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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 439 559
Rank change year-on-year -131 +120 -59
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 238 254 251
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.51% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.58% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 123 150 155
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,536 £37,250
25th Percentile £44,818 £41,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,971 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% +11.94% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,125 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -18.18%

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 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 September 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 16 September 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 -116 213 £57,500 -8.00% 407
UK excluding London -126 145 £52,500 -4.55% 226
London -54 81 £80,000 +14.29% 217
Work from Home -50 53 £55,000 - 156
South East -56 50 £50,000 +7.53% 62
South West -64 27 £55,000 +52.78% 35
North of England -82 27 £60,000 -7.69% 43
Midlands -30 17 £50,000 +19.05% 43
Yorkshire -29 15 £34,000 -47.69% 14
West Midlands -33 14 £50,000 -16.00% 28
East of England -37 10 £52,500 -4.55% 12
North West -42 8 £65,000 - 29
Scotland - 8 £31,000 - 19
Wales -85 5 £52,500 +37.82% 10
North East - 4 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands -37 3 £38,500 -3.75% 15
Northern Ireland -75 1 £46,000 - 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 12 (5.04%) Confluence
2 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.26%) IIS
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 16 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.26%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.26%) MadCap Flare
4 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.42%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 56 (23.53%) Azure
2 32 (13.45%) AWS
3 27 (11.34%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (9.24%) Entra ID
5 19 (7.98%) Power Platform
6 16 (6.72%) Serverless
7 14 (5.88%) Datadog
8 13 (5.46%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.04%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (5.04%) Amazon S3
10 11 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (4.62%) SaaS
11 9 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (3.78%) PaaS
12 7 (2.94%) Azure AKS
12 7 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.62%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.20%) DNS
2 10 (4.20%) Intrusion Detection
3 8 (3.36%) IPv4
3 8 (3.36%) LAN
3 8 (3.36%) Software-Defined Networking
4 5 (2.10%) HTTP
4 5 (2.10%) Internet
5 4 (1.68%) Firewall
6 3 (1.26%) NAS
6 3 (1.26%) Network Security
6 3 (1.26%) SAN
6 3 (1.26%) VPN
7 2 (0.84%) DHCP
7 2 (0.84%) VLAN
7 2 (0.84%) WAN
7 2 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.42%) PSTN
8 1 (0.42%) SMS
8 1 (0.42%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.56%) Power BI
2 9 (3.78%) DynamoDB
3 8 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.36%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.94%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.52%) Big Data
5 6 (2.52%) Metadata
6 5 (2.10%) Data Mining
6 5 (2.10%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (2.10%) QlikView
6 5 (2.10%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.10%) Tableau
7 4 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.68%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.26%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.26%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.42%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 25 (10.50%) GitLab
2 19 (7.98%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.56%) Git
4 16 (6.72%) JIRA
5 8 (3.36%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.36%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.84%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.84%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.42%) NUnit
7 1 (0.42%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 104 (43.70%) Social Skills
2 81 (34.03%) Finance
3 70 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (14.71%) Aerospace
5 27 (11.34%) Banking
6 22 (9.24%) Organisational Skills
7 21 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (8.82%) Marketing
8 16 (6.72%) Manufacturing
9 14 (5.88%) Legal
10 12 (5.04%) Public Sector
11 11 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (4.62%) Law
12 9 (3.78%) Front Office
12 9 (3.78%) Investment Banking
13 7 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (2.52%) Electronics
14 6 (2.52%) Retail
15 5 (2.10%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 42 (17.65%) Senior
2 29 (12.18%) Lead
3 21 (8.82%) Architect
4 20 (8.40%) Analyst
5 18 (7.56%) Administrator
5 18 (7.56%) Systems Engineer
6 16 (6.72%) Developer
7 10 (4.20%) Security Engineer
7 10 (4.20%) Senior Security Engineer
7 10 (4.20%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 9 (3.78%) Business Support Analyst
8 9 (3.78%) Senior Developer
8 9 (3.78%) Support Analyst
9 8 (3.36%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (3.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.36%) IT Manager
9 8 (3.36%) Operations Manager
9 8 (3.36%) Senior Manager
9 8 (3.36%) Systems Administrator
10 7 (2.94%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.18%) Terraform
2 15 (6.30%) ModSecurity
3 13 (5.46%) OAuth
4 12 (5.04%) LDAP
4 12 (5.04%) OpenID
4 12 (5.04%) SAML
5 9 (3.78%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (3.78%) RESTful
6 8 (3.36%) gRPC
6 8 (3.36%) Kafka
6 8 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (2.94%) PyTorch
7 7 (2.94%) REST
7 7 (2.94%) web3js
8 6 (2.52%) .NET
8 6 (2.52%) TensorFlow
9 5 (2.10%) CSS
9 5 (2.10%) WebSockets
10 4 (1.68%) boto
10 4 (1.68%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.92%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.66%) Management Information System
3 18 (7.56%) Driving Licence
4 17 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (7.14%) Social Media
5 11 (4.62%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (4.20%) CCTV
7 9 (3.78%) Fixed Income
8 8 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.94%) Blockchain
9 7 (2.94%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.94%) Replication
9 7 (2.94%) Web3
10 6 (2.52%) NHS
10 6 (2.52%) Public Cloud
11 5 (2.10%) Reference Data
11 5 (2.10%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.68%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.45%) Linux
1 32 (13.45%) Windows
2 17 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.84%) Android
4 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.84%) Rocky
4 2 (0.84%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (39.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 69 (28.99%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (23.53%) Decision-Making
4 45 (18.91%) Analytics
5 42 (17.65%) DevOps
6 40 (16.81%) AI
7 39 (16.39%) Agile
8 38 (15.97%) CI/CD
8 38 (15.97%) Mentoring
9 33 (13.87%) Coaching
10 32 (13.45%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (13.03%) Risk Management
12 29 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 28 (11.76%) Observability
14 27 (11.34%) Incident Response
15 25 (10.50%) Strategic Thinking
16 24 (10.08%) Architectural Patterns
16 24 (10.08%) Microservices
17 23 (9.66%) Business Intelligence
17 23 (9.66%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 33 (13.87%) Python
2 31 (13.03%) SQL
3 16 (6.72%) PowerShell
4 15 (6.30%) Java
5 13 (5.46%) Bash
6 10 (4.20%) Go
7 9 (3.78%) C++
8 8 (3.36%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.36%) R
9 7 (2.94%) C#
10 4 (1.68%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.26%) VBA
11 3 (1.26%) VBScript
12 2 (0.84%) Bicep
12 2 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.84%) Ruby
12 2 (0.84%) Scala
13 1 (0.42%) Groovy
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (18.91%) Degree
2 38 (15.97%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.82%) DV Cleared
4 14 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 14 (5.88%) CISM
5 13 (5.46%) CISSP
5 13 (5.46%) RHCSA
6 11 (4.62%) SC Cleared
7 10 (4.20%) CCNA
7 10 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (3.36%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.36%) ISTQB
9 8 (3.36%) OSCP
9 8 (3.36%) RHCE
10 6 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.68%) ACCA
11 4 (1.68%) CIMA
12 3 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.92%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.62%) QA
3 8 (3.36%) GMP
4 3 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.26%) PMO
5 2 (0.84%) GAAP
5 2 (0.84%) IFRS
5 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.84%) NEBOSH
5 2 (0.84%) SLA
6 1 (0.42%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.42%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) GRC
6 1 (0.42%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.42%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.42%) NIST
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (15.13%) Active Directory
2 20 (8.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (7.14%) Docker
4 8 (3.36%) Squid
4 8 (3.36%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.36%) vSphere
5 6 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.68%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.26%) IAG
7 3 (1.26%) KVM
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.46%) Prometheus
3 12 (5.04%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (4.20%) Ansible
5 8 (3.36%) Packer
5 8 (3.36%) ZABBIX
6 5 (2.10%) Grafana
6 5 (2.10%) Nagios
7 4 (1.68%) SCCM
8 2 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.42%) SCOM
9 1 (0.42%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 50 (21.01%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.40%) VMware
3 19 (7.98%) Oracle
4 13 (5.46%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.04%) Databricks
5 12 (5.04%) ForgeRock
5 12 (5.04%) Okta
6 11 (4.62%) YouTube
7 10 (4.20%) Cisco
7 10 (4.20%) Splunk
8 9 (3.78%) FIS
8 9 (3.78%) SunGard
9 6 (2.52%) Google
9 6 (2.52%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.26%) Adobe
10 3 (1.26%) IONA
10 3 (1.26%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.26%) Pinterest
10 3 (1.26%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.26%) Xero