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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 416 586
Rank change year-on-year -124 +170 +15
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 198 242 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.57% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.61% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 121 119 207
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,700 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,938 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £74,258 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £54,321 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.72% +8.64% -

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 68,427 39,782 82,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.76% 93.32% 84.70%
Number of salaries quoted 44,356 20,831 59,666
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,797 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +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 23 May 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 May 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 -135 166 £57,500 -0.15% 90
UK excluding London -76 109 £48,500 -10.72% 76
London -45 73 £95,000 +38.80% 35
Work from Home -18 55 £53,712 -2.34% 29
South East -33 38 £35,000 -39.13% 22
North of England -69 19 £65,000 - 24
South West -46 18 £50,000 -6.39% 6
Scotland +11 9 £31,000 - 6
West Midlands -35 9 £55,000 -16.98% 6
Yorkshire -38 9 - - 14
Midlands -44 9 £55,000 +68.96% 8
North West -24 8 £69,651 +7.15% 10
Wales -40 5 £42,934 +12.71% 4
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East of England -13 4 £51,106 -11.12% 4
North East -42 2 £47,500 -31.54%
Northern Ireland - 2 £59,901 - 2

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 (4.04%) Confluence
1 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.02%) IIS
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.51%) CMS
3 1 (0.51%) SAS
3 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.53%) Oracle Smart View
3 3 (1.52%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.52%) MadCap Flare
3 3 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.51%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.54%) Oracle Financials
2 5 (2.53%) Hyperion Planning
2 5 (2.53%) Oracle Assets
2 5 (2.53%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (2.53%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (2.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.51%) Shopify
4 1 (0.51%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 49 (24.75%) AWS
2 42 (21.21%) Azure
3 27 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 22 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 22 (11.11%) Serverless
5 21 (10.61%) Amazon S3
5 21 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (10.10%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (9.09%) Datadog
8 12 (6.06%) Entra ID
9 11 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (5.05%) OneDrive
11 9 (4.55%) GCP
12 8 (4.04%) Azure AKS
13 7 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (3.54%) Power Platform
13 7 (3.54%) SaaS
14 6 (3.03%) IaaS
14 6 (3.03%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.63%) TCP/IP
2 19 (9.60%) DNS
3 14 (7.07%) HTTP
4 12 (6.06%) LAN
5 11 (5.56%) WAN
6 10 (5.05%) Intrusion Detection
6 10 (5.05%) VPN
7 9 (4.55%) DHCP
8 8 (4.04%) SD-WAN
9 7 (3.54%) IPv4
9 7 (3.54%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (2.02%) Internet
11 3 (1.52%) HTTPS
11 3 (1.52%) SNMP
12 1 (0.51%) Broadband
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 22 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (9.60%) NoSQL
3 18 (9.09%) DynamoDB
4 7 (3.54%) Power BI
5 6 (3.03%) Redis
5 6 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.53%) Essbase
6 5 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.52%) SAP HANA
9 2 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.01%) OLAP
9 2 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.51%) Big Data
10 1 (0.51%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 35 (17.68%) GitLab
2 30 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.59%) CircleCI
3 17 (8.59%) Git
4 9 (4.55%) JIRA
5 7 (3.54%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.53%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.01%) Gatling
7 2 (1.01%) JMeter
7 2 (1.01%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.01%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.51%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.51%) Mocha
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 78 (39.39%) Finance
2 70 (35.35%) Social Skills
3 34 (17.17%) Banking
4 21 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.60%) Marketing
6 15 (7.58%) Aerospace
7 14 (7.07%) Manufacturing
8 13 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (3.54%) Retail
12 6 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (3.03%) Public Sector
13 5 (2.53%) Automotive
13 5 (2.53%) Law
14 4 (2.02%) Electronics
14 4 (2.02%) Financial Institution
14 4 (2.02%) Legal
14 4 (2.02%) Local Government
14 4 (2.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (35.35%) Senior
2 26 (13.13%) Developer
3 21 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (10.61%) Lead
4 20 (10.10%) Senior Developer
5 18 (9.09%) Administrator
6 17 (8.59%) Systems Engineer
7 15 (7.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.05%) Linux Administrator
