Performance Monitoring Job Trends

Performance Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Performance Monitoring skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 438 547 515
Rank change year-on-year +109 -32 +182
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 254 253 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.32% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.40% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 150 156 188
10th Percentile £35,536 £37,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,438 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,971 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,625 £69,800
90th Percentile £95,125 £91,250 £79,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +10.00%

All Process and 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 43,869 63,416 56,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.70% 81.19% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,728 36,039 42,828
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Performance Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Performance Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Monitoring 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Top 15 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 18 September 2025. 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 +105 224 £62,500 +25.00% 112
UK excluding London +83 157 £55,000 +22.22% 78
London +96 82 £70,000 -8.50% 55
Work from Home +26 75 £55,000 +5.77% 56
South East +56 53 £46,500 +3.33% 28
North of England +43 43 £65,000 +23.81% 17
North West +28 32 £65,000 +23.81% 10
South West +53 20 £36,000 -13.25% 6
Midlands +28 16 £42,000 -11.58% 12
East of England -13 15 £55,000 +10.00% 6
Wales +25 14 £38,094 -32.20% 2
Yorkshire +31 11 £65,000 +52.94% 6
East Midlands +25 9 £40,000 -4.76% 5
West Midlands +31 7 £59,527 +19.05% 7
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 2

Performance Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.18%) Confluence
1 3 (1.18%) nginx
2 2 (0.79%) FactoryTalk
2 2 (0.79%) WinCC
3 1 (0.39%) Appian
3 1 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.39%) CMS
3 1 (0.39%) IIS
3 1 (0.39%) JBoss
3 1 (0.39%) SAS
3 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (8.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.36%) SAP WM
2 4 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.57%) PlanetPress Connect
3 3 (1.18%) SAP APO
3 3 (1.18%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.79%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.79%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 2 (0.79%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 2 (0.79%) OpenCart
4 2 (0.79%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.39%) Magento
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.39%) Primavera
5 1 (0.39%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.39%) Shopify
5 1 (0.39%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 60 (23.62%) Azure
2 35 (13.78%) AWS
3 26 (10.24%) Power Platform
4 24 (9.45%) Vertex AI
5 22 (8.66%) SaaS
6 17 (6.69%) Serverless
7 16 (6.30%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (5.91%) PaaS
9 13 (5.12%) Google Analytics
10 12 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (4.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (4.33%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (4.33%) GitHub
12 10 (3.94%) Entra ID
12 10 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (3.15%) IaaS
14 7 (2.76%) Amazon S3
14 7 (2.76%) GCP
15 6 (2.36%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.09%) DNS
2 10 (3.94%) Firewall
3 7 (2.76%) SAN
4 6 (2.36%) DHCP
5 5 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.57%) iSCSI
6 4 (1.57%) NAS
7 3 (1.18%) HTTP
7 3 (1.18%) LAN
8 2 (0.79%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.79%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.39%) Internet
9 1 (0.39%) Network Security
9 1 (0.39%) OpenScape
9 1 (0.39%) VoIP
9 1 (0.39%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.45%) Data Mining
1 24 (9.45%) Power BI
2 17 (6.69%) DynamoDB
3 11 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (4.33%) Tableau
4 7 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.36%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.97%) Electronic Patient Records
6 5 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.57%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.57%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.18%) Metadata
8 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (6.69%) Git
2 11 (4.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.36%) GitLab
4 4 (1.57%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.18%) Babel
5 3 (1.18%) gulp
5 3 (1.18%) JIRA
5 3 (1.18%) webpack
6 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.39%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.39%) JMeter
6 1 (0.39%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.39%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 139 (54.72%) Social Skills
2 87 (34.25%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (30.31%) Finance
4 64 (25.20%) Law
5 44 (17.32%) Retail
6 25 (9.84%) Marketing
7 12 (4.72%) Banking
7 12 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (4.72%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.94%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (3.15%) Advertising
9 8 (3.15%) Games
9 8 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.15%) Welsh Language
10 7 (2.76%) Legal
11 5 (1.97%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.97%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.18%) Fire and Rescue
13 3 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (24.80%) Senior
2 37 (14.57%) Analyst
2 37 (14.57%) Lead
3 28 (11.02%) Developer
4 11 (4.33%) Server Engineer
5 10 (3.94%) Applications Support
5 10 (3.94%) Architect
6 9 (3.54%) IT Manager
6 9 (3.54%) Senior Developer
7 8 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (3.15%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 8 (3.15%) Java Developer
7 8 (3.15%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (3.15%) Support Manager
8 7 (2.76%) Administrator
8 7 (2.76%) Consultant
8 7 (2.76%) Data Analyst
8 7 (2.76%) Sales Executive
8 7 (2.76%) ServiceNow Developer
9 6 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.69%) CSS
1 17 (6.69%) HTML
2 16 (6.30%) XML
3 15 (5.91%) JSON
4 14 (5.51%) React
5 9 (3.54%) Node.js
5 9 (3.54%) RESTful
6 8 (3.15%) Amazon Corretto
6 8 (3.15%) REST
6 8 (3.15%) SOAP
7 6 (2.36%) OAuth
8 5 (1.97%) Kafka
8 5 (1.97%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (1.97%) Middleware
9 4 (1.57%) .NET
9 4 (1.57%) gRPC
9 4 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (1.57%) web3js
10 3 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.60%) Algorithms
2 19 (7.48%) Management Information System
3 14 (5.51%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.33%) Social Media
5 10 (3.94%) IoT
6 9 (3.54%) e-Learning
7 8 (3.15%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.15%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.36%) NHS
9 5 (1.97%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.97%) PACS
9 5 (1.97%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.57%) Blockchain
10 4 (1.57%) Blog
10 4 (1.57%) FMCG
10 4 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.57%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 43 (16.93%) Windows
2 34 (13.39%) Windows Server
3 24 (9.45%) Linux
4 11 (4.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.57%) VMS
5 4 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.18%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.39%) Android
8 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (50.39%) Problem-Solving
2 86 (33.86%) Analytics
3 79 (31.10%) Agile
3 79 (31.10%) DevOps
4 65 (25.59%) ITIL
5 55 (21.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 54 (21.26%) Artificial Intelligence
7 44 (17.32%) Problem Management
7 44 (17.32%) Roadmaps
8 43 (16.93%) Data Science
8 43 (16.93%) Incident Management
8 43 (16.93%) Visualisation
9 39 (15.35%) Customer-Centricity
9 39 (15.35%) Machine Learning
10 38 (14.96%) Generative AI
11 36 (14.17%) LLM
11 36 (14.17%) MLOps
12 35 (13.78%) Service Management
13 34 (13.39%) Change Management
14 33 (12.99%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (17.72%) SQL
2 39 (15.35%) Python
3 24 (9.45%) JavaScript
4 15 (5.91%) Bash
5 14 (5.51%) Java
6 12 (4.72%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.72%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.36%) R
8 5 (1.97%) Go
9 4 (1.57%) VBA
10 3 (1.18%) Bicep
10 3 (1.18%) C#
10 3 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.18%) Perl
11 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.39%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 69 (27.17%) Degree
2 24 (9.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 24 (9.45%) Master's Degree
3 23 (9.06%) Azure Certification
4 17 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (4.72%) Security Cleared
6 10 (3.94%) DBS Check
7 9 (3.54%) PMI Certification
7 9 (3.54%) PMP
8 8 (3.15%) MCSA
8 8 (3.15%) MCSE
9 7 (2.76%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (2.76%) RHCSA
10 6 (2.36%) SC Cleared
11 5 (1.97%) HNC
11 5 (1.97%) HND
12 4 (1.57%) CSPO
12 4 (1.57%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.27%) GDPR
2 16 (6.30%) QA
3 10 (3.94%) SLA
4 9 (3.54%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.57%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.57%) ISO 8583
7 4 (1.57%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.57%) SEPA
8 3 (1.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.39%) IFRS
9 1 (0.39%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (8.27%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.30%) Docker
3 9 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.57%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.79%) Squid
8 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (9.45%) Terraform
2 22 (8.66%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.12%) Prometheus
4 11 (4.33%) Grafana
5 9 (3.54%) Nagios
6 8 (3.15%) Ansible
7 2 (0.79%) AssetCenter
7 2 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (0.79%) Kibana
7 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.79%) Puppet
7 2 (0.79%) SCCM
7 2 (0.79%) SCOM
7 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 101 (39.76%) Microsoft
2 52 (20.47%) Google
3 30 (11.81%) OpenAI
4 25 (9.84%) ServiceNow
5 17 (6.69%) SAP
6 15 (5.91%) SolarWinds
7 14 (5.51%) VMware
8 11 (4.33%) Red Hat
9 8 (3.15%) Oracle
10 7 (2.76%) Facebook
10 7 (2.76%) Salesforce
10 7 (2.76%) Workday
11 5 (1.97%) Cisco
11 5 (1.97%) Liquidlogic
12 4 (1.57%) Adobe
12 4 (1.57%) Databricks
12 4 (1.57%) Veeam
13 3 (1.18%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (1.18%) Instagram
14 2 (0.79%) Rockwell