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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 435 591
Rank change year-on-year -116 +156 +32
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 193 252 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.56% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.60% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 120 131 217
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,063 £45,625 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £51,200
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +17.19% -6.91%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £77,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £55,971 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.43% +11.94% +2.04%

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 69,314 41,679 88,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 92.27% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,751 22,444 62,987
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,159
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -109 167 £60,000 -4.00% 62
UK excluding London -107 105 £51,250 -8.43% 45
London -50 73 £92,500 +33.32% 34
Work from Home -16 42 £53,712 -12.31% 23
South East -48 35 £35,000 -27.46% 14
North of England -52 23 £55,500 -14.62% 11
South West -51 16 £55,000 -1.73% 3
Yorkshire -27 11 - - 2
North West -18 9 £60,500 -6.92% 7
West Midlands -21 8 £55,500 -17.78% 7
Midlands -42 8 £55,500 +26.14% 9
East of England -19 7 £52,500 -4.55% 4
Wales -49 5 £42,934 +12.71% 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Scotland +16 4 £31,000 - 3
North East -51 3 £51,250 -26.14% 2
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 11 (5.70%) Confluence
2 8 (4.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.04%) IIS
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.55%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.55%) MadCap Flare
4 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.52%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.52%) Shopify
1 1 (0.52%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 49 (25.39%) AWS
2 37 (19.17%) Azure
3 25 (12.95%) AWS CloudFormation
4 23 (11.92%) Cloud Computing
4 23 (11.92%) Serverless
5 21 (10.88%) Amazon S3
5 21 (10.88%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (10.36%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (9.33%) Datadog
8 17 (8.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (5.70%) Entra ID
11 10 (5.18%) GCP
12 9 (4.66%) OneDrive
13 7 (3.63%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (3.11%) IaaS
14 6 (3.11%) Nutanix
14 6 (3.11%) Power Platform
15 5 (2.59%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 5 (2.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.40%) TCP/IP
2 16 (8.29%) DNS
3 12 (6.22%) HTTP
4 11 (5.70%) LAN
5 10 (5.18%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (4.15%) IPv4
6 8 (4.15%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (4.15%) VPN
6 8 (4.15%) WAN
7 7 (3.63%) DHCP
8 6 (3.11%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.07%) Internet
10 2 (1.04%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.04%) SNMP
11 1 (0.52%) Broadband
11 1 (0.52%) Intranet
11 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.52%) PSTN
11 1 (0.52%) VoIP
11 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.88%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (9.33%) NoSQL
3 17 (8.81%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.11%) Power BI
4 6 (3.11%) Redis
5 5 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.55%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.55%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.04%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.52%) Big Data
8 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.52%) Parquet
8 1 (0.52%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 34 (17.62%) GitLab
2 29 (15.03%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.81%) Git
4 16 (8.29%) CircleCI
5 12 (6.22%) JIRA
6 8 (4.15%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.04%) Gatling
7 2 (1.04%) JMeter
7 2 (1.04%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.52%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.52%) Mocha
8 1 (0.52%) Postman
8 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.52%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.52%) Selenium
8 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.52%) Yeoman
General
1 70 (36.27%) Finance
2 67 (34.72%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.58%) Banking
4 20 (10.36%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (7.77%) Aerospace
7 14 (7.25%) Marketing
8 13 (6.74%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (6.74%) Manufacturing
9 11 (5.70%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (4.66%) Law
11 7 (3.63%) Public Sector
12 6 (3.11%) Legal
12 6 (3.11%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (2.59%) Automotive
14 4 (2.07%) Electronics
14 4 (2.07%) Local Government
15 3 (1.55%) Retail
15 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
16 2 (1.04%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 59 (30.57%) Senior
2 22 (11.40%) Developer
2 22 (11.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (11.40%) Lead
3 19 (9.84%) Administrator
