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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 432 568
Rank change year-on-year -120 +136 -43
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 234 272 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.55% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.61% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 130 152 187
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,536 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,078 £44,798 £37,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,938 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £86,125 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -13.88%

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 79,126 44,376 67,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.31% 89.04% 80.77%
Number of salaries quoted 54,636 25,137 42,574
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -129 209 £60,250 -3.60% 82
UK excluding London -114 139 £52,500 -4.55% 73
London -53 85 £85,000 +21.43% 25
Work from Home -63 49 £54,356 -2.88% 18
South East -51 46 £49,289 -1.42% 28
South West -66 27 £55,000 +52.78% 8
North of England -76 24 £55,000 -13.73% 12
Midlands -35 17 £50,000 +17.44% 16
West Midlands -19 14 £50,000 -25.93% 9
Yorkshire -33 13 £34,000 -41.25% 5
East of England -30 9 £52,500 -4.55% 6
Scotland - 7 £31,000 - 2
North West -40 6 £46,250 -26.00% 2
Wales -62 6 £52,500 +37.82% 2
North East -47 5 £65,000 -6.32% 5
East Midlands -26 3 £38,500 -3.75% 7
Channel Islands - 2 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £46,000 -

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 (5.13%) Confluence
2 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.85%) IIS
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.28%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.28%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (22.65%) Azure
2 36 (15.38%) AWS
3 23 (9.83%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (9.40%) Entra ID
5 18 (7.69%) Serverless
6 15 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (6.41%) Datadog
7 14 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (5.98%) Amazon S3
7 14 (5.98%) Power Platform
8 13 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (5.13%) SaaS
10 11 (4.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.99%) PaaS
12 6 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.56%) Azure AKS
12 6 (2.56%) GCP
12 6 (2.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.98%) TCP/IP
2 13 (5.56%) DNS
3 11 (4.70%) LAN
4 10 (4.27%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (3.42%) HTTP
5 8 (3.42%) IPv4
5 8 (3.42%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.71%) Firewall
6 4 (1.71%) Internet
7 3 (1.28%) DHCP
7 3 (1.28%) NAS
7 3 (1.28%) Network Security
7 3 (1.28%) SAN
7 3 (1.28%) VPN
8 2 (0.85%) VLAN
8 2 (0.85%) WAN
8 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.43%) Intelligent Network
9 1 (0.43%) Intranet
9 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.56%) Power BI
2 11 (4.70%) DynamoDB
3 10 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (4.27%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.14%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.14%) Metadata
5 4 (1.71%) Big Data
5 4 (1.71%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.28%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.28%) Oracle BI EE
6 3 (1.28%) QlikView
6 3 (1.28%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.28%) Star Schema
6 3 (1.28%) Tableau
7 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.43%) Parquet
8 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.43%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 28 (11.97%) GitLab
2 23 (9.83%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.69%) Git
4 15 (6.41%) JIRA
5 10 (4.27%) CircleCI
6 8 (3.42%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.85%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.85%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.85%) Gatling
7 2 (0.85%) JMeter
7 2 (0.85%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.85%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.43%) NUnit
8 1 (0.43%) Postman
8 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.43%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.43%) Selenium
8 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.43%) Yeoman
General
1 102 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 85 (36.32%) Finance
3 58 (24.79%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (15.38%) Banking
5 34 (14.53%) Aerospace
6 20 (8.55%) Marketing
7 17 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (7.26%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (6.41%) Manufacturing
9 12 (5.13%) Legal
10 11 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (4.70%) Investment Banking
11 10 (4.27%) Law
12 9 (3.85%) Front Office
12 9 (3.85%) Public Sector
13 8 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (2.14%) Automotive
15 5 (2.14%) Electronics
15 5 (2.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (18.80%) Senior
2 29 (12.39%) Lead
3 21 (8.97%) Architect
4 19 (8.12%) Administrator
5 18 (7.69%) Analyst
6 17 (7.26%) Developer
6 17 (7.26%) Systems Engineer
7 11 (4.70%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.27%) Security Engineer
