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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 432 584
Rank change year-on-year -106 +152 +43
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 195 250 336
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.56% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.61% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 120 135 217
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,500 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,670 £51,200
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% +12.64% -6.91%
75th Percentile £79,795 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £75,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% +2.04%

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 67,552 41,143 88,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.63% 82.27%
Number of salaries quoted 46,362 21,911 62,510
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,556
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -119 168 £60,000 -4.00% 68
UK excluding London -102 108 £52,500 -8.70% 56
London -34 71 £95,000 +36.92% 29
Work from Home -22 46 £52,500 -6.20% 30
South East -31 38 £35,000 -39.13% 16
North of England -59 22 £56,000 -13.85% 16
South West -49 17 £55,000 -1.73% 6
Yorkshire -34 11 - - 5
North West -18 8 £65,000 - 9
West Midlands -24 8 £55,500 -16.23% 8
Midlands -28 8 £55,500 +24.51% 11
East of England -17 6 £53,106 -7.64% 2
Scotland +19 5 £31,000 - 5
Wales -51 5 £42,934 +12.71% 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
North East -39 3 £51,250 -26.14% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £59,901 - 1

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 11 (5.64%) Confluence
2 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.05%) IIS
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.54%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.54%) MadCap Flare
4 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.51%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.51%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.51%) Shopify
2 1 (0.51%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 49 (25.13%) AWS
2 39 (20.00%) Azure
3 25 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
4 22 (11.28%) Cloud Computing
4 22 (11.28%) Serverless
5 21 (10.77%) Amazon S3
5 21 (10.77%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (9.23%) Datadog
8 17 (8.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (5.64%) Entra ID
9 11 (5.64%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (5.13%) GCP
11 9 (4.62%) OneDrive
12 7 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (3.08%) IaaS
13 6 (3.08%) Nutanix
14 5 (2.56%) PaaS
14 5 (2.56%) Pulumi
14 5 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (12.31%) TCP/IP
2 18 (9.23%) DNS
3 13 (6.67%) HTTP
4 12 (6.15%) LAN
5 10 (5.13%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (4.62%) VPN
6 9 (4.62%) WAN
7 8 (4.10%) DHCP
7 8 (4.10%) IPv4
7 8 (4.10%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (3.59%) SD-WAN
9 5 (2.56%) Internet
10 2 (1.03%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.03%) SNMP
11 1 (0.51%) Broadband
11 1 (0.51%) Intranet
11 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.51%) PSTN
11 1 (0.51%) VoIP
11 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.77%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (9.23%) NoSQL
3 17 (8.72%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.08%) Redis
5 5 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.56%) Power BI
5 5 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.54%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.54%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.51%) Big Data
8 1 (0.51%) Essbase
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.51%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.51%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 34 (17.44%) GitLab
2 29 (14.87%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.23%) Git
4 16 (8.21%) CircleCI
5 12 (6.15%) JIRA
6 8 (4.10%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.03%) Gatling
7 2 (1.03%) JMeter
7 2 (1.03%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.51%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.51%) Postman
8 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.51%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.51%) Selenium
8 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.51%) Yeoman
General
1 74 (37.95%) Finance
2 71 (36.41%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.41%) Banking
4 21 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.21%) Marketing
6 15 (7.69%) Aerospace
7 14 (7.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (6.67%) Manufacturing
9 12 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (5.64%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (3.59%) Law
11 7 (3.59%) Public Sector
12 6 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (2.56%) Automotive
13 5 (2.56%) Legal
13 5 (2.56%) Retail
14 4 (2.05%) Electronics
14 4 (2.05%) Local Government
15 3 (1.54%) Telecoms
16 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 63 (32.31%) Senior
2 23 (11.79%) Developer
3 22 (11.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (11.28%) Lead
