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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 392 577
Rank change year-on-year -110 +185 +54
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 207 265 317
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.64% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.69% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 117 126 206
10th Percentile £41,856 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,092 £41,250 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,727 £70,938 £62,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £76,125 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £54,660 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.45% +9.32% -

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 64,523 38,250 80,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.56% 92.93% 86.07%
Number of salaries quoted 39,734 22,522 59,066
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -8.26%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -121 161 £60,000 +4.35% 92
UK excluding London -114 123 £56,000 +2.45% 61
Work from Home -6 83 £55,500 +0.91% 37
London -44 67 £77,838 +12.19% 36
South East -60 43 £45,000 -21.74% 13
North of England -78 20 £66,250 +6.00% 15
North West -31 13 £65,000 +8.33% 11
South West -52 13 £45,000 -15.75% 6
Scotland -16 12 £73,801 - 4
Northern Ireland -30 10 £73,801 -
Midlands -60 10 £56,000 +31.76% 16
West Midlands -21 9 £56,000 -12.16% 11
Wales -26 7 £42,934 +12.71%
North East -27 5 £60,651 -12.59%
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East of England -30 3 £48,500 -3.00% 8
Yorkshire -63 2 £67,500 +34.00% 4
East Midlands -64 1 £47,500 +89.22% 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 (5.80%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.35%) IIS
3 8 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (3.38%) Confluence
5 4 (1.93%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.97%) CMS
7 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.48%) SAS
7 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (7.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.83%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (1.93%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.48%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.48%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.48%) MadCap Flare
6 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (5.80%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (4.83%) Hyperion Planning
2 10 (4.83%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (4.83%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (4.83%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (4.83%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.97%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.97%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.97%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.97%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.48%) Shopify
4 1 (0.48%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 71 (34.30%) Azure
2 43 (20.77%) AWS
3 28 (13.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (9.18%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (8.21%) GCP
5 17 (8.21%) Power Platform
6 16 (7.73%) Entra ID
6 16 (7.73%) Serverless
7 15 (7.25%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (6.28%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (6.28%) Datadog
10 12 (5.80%) Amazon ECR
10 12 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (5.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (5.80%) dbt
10 12 (5.80%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 27 (13.04%) TCP/IP
2 18 (8.70%) DNS
3 12 (5.80%) WAN
4 11 (5.31%) LAN
5 10 (4.83%) HTTP
5 10 (4.83%) VPN
6 9 (4.35%) DHCP
7 8 (3.86%) SD-WAN
8 5 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (1.93%) Firewall
9 4 (1.93%) HTTPS
9 4 (1.93%) SNMP
9 4 (1.93%) Wireless
10 2 (0.97%) Internet
10 2 (0.97%) IPv4
10 2 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.48%) Broadband
11 1 (0.48%) Intranet
11 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.48%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.53%) SQL Server
2 26 (12.56%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (8.21%) Power BI
4 16 (7.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (7.25%) NoSQL
6 14 (6.76%) DynamoDB
7 13 (6.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (6.28%) Redis
8 12 (5.80%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (4.83%) Essbase
10 4 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.45%) Metadata
11 3 (1.45%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.97%) Big Data
12 2 (0.97%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.97%) OLAP
12 2 (0.97%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 24 (11.59%) GitLab
1 24 (11.59%) Jenkins
2 13 (6.28%) CircleCI
2 13 (6.28%) Git
3 10 (4.83%) Oracle Forms
4 8 (3.86%) JIRA
5 6 (2.90%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.45%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.97%) Gatling
8 2 (0.97%) JMeter
8 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.48%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.48%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.48%) Postman
9 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.48%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.48%) Yeoman
General
1 88 (42.51%) Finance
1 88 (42.51%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (12.08%) Banking
4 18 (8.70%) Marketing
5 14 (6.76%) Manufacturing
6 12 (5.80%) Billing
6 12 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.31%) Retail
8 9 (4.35%) Aerospace
9 7 (3.38%) Legal
10 6 (2.90%) Automotive
10 6 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.42%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.93%) Local Government
12 4 (1.93%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (34.30%) Senior
2 31 (14.98%) Analyst
3 22 (10.63%) Developer
4 21 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (9.18%) Lead
6 16 (7.73%) Senior Developer
7 15 (7.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (6.76%) Senior Analyst
9 12 (5.80%) Commercial Analyst
9 12 (5.80%) Insight Analyst
10 11 (5.31%) Administrator
10 11 (5.31%) Senior Manager
11 10 (4.83%) Oracle Analyst
11 10 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.83%) Senior Oracle Analyst
12 8 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.86%) Site Engineer
12 8 (3.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (3.86%) Support Analyst
13 7 (3.38%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.21%) Kafka
2 15 (7.25%) RESTful
3 13 (6.28%) gRPC
3 13 (6.28%) RabbitMQ
3 13 (6.28%) web3js
4 12 (5.80%) Django
5 9 (4.35%) .NET
6 7 (3.38%) REST
7 5 (2.42%) HTML
7 5 (2.42%) WebSockets
8 4 (1.93%) CSS
8 4 (1.93%) Middleware
8 4 (1.93%) NETCONF
8 4 (1.93%) RESTCONF
9 3 (1.45%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.45%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.45%) React
10 2 (0.97%) EDI
10 2 (0.97%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.97%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.73%) Analytical Mindset
3 14 (6.76%) Blockchain
4 13 (6.28%) Life Science
4 13 (6.28%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (6.28%) Web3
5 11 (5.31%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.83%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.35%) Replication
8 8 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.90%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.42%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.42%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.93%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.93%) e-Learning
12 3 (1.45%) Clustering
12 3 (1.45%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 36 (17.39%) Linux
2 27 (13.04%) Windows
3 20 (9.66%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.28%) Unix
5 10 (4.83%) Apple iOS
6 9 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.35%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.93%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.97%) Android
9 1 (0.48%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (26.09%) Analytics
1 54 (26.09%) DevOps
2 53 (25.60%) CI/CD
3 45 (21.74%) Agile
4 40 (19.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (15.94%) Observability
7 29 (14.01%) Roadmaps
8 27 (13.04%) Decision-Making
9 26 (12.56%) Containerisation
10 25 (12.08%) Continuous Integration
10 25 (12.08%) High Availability
10 25 (12.08%) Risk Management
10 25 (12.08%) Test Automation
11 24 (11.59%) Microservices
12 23 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
12 23 (11.11%) Coaching
12 23 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 23 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (19.81%) Python
2 40 (19.32%) SQL
3 19 (9.18%) PowerShell
4 16 (7.73%) Bash
5 14 (6.76%) C#
5 14 (6.76%) Java
6 13 (6.28%) Go
7 12 (5.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (5.31%) Groovy
9 7 (3.38%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.42%) Bicep
11 4 (1.93%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.45%) VBA
13 2 (0.97%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.48%) JCL
14 1 (0.48%) R
14 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 51 (24.64%) Degree
2 24 (11.59%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.21%) Master's Degree
4 16 (7.73%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.31%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (4.35%) CCNP
8 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.38%) RHCSA
9 5 (2.42%) MCSE
9 5 (2.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.93%) ACCA
10 4 (1.93%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.93%) CCIE
10 4 (1.93%) CIMA
10 4 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.97%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.97%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.80%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.31%) QA
3 7 (3.38%) GMP
4 6 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.42%) GDPR
6 2 (0.97%) GAAP
6 2 (0.97%) IFRS
6 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.48%) COBIT
7 1 (0.48%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.48%) NIST
7 1 (0.48%) P3O
7 1 (0.48%) PMO
7 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (17.39%) Docker
2 24 (11.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.42%) KVM
5 2 (0.97%) Squid
5 2 (0.97%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.97%) vSphere
6 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (18.84%) Terraform
2 36 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 15 (7.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (7.25%) Prometheus
4 11 (5.31%) Ansible
5 5 (2.42%) AWS Copilot
5 5 (2.42%) Grafana
5 5 (2.42%) Nagios
6 4 (1.93%) logstash
6 4 (1.93%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.93%) Puppet
7 2 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.97%) DatAdvantage
7 2 (0.97%) Packer
7 2 (0.97%) SCCM
7 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.97%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.48%) Argo
8 1 (0.48%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 35 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.08%) VMware
3 19 (9.18%) Oracle
4 15 (7.25%) Google
5 11 (5.31%) Red Hat
6 10 (4.83%) Hyperion
6 10 (4.83%) SAP
7 7 (3.38%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.90%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.90%) Splunk
9 5 (2.42%) Atlassian
9 5 (2.42%) HubSpot
9 5 (2.42%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.42%) Veeam
9 5 (2.42%) Zerto
10 4 (1.93%) Cisco
10 4 (1.93%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.97%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.97%) Apple
11 2 (0.97%) Varonis