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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 113 118
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +40
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 13 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.56% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.37% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £433 £356 -
25th Percentile £459 £400 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £563 £488
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +15.38% -11.36%
75th Percentile £650 £711 £588
90th Percentile - £919 £668
Central London median daily rate £501 £563 £488
% change year-on-year -11.02% +15.38% -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 1,959 1,628 1,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.06% 93.30% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,330 1,027 1,403
10th Percentile £363 £354 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

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 7 May 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
1 1 (7.69%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure AKS
2 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Control Tower
3 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Collibra
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (7.69%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (7.69%) Data Hub
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) QlikView
2 1 (7.69%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Introscope
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) PMO Lead
3 1 (7.69%) PMO Manager
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared DBA
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
1 2 (15.38%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (15.38%) Vert.x
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) SAML
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
2 1 (7.69%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
3 1 (7.69%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) AIX
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
1 1 (7.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
1 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Change Control
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) AI
3 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
3 3 (23.08%) Observability
3 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Security Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Java
1 3 (23.08%) Python
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Assembly Language
2 1 (7.69%) Groovy
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) JCL
2 1 (7.69%) Jython
2 1 (7.69%) REXX
2 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.69%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) PMO
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) P3O
2 1 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) CA Wily
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) BMC
1 1 (7.69%) Broadcom
1 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
1 1 (7.69%) IBM
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle
1 1 (7.69%) SAP
1 1 (7.69%) Workday