4 20 (10.26%) Administrator
5 18 (9.23%) Senior Developer
6 17 (8.72%) Systems Engineer
7 14 (7.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.13%) Linux Administrator
8 10 (5.13%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 10 (5.13%) Security Engineer
8 10 (5.13%) Senior Security Engineer
8 10 (5.13%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 10 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
9 8 (4.10%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (4.10%) Senior Manager
10 7 (3.59%) Analyst
10 7 (3.59%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 6 (3.08%) Junior
11 6 (3.08%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.72%) RESTful
2 16 (8.21%) gRPC
2 16 (8.21%) Kafka
2 16 (8.21%) RabbitMQ
2 16 (8.21%) web3js
3 10 (5.13%) WebSockets
4 5 (2.56%) CSS
4 5 (2.56%) Django
4 5 (2.56%) HTML
4 5 (2.56%) REST
5 4 (2.05%) .NET
5 4 (2.05%) boto
6 3 (1.54%) Bootstrap
6 3 (1.54%) HTML5
6 3 (1.54%) jQuery
7 2 (1.03%) EDI
7 2 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.03%) NETCONF
7 2 (1.03%) React
7 2 (1.03%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.72%) Blockchain
2 17 (8.72%) Driving Licence
3 16 (8.21%) Web3
4 14 (7.18%) Management Information System
5 13 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (5.64%) Life Science
7 10 (5.13%) CCTV
7 10 (5.13%) Data Centre
8 9 (4.62%) Product Ownership
8 9 (4.62%) Replication
9 5 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.56%) NHS
10 4 (2.05%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.05%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.54%) Clustering
11 3 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.54%) Social Media
12 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 31 (15.90%) Linux
2 24 (12.31%) Windows
3 21 (10.77%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.62%) Apple iOS
6 8 (4.10%) Windows 10
7 6 (3.08%) Unix
8 2 (1.03%) Android
8 2 (1.03%) Rocky
9 1 (0.51%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (23.59%) DevOps
2 44 (22.56%) CI/CD
3 40 (20.51%) Agile
4 38 (19.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (17.44%) Analytics
7 32 (16.41%) Containerisation
8 30 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 29 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (13.33%) Observability
10 26 (13.33%) Risk Management
11 25 (12.82%) Microservices
12 24 (12.31%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (11.79%) High Availability
13 23 (11.79%) Investment Management
14 22 (11.28%) Continuous Delivery
14 22 (11.28%) Decision-Making
14 22 (11.28%) Performance Optimisation
15 21 (10.77%) Roadmaps
15 21 (10.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.44%) Python
2 21 (10.77%) SQL
3 19 (9.74%) Bash
4 17 (8.72%) PowerShell
5 16 (8.21%) Go
5 16 (8.21%) Java
6 8 (4.10%) C#
6 8 (4.10%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.54%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.03%) Groovy
8 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.51%) Bicep
9 1 (0.51%) JCL
Qualifications
1 37 (18.97%) Degree
2 21 (10.77%) Security Cleared
3 18 (9.23%) RHCSA
4 15 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.64%) Master's Degree
6 11 (5.64%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.10%) AWS Certification
7 8 (4.10%) CCNA
7 8 (4.10%) ISTQB
7 8 (4.10%) OSCP
7 8 (4.10%) RHCE
8 7 (3.59%) CCNP
9 6 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.56%) MCSE
10 5 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (2.05%) ACCA
11 4 (2.05%) CIMA
12 2 (1.03%) DBS Check
12 2 (1.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.13%) QA
3 7 (3.59%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.59%) GMP
4 4 (2.05%) PMO
5 3 (1.54%) GDPR
6 2 (1.03%) GAAP
6 2 (1.03%) IFRS
6 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.51%) COBIT
7 1 (0.51%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.51%) NIST
7 1 (0.51%) P3O
7 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (16.41%) Docker
2 31 (15.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (10.77%) Active Directory
4 8 (4.10%) Squid
4 8 (4.10%) VMware NSX
4 8 (4.10%) vSphere
5 5 (2.56%) KVM
6 3 (1.54%) IAG
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (19.49%) Terraform
2 34 (17.44%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.23%) Prometheus
4 13 (6.67%) Ansible
5 10 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (5.13%) Nagios
6 8 (4.10%) Packer
6 8 (4.10%) ZABBIX
7 5 (2.56%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.56%) Grafana
8 3 (1.54%) SCCM
9 2 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.03%) DatAdvantage
9 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.51%) Argo
10 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.51%) Netcool
Vendors
1 40 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 32 (16.41%) VMware
3 18 (9.23%) Red Hat
4 16 (8.21%) Oracle
5 12 (6.15%) Cisco
5 12 (6.15%) Splunk
6 10 (5.13%) SolarWinds
7 7 (3.59%) Google
8 5 (2.56%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.56%) SAP
8 5 (2.56%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.56%) Veeam
8 5 (2.56%) Zerto
9 3 (1.54%) Adobe
9 3 (1.54%) IONA
9 3 (1.54%) Xero
10 2 (1.03%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.03%) iManage
10 2 (1.03%) Varonis