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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 416 558
Rank change year-on-year -56 +142 +113
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 216 257 294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.59% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.62% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 124 131 186
10th Percentile £39,200 £28,500 £33,342
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £40,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile £78,852 £74,144 £62,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £77,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +15.00% +8.70%

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 56,840 41,126 73,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.06% 93.65% 87.53%
Number of salaries quoted 34,202 22,190 55,823
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £77,219 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 10 March 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 10 March 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 -59 163 £60,000 -2.04% 124
UK excluding London -53 128 £56,000 -2.61% 103
Work from Home +24 95 £55,000 -18.52% 60
London -11 68 £75,000 - 32
South East -10 40 £52,500 -12.50% 28
North of England -34 26 £65,000 -6.22% 25
North West -12 16 £65,000 - 16
Northern Ireland -18 14 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Scotland -19 12 £73,801 +6.48% 6
South West -34 12 £45,000 -17.16% 12
Midlands -41 12 £47,750 +12.35% 15
Wales -6 8 £42,934 -36.51% 4
West Midlands -11 7 £59,527 -8.42% 9
North East -22 5 £60,651 -12.59% 4
East Midlands -41 5 £40,000 +59.35% 6
Yorkshire -45 5 £66,250 - 5
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East of England -13 1 £60,000 +20.00% 13

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 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.17%) IIS
3 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.78%) Confluence
5 4 (1.85%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.93%) CMS
7 1 (0.46%) SAS
7 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (9.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.63%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.85%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.46%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.56%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (4.63%) Hyperion Planning
2 10 (4.63%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (4.63%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (4.63%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (4.63%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.85%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.39%) SAP CO
4 3 (1.39%) SAP FI
4 3 (1.39%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.93%) PlanetPress Connect
6 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.46%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.46%) Primavera
6 1 (0.46%) Shopify
6 1 (0.46%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 74 (34.26%) Azure
2 42 (19.44%) AWS
3 27 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 23 (10.65%) Power Platform
5 20 (9.26%) GCP
6 17 (7.87%) Cloud Computing
6 17 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (7.41%) Entra ID
8 14 (6.48%) Serverless
9 13 (6.02%) Amazon ECR
9 13 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (6.02%) Amazon S3
9 13 (6.02%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (6.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (6.02%) dbt
9 13 (6.02%) Pulumi
10 12 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.56%) SaaS
11 11 (5.09%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 18 (8.33%) DNS
3 12 (5.56%) WAN
4 10 (4.63%) HTTP
4 10 (4.63%) LAN
4 10 (4.63%) VPN
5 9 (4.17%) DHCP
6 8 (3.70%) SD-WAN
7 5 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.85%) Firewall
8 4 (1.85%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.85%) SNMP
8 4 (1.85%) Wireless
9 2 (0.93%) Internet
10 1 (0.46%) Broadband
10 1 (0.46%) Intranet
10 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.46%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 25 (11.57%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (10.19%) Power BI
4 16 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 14 (6.48%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (6.48%) Redis
6 13 (6.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (6.02%) NoSQL
7 12 (5.56%) DynamoDB
8 10 (4.63%) Essbase
9 6 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.85%) Metadata
11 4 (1.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.39%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.93%) OLAP
13 2 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (9.26%) GitLab
1 20 (9.26%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.09%) CircleCI
3 10 (4.63%) Git
3 10 (4.63%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (2.78%) JIRA
5 4 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.39%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.93%) JMeter
7 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.46%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.46%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.46%) Gatling
8 1 (0.46%) Mocha
8 1 (0.46%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 89 (41.20%) Finance
2 86 (39.81%) Social Skills
3 35 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.57%) Banking
5 14 (6.48%) Marketing
6 13 (6.02%) Retail
7 12 (5.56%) Billing
7 12 (5.56%) Legal
8 9 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.24%) Aerospace
10 7 (3.24%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.78%) Local Government
11 6 (2.78%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.31%) Financial Institution
12 5 (2.31%) Law
12 5 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.31%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.85%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 64 (29.63%) Senior
2 34 (15.74%) Analyst
3 23 (10.65%) Developer
4 21 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (9.26%) Lead
6 15 (6.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (6.48%) Senior Analyst
7 14 (6.48%) Senior Developer
8 12 (5.56%) Commercial Analyst
8 12 (5.56%) Insight Analyst
9 11 (5.09%) Administrator
9 11 (5.09%) Support Analyst
10 10 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.63%) Oracle Analyst
10 10 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.63%) Senior Oracle Analyst
11 9 (4.17%) Site Engineer
11 9 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (3.70%) Product Manager
12 8 (3.70%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.94%) Kafka
2 14 (6.48%) RESTful
3 13 (6.02%) Django
4 11 (5.09%) gRPC
4 11 (5.09%) RabbitMQ
4 11 (5.09%) web3js
5 9 (4.17%) .NET
6 7 (3.24%) REST
7 5 (2.31%) HTML
7 5 (2.31%) Middleware
7 5 (2.31%) WebSockets
8 4 (1.85%) CSS
8 4 (1.85%) NETCONF
8 4 (1.85%) RESTCONF
9 3 (1.39%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.39%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.39%) React
10 2 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.93%) LDAP
10 2 (0.93%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.26%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.87%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (5.56%) Life Science
3 12 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (5.09%) Blockchain
4 11 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.09%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.09%) Web3
5 10 (4.63%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.70%) Replication
7 6 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.31%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.85%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.39%) Clustering
10 3 (1.39%) Social Media
10 3 (1.39%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.28%) Linux
2 25 (11.57%) Windows
3 19 (8.80%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.48%) Unix
5 10 (4.63%) Apple iOS
6 9 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.17%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.85%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.93%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (27.31%) Analytics
2 54 (25.00%) DevOps
3 53 (24.54%) Agile
4 51 (23.61%) CI/CD
5 43 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (17.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 36 (16.67%) Observability
8 36 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 29 (13.43%) Risk Management
10 26 (12.04%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (11.57%) High Availability
11 25 (11.57%) User Experience
12 24 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
12 24 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (10.65%) Decision-Making
13 23 (10.65%) Test Automation
14 22 (10.19%) Containerisation
14 22 (10.19%) Microservices
15 21 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (21.30%) SQL
2 41 (18.98%) Python
3 18 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 15 (6.94%) Bash
5 14 (6.48%) C#
6 13 (6.02%) Java
7 12 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (5.09%) Go
9 10 (4.63%) Groovy
10 8 (3.70%) JavaScript
11 6 (2.78%) VBA
12 4 (1.85%) Bicep
12 4 (1.85%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.46%) R
14 1 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 51 (23.61%) Degree
2 25 (11.57%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.87%) Master's Degree
3 17 (7.87%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.17%) CCNP
5 9 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.31%) MCSE
7 5 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.31%) RHCSA
7 5 (2.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.85%) CCIE
8 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.93%) CISSP
9 2 (0.93%) CSPO
9 2 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.09%) GDPR
3 7 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.31%) QA
5 3 (1.39%) GRC
6 2 (0.93%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.93%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.93%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (0.93%) SEPA
7 1 (0.46%) COBIT
7 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.46%) NIST
7 1 (0.46%) P3O
7 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.46%) PMO
7 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (15.74%) Docker
2 22 (10.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (9.26%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.31%) KVM
5 1 (0.46%) Squid
5 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (16.67%) Terraform
2 33 (15.28%) Kubernetes
3 14 (6.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (6.48%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.17%) Ansible
5 5 (2.31%) AWS Copilot
5 5 (2.31%) Grafana
5 5 (2.31%) Nagios
6 4 (1.85%) logstash
6 4 (1.85%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.85%) Puppet
7 2 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.93%) Argo
7 2 (0.93%) DatAdvantage
7 2 (0.93%) Kibana
7 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.46%) Control-M
8 1 (0.46%) Netcool
Vendors
1 35 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.65%) VMware
3 17 (7.87%) Oracle
4 15 (6.94%) Google
5 11 (5.09%) SAP
6 10 (4.63%) Hyperion
7 9 (4.17%) Red Hat
8 8 (3.70%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.78%) Dynatrace
10 5 (2.31%) HubSpot
10 5 (2.31%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.31%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.31%) Veeam
10 5 (2.31%) Zerto
11 4 (1.85%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.85%) Cisco
12 3 (1.39%) Splunk
13 2 (0.93%) Apple
13 2 (0.93%) Samsung
13 2 (0.93%) Varonis