Performance Monitoring Contracts

Performance Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Monitoring over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 413 499 638
Rank change year-on-year +86 +139 -116
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 188 225 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.38% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.42% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 133 132
10th Percentile £400 £302 £301
25th Percentile £452 £450 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £491
Median % change year-on-year - +6.87% +9.17%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £578
90th Percentile £706 £737 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% +24.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 4
10th Percentile £11.41 £52.89 £12.35
25th Percentile £18.67 - £18.88
Median hourly rate £31.43 £65.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.65% +182.61% +80.39%
75th Percentile £43.53 £65.56 £24.01
90th Percentile £50.41 £65.75 £24.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £7.85 £65.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -87.92% +182.61% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Monitoring 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Performance Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Performance Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Monitoring.

Daily rate trend for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Monitoring over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Monitoring.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Monitoring over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Monitoring within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +105 161 £525 -0.94% 107
UK excluding London +66 97 £525 - 74
Work from Home +112 67 £488 -8.45% 54
London +90 65 £563 +5.14% 34
North of England +53 35 £475 -2.56% 15
Yorkshire +43 26 £430 -9.47% 7
South West +27 23 £581 +17.42% 7
South East +11 21 £605 +10.00% 21
Midlands +25 13 £400 -11.11% 26
West Midlands +27 7 £375 -16.67% 17
East Midlands +23 6 £675 +68.75% 9
North West +10 6 £500 -8.17% 7
Scotland +36 4 £525 -4.55% 1
North East - 3 £590 - 2
Wales +16 1 £583 -19.66%

Performance Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (12.77%) SAS
2 5 (2.66%) Apache Solr
2 5 (2.66%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.13%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.60%) Apache
5 2 (1.06%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.06%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.53%) Confluence
6 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (4.79%) Remedy ITSM
1 9 (4.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.06%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.06%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.06%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.06%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.06%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (25.00%) Azure
2 16 (8.51%) AWS
3 15 (7.98%) OCI
4 14 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (6.38%) GCP
6 11 (5.85%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.72%) SaaS
8 5 (2.66%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (2.66%) GitHub
9 3 (1.60%) Akamai
9 3 (1.60%) Apigee
9 3 (1.60%) Datadog
9 3 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.60%) IaaS
9 3 (1.60%) PaaS
10 2 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.06%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.06%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 2 (1.06%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 24 (12.77%) DNS
2 23 (12.23%) Firewall
3 22 (11.70%) DHCP
4 16 (8.51%) SAN
5 7 (3.72%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.66%) Internet
6 5 (2.66%) LAN
7 4 (2.13%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (2.13%) MPLS
7 4 (2.13%) PBX
7 4 (2.13%) PSTN
7 4 (2.13%) SNMP
7 4 (2.13%) VoIP
7 4 (2.13%) WAN
7 4 (2.13%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.60%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (1.60%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.60%) Skype
8 3 (1.60%) SMTP
8 3 (1.60%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.45%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.85%) Power BI
3 8 (4.26%) MySQL
4 7 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.19%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (3.19%) Big Data
6 5 (2.66%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.66%) Delta Lake
6 5 (2.66%) OLAP
6 5 (2.66%) OLTP
6 5 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.13%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.13%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (1.60%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.60%) Redis
9 2 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.06%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (4.26%) Git
2 4 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (1.60%) JIRA
4 2 (1.06%) Gatling
4 2 (1.06%) JMeter
4 2 (1.06%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.06%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
General
1 104 (55.32%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.77%) Finance
4 12 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.85%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (4.26%) Banking
7 5 (2.66%) French Language
7 5 (2.66%) Retail
8 4 (2.13%) German Language
8 4 (2.13%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Marketing
9 3 (1.60%) Military
9 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.06%) Electronics
10 2 (1.06%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Local Government
10 2 (1.06%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.53%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 24 (12.77%) Senior
2 20 (10.64%) Programmer
3 19 (10.11%) Systems Programmer
3 19 (10.11%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 16 (8.51%) DBA
5 13 (6.91%) Architect
5 13 (6.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (6.91%) Support Engineer
6 12 (6.38%) Lead
7 9 (4.79%) Storage Engineer
8 8 (4.26%) Capacity Manager
9 7 (3.72%) Administrator
9 7 (3.72%) Availability Manager
9 7 (3.72%) Consultant
9 7 (3.72%) SQL DBA
10 6 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (3.19%) Capacity and Availability Manager
10 6 (3.19%) Data Engineer
10 6 (3.19%) IT Manager
10 6 (3.19%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.30%) ISPF
2 13 (6.91%) Kafka
3 5 (2.66%) PySpark
4 4 (2.13%) LDAP
4 4 (2.13%) Web Services
5 3 (1.60%) .NET
5 3 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.06%) Flash
6 2 (1.06%) Java EE
6 2 (1.06%) Middleware
6 2 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.06%) REST
6 2 (1.06%) Vue
7 1 (0.53%) Ajax
7 1 (0.53%) CSS
7 1 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.53%) HTML
7 1 (0.53%) SOAP
7 1 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.30%) Mainframe
2 16 (8.51%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.32%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.26%) FMCG
4 8 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.72%) CMDB
5 7 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.19%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.66%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.66%) PKI
8 4 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.60%) Clustering
9 3 (1.60%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.06%) HP Storage
10 2 (1.06%) Industry 4.0
10 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 46 (24.47%) Windows
2 28 (14.89%) Linux
3 25 (13.30%) zOS
4 24 (12.77%) Windows Server
5 23 (12.23%) Windows 10
6 14 (7.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (7.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (6.91%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (6.91%) Windows XP
8 4 (2.13%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.06%) AIX
9 2 (1.06%) Android
9 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.06%) Solaris
10 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (32.98%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (20.74%) ITIL
3 38 (20.21%) Agile
4 32 (17.02%) Analytics
5 31 (16.49%) Disaster Recovery
6 28 (14.89%) Risk Management
7 26 (13.83%) Performance Tuning
7 26 (13.83%) Project Management
8 22 (11.70%) DevOps
9 21 (11.17%) Migration
10 20 (10.64%) Capacity Planning
10 20 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (10.11%) High Availability
11 19 (10.11%) Proactive Monitoring
11 19 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (9.57%) Project Delivery
12 18 (9.57%) Scrum
13 17 (9.04%) CI/CD
14 15 (7.98%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (19.68%) PowerShell
2 25 (13.30%) JCL
2 25 (13.30%) REXX
2 25 (13.30%) SQL
3 20 (10.64%) Assembly Language
4 18 (9.57%) Python
5 9 (4.79%) Java
6 5 (2.66%) C#
6 5 (2.66%) CLIST
7 4 (2.13%) Bicep
8 3 (1.60%) Bash
8 3 (1.60%) Go
8 3 (1.60%) Ruby
9 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.53%) Groovy
10 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 55 (29.26%) Security Cleared
2 44 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.36%) Degree
4 21 (11.17%) DV Cleared
5 16 (8.51%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (7.98%) CCNA
6 15 (7.98%) CCNP
7 6 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.66%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.13%) Postgraduate
10 3 (1.60%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.06%) CBAP
12 1 (0.53%) CCIE
12 1 (0.53%) CISM
12 1 (0.53%) CISSP
12 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.53%) PMP
12 1 (0.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.45%) SLA
2 6 (3.19%) QA
3 4 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.60%) PMO
5 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.53%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (14.36%) Active Directory
2 25 (13.30%) Time Sharing Option
3 23 (12.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (7.98%) ACF2
4 15 (7.98%) Hyper-V
4 15 (7.98%) RACF
5 14 (7.45%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (4.79%) Docker
7 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.60%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.60%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.53%) HDFS
9 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (12.77%) OMEGAMON
2 23 (12.23%) SCCM
3 16 (8.51%) SCOM
4 15 (7.98%) EMC NetWorker
4 15 (7.98%) NetBackup
5 14 (7.45%) Terraform
5 14 (7.45%) vCenter Server
5 14 (7.45%) WSUS
6 10 (5.32%) Puppet
7 8 (4.26%) Ansible
8 7 (3.72%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.66%) Kubernetes
10 4 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (2.13%) Grafana
10 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.60%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.60%) OPNET
12 2 (1.06%) HP Data Protector
13 1 (0.53%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 52 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 27 (14.36%) Oracle
2 27 (14.36%) Splunk
3 25 (13.30%) IBM
3 25 (13.30%) VMware
4 21 (11.17%) Cisco
5 20 (10.64%) Broadcom
6 17 (9.04%) Juniper
7 16 (8.51%) HP
8 15 (7.98%) EMC
8 15 (7.98%) Symantec
9 14 (7.45%) Palo Alto
9 14 (7.45%) SAP
10 13 (6.91%) 3PAR
10 13 (6.91%) Dell
10 13 (6.91%) Extreme Networks
10 13 (6.91%) Veeam
11 10 (5.32%) Google
12 9 (4.79%) Remedy
13 5 (2.66%) CA