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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 426 560
Rank change year-on-year -145 +134 -12
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 225 271 256
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 127 151 191
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,789 £45,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +25.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,125 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £86,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.82% +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 78,105 44,566 67,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 89.27% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 53,741 25,228 43,541
10th Percentile £30,750 £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 £96,575 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -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 14 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 14 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 -111 202 £60,000 -4.38% 156
UK excluding London -125 134 £51,250 -6.82% 103
London -58 82 £87,500 +25.00% 70
South East -51 47 £46,078 -7.84% 33
Work from Home -63 44 £55,000 -8.33% 44
South West -51 27 £55,000 +20.88% 11
North of England -67 22 £55,000 -15.38% 25
Midlands -26 14 £50,000 +10.75% 19
Yorkshire -31 13 £34,000 -41.25% 4
West Midlands -22 11 £50,000 -25.93% 8
East of England -23 9 £52,500 -4.55% 5
Wales -67 6 £47,717 +25.26% 3
North East -57 5 £65,000 -6.32% 5
Scotland - 5 £31,000 - 6
North West -37 4 £46,250 -27.45% 16
East Midlands -29 3 £38,500 -3.75% 11
Channel Islands - 3 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £46,000 - 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 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.44%) IIS
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 49 (21.78%) Azure
2 37 (16.44%) AWS
3 21 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (8.44%) Entra ID
4 19 (8.44%) Serverless
5 16 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (7.11%) Datadog
6 15 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 14 (6.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (6.22%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (4.89%) Power Platform
9 11 (4.89%) SaaS
10 6 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.67%) Azure AKS
10 6 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.67%) GCP
10 6 (2.67%) OCI
11 5 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.22%) 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
7 3 (1.33%) DHCP
7 3 (1.33%) NAS
7 3 (1.33%) Network Security
7 3 (1.33%) SAN
7 3 (1.33%) VPN
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%) Intranet
9 1 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.33%) DynamoDB
2 11 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (4.89%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.44%) Power BI
4 5 (2.22%) Metadata
5 3 (1.33%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.33%) Delta Lake
5 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.89%) Big Data
6 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.89%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.89%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.44%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.44%) QlikView
7 1 (0.44%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 29 (12.89%) GitLab
2 24 (10.67%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.56%) 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%) Burp Suite
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%) Selenium
8 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 99 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 84 (37.33%) Finance
3 54 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (16.44%) Banking
5 33 (14.67%) Aerospace
6 18 (8.00%) Marketing
7 16 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
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 8 (3.56%) Legal
13 7 (3.11%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (2.22%) Automotive
14 5 (2.22%) Electronics
14 5 (2.22%) Retail
15 4 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (20.00%) Senior
2 24 (10.67%) Lead
3 20 (8.89%) 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 4 (1.78%) .NET
8 4 (1.78%) boto
8 4 (1.78%) CSS
8 4 (1.78%) Middleware
8 4 (1.78%) REST
9 3 (1.33%) HTML
9 3 (1.33%) Pandas
9 3 (1.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.56%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.56%) Driving Licence
3 16 (7.11%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (7.11%) Social Media
4 14 (6.22%) Management Information System
5 12 (5.33%) Data Centre
6 11 (4.89%) Blockchain
6 11 (4.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (4.44%) CCTV
7 10 (4.44%) Web3
8 9 (4.00%) Fixed Income
8 9 (4.00%) Replication
9 7 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.67%) Life Science
10 6 (2.67%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.67%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.22%) NHS
11 5 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (1.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (14.22%) Linux
2 29 (12.89%) Windows
3 19 (8.44%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.89%) Android
5 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.89%) Rocky
5 2 (0.89%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.44%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (33.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 55 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (19.11%) DevOps
4 42 (18.67%) Decision-Making
5 38 (16.89%) CI/CD
6 36 (16.00%) Agile
6 36 (16.00%) Analytics
7 35 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (14.22%) Mentoring
9 31 (13.78%) Observability
10 28 (12.44%) AI
11 27 (12.00%) Microservices
11 27 (12.00%) Risk Management
12 24 (10.67%) Coaching
12 24 (10.67%) Containerisation
13 23 (10.22%) Incident Response
14 22 (9.78%) Strategic Thinking
14 22 (9.78%) Validation
15 21 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 21 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (14.22%) Python
2 25 (11.11%) SQL
3 15 (6.67%) Bash
3 15 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.78%) Go
5 12 (5.33%) Java
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 42 (18.67%) Degree
2 30 (13.33%) 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
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 7 (3.11%) SC Cleared
11 6 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.67%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.33%) CIMA
12 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 24 (10.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (9.33%) Docker
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 32 (14.22%) Kubernetes
1 32 (14.22%) Terraform
2 15 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 12 (5.33%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (4.89%) Ansible
5 8 (3.56%) Packer
5 8 (3.56%) ZABBIX
6 7 (3.11%) Nagios
7 6 (2.67%) Grafana
8 4 (1.78%) SCCM
9 2 (0.89%) 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 43 (19.11%) 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 7 (3.11%) Databricks
8 7 (3.11%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.22%) YouTube
10 4 (1.78%) Google
11 3 (1.33%) Adobe
11 3 (1.33%) IONA
11 3 (1.33%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.33%) Veeam
11 3 (1.33%) Xero
11 3 (1.33%) Zerto