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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 412 576
Rank change year-on-year -111 +164 +56
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 197 254 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.59% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.64% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 113 124 211
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,500 £38,063 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,063 £61,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £74,258 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £52,609 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.81% +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 67,342 39,928 81,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.57% 92.95% 85.54%
Number of salaries quoted 41,961 22,681 59,568
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -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 4 May 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 4 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 -113 164 £57,500 - 92
UK excluding London -94 108 £48,500 -7.81% 67
London -19 72 £96,250 +42.59% 40
Work from Home -41 56 £52,500 -4.55% 50
South East -52 41 £35,000 -39.13% 20
North of England -67 20 £60,500 -3.20% 10
South West -46 14 £43,953 -17.71% 9
Midlands -53 10 £51,500 +28.75% 13
Scotland -14 9 - - 7
West Midlands -16 9 £55,000 -13.73% 7
North West -38 9 £65,000 +8.33% 6
Yorkshire -53 9 - - 3
Wales -35 5 £42,934 +12.71% 1
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East of England -25 2 £48,500 -3.00% 8
North East -37 2 £47,500 -31.54% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £59,901 - 1
East Midlands -59 1 £47,500 +89.22% 6

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 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.06%) Confluence
2 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.55%) IIS
4 3 (1.52%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
5 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.06%) Oracle Smart View
2 4 (2.03%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.02%) FrameMaker
4 2 (1.02%) MadCap Flare
4 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.51%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (5.08%) Oracle Financials
2 8 (4.06%) Hyperion Planning
2 8 (4.06%) Oracle Assets
2 8 (4.06%) Oracle General Ledger
2 8 (4.06%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (4.06%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.51%) Shopify
4 1 (0.51%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 45 (22.84%) Azure
2 42 (21.32%) AWS
3 25 (12.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 22 (11.17%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (8.63%) Amazon S3
5 17 (8.63%) Serverless
6 16 (8.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (8.12%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (8.12%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (8.12%) Datadog
7 13 (6.60%) Entra ID
8 12 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (5.08%) OneDrive
10 9 (4.57%) Azure AKS
10 9 (4.57%) GCP
10 9 (4.57%) SaaS
11 7 (3.55%) OpenShift
12 6 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.05%) Nutanix
12 6 (3.05%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (11.68%) TCP/IP
2 20 (10.15%) DNS
3 13 (6.60%) HTTP
4 12 (6.09%) WAN
5 11 (5.58%) LAN
6 10 (5.08%) Intrusion Detection
6 10 (5.08%) VPN
7 9 (4.57%) DHCP
8 8 (4.06%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.03%) HTTPS
9 4 (2.03%) Internet
9 4 (2.03%) IPv4
9 4 (2.03%) SNMP
9 4 (2.03%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.51%) Broadband
11 1 (0.51%) Firewall
11 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.51%) Multicast
11 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.66%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (9.14%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.12%) DynamoDB
4 11 (5.58%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.06%) Essbase
6 6 (3.05%) Power BI
6 6 (3.05%) Redis
7 5 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.52%) SAP HANA
10 2 (1.02%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.02%) OLAP
10 2 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.51%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.51%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 32 (16.24%) GitLab
2 29 (14.72%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.12%) CircleCI
4 14 (7.11%) Git
5 9 (4.57%) JIRA
6 8 (4.06%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (3.55%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (1.02%) Gatling
9 2 (1.02%) JMeter
9 2 (1.02%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.51%) Mocha
10 1 (0.51%) Postman
10 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.51%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (0.51%) Selenium
10 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 79 (40.10%) Finance
2 67 (34.01%) Social Skills
3 31 (15.74%) Banking
4 18 (9.14%) Marketing
5 16 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (7.11%) Manufacturing
7 13 (6.60%) Aerospace
8 12 (6.09%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.06%) Retail
10 6 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.05%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.54%) Automotive
11 5 (2.54%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.54%) Law
11 5 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.03%) Electronics
12 4 (2.03%) Local Government
12 4 (2.03%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (37.06%) Senior
2 24 (12.18%) Developer
3 21 (10.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (10.66%) Lead
4 18 (9.14%) Senior Developer
5 17 (8.63%) Systems Engineer
6 16 (8.12%) Administrator
7 15 (7.61%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (5.58%) Analyst
8 11 (5.58%) Senior Manager
9 10 (5.08%) Security Engineer
9 10 (5.08%) Senior Security Engineer
9 10 (5.08%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 9 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.57%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (4.06%) Linux Administrator
11 8 (4.06%) Oracle Analyst
11 8 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.06%) Senior Oracle Analyst
11 8 (4.06%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.64%) Kafka
2 17 (8.63%) RESTful
3 16 (8.12%) gRPC
3 16 (8.12%) RabbitMQ
3 16 (8.12%) web3js
4 8 (4.06%) WebSockets
5 6 (3.05%) REST
6 5 (2.54%) .NET
6 5 (2.54%) Django
7 4 (2.03%) NETCONF
7 4 (2.03%) RESTCONF
8 3 (1.52%) HTML
8 3 (1.52%) Middleware
9 2 (1.02%) CSS
9 2 (1.02%) EDI
9 2 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.02%) React
10 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.51%) scikit-learn
10 1 (0.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.66%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.63%) Blockchain
2 17 (8.63%) Driving Licence
3 16 (8.12%) Web3
4 13 (6.60%) Life Science
4 13 (6.60%) Management Information System
5 10 (5.08%) CCTV
6 9 (4.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.57%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.57%) Replication
7 8 (4.06%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.05%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.54%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.03%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.52%) Clustering
11 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.52%) NHS
11 3 (1.52%) Social Media
12 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 34 (17.26%) Linux
2 24 (12.18%) Windows
3 20 (10.15%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (5.08%) Apple iOS
6 9 (4.57%) Windows 10
7 6 (3.05%) Unix
8 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.02%) Android
10 1 (0.51%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.51%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (24.87%) DevOps
2 47 (23.86%) CI/CD
3 40 (20.30%) Agile
3 40 (20.30%) Analytics
4 36 (18.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (14.21%) Containerisation
6 28 (14.21%) Continuous Integration
6 28 (14.21%) Observability
6 28 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (13.20%) High Availability
7 26 (13.20%) Microservices
7 26 (13.20%) Test Automation
8 25 (12.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 25 (12.69%) Risk Management
9 24 (12.18%) Investment Management
9 24 (12.18%) Roadmaps
10 23 (11.68%) Software Engineering
11 22 (11.17%) Continuous Delivery
11 22 (11.17%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.26%) Python
2 27 (13.71%) SQL
3 20 (10.15%) Bash
3 20 (10.15%) PowerShell
4 16 (8.12%) Go
5 13 (6.60%) Java
6 11 (5.58%) C#
7 9 (4.57%) Groovy
8 5 (2.54%) Bicep
8 5 (2.54%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.52%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.02%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.51%) JCL
Qualifications
1 37 (18.78%) Degree
2 19 (9.64%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.60%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (6.60%) Master's Degree
4 12 (6.09%) RHCSA
5 9 (4.57%) CCNP
5 9 (4.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (4.57%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.54%) MCSE
6 5 (2.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (2.03%) ACCA
7 4 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.03%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.03%) CCIE
7 4 (2.03%) CCNA
7 4 (2.03%) CIMA
7 4 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.03%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.03%) OSCP
7 4 (2.03%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.57%) QA
2 7 (3.55%) GMP
3 6 (3.05%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.54%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.54%) GDPR
5 2 (1.02%) GAAP
5 2 (1.02%) IFRS
6 1 (0.51%) COBIT
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.51%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) P3O
6 1 (0.51%) PMO
6 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (15.74%) Docker
2 28 (14.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (10.66%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.54%) KVM
5 4 (2.03%) Squid
5 4 (2.03%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.03%) vSphere
6 3 (1.52%) IAG
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (20.30%) Kubernetes
2 37 (18.78%) Terraform
3 17 (8.63%) Prometheus
4 13 (6.60%) Ansible
5 12 (6.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (4.06%) Nagios
7 5 (2.54%) AWS Copilot
8 4 (2.03%) Grafana
8 4 (2.03%) logstash
8 4 (2.03%) Packer
8 4 (2.03%) ZABBIX
9 3 (1.52%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.52%) Puppet
9 3 (1.52%) SCCM
10 2 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.02%) DatAdvantage
10 2 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.51%) Argo
11 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 31 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.72%) VMware
3 19 (9.64%) Oracle
4 15 (7.61%) Red Hat
5 14 (7.11%) Cisco
6 8 (4.06%) Google
6 8 (4.06%) Hyperion
6 8 (4.06%) SolarWinds
7 7 (3.55%) Salesforce
7 7 (3.55%) SAP
7 7 (3.55%) Splunk
8 5 (2.54%) HubSpot
8 5 (2.54%) Veeam
8 5 (2.54%) Zerto
9 4 (2.03%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.03%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.03%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.02%) Apple
10 2 (1.02%) iManage
10 2 (1.02%) IONA