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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 442 614
Rank change year-on-year -101 +172 -10
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 197 258 310
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.56% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.61% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 124 136 216
10th Percentile £30,750 £37,085 £32,750
25th Percentile £46,063 £45,688 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £51,200
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +22.07% -6.91%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £77,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £55,971 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.43% +11.94% -

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 70,129 42,382 86,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 91.66% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48,378 23,044 61,478
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £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% -9.12%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - -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 28 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 28 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 -127 172 £60,000 -4.00% 56
UK excluding London -115 105 £51,250 -8.43% 37
London -42 78 £92,500 +33.32% 33
Work from Home -24 42 £53,712 -14.06% 22
South East -50 34 £35,000 -27.46% 15
North of England -72 23 £55,500 -14.62% 4
South West -59 17 £55,000 -1.73% 3
Yorkshire -31 11 - -
North West -27 9 £60,500 -6.92% 2
West Midlands -19 8 £55,500 -17.78% 7
Midlands -36 8 £55,500 +30.36% 9
East of England -13 7 £52,500 -4.55% 4
Wales -45 5 £42,934 +12.71%
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Scotland +21 4 £31,000 - 2
North East -46 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 (5.58%) Confluence
2 7 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.02%) IIS
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.52%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.52%) MadCap Flare
4 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.51%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.51%) Shopify
1 1 (0.51%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 49 (24.87%) AWS
2 37 (18.78%) Azure
3 25 (12.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 23 (11.68%) Cloud Computing
4 23 (11.68%) Serverless
5 21 (10.66%) Amazon S3
5 21 (10.66%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (10.15%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (9.14%) Datadog
8 17 (8.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (5.08%) Entra ID
10 10 (5.08%) GCP
11 8 (4.06%) OneDrive
12 7 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.55%) Power Platform
13 6 (3.05%) IaaS
13 6 (3.05%) Nutanix
14 5 (2.54%) dbt
14 5 (2.54%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.66%) TCP/IP
2 15 (7.61%) DNS
3 12 (6.09%) HTTP
4 11 (5.58%) LAN
5 10 (5.08%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (4.06%) IPv4
6 8 (4.06%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (3.55%) VPN
7 7 (3.55%) WAN
8 6 (3.05%) DHCP
9 5 (2.54%) SD-WAN
10 4 (2.03%) Internet
11 2 (1.02%) HTTPS
11 2 (1.02%) SNMP
12 1 (0.51%) Broadband
12 1 (0.51%) Intranet
12 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.51%) PSTN
12 1 (0.51%) VoIP
12 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.66%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (9.14%) NoSQL
3 17 (8.63%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.55%) Power BI
5 6 (3.05%) Redis
6 5 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.52%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.52%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.52%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.02%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.02%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.51%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.51%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 34 (17.26%) GitLab
2 29 (14.72%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.63%) Git
4 16 (8.12%) CircleCI
5 12 (6.09%) JIRA
6 8 (4.06%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.02%) Gatling
7 2 (1.02%) JMeter
7 2 (1.02%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.51%) Mocha
8 1 (0.51%) Postman
8 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.51%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.51%) Selenium
8 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.51%) Yeoman
General
1 73 (37.06%) Finance
2 69 (35.03%) Social Skills
3 35 (17.77%) Banking
4 22 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.63%) Aerospace
6 16 (8.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (7.11%) Marketing
8 13 (6.60%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (6.60%) Manufacturing
9 11 (5.58%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (4.57%) Law
11 7 (3.55%) Public Sector
12 6 (3.05%) Legal
12 6 (3.05%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (2.54%) Automotive
14 4 (2.03%) Electronics
14 4 (2.03%) Investment Banking
14 4 (2.03%) Local Government
15 3 (1.52%) Retail
15 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (28.93%) Senior
2 22 (11.17%) Developer
3 21 (10.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (10.15%) Lead
5 19 (9.64%) Administrator
6 17 (8.63%) Systems Engineer
7 16 (8.12%) Senior Developer
8 12 (6.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (5.08%) Security Engineer
9 10 (5.08%) Senior Security Engineer
9 10 (5.08%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 9 (4.57%) Linux Administrator
10 9 (4.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 9 (4.57%) Systems Administrator
11 8 (4.06%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (4.06%) IT Manager
12 7 (3.55%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
12 7 (3.55%) Senior Manager
13 6 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.05%) Senior QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.63%) RESTful
2 16 (8.12%) gRPC
2 16 (8.12%) Kafka
2 16 (8.12%) RabbitMQ
3 15 (7.61%) web3js
4 9 (4.57%) WebSockets
5 5 (2.54%) CSS
5 5 (2.54%) Django
5 5 (2.54%) HTML
5 5 (2.54%) REST
6 4 (2.03%) boto
7 3 (1.52%) Bootstrap
7 3 (1.52%) HTML5
7 3 (1.52%) jQuery
8 2 (1.02%) .NET
8 2 (1.02%) EDI
8 2 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.02%) NETCONF
8 2 (1.02%) React
8 2 (1.02%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.15%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.63%) Driving Licence
3 16 (8.12%) Blockchain
4 15 (7.61%) Management Information System
4 15 (7.61%) Web3
5 13 (6.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (5.08%) CCTV
7 9 (4.57%) Data Centre
7 9 (4.57%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.57%) Replication
8 8 (4.06%) Life Science
9 5 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.54%) NHS
10 4 (2.03%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.52%) Clustering
11 3 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.02%) Fixed Income
12 2 (1.02%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.24%) Linux
2 24 (12.18%) Windows
3 20 (10.15%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.55%) Apple iOS
6 6 (3.05%) Unix
6 6 (3.05%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.02%) Android
7 2 (1.02%) Rocky
8 1 (0.51%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (23.35%) Continuous Improvement
1 46 (23.35%) DevOps
2 45 (22.84%) CI/CD
3 42 (21.32%) Agile
4 39 (19.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (16.75%) Analytics
6 32 (16.24%) Containerisation
7 30 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (14.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 29 (14.72%) Risk Management
9 26 (13.20%) Observability
10 25 (12.69%) Microservices
11 24 (12.18%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (11.68%) High Availability
12 23 (11.68%) Investment Management
13 22 (11.17%) Continuous Delivery
13 22 (11.17%) Performance Optimisation
14 21 (10.66%) Decision-Making
14 21 (10.66%) Test Automation
15 20 (10.15%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.26%) Python
2 21 (10.66%) SQL
3 18 (9.14%) Bash
3 18 (9.14%) PowerShell
4 16 (8.12%) Go
4 16 (8.12%) Java
5 8 (4.06%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.05%) C#
7 3 (1.52%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.02%) C++
8 2 (1.02%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.51%) Bicep
9 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.51%) Groovy
9 1 (0.51%) JCL
Qualifications
1 36 (18.27%) Degree
2 22 (11.17%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.63%) RHCSA
4 15 (7.61%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (6.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.08%) SC Cleared
7 9 (4.57%) Master's Degree
8 8 (4.06%) AWS Certification
8 8 (4.06%) CCNA
8 8 (4.06%) ISTQB
8 8 (4.06%) OSCP
8 8 (4.06%) RHCE
9 7 (3.55%) CCNP
10 6 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (2.54%) MCSE
11 5 (2.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (2.03%) ACCA
12 4 (2.03%) CIMA
12 4 (2.03%) DV Cleared
13 2 (1.02%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.63%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.58%) QA
3 7 (3.55%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.55%) GMP
4 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.52%) PMO
5 2 (1.02%) GAAP
5 2 (1.02%) GDPR
5 2 (1.02%) IFRS
6 1 (0.51%) COBIT
6 1 (0.51%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (16.24%) Docker
2 29 (14.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (10.66%) Active Directory
4 8 (4.06%) Squid
4 8 (4.06%) VMware NSX
4 8 (4.06%) vSphere
5 5 (2.54%) KVM
6 3 (1.52%) IAG
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (19.29%) Terraform
2 34 (17.26%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.14%) Prometheus
4 13 (6.60%) Ansible
5 9 (4.57%) Nagios
6 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (4.06%) Packer
6 8 (4.06%) ZABBIX
7 5 (2.54%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.54%) Grafana
8 4 (2.03%) SCCM
9 2 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.02%) DatAdvantage
9 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.51%) Argo
10 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.51%) Netcool
Vendors
1 41 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 30 (15.23%) VMware
3 17 (8.63%) Oracle
3 17 (8.63%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.09%) Cisco
4 12 (6.09%) Splunk
5 9 (4.57%) SolarWinds
6 7 (3.55%) Google
7 5 (2.54%) SAP
7 5 (2.54%) Veeam
7 5 (2.54%) Zerto
8 3 (1.52%) Adobe
8 3 (1.52%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.52%) IONA
8 3 (1.52%) Nexthink
8 3 (1.52%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.52%) Xero
9 2 (1.02%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.02%) Samsung