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

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	554	453	488
Rank change year-on-year	-101	+35	+35
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring	259	231	271
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.22%	0.47%	0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.29%	0.53%	0.47%
Number of salaries quoted	139	146	152
10^th Percentile	£30,930	£35,536	£37,250
25^th Percentile	£44,481	£41,250	£41,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£57,235	£53,000
Median % change year-on-year	-3.91%	+7.99%	-3.64%
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£70,000	£74,144
90^th Percentile	£99,000	£95,625	£82,050
UK excluding London median annual salary	£52,500	£55,000	£50,000
% change year-on-year	-4.55%	+10.00%	-4.76%

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.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	87,897	43,423	57,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	73.55%	88.69%	82.20%
Number of salaries quoted	59,865	24,627	30,673
10^th Percentile	£31,250	£28,250	£33,500
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£35,854	£45,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£55,000	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+9.09%	-8.33%	-
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£75,000	£78,750
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£95,000	£97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,000	£46,500	£53,928
% change year-on-year	+18.28%	-13.77%	+0.80%

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 Salary Trend

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 18 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring Top 16 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 18 October 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	-118	231	£60,250	-3.60%	193
UK excluding London	-122	151	£52,500	-4.55%	102
London	-51	94	£80,000	+14.29%	85
Work from Home	-69	69	£55,000	-	74
South East	-53	44	£60,500	-6.92%	31
North of England	-80	36	£55,000	-15.38%	16
South West	-61	25	£55,000	+52.78%	17
Midlands	-43	17	£45,000	+12.50%	22
Yorkshire	-31	15	£34,000	-47.69%	3
North West	-59	14	£47,500	-25.49%	12
West Midlands	-41	13	£50,000	-16.00%	15
East of England	-43	12	£52,500	-4.55%	8
Scotland	-	11	£31,000	-	4
North East	-	7	£70,000	-	1
Wales	-74	6	£52,500	+18.41%	1
East Midlands	-37	4	£37,750	-5.63%	7

Performance Monitoring Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, job vacancies citing Performance Monitoring also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Performance Monitoring.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Continuous Improvement	41.3%	107
2	Azure	27.4%	71
2	Problem-Solving	27.4%	71
4	Microsoft	23.9%	62
5	Decision-Making	22.4%	58
6	Analytics	21.2%	55
6	DevOps	21.2%	55
8	Security Cleared	18.9%	49
9	AI	18.5%	48
10	CI/CD	17.4%	45
11	Stakeholder Management	16.6%	43
12	Observability	16.2%	42
13	Agile	15.4%	40
13	Degree	15.4%	40
13	Infrastructure as Code	15.4%	40
16	Linux	15.1%	39
17	Mentoring	14.7%	38
17	SQL	14.7%	38
19	Terraform	14.3%	37
20	Active Directory	13.5%	35
20	AWS	13.5%	35
20	Python	13.5%	35
20	Windows	13.5%	35
24	Risk Management	13.1%	34
25	Data Quality	12.0%	31
25	Incident Response	12.0%	31
25	Microsoft 365	12.0%	31
28	Data Management	11.6%	30
28	Entra ID	11.6%	30
30	Architectural Patterns	11.2%	29

Performance Monitoring Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Continuous Improvement	41.3%	107
2	Problem-Solving	27.4%	71
3	Decision-Making	22.4%	58
4	Analytics	21.2%	55
4	DevOps	21.2%	55
6	AI	18.5%	48
7	CI/CD	17.4%	45
8	Stakeholder Management	16.6%	43
9	Observability	16.2%	42
10	Agile	15.4%	40
10	Infrastructure as Code	15.4%	40
12	Mentoring	14.7%	38
13	Risk Management	13.1%	34
14	Incident Response	12.0%	31
15	Data Management	11.6%	30
16	Architectural Patterns	11.2%	29
16	Coaching	11.2%	29
18	Roadmaps	10.8%	28
19	Data Protection	10.4%	27
19	Microservices	10.4%	27