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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 422 593
Rank change year-on-year -163 +171 -20
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 194 272 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.55% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.61% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 125 150 232
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,925 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,875 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £114,500 £86,250 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,971 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.20% +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 72,823 44,302 82,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.72% 90.16% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50,276 24,855 57,929
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
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 16 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 16 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 -143 169 £60,500 -3.97% 67
UK excluding London -142 102 £52,500 -6.20% 55
London -51 80 £93,750 +34.52% 20
Work from Home -47 43 £55,500 -12.94% 24
South East -52 27 £32,500 -32.64% 17
North of England -58 22 £65,000 - 10
South West -51 18 £55,000 +2.33% 8
Yorkshire -30 11 - - 1
Midlands -21 10 £52,500 +23.32% 13
West Midlands -27 9 £55,000 -18.52% 8
East of England -13 8 £53,106 -3.44% 4
North West -33 7 £69,651 +7.15% 4
Wales -59 6 £42,934 +12.71% 1
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Scotland +17 4 £31,000 - 1
North East -53 4 £55,000 -20.73% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £59,901 - 2
East Midlands -39 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 (5.67%) Confluence
2 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.03%) IIS
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.55%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.55%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.52%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 45 (23.20%) AWS
2 35 (18.04%) Azure
3 22 (11.34%) AWS CloudFormation
3 22 (11.34%) Cloud Computing
4 21 (10.82%) Serverless
5 19 (9.79%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (9.28%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (9.28%) Amazon S3
7 16 (8.25%) Datadog
8 15 (7.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (5.67%) GCP
11 8 (4.12%) Entra ID
12 7 (3.61%) IaaS
12 7 (3.61%) Power Platform
13 6 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (3.09%) Nutanix
13 6 (3.09%) OCI
13 6 (3.09%) OneDrive
13 6 (3.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.82%) TCP/IP
2 15 (7.73%) DNS
3 12 (6.19%) LAN
4 11 (5.67%) HTTP
5 10 (5.15%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (4.12%) IPv4
6 8 (4.12%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (3.09%) VPN
8 5 (2.58%) DHCP
8 5 (2.58%) WAN
9 4 (2.06%) Internet
10 3 (1.55%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.52%) Firewall
11 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.52%) Intranet
11 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.52%) PSTN
11 1 (0.52%) SNMP
11 1 (0.52%) VLAN
11 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.79%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (7.73%) DynamoDB
3 14 (7.22%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.61%) Power BI
5 5 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.58%) Redis
6 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.55%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.52%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 32 (16.49%) GitLab
2 27 (13.92%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.25%) Git
4 14 (7.22%) CircleCI
5 13 (6.70%) JIRA
6 8 (4.12%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.03%) Gatling
7 2 (1.03%) JMeter
7 2 (1.03%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.52%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.52%) Postman
8 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.52%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.52%) Selenium
8 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.52%) Yeoman
General
1 74 (38.14%) Finance
2 72 (37.11%) Social Skills
3 40 (20.62%) Banking
4 29 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (8.25%) Aerospace
7 14 (7.22%) Marketing
8 13 (6.70%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (6.19%) Manufacturing
10 11 (5.67%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (4.64%) Investment Banking
11 9 (4.64%) Law
12 7 (3.61%) Front Office
12 7 (3.61%) Public Sector
13 6 (3.09%) Legal
13 6 (3.09%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (2.58%) Automotive
15 4 (2.06%) Electronics
15 4 (2.06%) Local Government
16 3 (1.55%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 55 (28.35%) Senior
2 20 (10.31%) Administrator
3 18 (9.28%) Developer
3 18 (9.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (9.28%) Lead
4 17 (8.76%) Systems Engineer
5 15 (7.73%) Senior Developer
6 11 (5.67%) Analyst
6 11 (5.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (5.15%) Security Engineer
