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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 388 553
Rank change year-on-year -103 +165 +102
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 211 269 301
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.63% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.67% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 122 134 193
10th Percentile £38,900 £28,950 £32,750
25th Percentile £47,194 £42,688 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £51,200
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +22.07% -10.96%
75th Percentile £79,555 £74,144 £60,000
90th Percentile £129,250 £77,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +15.00% +5.26%

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 58,218 39,990 74,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.81% 93.48% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35,252 22,229 56,158
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,424 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
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 18 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 18 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 -91 163 £60,000 - 109
UK excluding London -76 124 £56,000 -2.61% 83
Work from Home -16 91 £55,500 -17.78% 51
London -25 69 £75,000 +8.09% 38
South East -16 40 £52,500 -14.29% 23
North of England -47 25 £65,000 -3.88% 25
North West -21 15 £65,000 +8.33% 16
Scotland -20 12 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Northern Ireland -22 12 £73,801 +6.48% 2
South West -30 12 £45,000 -15.75% 6
Midlands -43 12 £48,000 +12.94% 14
West Midlands -10 8 £56,000 -13.85% 9
Wales -16 7 £42,934 -36.51% 4
North East -20 5 £60,651 -12.59% 4
Yorkshire -42 5 £66,250 +32.50% 5
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East Midlands -50 4 £39,724 +58.25% 5
East of England -29 1 £60,000 +20.00% 11

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 (5.69%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.27%) IIS
3 8 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.84%) Confluence
5 4 (1.90%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.95%) CMS
7 1 (0.47%) SAS
7 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (9.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.74%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.90%) 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 (5.69%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (4.74%) Hyperion Planning
2 10 (4.74%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (4.74%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (4.74%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (4.74%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.95%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.95%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.95%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.95%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.47%) PlanetPress Connect
4 1 (0.47%) Shopify
4 1 (0.47%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 75 (35.55%) Azure
2 43 (20.38%) AWS
3 28 (13.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 22 (10.43%) Power Platform
5 20 (9.48%) GCP
6 18 (8.53%) Cloud Computing
7 16 (7.58%) Entra ID
7 16 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (7.11%) Serverless
9 14 (6.64%) Amazon S3
10 13 (6.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (6.16%) Amazon ECR
10 13 (6.16%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (6.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (6.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (6.16%) dbt
10 13 (6.16%) Pulumi
11 12 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (5.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.80%) TCP/IP
2 18 (8.53%) DNS
3 12 (5.69%) WAN
4 10 (4.74%) HTTP
4 10 (4.74%) LAN
4 10 (4.74%) VPN
5 9 (4.27%) DHCP
6 8 (3.79%) SD-WAN
7 5 (2.37%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.90%) Firewall
8 4 (1.90%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.90%) SNMP
8 4 (1.90%) Wireless
9 2 (0.95%) 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 (13.27%) SQL Server
2 26 (12.32%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (10.43%) Power BI
4 16 (7.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 14 (6.64%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (6.64%) NoSQL
5 14 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (6.64%) Redis
6 13 (6.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 13 (6.16%) DynamoDB
7 10 (4.74%) Essbase
8 6 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.90%) Metadata
10 4 (1.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.95%) OLAP
11 2 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.95%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 22 (10.43%) GitLab
1 22 (10.43%) Jenkins
2 12 (5.69%) CircleCI
3 10 (4.74%) Git
3 10 (4.74%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (2.84%) JIRA
5 4 (1.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.90%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.90%) LoadRunner
6 3 (1.42%) JMeter
7 2 (0.95%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.95%) Gatling
7 2 (0.95%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.47%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.47%) Postman
8 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.47%) Yeoman
General
1 86 (40.76%) Finance
2 85 (40.28%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (12.32%) Banking
5 13 (6.16%) Marketing
5 13 (6.16%) Retail
6 12 (5.69%) Billing
7 11 (5.21%) Legal
8 8 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.32%) Aerospace
9 7 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.84%) Local Government
11 5 (2.37%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.37%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.37%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.90%) Automotive
12 4 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.90%) Law
12 4 (1.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 65 (30.81%) Senior
