63 (25.51%) SQL
2 42 (17.00%) Python
3 23 (9.31%) JavaScript
4 16 (6.48%) PowerShell
5 14 (5.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (4.86%) Java
7 10 (4.05%) Bash
8 9 (3.64%) VBA
9 8 (3.24%) C#
9 8 (3.24%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.83%) Groovy
11 3 (1.21%) Bicep
11 3 (1.21%) R
12 2 (0.81%) Go
13 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.40%) Perl
13 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.40%) Swift
13 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 72 (29.15%) Degree
2 24 (9.72%) Master's Degree
3 18 (7.29%) Security Cleared
4 15 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.86%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (4.86%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.64%) PMI Certification
6 9 (3.64%) PMP
7 8 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.02%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.62%) CSPO
9 4 (1.62%) HNC
9 4 (1.62%) HND
9 4 (1.62%) MCP
10 3 (1.21%) CISA
10 3 (1.21%) CISSP
10 3 (1.21%) CRISC
10 3 (1.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 3 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.29%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.88%) GDPR
3 11 (4.45%) QA
4 6 (2.43%) GRC
4 6 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.62%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.62%) ISO 8583
5 4 (1.62%) SEPA
6 3 (1.21%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.21%) ISO 22301
6 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.81%) SLA
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.40%) COBIT
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (9.72%) Docker
2 15 (6.07%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.40%) Squid
Systems Management
1 24 (9.72%) Kubernetes
1 24 (9.72%) Terraform
2 9 (3.64%) Ansible
3 7 (2.83%) Grafana
4 6 (2.43%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.62%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.62%) Puppet
6 2 (0.81%) AssetCenter
6 2 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (0.81%) Kibana
6 2 (0.81%) logstash
6 2 (0.81%) Nagios
6 2 (0.81%) SCCM
7 1 (0.40%) Argo
7 1 (0.40%) Control-M
Vendors
1 71 (28.74%) Microsoft
2 35 (14.17%) Google
3 17 (6.88%) Oracle
4 16 (6.48%) SAP
4 16 (6.48%) ServiceNow
5 15 (6.07%) OpenAI
6 9 (3.64%) VMware
7 7 (2.83%) Hyperion
8 6 (2.43%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.02%) Cisco
10 4 (1.62%) Adobe
10 4 (1.62%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.62%) Databricks
11 3 (1.21%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.21%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.21%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.81%) Commvault
12 2 (0.81%) EMC
12 2 (0.81%) Siemens
12 2 (0.81%) TikTok