Performance Metrics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Performance Metrics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Metrics over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 416 451
Rank change year-on-year +120 +35 -45
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 100 31 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.15% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 22 36
10th Percentile £282 £282 £193
25th Percentile £408 £356 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +35.71%
75th Percentile £591 £621 £574
90th Percentile £723 £658 £581
UK median daily rate £475 £553 £533
% change year-on-year -14.10% +3.85% +42.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £47.38 £51.90 -
25th Percentile £49.06 £67.88 -
Median hourly rate £66.78 £78.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.94% - -
75th Percentile £84.11 £80.44 -
90th Percentile £85.11 £80.78 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £78.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -14.01% +121.13% -36.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Performance Metrics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Performance Metrics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Metrics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +47 33 £425 -15.00% 43
Yorkshire +39 24 £425 -39.29% 17
Scotland - 23 £625 - 10
South East +36 17 £425 +6.50% 24
Midlands +47 15 £600 -4.00% 25
South West +21 11 £450 -5.75% 15
North West +13 9 £438 -5.41% 23
East Midlands - 8 - - 10
West Midlands +26 7 £600 -4.00% 15
East of England +7 1 - - 17
Northern Ireland - 1 £225 - 3
Wales - 1 £145 - 6
Performance Metrics
UK

Performance Metrics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (16.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.00%) CMS
2 2 (2.00%) Drupal
3 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (1.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.00%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.00%) AWS
2 14 (14.00%) Azure
3 9 (9.00%) Power Platform
3 9 (9.00%) SaaS
4 8 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (7.00%) GCP
6 2 (2.00%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.00%) Figma
7 1 (1.00%) OCI
7 1 (1.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.00%) Firewall
2 3 (3.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.00%) DHCP
3 2 (2.00%) DNS
3 2 (2.00%) FabricPath
3 2 (2.00%) InfiniBand
3 2 (2.00%) LAN
3 2 (2.00%) NX-OS
3 2 (2.00%) VPN
3 2 (2.00%) VSAN
4 1 (1.00%) SMS
4 1 (1.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.00%) Power BI
2 6 (6.00%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.00%) Data Mining
4 4 (4.00%) Big Data
5 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.00%) DB2
7 1 (1.00%) Metadata
7 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.00%) OLAP
7 1 (1.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (1.00%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.00%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (18.00%) JIRA
2 3 (3.00%) JMeter
2 3 (3.00%) LoadRunner
2 3 (3.00%) Selenium
3 2 (2.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (1.00%) XCUITest
General
1 37 (37.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (25.00%) Finance
3 21 (21.00%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.00%) Legal
5 10 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 9 (9.00%) Telecoms
7 8 (8.00%) Banking
7 8 (8.00%) Marketing
8 6 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (4.00%) Electronics
10 4 (4.00%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.00%) Local Government
11 2 (2.00%) Retail
12 1 (1.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (12.00%) Service Manager
2 9 (9.00%) Analyst
2 9 (9.00%) IT Manager
3 8 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
3 8 (8.00%) IT Services Delivery Manager
3 8 (8.00%) IT Services Manager
3 8 (8.00%) Service Delivery Manager
4 7 (7.00%) Applications Engineer
4 7 (7.00%) JIRA Engineer
4 7 (7.00%) Lead
5 6 (6.00%) Administrator
5 6 (6.00%) Consultant
5 6 (6.00%) Product Manager
6 5 (5.00%) Applications Support
6 5 (5.00%) Applications Support Engineer
6 5 (5.00%) Data Scientist
6 5 (5.00%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.00%) Architect
7 4 (4.00%) Database Specialist
7 4 (4.00%) Service Level Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.00%) REST
1 7 (7.00%) Web Services
2 3 (3.00%) CSS
2 3 (3.00%) HTML
3 2 (2.00%) jQuery
4 1 (1.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.00%) CSS3
4 1 (1.00%) HTML5
4 1 (1.00%) JSON
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.00%) Replication
4 6 (6.00%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.00%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.00%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.00%) FMCG
7 2 (2.00%) Grid Computing
7 2 (2.00%) Social Media
7 2 (2.00%) VxBlock/Vblock
8 1 (1.00%) Graphic Design
8 1 (1.00%) Housing Association
8 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.00%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (1.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.00%) Linux
2 11 (11.00%) Apple iOS
3 7 (7.00%) Unix
4 4 (4.00%) Android
5 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.00%) VMS
5 1 (1.00%) Windows
5 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (27.00%) Agile
2 27 (27.00%) Service Management
3 23 (23.00%) Migration
4 22 (22.00%) Decision-Making
5 17 (17.00%) Mentoring
6 16 (16.00%) Analytics
6 16 (16.00%) Roadmaps
6 16 (16.00%) Service Delivery
7 15 (15.00%) Project Management
8 13 (13.00%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (13.00%) ITSM
8 13 (13.00%) Problem Management
9 12 (12.00%) Information Security
9 12 (12.00%) ITIL
9 12 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (11.00%) Business Analysis
10 11 (11.00%) Capacity Planning
10 11 (11.00%) Change Management
10 11 (11.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.00%) Swift
2 8 (8.00%) Python
3 6 (6.00%) Bash
4 4 (4.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.00%) Kotlin
4 4 (4.00%) SQL
5 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.00%) Groovy
6 2 (2.00%) Java
6 2 (2.00%) PHP
6 2 (2.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.00%) Degree
4 5 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 5 (5.00%) PMO
2 3 (3.00%) QA
3 2 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (2.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.00%) vSphere
4 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.00%) Docker
4 1 (1.00%) Firmware
4 1 (1.00%) NFS
4 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (3.00%) MOM
1 3 (3.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (2.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (2.00%) VxRail
3 1 (1.00%) Ansible
3 1 (1.00%) CFEngine
3 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.00%) Atlassian
3 8 (8.00%) Okta
3 8 (8.00%) SAP
4 6 (6.00%) VMware
5 5 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.00%) Remedy
7 2 (2.00%) Cisco
7 2 (2.00%) Dell
7 2 (2.00%) Oracle
8 1 (1.00%) Adobe
8 1 (1.00%) Ariba
8 1 (1.00%) Cadence
8 1 (1.00%) Google
8 1 (1.00%) IBM
8 1 (1.00%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.00%) Splunk