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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 429 547
Rank change year-on-year -45 +118 +121
Permanent jobs citing Performance Monitoring 220 256 280
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.56% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.60% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 128 125 174
10th Percentile £39,800 £26,400 £34,179
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,145 £62,188
90th Percentile £122,500 £77,250 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +15.00% +5.26%

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 56,699 42,799 69,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.53% 93.38% 87.82%
Number of salaries quoted 34,103 21,982 53,104
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,288
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -78 164 £60,000 -2.04% 101
UK excluding London -52 128 £56,000 -2.61% 84
Work from Home +9 97 £55,500 -17.93% 46
London +6 70 £75,000 - 35
South East -15 39 £52,500 -12.50% 26
North of England -31 27 £65,000 -6.22% 20
North West -10 16 £65,000 -3.88% 11
Northern Ireland -18 14 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Scotland -11 12 £73,801 +6.48% 5
South West -25 12 £45,000 -17.16% 11
Midlands -34 12 £47,750 +12.35% 10
Wales -6 9 £44,336 -34.44% 4
West Midlands -8 7 £59,527 -6.62% 6
Yorkshire -36 6 £66,250 - 5
North East -11 5 £60,651 -12.59% 4
East Midlands -43 5 £40,000 +59.35% 4
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
East of England -16 1 £60,000 +20.00% 8

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 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.09%) IIS
3 8 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.73%) Confluence
5 4 (1.82%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.91%) CMS
7 1 (0.45%) SAS
7 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (9.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.55%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.82%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.45%) EngageOne
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (5.45%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (4.55%) Hyperion Planning
2 10 (4.55%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (4.55%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (4.55%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (4.55%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.82%) PlanetPress Connect
3 4 (1.82%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (1.36%) SAP CO
4 3 (1.36%) SAP FI
4 3 (1.36%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.45%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.45%) Primavera
6 1 (0.45%) Shopify
6 1 (0.45%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 77 (35.00%) Azure
2 42 (19.09%) AWS
3 26 (11.82%) AWS CloudFormation
4 23 (10.45%) Power Platform
5 21 (9.55%) GCP
6 18 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (7.73%) Entra ID
8 16 (7.27%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (5.91%) Amazon ECR
9 13 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (5.91%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (5.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (5.91%) dbt
9 13 (5.91%) Pulumi
9 13 (5.91%) Serverless
10 12 (5.45%) Amazon S3
10 12 (5.45%) SaaS
11 11 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (4.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.27%) TCP/IP
2 18 (8.18%) DNS
3 12 (5.45%) WAN
4 10 (4.55%) HTTP
4 10 (4.55%) LAN
4 10 (4.55%) VPN
5 9 (4.09%) DHCP
6 8 (3.64%) SD-WAN
7 5 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.82%) Firewall
8 4 (1.82%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.82%) SNMP
8 4 (1.82%) Wireless
9 2 (0.91%) Internet
10 1 (0.45%) Broadband
10 1 (0.45%) Intranet
10 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.45%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.73%) SQL Server
2 24 (10.91%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (10.00%) Power BI
4 16 (7.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 14 (6.36%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (6.36%) Redis
6 13 (5.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (5.45%) NoSQL
8 11 (5.00%) DynamoDB
9 10 (4.55%) Essbase
10 6 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.82%) Metadata
12 4 (1.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (1.36%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.91%) MongoDB
14 2 (0.91%) OLAP
14 2 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
14 2 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (8.64%) GitLab
1 19 (8.64%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.55%) CircleCI
2 10 (4.55%) Git
2 10 (4.55%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (2.73%) JIRA
4 4 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (1.82%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.82%) LoadRunner
5 3 (1.36%) JMeter
6 2 (0.91%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.91%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.45%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.45%) Gatling
7 1 (0.45%) Mocha
7 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 91 (41.36%) Finance
2 88 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 35 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.91%) Banking
5 14 (6.36%) Marketing
6 13 (5.91%) Legal
6 13 (5.91%) Retail
7 12 (5.45%) Billing
8 9 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (4.09%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.18%) Aerospace
10 7 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.73%) Law
11 6 (2.73%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.27%) Financial Institution
12 5 (2.27%) Local Government
12 5 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.27%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.82%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 64 (29.09%) Senior
2 34 (15.45%) Analyst
3 22 (10.00%) Developer
4 21 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (8.64%) Lead
6 15 (6.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (6.36%) Senior Analyst
8 13 (5.91%) Senior Developer
9 12 (5.45%) Commercial Analyst
9 12 (5.45%) Insight Analyst
10 11 (5.00%) Administrator
10 11 (5.00%) Support Analyst
11 10 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.55%) Oracle Analyst
11 10 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.55%) Senior Oracle Analyst
12 9 (4.09%) Product Owner
12 9 (4.09%) Site Engineer
12 9 (4.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 8 (3.64%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.36%) Kafka
2 13 (5.91%) Django
2 13 (5.91%) RESTful
3 10 (4.55%) gRPC
3 10 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (4.55%) web3js
4 9 (4.09%) .NET
5 7 (3.18%) REST
6 5 (2.27%) HTML
6 5 (2.27%) Middleware
6 5 (2.27%) WebSockets
7 4 (1.82%) CSS
7 4 (1.82%) NETCONF
7 4 (1.82%) RESTCONF
8 3 (1.36%) .NET Framework
8 3 (1.36%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.36%) React
9 2 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.91%) LDAP
9 2 (0.91%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.73%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.55%) Blockchain
5 10 (4.55%) Life Science
5 10 (4.55%) Web3
6 8 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.64%) Replication
7 6 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.27%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.82%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.36%) Clustering
10 3 (1.36%) Social Media
10 3 (1.36%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.00%) Linux
2 28 (12.73%) Windows
3 22 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 14 (6.36%) Unix
5 10 (4.55%) Apple iOS
6 9 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (4.09%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.82%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.91%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (26.36%) Analytics
2 57 (25.91%) Agile
3 53 (24.09%) DevOps
4 51 (23.18%) CI/CD
5 46 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (19.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (17.27%) Roadmaps
8 37 (16.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 36 (16.36%) Observability
10 28 (12.73%) Risk Management
11 26 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
11 26 (11.82%) Decision-Making
12 25 (11.36%) High Availability
13 24 (10.91%) Actionable Insight
13 24 (10.91%) Continuous Integration
14 23 (10.45%) Collaborative Working
14 23 (10.45%) ITIL
14 23 (10.45%) Test Automation
14 23 (10.45%) User Experience
15 22 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 48 (21.82%) SQL
2 41 (18.64%) Python
3 20 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 15 (6.82%) Bash
5 14 (6.36%) C#
6 13 (5.91%) Java
7 12 (5.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (4.55%) Go
8 10 (4.55%) Groovy
8 10 (4.55%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.64%) VBA
10 4 (1.82%) Bicep
10 4 (1.82%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.91%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.45%) R
12 1 (0.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 50 (22.73%) Degree
2 25 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.82%) Master's Degree
5 11 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.09%) CCNP
6 9 (4.09%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.18%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.27%) MCSE
9 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.27%) RHCSA
9 5 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.82%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.82%) CCIE
10 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (1.36%) CSPO
12 2 (0.91%) CISSP
12 2 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 2 (0.91%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.00%) GDPR
3 6 (2.73%) QA
4 5 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.82%) GRC
6 3 (1.36%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.36%) ISO 8583
6 3 (1.36%) SEPA
7 2 (0.91%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.45%) COBIT
8 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.45%) NIST
8 1 (0.45%) P3O
8 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.45%) PMO
8 1 (0.45%) SLA
8 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (15.45%) Docker
2 22 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.27%) KVM
5 1 (0.45%) Squid
5 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (15.91%) Terraform
2 33 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 14 (6.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (5.91%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.09%) Ansible
6 5 (2.27%) AWS Copilot
6 5 (2.27%) Grafana
6 5 (2.27%) Nagios
7 4 (1.82%) logstash
7 4 (1.82%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.82%) Puppet
8 2 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.91%) Argo
8 2 (0.91%) DatAdvantage
8 2 (0.91%) Kibana
8 2 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.45%) Control-M
9 1 (0.45%) Netcool
Vendors
1 37 (16.82%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.45%) VMware
3 17 (7.73%) Oracle
4 15 (6.82%) Google
5 11 (5.00%) SAP
6 10 (4.55%) Hyperion
7 9 (4.09%) Red Hat
8 8 (3.64%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.73%) Dynatrace
10 5 (2.27%) HubSpot
10 5 (2.27%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.27%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.27%) Veeam
10 5 (2.27%) Zerto
11 4 (1.82%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.82%) Cisco
12 3 (1.36%) Splunk
13 2 (0.91%) Apple
13 2 (0.91%) Samsung
13 2 (0.91%) Varonis