Performance Monitoring Contracts in England

Performance Monitoring
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Performance Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Monitoring 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 364 380 468
Rank change year-on-year +16 +88 +135
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 121 163 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.51% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 113 109
10th Percentile £385 £387 £312
25th Percentile £400 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £650
90th Percentile £800 £710 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 18
10th Percentile £23.70 - £52.89
25th Percentile £24.76 £6.57 -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £7.85 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +712.04% -87.92% +182.61%
75th Percentile £65.62 £9.14 £65.56
90th Percentile £69.75 - £65.75
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £31.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +102.85% -51.65% +182.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 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 Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Monitoring in England

Performance Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Monitoring in England

Performance Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Monitoring in England

Performance Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Monitoring in England

Performance Monitoring
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Monitoring in England

Performance Monitoring
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 Monitoring 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 +31 59 £518 -5.91% 115
North of England +3 19 £450 -5.26% 33
South East +38 14 £375 -38.02% 50
South West +33 10 £538 -7.53% 10
North West +20 9 £450 -10.00% 19
Yorkshire -10 8 £500 +16.28% 11
Midlands +15 6 £525 +31.25% 19
East of England - 5 £650 - 10
West Midlands +10 3 £500 +33.33% 15
East Midlands +7 3 £550 -18.52% 4
North East -2 1 £550 -6.78% 4
Performance Monitoring
UK

