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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 433 569
Rank change year-on-year -128 +136 -13
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 204 272 285
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.55% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.62% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 132 150 209
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,925 £33,550
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,875 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £81,875 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £86,375 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,106 £55,971 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.12% +24.38% -10.89%

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 74,263 44,137 73,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 89.84% 81.67%
Number of salaries quoted 51,228 24,998 49,763
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 25 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Top 18 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 25 July 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 -134 180 £60,500 -3.97% 101
UK excluding London -127 112 £53,106 -5.12% 75
London -49 82 £91,250 +30.93% 41
Work from Home -55 45 £56,000 -12.16% 30
South East -73 35 £35,000 -30.00% 15
North of England -57 23 £65,000 - 20
South West -59 19 £55,000 +4.76% 13
Yorkshire -35 11 - - 3
Midlands -39 10 £52,500 +23.32% 12
West Midlands -21 9 £55,000 -18.52% 7
East of England -12 8 £53,106 -3.44% 4
North West -41 7 £69,651 +7.15% 12
Wales -60 6 £42,934 +12.71% 4
North East -47 5 £60,000 -13.52% 5
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Scotland - 4 £31,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £59,901 - 4
East Midlands -35 1 £38,500 -3.75% 5

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 (5.39%) Confluence
2 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.98%) IIS
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.47%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.47%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (21.57%) AWS
2 38 (18.63%) Azure
3 21 (10.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 21 (10.29%) Cloud Computing
4 20 (9.80%) Serverless
5 18 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 16 (7.84%) Datadog
8 14 (6.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (5.39%) GCP
11 9 (4.41%) Entra ID
12 7 (3.43%) IaaS
12 7 (3.43%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.94%) Nutanix
13 6 (2.94%) OCI
13 6 (2.94%) PaaS
13 6 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.80%) TCP/IP
2 14 (6.86%) DNS
3 13 (6.37%) LAN
4 10 (4.90%) HTTP
4 10 (4.90%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (3.92%) IPv4
5 8 (3.92%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.96%) DHCP
6 4 (1.96%) Internet
6 4 (1.96%) VPN
7 3 (1.47%) WAN
8 2 (0.98%) VLAN
9 1 (0.49%) Firewall
9 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.49%) NAS
9 1 (0.49%) Network Security
9 1 (0.49%) PSTN
9 1 (0.49%) SAN
9 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.49%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (6.86%) DynamoDB
3 13 (6.37%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.43%) Power BI
5 5 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.45%) Redis
6 3 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.47%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.98%) Metadata
8 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.49%) Big Data
8 1 (0.49%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.49%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.49%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.49%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 31 (15.20%) GitLab
2 26 (12.75%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.33%) Git
4 14 (6.86%) JIRA
5 13 (6.37%) CircleCI
6 8 (3.92%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.98%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.98%) Gatling
7 2 (0.98%) JMeter
7 2 (0.98%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.49%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.49%) NUnit
8 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.49%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.49%) Selenium
8 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.49%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.49%) Yeoman
General
1 78 (38.24%) Finance
1 78 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.10%) Banking
3 37 (18.14%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.80%) Aerospace
5 17 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (7.35%) Marketing
7 13 (6.37%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (6.37%) Manufacturing
8 11 (5.39%) Investment Banking
8 11 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (4.41%) Front Office
9 9 (4.41%) Law
10 8 (3.92%) Public Sector
11 7 (3.43%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (2.94%) Legal
13 5 (2.45%) Automotive
14 4 (1.96%) Electronics
14 4 (1.96%) Local Government
15 3 (1.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 54 (26.47%) Senior
2 20 (9.80%) Administrator
3 18 (8.82%) Developer
3 18 (8.82%) Lead
4 17 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
5 16 (7.84%) Analyst
6 15 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (6.86%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.90%) Security Engineer
8 10 (4.90%) Senior Security Engineer
8 10 (4.90%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 10 (4.90%) Systems Administrator
9 9 (4.41%) Business Support Analyst
9 9 (4.41%) IT Manager
9 9 (4.41%) Linux Administrator
9 9 (4.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 9 (4.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.41%) Support Analyst
10 8 (3.92%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 8 (3.92%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.35%) RESTful
2 13 (6.37%) gRPC
2 13 (6.37%) Kafka
2 13 (6.37%) RabbitMQ
3 12 (5.88%) web3js
4 9 (4.41%) FIX Protocol
4 9 (4.41%) WebSockets
5 5 (2.45%) Django
6 4 (1.96%) boto
6 4 (1.96%) CSS
7 3 (1.47%) Bootstrap
7 3 (1.47%) HTML
7 3 (1.47%) HTML5
7 3 (1.47%) jQuery
7 3 (1.47%) LDAP
7 3 (1.47%) NumPy
7 3 (1.47%) OAuth
7 3 (1.47%) Pandas
7 3 (1.47%) REST
7 3 (1.47%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.84%) Driving Licence
3 14 (6.86%) Management Information System
4 13 (6.37%) Blockchain
4 13 (6.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (5.88%) Web3
6 11 (5.39%) Data Centre
7 10 (4.90%) CCTV
7 10 (4.90%) Replication
8 9 (4.41%) Fixed Income
8 9 (4.41%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.94%) Life Science
10 5 (2.45%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.45%) NHS
11 4 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.96%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.96%) Social Media
12 3 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.47%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (18.63%) Linux
2 24 (11.76%) Windows
3 18 (8.82%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.45%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.45%) Unix
6 4 (1.96%) Android
7 3 (1.47%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.98%) Rocky
9 1 (0.49%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (30.39%) Continuous Improvement
2 43 (21.08%) DevOps
2 43 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (20.59%) CI/CD
4 39 (19.12%) Agile
5 37 (18.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (14.71%) Analytics
6 30 (14.71%) Containerisation
6 30 (14.71%) Risk Management
7 26 (12.75%) Decision-Making
7 26 (12.75%) Observability
8 24 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 22 (10.78%) Microservices
10 20 (9.80%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (9.80%) Performance Optimisation
11 19 (9.31%) AI
11 19 (9.31%) Migration
12 18 (8.82%) Continuous Delivery
12 18 (8.82%) Investment Management
12 18 (8.82%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 33 (16.18%) Python
2 20 (9.80%) SQL
3 18 (8.82%) Bash
4 15 (7.35%) PowerShell
5 14 (6.86%) Java
6 13 (6.37%) Go
7 9 (4.41%) C++
8 6 (2.94%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.96%) C#
10 2 (0.98%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.49%) Bicep
11 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.49%) Groovy
11 1 (0.49%) JCL
Qualifications
1 38 (18.63%) Degree
2 24 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.33%) RHCSA
4 15 (7.35%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (5.39%) SC Cleared
6 10 (4.90%) CCNA
7 8 (3.92%) AWS Certification
7 8 (3.92%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.92%) ISTQB
7 8 (3.92%) OSCP
7 8 (3.92%) RHCE
8 7 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.45%) CCNP
9 5 (2.45%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.45%) MCSE
9 5 (2.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.96%) ACCA
10 4 (1.96%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.31%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.37%) QA
3 8 (3.92%) GMP
4 7 (3.43%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.47%) GDPR
5 3 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.47%) PMO
6 2 (0.98%) GAAP
6 2 (0.98%) IFRS
6 2 (0.98%) NIST
7 1 (0.49%) COBIT
7 1 (0.49%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.49%) GRC
7 1 (0.49%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.49%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.49%) SLA
7 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (13.73%) Docker
2 27 (13.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (11.27%) Active Directory
4 8 (3.92%) Squid
4 8 (3.92%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.92%) vSphere
5 6 (2.94%) KVM
6 3 (1.47%) IAG
7 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (16.67%) Terraform
2 30 (14.71%) Kubernetes
3 15 (7.35%) Prometheus
4 11 (5.39%) Ansible
5 9 (4.41%) Nagios
6 8 (3.92%) Packer
6 8 (3.92%) ZABBIX
7 5 (2.45%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.45%) Grafana
8 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.96%) SCCM
9 3 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.49%) Argo
11 1 (0.49%) DatAdvantage
11 1 (0.49%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.49%) Netcool
Vendors
1 40 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 28 (13.73%) VMware
3 18 (8.82%) Oracle
4 17 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.88%) Splunk
6 10 (4.90%) Cisco
7 9 (4.41%) FIS
7 9 (4.41%) SolarWinds
7 9 (4.41%) SunGard
8 6 (2.94%) Google
9 5 (2.45%) Veeam
9 5 (2.45%) Zerto
10 3 (1.47%) Adobe
10 3 (1.47%) Apple
10 3 (1.47%) IONA
10 3 (1.47%) Nexthink
10 3 (1.47%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.47%) SAP
10 3 (1.47%) Xero
11 2 (0.98%) Okta