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 3 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 324 422
Rank change year-on-year -43 +98 +141
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 108 136 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.67% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.72% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 53 70 53
10th Percentile £42,094 £24,649 £37,910
25th Percentile £48,000 £39,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £65,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £77,650 £73,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £54,650
% change year-on-year +4.35% +5.22% +9.30%

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 29,584 18,991 25,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.96% 93.63% 86.73%
Number of salaries quoted 16,866 10,795 18,848
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,396
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.97% -4.74%

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 3 months to 10 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 3 months to 10 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -59 82 £57,264 -0.41% 93
UK excluding London -52 72 £60,000 +4.35% 80
Work from Home -5 61 £67,500 +22.73% 62
London 0 31 £56,250 -26.47% 29
South East -23 20 £59,000 -9.23% 33
North of England -35 13 £66,250 -4.41% 16
Scotland -10 12 £73,801 +6.48% 5
South West -25 12 £45,000 +1.12% 9
Northern Ireland -13 8 £73,801 +6.48% 1
North West -17 8 £60,000 -7.20% 11
Midlands -32 4 £48,000 +16.36% 7
West Midlands -2 3 £60,901 -2.56% 3
North East -4 3 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Wales -14 2 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £67,500 - 4
East of England -18 1 £60,000 +20.00% 8
East Midlands -40 1 £47,500 +89.22% 4

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 (4.31%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.83%) Confluence
3 7 (3.35%) IIS
4 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.91%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.96%) CMS
6 2 (0.96%) FactoryTalk
6 2 (0.96%) WinCC
7 1 (0.48%) Appian
7 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (13.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.78%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (5.26%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (4.78%) Hyperion Planning
2 10 (4.78%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (4.78%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (4.78%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (4.78%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (2.39%) PlanetPress Connect
4 4 (1.91%) SAP ERP
4 4 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (1.44%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (1.44%) SAP APO
5 3 (1.44%) SAP CO
5 3 (1.44%) SAP FI
5 3 (1.44%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (1.44%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.96%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.96%) OpenCart
7 1 (0.48%) Magento
7 1 (0.48%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 60 (28.71%) Azure
2 33 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 25 (11.96%) AWS
4 16 (7.66%) GCP
5 14 (6.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (6.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 14 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (6.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (5.74%) Entra ID
7 12 (5.74%) SaaS
8 8 (3.83%) Amazon ECR
8 8 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (3.83%) dbt
8 8 (3.83%) Pulumi
9 7 (3.35%) Azure AKS
9 7 (3.35%) GitHub
9 7 (3.35%) Serverless
10 6 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.70%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.78%) DNS
3 7 (3.35%) WAN
4 5 (2.39%) DHCP
4 5 (2.39%) Firewall
4 5 (2.39%) LAN
4 5 (2.39%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.39%) VPN
5 4 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.91%) Wireless
6 3 (1.44%) HTTP
6 3 (1.44%) Internet
7 2 (0.96%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.96%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.96%) SNMP
8 1 (0.48%) Intranet
8 1 (0.48%) Multicast
8 1 (0.48%) Network Security
8 1 (0.48%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.83%) Power BI
2 26 (12.44%) SQL Server
3 14 (6.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (6.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (6.22%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (4.78%) Essbase
6 9 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.83%) Redis
8 7 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (3.35%) Tableau
9 5 (2.39%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.39%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.91%) Metadata
11 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.96%) MySQL
12 2 (0.96%) OLAP
12 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 14 (6.70%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.26%) GitLab
3 10 (4.78%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (4.31%) JIRA
5 8 (3.83%) Git
6 4 (1.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.91%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.91%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.44%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.96%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.96%) JMeter
8 2 (0.96%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.48%) Browser DevTools
General
1 102 (48.80%) Social Skills
2 81 (38.76%) Finance
3 51 (24.40%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.05%) Law
5 15 (7.18%) Legal
5 15 (7.18%) Marketing
5 15 (7.18%) Retail
6 12 (5.74%) Billing
7 10 (4.78%) Banking
7 10 (4.78%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.87%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.87%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.39%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.91%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.91%) Automotive
13 3 (1.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 50 (23.92%) Senior
2 44 (21.05%) Analyst
3 22 (10.53%) Developer
4 15 (7.18%) Lead
5 14 (6.70%) Senior Analyst
6 12 (5.74%) Commercial Analyst
6 12 (5.74%) Insight Analyst
7 11 (5.26%) IT Manager
7 11 (5.26%) Support Analyst
8 10 (4.78%) Oracle Analyst
8 10 (4.78%) Senior Oracle Analyst
9 9 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) Site Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.35%) Product Manager
11 7 (3.35%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.35%) Senior Manager
12 6 (2.87%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.22%) HTML
2 11 (5.26%) CSS
3 9 (4.31%) .NET
3 9 (4.31%) JSON
3 9 (4.31%) XML
4 8 (3.83%) Django
4 8 (3.83%) Kafka
5 6 (2.87%) Middleware
5 6 (2.87%) REST
5 6 (2.87%) RESTful
6 4 (1.91%) gRPC
6 4 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.91%) web3js
7 3 (1.44%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.44%) Node.js
8 2 (0.96%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.96%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.96%) NETCONF
8 2 (0.96%) React
8 2 (0.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.40%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (8.61%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.22%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.22%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.31%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.35%) Life Science
7 6 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.39%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.91%) Blockchain
9 4 (1.91%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.91%) FMCG
9 4 (1.91%) Web3
10 3 (1.44%) Blog
10 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.44%) Social Media
10 3 (1.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.44%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.96%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.35%) Windows
2 23 (11.00%) Linux
3 20 (9.57%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.83%) Unix
5 5 (2.39%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.39%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.91%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (33.01%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (29.19%) Analytics
3 50 (23.92%) Agile
4 48 (22.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 39 (18.66%) CI/CD
6 37 (17.70%) DevOps
7 35 (16.75%) Business Intelligence
8 34 (16.27%) ITIL
9 33 (15.79%) Roadmaps
10 32 (15.31%) Decision-Making
11 29 (13.88%) Actionable Insight
12 27 (12.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (12.44%) Infrastructure as Code
14 25 (11.96%) Service Management
15 24 (11.48%) ITSM
15 24 (11.48%) Observability
15 24 (11.48%) Process Improvement
16 23 (11.00%) Collaborative Working
16 23 (11.00%) Problem Management
17 22 (10.53%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 55 (26.32%) SQL
2 31 (14.83%) Python
3 17 (8.13%) JavaScript
4 16 (7.66%) PowerShell
5 12 (5.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 11 (5.26%) Bash
6 11 (5.26%) C#
7 10 (4.78%) Groovy
8 9 (4.31%) VBA
9 6 (2.87%) Java
10 5 (2.39%) Bicep
10 5 (2.39%) Go
11 3 (1.44%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.96%) R
13 1 (0.48%) Perl
13 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 53 (25.36%) Degree
2 19 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.74%) ITIL Certification
3 12 (5.74%) Master's Degree
4 11 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.91%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.91%) MCP
6 4 (1.91%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.91%) PMP
7 3 (1.44%) CISA
7 3 (1.44%) CISM
7 3 (1.44%) CISSP
7 3 (1.44%) CRISC
7 3 (1.44%) CSPO
7 3 (1.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.96%) APMP
8 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.61%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.18%) GDPR
3 7 (3.35%) QA
4 6 (2.87%) GRC
4 6 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.44%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.44%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.44%) ISO 8583
5 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 3 (1.44%) SEPA
6 2 (0.96%) SLA
7 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.48%) COBIT
7 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.48%) P3O
7 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.48%) PMO
7 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (9.57%) Docker
2 18 (8.61%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.48%) Squid
Systems Management
1 25 (11.96%) Terraform
2 24 (11.48%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.31%) Ansible
3 9 (4.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.87%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.91%) logstash
5 4 (1.91%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.91%) Puppet
6 2 (0.96%) AssetCenter
6 2 (0.96%) Grafana
6 2 (0.96%) Kibana
6 2 (0.96%) SCCM
7 1 (0.48%) Argo
7 1 (0.48%) Control-M
7 1 (0.48%) Nagios
Vendors
1 38 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.66%) Oracle
3 14 (6.70%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.74%) VMware
5 11 (5.26%) Google
5 11 (5.26%) SAP
6 10 (4.78%) Hyperion
7 8 (3.83%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.39%) Cisco
8 5 (2.39%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.39%) HubSpot
8 5 (2.39%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.91%) Adobe
9 4 (1.91%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.44%) Ahrefs
11 2 (0.96%) Kepware
11 2 (0.96%) Planon
11 2 (0.96%) Rockwell
11 2 (0.96%) Siemens
11 2 (0.96%) TikTok