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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 428 536
Rank change year-on-year -30 +108 +129
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 207 287 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.58% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.63% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 119 133 170
10th Percentile £37,107 £28,800 £34,983
25th Percentile £44,145 £43,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile £108,000 £80,600 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +12.30%

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 52,730 45,725 65,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.77% 92.08% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 31,308 22,323 50,742
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,125 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -55 160 £58,000 +0.87% 74
UK excluding London -45 125 £55,000 -4.35% 58
Work from Home +31 94 £55,000 -18.10% 41
London +2 60 £73,801 -3.53% 31
South East +8 36 £56,500 -1.74% 17
North of England -10 29 £65,000 -6.22% 16
North West +20 18 £65,000 +4.00% 8
South West -23 16 £43,953 -19.09% 5
Midlands -7 15 £45,000 +5.88% 7
Northern Ireland -8 13 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Scotland -19 12 £73,801 +6.48% 3
West Midlands +8 8 £59,527 -4.76% 6
Yorkshire -23 8 £66,250 +55.88% 4
East Midlands -28 7 £42,000 +67.31% 1
Wales +4 5 £44,336 -36.03% 3
East of England -4 4 £55,000 +10.00% 6
North East -8 3 £73,801 +6.48% 4

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 (5.80%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.86%) IIS
2 8 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.38%) Confluence
4 4 (1.93%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.97%) CMS
5 2 (0.97%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.97%) WinCC
6 1 (0.48%) Appian
6 1 (0.48%) SAS
6 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.83%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.93%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.48%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (5.31%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (4.83%) Hyperion Planning
2 10 (4.83%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (4.83%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (4.83%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (4.83%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (2.42%) PlanetPress Connect
4 4 (1.93%) SAP ERP
4 4 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (1.45%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (1.45%) SAP CO
5 3 (1.45%) SAP FI
5 3 (1.45%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.97%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.97%) OpenCart
7 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.48%) Primavera
7 1 (0.48%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.48%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 63 (30.43%) Azure
2 32 (15.46%) AWS
3 25 (12.08%) Power Platform
4 19 (9.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (7.25%) Entra ID
7 14 (6.76%) GCP
8 13 (6.28%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (6.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (5.31%) Serverless
10 10 (4.83%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (4.83%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.83%) SaaS
11 9 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (3.86%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (3.86%) dbt
12 8 (3.86%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.18%) TCP/IP
2 15 (7.25%) DNS
3 12 (5.80%) WAN
4 9 (4.35%) VPN
5 8 (3.86%) DHCP
5 8 (3.86%) SD-WAN
6 7 (3.38%) HTTP
6 7 (3.38%) LAN
7 5 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.93%) Firewall
8 4 (1.93%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.93%) SNMP
8 4 (1.93%) Wireless
9 3 (1.45%) Internet
10 2 (0.97%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.48%) Broadband
11 1 (0.48%) Intranet
11 1 (0.48%) Multicast
11 1 (0.48%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.53%) SQL Server
2 24 (11.59%) Power BI
3 17 (8.21%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (7.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 13 (6.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (4.83%) Essbase
6 10 (4.83%) NoSQL
7 9 (4.35%) DynamoDB
7 9 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (4.35%) Redis
8 6 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.93%) Metadata
10 4 (1.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (1.45%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.45%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.97%) MySQL
12 2 (0.97%) OLAP
12 2 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (7.73%) GitLab
1 16 (7.73%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.83%) Oracle Forms
3 8 (3.86%) CircleCI
3 8 (3.86%) JIRA
4 7 (3.38%) Git
5 4 (1.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.93%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.45%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.97%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.97%) JMeter
7 2 (0.97%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.48%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.48%) Mocha
General
1 94 (45.41%) Social Skills
2 84 (40.58%) Finance
3 40 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.25%) Banking
4 15 (7.25%) Marketing
5 13 (6.28%) Retail
6 12 (5.80%) Billing
6 12 (5.80%) Legal
7 10 (4.83%) Public Sector
8 9 (4.35%) Law
9 8 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.38%) Aerospace
10 7 (3.38%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.42%) Financial Institution
12 5 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (2.42%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.93%) Automotive
14 3 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (25.60%) Senior
2 39 (18.84%) Analyst
3 23 (11.11%) Developer
4 17 (8.21%) Lead
5 14 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (6.76%) Senior Analyst
6 12 (5.80%) Commercial Analyst
6 12 (5.80%) Insight Analyst
7 11 (5.31%) Senior Developer
7 11 (5.31%) Support Analyst
8 10 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (4.83%) Oracle Analyst
8 10 (4.83%) Senior Oracle Analyst
9 9 (4.35%) IT Manager
9 9 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.86%) Administrator
10 8 (3.86%) Product Owner
10 8 (3.86%) Site Engineer
10 8 (3.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (3.38%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.80%) Kafka
2 10 (4.83%) RESTful
3 9 (4.35%) .NET
3 9 (4.35%) HTML
4 8 (3.86%) Django
4 8 (3.86%) gRPC
4 8 (3.86%) RabbitMQ
4 8 (3.86%) REST
4 8 (3.86%) web3js
5 7 (3.38%) CSS
6 5 (2.42%) JSON
6 5 (2.42%) Middleware
7 4 (1.93%) NETCONF
7 4 (1.93%) RESTCONF
7 4 (1.93%) XML
8 3 (1.45%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.45%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.45%) React
8 3 (1.45%) WebSockets
9 2 (0.97%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (5.31%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.86%) Blockchain
6 8 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.86%) Life Science
6 8 (3.86%) Web3
7 6 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.42%) Social Media
9 4 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.93%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.45%) Blog
10 3 (1.45%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.45%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.97%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.97%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.01%) Windows
2 26 (12.56%) Linux
3 21 (10.14%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.35%) Apple iOS
4 9 (4.35%) Unix
4 9 (4.35%) Windows 10
5 7 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.93%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.48%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (28.02%) Analytics
2 54 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (25.12%) Agile
4 41 (19.81%) CI/CD
4 41 (19.81%) DevOps
5 40 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (17.39%) Roadmaps
7 30 (14.49%) ITIL
8 28 (13.53%) Business Intelligence
8 28 (13.53%) Risk Management
9 27 (13.04%) Decision-Making
9 27 (13.04%) Observability
10 26 (12.56%) Actionable Insight
10 26 (12.56%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (12.08%) Collaborative Working
12 23 (11.11%) High Availability
13 22 (10.63%) Process Improvement
13 22 (10.63%) Service Management
13 22 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (10.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 52 (25.12%) SQL
2 30 (14.49%) Python
3 18 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 14 (6.76%) JavaScript
5 13 (6.28%) C#
6 12 (5.80%) Bash
6 12 (5.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (4.83%) Groovy
8 9 (4.35%) VBA
9 8 (3.86%) Go
9 8 (3.86%) Java
10 4 (1.93%) Bicep
10 4 (1.93%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.48%) R
12 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (23.19%) Degree
2 21 (10.14%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.76%) Master's Degree
4 12 (5.80%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.93%) CCIE
7 4 (1.93%) CCNP
7 4 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.45%) CISA
8 3 (1.45%) CISM
8 3 (1.45%) CISSP
8 3 (1.45%) CRISC
8 3 (1.45%) CSPO
8 3 (1.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 3 (1.45%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.83%) GDPR
3 6 (2.90%) QA
4 5 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.42%) GRC
4 5 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.45%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.45%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.45%) ISO 8583
5 3 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 3 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 3 (1.45%) SEPA
6 2 (0.97%) COBIT
7 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.48%) P3O
7 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.48%) PMO
7 1 (0.48%) SLA
7 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (12.56%) Docker
2 19 (9.18%) Active Directory
3 15 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.48%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (14.01%) Kubernetes
2 27 (13.04%) Terraform
3 13 (6.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (5.31%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.86%) Ansible
6 4 (1.93%) logstash
6 4 (1.93%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.93%) Puppet
7 3 (1.45%) Grafana
7 3 (1.45%) Nagios
8 2 (0.97%) AssetCenter
8 2 (0.97%) Kibana
8 2 (0.97%) SCCM
9 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.48%) Argo
9 1 (0.48%) Control-M
9 1 (0.48%) DatAdvantage
9 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.21%) VMware
3 15 (7.25%) Oracle
4 12 (5.80%) Google
4 12 (5.80%) SAP
5 11 (5.31%) ServiceNow
6 10 (4.83%) Hyperion
7 7 (3.38%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.38%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.90%) Cisco
9 5 (2.42%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.42%) HubSpot
10 4 (1.93%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.45%) Ahrefs
11 3 (1.45%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.97%) Adobe
12 2 (0.97%) Kepware
12 2 (0.97%) Planon
12 2 (0.97%) Rockwell
12 2 (0.97%) Siemens