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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 440 499
Rank change year-on-year -113 +59 +2
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 255 234 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.47% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.53% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 137 148 144
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,536 £37,250
25th Percentile £44,259 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,971 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% +7.12% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £74,144
90th Percentile £100,500 £95,375 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.82% +22.22% -14.29%

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 86,418 43,977 59,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59,113 24,503 32,039
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Top 16 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 10 October 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 -100 227 £60,250 -3.60% 375
UK excluding London -123 148 £51,250 -6.82% 192
London -27 93 £80,000 +14.29% 188
Work from Home -63 67 £58,750 +6.82% 132
South East -51 45 £51,750 -20.38% 54
North of England -72 33 £55,000 -15.38% 40
South West -66 26 £55,000 +52.78% 28
Midlands -43 16 £47,500 +18.75% 36
Yorkshire -28 15 £34,000 -47.69% 10
West Midlands -39 13 £50,000 -16.00% 19
East of England -40 11 £52,500 -4.55% 14
North West -45 11 £47,500 -26.92% 27
Scotland - 11 £31,000 - 12
North East - 7 £70,000 - 3
Wales -80 6 £52,500 +27.38% 5
East Midlands -44 3 £38,500 -3.75% 17

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 11 (4.31%) Confluence
2 9 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.14%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.18%) IIS
5 2 (0.78%) nginx
Applications
1 23 (9.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.78%) FrameMaker
4 2 (0.78%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 69 (27.06%) Azure
2 36 (14.12%) AWS
3 31 (12.16%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (11.76%) Entra ID
5 24 (9.41%) Power Platform
6 20 (7.84%) Serverless
7 17 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (6.27%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (6.27%) SaaS
9 14 (5.49%) Datadog
10 13 (5.10%) PaaS
11 12 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (4.71%) GitHub
12 11 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (3.92%) Amazon S3
13 10 (3.92%) Azure AKS
14 9 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (3.53%) Azure Functions
14 9 (3.53%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (3.14%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.10%) DNS
2 10 (3.92%) Intrusion Detection
2 10 (3.92%) TCP/IP
3 9 (3.53%) LAN
3 9 (3.53%) Network Security
3 9 (3.53%) VPN
4 8 (3.14%) Firewall
4 8 (3.14%) Software-Defined Networking
5 7 (2.75%) IPv4
6 6 (2.35%) Internet
6 6 (2.35%) WAN
7 5 (1.96%) HTTP
7 5 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.18%) DHCP
8 3 (1.18%) NAS
8 3 (1.18%) SAN
9 2 (0.78%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.78%) SSL
9 2 (0.78%) VLAN
10 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.24%) Power BI
2 9 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (3.53%) Metadata
3 8 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.75%) Data Lake
4 7 (2.75%) DynamoDB
4 7 (2.75%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.35%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.96%) Big Data
6 5 (1.96%) Data Mining
6 5 (1.96%) Delta Lake
6 5 (1.96%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (1.96%) QlikView
6 5 (1.96%) Tableau
7 4 (1.57%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.57%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.18%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (9.41%) GitLab
2 18 (7.06%) Jenkins
3 15 (5.88%) Git
3 15 (5.88%) JIRA
4 7 (2.75%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.35%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.78%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.78%) JMeter
6 2 (0.78%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.39%) Flyway
7 1 (0.39%) Gatling
7 1 (0.39%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.39%) MLflow
7 1 (0.39%) NUnit
7 1 (0.39%) QUnit
7 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 107 (41.96%) Social Skills
2 86 (33.73%) Finance
3 78 (30.59%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (13.33%) Aerospace
5 24 (9.41%) Banking
6 22 (8.63%) Organisational Skills
7 21 (8.24%) Public Sector
8 18 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (6.27%) Legal
10 14 (5.49%) Marketing
11 13 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (4.71%) Law
13 11 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (3.92%) Front Office
15 9 (3.53%) Investment Banking
16 8 (3.14%) Manufacturing
16 8 (3.14%) Retail
17 5 (1.96%) Electronics
17 5 (1.96%) Police
17 5 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (18.43%) Senior
2 28 (10.98%) Lead
3 27 (10.59%) Architect
4 21 (8.24%) Administrator
4 21 (8.24%) Analyst
5 15 (5.88%) Developer
5 15 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
6 11 (4.31%) Operations Manager
7 10 (3.92%) IT Manager
