Performance Metrics Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Performance Metrics
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Performance Metrics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 40 -
Rank change year-on-year -44 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.14% 0.64% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.70% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £412 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% - -
75th Percentile £436 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £424 £450 -
% change year-on-year -5.83% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 684 287 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.80% 92.28% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 162 236
10th Percentile £318 £220 £388
25th Percentile £401 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £623 £675 £723
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -6.80% -4.63% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.79 £19.10
25th Percentile - £14.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.10% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £16.19 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% -28.04% +52.54%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Performance Metrics job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Performance Metrics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk