Performance Management Contracts in Scotland

Performance Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 103 114 147
Rank change year-on-year +11 +33 +19
Contract jobs citing Performance Management 13 15 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.80% 0.68% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.76% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 15
10th Percentile £190 £185 £213
25th Percentile £192 £200 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -46.74% -8.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £400 £617 £534
90th Percentile £538 £626 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Management in Scotland

Performance Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Management in Scotland

Performance Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Management in Scotland

Performance Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Management in Scotland

Performance Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 9 £245 - 5
West Lothian +13 1 £188 -
Glasgow -1 1 £525 -11.39% 7
Performance Management
UK

Performance Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (15.38%) Camunda
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (38.46%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) LAN
1 1 (7.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Artifactory
1 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
1 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket Server
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Front Office
4 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
4 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (23.08%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Data Centre Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Migration Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Procurement Officer
5 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Tableau Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Tableau Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) LDAP
1 2 (15.38%) RESTful
1 2 (15.38%) Spring
1 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Service Delivery
2 5 (38.46%) Systems Analysis
3 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (30.77%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
5 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 2 (15.38%) Decision Table
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (15.38%) Innovative Thinking
5 2 (15.38%) Line Management
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Measurement
5 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 2 (15.38%) SIEM
5 2 (15.38%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Citrix
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Avaya
3 1 (7.69%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.69%) VMware