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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 423 573
Rank change year-on-year -132 +150 -27
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 225 275 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.55% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.62% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 135 153 185
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £34,850
25th Percentile £45,789 £45,500 £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 £78,915 £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 78,019 44,452 67,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.52% 89.29% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 53,759 25,267 43,796
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -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 11 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 11 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 -129 199 £60,250 -3.98% 163
UK excluding London -113 136 £52,500 -4.55% 102
London -49 79 £87,500 +25.00% 76
South East -61 46 £46,078 -7.84% 35
Work from Home -67 46 £55,000 -10.20% 47
South West -62 25 £55,000 +20.88% 12
North of England -68 23 £60,000 -7.69% 26
Midlands -46 15 £50,000 +17.44% 14
Yorkshire -28 13 £34,000 -41.25% 5
West Midlands -31 12 £50,000 -25.93% 5
East of England -33 9 £52,500 -4.55% 7
Wales -63 7 £42,934 +12.71% 4
North East -53 6 £65,000 -6.32% 6
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
North West -47 4 £65,000 - 15
Scotland - 4 £31,000 - 4
East Midlands -27 3 £38,500 -3.75% 9
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 (5.33%) Confluence
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.44%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.33%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.33%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 54 (24.00%) Azure
2 43 (19.11%) AWS
3 19 (8.44%) AWS CloudFormation
3 19 (8.44%) Cloud Computing
3 19 (8.44%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (8.44%) Serverless
4 17 (7.56%) Entra ID
5 16 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (7.11%) Datadog
6 15 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 12 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (4.89%) GCP
8 11 (4.89%) SaaS
9 10 (4.44%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.56%) PaaS
11 7 (3.11%) IaaS
12 6 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.67%) Azure AKS
12 6 (2.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.44%) TCP/IP
2 13 (5.78%) DNS
3 11 (4.89%) LAN
4 10 (4.44%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (3.56%) HTTP
5 8 (3.56%) IPv4
5 8 (3.56%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.78%) Firewall
6 4 (1.78%) Internet
6 4 (1.78%) VPN
7 3 (1.33%) DHCP
7 3 (1.33%) NAS
7 3 (1.33%) Network Security
7 3 (1.33%) SAN
8 2 (0.89%) VLAN
8 2 (0.89%) WAN
8 2 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.44%) Intelligent Network
9 1 (0.44%) Intranet
9 1 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.11%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.33%) DynamoDB
3 11 (4.89%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.00%) Power BI
5 5 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.22%) Redis
6 4 (1.78%) Metadata
7 3 (1.33%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.89%) Big Data
8 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.89%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.44%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.44%) QlikView
9 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.44%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.44%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 29 (12.89%) GitLab
2 24 (10.67%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.67%) Git
3 15 (6.67%) JIRA
4 11 (4.89%) CircleCI
5 8 (3.56%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.89%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.89%) Gatling
6 2 (0.89%) JMeter
6 2 (0.89%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.89%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.44%) NUnit
7 1 (0.44%) Postman
7 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.44%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.44%) Selenium
7 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 96 (42.67%) Social Skills
2 81 (36.00%) Finance
3 50 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (16.44%) Banking
5 31 (13.78%) Aerospace
6 18 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (7.11%) Marketing
8 15 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (6.22%) Manufacturing
10 11 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (4.89%) Investment Banking
11 9 (4.00%) Front Office
11 9 (4.00%) Law
11 9 (4.00%) Public Sector
12 7 (3.11%) Legal
12 7 (3.11%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (2.22%) Automotive
14 4 (1.78%) Electronics
14 4 (1.78%) Local Government
14 4 (1.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (23.11%) Senior
2 20 (8.89%) Lead
3 18 (8.00%) Administrator
3 18 (8.00%) Analyst
4 17 (7.56%) Architect
4 17 (7.56%) Systems Engineer
5 16 (7.11%) Developer
6 12 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (5.33%) Senior Developer
7 10 (4.44%) Security Engineer
7 10 (4.44%) Senior Security Engineer
7 10 (4.44%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 10 (4.44%) Systems Administrator
8 9 (4.00%) Business Support Analyst
8 9 (4.00%) IT Manager
8 9 (4.00%) Support Analyst
9 8 (3.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (3.56%) Senior Manager
10 7 (3.11%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 7 (3.11%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.78%) RESTful
2 12 (5.33%) ModSecurity
3 11 (4.89%) gRPC
3 11 (4.89%) Kafka
3 11 (4.89%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (4.44%) LDAP
4 10 (4.44%) OAuth
4 10 (4.44%) web3js
5 9 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (4.00%) OpenID
5 9 (4.00%) SAML
6 7 (3.11%) WebSockets
7 5 (2.22%) Django
8 4 (1.78%) boto
8 4 (1.78%) CSS
9 3 (1.33%) HTML
9 3 (1.33%) Pandas
9 3 (1.33%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.33%) React
9 3 (1.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.67%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.56%) Driving Licence
3 14 (6.22%) Management Information System
3 14 (6.22%) Social Media
4 13 (5.78%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (4.89%) Blockchain
5 11 (4.89%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.44%) CCTV
6 10 (4.44%) Replication
6 10 (4.44%) Web3
7 9 (4.00%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.67%) Life Science
9 5 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.22%) NHS
9 5 (2.22%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.22%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.44%) Linux
2 28 (12.44%) Windows
3 19 (8.44%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.22%) Unix
6 3 (1.33%) Android
6 3 (1.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.89%) Rocky
7 2 (0.89%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.44%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (32.89%) Continuous Improvement
2 53 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (20.89%) DevOps
4 41 (18.22%) Agile
4 41 (18.22%) CI/CD
5 40 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (16.89%) Decision-Making
7 34 (15.11%) Observability
8 32 (14.22%) Analytics
9 30 (13.33%) Containerisation
10 28 (12.44%) Mentoring
11 25 (11.11%) Incident Response
11 25 (11.11%) Microservices
11 25 (11.11%) Risk Management
12 24 (10.67%) AI
12 24 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 21 (9.33%) Coaching
14 20 (8.89%) High Availability
14 20 (8.89%) Performance Optimisation
14 20 (8.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (16.00%) Python
2 24 (10.67%) SQL
3 17 (7.56%) Java
4 16 (7.11%) Bash
4 16 (7.11%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.78%) Go
6 9 (4.00%) C++
7 8 (3.56%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.67%) C#
9 4 (1.78%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.33%) R
11 2 (0.89%) Bicep
11 2 (0.89%) Ruby
11 2 (0.89%) Scala
12 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) JCL
Qualifications
1 40 (17.78%) Degree
2 33 (14.67%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (6.67%) RHCSA
5 13 (5.78%) SC Cleared
6 11 (4.89%) Azure Certification
6 11 (4.89%) CISM
7 10 (4.44%) CCNA
7 10 (4.44%) CISSP
8 9 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (3.56%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.56%) ISTQB
9 8 (3.56%) OSCP
9 8 (3.56%) RHCE
10 7 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.67%) Master's Degree
12 5 (2.22%) CCNP
12 5 (2.22%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.89%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.78%) QA
3 8 (3.56%) GMP
4 7 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.33%) GDPR
5 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.33%) PMO
6 2 (0.89%) GAAP
6 2 (0.89%) IFRS
6 2 (0.89%) NIST
6 2 (0.89%) SLA
7 1 (0.44%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.44%) GRC
7 1 (0.44%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.44%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (13.78%) Active Directory
2 26 (11.56%) Docker
2 26 (11.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.56%) KVM
3 8 (3.56%) Squid
3 8 (3.56%) VMware NSX
3 8 (3.56%) vSphere
4 3 (1.33%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.33%) IAG
4 3 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (16.00%) Terraform
2 32 (14.22%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 11 (4.89%) Ansible
5 10 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (3.56%) Packer
6 8 (3.56%) ZABBIX
7 7 (3.11%) Grafana
7 7 (3.11%) Nagios
8 5 (2.22%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (1.78%) SCCM
10 2 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.44%) Argo
11 1 (0.44%) DatAdvantage
11 1 (0.44%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.44%) Netcool
Vendors
1 43 (19.11%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.00%) VMware
3 19 (8.44%) Oracle
4 15 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.33%) Splunk
6 10 (4.44%) Cisco
7 9 (4.00%) FIS
7 9 (4.00%) ForgeRock
7 9 (4.00%) Okta
7 9 (4.00%) SunGard
8 8 (3.56%) Google
9 7 (3.11%) SolarWinds
10 6 (2.67%) Databricks
11 5 (2.22%) Veeam
11 5 (2.22%) Zerto
12 3 (1.33%) Adobe
12 3 (1.33%) IONA
12 3 (1.33%) Nexthink
12 3 (1.33%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.33%) Xero