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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 395 582
Rank change year-on-year -120 +187 +38
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 206 264 317
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.63% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.68% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 115 129 207
10th Percentile £36,500 £27,800 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,250 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £75,000 £92,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £52,609 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.58% +5.22% -

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 66,274 38,859 81,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.13% 92.82% 85.77%
Number of salaries quoted 40,927 22,757 59,545
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -135 163 £57,500 - 75
UK excluding London -109 117 £51,250 -2.58% 60
Work from Home -32 73 £53,750 -2.27% 44
London -34 71 £80,000 +18.52% 20
South East -60 44 £35,000 -39.13% 16
North of England -68 17 £65,000 +4.00% 16
South West -56 13 £44,477 -16.73% 7
North West -35 11 £65,000 +8.33% 13
Scotland -16 10 - - 3
Midlands -55 10 £55,000 +29.41% 14
West Midlands -18 9 £55,500 -14.62% 9
Northern Ireland -27 9 £59,901 -
Wales -30 6 £42,934 +12.71% 1
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
North East -34 4 £47,500 -31.54% 1
East of England -46 3 £48,500 -3.00% 5
Yorkshire -64 2 £67,500 +34.00% 2
East Midlands -74 1 £47,500 +89.22% 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 11 (5.34%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.37%) IIS
3 8 (3.88%) Confluence
3 8 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.94%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) SAS
5 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (7.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.37%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (1.94%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.49%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.49%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.49%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (5.34%) Oracle Financials
2 9 (4.37%) Hyperion Planning
2 9 (4.37%) Oracle Assets
2 9 (4.37%) Oracle General Ledger
2 9 (4.37%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (4.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.97%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.97%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.97%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.97%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.49%) Shopify
4 1 (0.49%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 61 (29.61%) Azure
2 39 (18.93%) AWS
3 23 (11.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 20 (9.71%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (8.25%) Power Platform
6 16 (7.77%) Amazon S3
6 16 (7.77%) Serverless
7 15 (7.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (7.28%) Entra ID
8 14 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (6.80%) Datadog
8 14 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (6.31%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (5.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (4.85%) GCP
11 10 (4.85%) OneDrive
12 9 (4.37%) Azure AKS
12 9 (4.37%) SaaS
13 8 (3.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.68%) TCP/IP
2 20 (9.71%) DNS
3 12 (5.83%) HTTP
3 12 (5.83%) LAN
3 12 (5.83%) WAN
4 10 (4.85%) VPN
5 9 (4.37%) DHCP
6 8 (3.88%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.94%) HTTPS
7 4 (1.94%) SNMP
7 4 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.46%) Firewall
8 3 (1.46%) Internet
8 3 (1.46%) IPv4
8 3 (1.46%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (1.46%) Wireless
9 1 (0.49%) Broadband
9 1 (0.49%) Intranet
9 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.49%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.62%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.71%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (8.25%) Power BI
4 16 (7.77%) NoSQL
4 16 (7.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 15 (7.28%) DynamoDB
6 13 (6.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (4.37%) Essbase
8 6 (2.91%) Redis
9 5 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.46%) Metadata
11 3 (1.46%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.97%) Big Data
12 2 (0.97%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.97%) OLAP
12 2 (0.97%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 29 (14.08%) GitLab
2 27 (13.11%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.80%) CircleCI
3 14 (6.80%) Git
4 9 (4.37%) JIRA
4 9 (4.37%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (3.40%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.46%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.97%) Gatling
8 2 (0.97%) JMeter
8 2 (0.97%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.49%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.49%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.49%) Postman
9 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.49%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.49%) Selenium
9 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 91 (44.17%) Finance
2 82 (39.81%) Social Skills
3 33 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (13.59%) Banking
5 18 (8.74%) Marketing
6 15 (7.28%) Manufacturing
7 12 (5.83%) Billing
7 12 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (5.34%) Aerospace
9 10 (4.85%) Retail
10 7 (3.40%) Legal
11 6 (2.91%) Automotive
11 6 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.91%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.43%) Financial Institution
12 5 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.94%) Law
13 4 (1.94%) Local Government
13 4 (1.94%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.46%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 64 (31.07%) Senior
2 28 (13.59%) Analyst
3 22 (10.68%) Developer
4 21 (10.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (9.71%) Lead
6 17 (8.25%) Senior Developer
7 15 (7.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (6.31%) Administrator
9 12 (5.83%) Commercial Analyst
9 12 (5.83%) Insight Analyst
9 12 (5.83%) Senior Analyst
10 11 (5.34%) Senior Manager
11 10 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.37%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.37%) Oracle Analyst
12 9 (4.37%) Senior Oracle Analyst
13 7 (3.40%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
13 7 (3.40%) Linux Administrator
13 7 (3.40%) Linux Systems Administrator
13 7 (3.40%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.74%) Kafka
2 15 (7.28%) RESTful
3 14 (6.80%) gRPC
3 14 (6.80%) RabbitMQ
3 14 (6.80%) web3js
4 7 (3.40%) .NET
4 7 (3.40%) REST
4 7 (3.40%) WebSockets
5 5 (2.43%) Django
6 4 (1.94%) HTML
6 4 (1.94%) Middleware
6 4 (1.94%) NETCONF
6 4 (1.94%) RESTCONF
7 3 (1.46%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.46%) CSS
7 3 (1.46%) React
8 2 (0.97%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.97%) EDI
8 2 (0.97%) scikit-learn
8 2 (0.97%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.19%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.28%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (7.28%) Blockchain
3 14 (6.80%) Web3
4 13 (6.31%) Life Science
4 13 (6.31%) Management Information System
4 13 (6.31%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (4.85%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.37%) Replication
7 8 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (3.40%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.91%) Driving Licence
9 6 (2.91%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.43%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.46%) Clustering
12 3 (1.46%) e-Learning
12 3 (1.46%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (1.46%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.02%) Linux
2 28 (13.59%) Windows
3 21 (10.19%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (4.85%) Apple iOS
6 9 (4.37%) Windows 10
7 6 (2.91%) Unix
8 4 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.46%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.97%) Android
11 1 (0.49%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (26.70%) Analytics
2 50 (24.27%) DevOps
3 48 (23.30%) CI/CD
4 46 (22.33%) Agile
5 43 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (16.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (14.56%) Decision-Making
9 28 (13.59%) Roadmaps
10 27 (13.11%) Containerisation
10 27 (13.11%) Continuous Integration
10 27 (13.11%) Observability
11 26 (12.62%) Risk Management
12 25 (12.14%) High Availability
12 25 (12.14%) Test Automation
13 24 (11.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 24 (11.65%) Microservices
14 22 (10.68%) Actionable Insight
14 22 (10.68%) Coaching
14 22 (10.68%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (19.90%) SQL
2 37 (17.96%) Python
3 21 (10.19%) PowerShell
4 19 (9.22%) Bash
5 15 (7.28%) Java
6 14 (6.80%) Go
7 12 (5.83%) C#
7 12 (5.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (4.85%) Groovy
9 6 (2.91%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.43%) Bicep
11 3 (1.46%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.97%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.97%) VBA
13 1 (0.49%) JCL
13 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 52 (25.24%) Degree
2 19 (9.22%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.77%) Master's Degree
4 12 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (4.85%) RHCSA
6 9 (4.37%) CCNP
6 9 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.37%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.43%) MCSE
8 5 (2.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (1.94%) ACCA
9 4 (1.94%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.94%) CCIE
9 4 (1.94%) CIMA
10 3 (1.46%) CCNA
10 3 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (1.46%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.80%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.34%) QA
3 7 (3.40%) GMP
4 6 (2.91%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.43%) GDPR
6 2 (0.97%) GAAP
6 2 (0.97%) IFRS
6 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.49%) COBIT
7 1 (0.49%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.49%) NIST
7 1 (0.49%) P3O
7 1 (0.49%) PMO
7 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (14.56%) Docker
2 27 (13.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (11.17%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.43%) KVM
5 3 (1.46%) Squid
5 3 (1.46%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.46%) vSphere
6 2 (0.97%) IAG
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 39 (18.93%) Kubernetes
2 35 (16.99%) Terraform
3 16 (7.77%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (6.31%) Ansible
6 7 (3.40%) Nagios
7 5 (2.43%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.43%) Grafana
8 4 (1.94%) logstash
8 4 (1.94%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.94%) Puppet
9 3 (1.46%) Packer
9 3 (1.46%) SCCM
9 3 (1.46%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.97%) DatAdvantage
10 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.49%) Argo
11 1 (0.49%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.49%) Kibana
Vendors
1 34 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 28 (13.59%) VMware
3 19 (9.22%) Oracle
4 14 (6.80%) Red Hat
5 9 (4.37%) Hyperion
5 9 (4.37%) SAP
6 8 (3.88%) Google
7 7 (3.40%) Salesforce
7 7 (3.40%) SolarWinds
7 7 (3.40%) Splunk
8 6 (2.91%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.43%) Atlassian
9 5 (2.43%) HubSpot
9 5 (2.43%) Veeam
9 5 (2.43%) Zerto
10 4 (1.94%) Cisco
10 4 (1.94%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.97%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.97%) iManage
11 2 (0.97%) Varonis