8 10 (5.05%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 10 (5.05%) Security Engineer
8 10 (5.05%) Senior Security Engineer
8 10 (5.05%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 10 (5.05%) Systems Administrator
9 9 (4.55%) Analyst
10 8 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.04%) Senior Manager
11 7 (3.54%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 7 (3.54%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
12 6 (3.03%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.09%) RESTful
2 17 (8.59%) gRPC
2 17 (8.59%) Kafka
2 17 (8.59%) RabbitMQ
2 17 (8.59%) web3js
3 10 (5.05%) WebSockets
4 5 (2.53%) .NET
4 5 (2.53%) Django
4 5 (2.53%) HTML
4 5 (2.53%) REST
5 4 (2.02%) CSS
6 3 (1.52%) boto
6 3 (1.52%) NETCONF
6 3 (1.52%) RESTCONF
7 2 (1.01%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.01%) EDI
7 2 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.01%) HTML5
7 2 (1.01%) jQuery
7 2 (1.01%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.09%) Blockchain
3 17 (8.59%) Driving Licence
3 17 (8.59%) Web3
4 13 (6.57%) Management Information System
5 12 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (5.05%) CCTV
6 10 (5.05%) Data Centre
6 10 (5.05%) Life Science
6 10 (5.05%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.55%) Replication
8 5 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.53%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.02%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.02%) NHS
9 4 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.52%) Clustering
10 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.52%) Social Media
11 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 34 (17.17%) Linux
2 23 (11.62%) Windows
3 20 (10.10%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.05%) Apple iOS
4 10 (5.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.55%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.03%) Unix
7 2 (1.01%) Android
7 2 (1.01%) Rocky
8 1 (0.51%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (24.75%) DevOps
2 47 (23.74%) CI/CD
3 40 (20.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (19.70%) Analytics
5 38 (19.19%) Agile
6 32 (16.16%) Containerisation
6 32 (16.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (14.65%) Observability
8 28 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 27 (13.64%) Microservices
10 26 (13.13%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (12.63%) High Availability
11 25 (12.63%) Investment Management
11 25 (12.63%) Test Automation
12 24 (12.12%) Risk Management
13 23 (11.62%) Continuous Delivery
13 23 (11.62%) Decision-Making
13 23 (11.62%) Performance Optimisation
13 23 (11.62%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.18%) Python
2 27 (13.64%) SQL
3 21 (10.61%) Bash
4 19 (9.60%) PowerShell
5 17 (8.59%) Go
6 15 (7.58%) Java
7 11 (5.56%) C#
8 7 (3.54%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.03%) Groovy
10 4 (2.02%) Bicep
11 3 (1.52%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.01%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.51%) JCL
Qualifications
1 35 (17.68%) Degree
2 20 (10.10%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.59%) RHCSA
4 15 (7.58%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.56%) Master's Degree
7 10 (5.05%) SC Cleared
8 8 (4.04%) CCNP
9 7 (3.54%) AWS Certification
9 7 (3.54%) CCNA
9 7 (3.54%) ISTQB
9 7 (3.54%) OSCP
9 7 (3.54%) RHCE
10 5 (2.53%) MCSE
10 5 (2.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (2.02%) ACCA
11 4 (2.02%) CIMA
11 4 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.52%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.52%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.05%) Data Quality
1 10 (5.05%) QA
2 7 (3.54%) GMP
3 6 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.53%) GDPR
5 2 (1.01%) GAAP
5 2 (1.01%) IFRS
5 2 (1.01%) PMO
6 1 (0.51%) COBIT
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.51%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) P3O
6 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (16.16%) Docker
2 30 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (10.10%) Active Directory
4 7 (3.54%) Squid
4 7 (3.54%) VMware NSX
4 7 (3.54%) vSphere
5 5 (2.53%) KVM
6 3 (1.52%) IAG
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 41 (20.71%) Terraform
2 39 (19.70%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 13 (6.57%) Ansible
5 11 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (5.05%) Nagios
7 7 (3.54%) Packer
7 7 (3.54%) ZABBIX
8 5 (2.53%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (2.02%) Grafana
10 3 (1.52%) logstash
10 3 (1.52%) SCCM
11 2 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.01%) DatAdvantage
11 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.51%) Argo
12 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.51%) Netcool
Vendors
1 36 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 31 (15.66%) VMware
3 18 (9.09%) Oracle
4 17 (8.59%) Red Hat
5 13 (6.57%) Cisco
6 10 (5.05%) SolarWinds
6 10 (5.05%) Splunk
7 8 (4.04%) Google
8 7 (3.54%) Salesforce
9 6 (3.03%) SAP
10 5 (2.53%) Hyperion
10 5 (2.53%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.53%) Veeam
10 5 (2.53%) Zerto
11 4 (2.02%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.02%) HubSpot
12 3 (1.52%) Adobe
12 3 (1.52%) IONA
12 3 (1.52%) Xero
13 2 (1.01%) iManage