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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 411 544
Rank change year-on-year -63 +133 +130
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 215 256 294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.59% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.63% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 123 130 186
10th Percentile £39,050 £28,150 £33,342
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,837 £40,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile £78,915 £74,144 £61,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £77,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.87% +15.00% +8.70%

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 57,551 40,867 73,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.60% 87.39%
Number of salaries quoted 34,815 22,139 55,867
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,860 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,006
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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -68 162 £60,000 -4.00% 111
UK excluding London -55 127 £57,000 -0.87% 86
Work from Home -3 93 £55,500 -17.78% 54
London -9 68 £75,000 +0.67% 39
South East -15 40 £52,500 -12.50% 27
North of England -40 25 £65,000 -6.22% 25
North West -18 15 £65,000 - 15
Northern Ireland -16 14 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Scotland -18 12 £73,801 +6.48% 2
South West -26 12 £45,000 -15.75% 6
Midlands -46 12 £48,000 +12.94% 13
Wales -8 8 £42,934 -36.51% 4
West Midlands -15 8 £59,527 -8.42% 7
North East -23 5 £60,651 -12.59% 5
Yorkshire -50 5 £66,250 - 5
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East Midlands -47 4 £39,724 +58.25% 6
East of England -18 1 £60,000 +20.00% 9

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 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.19%) IIS
3 8 (3.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.79%) Confluence
5 4 (1.86%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.93%) CMS
7 1 (0.47%) SAS
7 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.65%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.86%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.47%) EngageOne
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.58%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (4.65%) Hyperion Planning
2 10 (4.65%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (4.65%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (4.65%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (4.65%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.86%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.40%) SAP CO
4 3 (1.40%) SAP FI
4 3 (1.40%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.93%) PlanetPress Connect
6 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.47%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.47%) Shopify
6 1 (0.47%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 75 (34.88%) Azure
2 42 (19.53%) AWS
3 27 (12.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 23 (10.70%) Power Platform
5 20 (9.30%) GCP
6 17 (7.91%) Cloud Computing
6 17 (7.91%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (7.44%) Entra ID
8 14 (6.51%) Serverless
9 13 (6.05%) Amazon ECR
9 13 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (6.05%) Amazon S3
9 13 (6.05%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (6.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (6.05%) dbt
9 13 (6.05%) Pulumi
10 12 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (5.58%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.58%) SaaS
11 11 (5.12%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.56%) TCP/IP
2 18 (8.37%) DNS
3 12 (5.58%) WAN
4 10 (4.65%) HTTP
4 10 (4.65%) LAN
4 10 (4.65%) VPN
5 9 (4.19%) DHCP
6 8 (3.72%) SD-WAN
7 5 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.86%) Firewall
8 4 (1.86%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.86%) SNMP
8 4 (1.86%) Wireless
9 2 (0.93%) Internet
10 1 (0.47%) Broadband
10 1 (0.47%) Intranet
10 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.47%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.02%) SQL Server
2 25 (11.63%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (10.23%) Power BI
4 16 (7.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 14 (6.51%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (6.51%) Redis
6 13 (6.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (6.05%) NoSQL
7 12 (5.58%) DynamoDB
8 10 (4.65%) Essbase
9 6 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.86%) Metadata
11 4 (1.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.40%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.93%) OLAP
13 2 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (9.77%) GitLab
1 21 (9.77%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.12%) CircleCI
3 10 (4.65%) Git
3 10 (4.65%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (2.79%) JIRA
5 4 (1.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.86%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.86%) LoadRunner
6 3 (1.40%) JMeter
7 2 (0.93%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.93%) Gatling
7 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.47%) Mocha
8 1 (0.47%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.47%) Postman
8 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 89 (41.40%) Finance
2 86 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 34 (15.81%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.63%) Banking
5 14 (6.51%) Marketing
6 13 (6.05%) Retail
7 12 (5.58%) Billing
7 12 (5.58%) Legal
8 8 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.26%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.79%) Local Government
10 6 (2.79%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.79%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.33%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.33%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.86%) Automotive
12 4 (1.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 64 (29.77%) Senior
2 34 (15.81%) Analyst
3 23 (10.70%) Developer
4 21 (9.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (9.77%) Lead
5 15 (6.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (6.51%) Senior Analyst
6 14 (6.51%) Senior Developer
7 12 (5.58%) Commercial Analyst
7 12 (5.58%) Insight Analyst
8 11 (5.12%) Support Analyst
9 10 (4.65%) Administrator
9 10 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.65%) Oracle Analyst
9 10 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.65%) Senior Oracle Analyst
10 9 (4.19%) Site Engineer
10 9 (4.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 8 (3.72%) Product Manager
11 8 (3.72%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.98%) Kafka
2 14 (6.51%) RESTful
3 13 (6.05%) Django
4 11 (5.12%) gRPC
4 11 (5.12%) RabbitMQ
4 11 (5.12%) web3js
5 9 (4.19%) .NET
6 7 (3.26%) REST
7 5 (2.33%) HTML
7 5 (2.33%) Middleware
7 5 (2.33%) WebSockets
8 4 (1.86%) CSS
8 4 (1.86%) NETCONF
8 4 (1.86%) RESTCONF
9 3 (1.40%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.40%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.40%) React
10 2 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.93%) LDAP
10 2 (0.93%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.91%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (5.58%) Blockchain
3 12 (5.58%) Life Science
3 12 (5.58%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.12%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.12%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.12%) Web3
5 8 (3.72%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.72%) Replication
6 6 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.33%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.86%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.40%) Clustering
9 3 (1.40%) Social Media
9 3 (1.40%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.81%) Linux
2 25 (11.63%) Windows
3 19 (8.84%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.51%) Unix
5 10 (4.65%) Apple iOS
6 9 (4.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.19%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.86%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.93%) Android
9 1 (0.47%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (27.91%) Analytics
2 55 (25.58%) DevOps
3 53 (24.65%) Agile
4 52 (24.19%) CI/CD
5 42 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (17.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (16.74%) Observability
7 36 (16.74%) Roadmaps
8 28 (13.02%) Risk Management
9 26 (12.09%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (11.63%) High Availability
10 25 (11.63%) User Experience
11 24 (11.16%) Actionable Insight
11 24 (11.16%) Continuous Integration
11 24 (11.16%) Test Automation
12 23 (10.70%) Decision-Making
12 23 (10.70%) Microservices
13 22 (10.23%) Containerisation
14 21 (9.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (21.40%) SQL
2 42 (19.53%) Python
3 18 (8.37%) PowerShell
4 15 (6.98%) Bash
4 15 (6.98%) C#
5 14 (6.51%) Java
6 12 (5.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 11 (5.12%) Go
8 10 (4.65%) Groovy
9 9 (4.19%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.79%) VBA
11 4 (1.86%) Bicep
11 4 (1.86%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.47%) JCL
13 1 (0.47%) R
13 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 50 (23.26%) Degree
2 25 (11.63%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.91%) Master's Degree
3 17 (7.91%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.19%) CCNP
5 9 (4.19%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.79%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.33%) MCSE
7 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.33%) RHCSA
7 5 (2.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.86%) CCIE
8 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.93%) CISSP
9 2 (0.93%) CSPO
9 2 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.05%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.12%) GDPR
3 7 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.79%) QA
5 5 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.40%) GRC
7 2 (0.93%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.93%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.93%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.93%) SEPA
8 1 (0.47%) COBIT
8 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.47%) NIST
8 1 (0.47%) P3O
8 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.47%) PMO
8 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (15.81%) Docker
2 22 (10.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (9.30%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.33%) KVM
5 1 (0.47%) Squid
5 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (16.74%) Terraform
2 33 (15.35%) Kubernetes
3 14 (6.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (6.51%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.19%) Ansible
5 6 (2.79%) Grafana
6 5 (2.33%) AWS Copilot
6 5 (2.33%) Nagios
7 4 (1.86%) logstash
7 4 (1.86%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.86%) Puppet
8 2 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.93%) Argo
8 2 (0.93%) DatAdvantage
8 2 (0.93%) Kibana
8 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.47%) Control-M
9 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.47%) Netcool
Vendors
1 35 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.70%) VMware
3 17 (7.91%) Oracle
4 15 (6.98%) Google
5 11 (5.12%) SAP
6 10 (4.65%) Hyperion
7 9 (4.19%) Red Hat
8 8 (3.72%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.79%) Dynatrace
10 5 (2.33%) HubSpot
10 5 (2.33%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.33%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.33%) Veeam
10 5 (2.33%) Zerto
11 4 (1.86%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.86%) Cisco
11 4 (1.86%) Splunk
12 2 (0.93%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.93%) Apple
12 2 (0.93%) Varonis