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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 390 579
Rank change year-on-year -103 +189 +44
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 212 263 314
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.63% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.68% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 120 128 205
10th Percentile £38,375 £27,450 £31,750
25th Percentile £46,625 £40,500 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,313 £61,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £75,675 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,609 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.54% +5.22% -

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 65,992 38,867 81,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.24% 92.91% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40,690 22,673 59,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -128 166 £60,000 +4.35% 81
UK excluding London -101 124 £55,000 +4.54% 56
Work from Home -17 81 £55,000 - 31
London -38 71 £80,000 +16.89% 30
South East -64 44 £35,000 -39.13% 12
North of England -67 20 £66,250 +6.00% 14
South West -54 14 £45,000 -15.75% 7
North West -37 13 £65,000 +8.33% 8
Scotland -11 12 £73,801 - 3
Northern Ireland -32 10 £73,801 - 2
Midlands -51 9 £55,500 +30.59% 11
West Midlands -29 8 £56,000 -13.85% 7
Wales -32 7 £42,934 +12.71% 1
North East -36 5 £60,651 -12.59%
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East of England -41 3 £48,500 -3.00% 6
Yorkshire -60 2 £67,500 +34.00% 6
East Midlands -72 1 £47,500 +89.22% 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 11 (5.19%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.25%) IIS
3 8 (3.77%) Confluence
3 8 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.89%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.47%) SAS
5 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.72%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (1.89%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.47%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.47%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.47%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (5.66%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (4.72%) Hyperion Planning
2 10 (4.72%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (4.72%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (4.72%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (4.72%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.94%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.94%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.94%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.94%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.47%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 69 (32.55%) Azure
2 44 (20.75%) AWS
3 29 (13.68%) AWS CloudFormation
4 20 (9.43%) Cloud Computing
5 18 (8.49%) Power Platform
6 17 (8.02%) Serverless
7 16 (7.55%) Amazon S3
7 16 (7.55%) GCP
8 15 (7.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (7.08%) Entra ID
9 14 (6.60%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (6.60%) Datadog
9 14 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (6.13%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 11 (5.19%) Amazon ECR
12 11 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (5.19%) dbt
12 11 (5.19%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.26%) TCP/IP
2 18 (8.49%) DNS
3 12 (5.66%) WAN
4 10 (4.72%) HTTP
4 10 (4.72%) LAN
4 10 (4.72%) VPN
5 9 (4.25%) DHCP
6 8 (3.77%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.89%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.89%) SNMP
7 4 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.42%) Firewall
8 3 (1.42%) IPv4
8 3 (1.42%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (1.42%) Wireless
9 2 (0.94%) Internet
10 1 (0.47%) Broadband
10 1 (0.47%) Intranet
10 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 26 (12.26%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (8.49%) Power BI
4 16 (7.55%) NoSQL
4 16 (7.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (7.08%) DynamoDB
6 13 (6.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (5.66%) Redis
8 11 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (4.72%) Essbase
10 4 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.42%) Metadata
11 3 (1.42%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.94%) Big Data
12 2 (0.94%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.94%) OLAP
12 2 (0.94%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 27 (12.74%) GitLab
1 27 (12.74%) Jenkins
2 14 (6.60%) CircleCI
2 14 (6.60%) Git
3 10 (4.72%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (4.25%) JIRA
5 7 (3.30%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.42%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.94%) Gatling
8 2 (0.94%) JMeter
8 2 (0.94%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.47%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.47%) Mocha
9 1 (0.47%) Selenium
9 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.47%) Yeoman
General
1 90 (42.45%) Finance
1 90 (42.45%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (12.26%) Banking
4 18 (8.49%) Marketing
5 15 (7.08%) Manufacturing
6 12 (5.66%) Billing
6 12 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.19%) Aerospace
8 10 (4.72%) Retail
9 7 (3.30%) Legal
10 6 (2.83%) Automotive
10 6 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.36%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.89%) Law
12 4 (1.89%) Local Government
12 4 (1.89%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.42%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 71 (33.49%) Senior
2 29 (13.68%) Analyst
3 23 (10.85%) Developer
4 21 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (9.91%) Lead
