Performance Metrics Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Performance Metrics
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Performance Metrics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 48 58
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 +36
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.45% 0.61% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.70% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £411 £506 -
25th Percentile £428 £515 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £530 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.74% +24.71% -
75th Percentile £503 £545 £438
90th Percentile £524 £554 -
South East median daily rate £313 £463 £481
% change year-on-year -32.32% -3.90% +15.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

Performance Metrics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 377 287 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 84.15% 87.23% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 203 367
10th Percentile £223 £234 £279
25th Percentile £356 £396 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% - -
75th Percentile £560 £588 £600
90th Percentile £636 £650 £740
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £517
% change year-on-year -2.12% -1.24% +1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 6 20
10th Percentile - £15.35 £15.72
25th Percentile £15.91 £22.03 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £23.48
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% +53.31% +44.51%
75th Percentile £29.61 £49.81 £27.75
90th Percentile £35.36 £55.63 £30.00
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -44.53% -22.73% +26.44%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Metrics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Performance Metrics job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Performance Metrics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Performance Metrics

Performance Metrics
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes -4 2 £463 -12.74% 4
Performance Metrics
South East

Performance Metrics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Commercial Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Commercial Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Contract Management Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Procurement Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Procurement Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Flutter
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (50.00%) Contract Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Supplier Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
1 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA