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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 421 584
Rank change year-on-year -111 +163 +12
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 198 248 330
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.57% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.61% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 122 128 211
10th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,688 £41,813 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £79,932 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £75,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,971 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.67% +11.94% -

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 68,860 40,768 84,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.96% 93.19% 83.65%
Number of salaries quoted 45,013 21,524 60,756
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,228
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,750 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -106 169 £57,500 -0.15% 68
UK excluding London -87 110 £50,000 -10.67% 48
London -51 73 £95,000 +36.92% 31
Work from Home -13 51 £53,106 -3.44% 21
South East -20 38 £35,000 -39.13% 17
North of England -56 22 £56,000 -13.85% 13
South West -46 17 £55,000 -1.73% 3
Yorkshire -36 11 - - 6
West Midlands -32 9 £55,000 -16.98% 4
Midlands -47 9 £55,000 +37.50% 4
North West -24 8 £65,000 - 7
Scotland +10 7 £31,000 - 3
East of England -21 5 £53,712 -6.59% 5
Wales -44 5 £42,934 +12.71% 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
North East -46 3 £51,250 -26.14%
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 11 (5.56%) Confluence
2 9 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.02%) IIS
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.51%) CMS
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
5 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.52%) FrameMaker
3 3 (1.52%) MadCap Flare
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.51%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (1.52%) Hyperion Planning
2 3 (1.52%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (1.52%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.52%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.52%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.51%) Shopify
4 1 (0.51%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 49 (24.75%) AWS
2 41 (20.71%) Azure
3 26 (13.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 23 (11.62%) Serverless
5 22 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 22 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
6 21 (10.61%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (9.09%) Datadog
8 12 (6.06%) Entra ID
9 11 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (5.05%) OneDrive
11 9 (4.55%) GCP
12 7 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (3.03%) Azure AKS
13 6 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (3.03%) Nutanix
13 6 (3.03%) Power Platform
13 6 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.63%) TCP/IP
2 19 (9.60%) DNS
3 13 (6.57%) HTTP
4 12 (6.06%) LAN
5 10 (5.05%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (5.05%) VPN
5 10 (5.05%) WAN
6 9 (4.55%) DHCP
7 8 (4.04%) IPv4
7 8 (4.04%) SD-WAN
7 8 (4.04%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (2.02%) Internet
9 2 (1.01%) HTTPS
9 2 (1.01%) SNMP
10 1 (0.51%) Broadband
10 1 (0.51%) Intranet
10 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.51%) PSTN
10 1 (0.51%) VoIP
10 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (9.60%) NoSQL
3 18 (9.09%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.03%) Power BI
4 6 (3.03%) Redis
5 5 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.53%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.52%) Essbase
7 3 (1.52%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.51%) OLAP
9 1 (0.51%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.51%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 35 (17.68%) GitLab
2 30 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.09%) Git
4 17 (8.59%) CircleCI
5 12 (6.06%) JIRA
6 8 (4.04%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (1.01%) Gatling
8 2 (1.01%) JMeter
8 2 (1.01%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.51%) Mocha
9 1 (0.51%) Postman
9 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.51%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.51%) Selenium
9 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 78 (39.39%) Finance
2 71 (35.86%) Social Skills
3 34 (17.17%) Banking
4 22 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (9.09%) Marketing
6 14 (7.07%) Aerospace
6 14 (7.07%) Manufacturing
7 13 (6.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.54%) Public Sector
11 6 (3.03%) Law
11 6 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (3.03%) Retail
12 5 (2.53%) Automotive
13 4 (2.02%) Electronics
13 4 (2.02%) Legal
13 4 (2.02%) Local Government
14 3 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (34.34%) Senior
2 25 (12.63%) Developer
3 21 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (10.61%) Lead
4 20 (10.10%) Administrator
5 19 (9.60%) Senior Developer
6 17 (8.59%) Systems Engineer
7 15 (7.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.05%) Linux Administrator
8 10 (5.05%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 10 (5.05%) Security Engineer
8 10 (5.05%) Senior Security Engineer
8 10 (5.05%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 10 (5.05%) Systems Administrator
9 8 (4.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 8 (4.04%) Senior Manager
10 7 (3.54%) Analyst
10 7 (3.54%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
11 6 (3.03%) Junior
11 6 (3.03%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.09%) RESTful
2 17 (8.59%) gRPC
2 17 (8.59%) Kafka
2 17 (8.59%) RabbitMQ
2 17 (8.59%) web3js
3 10 (5.05%) WebSockets
4 6 (3.03%) HTML
5 5 (2.53%) CSS
5 5 (2.53%) Django
5 5 (2.53%) REST
6 4 (2.02%) .NET
6 4 (2.02%) boto
7 3 (1.52%) Bootstrap
7 3 (1.52%) HTML5
7 3 (1.52%) jQuery
8 2 (1.01%) EDI
8 2 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.01%) NETCONF
8 2 (1.01%) React
8 2 (1.01%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.61%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.09%) Blockchain
3 17 (8.59%) Driving Licence
3 17 (8.59%) Web3
4 14 (7.07%) Management Information System
5 13 (6.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (5.56%) Life Science
7 10 (5.05%) CCTV
7 10 (5.05%) Data Centre
7 10 (5.05%) Product Ownership
8 9 (4.55%) Replication
9 5 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.53%) NHS
10 4 (2.02%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.52%) Clustering
11 3 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.52%) Social Media
12 2 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.67%) Linux
2 24 (12.12%) Windows
3 21 (10.61%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.05%) Apple iOS
4 10 (5.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.55%) Windows 10
6 6 (3.03%) Unix
7 2 (1.01%) Android
7 2 (1.01%) Rocky
8 1 (0.51%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (24.75%) DevOps
2 46 (23.23%) CI/CD
3 40 (20.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (19.70%) Agile
5 36 (18.18%) Analytics
5 36 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (16.67%) Containerisation
7 29 (14.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 28 (14.14%) Observability
8 28 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (13.13%) Microservices
10 25 (12.63%) Continuous Integration
10 25 (12.63%) Investment Management
10 25 (12.63%) Risk Management
11 24 (12.12%) High Availability
11 24 (12.12%) Test Automation
12 23 (11.62%) Continuous Delivery
12 23 (11.62%) Decision-Making
12 23 (11.62%) Performance Optimisation
12 23 (11.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.18%) Python
2 25 (12.63%) SQL
3 21 (10.61%) Bash
4 19 (9.60%) PowerShell
5 17 (8.59%) Go
6 16 (8.08%) Java
7 9 (4.55%) C#
8 8 (4.04%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.02%) Groovy
10 3 (1.52%) Bicep
10 3 (1.52%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.01%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.51%) JCL
Qualifications
1 37 (18.69%) Degree
2 20 (10.10%) Security Cleared
3 18 (9.09%) RHCSA
4 15 (7.58%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.56%) Master's Degree
6 11 (5.56%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.04%) AWS Certification
7 8 (4.04%) CCNA
7 8 (4.04%) ISTQB
7 8 (4.04%) OSCP
7 8 (4.04%) RHCE
8 7 (3.54%) CCNP
9 6 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (2.53%) MCSE
10 5 (2.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (2.02%) ACCA
11 4 (2.02%) CIMA
12 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.01%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.05%) QA
3 7 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.54%) GMP
4 4 (2.02%) GDPR
5 2 (1.01%) GAAP
5 2 (1.01%) IFRS
5 2 (1.01%) PMO
6 1 (0.51%) COBIT
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.51%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) P3O
6 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (16.67%) Docker
2 31 (15.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (10.61%) Active Directory
4 8 (4.04%) Squid
4 8 (4.04%) VMware NSX
4 8 (4.04%) vSphere
5 5 (2.53%) KVM
6 3 (1.52%) IAG
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (20.20%) Terraform
2 37 (18.69%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 13 (6.57%) Ansible
5 11 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (5.05%) Nagios
7 8 (4.04%) Packer
7 8 (4.04%) ZABBIX
8 5 (2.53%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (2.02%) Grafana
10 3 (1.52%) SCCM
11 2 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.01%) DatAdvantage
11 2 (1.01%) logstash
11 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.51%) Argo
12 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.51%) Netcool
Vendors
1 40 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 32 (16.16%) VMware
3 18 (9.09%) Oracle
3 18 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.06%) Cisco
5 11 (5.56%) Splunk
6 10 (5.05%) SolarWinds
7 8 (4.04%) Google
8 6 (3.03%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.53%) SAP
9 5 (2.53%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.53%) Veeam
9 5 (2.53%) Zerto
10 4 (2.02%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.52%) Adobe
11 3 (1.52%) HubSpot
11 3 (1.52%) Hyperion
11 3 (1.52%) IONA
11 3 (1.52%) Xero
12 2 (1.01%) Apple