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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 435 508
Rank change year-on-year -15 +73 +167
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 210 286 218
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.54% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.59% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 118 134 130
10th Percentile £36,911 £30,450 £39,975
25th Percentile £44,049 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,125 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,321 £54,650
% change year-on-year +1.25% -0.60% +12.68%

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 49,036 48,491 50,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.83% 90.77% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28,943 23,557 38,431
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.74% -6.31%

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 January 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 January 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 -6 165 £57,264 -0.41% 89
UK excluding London -12 134 £55,000 +1.25% 79
Work from Home +38 98 £55,000 -20.64% 62
London +24 58 £70,000 -8.50% 25
South East +24 35 £60,000 +4.35% 30
North of England +22 30 £65,000 -6.22% 20
South West +5 22 £43,953 -1.23% 9
North West +23 16 £60,000 -4.00% 14
Midlands +7 15 £42,500 - 5
Northern Ireland -2 13 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Scotland -10 12 £73,801 +6.48% 5
Yorkshire 0 11 £65,000 +52.94% 5
East of England +11 9 £55,000 +10.00% 7
East Midlands -21 8 £42,000 +67.31% 4
West Midlands +17 7 £59,527 -4.76% 1
Wales +6 5 £44,336 -36.03% 3
North East +4 3 £73,801 +6.48% 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 9 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.81%) Confluence
3 7 (3.33%) IIS
4 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.90%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.95%) CMS
6 2 (0.95%) FactoryTalk
6 2 (0.95%) WinCC
7 1 (0.48%) Appian
7 1 (0.48%) SAS
7 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.76%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (1.43%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.48%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 11 (5.24%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (4.76%) Hyperion Planning
2 10 (4.76%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (4.76%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (4.76%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (4.76%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (2.38%) PlanetPress Connect
4 4 (1.90%) SAP ERP
4 4 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (1.43%) SAP APO
5 3 (1.43%) SAP CO
5 3 (1.43%) SAP FI
5 3 (1.43%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (1.43%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.95%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.95%) OpenCart
7 1 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.48%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 62 (29.52%) Azure
2 31 (14.76%) Power Platform
3 29 (13.81%) AWS
4 16 (7.62%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (7.62%) GCP
5 14 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (6.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (6.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (6.19%) Entra ID
6 13 (6.19%) SaaS
7 8 (3.81%) Amazon ECR
7 8 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (3.81%) Azure AKS
7 8 (3.81%) dbt
7 8 (3.81%) Pulumi
7 8 (3.81%) Serverless
8 7 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (3.33%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (3.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.76%) DNS
3 8 (3.81%) WAN
4 5 (2.38%) DHCP
4 5 (2.38%) Firewall
4 5 (2.38%) LAN
4 5 (2.38%) SD-WAN
4 5 (2.38%) VPN
5 4 (1.90%) HTTP
5 4 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (1.90%) Wireless
6 3 (1.43%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.43%) Internet
6 3 (1.43%) SNMP
7 2 (0.95%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.48%) Intranet
8 1 (0.48%) Multicast
8 1 (0.48%) Network Security
8 1 (0.48%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.81%) Power BI
2 27 (12.86%) SQL Server
3 15 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (6.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (4.76%) Essbase
7 9 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (4.29%) Redis
8 7 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (3.33%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.86%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.86%) Tableau
10 4 (1.90%) Metadata
10 4 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.43%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.95%) MySQL
12 2 (0.95%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 16 (7.62%) Jenkins
2 13 (6.19%) GitLab
3 10 (4.76%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (4.29%) Git
4 9 (4.29%) JIRA
5 5 (2.38%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.90%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.43%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.95%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.95%) JMeter
8 2 (0.95%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.95%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.48%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.48%) Mocha
General
1 99 (47.14%) Social Skills
2 83 (39.52%) Finance
3 47 (22.38%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.10%) Law
5 15 (7.14%) Legal
5 15 (7.14%) Marketing
5 15 (7.14%) Retail
6 12 (5.71%) Billing
7 10 (4.76%) Banking
7 10 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.33%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.86%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.38%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.90%) Automotive
11 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 50 (23.81%) Senior
2 41 (19.52%) Analyst
3 24 (11.43%) Developer
4 17 (8.10%) Lead
5 14 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
6 12 (5.71%) Commercial Analyst
6 12 (5.71%) Insight Analyst
7 11 (5.24%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (5.24%) IT Manager
7 11 (5.24%) Support Analyst
8 10 (4.76%) Oracle Analyst
8 10 (4.76%) Senior Oracle Analyst
9 8 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.81%) Senior Developer
9 8 (3.81%) Site Engineer
9 8 (3.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (3.33%) Product Manager
11 6 (2.86%) Applications Support
11 6 (2.86%) Data Analyst
11 6 (2.86%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.71%) HTML
2 10 (4.76%) CSS
3 9 (4.29%) .NET
3 9 (4.29%) JSON
3 9 (4.29%) Kafka
4 8 (3.81%) Django
4 8 (3.81%) XML
5 7 (3.33%) REST
5 7 (3.33%) RESTful
6 6 (2.86%) Middleware
7 5 (2.38%) gRPC
7 5 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.38%) web3js
8 4 (1.90%) Node.js
9 3 (1.43%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.43%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.43%) NETCONF
9 3 (1.43%) React
9 3 (1.43%) RESTCONF
10 2 (0.95%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 14 (6.67%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.29%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.81%) Life Science
7 6 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.38%) Blockchain
8 5 (2.38%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.38%) Web3
9 4 (1.90%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.90%) FMCG
10 3 (1.43%) Blog
10 3 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.43%) Social Media
10 3 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.43%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.81%) Windows
2 25 (11.90%) Linux
3 19 (9.05%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.29%) Unix
5 5 (2.38%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.38%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.90%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (31.90%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (28.10%) Analytics
3 53 (25.24%) Agile
4 46 (21.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 41 (19.52%) CI/CD
6 40 (19.05%) DevOps
7 34 (16.19%) Roadmaps
8 33 (15.71%) Business Intelligence
9 32 (15.24%) ITIL
10 31 (14.76%) Decision-Making
11 28 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
12 27 (12.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (12.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (11.90%) Collaborative Working
14 25 (11.90%) Observability
15 24 (11.43%) High Availability
16 23 (10.95%) Process Improvement
17 22 (10.48%) ITSM
17 22 (10.48%) Problem Management
17 22 (10.48%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (26.67%) SQL
2 31 (14.76%) Python
3 18 (8.57%) PowerShell
4 17 (8.10%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.71%) C#
5 12 (5.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 11 (5.24%) Bash
7 10 (4.76%) Groovy
8 9 (4.29%) VBA
9 7 (3.33%) Java
10 6 (2.86%) Go
11 5 (2.38%) Bicep
12 4 (1.90%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.48%) Perl
13 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.48%) R
13 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 55 (26.19%) Degree
2 21 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.19%) Master's Degree
4 11 (5.24%) ITIL Certification
4 11 (5.24%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.90%) MCP
7 3 (1.43%) CCIE
7 3 (1.43%) CCNP
7 3 (1.43%) CISA
7 3 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.43%) CISM
7 3 (1.43%) CISSP
7 3 (1.43%) CRISC
7 3 (1.43%) CSPO
7 3 (1.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 3 (1.43%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.19%) GDPR
3 7 (3.33%) QA
4 6 (2.86%) GRC
4 6 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.43%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.43%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.43%) ISO 8583
5 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 3 (1.43%) SEPA
6 2 (0.95%) SLA
7 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.48%) COBIT
7 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.48%) P3O
7 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.48%) PMO
7 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (10.95%) Docker
2 17 (8.10%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.48%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (13.81%) Terraform
2 28 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.24%) Ansible
4 9 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.90%) logstash
6 4 (1.90%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.90%) Puppet
7 2 (0.95%) AssetCenter
7 2 (0.95%) Grafana
7 2 (0.95%) Kibana
7 2 (0.95%) SCCM
8 1 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.48%) Argo
8 1 (0.48%) Control-M
8 1 (0.48%) DatAdvantage
8 1 (0.48%) Nagios
8 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.62%) Oracle
3 14 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.71%) VMware
5 11 (5.24%) Google
5 11 (5.24%) SAP
6 10 (4.76%) Hyperion
7 8 (3.81%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.86%) Cisco
9 5 (2.38%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.38%) HubSpot
9 5 (2.38%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.90%) Adobe
10 4 (1.90%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.43%) Ahrefs
12 2 (0.95%) Kepware
12 2 (0.95%) Planon
12 2 (0.95%) Rockwell
12 2 (0.95%) Siemens
12 2 (0.95%) TikTok