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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 445 519
Rank change year-on-year -105 +74 -16
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 251 241 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.49% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.55% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 134 153 140
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,536 £37,250
25th Percentile £42,940 £41,250 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,750 £55,971 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% +9.21% -6.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £69,161
90th Percentile £106,750 £94,000 £85,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -16.28%

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 86,281 44,107 61,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.16% 89.14% 81.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,444 24,402 33,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%
75th Percentile £79,091 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -102 223 £58,561 -6.30% 350
UK excluding London -128 147 £50,000 -9.09% 211
London -43 92 £80,000 +14.29% 159
Work from Home -59 66 £55,000 - 140
South East -56 45 £48,039 -26.09% 57
North of England -90 30 £55,000 -15.38% 41
South West -67 27 £55,000 +52.78% 35
Midlands -46 17 £50,000 +25.00% 37
Yorkshire -32 15 £34,000 -47.69% 18
West Midlands -39 14 £50,000 -16.00% 24
East of England -32 11 £52,500 -4.55% 17
Scotland - 10 £31,000 - 11
North West -55 8 £47,500 -26.92% 23
North East - 7 £70,000 - 2
Wales -80 6 £52,500 +37.82% 13
East Midlands -42 3 £38,500 -3.75% 13
Northern Ireland -86 1 £46,000 - 5

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 (4.78%) Confluence
2 8 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.79%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.20%) IIS
5 2 (0.80%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 22 (8.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.20%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.20%) MadCap Flare
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 66 (26.29%) Azure
2 35 (13.94%) AWS
3 31 (12.35%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (11.16%) Entra ID
5 24 (9.56%) Power Platform
6 19 (7.57%) Serverless
7 14 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (5.18%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (5.18%) Datadog
8 13 (5.18%) SaaS
9 12 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (4.78%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (4.78%) PaaS
10 11 (4.38%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (3.98%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (3.59%) GitHub
13 8 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (2.79%) Azure AKS
14 7 (2.79%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.78%) DNS
2 11 (4.38%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.98%) Intrusion Detection
4 9 (3.59%) LAN
4 9 (3.59%) Software-Defined Networking
5 8 (3.19%) IPv4
6 7 (2.79%) Firewall
6 7 (2.79%) Network Security
6 7 (2.79%) VPN
7 6 (2.39%) Internet
8 5 (1.99%) HTTP
8 5 (1.99%) WAN
8 5 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.20%) DHCP
9 3 (1.20%) NAS
9 3 (1.20%) SAN
10 2 (0.80%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.80%) SSL
10 2 (0.80%) VLAN
11 1 (0.40%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.37%) Power BI
2 9 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (3.59%) Metadata
3 8 (3.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (3.19%) DynamoDB
4 7 (2.79%) Data Lake
4 7 (2.79%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.79%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.39%) Big Data
6 5 (1.99%) Data Mining
6 5 (1.99%) Delta Lake
6 5 (1.99%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.99%) QlikView
6 5 (1.99%) Tableau
7 4 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.20%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (10.36%) GitLab
2 20 (7.97%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.77%) Git
3 17 (6.77%) JIRA
4 8 (3.19%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.79%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.80%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.80%) JMeter
6 2 (0.80%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.40%) Flyway
7 1 (0.40%) Gatling
7 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.40%) MLflow
7 1 (0.40%) NUnit
7 1 (0.40%) QUnit
7 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 106 (42.23%) Social Skills
2 87 (34.66%) Finance
3 76 (30.28%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (13.94%) Aerospace
5 26 (10.36%) Banking
6 22 (8.76%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (7.57%) Public Sector
8 18 (7.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (5.98%) Legal
9 15 (5.98%) Marketing
10 13 (5.18%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (4.38%) Law
12 10 (3.98%) Front Office
13 9 (3.59%) Investment Banking
13 9 (3.59%) Manufacturing
14 8 (3.19%) Retail
15 6 (2.39%) Electronics
16 5 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (16.73%) Senior
2 29 (11.55%) Lead
3 26 (10.36%) Architect
4 21 (8.37%) Administrator
4 21 (8.37%) Analyst
5 18 (7.17%) Systems Engineer
6 16 (6.37%) Developer
7 11 (4.38%) Operations Manager
8 10 (3.98%) Security Engineer
