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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 417 525
Rank change year-on-year -23 +108 +157
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 206 308 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.58% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.64% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 116 156 128
10th Percentile £35,536 £36,250 £39,925
25th Percentile £43,438 £37,500 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile £97,500 £77,625 £74,300
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £53,575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.67% +7.15%

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 48,033 48,451 50,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.00% 90.60% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,230 23,579 38,463
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,479
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 January 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 12 January 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 -16 163 £55,000 +4.76% 137
UK excluding London -26 135 £55,000 +10.00% 131
Work from Home +12 98 £55,000 +13.04% 112
London +26 56 £70,000 -8.50% 31
South East +3 32 £60,000 +19.40% 46
North of England +16 31 £65,000 -6.22% 24
South West -1 24 £43,953 +14.16% 16
North West +32 16 £60,000 -4.00% 14
Midlands -4 15 £42,500 - 10
Northern Ireland -2 13 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Yorkshire -4 12 £65,000 +52.94% 7
Scotland -6 12 £73,801 +6.48% 9
East of England +9 10 £55,000 +10.00% 20
East Midlands -21 8 £42,000 +67.31% 6
West Midlands +13 7 £59,527 -4.76% 4
Wales +1 5 £44,336 -36.03% 6
North East +5 3 £73,801 +6.48% 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 9 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.88%) Confluence
3 7 (3.40%) IIS
4 5 (2.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.94%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.97%) CMS
6 2 (0.97%) FactoryTalk
6 2 (0.97%) WinCC
7 1 (0.49%) Appian
7 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (13.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.85%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (5.34%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (4.85%) Hyperion Planning
2 10 (4.85%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (4.85%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (4.85%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (4.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (2.43%) PlanetPress Connect
4 4 (1.94%) SAP ERP
4 4 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (1.46%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (1.46%) SAP APO
5 3 (1.46%) SAP CO
5 3 (1.46%) SAP FI
5 3 (1.46%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (1.46%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.97%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.97%) OpenCart
7 1 (0.49%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.49%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 60 (29.13%) Azure
2 32 (15.53%) Power Platform
3 25 (12.14%) AWS
4 16 (7.77%) GCP
5 14 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (6.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 14 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (6.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (5.83%) Entra ID
7 12 (5.83%) SaaS
8 8 (3.88%) Amazon ECR
8 8 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (3.88%) dbt
8 8 (3.88%) Pulumi
9 7 (3.40%) Azure AKS
9 7 (3.40%) GitHub
9 7 (3.40%) Serverless
10 6 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.91%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.80%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.85%) DNS
3 7 (3.40%) WAN
4 5 (2.43%) DHCP
4 5 (2.43%) Firewall
4 5 (2.43%) LAN
4 5 (2.43%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.43%) VPN
5 4 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.94%) Wireless
6 3 (1.46%) HTTP
6 3 (1.46%) Internet
7 2 (0.97%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.97%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.97%) SNMP
8 1 (0.49%) Intranet
8 1 (0.49%) Multicast
8 1 (0.49%) Network Security
8 1 (0.49%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.56%) Power BI
2 26 (12.62%) SQL Server
3 14 (6.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (6.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (6.31%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (4.85%) Essbase
6 9 (4.37%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.88%) Redis
8 7 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.91%) Tableau
10 5 (2.43%) DynamoDB
10 5 (2.43%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.94%) Metadata
12 3 (1.46%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.97%) MySQL
13 2 (0.97%) OLAP
13 2 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (6.80%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.34%) GitLab
3 10 (4.85%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (4.37%) JIRA
5 8 (3.88%) Git
6 4 (1.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.94%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.94%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.46%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.97%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.97%) JMeter
8 2 (0.97%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.49%) Browser DevTools
General
1 99 (48.06%) Social Skills
2 81 (39.32%) Finance
3 48 (23.30%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.22%) Law
5 15 (7.28%) Legal
5 15 (7.28%) Marketing
5 15 (7.28%) Retail
6 12 (5.83%) Billing
7 10 (4.85%) Public Sector
8 9 (4.37%) Banking
9 7 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.91%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.91%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.43%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.94%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.94%) Automotive
