Performance Metrics Contract Job Trends in the South East

Performance Metrics
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Performance Metrics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 141 187
Rank change year-on-year +4 +46 +53
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 55 28 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.26% 0.75% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 0.85% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 13 8
10th Percentile £178 - £200
25th Percentile £302 £219 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £475 £388
Median % change year-on-year -34.11% +22.58% -7.19%
75th Percentile £405 £560 £577
90th Percentile £602 £593 £617
England median daily rate £449 £475 £413
% change year-on-year -5.58% +15.15% -28.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
Median hourly rate £14.00 £58.38 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.02% +316.96% -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £44.86 £14.00
% change year-on-year -10.84% +220.43% -

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 3,726 3,307 4,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.28% 88.12% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,436 2,059 2,912
10th Percentile £221 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 125 234
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.33 £16.60
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.00 £25.43
Median hourly rate £22.50 £47.78 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.91% -10.69% +42.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.43 £65.71
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.95 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Performance Metrics job vacancy trend in the South East

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Performance Metrics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Performance Metrics

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 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the South East

Performance Metrics
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Performance Metrics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Performance Metrics

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 19 December 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 +9 41 £313 -37.40% 39
Berkshire +6 33 £306 -33.84% 20
Hampshire -7 12 £320 - 20
Buckinghamshire +9 7 £425 -19.81% 14
West Sussex -8 1 £307 -35.47% 4
Oxfordshire -15 1 £525 - 6
East Sussex - 1 £600 - 2
Performance Metrics
England

Performance Metrics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (63.64%) AWS
2 34 (61.82%) Azure
3 30 (54.55%) GCP
4 4 (7.27%) Amazon Bedrock
4 4 (7.27%) Amazon S3
4 4 (7.27%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (7.27%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.27%) ChatGPT
4 4 (7.27%) Serverless
5 1 (1.82%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.82%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.82%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) 5G
1 2 (3.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.27%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (7.27%) Big Data
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Gatling
1 5 (9.09%) JIRA
1 5 (9.09%) JMeter
1 5 (9.09%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.82%) GitLab
2 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.73%) Finance
4 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.64%) Electronics
5 2 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Legal
6 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (32.73%) Lead
2 8 (14.55%) Analyst
3 7 (12.73%) Project Manager
4 5 (9.09%) Consultant
5 4 (7.27%) Cloud Consultant
5 4 (7.27%) Data Scientist
5 4 (7.27%) DV Cleared Project Manager
5 4 (7.27%) Performance Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Technology Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Senior
6 3 (5.45%) Testing Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Financial Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Support Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Trainee
7 2 (3.64%) Trainee Technician
8 1 (1.82%) Contract Management Manager
8 1 (1.82%) E-Commerce Manager
8 1 (1.82%) Junior Scrum Master
8 1 (1.82%) Procurement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) Hugging Face
1 4 (7.27%) NumPy
1 4 (7.27%) Pandas
1 4 (7.27%) PyTorch
1 4 (7.27%) scikit-learn
2 3 (5.45%) Prophet
3 1 (1.82%) Flutter
3 1 (1.82%) JSON
3 1 (1.82%) React
3 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
1 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) Linux
1 1 (1.82%) VMS
1 1 (1.82%) Windows
1 1 (1.82%) Windows 7
1 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
1 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (61.82%) Continuous Improvement
2 30 (54.55%) ITIL
2 30 (54.55%) ITSM
2 30 (54.55%) Service Management
3 29 (52.73%) Change Management
4 21 (38.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 14 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 10 (18.18%) Agile
8 8 (14.55%) Actionable Insight
9 7 (12.73%) Project Management
9 7 (12.73%) Scrum
10 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (9.09%) CI/CD
11 5 (9.09%) Incident Response
11 5 (9.09%) Performance Testing
11 5 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (9.09%) Task Automation
11 5 (9.09%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.36%) Python
2 4 (7.27%) SQL
3 1 (1.82%) Bash
3 1 (1.82%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 30 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 25 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.27%) PMI Certification
4 4 (7.27%) PMP
5 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) GDPR
2 2 (3.64%) QA
3 1 (1.82%) PMO
3 1 (1.82%) RMADS
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (9.09%) Ansible
1 5 (9.09%) Grafana
1 5 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 5 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (54.55%) Google
2 3 (5.45%) Sage
3 2 (3.64%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle
4 1 (1.82%) VMware