8 10 (3.98%) Senior Security Engineer
8 10 (3.98%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 10 (3.98%) Support Analyst
9 9 (3.59%) Business Support Analyst
9 9 (3.59%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.19%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.19%) IT Manager
10 8 (3.19%) Systems Administrator
11 6 (2.39%) IT Technician
11 6 (2.39%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.34%) Terraform
2 15 (5.98%) ModSecurity
3 13 (5.18%) OAuth
3 13 (5.18%) OpenID
4 12 (4.78%) LDAP
4 12 (4.78%) REST
4 12 (4.78%) SAML
5 9 (3.59%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (3.19%) RESTful
7 7 (2.79%) .NET
7 7 (2.79%) gRPC
7 7 (2.79%) Kafka
7 7 (2.79%) PyTorch
7 7 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (2.39%) Middleware
8 6 (2.39%) TensorFlow
8 6 (2.39%) web3js
9 5 (1.99%) CSS
9 5 (1.99%) React
9 5 (1.99%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.95%) Management Information System
2 26 (10.36%) Cloud Native
3 20 (7.97%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (7.17%) Driving Licence
5 17 (6.77%) Social Media
6 14 (5.58%) Data Centre
7 13 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (4.78%) Onboarding
9 11 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (3.98%) CCTV
10 10 (3.98%) Fixed Income
11 9 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (3.19%) Replication
13 7 (2.79%) NHS
14 6 (2.39%) Blockchain
14 6 (2.39%) Public Cloud
14 6 (2.39%) Reference Data
14 6 (2.39%) Web3
15 5 (1.99%) Renewable Energy
16 4 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.34%) Linux
2 35 (13.94%) Windows
3 18 (7.17%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.20%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.80%) Android
6 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.80%) Rocky
7 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (40.24%) Continuous Improvement
2 71 (28.29%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (23.51%) Decision-Making
4 55 (21.91%) Analytics
5 51 (20.32%) DevOps
6 47 (18.73%) CI/CD
7 46 (18.33%) AI
8 42 (16.73%) Agile
9 39 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 39 (15.54%) Mentoring
10 36 (14.34%) Observability
11 35 (13.94%) Stakeholder Management
12 34 (13.55%) Risk Management
13 29 (11.55%) Coaching
13 29 (11.55%) Data Management
13 29 (11.55%) Incident Response
14 27 (10.76%) Architectural Patterns
14 27 (10.76%) Business Intelligence
14 27 (10.76%) Microservices
15 26 (10.36%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 38 (15.14%) Python
2 37 (14.74%) SQL
3 17 (6.77%) PowerShell
4 16 (6.37%) Java
5 13 (5.18%) Bash
6 9 (3.59%) C++
6 9 (3.59%) Go
6 9 (3.59%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.19%) Bicep
7 8 (3.19%) C#
7 8 (3.19%) R
8 3 (1.20%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.20%) VBA
8 3 (1.20%) VBScript
9 2 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.80%) Groovy
9 2 (0.80%) Ruby
9 2 (0.80%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (19.52%) Security Cleared
2 40 (15.94%) Degree
3 22 (8.76%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.37%) DV Cleared
5 20 (7.97%) Azure Certification
6 14 (5.58%) CISM
7 13 (5.18%) CISSP
7 13 (5.18%) RHCSA
8 12 (4.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (3.98%) CCNA
9 10 (3.98%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (3.59%) ISTQB
11 8 (3.19%) AWS Certification
11 8 (3.19%) OSCP
11 8 (3.19%) RHCE
12 6 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.39%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (1.20%) ACCA
13 3 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.99%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.99%) QA
3 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.20%) PMO
4 2 (0.80%) GDPR
4 2 (0.80%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.80%) SLA
5 1 (0.40%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.40%) GAAP
5 1 (0.40%) GMP
5 1 (0.40%) GRC
5 1 (0.40%) IFRS
5 1 (0.40%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.40%) NEBOSH
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (15.14%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.97%) Docker
2 20 (7.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.19%) Squid
3 8 (3.19%) VMware NSX
3 8 (3.19%) vSphere
4 7 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.20%) IAG
6 3 (1.20%) KVM
7 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 28 (11.16%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.78%) Prometheus
2 12 (4.78%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (3.98%) Ansible
3 10 (3.98%) Grafana
4 8 (3.19%) Packer
4 8 (3.19%) ZABBIX
5 5 (1.99%) Nagios
6 3 (1.20%) SCCM
7 2 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.80%) Kibana
7 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.40%) SCOM
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 63 (25.10%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.97%) Oracle
2 20 (7.97%) VMware
3 13 (5.18%) Databricks
3 13 (5.18%) Red Hat
3 13 (5.18%) YouTube
4 12 (4.78%) ForgeRock
4 12 (4.78%) Okta
5 11 (4.38%) Cisco
6 10 (3.98%) Splunk
7 9 (3.59%) FIS
7 9 (3.59%) SunGard
8 6 (2.39%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.39%) Google
8 6 (2.39%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.59%) Adobe
10 3 (1.20%) IONA
10 3 (1.20%) Pinterest
10 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.20%) Xero