7 10 (5.15%) Senior Security Engineer
7 10 (5.15%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 10 (5.15%) Systems Administrator
8 9 (4.64%) IT Manager
8 9 (4.64%) Linux Administrator
8 9 (4.64%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 8 (4.12%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (4.12%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 7 (3.61%) Business Support Analyst
10 7 (3.61%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.25%) RESTful
2 14 (7.22%) gRPC
2 14 (7.22%) Kafka
2 14 (7.22%) RabbitMQ
3 13 (6.70%) web3js
4 9 (4.64%) WebSockets
5 7 (3.61%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (2.58%) CSS
6 5 (2.58%) Django
7 4 (2.06%) boto
7 4 (2.06%) HTML
8 3 (1.55%) Bootstrap
8 3 (1.55%) HTML5
8 3 (1.55%) jQuery
8 3 (1.55%) REST
9 2 (1.03%) EDI
9 2 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.03%) NumPy
9 2 (1.03%) Pandas
9 2 (1.03%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.76%) Cloud Native
1 17 (8.76%) Driving Licence
2 14 (7.22%) Blockchain
2 14 (7.22%) Management Information System
3 13 (6.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (6.70%) Web3
4 10 (5.15%) CCTV
5 9 (4.64%) Data Centre
5 9 (4.64%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.64%) Replication
6 7 (3.61%) Fixed Income
7 6 (3.09%) Life Science
8 5 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.58%) NHS
9 4 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (18.04%) Linux
2 24 (12.37%) Windows
3 19 (9.79%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.09%) Apple iOS
6 5 (2.58%) Unix
6 5 (2.58%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.55%) Android
8 2 (1.03%) Rocky
9 1 (0.52%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (26.80%) Continuous Improvement
2 41 (21.13%) CI/CD
2 41 (21.13%) DevOps
3 39 (20.10%) Agile
4 36 (18.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (16.49%) Analytics
7 31 (15.98%) Containerisation
8 29 (14.95%) Risk Management
9 27 (13.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 25 (12.89%) Observability
11 22 (11.34%) Decision-Making
11 22 (11.34%) Microservices
12 21 (10.82%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (10.82%) Performance Optimisation
13 20 (10.31%) High Availability
13 20 (10.31%) Investment Management
14 19 (9.79%) Continuous Delivery
15 18 (9.28%) ITIL
15 18 (9.28%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.53%) Python
2 20 (10.31%) SQL
3 18 (9.28%) Bash
4 16 (8.25%) PowerShell
5 15 (7.73%) Java
6 14 (7.22%) Go
7 7 (3.61%) C++
7 7 (3.61%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.06%) C#
9 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.52%) Bicep
10 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.52%) Groovy
10 1 (0.52%) JCL
10 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (17.53%) Degree
2 21 (10.82%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.76%) RHCSA
4 15 (7.73%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.15%) SC Cleared
7 9 (4.64%) CCNA
8 8 (4.12%) AWS Certification
8 8 (4.12%) ISTQB
8 8 (4.12%) OSCP
8 8 (4.12%) RHCE
9 6 (3.09%) CCNP
9 6 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.09%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.58%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.58%) MCSE
10 5 (2.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (2.06%) ACCA
11 4 (2.06%) CIMA
12 2 (1.03%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.79%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.67%) QA
3 8 (4.12%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.61%) GMP
5 3 (1.55%) GDPR
5 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.55%) PMO
6 2 (1.03%) GAAP
6 2 (1.03%) IFRS
7 1 (0.52%) COBIT
7 1 (0.52%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.52%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.52%) NIST
7 1 (0.52%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (14.95%) Docker
2 28 (14.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (10.82%) Active Directory
4 8 (4.12%) Squid
4 8 (4.12%) VMware NSX
4 8 (4.12%) vSphere
5 5 (2.58%) KVM
6 3 (1.55%) IAG
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (17.01%) Terraform
2 30 (15.46%) Kubernetes
3 16 (8.25%) Prometheus
4 11 (5.67%) Ansible
5 9 (4.64%) Nagios
6 8 (4.12%) Packer
6 8 (4.12%) ZABBIX
7 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.58%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (2.58%) Grafana
9 4 (2.06%) SCCM
10 2 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.52%) Argo
11 1 (0.52%) DatAdvantage
11 1 (0.52%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.52%) Netcool
11 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (21.13%) Microsoft
2 29 (14.95%) VMware
3 18 (9.28%) Oracle
4 17 (8.76%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.19%) Splunk
6 11 (5.67%) Cisco
7 9 (4.64%) SolarWinds
8 7 (3.61%) FIS
8 7 (3.61%) Google
8 7 (3.61%) SunGard
9 5 (2.58%) Veeam
9 5 (2.58%) Zerto
10 4 (2.06%) SAP
11 3 (1.55%) Adobe
11 3 (1.55%) Apple
11 3 (1.55%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.55%) IONA
11 3 (1.55%) Nexthink
11 3 (1.55%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.55%) Xero