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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 417 589
Rank change year-on-year -123 +172 +19
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 199 245 328
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.57% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.61% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 121 124 210
10th Percentile £30,750 £30,000 £32,375
25th Percentile £45,500 £41,156 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £74,777 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,971 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.67% +11.94% -

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 68,838 39,983 83,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.25% 83.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44,890 21,039 60,407
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,903 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -121 170 £57,500 -0.29% 39
UK excluding London -93 111 £50,000 -10.67% 36
London -47 73 £95,000 +36.92% 12
Work from Home -8 52 £53,106 -3.44% 11
South East -40 39 £35,000 -39.13% 12
North of England -63 22 £56,000 -13.85% 11
South West -48 17 £55,000 -1.73% 2
Yorkshire -50 11 - - 5
West Midlands -35 9 £55,000 -16.98% 3
Midlands -43 9 £55,000 +68.96% 3
North West -24 8 £65,000 - 6
Scotland +3 7 £31,000 - 2
East of England -23 5 £53,712 -6.59% 4
Wales -41 5 £42,934 +12.71% 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
North East -36 3 £51,250 -26.14%
Northern Ireland - 2 £59,901 -

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 10 (5.03%) Confluence
2 9 (4.52%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.01%) IIS
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) SAS
5 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.51%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.51%) MadCap Flare
3 3 (1.51%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.50%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.51%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (1.51%) Hyperion Planning
2 3 (1.51%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (1.51%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.51%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.51%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.50%) Shopify
4 1 (0.50%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 48 (24.12%) AWS
2 41 (20.60%) Azure
3 27 (13.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 22 (11.06%) Cloud Computing
4 22 (11.06%) Serverless
5 21 (10.55%) Amazon S3
5 21 (10.55%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (10.05%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (9.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (9.05%) Datadog
8 12 (6.03%) Entra ID
9 11 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (5.03%) OneDrive
11 9 (4.52%) GCP
12 7 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.52%) Azure AKS
12 7 (3.52%) SaaS
13 6 (3.02%) IaaS
13 6 (3.02%) Nutanix
13 6 (3.02%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.56%) TCP/IP
2 19 (9.55%) DNS
3 13 (6.53%) HTTP
4 12 (6.03%) LAN
5 10 (5.03%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (5.03%) VPN
5 10 (5.03%) WAN
6 9 (4.52%) DHCP
7 8 (4.02%) SD-WAN
8 7 (3.52%) IPv4
8 7 (3.52%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (2.01%) Internet
10 2 (1.01%) HTTPS
10 2 (1.01%) SNMP
11 1 (0.50%) Broadband
11 1 (0.50%) Intranet
11 1 (0.50%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.50%) PSTN
11 1 (0.50%) VoIP
11 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.06%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (9.55%) NoSQL
3 18 (9.05%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.02%) Power BI
4 6 (3.02%) Redis
5 5 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.51%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.01%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.51%) Essbase
7 3 (1.51%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.50%) Big Data
9 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.50%) Metadata
9 1 (0.50%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 35 (17.59%) GitLab
2 30 (15.08%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.54%) CircleCI
3 17 (8.54%) Git
4 11 (5.53%) JIRA
5 7 (3.52%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.51%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.01%) Gatling
7 2 (1.01%) JMeter
7 2 (1.01%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.50%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.50%) Mocha
8 1 (0.50%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.50%) Selenium
8 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.50%) Yeoman
General
1 79 (39.70%) Finance
2 73 (36.68%) Social Skills
3 34 (17.09%) Banking
4 22 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.55%) Marketing
6 14 (7.04%) Aerospace
6 14 (7.04%) Manufacturing
7 13 (6.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (6.03%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.52%) Public Sector
10 7 (3.52%) Retail
11 6 (3.02%) Law
11 6 (3.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.51%) Automotive
13 4 (2.01%) Electronics
13 4 (2.01%) Financial Institution
13 4 (2.01%) Legal
13 4 (2.01%) Local Government
13 4 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (34.17%) Senior
2 25 (12.56%) Developer
3 21 (10.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (10.55%) Lead
4 20 (10.05%) Administrator
5 19 (9.55%) Senior Developer
6 17 (8.54%) Systems Engineer
7 15 (7.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.03%) Linux Administrator
8 10 (5.03%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 10 (5.03%) Security Engineer
8 10 (5.03%) Senior Security Engineer
8 10 (5.03%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 10 (5.03%) Systems Administrator
9 8 (4.02%) Senior Manager
10 7 (3.52%) Analyst
10 7 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 7 (3.52%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.05%) RESTful
2 17 (8.54%) gRPC
2 17 (8.54%) Kafka
2 17 (8.54%) RabbitMQ
2 17 (8.54%) web3js
3 10 (5.03%) WebSockets
4 6 (3.02%) HTML
5 5 (2.51%) CSS
5 5 (2.51%) Django
5 5 (2.51%) REST
6 4 (2.01%) .NET
7 3 (1.51%) Bootstrap
7 3 (1.51%) boto
7 3 (1.51%) HTML5
7 3 (1.51%) jQuery
8 2 (1.01%) EDI
8 2 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.01%) NETCONF
8 2 (1.01%) React
8 2 (1.01%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.55%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.05%) Blockchain
3 17 (8.54%) Driving Licence
3 17 (8.54%) Web3
4 14 (7.04%) Management Information System
5 12 (6.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (5.53%) Life Science
7 10 (5.03%) CCTV
7 10 (5.03%) Data Centre
7 10 (5.03%) Product Ownership
8 9 (4.52%) Replication
9 5 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.51%) NHS
9 5 (2.51%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.01%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.51%) Clustering
11 3 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.51%) Social Media
12 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.58%) Linux
2 23 (11.56%) Windows
3 20 (10.05%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.03%) Apple iOS
4 10 (5.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.52%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.02%) Unix
7 2 (1.01%) Android
7 2 (1.01%) Rocky
8 1 (0.50%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (25.13%) DevOps
2 46 (23.12%) CI/CD
3 39 (19.60%) Agile
3 39 (19.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (18.59%) Analytics
5 36 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (16.08%) Containerisation
7 28 (14.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 28 (14.07%) Observability
7 28 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (13.07%) Continuous Integration
8 26 (13.07%) Microservices
9 25 (12.56%) Investment Management
9 25 (12.56%) Risk Management
10 24 (12.06%) High Availability
10 24 (12.06%) Test Automation
11 23 (11.56%) Continuous Delivery
11 23 (11.56%) Decision-Making
11 23 (11.56%) Roadmaps
12 22 (11.06%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (17.59%) Python
2 25 (12.56%) SQL
3 20 (10.05%) Bash
4 18 (9.05%) PowerShell
5 17 (8.54%) Go
6 15 (7.54%) Java
7 9 (4.52%) C#
8 8 (4.02%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.01%) Groovy
10 3 (1.51%) Bicep
10 3 (1.51%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.01%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.50%) JCL
Qualifications
1 37 (18.59%) Degree
2 21 (10.55%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.54%) RHCSA
4 14 (7.04%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (6.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.53%) Master's Degree
6 11 (5.53%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.52%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.52%) CCNA
7 7 (3.52%) CCNP
7 7 (3.52%) ISTQB
7 7 (3.52%) OSCP
7 7 (3.52%) RHCE
8 6 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.51%) MCSE
9 5 (2.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (2.01%) ACCA
10 4 (2.01%) CIMA
11 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.01%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.53%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.03%) QA
3 7 (3.52%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.52%) GMP
4 4 (2.01%) GDPR
5 2 (1.01%) GAAP
5 2 (1.01%) IFRS
5 2 (1.01%) PMO
6 1 (0.50%) COBIT
6 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.50%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) P3O
6 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (16.08%) Docker
2 30 (15.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (10.05%) Active Directory
4 7 (3.52%) Squid
4 7 (3.52%) VMware NSX
4 7 (3.52%) vSphere
5 5 (2.51%) KVM
6 3 (1.51%) IAG
7 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (20.10%) Terraform
2 37 (18.59%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.05%) Prometheus
4 13 (6.53%) Ansible
5 11 (5.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (5.03%) Nagios
7 7 (3.52%) Packer
7 7 (3.52%) ZABBIX
8 5 (2.51%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (2.01%) Grafana
10 3 (1.51%) SCCM
11 2 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.01%) DatAdvantage
11 2 (1.01%) logstash
11 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.50%) Argo
12 1 (0.50%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.50%) Netcool
Vendors
1 39 (19.60%) Microsoft
2 31 (15.58%) VMware
3 17 (8.54%) Oracle
3 17 (8.54%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.03%) Cisco
5 10 (5.03%) SolarWinds
5 10 (5.03%) Splunk
6 8 (4.02%) Google
7 7 (3.52%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.51%) SAP
8 5 (2.51%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.51%) Veeam
8 5 (2.51%) Zerto
9 4 (2.01%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.01%) HubSpot
10 3 (1.51%) Adobe
10 3 (1.51%) Hyperion
10 3 (1.51%) IONA
10 3 (1.51%) Xero
11 2 (1.01%) iManage