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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 413 543
Rank change year-on-year -56 +130 +117
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 214 275 268
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.57% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.61% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 126 126 164
10th Percentile £38,580 £26,750 £34,834
25th Percentile £44,336 £43,837 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,014 £61,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +16.67% -8.70%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,230 £67,500
90th Percentile £110,625 £81,875 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% +10.53%

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 54,494 44,927 66,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.19% 92.59% 88.37%
Number of salaries quoted 32,685 22,191 51,489
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,448
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -46 160 £59,527 -0.79% 69
UK excluding London -35 130 £56,000 -2.61% 55
Work from Home +22 99 £55,500 -17.78% 32
London +1 61 £74,401 -2.74% 28
South East -10 38 £55,000 -8.33% 14
North of England -24 29 £65,000 -6.22% 13
North West -3 18 £65,000 -3.21% 7
Midlands -17 15 £45,000 +5.88% 8
Northern Ireland -16 14 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Scotland -5 12 £73,801 +6.48% 4
South West -24 12 £45,000 -17.16% 7
Wales +2 8 £44,336 -33.98% 4
West Midlands -2 8 £59,527 -4.76% 6
Yorkshire -27 7 £66,250 +55.88% 2
East Midlands -37 7 £42,000 +67.31% 2
North East -14 4 £73,801 +6.42% 4
East of England -3 3 £55,000 +10.00% 5
Channel Islands - 3 £75,000 -

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 (5.61%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.21%) IIS
3 8 (3.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.80%) Confluence
5 4 (1.87%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.93%) CMS
6 2 (0.93%) FactoryTalk
6 2 (0.93%) WinCC
7 1 (0.47%) SAS
7 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (9.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.67%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.87%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.47%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (5.14%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (4.67%) Hyperion Planning
2 10 (4.67%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (4.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (4.67%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (4.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (2.34%) PlanetPress Connect
4 4 (1.87%) SAP ERP
4 4 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (1.40%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (1.40%) SAP CO
5 3 (1.40%) SAP FI
5 3 (1.40%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.93%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.93%) OpenCart
7 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.47%) Magento
7 1 (0.47%) Primavera
7 1 (0.47%) TIBCO iProcess
7 1 (0.47%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 73 (34.11%) Azure
2 40 (18.69%) AWS
3 25 (11.68%) AWS CloudFormation
4 23 (10.75%) Power Platform
5 20 (9.35%) GCP
6 18 (8.41%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (7.48%) Entra ID
8 15 (7.01%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (6.07%) Amazon ECR
9 13 (6.07%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (6.07%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (6.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (6.07%) dbt
9 13 (6.07%) Pulumi
10 12 (5.61%) Serverless
11 11 (5.14%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (5.14%) Amazon S3
12 10 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (4.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.21%) TCP/IP
2 15 (7.01%) DNS
3 12 (5.61%) WAN
4 10 (4.67%) VPN
5 8 (3.74%) DHCP
5 8 (3.74%) SD-WAN
6 7 (3.27%) HTTP
6 7 (3.27%) LAN
7 5 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.87%) Firewall
8 4 (1.87%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.87%) SNMP
8 4 (1.87%) Wireless
9 3 (1.40%) Internet
10 2 (0.93%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.47%) Broadband
11 1 (0.47%) Intranet
11 1 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.62%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.75%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (10.28%) Power BI
4 16 (7.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 14 (6.54%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (6.54%) Redis
6 13 (6.07%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (5.14%) NoSQL
8 10 (4.67%) DynamoDB
8 10 (4.67%) Essbase
9 6 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.87%) Metadata
11 4 (1.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.40%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.93%) OLAP
13 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
14 1 (0.47%) MySQL
14 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 17 (7.94%) GitLab
1 17 (7.94%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.67%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (4.21%) CircleCI
4 7 (3.27%) Git
4 7 (3.27%) JIRA
5 4 (1.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.87%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.40%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.93%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.93%) JMeter
7 2 (0.93%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.47%) Mocha
General
1 90 (42.06%) Social Skills
2 84 (39.25%) Finance
3 36 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.48%) Banking
5 14 (6.54%) Marketing
6 12 (5.61%) Billing
6 12 (5.61%) Legal
7 11 (5.14%) Retail
8 10 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (4.21%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (3.74%) Law
10 8 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (3.27%) Aerospace
11 7 (3.27%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.34%) Financial Institution
12 5 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.34%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.87%) Automotive
13 4 (1.87%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 63 (29.44%) Senior
2 37 (17.29%) Analyst
3 23 (10.75%) Developer
4 19 (8.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (8.41%) Lead
6 14 (6.54%) Senior Analyst
7 13 (6.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (5.61%) Commercial Analyst
8 12 (5.61%) Insight Analyst
8 12 (5.61%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.14%) Support Analyst
10 10 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.67%) Oracle Analyst
10 10 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.67%) Senior Oracle Analyst
11 8 (3.74%) Administrator
11 8 (3.74%) IT Manager
11 8 (3.74%) Product Owner
11 8 (3.74%) Site Engineer
11 8 (3.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.07%) Django
1 13 (6.07%) Kafka
2 11 (5.14%) RESTful
3 9 (4.21%) .NET
3 9 (4.21%) gRPC
3 9 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (4.21%) web3js
4 7 (3.27%) HTML
4 7 (3.27%) REST
5 6 (2.80%) CSS
6 5 (2.34%) Middleware
7 4 (1.87%) NETCONF
7 4 (1.87%) RESTCONF
8 3 (1.40%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.40%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.40%) JSON
8 3 (1.40%) React
8 3 (1.40%) WebSockets
9 2 (0.93%) Model Context Protocol
9 2 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.88%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (6.07%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (5.61%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.21%) Blockchain
5 9 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.21%) Life Science
5 9 (4.21%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.21%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.21%) Web3
6 6 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.34%) Replication
7 5 (2.34%) Social Media
8 4 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.87%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.40%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.40%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.49%) Linux
2 28 (13.08%) Windows
3 20 (9.35%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.54%) Unix
5 10 (4.67%) Apple iOS
6 9 (4.21%) Windows 10
7 7 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.87%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.93%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (26.64%) Agile
1 57 (26.64%) Analytics
2 49 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (22.43%) CI/CD
3 48 (22.43%) DevOps
4 41 (19.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (16.82%) Roadmaps
6 33 (15.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (15.42%) Observability
7 29 (13.55%) Risk Management
8 28 (13.08%) ITIL
9 26 (12.15%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (11.68%) Actionable Insight
10 25 (11.68%) Decision-Making
11 24 (11.21%) Collaborative Working
11 24 (11.21%) User Experience
12 23 (10.75%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (10.75%) High Availability
13 21 (9.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 21 (9.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (22.43%) SQL
2 36 (16.82%) Python
3 19 (8.88%) PowerShell
4 13 (6.07%) Bash
4 13 (6.07%) C#
4 13 (6.07%) Java
4 13 (6.07%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (4.67%) Groovy
7 9 (4.21%) Go
7 9 (4.21%) VBA
8 4 (1.87%) Bicep
8 4 (1.87%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.47%) R
10 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (22.43%) Degree
2 27 (12.62%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.41%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.01%) Master's Degree
5 10 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.74%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (3.27%) CCNP
7 7 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.87%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.87%) CCIE
9 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (1.40%) CISA
10 3 (1.40%) CISM
10 3 (1.40%) CISSP
10 3 (1.40%) MCSE
10 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.40%) PMP
10 3 (1.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.01%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.67%) GDPR
3 6 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.80%) QA
4 5 (2.34%) GRC
5 3 (1.40%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.40%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.40%) ISO 8583
5 3 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 3 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 3 (1.40%) SEPA
6 2 (0.93%) COBIT
7 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.47%) NIST
7 1 (0.47%) P3O
7 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.47%) PMO
7 1 (0.47%) SLA
7 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (14.95%) Docker
2 19 (8.88%) Active Directory
3 18 (8.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.40%) KVM
5 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.47%) Squid
Systems Management
1 33 (15.42%) Terraform
2 30 (14.02%) Kubernetes
3 14 (6.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (5.61%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.74%) Ansible
6 5 (2.34%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (1.87%) Grafana
7 4 (1.87%) logstash
7 4 (1.87%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.87%) Puppet
8 3 (1.40%) Nagios
9 2 (0.93%) AssetCenter
9 2 (0.93%) Kibana
9 2 (0.93%) SCCM
10 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.47%) Argo
10 1 (0.47%) Control-M
10 1 (0.47%) DatAdvantage
10 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.35%) VMware
3 17 (7.94%) Google
4 15 (7.01%) Oracle
5 11 (5.14%) SAP
6 10 (4.67%) Hyperion
6 10 (4.67%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.27%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.27%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.80%) Cisco
9 5 (2.34%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.34%) HubSpot
10 4 (1.87%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.40%) Ahrefs
11 3 (1.40%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.40%) Veeam
11 3 (1.40%) Zerto
12 2 (0.93%) Kepware
12 2 (0.93%) Planon
12 2 (0.93%) Splunk