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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 445 564
Rank change year-on-year -122 +119 -8
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 225 272 258
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 131 152 190
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £34,975
25th Percentile £46,078 £45,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £79,383 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £86,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -11.76%

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 78,044 44,596 67,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.46% 89.30% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53,720 25,240 43,624
10th Percentile £30,773 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,237 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,773 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.13% -4.45% -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 13 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 13 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 -128 201 £60,500 -3.97% 164
UK excluding London -124 134 £52,500 -4.55% 106
London -67 81 £86,250 +23.21% 76
South East -38 47 £46,078 -7.84% 37
Work from Home -54 45 £55,000 -8.33% 44
South West -48 25 £55,000 +20.88% 11
North of England -69 23 £60,000 -7.69% 24
Midlands -37 14 £50,000 +17.44% 17
Yorkshire -20 13 £34,000 -41.25% 4
West Midlands -23 11 £50,000 -25.93% 7
East of England -27 9 £52,500 -4.55% 6
North East -52 6 £65,000 -6.32% 5
Wales -66 6 £47,717 +25.26% 4
Scotland - 5 £31,000 - 6
North West -33 4 £65,000 - 15
East Midlands -31 3 £38,500 -3.75% 10
Channel Islands - 3 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 2 £59,901 - 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 (5.33%) Confluence
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.89%) IIS
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.33%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.33%) 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 54 (24.00%) Azure
2 42 (18.67%) AWS
3 21 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (8.89%) Entra ID
5 19 (8.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (8.44%) Cloud Computing
5 19 (8.44%) Serverless
6 16 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (7.11%) Datadog
7 15 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 12 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (4.89%) SaaS
10 10 (4.44%) GCP
10 10 (4.44%) Power Platform
11 8 (3.56%) PaaS
12 6 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.67%) Azure AKS
12 6 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.44%) TCP/IP
2 13 (5.78%) DNS
3 11 (4.89%) LAN
4 10 (4.44%) Intrusion Detection
5 8 (3.56%) HTTP
5 8 (3.56%) IPv4
5 8 (3.56%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (1.78%) Firewall
6 4 (1.78%) Internet
6 4 (1.78%) VPN
7 3 (1.33%) DHCP
7 3 (1.33%) NAS
7 3 (1.33%) Network Security
7 3 (1.33%) SAN
8 2 (0.89%) VLAN
8 2 (0.89%) WAN
8 2 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.44%) Intelligent Network
9 1 (0.44%) PSTN
9 1 (0.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.11%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.33%) DynamoDB
3 11 (4.89%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.00%) Power BI
5 5 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.22%) Redis
6 4 (1.78%) Metadata
7 3 (1.33%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.89%) Big Data
8 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.89%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.89%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.44%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.44%) QlikView
9 1 (0.44%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.44%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 29 (12.89%) GitLab
2 24 (10.67%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.11%) Git
4 15 (6.67%) JIRA
5 11 (4.89%) CircleCI
6 8 (3.56%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.89%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.89%) Gatling
7 2 (0.89%) JMeter
7 2 (0.89%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.89%) Terragrunt
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
8 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 97 (43.11%) Social Skills
2 82 (36.44%) Finance
3 53 (23.56%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (16.44%) Banking
5 33 (14.67%) Aerospace
6 20 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (7.56%) Marketing
8 15 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (6.22%) Manufacturing
10 11 (4.89%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (4.89%) Investment Banking
11 9 (4.00%) Front Office
11 9 (4.00%) Law
11 9 (4.00%) Public Sector
12 7 (3.11%) Legal
12 7 (3.11%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (2.22%) Automotive
14 4 (1.78%) Electronics
14 4 (1.78%) Retail
15 3 (1.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 50 (22.22%) Senior
2 21 (9.33%) Lead
3 19 (8.44%) Architect
4 18 (8.00%) Administrator
4 18 (8.00%) Analyst
5 17 (7.56%) Developer
5 17 (7.56%) Systems Engineer
6 12 (5.33%) Senior Developer
7 10 (4.44%) Security Engineer
7 10 (4.44%) Senior Security Engineer
7 10 (4.44%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 10 (4.44%) Systems Administrator
8 9 (4.00%) Business Support Analyst
8 9 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (4.00%) IT Manager
8 9 (4.00%) Support Analyst
9 8 (3.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (3.56%) Senior Manager
10 7 (3.11%) Linux Administrator
10 7 (3.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.22%) ModSecurity
2 13 (5.78%) RESTful
3 12 (5.33%) LDAP
3 12 (5.33%) OAuth
4 11 (4.89%) gRPC
4 11 (4.89%) Kafka
4 11 (4.89%) OpenID
4 11 (4.89%) RabbitMQ
4 11 (4.89%) SAML
5 10 (4.44%) web3js
6 9 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (3.11%) WebSockets
8 5 (2.22%) Django
9 4 (1.78%) .NET
9 4 (1.78%) boto
9 4 (1.78%) CSS
9 4 (1.78%) REST
10 3 (1.33%) HTML5
10 3 (1.33%) NumPy
10 3 (1.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.56%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.56%) Driving Licence
3 16 (7.11%) Social Media
4 15 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (6.22%) Management Information System
6 11 (4.89%) Blockchain
6 11 (4.89%) Data Centre
6 11 (4.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (4.44%) CCTV
7 10 (4.44%) Web3
8 9 (4.00%) Fixed Income
9 8 (3.56%) Replication
10 6 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.67%) Life Science
11 5 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (2.22%) NHS
11 5 (2.22%) Onboarding
11 5 (2.22%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.44%) Linux
2 29 (12.89%) Windows
3 19 (8.44%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.22%) Unix
6 3 (1.33%) Android
6 3 (1.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.89%) Rocky
7 2 (0.89%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.44%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (32.89%) Continuous Improvement
2 55 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (20.89%) DevOps
4 42 (18.67%) CI/CD
5 41 (18.22%) Decision-Making
6 40 (17.78%) Agile
6 40 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (15.11%) Observability
8 33 (14.67%) Analytics
9 31 (13.78%) Mentoring
10 29 (12.89%) Containerisation
11 27 (12.00%) Incident Response
11 27 (12.00%) Microservices
12 25 (11.11%) AI
12 25 (11.11%) Risk Management
13 22 (9.78%) Validation
14 21 (9.33%) Coaching
14 21 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 21 (9.33%) Migration
14 21 (9.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 35 (15.56%) Python
2 24 (10.67%) SQL
3 17 (7.56%) Java
4 15 (6.67%) Bash
4 15 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 13 (5.78%) Go
6 9 (4.00%) C++
7 8 (3.56%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.11%) C#
9 4 (1.78%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.33%) R
11 2 (0.89%) Bicep
11 2 (0.89%) Ruby
11 2 (0.89%) Scala
12 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) JCL
12 1 (0.44%) VBA
12 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (17.78%) Degree
2 35 (15.56%) Security Cleared
3 20 (8.89%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.67%) RHCSA
5 13 (5.78%) Azure Certification
5 13 (5.78%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (5.78%) CISM
5 13 (5.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (5.78%) SC Cleared
6 12 (5.33%) CISSP
7 10 (4.44%) CCNA
8 9 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (3.56%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.56%) ISTQB
9 8 (3.56%) OSCP
9 8 (3.56%) RHCE
10 6 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.67%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.33%) MCSE
11 3 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.89%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.33%) QA
3 8 (3.56%) GMP
4 7 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.33%) PMO
6 2 (0.89%) GAAP
6 2 (0.89%) GDPR
6 2 (0.89%) IFRS
6 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.89%) 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 33 (14.67%) Active Directory
2 26 (11.56%) Docker
3 24 (10.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.56%) Squid
4 8 (3.56%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.56%) vSphere
5 6 (2.67%) KVM
6 3 (1.33%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.33%) IAG
6 3 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (16.00%) Terraform
2 32 (14.22%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.33%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (4.89%) Ansible
6 8 (3.56%) Packer
6 8 (3.56%) ZABBIX
7 7 (3.11%) Nagios
8 6 (2.67%) Grafana
9 5 (2.22%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (1.78%) SCCM
11 2 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.44%) Argo
12 1 (0.44%) DatAdvantage
12 1 (0.44%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.44%) Netcool
Vendors
1 44 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.11%) VMware
3 19 (8.44%) Oracle
4 15 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 11 (4.89%) ForgeRock
5 11 (4.89%) Okta
5 11 (4.89%) Splunk
6 10 (4.44%) Cisco
7 9 (4.00%) FIS
7 9 (4.00%) SunGard
8 8 (3.56%) Google
9 7 (3.11%) SolarWinds
10 6 (2.67%) Databricks
11 3 (1.33%) Adobe
11 3 (1.33%) IONA
11 3 (1.33%) Nexthink
11 3 (1.33%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.33%) Veeam
11 3 (1.33%) Xero
11 3 (1.33%) Zerto