Performance Management Contracts in England

Performance Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Performance Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 314 415
Rank change year-on-year -64 +101 +23
Contract jobs citing Performance Management 107 237 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.64% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.74% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 145 133
10th Percentile £390 £325 £323
25th Percentile £455 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -1.41% -2.29%
75th Percentile £678 £625 £650
90th Percentile £800 £773 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 34 27
10th Percentile £28.45 £15.39 £19.45
25th Percentile £44.47 £24.56 £49.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.67 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.23% -45.13% +136.36%
75th Percentile - £58.75 -
90th Percentile - £68.50 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £35.67 £65.00
% change year-on-year +68.23% -45.13% +122.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Performance Management 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Performance Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Performance Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Management in England

Performance Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Performance Management in England

Performance Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Management in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Management in England

Performance Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Management in England

Performance Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Management in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Management in England

Performance Management
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Management within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -18 52 £575 +9.52% 393
North of England +17 18 £500 -16.67% 137
South East +24 14 £525 - 172
North West +16 13 £447 -25.50% 77
East of England +19 9 £500 -4.76% 70
South West +36 7 £575 +1177.78% 69
Yorkshire +8 3 £450 -25.00% 47
East Midlands +10 2 - - 42
North East -1 2 £600 +39.21% 13
Midlands -5 2 - - 92
Performance Management
UK

Performance Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.74%) WebSphere
2 3 (2.80%) SAS
3 2 (1.87%) CICS
3 2 (1.87%) JBoss
3 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.87%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.93%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.93%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.61%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.74%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.93%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Primavera
2 6 (5.61%) SAP PS
3 5 (4.67%) Workday HCM
4 2 (1.87%) Actimize
4 2 (1.87%) HFM
4 2 (1.87%) Maximo
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.93%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.93%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.93%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.93%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (12.15%) Azure
2 8 (7.48%) AWS
3 5 (4.67%) OCI
4 4 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (3.74%) SaaS
5 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.80%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.80%) GCP
6 2 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.87%) GitHub
6 2 (1.87%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.93%) Boomi
7 1 (0.93%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.93%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.93%) Serverless
7 1 (0.93%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) Firewall
1 5 (4.67%) VPN
2 4 (3.74%) Network Security
3 3 (2.80%) DHCP
3 3 (2.80%) DNS
3 3 (2.80%) Intranet
3 3 (2.80%) WAN
4 2 (1.87%) BGP
4 2 (1.87%) HTTP
4 2 (1.87%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.87%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.93%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.93%) FTP
5 1 (0.93%) IGMP
5 1 (0.93%) IPsec
5 1 (0.93%) OSPF
5 1 (0.93%) SSL
5 1 (0.93%) VLAN
5 1 (0.93%) VRRP
5 1 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (3.74%) DB2
2 3 (2.80%) Hadoop
2 3 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (2.80%) Tableau
3 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.87%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (1.87%) Essbase
3 2 (1.87%) GIS
3 2 (1.87%) IMS/DB
3 2 (1.87%) Metadata
3 2 (1.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (1.87%) Power BI
4 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.93%) MSDE
4 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (7.48%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.80%) Git
2 3 (2.80%) Selenium
3 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.87%) GitLab
3 2 (1.87%) SOAtest
4 1 (0.93%) Bugzilla
4 1 (0.93%) ERwin
4 1 (0.93%) JIRA
4 1 (0.93%) Maven
4 1 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 43 (40.19%) Finance
2 37 (34.58%) Social Skills
3 19 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (13.08%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.41%) Legal
6 8 (7.48%) Banking
7 6 (5.61%) Local Government
8 5 (4.67%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.74%) Back Office
9 4 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.74%) Law
9 4 (3.74%) Retail
10 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.87%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.87%) Billing
11 2 (1.87%) Dutch Language
11 2 (1.87%) French Language
11 2 (1.87%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.87%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (15.89%) Consultant
2 10 (9.35%) Oracle Consultant
3 8 (7.48%) Architect
3 8 (7.48%) Project Manager
4 6 (5.61%) Analyst
4 6 (5.61%) Performance Manager
4 6 (5.61%) Project Planner
4 6 (5.61%) Senior
5 5 (4.67%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (4.67%) IT Manager
5 5 (4.67%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
5 5 (4.67%) Payroll Consultant
6 4 (3.74%) Data Manager
6 4 (3.74%) Lead
6 4 (3.74%) Network Engineer
6 4 (3.74%) Operations Manager
6 4 (3.74%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 4 (3.74%) Project Controller
7 3 (2.80%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
7 3 (2.80%) Oracle Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (7.48%) Middleware
3 5 (4.67%) XML
4 4 (3.74%) J2EE
4 4 (3.74%) Web Services
5 3 (2.80%) JSON
5 3 (2.80%) REST
5 3 (2.80%) RESTful
6 2 (1.87%) .NET
6 2 (1.87%) EJB
6 2 (1.87%) JDBC
6 2 (1.87%) SOAP
6 2 (1.87%) WebSphere MQ
6 2 (1.87%) XSLT
7 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.93%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.93%) LDAP
7 1 (0.93%) React
7 1 (0.93%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.54%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.80%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.87%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.87%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (1.87%) PKI
4 2 (1.87%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.87%) VSAM
5 1 (0.93%) Clustering
5 1 (0.93%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.93%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (0.93%) NHS
5 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.93%) PMI
5 1 (0.93%) SCADA
5 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.41%) Windows
2 6 (5.61%) Linux
3 5 (4.67%) Unix
4 3 (2.80%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (17.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (16.82%) Project Management
4 17 (15.89%) Analytics
5 15 (14.02%) Agile
5 15 (14.02%) Change Management
5 15 (14.02%) Coaching
6 14 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (13.08%) Decision-Making
7 12 (11.21%) Data Analysis
8 10 (9.35%) ERP
8 10 (9.35%) ITIL
8 10 (9.35%) Service Delivery
8 10 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (8.41%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (8.41%) Business Performance Management
9 9 (8.41%) CI/CD
9 9 (8.41%) Incident Management
10 8 (7.48%) Data Management
10 8 (7.48%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.35%) Python
2 9 (8.41%) SQL
3 7 (6.54%) Java
4 4 (3.74%) REXX
5 3 (2.80%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.87%) COBOL
6 2 (1.87%) Groovy
6 2 (1.87%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.87%) JCL
6 2 (1.87%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.93%) ABAP
7 1 (0.93%) Bash
7 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (25.23%) Security Cleared
2 26 (24.30%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) Degree
4 3 (2.80%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.80%) PMP
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) CIPD
5 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) HNC
5 1 (0.93%) HND
5 1 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) QA
2 8 (7.48%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.87%) NCSC
3 2 (1.87%) PMO
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.93%) NIST
4 1 (0.93%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (3.74%) Docker
2 3 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (5.61%) Ansible
1 6 (5.61%) Terraform
2 3 (2.80%) Automic
2 3 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.80%) Puppet
3 2 (1.87%) Grafana
3 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.93%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.93%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.93%) Perfmon
4 1 (0.93%) SCOM
4 1 (0.93%) VxRail
4 1 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (24.30%) Oracle
2 13 (12.15%) SAP
3 12 (11.21%) Microsoft
4 7 (6.54%) Workday
5 4 (3.74%) Cisco
5 4 (3.74%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.74%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.74%) Splunk
6 3 (2.80%) Google
6 3 (2.80%) Informatica
6 3 (2.80%) Meraki
7 2 (1.87%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.87%) Facebook
7 2 (1.87%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.87%) Hyperion
7 2 (1.87%) IBM
7 2 (1.87%) Instagram
7 2 (1.87%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.87%) Parasoft
8 1 (0.93%) Sun