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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 467 496
Rank change year-on-year +45 +29 +201
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 249 309 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.46% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.54% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 152 167 150
10th Percentile £37,591 £37,250 £39,925
25th Percentile £44,190 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile £97,375 £81,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Process and 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 45,724 57,096 47,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 85.02% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,947 29,808 36,597
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,714 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +4.22% -0.94%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 +49 209 £62,500 +19.05% 98
UK excluding London +35 167 £55,000 +10.00% 83
Work from Home +46 100 £59,014 +2.63% 40
London +54 67 £70,000 -8.50% 39
South East +42 47 £67,500 +50.00% 40
North of England +75 44 £65,000 +4.00% 11
North West +65 27 £62,500 +4.17% 7
South West +9 24 £43,953 +14.16% 11
Midlands +20 18 £41,000 -3.53% 10
East of England +25 15 £55,000 +10.00% 7
Yorkshire +14 14 £65,000 +52.94% 4
Northern Ireland +13 13 £73,801 +6.48%
East Midlands +14 12 £40,000 -3.61% 4
Scotland -8 7 £73,801 +39.25% 1
West Midlands +49 6 £59,527 -4.76% 5
Wales +9 6 £44,336 -36.03% 4
North East +18 3 £73,801 +6.48% 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 9 (3.61%) Confluence
2 6 (2.41%) IIS
3 5 (2.01%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.61%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.80%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.80%) WinCC
6 1 (0.40%) Appian
6 1 (0.40%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) JBoss
6 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (14.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.01%) Oracle Smart View
4 4 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.41%) SAP WM
2 5 (2.01%) Hyperion Planning
2 5 (2.01%) Oracle Assets
2 5 (2.01%) Oracle Financials
2 5 (2.01%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (2.01%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (2.01%) Oracle Receivables
2 5 (2.01%) PlanetPress Connect
3 4 (1.61%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.61%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.20%) SAP APO
4 3 (1.20%) SAP CO
4 3 (1.20%) SAP FI
4 3 (1.20%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (1.20%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.80%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 2 (0.80%) OpenCart
6 1 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 66 (26.51%) Azure
2 40 (16.06%) Power Platform
3 34 (13.65%) AWS
4 21 (8.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 19 (7.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (6.83%) GCP
7 15 (6.02%) Vertex AI
8 12 (4.82%) Serverless
9 10 (4.02%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (4.02%) SaaS
10 9 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.61%) GitHub
10 9 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (3.21%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (3.21%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (3.21%) dbt
11 8 (3.21%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.21%) Pulumi
12 6 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (2.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.61%) Firewall
2 8 (3.21%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.61%) DNS
3 4 (1.61%) LAN
3 4 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.61%) Wireless
4 2 (0.80%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.80%) SAN
5 1 (0.40%) HTTP
5 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.40%) Internet
5 1 (0.40%) Intranet
5 1 (0.40%) Multicast
5 1 (0.40%) Network Security
5 1 (0.40%) SNMP
5 1 (0.40%) WAN
5 1 (0.40%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.26%) Power BI
2 26 (10.44%) SQL Server
3 17 (6.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (6.02%) Data Mining
4 15 (6.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.02%) DynamoDB
7 10 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (3.61%) Redis
9 7 (2.81%) Tableau
10 5 (2.01%) Essbase
11 4 (1.61%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.20%) Metadata
12 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 2 (0.80%) Big Data
13 2 (0.80%) MySQL
13 2 (0.80%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (4.42%) Git
1 11 (4.42%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.61%) JIRA
3 7 (2.81%) GitLab
4 5 (2.01%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.61%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.20%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.80%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.80%) JMeter
7 2 (0.80%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.40%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 133 (53.41%) Social Skills
2 85 (34.14%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (31.73%) Finance
4 48 (19.28%) Law
5 36 (14.46%) Retail
6 14 (5.62%) Legal
6 14 (5.62%) Marketing
6 14 (5.62%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.82%) Billing
8 6 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.41%) Games
8 6 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.41%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.41%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.01%) Automotive
9 5 (2.01%) Banking
9 5 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.61%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 67 (26.91%) Senior
2 50 (20.08%) Analyst
3 35 (14.06%) Lead
4 23 (9.24%) Developer
5 13 (5.22%) Commercial Analyst
6 12 (4.82%) Insight Analyst
7 11 (4.42%) IT Manager
7 11 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
8 10 (4.02%) Support Analyst
9 9 (3.61%) Consultant
9 9 (3.61%) Data Analyst
9 9 (3.61%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.21%) Product Manager
10 8 (3.21%) Site Engineer
10 8 (3.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (2.81%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (2.41%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (2.41%) Digital Product Manager
12 6 (2.41%) ServiceNow Consultant
12 6 (2.41%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.02%) CSS
1 15 (6.02%) HTML
1 15 (6.02%) XML
2 14 (5.62%) JSON
3 9 (3.61%) .NET
3 9 (3.61%) Middleware
4 8 (3.21%) Django
4 8 (3.21%) React
4 8 (3.21%) REST
4 8 (3.21%) SOAP
5 7 (2.81%) RESTful
6 6 (2.41%) Kafka
7 5 (2.01%) Amazon Corretto
8 4 (1.61%) Node.js
9 3 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (0.80%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.80%) OAuth
10 2 (0.80%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.80%) Spring
10 2 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.24%) Analytical Mindset
2 21 (8.43%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (7.23%) Algorithms
4 14 (5.62%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.22%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.02%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.61%) e-Learning
8 8 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (2.01%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.61%) FMCG
11 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.61%) Social Media
11 4 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (1.20%) Life Science
12 3 (1.20%) Taxonomies
13 2 (0.80%) Blog
13 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.80%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.25%) Windows
2 22 (8.84%) Windows Server
3 20 (8.03%) Linux
4 8 (3.21%) Unix
5 6 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.61%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.20%) VMS
8 2 (0.80%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.40%) Android
9 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (42.57%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (32.13%) Analytics
3 79 (31.73%) Agile
4 65 (26.10%) DevOps
5 62 (24.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 54 (21.69%) ITIL
7 44 (17.67%) Roadmaps
8 42 (16.87%) AI
8 42 (16.87%) Business Intelligence
8 42 (16.87%) Visualisation
9 41 (16.47%) CI/CD
10 40 (16.06%) Decision-Making
11 31 (12.45%) Actionable Insight
12 29 (11.65%) Problem Management
13 28 (11.24%) Data Science
13 28 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
13 28 (11.24%) ITSM
13 28 (11.24%) Product Management
14 27 (10.84%) Customer Service
14 27 (10.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 61 (24.50%) SQL
2 41 (16.47%) Python
3 23 (9.24%) JavaScript
4 16 (6.43%) PowerShell
5 15 (6.02%) Java
6 14 (5.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (4.02%) Bash
8 9 (3.61%) C#
8 9 (3.61%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.61%) VBA
9 5 (2.01%) Groovy
10 3 (1.20%) R
11 2 (0.80%) Bicep
11 2 (0.80%) Go
12 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.40%) Perl
12 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.40%) Swift
12 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 73 (29.32%) Degree
2 24 (9.64%) Master's Degree
3 19 (7.63%) Security Cleared
4 16 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.22%) SC Cleared
6 12 (4.82%) ITIL Certification
7 9 (3.61%) PMI Certification
7 9 (3.61%) PMP
8 8 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.01%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.61%) CSPO
10 4 (1.61%) HNC
10 4 (1.61%) HND
10 4 (1.61%) MCP
11 3 (1.20%) CISA
11 3 (1.20%) CISM
11 3 (1.20%) CISSP
11 3 (1.20%) CRISC
11 3 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.23%) Data Quality
1 18 (7.23%) GDPR
2 13 (5.22%) QA
3 6 (2.41%) GRC
3 6 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.61%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.61%) ISO 8583
4 4 (1.61%) SEPA
5 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.20%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.80%) SLA
7 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.40%) COBIT
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (10.04%) Docker
2 15 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.80%) Squid
5 2 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (9.64%) Terraform
2 23 (9.24%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.61%) Ansible
4 8 (3.21%) Grafana
5 7 (2.81%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.61%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.61%) Puppet
7 3 (1.20%) Kibana
8 2 (0.80%) AssetCenter
8 2 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.80%) Nagios
8 2 (0.80%) SCCM
9 1 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.40%) Control-M
9 1 (0.40%) logstash
9 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (28.92%) Microsoft
2 35 (14.06%) Google
3 16 (6.43%) Oracle
3 16 (6.43%) ServiceNow
4 15 (6.02%) OpenAI
4 15 (6.02%) SAP
5 9 (3.61%) VMware
6 6 (2.41%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.01%) Hyperion
8 4 (1.61%) Adobe
8 4 (1.61%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.61%) Cisco
8 4 (1.61%) Databricks
8 4 (1.61%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.80%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.80%) Commvault
10 2 (0.80%) EMC
10 2 (0.80%) Rockwell