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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 421 509
Rank change year-on-year -14 +88 +156
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 209 307 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.57% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.63% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 121 156 133
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £39,800
25th Percentile £44,336 £37,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile £97,500 £79,625 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 48,581 48,989 48,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.32% 90.25% 90.41%
Number of salaries quoted 28,539 24,001 36,978
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 7 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 6 months to 7 January 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 -8 165 £57,500 +13.86% 84
UK excluding London -14 136 £55,000 +10.00% 69
Work from Home +10 100 £55,000 +5.44% 59
London +20 58 £70,000 -8.50% 31
North of England +20 33 £65,000 -6.22% 15
South East -1 30 £63,750 +26.24% 26
South West -2 24 £43,953 +14.16% 7
North West +22 17 £62,500 - 9
Midlands -4 15 £42,500 - 7
Northern Ireland +5 13 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Yorkshire -3 13 £65,000 +52.94% 5
Scotland -10 12 £73,801 +6.48% 5
East of England +9 10 £55,000 +10.00% 7
East Midlands -12 8 £42,000 +67.31% 4
West Midlands +14 7 £59,527 -4.76% 3
Wales +8 6 £44,336 -36.03% 2
North East +6 3 £73,801 +6.48% 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 8 (3.83%) Confluence
1 8 (3.83%) IIS
1 8 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.39%) Tomcat
3 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.96%) CMS
4 2 (0.96%) FactoryTalk
4 2 (0.96%) WinCC
5 1 (0.48%) Appian
5 1 (0.48%) BizTalk Server
5 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 61 (29.19%) Azure
2 34 (16.27%) Power Platform
3 26 (12.44%) AWS
4 16 (7.66%) GCP
5 15 (7.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 14 (6.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (6.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (5.74%) SaaS
9 11 (5.26%) Entra ID
10 9 (4.31%) GitHub
11 8 (3.83%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (3.83%) dbt
11 8 (3.83%) Pulumi
12 7 (3.35%) Azure AKS
12 7 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.35%) Serverless
13 6 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (2.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.22%) TCP/IP
2 9 (4.31%) DNS
3 6 (2.87%) WAN
4 5 (2.39%) Firewall
4 5 (2.39%) LAN
5 4 (1.91%) DHCP
5 4 (1.91%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.91%) 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 32 (15.31%) Power BI
2 27 (12.92%) SQL Server
3 15 (7.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (6.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 13 (6.22%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (4.78%) Essbase
7 9 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (3.83%) Redis
9 7 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (3.35%) Tableau
10 5 (2.39%) DynamoDB
10 5 (2.39%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.91%) Metadata
12 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.96%) MySQL
13 2 (0.96%) OLAP
13 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 14 (6.70%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.26%) GitLab
3 10 (4.78%) Git
3 10 (4.78%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (4.31%) JIRA
5 4 (1.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.91%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.91%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.44%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.96%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.96%) JMeter
7 2 (0.96%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.96%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.48%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 103 (49.28%) Social Skills
2 81 (38.76%) Finance
3 51 (24.40%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.05%) Law
5 16 (7.66%) Retail
6 15 (7.18%) Legal
6 15 (7.18%) Marketing
7 12 (5.74%) Billing
8 10 (4.78%) Banking
8 10 (4.78%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.83%) 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 23 (11.00%) Developer
4 14 (6.70%) Lead
4 14 (6.70%) Senior Analyst
5 12 (5.74%) Commercial Analyst
5 12 (5.74%) Insight Analyst
6 11 (5.26%) IT Manager
6 11 (5.26%) Support Analyst
7 10 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (4.78%) Oracle Analyst
7 10 (4.78%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 8 (3.83%) Senior Developer
8 8 (3.83%) Site Engineer
8 8 (3.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.35%) Product Manager
9 7 (3.35%) Senior Manager
10 6 (2.87%) Digital Product Manager
10 6 (2.87%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.22%) HTML
2 11 (5.26%) CSS
3 10 (4.78%) .NET
4 9 (4.31%) JSON
4 9 (4.31%) XML
5 8 (3.83%) Django
5 8 (3.83%) Kafka
6 7 (3.35%) RESTful
7 6 (2.87%) Middleware
7 6 (2.87%) REST
8 4 (1.91%) gRPC
8 4 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.91%) web3js
9 3 (1.44%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.44%) Node.js
9 3 (1.44%) React
10 2 (0.96%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.96%) NETCONF
10 2 (0.96%) RESTCONF
10 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 6 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.87%) Life Science
7 5 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.91%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.91%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.91%) FMCG
8 4 (1.91%) Web3
9 3 (1.44%) Blog
9 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.44%) Social Media
9 3 (1.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.44%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.96%) IoT
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
6 4 (1.91%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.91%) Windows 10
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%) Android
7 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (33.01%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (30.14%) Analytics
3 51 (24.40%) Agile
4 48 (22.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (19.62%) CI/CD
6 39 (18.66%) DevOps
7 36 (17.22%) 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 28 (13.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 27 (12.92%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (11.48%) ITSM
14 24 (11.48%) Observability
14 24 (11.48%) Process Improvement
14 24 (11.48%) Service Management
15 23 (11.00%) Collaborative Working
16 22 (10.53%) Problem Management
17 21 (10.05%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 57 (27.27%) SQL
2 32 (15.31%) Python
3 18 (8.61%) 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 7 (3.35%) Java
10 5 (2.39%) Bicep
10 5 (2.39%) Go
11 4 (1.91%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.96%) R
13 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.48%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.48%) Perl
13 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.48%) Swift
13 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 52 (24.88%) Degree
2 19 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.74%) ITIL Certification
4 11 (5.26%) 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%) Microsoft Certification
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
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 21 (10.05%) 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 26 (12.44%) Terraform
2 25 (11.96%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.78%) Ansible
4 8 (3.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.87%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.91%) logstash
6 4 (1.91%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.91%) Puppet
7 2 (0.96%) AssetCenter
7 2 (0.96%) Grafana
7 2 (0.96%) Kibana
7 2 (0.96%) SCCM
8 1 (0.48%) Argo
8 1 (0.48%) Control-M
8 1 (0.48%) Nagios
Vendors
1 39 (18.66%) 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