12 4 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (23.79%) Senior
2 43 (20.87%) Analyst
3 22 (10.68%) Developer
4 16 (7.77%) Lead
5 14 (6.80%) Senior Analyst
6 12 (5.83%) Commercial Analyst
6 12 (5.83%) Insight Analyst
7 11 (5.34%) IT Manager
7 11 (5.34%) Support Analyst
8 10 (4.85%) Oracle Analyst
8 10 (4.85%) Senior Oracle Analyst
9 9 (4.37%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.88%) Site Engineer
10 8 (3.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.40%) Product Manager
11 7 (3.40%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.91%) Applications Support
12 6 (2.91%) Data Analyst
12 6 (2.91%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.31%) HTML
2 11 (5.34%) CSS
3 9 (4.37%) .NET
3 9 (4.37%) JSON
3 9 (4.37%) XML
4 8 (3.88%) Django
4 8 (3.88%) Kafka
5 6 (2.91%) Middleware
5 6 (2.91%) REST
5 6 (2.91%) RESTful
6 4 (1.94%) gRPC
6 4 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.94%) web3js
7 3 (1.46%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.46%) Node.js
8 2 (0.97%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.97%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.97%) NETCONF
8 2 (0.97%) React
8 2 (0.97%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (8.74%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.31%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.31%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.37%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.88%) Life Science
6 6 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.43%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.94%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.94%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.94%) FMCG
8 4 (1.94%) Web3
9 3 (1.46%) Blog
9 3 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.46%) Social Media
9 3 (1.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.46%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.97%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.97%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.56%) Windows
2 23 (11.17%) Linux
3 20 (9.71%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.88%) Unix
5 5 (2.43%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.43%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.94%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (32.52%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (28.64%) Analytics
3 49 (23.79%) Agile
4 45 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 39 (18.93%) CI/CD
6 37 (17.96%) DevOps
7 34 (16.50%) Business Intelligence
8 33 (16.02%) Roadmaps
9 32 (15.53%) ITIL
10 30 (14.56%) Decision-Making
11 28 (13.59%) Actionable Insight
12 26 (12.62%) Infrastructure as Code
12 26 (12.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 24 (11.65%) Observability
13 24 (11.65%) Service Management
14 23 (11.17%) Collaborative Working
14 23 (11.17%) ITSM
14 23 (11.17%) Process Improvement
15 22 (10.68%) Problem Management
16 21 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (26.70%) SQL
2 30 (14.56%) Python
3 17 (8.25%) JavaScript
4 16 (7.77%) PowerShell
5 12 (5.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 11 (5.34%) Bash
6 11 (5.34%) C#
7 10 (4.85%) Groovy
8 9 (4.37%) VBA
9 6 (2.91%) Java
10 5 (2.43%) Bicep
10 5 (2.43%) Go
11 3 (1.46%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.49%) Perl
12 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.49%) R
12 1 (0.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 53 (25.73%) Degree
2 19 (9.22%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.83%) Master's Degree
4 11 (5.34%) ITIL Certification
4 11 (5.34%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.94%) MCP
7 3 (1.46%) CISA
7 3 (1.46%) CISM
7 3 (1.46%) CISSP
7 3 (1.46%) CRISC
7 3 (1.46%) CSPO
7 3 (1.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.46%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.46%) PMP
8 2 (0.97%) APMP
8 2 (0.97%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.74%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.28%) GDPR
3 7 (3.40%) QA
4 6 (2.91%) GRC
4 6 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.46%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.46%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.46%) ISO 8583
5 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 3 (1.46%) SEPA
6 2 (0.97%) SLA
7 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.49%) COBIT
7 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.49%) P3O
7 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.49%) PMO
7 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (9.71%) Docker
2 17 (8.25%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.49%) Squid
Systems Management
1 25 (12.14%) Terraform
2 24 (11.65%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.37%) Ansible
3 9 (4.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.91%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.94%) logstash
5 4 (1.94%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.94%) Puppet
6 2 (0.97%) AssetCenter
6 2 (0.97%) Grafana
6 2 (0.97%) Kibana
6 2 (0.97%) SCCM
7 1 (0.49%) Argo
7 1 (0.49%) Control-M
7 1 (0.49%) Nagios
Vendors
1 38 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.77%) Oracle
3 14 (6.80%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.83%) VMware
5 11 (5.34%) Google
6 10 (4.85%) Hyperion
6 10 (4.85%) SAP
7 8 (3.88%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.43%) Cisco
8 5 (2.43%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.43%) HubSpot
8 5 (2.43%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.94%) Adobe
9 4 (1.94%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.46%) Ahrefs
11 2 (0.97%) Kepware
11 2 (0.97%) Planon
11 2 (0.97%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.97%) Siemens
11 2 (0.97%) TikTok