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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 427 556
Rank change year-on-year -146 +129 -22
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 222 275 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.55% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.62% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 118 157 175
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,536 £37,250
25th Percentile £44,863 £41,250 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,971 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% +11.94% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £64,781
90th Percentile £107,500 £86,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -14.29%

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 80,423 44,076 65,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.05% 88.58% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 55,931 25,099 39,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,341
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.38% -6.10%
75th Percentile £79,938 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year +15.79% -7.50% -5.93%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -132 199 £60,000 -2.04% 311
UK excluding London -134 136 £52,500 -4.55% 180
London -68 76 £80,000 +14.29% 172
Work from Home -59 48 £55,000 - 118
South East -61 44 £46,078 -14.27% 53
South West -67 27 £55,000 +52.78% 27
North of England -65 25 £55,000 -12.00% 35
Midlands -41 17 £50,000 +17.65% 31
West Midlands -24 14 £50,000 -19.70% 16
Yorkshire -49 14 £34,000 -41.25% 12
East of England -41 9 £52,500 -4.55% 12
Scotland - 8 £31,000 - 12
North West -43 7 £46,250 -26.00% 21
Wales -67 5 £52,500 +37.82% 4
North East - 4 £70,000 - 2
East Midlands -26 3 £38,500 -3.75% 15
Northern Ireland - 1 £46,000 - 8

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 (5.41%) Confluence
2 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.35%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.35%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.35%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.45%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 52 (23.42%) Azure
2 32 (14.41%) AWS
3 23 (10.36%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (9.91%) Entra ID
5 17 (7.66%) Serverless
6 15 (6.76%) Power Platform
7 14 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (6.31%) Datadog
8 13 (5.86%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (5.86%) Amazon S3
9 12 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (4.50%) SaaS
11 8 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.60%) PaaS
12 6 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.70%) Azure AKS
12 6 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (2.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.95%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.50%) DNS
2 10 (4.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 8 (3.60%) IPv4
3 8 (3.60%) LAN
3 8 (3.60%) Software-Defined Networking
4 5 (2.25%) HTTP
4 5 (2.25%) Internet
5 4 (1.80%) Firewall
6 3 (1.35%) NAS
6 3 (1.35%) Network Security
6 3 (1.35%) SAN
6 3 (1.35%) VPN
7 2 (0.90%) DHCP
7 2 (0.90%) VLAN
7 2 (0.90%) WAN
7 2 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.45%) Intelligent Network
8 1 (0.45%) Intranet
8 1 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.31%) Power BI
2 10 (4.50%) DynamoDB
3 9 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (4.05%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.25%) Big Data
5 5 (2.25%) Metadata
6 4 (1.80%) Data Mining
6 4 (1.80%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.80%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (1.80%) QlikView
6 4 (1.80%) Tableau
7 3 (1.35%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.35%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.35%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.45%) Parquet
9 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.45%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 26 (11.71%) GitLab
2 21 (9.46%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.21%) Git
4 15 (6.76%) JIRA
5 9 (4.05%) CircleCI
6 8 (3.60%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.90%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.90%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.90%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.45%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.45%) Gatling
8 1 (0.45%) JMeter
8 1 (0.45%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.45%) Postman
8 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.45%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.45%) Selenium
8 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.45%) Yeoman
General
1 98 (44.14%) Social Skills
2 78 (35.14%) Finance
3 60 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (15.32%) Aerospace
5 28 (12.61%) Banking
6 20 (9.01%) Marketing
7 19 (8.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (6.76%) Manufacturing
10 13 (5.86%) Legal
11 11 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (4.50%) Law
13 9 (4.05%) Front Office
13 9 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (4.05%) Investment Banking
13 9 (4.05%) Public Sector
14 7 (3.15%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (2.25%) Automotive
15 5 (2.25%) Electronics
16 4 (1.80%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 41 (18.47%) Senior
2 30 (13.51%) Lead
3 21 (9.46%) Architect
4 18 (8.11%) Analyst
