Performance Metrics Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Performance Metrics
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh 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 72 66 71
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +23
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.41% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.17% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £459
25th Percentile £406 - £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £542
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.11%
75th Percentile £419 - £594
90th Percentile - - £625
Scotland median daily rate £484 £500 £738
% change year-on-year -3.20% -32.20% +55.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 625 584 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.57% 94.04% 85.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 278 369
10th Percentile £262 £304 £218
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £450
% change year-on-year - +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 21 24
10th Percentile £15.81 - £13.30
25th Percentile £15.91 £17.30 £16.13
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.87 £21.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -18.01% -54.12%
75th Percentile £62.75 £45.80 £24.18
90th Percentile £79.00 £61.25 £45.75
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £20.80 £20.94
% change year-on-year -18.25% -0.68% +18.16%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Performance Metrics job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Performance Metrics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 1 (33.33%) IT Operations Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) BPMN
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow