Performance Metrics Contract Job Trends in Chester

Performance Metrics
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Performance Metrics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 1.05% 5.06% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 6.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% - -
Cheshire median daily rate £500 £341 -
% change year-on-year +46.63% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 139 65 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 73.16% 82.28% 83.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 29 18
10th Percentile £293 £190 £483
25th Percentile £413 £325 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £618
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.88% +12.27%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £738
90th Percentile £690 £773 £741
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £430 £488
% change year-on-year +10.47% -11.93% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 11
10th Percentile - £12.56 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.01 £12.63 £25.50
Median hourly rate £32.06 £14.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +129.02% -60.00% +10.17%
75th Percentile £37.50 £20.20 £41.25
90th Percentile £78.68 £23.17 £47.50
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.82 £17.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +101.80% -49.29% +14.60%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Performance Metrics job vacancy trend in Chester

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

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

Performance Metrics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) SNMP
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk