Performance Metrics Contract Job Trends in Essex

Performance Metrics
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Performance Metrics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 18 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.15% 1.02% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £518 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 - -
75th Percentile £553 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £530 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £18.82 - -
25th Percentile £19.15 - -
Median hourly rate £20.36 - -
75th Percentile £21.65 - -
90th Percentile £22.01 - -
East of England median hourly rate £62.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 206 93 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 79.23% 94.90% 81.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 43 93
10th Percentile £300 £196 £190
25th Percentile £350 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £505 £474 £551
90th Percentile £588 £500 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £441
% change year-on-year - +13.38% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 20 53
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.25 £10.76
25th Percentile £16.08 £17.47 £15.98
Median hourly rate £20.00 £27.58 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.47% -49.86% +23.51%
75th Percentile £35.53 £44.90 £80.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £128.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £31.18 £36.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.40% -10.00% +90.48%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Performance Metrics job vacancy trend in Essex

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

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

Performance Metrics
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Performance Metrics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Performance Metrics

Performance Metrics
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Metrics within the Essex region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. 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
Chelmsford - 2 - - 2
Basildon - 1 £535 -
Performance Metrics
East of England

Performance Metrics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Service Desk Team Leader
1 2 (66.67%) Team Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Line Management
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 2 (66.67%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
3 1 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Post-Merger Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) PgMP
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cadence