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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 436 566
Rank change year-on-year -140 +130 -3
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 218 274 257
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.55% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.62% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 133 152 186
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,325 £34,342
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,688 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £79,727 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £86,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -11.76%

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 76,965 44,351 67,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.55% 89.45% 81.04%
Number of salaries quoted 53,101 25,205 44,372
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -135 193 £60,500 -3.97% 148
UK excluding London -122 127 £52,500 -4.55% 89
London -63 81 £86,250 +23.76% 71
Work from Home -79 45 £55,000 -13.73% 47
South East -64 42 £42,289 -15.42% 27
South West -52 25 £55,000 +4.76% 9
North of England -66 21 £65,000 - 25
Midlands -36 13 £50,000 +17.44% 14
Yorkshire -22 11 - - 4
West Midlands -24 11 £50,000 -25.93% 7
East of England -28 8 £53,106 -3.44% 5
Wales -58 7 £42,934 +12.71% 5
North East -49 6 £65,000 -6.32% 7
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
North West -37 4 £65,000 - 14
Scotland - 4 £31,000 - 4
East Midlands -19 2 £38,500 -3.75% 7
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 12 (5.50%) Confluence
2 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.92%) IIS
4 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.38%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.38%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (23.39%) Azure
2 45 (20.64%) AWS
3 20 (9.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 20 (9.17%) Cloud Computing
3 20 (9.17%) Serverless
4 17 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (7.34%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (7.34%) Amazon S3
5 16 (7.34%) Datadog
5 16 (7.34%) Entra ID
6 13 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (5.05%) GCP
8 10 (4.59%) SaaS
9 9 (4.13%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.21%) IaaS
10 7 (3.21%) PaaS
11 6 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.75%) Nutanix
11 6 (2.75%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.63%) TCP/IP
2 15 (6.88%) DNS
3 13 (5.96%) LAN
4 10 (4.59%) HTTP
4 10 (4.59%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (3.67%) IPv4
5 8 (3.67%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (2.29%) VPN
7 4 (1.83%) Firewall
7 4 (1.83%) Internet
8 3 (1.38%) DHCP
8 3 (1.38%) NAS
8 3 (1.38%) Network Security
8 3 (1.38%) SAN
9 2 (0.92%) VLAN
9 2 (0.92%) WAN
10 1 (0.46%) Intranet
10 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.46%) SSL
10 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.80%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (5.96%) DynamoDB
3 12 (5.50%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.67%) Power BI
5 5 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.29%) Redis
6 4 (1.83%) Metadata
7 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.92%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.92%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.46%) Big Data
9 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.46%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.46%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.46%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 30 (13.76%) GitLab
2 25 (11.47%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.80%) Git
4 15 (6.88%) JIRA
5 12 (5.50%) CircleCI
6 8 (3.67%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.92%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.92%) Gatling
7 2 (0.92%) JMeter
7 2 (0.92%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.92%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.46%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.46%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.46%) NUnit
8 1 (0.46%) Postman
8 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.46%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.46%) Yeoman
General
1 91 (41.74%) Social Skills
2 82 (37.61%) Finance
3 48 (22.02%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (18.35%) Banking
5 29 (13.30%) Aerospace
6 18 (8.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (6.42%) Manufacturing
7 14 (6.42%) Marketing
8 12 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (5.05%) Investment Banking
10 9 (4.13%) Front Office
10 9 (4.13%) Law
10 9 (4.13%) Public Sector
11 7 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (2.75%) Legal
13 5 (2.29%) Automotive
14 4 (1.83%) Electronics
14 4 (1.83%) Local Government
15 3 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (24.31%) Senior
2 20 (9.17%) Administrator
3 19 (8.72%) Lead
4 18 (8.26%) Analyst
5 17 (7.80%) Developer
5 17 (7.80%) Systems Engineer
6 15 (6.88%) Architect
7 13 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (5.96%) Senior Developer
8 12 (5.50%) Systems Administrator
9 10 (4.59%) Security Engineer
9 10 (4.59%) Senior Security Engineer
