Performance Metrics Contracts in the North of England

Performance Metrics
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Performance Metrics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Metrics over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 146 194
Rank change year-on-year +22 +48 +39
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 44 34 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.32% 0.72% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 0.85% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 24 14
10th Percentile £214 £300 £287
25th Percentile £279 £369 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% -13.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £476 £491 £581
90th Percentile £524 £558 £685
England median daily rate £493 £469 £575
% change year-on-year +5.07% -18.48% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile - £83.77 -
25th Percentile £26.88 £84.11 -
Median hourly rate £28.75 £84.67 -
Median % change year-on-year -66.04% - -
75th Percentile £30.63 £85.22 -
90th Percentile £51.56 £85.56 -
England median hourly rate £28.75 £67.50 £78.50
% change year-on-year -57.41% -14.01% +106.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,986 3,985 5,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.91% 84.73% 90.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,922 2,416 3,435
10th Percentile £265 £300 £303
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +4.44%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 380 205
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.99 £12.53 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.34 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +30.04% -30.18% +45.44%
75th Percentile £51.00 £45.96 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £62.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Performance Metrics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Metrics in the North of England

Performance Metrics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Metrics in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Performance Metrics in the North of England

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Metrics in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the North of England

Performance Metrics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Metrics in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Metrics in the North of England

Performance Metrics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Metrics in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the North of England

Performance Metrics
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 30 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
North West +25 24 £325 -25.71% 191
Yorkshire +11 17 £298 -31.61% 164
North East - 3 £563 - 65
Performance Metrics
England

Performance Metrics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (11.36%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.82%) Confluence
3 1 (2.27%) CMS
3 1 (2.27%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (2.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (13.64%) MS Visio
4 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (4.55%) Chatbot
6 1 (2.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.18%) AWS
2 7 (15.91%) GitHub
3 5 (11.36%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (11.36%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon Macie
4 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (4.55%) AWS KMS
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.55%) Azure
4 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (4.55%) Lucidchart
4 2 (4.55%) Serverless
4 2 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) LAN
1 5 (11.36%) WAN
1 5 (11.36%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (11.36%) Wireless
1 5 (11.36%) WLAN
2 2 (4.55%) DNS
2 2 (4.55%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) Network Security
2 2 (4.55%) SSL
2 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.55%) VPN
3 1 (2.27%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) Data Lake
2 4 (9.09%) Power BI
3 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (15.91%) GitLab
2 2 (4.55%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Finance
3 8 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Legal
5 3 (6.82%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) Analyst
2 7 (15.91%) Business Analyst
3 6 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Administrator
4 5 (11.36%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
4 5 (11.36%) Network Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Performance Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) Designer
6 3 (6.82%) PMO Manager
7 2 (4.55%) Agile Coach
7 2 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Data Centre Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Data Centre Business Analyst
7 2 (4.55%) Programme Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) CMDB
2 5 (11.36%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.36%) Security Posture
2 5 (11.36%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.27%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
1 14 (31.82%) Process Improvement
2 11 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 11 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 10 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (20.45%) DevOps
4 9 (20.45%) ITIL
5 8 (18.18%) Agile
5 8 (18.18%) Cloud Security
6 7 (15.91%) Asset Management
6 7 (15.91%) Business Case
6 7 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (15.91%) Visualisation
7 6 (13.64%) Budget Management
7 6 (13.64%) Dashboard Development
7 6 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (13.64%) Migration
8 5 (11.36%) Data Collection
8 5 (11.36%) Problem Management
8 5 (11.36%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.45%) SQL
2 5 (11.36%) VB
3 2 (4.55%) Python
3 2 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (20.45%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) CCNA
2 5 (11.36%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.27%) CBAP
4 1 (2.27%) IIBA
4 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) PMO
2 4 (9.09%) GDPR
3 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (4.55%) NIST
4 2 (4.55%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Ansible
1 2 (4.55%) Grafana
1 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.55%) Kustomize
1 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
1 2 (4.55%) Puppet
1 2 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (29.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.64%) Cisco
3 2 (4.55%) Splunk
4 1 (2.27%) Genesys
4 1 (2.27%) Google
4 1 (2.27%) Meraki
4 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.27%) Progress
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.27%) Veritas