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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 101 121
Rank change year-on-year -25 +20 +37
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 13 14 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.57% 0.79% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.84% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 4
10th Percentile £213 £385 £504
25th Percentile £338 £429 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +14.29% -14.43%
75th Percentile £600 £649 £623
90th Percentile £740 £700 £776
Central London median daily rate £475 £560 £525
% change year-on-year -15.18% +6.67% -14.22%

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 2,005 1,661 1,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.25% 94.16% 91.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,383 1,098 1,226
10th Percentile £375 £324 £379
25th Percentile £458 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%

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 4 September 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:

Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
3 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.69%) Google Play
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) BGP
2 1 (7.69%) DWDM
2 1 (7.69%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) KDB
2 1 (7.69%) Kdb+
2 1 (7.69%) QlikView
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) QUnit
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Billing
3 1 (7.69%) Front Office
3 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Developer
1 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 1 (7.69%) Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) Billing Project Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (7.69%) KDB Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Lead
2 1 (7.69%) PMO Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Procurement Analyst
2 1 (7.69%) Project Controller
2 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Provisioning Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) AI Agents
1 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Fixed Income
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Android
3 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) AI
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
3 4 (30.77%) Observability
4 3 (23.08%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (23.08%) Project Management
4 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (23.08%) Synthetic Monitoring
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
5 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 2 (15.38%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Requirements Workshops
5 2 (15.38%) Runbook
5 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Bash
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) P3O
1 1 (7.69%) PMO
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Google
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) Dynatrace
4 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
5 1 (7.69%) Ciena
5 1 (7.69%) SAP