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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 433 531
Rank change year-on-year -128 +98 -25
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 252 255 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.52% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.59% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 132 153 152
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,829 £37,250
25th Percentile £44,818 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,971 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% +11.94% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £107,250 £96,000 £84,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 85,252 43,434 61,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.68% 81.27%
Number of salaries quoted 58,899 24,470 34,327
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 23 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Top 17 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 23 September 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 -118 225 £60,250 -3.60% 355
UK excluding London -140 149 £52,500 -4.55% 209
London -56 91 £80,000 +14.29% 165
Work from Home -64 62 £55,000 - 135
South East -51 50 £50,000 -9.91% 67
North of England -77 29 £60,000 -7.69% 36
South West -69 27 £55,000 +52.78% 35
Midlands -56 17 £50,000 +19.05% 33
Yorkshire -36 15 £34,000 -47.69% 13
West Midlands -33 14 £50,000 -16.00% 22
East of England -43 10 £52,500 -4.55% 14
North West -56 9 £65,000 - 22
Scotland - 9 £31,000 - 10
Wales -85 6 £52,500 +37.82% 11
North East - 5 £70,000 - 2
East Midlands -39 3 £38,500 -3.75% 11
Northern Ireland -84 1 £46,000 - 3

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 (4.76%) Confluence
2 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (6.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.19%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.19%) MadCap Flare
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 65 (25.79%) Azure
2 33 (13.10%) AWS
3 29 (11.51%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 22 (8.73%) Power Platform
6 20 (7.94%) Serverless
7 13 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (5.16%) Datadog
7 13 (5.16%) SaaS
8 12 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (4.76%) PaaS
9 11 (4.37%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (3.97%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (3.17%) Azure AKS
11 8 (3.17%) Azure Functions
11 8 (3.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.76%) DNS
2 11 (4.37%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.97%) Intrusion Detection
4 9 (3.57%) LAN
4 9 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
5 8 (3.17%) IPv4
6 7 (2.78%) Firewall
7 6 (2.38%) Internet
7 6 (2.38%) VPN
8 5 (1.98%) HTTP
8 5 (1.98%) Network Security
9 3 (1.19%) DHCP
9 3 (1.19%) NAS
9 3 (1.19%) SAN
9 3 (1.19%) WAN
9 3 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.79%) SSL
10 2 (0.79%) VLAN
11 1 (0.40%) Intranet
11 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.94%) Power BI
2 9 (3.57%) Metadata
3 8 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (3.17%) DynamoDB
4 7 (2.78%) Data Lake
4 7 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.38%) Big Data
6 5 (1.98%) Data Mining
6 5 (1.98%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (1.98%) QlikView
6 5 (1.98%) Tableau
7 4 (1.59%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.19%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.19%) Star Schema
9 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (9.92%) GitLab
2 19 (7.54%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.14%) Git
4 16 (6.35%) JIRA
5 8 (3.17%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.78%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.79%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.79%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.40%) Flyway
8 1 (0.40%) Gatling
8 1 (0.40%) JMeter
8 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.40%) NUnit
8 1 (0.40%) QUnit
8 1 (0.40%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 112 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 85 (33.73%) Finance
3 74 (29.37%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (13.89%) Aerospace
5 26 (10.32%) Banking
6 22 (8.73%) Marketing
6 22 (8.73%) Organisational Skills
7 21 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (7.14%) Public Sector
9 16 (6.35%) Manufacturing
10 14 (5.56%) Legal
11 11 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (4.37%) Law
12 10 (3.97%) Front Office
13 9 (3.57%) Investment Banking
14 8 (3.17%) Retail
15 7 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (2.38%) Electronics
17 5 (1.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (19.05%) Senior
2 29 (11.51%) Lead
3 26 (10.32%) Architect
4 20 (7.94%) Administrator
4 20 (7.94%) Analyst
5 18 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
6 16 (6.35%) Developer
7 10 (3.97%) Security Engineer
7 10 (3.97%) Senior Security Engineer
7 10 (3.97%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 9 (3.57%) Business Support Analyst
8 9 (3.57%) Operations Manager
8 9 (3.57%) Senior Developer
8 9 (3.57%) Support Analyst
9 8 (3.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.17%) IT Manager
9 8 (3.17%) Senior Manager
9 8 (3.17%) Systems Administrator
10 7 (2.78%) Quality Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.29%) Terraform
2 15 (5.95%) ModSecurity
3 14 (5.56%) OAuth
4 13 (5.16%) OpenID
5 12 (4.76%) LDAP
5 12 (4.76%) SAML
6 11 (4.37%) REST
7 9 (3.57%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (3.17%) RESTful
9 7 (2.78%) .NET
9 7 (2.78%) gRPC
9 7 (2.78%) Kafka
9 7 (2.78%) PyTorch
9 7 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (2.38%) Middleware
10 6 (2.38%) TensorFlow
10 6 (2.38%) web3js
11 5 (1.98%) CSS
11 5 (1.98%) WebSockets
12 4 (1.59%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.51%) Management Information System
2 26 (10.32%) Cloud Native
3 19 (7.54%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (7.14%) Driving Licence
5 17 (6.75%) Social Media
6 13 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (4.76%) Data Centre
8 11 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (3.97%) CCTV
9 10 (3.97%) Fixed Income
10 9 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (3.57%) Onboarding
11 8 (3.17%) Replication
12 6 (2.38%) Blockchain
12 6 (2.38%) NHS
12 6 (2.38%) Public Cloud
12 6 (2.38%) Reference Data
12 6 (2.38%) Web3
13 5 (1.98%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (1.59%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.89%) Windows
2 34 (13.49%) Linux
3 18 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.19%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.79%) Android
6 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.79%) Rocky
7 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (40.48%) Continuous Improvement
2 71 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (23.41%) Decision-Making
4 54 (21.43%) Analytics
5 49 (19.44%) DevOps
6 45 (17.86%) CI/CD
7 42 (16.67%) AI
8 41 (16.27%) Agile
9 39 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 39 (15.48%) Mentoring
10 34 (13.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 33 (13.10%) Coaching
11 33 (13.10%) Observability
11 33 (13.10%) Risk Management
12 28 (11.11%) Incident Response
13 27 (10.71%) Architectural Patterns
13 27 (10.71%) Roadmaps
14 26 (10.32%) Business Intelligence
14 26 (10.32%) Microservices
14 26 (10.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (14.29%) Python
1 36 (14.29%) SQL
2 18 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 15 (5.95%) Java
4 13 (5.16%) Bash
5 9 (3.57%) Bicep
5 9 (3.57%) C++
5 9 (3.57%) Go
5 9 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.17%) C#
6 8 (3.17%) R
7 4 (1.59%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.19%) VBA
8 3 (1.19%) VBScript
9 2 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.79%) Groovy
9 2 (0.79%) Ruby
9 2 (0.79%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (18.25%) Degree
2 45 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 20 (7.94%) Azure Certification
5 18 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 14 (5.56%) CISM
7 13 (5.16%) CISSP
7 13 (5.16%) RHCSA
8 12 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (3.97%) CCNA
9 10 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (3.17%) AWS Certification
11 8 (3.17%) ISTQB
11 8 (3.17%) OSCP
11 8 (3.17%) RHCE
12 6 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (1.59%) ACCA
13 4 (1.59%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.51%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.76%) QA
3 8 (3.17%) GMP
4 4 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.19%) PMO
6 2 (0.79%) GAAP
6 2 (0.79%) GDPR
6 2 (0.79%) IFRS
6 2 (0.79%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.79%) NEBOSH
6 2 (0.79%) SLA
7 1 (0.40%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.40%) GRC
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (15.08%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (7.14%) Docker
4 8 (3.17%) Squid
4 8 (3.17%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.17%) vSphere
5 7 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.59%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.19%) IAG
7 3 (1.19%) KVM
7 3 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.76%) Prometheus
2 12 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (3.97%) Ansible
3 10 (3.97%) Grafana
4 8 (3.17%) Packer
4 8 (3.17%) ZABBIX
5 5 (1.98%) Nagios
6 4 (1.59%) SCCM
7 2 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.40%) Kibana
8 1 (0.40%) SCOM
8 1 (0.40%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 59 (23.41%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.94%) Oracle
2 20 (7.94%) VMware
3 13 (5.16%) Red Hat
4 12 (4.76%) Databricks
4 12 (4.76%) ForgeRock
4 12 (4.76%) Okta
5 11 (4.37%) Cisco
5 11 (4.37%) YouTube
6 10 (3.97%) Splunk
7 9 (3.57%) FIS
7 9 (3.57%) SunGard
8 6 (2.38%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.38%) Google
8 6 (2.38%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.59%) Adobe
10 3 (1.19%) IONA
10 3 (1.19%) Pinterest
10 3 (1.19%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.19%) Xero