5 17 (8.02%) Senior Developer
6 15 (7.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (6.13%) Senior Analyst
8 12 (5.66%) Commercial Analyst
8 12 (5.66%) Insight Analyst
9 11 (5.19%) Administrator
9 11 (5.19%) Senior Manager
10 10 (4.72%) Oracle Analyst
10 10 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.72%) Senior Oracle Analyst
11 9 (4.25%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.30%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
12 7 (3.30%) Site Engineer
12 7 (3.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 6 (2.83%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.49%) Kafka
2 16 (7.55%) RESTful
3 14 (6.60%) gRPC
3 14 (6.60%) RabbitMQ
3 14 (6.60%) web3js
4 11 (5.19%) Django
5 9 (4.25%) .NET
6 7 (3.30%) REST
7 5 (2.36%) HTML
7 5 (2.36%) WebSockets
8 4 (1.89%) CSS
8 4 (1.89%) Middleware
8 4 (1.89%) NETCONF
8 4 (1.89%) RESTCONF
9 3 (1.42%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.42%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.42%) React
10 2 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.94%) scikit-learn
10 2 (0.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.38%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (7.08%) Blockchain
3 14 (6.60%) Web3
4 13 (6.13%) Life Science
4 13 (6.13%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (5.66%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.72%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (4.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (4.25%) Replication
8 6 (2.83%) Driving Licence
8 6 (2.83%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.36%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.36%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.36%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.42%) Clustering
11 3 (1.42%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.42%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.45%) Linux
2 28 (13.21%) Windows
3 21 (9.91%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.66%) Unix
5 10 (4.72%) Apple iOS
6 9 (4.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.25%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.42%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.94%) Android
10 1 (0.47%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (25.94%) Analytics
1 55 (25.94%) CI/CD
1 55 (25.94%) DevOps
2 47 (22.17%) Agile
3 42 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (19.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (15.57%) Observability
7 29 (13.68%) Decision-Making
7 29 (13.68%) Roadmaps
8 28 (13.21%) Containerisation
9 27 (12.74%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (12.26%) Risk Management
10 26 (12.26%) Test Automation
11 25 (11.79%) High Availability
11 25 (11.79%) Microservices
12 24 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 24 (11.32%) Software Engineering
13 23 (10.85%) Coaching
14 22 (10.38%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 41 (19.34%) Python
2 40 (18.87%) SQL
3 21 (9.91%) PowerShell
4 17 (8.02%) Bash
5 15 (7.08%) Java
6 14 (6.60%) C#
6 14 (6.60%) Go
7 12 (5.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (5.19%) Groovy
9 7 (3.30%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.36%) Bicep
11 4 (1.89%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.94%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.94%) VBA
13 1 (0.47%) JCL
13 1 (0.47%) R
13 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 52 (24.53%) Degree
2 25 (11.79%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.55%) Master's Degree
4 15 (7.08%) SC Cleared
5 12 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (4.25%) CCNP
6 9 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.77%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.36%) MCSE
8 5 (2.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (1.89%) ACCA
9 4 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.89%) CCIE
9 4 (1.89%) CIMA
10 3 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (1.42%) OSCP
10 3 (1.42%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.13%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.19%) QA
3 7 (3.30%) GMP
4 6 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.36%) GDPR
6 2 (0.94%) GAAP
6 2 (0.94%) IFRS
6 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.47%) COBIT
7 1 (0.47%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.47%) NIST
7 1 (0.47%) P3O
7 1 (0.47%) PMO
7 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (17.45%) Docker
2 25 (11.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (10.85%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.36%) KVM
5 3 (1.42%) Squid
5 3 (1.42%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.42%) vSphere
6 2 (0.94%) IAG
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 41 (19.34%) Terraform
2 39 (18.40%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.55%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (6.13%) Ansible
6 5 (2.36%) AWS Copilot
6 5 (2.36%) Grafana
6 5 (2.36%) Nagios
7 4 (1.89%) logstash
7 4 (1.89%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.89%) Puppet
8 3 (1.42%) Packer
8 3 (1.42%) SCCM
8 3 (1.42%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.94%) DatAdvantage
9 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.47%) Argo
10 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 36 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.26%) VMware
3 20 (9.43%) Oracle
4 14 (6.60%) Google
5 12 (5.66%) Red Hat
6 10 (4.72%) Hyperion
7 9 (4.25%) SAP
8 7 (3.30%) Salesforce
8 7 (3.30%) Splunk
9 6 (2.83%) Dynatrace
10 5 (2.36%) Atlassian
10 5 (2.36%) HubSpot
10 5 (2.36%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.36%) Veeam
10 5 (2.36%) Zerto
11 4 (1.89%) Cisco
11 4 (1.89%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.94%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.94%) Apple
12 2 (0.94%) Varonis