4 17 (8.81%) Senior Developer
4 17 (8.81%) Systems Engineer
5 13 (6.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (5.18%) Security Engineer
6 10 (5.18%) Senior Security Engineer
6 10 (5.18%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 9 (4.66%) Linux Administrator
7 9 (4.66%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 9 (4.66%) Systems Administrator
8 8 (4.15%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.11%) QA Manager
10 6 (3.11%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.81%) RESTful
2 16 (8.29%) gRPC
2 16 (8.29%) Kafka
2 16 (8.29%) RabbitMQ
2 16 (8.29%) web3js
3 9 (4.66%) WebSockets
4 5 (2.59%) CSS
4 5 (2.59%) Django
4 5 (2.59%) HTML
4 5 (2.59%) REST
5 4 (2.07%) boto
6 3 (1.55%) Bootstrap
6 3 (1.55%) HTML5
6 3 (1.55%) jQuery
7 2 (1.04%) .NET
7 2 (1.04%) EDI
7 2 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.04%) JSON
7 2 (1.04%) NETCONF
7 2 (1.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.36%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.81%) Blockchain
2 17 (8.81%) Driving Licence
3 16 (8.29%) Web3
4 14 (7.25%) Management Information System
5 13 (6.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (5.18%) CCTV
7 9 (4.66%) Data Centre
7 9 (4.66%) Life Science
7 9 (4.66%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.66%) Replication
8 5 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.59%) NHS
9 4 (2.07%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.55%) Clustering
10 3 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.55%) Social Media
11 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.54%) Linux
2 25 (12.95%) Windows
3 21 (10.88%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.15%) Apple iOS
6 7 (3.63%) Windows 10
7 6 (3.11%) Unix
8 2 (1.04%) Android
8 2 (1.04%) Rocky
9 1 (0.52%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (23.83%) DevOps
2 45 (23.32%) CI/CD
3 40 (20.73%) Agile
3 40 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 39 (20.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (17.10%) Analytics
6 32 (16.58%) Containerisation
7 30 (15.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 28 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (14.51%) Risk Management
9 26 (13.47%) Observability
10 25 (12.95%) Microservices
11 24 (12.44%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (11.92%) High Availability
12 23 (11.92%) Investment Management
13 22 (11.40%) Continuous Delivery
13 22 (11.40%) Performance Optimisation
14 21 (10.88%) Decision-Making
14 21 (10.88%) Test Automation
15 20 (10.36%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.62%) Python
2 20 (10.36%) SQL
3 18 (9.33%) Bash
3 18 (9.33%) PowerShell
4 16 (8.29%) Go
4 16 (8.29%) Java
5 8 (4.15%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.11%) C#
7 3 (1.55%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.52%) Bicep
9 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.52%) Groovy
9 1 (0.52%) JCL
Qualifications
1 37 (19.17%) Degree
2 20 (10.36%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.81%) RHCSA
4 15 (7.77%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (6.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.18%) Master's Degree
6 10 (5.18%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.15%) AWS Certification
7 8 (4.15%) CCNA
7 8 (4.15%) ISTQB
7 8 (4.15%) OSCP
7 8 (4.15%) RHCE
8 7 (3.63%) CCNP
9 6 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.59%) MCSE
10 5 (2.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (2.07%) ACCA
11 4 (2.07%) CIMA
12 2 (1.04%) CCIE
12 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.77%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.70%) QA
3 7 (3.63%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.63%) GMP
4 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.55%) PMO
5 2 (1.04%) GAAP
5 2 (1.04%) GDPR
5 2 (1.04%) IFRS
6 1 (0.52%) COBIT
6 1 (0.52%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.52%) NIST
6 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (16.58%) Docker
2 30 (15.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (10.88%) Active Directory
4 8 (4.15%) Squid
4 8 (4.15%) VMware NSX
4 8 (4.15%) vSphere
5 5 (2.59%) KVM
6 3 (1.55%) IAG
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (19.69%) Terraform
2 34 (17.62%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.33%) Prometheus
4 13 (6.74%) Ansible
5 9 (4.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.66%) Nagios
6 8 (4.15%) Packer
6 8 (4.15%) ZABBIX
7 5 (2.59%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.59%) Grafana
8 4 (2.07%) SCCM
9 2 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.04%) DatAdvantage
9 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.52%) Argo
10 1 (0.52%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.52%) Netcool
Vendors
1 41 (21.24%) Microsoft
2 31 (16.06%) VMware
3 17 (8.81%) Red Hat
4 15 (7.77%) Oracle
5 12 (6.22%) Cisco
5 12 (6.22%) Splunk
6 9 (4.66%) SolarWinds
7 7 (3.63%) Google
8 5 (2.59%) SAP
8 5 (2.59%) Veeam
8 5 (2.59%) Zerto
9 4 (2.07%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.55%) Adobe
10 3 (1.55%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.55%) IONA
10 3 (1.55%) Nexthink
10 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.55%) Xero
11 2 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.04%) Varonis