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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 427 570
Rank change year-on-year -151 +143 -3
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 195 268 292
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.54% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.61% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 129 150 212
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,925 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,875 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £61,563
90th Percentile £108,750 £86,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,485 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.38% +23.30% -10.00%

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 73,631 44,290 76,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.59% 90.03% 81.87%
Number of salaries quoted 50,962 24,903 52,597
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 21 July 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 July 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 -118 171 £60,500 -3.20% 91
UK excluding London -126 106 £52,500 -5.38% 69
London -28 79 £91,250 +31.52% 33
Work from Home -63 43 £55,500 -11.20% 30
South East -69 30 £35,000 -27.46% 18
North of England -50 23 £65,000 - 18
South West -53 18 £55,000 +2.33% 7
Yorkshire -32 11 - - 2
Midlands -35 10 £52,500 +23.32% 10
West Midlands -18 9 £55,000 -18.52% 6
East of England -12 8 £53,106 -3.44% 6
North West -36 7 £69,651 +7.15% 9
Wales -62 6 £42,934 +12.71% 3
North East -45 5 £60,000 -13.52% 7
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Scotland - 4 £31,000 - 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £59,901 - 4
East Midlands -26 1 £38,500 -3.75% 4

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 (5.64%) Confluence
2 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.03%) IIS
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.54%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.54%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (22.05%) AWS
2 36 (18.46%) Azure
3 21 (10.77%) AWS CloudFormation
3 21 (10.77%) Cloud Computing
4 20 (10.26%) Serverless
5 18 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (8.72%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (8.72%) Amazon S3
7 16 (8.21%) Datadog
8 14 (7.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (5.13%) GCP
11 8 (4.10%) Entra ID
12 7 (3.59%) IaaS
12 7 (3.59%) Power Platform
13 6 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (3.08%) Nutanix
13 6 (3.08%) OCI
13 6 (3.08%) PaaS
13 6 (3.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.77%) TCP/IP
2 15 (7.69%) DNS
3 13 (6.67%) LAN
4 11 (5.64%) HTTP
5 10 (5.13%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (4.10%) IPv4
6 8 (4.10%) Software-Defined Networking
7 5 (2.56%) DHCP
7 5 (2.56%) VPN
7 5 (2.56%) WAN
8 4 (2.05%) Internet
9 2 (1.03%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.03%) VLAN
10 1 (0.51%) Firewall
10 1 (0.51%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.51%) Intranet
10 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.51%) PSTN
10 1 (0.51%) SNMP
10 1 (0.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.23%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (7.18%) DynamoDB
3 13 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.59%) Power BI
5 5 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.56%) Redis
6 3 (1.54%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.54%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.51%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.51%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 31 (15.90%) GitLab
2 26 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 16 (8.21%) Git
4 14 (7.18%) JIRA
5 13 (6.67%) CircleCI
6 8 (4.10%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.03%) Gatling
7 2 (1.03%) JMeter
7 2 (1.03%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.51%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.51%) Postman
8 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.51%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.51%) Selenium
8 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.51%) Yeoman
General
1 74 (37.95%) Finance
2 70 (35.90%) Social Skills
3 39 (20.00%) Banking
4 29 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.72%) Aerospace
6 16 (8.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (7.18%) Marketing
8 13 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (6.15%) Manufacturing
10 11 (5.64%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (4.62%) Investment Banking
11 9 (4.62%) Law
12 8 (4.10%) Public Sector
13 7 (3.59%) Front Office
14 6 (3.08%) Legal
14 6 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (2.56%) Automotive
16 4 (2.05%) Electronics
16 4 (2.05%) Local Government
17 3 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (27.69%) Senior
2 20 (10.26%) Administrator
3 18 (9.23%) Lead
4 17 (8.72%) Developer
4 17 (8.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (8.72%) Systems Engineer
5 14 (7.18%) Senior Developer
6 11 (5.64%) Analyst
7 10 (5.13%) Security Engineer
7 10 (5.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (5.13%) Senior Security Engineer
7 10 (5.13%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 10 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
8 9 (4.62%) IT Manager
8 9 (4.62%) Linux Administrator
8 9 (4.62%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 8 (4.10%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (4.10%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
10 7 (3.59%) Business Support Analyst
10 7 (3.59%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.69%) RESTful
2 13 (6.67%) gRPC
2 13 (6.67%) Kafka
2 13 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
3 12 (6.15%) web3js
4 9 (4.62%) WebSockets
5 7 (3.59%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (2.56%) Django
7 4 (2.05%) boto
7 4 (2.05%) CSS
8 3 (1.54%) Bootstrap
8 3 (1.54%) HTML
8 3 (1.54%) HTML5
8 3 (1.54%) jQuery
8 3 (1.54%) REST
9 2 (1.03%) EDI
9 2 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.03%) NumPy
9 2 (1.03%) Pandas
9 2 (1.03%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.21%) Cloud Native
1 16 (8.21%) Driving Licence
2 14 (7.18%) Management Information System
3 13 (6.67%) Blockchain
3 13 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (6.15%) Web3
5 10 (5.13%) CCTV
5 10 (5.13%) Data Centre
6 9 (4.62%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.62%) Replication
7 7 (3.59%) Fixed Income
8 6 (3.08%) Life Science
9 5 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.56%) NHS
10 4 (2.05%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.54%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.46%) Linux
2 25 (12.82%) Windows
3 19 (9.74%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.08%) Apple iOS
6 5 (2.56%) Unix
7 4 (2.05%) Android
7 4 (2.05%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.03%) Rocky
9 1 (0.51%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (27.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 41 (21.03%) DevOps
3 40 (20.51%) CI/CD
4 39 (20.00%) Agile
5 35 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (15.90%) Analytics
8 29 (14.87%) Containerisation
8 29 (14.87%) Risk Management
9 26 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 24 (12.31%) Observability
11 21 (10.77%) Decision-Making
12 20 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
12 20 (10.26%) Microservices
12 20 (10.26%) Performance Optimisation
13 19 (9.74%) High Availability
13 19 (9.74%) ITIL
14 18 (9.23%) Continuous Delivery
14 18 (9.23%) Investment Management
14 18 (9.23%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 33 (16.92%) Python
2 20 (10.26%) SQL
3 18 (9.23%) Bash
4 16 (8.21%) PowerShell
5 14 (7.18%) Java
6 13 (6.67%) Go
7 7 (3.59%) C++
8 6 (3.08%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.05%) C#
10 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.51%) Bicep
11 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.51%) Groovy
11 1 (0.51%) JCL
11 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (18.46%) Degree
2 21 (10.77%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.72%) RHCSA
4 16 (8.21%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.13%) CCNA
6 10 (5.13%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.10%) AWS Certification
7 8 (4.10%) ISTQB
7 8 (4.10%) OSCP
7 8 (4.10%) RHCE
8 6 (3.08%) CCNP
8 6 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.08%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.56%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.56%) MCSE
9 5 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (2.05%) ACCA
10 4 (2.05%) CIMA
11 3 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.74%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.15%) QA
3 7 (3.59%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.59%) GMP
4 3 (1.54%) GDPR
4 3 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.54%) PMO
5 2 (1.03%) GAAP
5 2 (1.03%) IFRS
6 1 (0.51%) COBIT
6 1 (0.51%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.51%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) SLA
6 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (14.36%) Docker
2 27 (13.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (11.28%) Active Directory
4 8 (4.10%) Squid
4 8 (4.10%) VMware NSX
4 8 (4.10%) vSphere
5 5 (2.56%) KVM
6 3 (1.54%) IAG
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (16.92%) Terraform
2 30 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 15 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 11 (5.64%) Ansible
5 9 (4.62%) Nagios
6 8 (4.10%) Packer
6 8 (4.10%) ZABBIX
7 5 (2.56%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.56%) Grafana
7 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (2.05%) SCCM
9 2 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.51%) Argo
10 1 (0.51%) DatAdvantage
10 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.51%) Netcool
10 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (21.03%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.36%) VMware
3 18 (9.23%) Oracle
4 17 (8.72%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.15%) Splunk
6 11 (5.64%) Cisco
7 9 (4.62%) SolarWinds
8 7 (3.59%) FIS
8 7 (3.59%) SunGard
9 6 (3.08%) Google
10 5 (2.56%) Veeam
10 5 (2.56%) Zerto
11 4 (2.05%) SAP
12 3 (1.54%) Adobe
12 3 (1.54%) Apple
12 3 (1.54%) IONA
12 3 (1.54%) Nexthink
12 3 (1.54%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.54%) Xero
13 2 (1.03%) AppDynamics