2 34 (16.11%) Analyst
3 24 (11.37%) Developer
4 21 (9.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (9.48%) Lead
6 15 (7.11%) Senior Developer
6 15 (7.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (6.64%) Senior Analyst
8 12 (5.69%) Commercial Analyst
8 12 (5.69%) Insight Analyst
9 11 (5.21%) Support Analyst
10 10 (4.74%) Administrator
10 10 (4.74%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.74%) Oracle Analyst
10 10 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.74%) Senior Oracle Analyst
11 9 (4.27%) Site Engineer
11 9 (4.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 8 (3.79%) Product Manager
13 7 (3.32%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.58%) Kafka
2 15 (7.11%) RESTful
3 13 (6.16%) Django
4 12 (5.69%) gRPC
4 12 (5.69%) RabbitMQ
4 12 (5.69%) web3js
5 9 (4.27%) .NET
6 7 (3.32%) REST
7 5 (2.37%) HTML
7 5 (2.37%) Middleware
7 5 (2.37%) WebSockets
8 4 (1.90%) CSS
8 4 (1.90%) NETCONF
8 4 (1.90%) RESTCONF
9 3 (1.42%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.42%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.42%) React
10 2 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.95%) LDAP
10 2 (0.95%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.95%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.06%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (6.16%) Blockchain
4 12 (5.69%) Life Science
4 12 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (5.69%) Web3
5 11 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.21%) Management Information System
6 10 (4.74%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.79%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.79%) Replication
8 6 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.37%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.90%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.42%) Clustering
11 3 (1.42%) Social Media
11 3 (1.42%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 34 (16.11%) Linux
2 24 (11.37%) Windows
3 18 (8.53%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.64%) Unix
5 10 (4.74%) Apple iOS
6 9 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.27%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.90%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.95%) Android
9 1 (0.47%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (27.96%) Analytics
2 55 (26.07%) DevOps
3 53 (25.12%) CI/CD
4 50 (23.70%) Agile
5 41 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (18.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (17.54%) Observability
8 35 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (16.11%) Roadmaps
10 28 (13.27%) Risk Management
11 26 (12.32%) High Availability
12 25 (11.85%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (11.85%) Continuous Integration
12 25 (11.85%) Test Automation
13 24 (11.37%) Actionable Insight
13 24 (11.37%) Microservices
13 24 (11.37%) User Experience
14 23 (10.90%) Containerisation
15 22 (10.43%) Decision-Making
15 22 (10.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (21.33%) SQL
2 42 (19.91%) Python
3 17 (8.06%) PowerShell
4 15 (7.11%) Bash
4 15 (7.11%) C#
5 14 (6.64%) Java
6 12 (5.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (5.69%) Go
7 10 (4.74%) Groovy
8 8 (3.79%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.37%) VBA
10 4 (1.90%) Bicep
10 4 (1.90%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.95%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.47%) JCL
12 1 (0.47%) R
12 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 51 (24.17%) Degree
2 22 (10.43%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.06%) Master's Degree
4 16 (7.58%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.27%) CCNP
6 9 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.84%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (2.37%) MCSE
8 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.37%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.90%) CCIE
9 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.95%) ACCA
10 2 (0.95%) CISSP
10 2 (0.95%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.69%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.21%) GDPR
3 6 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.84%) QA
4 5 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.42%) GRC
6 2 (0.95%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.47%) COBIT
7 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.47%) NIST
7 1 (0.47%) P3O
7 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.47%) PMO
7 1 (0.47%) SEPA
7 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (16.59%) Docker
2 22 (10.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (9.48%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.37%) KVM
5 1 (0.47%) Squid
5 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (17.54%) Terraform
2 34 (16.11%) Kubernetes
3 15 (7.11%) Prometheus
4 14 (6.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.27%) Ansible
6 6 (2.84%) Grafana
7 5 (2.37%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (2.37%) Nagios
8 4 (1.90%) logstash
8 4 (1.90%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.90%) Puppet
9 2 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.95%) Argo
9 2 (0.95%) DatAdvantage
9 2 (0.95%) Kibana
9 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.47%) Control-M
10 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.47%) Netcool
Vendors
1 34 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.90%) VMware
3 17 (8.06%) Oracle
4 15 (7.11%) Google
5 10 (4.74%) Hyperion
6 9 (4.27%) Red Hat
6 9 (4.27%) SAP
7 7 (3.32%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.84%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.37%) HubSpot
9 5 (2.37%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.37%) Veeam
9 5 (2.37%) Zerto
10 4 (1.90%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.90%) Cisco
10 4 (1.90%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.90%) Splunk
11 2 (0.95%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.95%) Apple
11 2 (0.95%) Varonis