5 17 (7.66%) Developer
6 16 (7.21%) Administrator
6 16 (7.21%) Systems Engineer
7 10 (4.50%) Security Engineer
7 10 (4.50%) Senior Developer
7 10 (4.50%) Senior Security Engineer
7 10 (4.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 9 (4.05%) Business Support Analyst
8 9 (4.05%) IT Manager
8 9 (4.05%) Support Analyst
9 8 (3.60%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (3.60%) Operations Manager
9 8 (3.60%) Senior Manager
9 8 (3.60%) Systems Administrator
10 7 (3.15%) QA Manager
10 7 (3.15%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.06%) Terraform
2 15 (6.76%) ModSecurity
3 13 (5.86%) OAuth
4 12 (5.41%) LDAP
4 12 (5.41%) OpenID
4 12 (5.41%) SAML
5 10 (4.50%) RESTful
6 9 (4.05%) FIX Protocol
6 9 (4.05%) gRPC
6 9 (4.05%) Kafka
6 9 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (3.60%) web3js
8 6 (2.70%) .NET
8 6 (2.70%) PyTorch
8 6 (2.70%) REST
9 5 (2.25%) TensorFlow
9 5 (2.25%) WebSockets
10 4 (1.80%) boto
10 4 (1.80%) CSS
10 4 (1.80%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.26%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.66%) Driving Licence
2 17 (7.66%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (7.66%) Social Media
3 16 (7.21%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.95%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (4.50%) CCTV
6 9 (4.05%) Blockchain
6 9 (4.05%) Fixed Income
6 9 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (3.60%) Web3
8 6 (2.70%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.25%) NHS
9 5 (2.25%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.25%) Replication
10 4 (1.80%) Life Science
10 4 (1.80%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.80%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.51%) Linux
2 29 (13.06%) Windows
3 16 (7.21%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.90%) Android
5 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.90%) Rocky
5 2 (0.90%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.45%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (36.49%) Continuous Improvement
2 60 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (22.52%) Decision-Making
4 44 (19.82%) Analytics
5 40 (18.02%) DevOps
6 38 (17.12%) AI
7 37 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 37 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 36 (16.22%) Agile
9 30 (13.51%) Coaching
9 30 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (13.06%) Risk Management
11 27 (12.16%) Incident Response
11 27 (12.16%) Observability
12 26 (11.71%) Microservices
13 25 (11.26%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (11.26%) Strategic Thinking
14 24 (10.81%) Architectural Patterns
15 22 (9.91%) Containerisation
15 22 (9.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 32 (14.41%) Python
2 25 (11.26%) SQL
3 15 (6.76%) Java
4 13 (5.86%) Bash
4 13 (5.86%) PowerShell
5 11 (4.95%) Go
6 9 (4.05%) C++
7 8 (3.60%) C#
7 8 (3.60%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.15%) R
9 4 (1.80%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.35%) VBA
10 3 (1.35%) VBScript
11 2 (0.90%) Bicep
11 2 (0.90%) Ruby
11 2 (0.90%) Scala
12 1 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.45%) Groovy
12 1 (0.45%) JCL
Qualifications
1 46 (20.72%) Degree
2 34 (15.32%) Security Cleared
3 21 (9.46%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.31%) Azure Certification
4 14 (6.31%) CISM
5 13 (5.86%) CISSP
5 13 (5.86%) RHCSA
6 10 (4.50%) CCNA
6 10 (4.50%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.60%) AWS Certification
7 8 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.60%) ISTQB
7 8 (3.60%) OSCP
7 8 (3.60%) RHCE
8 7 (3.15%) SC Cleared
9 5 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.80%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.81%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.41%) QA
3 8 (3.60%) GMP
4 5 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.35%) PMO
6 2 (0.90%) GAAP
6 2 (0.90%) IFRS
6 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.90%) SLA
7 1 (0.45%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.45%) GDPR
7 1 (0.45%) GRC
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.45%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.45%) NIST
7 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (14.86%) Active Directory
2 19 (8.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (8.11%) Docker
4 8 (3.60%) Squid
4 8 (3.60%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.60%) vSphere
5 3 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.35%) IAG
5 3 (1.35%) KVM
5 3 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (12.61%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.86%) Prometheus
3 12 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (4.50%) Ansible
5 8 (3.60%) Packer
5 8 (3.60%) ZABBIX
6 5 (2.25%) Grafana
6 5 (2.25%) Nagios
7 4 (1.80%) SCCM
8 2 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.45%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 44 (19.82%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.56%) VMware
3 17 (7.66%) Oracle
4 13 (5.86%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.41%) ForgeRock
5 12 (5.41%) Okta
6 11 (4.95%) Databricks
6 11 (4.95%) YouTube
7 10 (4.50%) Cisco
7 10 (4.50%) Splunk
8 9 (4.05%) FIS
8 9 (4.05%) SunGard
9 5 (2.25%) Google
9 5 (2.25%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.35%) Adobe
10 3 (1.35%) IONA
10 3 (1.35%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.35%) Pinterest
10 3 (1.35%) Snapchat
10 3 (1.35%) Xero