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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 425 543
Rank change year-on-year -152 +118 -27
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 232 271 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.55% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.62% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 124 155 162
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,536 £37,250
25th Percentile £44,818 £41,250 £39,750
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 £64,891
90th Percentile £107,500 £92,000 £94,250
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 82,520 44,009 63,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.04% 88.59% 80.80%
Number of salaries quoted 57,449 24,888 36,814
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,288 £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 10 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 10 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 -147 208 £56,750 -9.20% 169
UK excluding London -140 143 £52,500 -4.55% 106
London -70 77 £80,000 +14.29% 85
South East -42 50 £50,000 -6.98% 40
Work from Home -67 50 £55,000 - 65
South West -73 27 £55,000 +52.78% 13
North of England -73 26 £60,000 -7.69% 15
Midlands -41 18 £50,000 +25.00% 25
West Midlands -20 15 £50,000 -4.47% 16
Yorkshire -43 14 £34,000 -41.25% 4
East of England -35 9 £52,500 -4.55% 5
North West -38 8 £65,000 - 11
Scotland - 8 £31,000 - 4
Wales -84 4 £52,500 +37.82% 4
North East - 4 £70,000 -
East Midlands -29 3 £38,500 -3.75% 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £46,000 - 1

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 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (5.60%) 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
Cloud Services
1 56 (24.14%) Azure
2 32 (13.79%) AWS
3 25 (10.78%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (9.48%) Entra ID
5 16 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 16 (6.90%) Serverless
6 14 (6.03%) Datadog
7 13 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (5.17%) Amazon S3
9 11 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (4.74%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (4.74%) SaaS
10 9 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (3.88%) PaaS
11 8 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.02%) Azure AKS
13 6 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.74%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.31%) DNS
2 10 (4.31%) Intrusion Detection
3 8 (3.45%) IPv4
3 8 (3.45%) LAN
3 8 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
4 5 (2.16%) HTTP
4 5 (2.16%) Internet
5 4 (1.72%) Firewall
6 3 (1.29%) NAS
6 3 (1.29%) Network Security
6 3 (1.29%) SAN
6 3 (1.29%) VPN
7 2 (0.86%) DHCP
7 2 (0.86%) VLAN
7 2 (0.86%) WAN
7 2 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.43%) ATM
8 1 (0.43%) PSTN
8 1 (0.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.47%) Power BI
2 9 (3.88%) DynamoDB
3 8 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.02%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.59%) Big Data
5 6 (2.59%) Metadata
6 5 (2.16%) Data Mining
6 5 (2.16%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (2.16%) QlikView
6 5 (2.16%) Tableau
7 4 (1.72%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.29%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.29%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.86%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.43%) Parquet
10 1 (0.43%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 25 (10.78%) GitLab
2 20 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.33%) Git
4 15 (6.47%) JIRA
5 8 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.45%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.86%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.86%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.86%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.43%) Gatling
7 1 (0.43%) JMeter
7 1 (0.43%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.43%) Postman
7 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.43%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.43%) Selenium
7 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.43%) Yeoman
General
1 101 (43.53%) Social Skills
2 80 (34.48%) Finance
3 66 (28.45%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (15.09%) Aerospace
5 27 (11.64%) Banking
6 22 (9.48%) Organisational Skills
7 21 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (8.62%) Marketing
9 17 (7.33%) Manufacturing
10 14 (6.03%) Legal
11 11 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (4.74%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (4.74%) Law
12 10 (4.31%) Public Sector
13 9 (3.88%) Front Office
13 9 (3.88%) Investment Banking
14 7 (3.02%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (2.59%) Electronics
15 6 (2.59%) Retail
16 5 (2.16%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 42 (18.10%) Senior
2 29 (12.50%) Lead
3 21 (9.05%) Architect
4 18 (7.76%) Analyst
5 17 (7.33%) Administrator
5 17 (7.33%) Systems Engineer
6 16 (6.90%) Developer
7 10 (4.31%) Security Engineer
7 10 (4.31%) Senior Security Engineer
7 10 (4.31%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 9 (3.88%) Business Support Analyst
8 9 (3.88%) IT Manager
8 9 (3.88%) Senior Developer
8 9 (3.88%) Support Analyst
9 8 (3.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.45%) Operations Manager
9 8 (3.45%) Senior Manager
9 8 (3.45%) Systems Administrator
10 7 (3.02%) Quality 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 9 (3.88%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (3.88%) RESTful
6 8 (3.45%) gRPC
6 8 (3.45%) Kafka
6 8 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (3.02%) PyTorch
7 7 (3.02%) web3js
8 6 (2.59%) .NET
8 6 (2.59%) REST
8 6 (2.59%) TensorFlow
9 5 (2.16%) WebSockets
10 4 (1.72%) CSS
10 4 (1.72%) Middleware
10 4 (1.72%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.21%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.62%) Management Information System
3 18 (7.76%) Driving Licence
4 17 (7.33%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (7.33%) Social Media
5 11 (4.74%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (4.31%) CCTV
6 10 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (3.88%) Fixed Income
8 8 (3.45%) Blockchain
8 8 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (3.02%) Web3
10 6 (2.59%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.59%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.59%) Replication
11 5 (2.16%) NHS
11 5 (2.16%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.16%) Reference Data
11 5 (2.16%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.79%) Linux
2 31 (13.36%) Windows
3 16 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.59%) 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 89 (38.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 64 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (22.84%) Decision-Making
4 45 (19.40%) Analytics
5 42 (18.10%) DevOps
6 40 (17.24%) AI
7 38 (16.38%) Agile
7 38 (16.38%) CI/CD
7 38 (16.38%) Mentoring
8 33 (14.22%) Coaching
9 31 (13.36%) Risk Management
10 30 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (12.07%) Observability
12 27 (11.64%) Incident Response
12 27 (11.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (10.78%) Microservices
13 25 (10.78%) Strategic Thinking
14 24 (10.34%) Architectural Patterns
15 23 (9.91%) Validation
16 22 (9.48%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (14.66%) Python
2 27 (11.64%) SQL
3 16 (6.90%) Java
4 14 (6.03%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.60%) Bash
6 10 (4.31%) Go
7 9 (3.88%) C++
8 8 (3.45%) C#
8 8 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.45%) R
9 4 (1.72%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.29%) VBA
10 3 (1.29%) VBScript
11 2 (0.86%) Bicep
11 2 (0.86%) Ruby
11 2 (0.86%) Scala
12 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
12 1 (0.43%) JCL
12 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (19.83%) Degree
2 36 (15.52%) Security Cleared
3 21 (9.05%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.03%) Azure Certification
4 14 (6.03%) CISM
5 13 (5.60%) CISSP
5 13 (5.60%) RHCSA
6 10 (4.31%) CCNA
6 10 (4.31%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.88%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.45%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.45%) ISTQB
8 8 (3.45%) OSCP
8 8 (3.45%) RHCE
9 5 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.72%) ACCA
10 4 (1.72%) CIMA
11 3 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.78%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.17%) QA
3 8 (3.45%) GMP
4 3 (1.29%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.29%) PMO
5 2 (0.86%) GAAP
5 2 (0.86%) IFRS
5 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.86%) NEBOSH
5 2 (0.86%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.43%) GDPR
6 1 (0.43%) GRC
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.43%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (15.09%) Active Directory
2 20 (8.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (7.33%) Docker
4 8 (3.45%) Squid
4 8 (3.45%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.45%) vSphere
5 5 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.72%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.29%) IAG
7 3 (1.29%) KVM
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (12.07%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.60%) Prometheus
3 12 (5.17%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (4.31%) Ansible
5 8 (3.45%) Packer
5 8 (3.45%) ZABBIX
6 6 (2.59%) Grafana
7 5 (2.16%) Nagios
8 4 (1.72%) SCCM
9 2 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 46 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.62%) VMware
3 18 (7.76%) Oracle
4 13 (5.60%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.17%) Databricks
5 12 (5.17%) ForgeRock
5 12 (5.17%) Okta
6 11 (4.74%) YouTube
7 10 (4.31%) Cisco
7 10 (4.31%) Splunk
8 9 (3.88%) FIS
8 9 (3.88%) SunGard
9 6 (2.59%) Google
10 5 (2.16%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.29%) Adobe
11 3 (1.29%) IONA
11 3 (1.29%) Nexthink
11 3 (1.29%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.29%) Pinterest
11 3 (1.29%) TikTok