Performance Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Performance Monitoring
Central London > City of London

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 106 121
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 +58
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 11 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.58% 0.32% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.35% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 6
10th Percentile £433 £670 -
25th Percentile £469 £699 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £748 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +53.44% -21.84%
75th Percentile - £920 £582
90th Percentile £788 £1,023 £662
Central London median daily rate £501 £748 £488
% change year-on-year -33.09% +53.44% -10.34%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Performance Monitoring 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,679 1,706 2,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.98% 91.67% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,021 1,526
10th Percentile £351 £363 £350
25th Percentile £426 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +1.05% -4.77%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £780 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 14
10th Percentile £20.02 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.86% +28.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £42.65 £64.56 £45.06
90th Percentile £49.36 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -14.43%

Performance Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Monitoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Performance Monitoring job vacancy trend in the City of London

Performance Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Monitoring

Performance Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Monitoring in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Monitoring in the City of London

Performance Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Monitoring

Performance Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Azure AKS
1 3 (27.27%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) KDB
1 1 (9.09%) Kdb+
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) QUnit
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Site Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) DBA
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared DBA
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Subject Matter Expert
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
1 1 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
1 1 (9.09%) SAML
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
1 1 (9.09%) Vert.x
1 1 (9.09%) Web Services
1 1 (9.09%) XML
1 1 (9.09%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Fixed Income
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
3 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
1 1 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
1 4 (36.36%) Migration
1 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Change Control
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (27.27%) Load Balancing
2 3 (27.27%) Observability
3 2 (18.18%) AI
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Data Collection
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
4 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Assembly Language
2 1 (9.09%) Groovy
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) JCL
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Dynatrace
2 1 (9.09%) BMC
2 1 (9.09%) Broadcom
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Workday