9 10 (4.59%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 9 (4.13%) Business Support Analyst
10 9 (4.13%) IT Manager
10 9 (4.13%) Linux Administrator
10 9 (4.13%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 9 (4.13%) Support Analyst
11 8 (3.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.67%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.42%) RESTful
2 12 (5.50%) gRPC
2 12 (5.50%) Kafka
2 12 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
3 11 (5.05%) web3js
4 10 (4.59%) ModSecurity
5 9 (4.13%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (4.13%) WebSockets
6 8 (3.67%) LDAP
6 8 (3.67%) OAuth
7 7 (3.21%) OpenID
7 7 (3.21%) SAML
8 5 (2.29%) Django
9 4 (1.83%) boto
9 4 (1.83%) CSS
10 3 (1.38%) Bootstrap
10 3 (1.38%) Middleware
10 3 (1.38%) Pandas
10 3 (1.38%) REST
10 3 (1.38%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.55%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.34%) Driving Licence
3 14 (6.42%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.96%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (5.50%) Blockchain
6 11 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (5.05%) Web3
7 10 (4.59%) CCTV
7 10 (4.59%) Replication
7 10 (4.59%) Social Media
8 9 (4.13%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.75%) Life Science
10 5 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.29%) NHS
10 5 (2.29%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (17.43%) Linux
2 27 (12.39%) Windows
3 19 (8.72%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.29%) Unix
6 4 (1.83%) Android
6 4 (1.83%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.92%) Rocky
7 2 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.46%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (32.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 52 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (22.02%) DevOps
4 43 (19.72%) CI/CD
5 41 (18.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (18.35%) Agile
7 34 (15.60%) Decision-Making
8 33 (15.14%) Observability
9 31 (14.22%) Containerisation
10 29 (13.30%) Analytics
11 25 (11.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 25 (11.47%) Risk Management
12 24 (11.01%) Mentoring
12 24 (11.01%) Microservices
13 23 (10.55%) Incident Response
14 21 (9.63%) High Availability
14 21 (9.63%) Performance Optimisation
15 20 (9.17%) AI
15 20 (9.17%) Migration
16 19 (8.72%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 36 (16.51%) Python
2 25 (11.47%) SQL
3 18 (8.26%) Bash
4 16 (7.34%) PowerShell
5 15 (6.88%) Java
6 13 (5.96%) Go
7 9 (4.13%) C++
8 7 (3.21%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.29%) C#
10 3 (1.38%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.92%) Bicep
12 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.46%) Groovy
12 1 (0.46%) JCL
12 1 (0.46%) R
12 1 (0.46%) Ruby
12 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (17.89%) Degree
2 32 (14.68%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.80%) RHCSA
4 16 (7.34%) DV Cleared
5 15 (6.88%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (6.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (6.42%) SC Cleared
7 10 (4.59%) CCNA
8 9 (4.13%) Azure Certification
8 9 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (4.13%) CISM
9 8 (3.67%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.67%) CISSP
9 8 (3.67%) ISTQB
9 8 (3.67%) OSCP
9 8 (3.67%) RHCE
10 7 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.75%) Master's Degree
12 5 (2.29%) CCNP
12 5 (2.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.72%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.96%) QA
3 8 (3.67%) GMP
4 7 (3.21%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.38%) GDPR
5 3 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.38%) PMO
6 2 (0.92%) GAAP
6 2 (0.92%) IFRS
6 2 (0.92%) NIST
6 2 (0.92%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.46%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (13.30%) Active Directory
2 28 (12.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (12.39%) Docker
4 8 (3.67%) KVM
4 8 (3.67%) Squid
4 8 (3.67%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.67%) vSphere
5 3 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.38%) IAG
6 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (16.51%) Terraform
2 32 (14.68%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.88%) Prometheus
4 11 (5.05%) Ansible
5 9 (4.13%) Nagios
6 8 (3.67%) Packer
6 8 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (3.67%) ZABBIX
7 6 (2.75%) Grafana
8 5 (2.29%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (1.83%) SCCM
10 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.46%) Argo
12 1 (0.46%) DatAdvantage
12 1 (0.46%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.46%) Netcool
Vendors
1 43 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 29 (13.30%) VMware
3 19 (8.72%) Oracle
4 17 (7.80%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.50%) Splunk
6 10 (4.59%) Cisco
7 9 (4.13%) FIS
7 9 (4.13%) SolarWinds
7 9 (4.13%) SunGard
8 7 (3.21%) ForgeRock
8 7 (3.21%) Okta
9 6 (2.75%) Google
10 5 (2.29%) Veeam
10 5 (2.29%) Zerto
11 4 (1.83%) Databricks
12 3 (1.38%) Adobe
12 3 (1.38%) Apple
12 3 (1.38%) Nexthink
12 3 (1.38%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.38%) Xero