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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 564 439 544
Rank change year-on-year -125 +105 -27
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 243 252 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.51% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.57% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 124 150 154
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,536 £37,250
25th Percentile £44,818 £41,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,971 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% +11.94% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £70,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £107,500 £95,125 £92,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -18.18%

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 84,196 43,853 63,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.72% 81.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58,302 24,746 35,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 18 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Top 17 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 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 -105 217 £57,500 -8.00% 356
UK excluding London -135 147 £52,500 -4.55% 201
London -55 84 £80,000 +14.29% 183
Work from Home -45 56 £55,000 - 124
South East -43 50 £50,000 -9.91% 64
North of England -81 28 £60,000 -7.69% 36
South West -78 27 £55,000 +52.78% 30
Midlands -43 17 £50,000 +19.05% 39
Yorkshire -42 15 £34,000 -47.69% 10
West Midlands -37 14 £50,000 -16.00% 26
East of England -34 10 £52,500 -4.55% 12
North West -38 8 £65,000 - 26
Scotland - 8 £31,000 - 12
Wales -77 6 £52,500 +37.82% 10
North East - 5 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands -48 3 £38,500 -3.75% 13
Northern Ireland -78 1 £46,000 - 1

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 (4.94%) Confluence
2 5 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 16 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.23%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.23%) MadCap Flare
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.41%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 60 (24.69%) Azure
2 33 (13.58%) AWS
3 27 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (9.47%) Entra ID
5 20 (8.23%) Power Platform
6 16 (6.58%) Serverless
7 13 (5.35%) Datadog
8 12 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.53%) Amazon S3
9 11 (4.53%) SaaS
10 10 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (4.12%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (4.12%) PaaS
11 8 (3.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.88%) Azure AKS
12 7 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.53%) TCP/IP
2 10 (4.12%) DNS
2 10 (4.12%) Intrusion Detection
3 8 (3.29%) IPv4
3 8 (3.29%) LAN
3 8 (3.29%) Software-Defined Networking
4 5 (2.06%) Firewall
4 5 (2.06%) HTTP
4 5 (2.06%) Internet
5 4 (1.65%) VPN
6 3 (1.23%) NAS
6 3 (1.23%) Network Security
6 3 (1.23%) SAN
7 2 (0.82%) DHCP
7 2 (0.82%) SSL
7 2 (0.82%) VLAN
7 2 (0.82%) WAN
7 2 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.41%) Intranet
8 1 (0.41%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.82%) Power BI
2 8 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.29%) DynamoDB
3 7 (2.88%) Data Lake
3 7 (2.88%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (2.47%) Big Data
4 6 (2.47%) Metadata
4 6 (2.47%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.06%) Data Mining
5 5 (2.06%) Oracle BI EE
5 5 (2.06%) QlikView
5 5 (2.06%) Tableau
6 4 (1.65%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.23%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.23%) Star Schema
8 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.82%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.41%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 25 (10.29%) GitLab
2 19 (7.82%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.41%) Git
4 16 (6.58%) JIRA
5 8 (3.29%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.88%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.82%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.82%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.41%) Flyway
8 1 (0.41%) Gatling
8 1 (0.41%) JMeter
8 1 (0.41%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.41%) NUnit
8 1 (0.41%) QUnit
8 1 (0.41%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 105 (43.21%) Social Skills
2 81 (33.33%) Finance
3 72 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (14.40%) Aerospace
5 26 (10.70%) Banking
6 22 (9.05%) Marketing
6 22 (9.05%) Organisational Skills
7 21 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (6.58%) Manufacturing
9 14 (5.76%) Legal
10 12 (4.94%) Public Sector
11 11 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (4.53%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (4.53%) Law
12 10 (4.12%) Front Office
13 9 (3.70%) Investment Banking
14 7 (2.88%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (2.88%) Retail
15 6 (2.47%) Electronics
16 5 (2.06%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 44 (18.11%) Senior
2 29 (11.93%) Lead
3 21 (8.64%) Architect
4 20 (8.23%) Analyst
5 19 (7.82%) Administrator
6 18 (7.41%) Systems Engineer
7 16 (6.58%) Developer
8 10 (4.12%) Security Engineer
8 10 (4.12%) Senior Security Engineer
8 10 (4.12%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 9 (3.70%) Business Support Analyst
9 9 (3.70%) Senior Developer
9 9 (3.70%) Support Analyst
10 8 (3.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (3.29%) IT Manager
10 8 (3.29%) Operations Manager
10 8 (3.29%) Senior Manager
10 8 (3.29%) Systems Administrator
11 7 (2.88%) Senior QA Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.76%) Terraform
2 15 (6.17%) ModSecurity
3 13 (5.35%) OAuth
4 12 (4.94%) LDAP
4 12 (4.94%) OpenID
4 12 (4.94%) SAML
5 9 (3.70%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (3.29%) REST
6 8 (3.29%) RESTful
7 7 (2.88%) .NET
7 7 (2.88%) gRPC
7 7 (2.88%) Kafka
7 7 (2.88%) PyTorch
7 7 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (2.47%) TensorFlow
8 6 (2.47%) web3js
9 5 (2.06%) CSS
9 5 (2.06%) WebSockets
10 4 (1.65%) boto
10 4 (1.65%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.29%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.47%) Management Information System
3 18 (7.41%) Driving Licence
4 17 (7.00%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (7.00%) Social Media
5 11 (4.53%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.53%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (4.53%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (4.12%) CCTV
6 10 (4.12%) Fixed Income
7 8 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.88%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.88%) Replication
9 6 (2.47%) Blockchain
9 6 (2.47%) NHS
9 6 (2.47%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.47%) Web3
10 5 (2.06%) Reference Data
10 5 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.65%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.99%) Linux
1 34 (13.99%) Windows
2 18 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.82%) Android
4 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.82%) Rocky
4 2 (0.82%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (39.09%) Continuous Improvement
2 69 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (23.46%) Decision-Making
4 47 (19.34%) Analytics
5 44 (18.11%) DevOps
6 41 (16.87%) AI
7 40 (16.46%) Agile
7 40 (16.46%) CI/CD
8 38 (15.64%) Mentoring
9 34 (13.99%) Infrastructure as Code
10 33 (13.58%) Coaching
11 31 (12.76%) Risk Management
12 29 (11.93%) Observability
12 29 (11.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 28 (11.52%) Incident Response
14 25 (10.29%) Microservices
14 25 (10.29%) Strategic Thinking
15 24 (9.88%) Architectural Patterns
15 24 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
16 23 (9.47%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (14.81%) Python
2 34 (13.99%) SQL
3 18 (7.41%) PowerShell
4 15 (6.17%) Java
5 13 (5.35%) Bash
6 9 (3.70%) C++
6 9 (3.70%) Go
6 9 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 8 (3.29%) C#
7 8 (3.29%) R
8 4 (1.65%) Bicep
8 4 (1.65%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.23%) VBA
9 3 (1.23%) VBScript
10 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.82%) Groovy
10 2 (0.82%) Ruby
10 2 (0.82%) Scala
11 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (18.52%) Degree
2 40 (16.46%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.64%) DV Cleared
4 16 (6.58%) Azure Certification
5 14 (5.76%) CISM
6 13 (5.35%) CISSP
6 13 (5.35%) RHCSA
6 13 (5.35%) SC Cleared
7 12 (4.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (4.12%) CCNA
8 10 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (3.29%) AWS Certification
10 8 (3.29%) ISTQB
10 8 (3.29%) OSCP
10 8 (3.29%) RHCE
11 6 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.65%) ACCA
12 4 (1.65%) CIMA
13 3 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.70%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.53%) QA
3 8 (3.29%) GMP
4 3 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.23%) PMO
5 2 (0.82%) GAAP
5 2 (0.82%) GDPR
5 2 (0.82%) IFRS
5 2 (0.82%) NEBOSH
5 2 (0.82%) SLA
6 1 (0.41%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
6 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (15.23%) Active Directory
2 20 (8.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (7.00%) Docker
4 8 (3.29%) Squid
4 8 (3.29%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.29%) vSphere
5 6 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.65%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.23%) IAG
7 3 (1.23%) KVM
8 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.94%) Prometheus
2 12 (4.94%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (4.12%) Ansible
4 8 (3.29%) Packer
4 8 (3.29%) ZABBIX
5 5 (2.06%) Grafana
5 5 (2.06%) Nagios
6 4 (1.65%) SCCM
7 2 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.41%) Kibana
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.41%) SCOM
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 53 (21.81%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.23%) VMware
3 19 (7.82%) Oracle
4 13 (5.35%) Red Hat
5 12 (4.94%) Databricks
5 12 (4.94%) ForgeRock
5 12 (4.94%) Okta
6 11 (4.53%) YouTube
7 10 (4.12%) Cisco
7 10 (4.12%) Splunk
8 9 (3.70%) FIS
8 9 (3.70%) SunGard
9 6 (2.47%) Google
9 6 (2.47%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.23%) Adobe
10 3 (1.23%) IONA
10 3 (1.23%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.23%) Pinterest
10 3 (1.23%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.23%) Xero