8 10 (4.27%) Senior Security Engineer
8 10 (4.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 10 (4.27%) Systems Administrator
9 9 (3.85%) Business Support Analyst
9 9 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (3.85%) IT Manager
9 9 (3.85%) Support Analyst
10 8 (3.42%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (3.42%) Operations Manager
10 8 (3.42%) Senior Manager
11 7 (2.99%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.25%) Terraform
2 15 (6.41%) ModSecurity
3 13 (5.56%) LDAP
3 13 (5.56%) OAuth
4 12 (5.13%) OpenID
4 12 (5.13%) RESTful
4 12 (5.13%) SAML
5 10 (4.27%) gRPC
5 10 (4.27%) Kafka
5 10 (4.27%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
6 9 (3.85%) web3js
7 7 (2.99%) WebSockets
8 5 (2.14%) .NET
8 5 (2.14%) PyTorch
8 5 (2.14%) REST
9 4 (1.71%) boto
9 4 (1.71%) CSS
9 4 (1.71%) Middleware
9 4 (1.71%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.26%) Driving Licence
2 17 (7.26%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (6.84%) Social Media
4 15 (6.41%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.56%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.27%) Blockchain
6 10 (4.27%) CCTV
6 10 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.85%) Fixed Income
7 9 (3.85%) Web3
8 8 (3.42%) Replication
9 7 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.56%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.56%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.14%) Life Science
11 5 (2.14%) NHS
12 4 (1.71%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.68%) Linux
2 30 (12.82%) Windows
3 19 (8.12%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.85%) Android
5 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.85%) Rocky
5 2 (0.85%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (35.04%) Continuous Improvement
2 59 (25.21%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (20.09%) Decision-Making
4 43 (18.38%) DevOps
5 42 (17.95%) Analytics
6 39 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 37 (15.81%) Agile
8 36 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 34 (14.53%) AI
9 34 (14.53%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (12.82%) Coaching
10 30 (12.82%) Observability
10 30 (12.82%) Risk Management
11 27 (11.54%) Microservices
12 26 (11.11%) Incident Response
13 25 (10.68%) Strategic Thinking
14 24 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (9.83%) Architectural Patterns
15 23 (9.83%) Containerisation
15 23 (9.83%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (15.38%) Python
2 28 (11.97%) SQL
3 15 (6.41%) Bash
3 15 (6.41%) PowerShell
4 14 (5.98%) Java
5 12 (5.13%) Go
6 9 (3.85%) C++
7 8 (3.42%) C#
7 8 (3.42%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.56%) R
9 4 (1.71%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.85%) Bicep
10 2 (0.85%) Ruby
10 2 (0.85%) Scala
10 2 (0.85%) VBA
10 2 (0.85%) VBScript
11 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.43%) Groovy
11 1 (0.43%) JCL
Qualifications
1 47 (20.09%) Degree
2 33 (14.10%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.97%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.41%) RHCSA
5 14 (5.98%) Azure Certification
5 14 (5.98%) CISM
6 13 (5.56%) CISSP
7 12 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (4.27%) CCNA
9 8 (3.42%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (3.42%) ISTQB
9 8 (3.42%) OSCP
9 8 (3.42%) RHCE
10 7 (2.99%) SC Cleared
11 6 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (2.14%) Master's Degree
13 3 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.83%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.13%) QA
3 8 (3.42%) GMP
4 6 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.28%) PMO
6 2 (0.85%) GAAP
6 2 (0.85%) GDPR
6 2 (0.85%) IFRS
6 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.85%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.43%) GRC
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.43%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
7 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (14.96%) Active Directory
2 23 (9.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (8.55%) Docker
4 8 (3.42%) Squid
4 8 (3.42%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.42%) vSphere
5 5 (2.14%) KVM
6 3 (1.28%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.28%) IAG
6 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (13.25%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.98%) Prometheus
3 13 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (4.70%) Ansible
5 8 (3.42%) Packer
5 8 (3.42%) ZABBIX
6 7 (2.99%) Nagios
7 6 (2.56%) Grafana
8 4 (1.71%) SCCM
9 2 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.43%) Argo
10 1 (0.43%) DatAdvantage
10 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.43%) Netcool
Vendors
1 45 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.26%) VMware
3 19 (8.12%) Oracle
4 15 (6.41%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.13%) ForgeRock
5 12 (5.13%) Okta
6 11 (4.70%) Splunk
7 10 (4.27%) Cisco
7 10 (4.27%) Databricks
8 9 (3.85%) FIS
8 9 (3.85%) SunGard
8 9 (3.85%) YouTube
9 7 (2.99%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.71%) Google
11 3 (1.28%) Adobe
11 3 (1.28%) IONA
11 3 (1.28%) Nexthink
11 3 (1.28%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.28%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.28%) Xero