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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 456 521
Rank change year-on-year +40 +65 +197
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 242 312 206
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.50% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.57% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 141 166 148
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,250 £40,350
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,527 £53,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.32% -4.50% -3.48%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile £97,500 £81,875 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +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 46,878 54,401 47,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.98% 86.62% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 28,142 28,251 36,353
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.70%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 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 +39 201 £60,000 +19.40% 99
UK excluding London +33 164 £55,000 +10.00% 79
Work from Home +26 99 £59,764 +3.94% 32
London +49 65 £70,000 -8.50% 35
South East +22 46 £92,500 +105.56% 36
North of England +48 39 £65,000 +4.00% 16
South West +14 24 £39,977 +3.84% 15
North West +46 23 £62,500 - 7
Midlands +9 18 £42,250 -0.59% 5
East of England +21 15 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Yorkshire +9 13 £65,000 +52.94% 9
Northern Ireland +6 13 £73,801 +6.48%
East Midlands +4 11 £40,000 - 2
Scotland -8 10 £73,801 +39.25%
West Midlands +24 7 £59,527 -4.76% 3
Wales +8 6 £44,336 -36.03% 3
North East +10 3 £73,801 +6.48%

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 8 (3.31%) Confluence
2 6 (2.48%) IIS
3 5 (2.07%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.83%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.83%) WinCC
6 1 (0.41%) Appian
6 1 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
Applications
1 32 (13.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.31%) Oracle Smart View
3 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.31%) Hyperion Planning
1 8 (3.31%) Oracle Assets
1 8 (3.31%) Oracle Financials
1 8 (3.31%) Oracle General Ledger
1 8 (3.31%) Oracle Payables
1 8 (3.31%) Oracle Receivables
2 6 (2.48%) SAP WM
3 5 (2.07%) PlanetPress Connect
4 4 (1.65%) SAP ERP
4 4 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (1.24%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (1.24%) SAP APO
5 3 (1.24%) SAP CO
5 3 (1.24%) SAP FI
5 3 (1.24%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (1.24%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.83%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 2 (0.83%) OpenCart
7 1 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 64 (26.45%) Azure
2 39 (16.12%) Power Platform
3 32 (13.22%) AWS
4 19 (7.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 17 (7.02%) GCP
6 16 (6.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (6.20%) Vertex AI
8 10 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (4.13%) GitHub
8 10 (4.13%) SaaS
9 9 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.72%) Serverless
10 8 (3.31%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.31%) dbt
10 8 (3.31%) Entra ID
10 8 (3.31%) Pulumi
11 7 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.31%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.89%) Firewall
3 4 (1.65%) DNS
3 4 (1.65%) LAN
3 4 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (1.65%) Wireless
4 2 (0.83%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.83%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.83%) HTTP
4 2 (0.83%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.83%) SAN
4 2 (0.83%) SNMP
4 2 (0.83%) WAN
5 1 (0.41%) Internet
5 1 (0.41%) Intranet
5 1 (0.41%) Multicast
5 1 (0.41%) Network Security
5 1 (0.41%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.29%) Power BI
2 25 (10.33%) SQL Server
3 17 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (6.20%) Data Mining
4 15 (6.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (3.31%) Essbase
8 8 (3.31%) Redis
9 7 (2.89%) DynamoDB
9 7 (2.89%) Tableau
10 4 (1.65%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.24%) Metadata
11 3 (1.24%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.83%) Big Data
12 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 11 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.13%) Git
3 9 (3.72%) JIRA
4 8 (3.31%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (2.89%) GitLab
6 4 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.65%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.24%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.83%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.83%) JMeter
8 2 (0.83%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 128 (52.89%) Social Skills
2 84 (34.71%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (31.40%) Finance
4 47 (19.42%) Law
5 36 (14.88%) Retail
6 14 (5.79%) Legal
6 14 (5.79%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.37%) Marketing
8 12 (4.96%) Billing
9 7 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.89%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.48%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.07%) Banking
11 5 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.65%) Advertising
12 4 (1.65%) Automotive
12 4 (1.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 66 (27.27%) Senior
2 48 (19.83%) Analyst
3 35 (14.46%) Lead
4 20 (8.26%) Developer
5 12 (4.96%) Commercial Analyst
5 12 (4.96%) Insight Analyst
5 12 (4.96%) IT Manager
5 12 (4.96%) Senior Analyst
6 10 (4.13%) Support Analyst
7 9 (3.72%) Consultant
8 8 (3.31%) Data Analyst
8 8 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.31%) Oracle Analyst
8 8 (3.31%) Product Manager
8 8 (3.31%) Senior Developer
8 8 (3.31%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 8 (3.31%) Site Engineer
8 8 (3.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (2.89%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (2.48%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.20%) HTML
2 14 (5.79%) CSS
3 13 (5.37%) JSON
3 13 (5.37%) XML
4 9 (3.72%) Middleware
5 8 (3.31%) Django
5 8 (3.31%) REST
6 7 (2.89%) .NET
7 5 (2.07%) Kafka
7 5 (2.07%) React
7 5 (2.07%) SOAP
8 4 (1.65%) Node.js
8 4 (1.65%) RESTful
9 3 (1.24%) Amazon Corretto
9 3 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (0.83%) ARM Templates
10 2 (0.83%) NETCONF
10 2 (0.83%) PyTorch
10 2 (0.83%) RESTCONF
10 2 (0.83%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 20 (8.26%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (7.44%) Algorithms
4 13 (5.37%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.37%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.13%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.89%) e-Learning
8 6 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.48%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.65%) FMCG
9 4 (1.65%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.24%) Life Science
10 3 (1.24%) Social Media
10 3 (1.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.24%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.83%) Blog
11 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.83%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.81%) Windows
2 23 (9.50%) Linux
3 20 (8.26%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.31%) Unix
5 6 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.65%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.65%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.24%) VMS
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.41%) Android
9 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (41.74%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (33.47%) Analytics
3 76 (31.40%) Agile
4 62 (25.62%) DevOps
5 59 (24.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 54 (22.31%) ITIL
7 47 (19.42%) Roadmaps
8 41 (16.94%) AI
8 41 (16.94%) Visualisation
9 40 (16.53%) CI/CD
10 39 (16.12%) Business Intelligence
10 39 (16.12%) Decision-Making
11 31 (12.81%) Actionable Insight
12 28 (11.57%) Data Science
12 28 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (11.57%) ITSM
13 27 (11.16%) Problem Management
13 27 (11.16%) Product Management
13 27 (11.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (10.33%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 62 (25.62%) SQL
2 40 (16.53%) Python
3 21 (8.68%) JavaScript
4 16 (6.61%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 11 (4.55%) Java
7 10 (4.13%) Bash
8 9 (3.72%) VBA
9 8 (3.31%) C#
9 8 (3.31%) Groovy
10 6 (2.48%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.65%) Bicep
12 3 (1.24%) R
13 2 (0.83%) Go
14 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.41%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.41%) Perl
14 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.41%) Swift
14 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 69 (28.51%) Degree
2 23 (9.50%) Master's Degree
3 18 (7.44%) Security Cleared
4 14 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.96%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (4.55%) SC Cleared
7 9 (3.72%) PMI Certification
7 9 (3.72%) PMP
8 7 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.07%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.65%) MCP
11 3 (1.24%) CISA
11 3 (1.24%) CISM
11 3 (1.24%) CISSP
11 3 (1.24%) CRISC
11 3 (1.24%) HNC
11 3 (1.24%) HND
11 3 (1.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 3 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.44%) Data Quality
2 17 (7.02%) GDPR
3 10 (4.13%) QA
4 6 (2.48%) GRC
4 6 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.24%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.24%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.24%) ISO 8583
5 3 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 3 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 3 (1.24%) SEPA
6 2 (0.83%) SLA
7 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.41%) COBIT
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (9.09%) Docker
2 15 (6.20%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.41%) Squid
Systems Management
1 25 (10.33%) Terraform
2 24 (9.92%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.13%) Ansible
4 6 (2.48%) Grafana
5 5 (2.07%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.65%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.65%) Puppet
7 3 (1.24%) logstash
8 2 (0.83%) AssetCenter
8 2 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.83%) Kibana
8 2 (0.83%) Nagios
8 2 (0.83%) SCCM
9 1 (0.41%) Argo
9 1 (0.41%) Control-M
Vendors
1 67 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 35 (14.46%) Google
3 18 (7.44%) Oracle
4 16 (6.61%) SAP
4 16 (6.61%) ServiceNow
5 15 (6.20%) OpenAI
6 9 (3.72%) VMware
7 8 (3.31%) Hyperion
8 6 (2.48%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.07%) Cisco
10 4 (1.65%) Adobe
10 4 (1.65%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.65%) Databricks
10 4 (1.65%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.24%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.83%) Ahrefs
12 2 (0.83%) Kepware
12 2 (0.83%) Planon
12 2 (0.83%) Rockwell
12 2 (0.83%) TikTok