Performance Metrics Contracts in the South East

Performance Metrics
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 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 140 187 215
Rank change year-on-year +47 +28 +33
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 19 18 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.63% 0.32% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.38% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 3
10th Percentile - £214 £187
25th Percentile £200 £334 £232
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £425 £310
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +37.10% -27.06%
75th Percentile £350 £556 £488
90th Percentile £440 £559 £591
England median daily rate £495 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £16.44 £46.63 -
25th Percentile £19.65 £47.19 £76.75
Median hourly rate £21.43 £48.75 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.04% -37.90% -
75th Percentile £23.32 £49.69 £80.63
90th Percentile £26.73 £49.88 £80.85
England median hourly rate £28.75 £67.50 £78.50
% change year-on-year -57.41% -14.01% +24.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Metrics in the South East

Performance Metrics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Metrics in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Performance Metrics in the South East

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Metrics in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the South East

Performance Metrics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Metrics in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Metrics in the South East

Performance Metrics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Metrics in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the South East

Performance Metrics
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +51 12 £200 -59.39% 41
Berkshire - 10 £200 - 26
Hampshire +20 4 £325 -2.69% 11
Kent - 2 - - 2
Surrey +16 1 £500 +12.68% 11
Buckinghamshire +15 1 £350 -28.93% 4
Oxfordshire +4 1 - - 15
Performance Metrics
England

Performance Metrics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) LightWave 3D
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
1 3 (15.79%) SaaS
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Asana
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
1 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.26%) Power BI
1 1 (5.26%) QlikView
1 1 (5.26%) Tableau
1 1 (5.26%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Billing
2 4 (21.05%) Marketing
2 4 (21.05%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Dutch Language
3 3 (15.79%) Electronics
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (15.79%) Trainer
2 2 (10.53%) Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) Coordinator
3 1 (5.26%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Business Support Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Data Manager
3 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Lead
3 1 (5.26%) Product Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Support Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Systems Support
3 1 (5.26%) Systems Support Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Team Leader
3 1 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (5.26%) Trainee
3 1 (5.26%) Trainee Technician
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) e-Learning
1 3 (15.79%) IoT
1 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (21.05%) B2B
2 4 (21.05%) Customer Retention
2 4 (21.05%) User Experience
3 3 (15.79%) Change Management
3 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (15.79%) CRM
3 3 (15.79%) Customer Service
3 3 (15.79%) Mathematics
3 3 (15.79%) Physics
3 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (15.79%) Time Management
4 2 (10.53%) Agile
4 2 (10.53%) Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
4 2 (10.53%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
4 2 (10.53%) Scrum
4 2 (10.53%) Telematics
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.26%) MBA
2 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.26%) PMP
2 1 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.26%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) SAP
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) Ariba
4 1 (5.26%) Aruba
4 1 (5.26%) Liquidlogic