7 10 (3.92%) Security Engineer
7 10 (3.92%) Senior Security Engineer
7 10 (3.92%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 10 (3.92%) Support Analyst
8 9 (3.53%) Business Support Analyst
8 9 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.14%) Senior Developer
9 8 (3.14%) Systems Administrator
10 7 (2.75%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (2.35%) Platform Manager
11 6 (2.35%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (15.29%) Terraform
2 15 (5.88%) ModSecurity
3 14 (5.49%) OAuth
3 14 (5.49%) OpenID
4 13 (5.10%) REST
5 12 (4.71%) LDAP
5 12 (4.71%) SAML
6 9 (3.53%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (2.75%) .NET
7 7 (2.75%) Middleware
7 7 (2.75%) RESTful
8 6 (2.35%) gRPC
8 6 (2.35%) Kafka
8 6 (2.35%) PyTorch
8 6 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (1.96%) PySpark
9 5 (1.96%) React
9 5 (1.96%) TensorFlow
9 5 (1.96%) web3js
9 5 (1.96%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.16%) Management Information System
2 25 (9.80%) Cloud Native
3 20 (7.84%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (6.67%) Social Media
5 16 (6.27%) Data Centre
5 16 (6.27%) Driving Licence
6 15 (5.88%) Onboarding
7 13 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (3.92%) CCTV
9 10 (3.92%) Fixed Income
10 9 (3.53%) NHS
11 8 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (3.14%) Replication
12 6 (2.35%) Public Cloud
12 6 (2.35%) Reference Data
13 5 (1.96%) Blockchain
13 5 (1.96%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.96%) Web3
14 4 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 40 (15.69%) Linux
2 35 (13.73%) Windows
3 16 (6.27%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.18%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.78%) Android
6 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.78%) Rocky
6 2 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (41.96%) Continuous Improvement
2 72 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (22.75%) Decision-Making
4 55 (21.57%) Analytics
4 55 (21.57%) DevOps
5 48 (18.82%) CI/CD
6 46 (18.04%) AI
7 43 (16.86%) Agile
8 41 (16.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 40 (15.69%) Observability
9 40 (15.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 38 (14.90%) Mentoring
11 33 (12.94%) Risk Management
12 31 (12.16%) Incident Response
13 30 (11.76%) Data Management
14 29 (11.37%) Architectural Patterns
15 28 (10.98%) Coaching
15 28 (10.98%) Roadmaps
16 27 (10.59%) Microservices
16 27 (10.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 38 (14.90%) SQL
2 37 (14.51%) Python
3 16 (6.27%) PowerShell
4 15 (5.88%) Java
5 13 (5.10%) Bash
6 11 (4.31%) Bicep
7 9 (3.53%) C++
7 9 (3.53%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.14%) C#
8 8 (3.14%) Go
8 8 (3.14%) R
9 3 (1.18%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.18%) VBA
9 3 (1.18%) VBScript
10 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.78%) Groovy
10 2 (0.78%) Ruby
10 2 (0.78%) Scala
10 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.29%) Degree
3 24 (9.41%) SC Cleared
4 23 (9.02%) Azure Certification
5 21 (8.24%) DV Cleared
6 14 (5.49%) CISM
7 13 (5.10%) CISSP
8 12 (4.71%) RHCSA
9 11 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (3.53%) CCNA
10 9 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (3.14%) ISTQB
11 8 (3.14%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (2.75%) AWS Certification
12 7 (2.75%) OSCP
12 7 (2.75%) RHCE
13 5 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.57%) Postgraduate
15 3 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (12.55%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.96%) QA
4 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.18%) PMO
5 2 (0.78%) GDPR
5 2 (0.78%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.39%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.39%) GMP
6 1 (0.39%) GRC
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.39%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (14.12%) Active Directory
2 19 (7.45%) Docker
2 19 (7.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.75%) Squid
4 7 (2.75%) VMware NSX
4 7 (2.75%) vSphere
5 4 (1.57%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.18%) IAG
6 3 (1.18%) KVM
6 3 (1.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.49%) Grafana
3 13 (5.10%) Prometheus
4 12 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (3.92%) Ansible
6 7 (2.75%) Packer
6 7 (2.75%) ZABBIX
7 5 (1.96%) Nagios
8 2 (0.78%) Kibana
8 2 (0.78%) SCCM
9 1 (0.39%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.39%) logstash
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.39%) SCOM
9 1 (0.39%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 64 (25.10%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.84%) Oracle
3 19 (7.45%) VMware
4 13 (5.10%) Databricks
4 13 (5.10%) YouTube
5 12 (4.71%) ForgeRock
5 12 (4.71%) Okta
5 12 (4.71%) Red Hat
6 11 (4.31%) Cisco
7 9 (3.53%) FIS
7 9 (3.53%) Splunk
7 9 (3.53%) SunGard
8 8 (3.14%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.35%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.96%) Google
11 3 (1.18%) Adobe
11 3 (1.18%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.18%) Pinterest
11 3 (1.18%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.18%) Xero