Performance Metrics Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Performance Metrics
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Performance Metrics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 0.50% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £688 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £763 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 - £334

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 164 84 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 82.41% 82.35% 63.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 45 81
10th Percentile £184 £195 £280
25th Percentile £339 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -19.13% +11.65%
75th Percentile £569 £539 £650
90th Percentile £669 £633 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £548 £550 £581
% change year-on-year -0.45% -5.38% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 0 6
10th Percentile £12.21 - £12.63
25th Percentile £12.29 - £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £51.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +121.38%
75th Percentile £40.00 - £76.88
90th Percentile £86.67 - £78.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £57.75 £54.94
% change year-on-year -64.14% +5.12% +14.45%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Performance Metrics job vacancy trend in Southampton

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

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

Performance Metrics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Validation Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Traceability Matrix
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (100.00%) Iperf
1 1 (100.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Tufin