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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 427 551
Rank change year-on-year -133 +124 -26
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 232 272 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.54% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.61% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 129 152 188
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,536 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £44,798 £37,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £63,953
90th Percentile £107,500 £86,125 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -14.29%

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 79,395 44,536 67,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.97% 80.72%
Number of salaries quoted 54,920 25,310 42,355
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -128 207 £60,000 -4.00% 88
UK excluding London -122 140 £52,500 -4.55% 77
London -45 82 £80,000 +14.29% 27
Work from Home -61 49 £54,356 -2.88% 19
South East -55 46 £49,289 -1.42% 29
South West -62 27 £55,000 +52.78% 8
North of England -60 25 £51,250 -19.61% 15
Midlands -35 17 £50,000 +17.44% 16
West Midlands -11 14 £50,000 -25.93% 9
Yorkshire -22 14 £34,000 -41.25% 6
East of England -32 9 £52,500 -4.55% 6
Scotland - 7 £31,000 - 2
North West -45 6 £46,250 -26.00% 4
Wales -63 6 £52,500 +37.82% 2
North East -51 5 £65,000 -6.32% 5
East Midlands -26 3 £38,500 -3.75% 7
Channel Islands - 2 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £46,000 -

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 (5.17%) Confluence
2 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.86%) IIS
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.29%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.29%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (22.41%) Azure
2 33 (14.22%) AWS
3 23 (9.91%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (9.48%) Entra ID
5 17 (7.33%) Serverless
6 14 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (6.03%) Datadog
6 14 (6.03%) Power Platform
7 13 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (5.60%) Amazon S3
8 12 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (5.17%) SaaS
9 10 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.02%) PaaS
11 6 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.59%) Azure AKS
11 6 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.59%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.03%) TCP/IP
2 12 (5.17%) DNS
3 11 (4.74%) LAN
4 10 (4.31%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (3.45%) HTTP
5 8 (3.45%) IPv4
5 8 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.72%) Firewall
6 4 (1.72%) Internet
7 3 (1.29%) NAS
7 3 (1.29%) Network Security
7 3 (1.29%) SAN
7 3 (1.29%) VPN
8 2 (0.86%) DHCP
8 2 (0.86%) VLAN
8 2 (0.86%) WAN
8 2 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.43%) Intranet
9 1 (0.43%) PSTN
9 1 (0.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.60%) Power BI
2 10 (4.31%) DynamoDB
3 9 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (3.88%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.16%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.16%) Metadata
5 4 (1.72%) Big Data
5 4 (1.72%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.29%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.29%) Oracle BI EE
6 3 (1.29%) QlikView
6 3 (1.29%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.29%) Star Schema
6 3 (1.29%) Tableau
7 2 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.86%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.43%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 26 (11.21%) GitLab
2 21 (9.05%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.33%) Git
4 15 (6.47%) JIRA
5 9 (3.88%) CircleCI
6 8 (3.45%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.86%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.86%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.86%) Gatling
7 2 (0.86%) JMeter
7 2 (0.86%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.86%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.43%) NUnit
8 1 (0.43%) Postman
8 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.43%) Selenium
8 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.43%) Yeoman
General
1 101 (43.53%) Social Skills
2 82 (35.34%) Finance
3 59 (25.43%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (14.66%) Aerospace
5 33 (14.22%) Banking
6 21 (9.05%) Marketing
7 17 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (7.33%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (6.47%) Manufacturing
9 12 (5.17%) Legal
10 11 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (4.31%) Investment Banking
11 10 (4.31%) Law
12 9 (3.88%) Front Office
12 9 (3.88%) Public Sector
13 8 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (3.02%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (2.16%) Automotive
15 5 (2.16%) Electronics
15 5 (2.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (18.53%) Senior
2 29 (12.50%) Lead
3 21 (9.05%) Architect
4 19 (8.19%) Administrator
5 18 (7.76%) Analyst
6 17 (7.33%) Systems Engineer
7 16 (6.90%) Developer
8 10 (4.31%) Security Engineer
8 10 (4.31%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.31%) Senior Security Engineer
8 10 (4.31%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 10 (4.31%) Systems Administrator
9 9 (3.88%) Business Support Analyst
9 9 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (3.88%) IT Manager
9 9 (3.88%) Support Analyst
10 8 (3.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (3.45%) Operations Manager
10 8 (3.45%) Senior Manager
11 7 (3.02%) Senior QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.50%) Terraform
2 15 (6.47%) ModSecurity
3 13 (5.60%) OAuth
4 12 (5.17%) LDAP
4 12 (5.17%) OpenID
4 12 (5.17%) SAML
5 11 (4.74%) RESTful
6 9 (3.88%) FIX Protocol
6 9 (3.88%) gRPC
6 9 (3.88%) Kafka
6 9 (3.88%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (3.45%) web3js
8 7 (3.02%) WebSockets
9 5 (2.16%) .NET
9 5 (2.16%) PyTorch
9 5 (2.16%) REST
10 4 (1.72%) boto
10 4 (1.72%) CSS
10 4 (1.72%) Middleware
10 4 (1.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.78%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.33%) Driving Licence
2 17 (7.33%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (7.33%) Social Media
3 15 (6.47%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.60%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.31%) CCTV
5 10 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.88%) Blockchain
6 9 (3.88%) Fixed Income
7 8 (3.45%) Web3
8 7 (3.02%) Replication
8 7 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.59%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.16%) Life Science
10 5 (2.16%) NHS
11 4 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (1.29%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.79%) Linux
2 29 (12.50%) Windows
3 18 (7.76%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.86%) Android
5 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.86%) Rocky
5 2 (0.86%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (35.34%) Continuous Improvement
2 59 (25.43%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (20.69%) Decision-Making
4 42 (18.10%) Analytics
5 40 (17.24%) DevOps
6 36 (15.52%) Agile
6 36 (15.52%) CI/CD
7 35 (15.09%) Mentoring
8 34 (14.66%) AI
9 31 (13.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (12.50%) Coaching
10 29 (12.50%) Observability
10 29 (12.50%) Risk Management
11 26 (11.21%) Incident Response
11 26 (11.21%) Microservices
12 25 (10.78%) Strategic Thinking
13 24 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (9.91%) Architectural Patterns
14 23 (9.91%) Validation
15 22 (9.48%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 34 (14.66%) Python
2 28 (12.07%) SQL
3 15 (6.47%) Bash
4 14 (6.03%) Java
4 14 (6.03%) PowerShell
5 11 (4.74%) Go
6 9 (3.88%) C++
7 8 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.02%) C#
9 6 (2.59%) R
10 4 (1.72%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.86%) Bicep
11 2 (0.86%) Ruby
11 2 (0.86%) Scala
11 2 (0.86%) VBA
11 2 (0.86%) VBScript
12 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
12 1 (0.43%) JCL
Qualifications
1 47 (20.26%) Degree
2 33 (14.22%) Security Cleared
3 21 (9.05%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.47%) RHCSA
5 14 (6.03%) Azure Certification
5 14 (6.03%) CISM
6 13 (5.60%) CISSP
7 12 (5.17%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (4.31%) CCNA
9 8 (3.45%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (3.45%) ISTQB
9 8 (3.45%) OSCP
9 8 (3.45%) RHCE
10 7 (3.02%) SC Cleared
11 6 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (2.16%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.91%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.17%) QA
3 8 (3.45%) GMP
4 6 (2.59%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.29%) PMO
6 2 (0.86%) GAAP
6 2 (0.86%) GDPR
6 2 (0.86%) IFRS
6 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.86%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.43%) GRC
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.43%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
7 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (14.66%) Active Directory
2 23 (9.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (7.76%) Docker
4 8 (3.45%) Squid
4 8 (3.45%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.45%) vSphere
5 5 (2.16%) KVM
6 3 (1.29%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.29%) IAG
6 3 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (12.07%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.60%) Prometheus
2 13 (5.60%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (4.31%) Ansible
4 8 (3.45%) Packer
4 8 (3.45%) ZABBIX
5 7 (3.02%) Nagios
6 6 (2.59%) Grafana
7 4 (1.72%) SCCM
8 2 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.43%) DatAdvantage
9 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 44 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.91%) VMware
3 18 (7.76%) Oracle
4 15 (6.47%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.17%) ForgeRock
5 12 (5.17%) Okta
6 10 (4.31%) Cisco
6 10 (4.31%) Databricks
6 10 (4.31%) Splunk
6 10 (4.31%) YouTube
7 9 (3.88%) FIS
7 9 (3.88%) SunGard
8 7 (3.02%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.16%) Google
10 3 (1.29%) Adobe
10 3 (1.29%) IONA
10 3 (1.29%) Pinterest
10 3 (1.29%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.29%) Snapchat
10 3 (1.29%) Xero