Performance Monitoring
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 7 (5.79%) Confluence
2 6 (4.96%) Apache
2 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.13%) SAS
4 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.31%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (3.31%) Skype for Business
5 2 (1.65%) Drupal
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.83%) CICS
6 1 (0.83%) CMS
6 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.83%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.83%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Sketch
2 1 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.65%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.65%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.83%) Maximo
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.83%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.83%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.83%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.01%) AWS
2 21 (17.36%) Azure
3 9 (7.44%) Serverless
4 8 (6.61%) GCP
5 7 (5.79%) GitHub
6 6 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (4.96%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.13%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.13%) SaaS
8 4 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.31%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.48%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (2.48%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.48%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.48%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.44%) DNS
2 8 (6.61%) SMTP
2 8 (6.61%) VPN
3 7 (5.79%) DHCP
4 6 (4.96%) WAN
5 5 (4.13%) Skype
6 4 (3.31%) Firewall
6 4 (3.31%) Multicast
6 4 (3.31%) PSTN
6 4 (3.31%) SSL
6 4 (3.31%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.48%) BGP
7 3 (2.48%) FTP
7 3 (2.48%) LAN
7 3 (2.48%) MPLS
7 3 (2.48%) OSPF
7 3 (2.48%) tcpdump
7 3 (2.48%) Telnet
8 2 (1.65%) HTTPS
8 2 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.61%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.79%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.96%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.31%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.31%) Power BI
5 3 (2.48%) MySQL
5 3 (2.48%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.48%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.65%) Tableau
7 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.83%) Big Data
7 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.83%) DB2
7 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 10 (8.26%) JIRA
2 8 (6.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.31%) Git
3 4 (3.31%) JMeter
3 4 (3.31%) LoadRunner
4 3 (2.48%) Artifactory
4 3 (2.48%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.48%) git-flow
4 3 (2.48%) GitLab
4 3 (2.48%) Gradle
5 2 (1.65%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.65%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.65%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.83%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.83%) MLflow
6 1 (0.83%) Poetry
6 1 (0.83%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (0.83%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.01%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (18.18%) Finance
4 13 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.31%) Front Office
6 3 (2.48%) Aviation
6 3 (2.48%) Banking
6 3 (2.48%) Marketing
6 3 (2.48%) Military
7 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Publishing
8 1 (0.83%) Brand Awareness
8 1 (0.83%) Electronics
8 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.83%) Legal
8 1 (0.83%) Local Government
8 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.83%) Retail
8 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (15.70%) Senior
2 12 (9.92%) DBA
3 10 (8.26%) Administrator
3 10 (8.26%) Developer
3 10 (8.26%) Lead
4 7 (5.79%) Analyst
4 7 (5.79%) Programmer
4 7 (5.79%) Systems Programmer
4 7 (5.79%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 5 (4.13%) Consultant
6 4 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (3.31%) Collaboration Engineer
6 4 (3.31%) Implementation Engineer
6 4 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (3.31%) Java Developer
6 4 (3.31%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (3.31%) Performance Tester
6 4 (3.31%) Project Manager
6 4 (3.31%) Senior Developer
6 4 (3.31%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.79%) ISPF
2 5 (4.13%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (3.31%) Kafka
3 4 (3.31%) LDAP
3 4 (3.31%) Spring
3 4 (3.31%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.48%) .NET
4 3 (2.48%) Playwright
4 3 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.65%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.65%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.65%) REST
5 2 (1.65%) RESTful
6 1 (0.83%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.83%) React
6 1 (0.83%) Swagger
6 1 (0.83%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.83%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.61%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.79%) Mainframe
3 6 (4.96%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.96%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.13%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.31%) Blackberry
5 4 (3.31%) Credit Risk
5 4 (3.31%) Handset
5 4 (3.31%) Replication
6 3 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.48%) PKI
6 3 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.65%) Clustering
7 2 (1.65%) NHS
8 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.83%) CMDB
8 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.83%) PMI
8 1 (0.83%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.57%) Windows
2 13 (10.74%) Linux
3 8 (6.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (5.79%) zOS
5 6 (4.96%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (4.13%) Windows 10
7 4 (3.31%) Android
8 3 (2.48%) Unix
9 1 (0.83%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.83%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (26.45%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (20.66%) Agile
3 23 (19.01%) Performance Tuning
4 18 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (14.05%) CI/CD
5 17 (14.05%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (13.22%) Risk Management
7 15 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (11.57%) Analytics
9 13 (10.74%) High Availability
9 13 (10.74%) Service Delivery
10 12 (9.92%) Change Management
10 12 (9.92%) Computer Science
10 12 (9.92%) Data Analysis
10 12 (9.92%) DevOps
10 12 (9.92%) ITIL
10 12 (9.92%) Mentoring
10 12 (9.92%) Migration
10 12 (9.92%) Roadmaps
11 11 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (19.01%) SQL
2 22 (18.18%) Python
3 11 (9.09%) Java
4 9 (7.44%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.79%) Assembly Language
5 7 (5.79%) CLIST
5 7 (5.79%) JCL
5 7 (5.79%) REXX
6 6 (4.96%) C#
7 3 (2.48%) C++
7 3 (2.48%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.65%) ActionScript
8 2 (1.65%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (1.65%) Bash
8 2 (1.65%) PHP
8 2 (1.65%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.65%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.65%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.83%) R
9 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.22%) Degree
4 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.65%) PMP
7 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.83%) CSPO
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.83%) MCITP
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.26%) QA
1 10 (8.26%) SLA
2 5 (4.13%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.13%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.48%) GDPR
3 3 (2.48%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.65%) NCSC
4 2 (1.65%) NIST
4 2 (1.65%) PMO
5 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (7.44%) Docker
2 8 (6.61%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.79%) Time Sharing Option
4 3 (2.48%) NFS
4 3 (2.48%) Samba
4 3 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.65%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.83%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.83%) Ceph
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.83%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.83%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (11.57%) Terraform
2 13 (10.74%) Ansible
3 11 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.79%) OMEGAMON
5 5 (4.13%) SCCM
6 4 (3.31%) yum
7 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.48%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.65%) Grafana
8 2 (1.65%) Kibana
8 2 (1.65%) Perfmon
8 2 (1.65%) Tivoli
8 2 (1.65%) WSUS
9 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.83%) Nagios
9 1 (0.83%) Netcool
9 1 (0.83%) SCOM
9 1 (0.83%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.83%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (15.70%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.57%) Oracle
3 11 (9.09%) IBM
4 7 (5.79%) VMware
5 6 (4.96%) HP
6 5 (4.13%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.13%) SAP
6 5 (4.13%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.31%) Clearswift
7 4 (3.31%) Google
7 4 (3.31%) Remedy
7 4 (3.31%) Ribbon
7 4 (3.31%) Splunk
8 3 (2.48%) Databricks
9 2 (1.65%) Ariba
9 2 (1.65%) IBM Sterling
9 2 (1.65%) QAD
9 2 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.65%) Workday
10 1 (0.83%) Adobe