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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 432 546
Rank change year-on-year -126 +114 -7
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 228 272 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.54% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.61% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 129 152 190
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,607 £34,975
25th Percentile £46,078 £45,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £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% -13.46%

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 78,515 44,640 67,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.47% 89.25% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 54,079 25,322 43,171
10th Percentile £30,975 £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 £97,236 £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 16 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 16 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 -123 205 £60,250 -3.60% 90
UK excluding London -133 136 £52,500 -4.55% 81
London -58 83 £86,250 +23.21% 22
South East -63 48 £49,289 -1.42% 22
Work from Home -67 44 £55,000 -8.33% 25
South West -67 27 £55,000 +52.78% 7
North of England -79 22 £55,000 -15.38% 20
Midlands -25 15 £50,000 +10.75% 18
Yorkshire -27 13 £34,000 -41.25% 5
West Midlands -24 12 £50,000 -25.93% 9
East of England -34 9 £52,500 -4.55% 6
Wales -67 6 £47,717 +25.26% 3
North East -60 5 £65,000 -6.32% 5
Scotland - 5 £31,000 - 5
North West -39 4 £46,250 -27.45% 10
East Midlands -27 3 £38,500 -3.75% 9
Channel Islands - 3 £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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.88%) IIS
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.32%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.32%) MadCap Flare
4 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (22.81%) Azure
2 37 (16.23%) AWS
3 22 (9.65%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (9.21%) Entra ID
5 19 (8.33%) Serverless
6 16 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (7.02%) Datadog
7 15 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (6.58%) Amazon S3
8 14 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (6.14%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (5.26%) Power Platform
10 11 (4.82%) SaaS
11 7 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.63%) Azure AKS
12 6 (2.63%) GCP
12 6 (2.63%) OCI
13 5 (2.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.14%) TCP/IP
2 13 (5.70%) DNS
3 11 (4.82%) LAN
4 10 (4.39%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (3.51%) HTTP
5 8 (3.51%) IPv4
5 8 (3.51%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.75%) Firewall
6 4 (1.75%) Internet
7 3 (1.32%) DHCP
7 3 (1.32%) NAS
7 3 (1.32%) Network Security
7 3 (1.32%) SAN
7 3 (1.32%) VPN
8 2 (0.88%) VLAN
8 2 (0.88%) WAN
8 2 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.44%) PSTN
9 1 (0.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.26%) DynamoDB
2 11 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (4.82%) NoSQL
2 11 (4.82%) Power BI
3 5 (2.19%) Metadata
4 4 (1.75%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.32%) Big Data
5 3 (1.32%) Delta Lake
5 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.32%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.88%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.88%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (0.88%) QlikView
6 2 (0.88%) Star Schema
6 2 (0.88%) Tableau
7 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 29 (12.72%) GitLab
2 24 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.89%) Git
4 15 (6.58%) JIRA
5 11 (4.82%) CircleCI
6 8 (3.51%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.88%) Gatling
7 2 (0.88%) JMeter
7 2 (0.88%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.88%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.44%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.44%) NUnit
8 1 (0.44%) Postman
8 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.44%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.44%) Selenium
8 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 100 (43.86%) Social Skills
2 85 (37.28%) Finance
3 56 (24.56%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (16.23%) Banking
5 34 (14.91%) Aerospace
6 18 (7.89%) Marketing
7 16 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (6.14%) Manufacturing
9 11 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (4.82%) Investment Banking
10 9 (3.95%) Front Office
10 9 (3.95%) Law
10 9 (3.95%) Legal
10 9 (3.95%) Public Sector
11 7 (3.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (2.19%) Automotive
12 5 (2.19%) Electronics
12 5 (2.19%) Retail
13 4 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (19.74%) Senior
2 25 (10.96%) Lead
3 21 (9.21%) Architect
4 18 (7.89%) Administrator
4 18 (7.89%) Analyst
4 18 (7.89%) Developer
5 17 (7.46%) Systems Engineer
6 12 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 10 (4.39%) Security Engineer
7 10 (4.39%) Senior Security Engineer
7 10 (4.39%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 10 (4.39%) Systems Administrator
8 9 (3.95%) Business Support Analyst
8 9 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (3.95%) IT Manager
8 9 (3.95%) Support Analyst
9 8 (3.51%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (3.51%) Senior Manager
10 7 (3.07%) QA Manager
10 7 (3.07%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.58%) ModSecurity
2 13 (5.70%) LDAP
2 13 (5.70%) OAuth
2 13 (5.70%) RESTful
3 12 (5.26%) OpenID
3 12 (5.26%) SAML
4 11 (4.82%) gRPC
4 11 (4.82%) Kafka
4 11 (4.82%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (4.39%) web3js
6 9 (3.95%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (3.07%) WebSockets
8 5 (2.19%) .NET
8 5 (2.19%) REST
9 4 (1.75%) boto
9 4 (1.75%) CSS
9 4 (1.75%) Middleware
9 4 (1.75%) PyTorch
10 3 (1.32%) PySpark
10 3 (1.32%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.84%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.46%) Driving Licence
2 17 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (7.02%) Social Media
4 15 (6.58%) Management Information System
5 12 (5.26%) Data Centre
6 11 (4.82%) Blockchain
6 11 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (4.39%) CCTV
7 10 (4.39%) Web3
8 9 (3.95%) Fixed Income
8 9 (3.95%) Replication
9 8 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.63%) Life Science
10 6 (2.63%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.63%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.19%) NHS
12 4 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (1.32%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (14.04%) Linux
2 30 (13.16%) Windows
3 19 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.88%) Android
5 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.88%) Rocky
5 2 (0.88%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.44%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (34.21%) Continuous Improvement
2 58 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (19.30%) Decision-Making
3 44 (19.30%) DevOps
4 39 (17.11%) CI/CD
5 37 (16.23%) Analytics
6 36 (15.79%) Agile
7 35 (15.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (15.35%) Mentoring
8 31 (13.60%) Observability
9 30 (13.16%) AI
10 28 (12.28%) Microservices
11 27 (11.84%) Risk Management
12 25 (10.96%) Coaching
13 24 (10.53%) Containerisation
13 24 (10.53%) Incident Response
14 23 (10.09%) Strategic Thinking
14 23 (10.09%) Validation
15 22 (9.65%) Architectural Patterns
16 21 (9.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (14.47%) Python
2 25 (10.96%) SQL
3 15 (6.58%) Bash
3 15 (6.58%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.70%) Go
4 13 (5.70%) Java
5 9 (3.95%) C++
6 8 (3.51%) C#
6 8 (3.51%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.75%) R
7 4 (1.75%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.88%) Bicep
8 2 (0.88%) Ruby
8 2 (0.88%) Scala
8 2 (0.88%) VBA
8 2 (0.88%) VBScript
9 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.44%) Groovy
9 1 (0.44%) JCL
Qualifications
1 43 (18.86%) Degree
2 31 (13.60%) Security Cleared
3 21 (9.21%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.58%) RHCSA
5 14 (6.14%) Azure Certification
5 14 (6.14%) CISM
6 13 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (5.70%) CISSP
6 13 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (4.39%) CCNA
8 9 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (3.51%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.51%) ISTQB
9 8 (3.51%) OSCP
9 8 (3.51%) RHCE
10 7 (3.07%) SC Cleared
11 6 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.63%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.21%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.26%) QA
3 8 (3.51%) GMP
4 7 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.32%) PMO
6 2 (0.88%) GAAP
6 2 (0.88%) GDPR
6 2 (0.88%) IFRS
6 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.88%) SLA
7 1 (0.44%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.44%) GRC
7 1 (0.44%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.44%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.44%) NIST
7 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (14.91%) Active Directory
2 24 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (9.21%) Docker
4 8 (3.51%) Squid
4 8 (3.51%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.51%) vSphere
5 6 (2.63%) KVM
6 3 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.32%) IAG
6 3 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (14.04%) Kubernetes
1 32 (14.04%) Terraform
2 15 (6.58%) Prometheus
3 13 (5.70%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (4.82%) Ansible
5 8 (3.51%) Packer
5 8 (3.51%) ZABBIX
6 7 (3.07%) Nagios
7 6 (2.63%) Grafana
8 4 (1.75%) SCCM
9 2 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.44%) Argo
10 1 (0.44%) DatAdvantage
10 1 (0.44%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.44%) Netcool
Vendors
1 44 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.96%) VMware
3 19 (8.33%) Oracle
4 15 (6.58%) Red Hat
5 12 (5.26%) ForgeRock
5 12 (5.26%) Okta
6 11 (4.82%) Splunk
7 10 (4.39%) Cisco
8 9 (3.95%) FIS
8 9 (3.95%) SunGard
9 8 (3.51%) Databricks
10 7 (3.07%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.19%) YouTube
12 4 (1.75%) Google
13 3 (1.32%) Adobe
13 3 (1.32%) IONA
13 3 (1.32%) Salesforce
13 3 (1.32%) Veeam
13 3 (1.32%) Xero
13 3 (1.32%) Zerto