Performance Metrics Contracts in the Thames Valley

Performance Metrics
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 23 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 118 143
Rank change year-on-year +29 +25 +41
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 24 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.45% 0.32% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 0.37% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 0
10th Percentile £320 £437 -
25th Percentile £376 £477 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £560 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile £528 £580 -
South East median daily rate £425 £463 £640
% change year-on-year -8.11% -27.73% +28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £76.75
Median hourly rate £14.00 £50.00 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.00% -36.31% -
75th Percentile £14.15 - £80.63
90th Percentile £14.24 - £80.85
South East median hourly rate £14.15 £50.00 £78.50
% change year-on-year -71.70% -36.31% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,525 2,140 2,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.09% 84.62% 90.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 1,194 1,835
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -2.34% +2.50%
75th Percentile £595 £608 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £515
% change year-on-year -3.57% +0.68% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 138 83
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.32 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.84 £19.28 £21.45
Median hourly rate £25.15 £54.02 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.44% +8.03% +187.03%
75th Percentile £54.69 £67.13 £66.21
90th Percentile £81.50 £86.19 £75.20
South East median hourly rate £22.29 £54.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.39% +9.75% +102.35%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Metrics in the Thames Valley

Performance Metrics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Metrics in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Performance Metrics in the Thames Valley

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Metrics in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the Thames Valley

Performance Metrics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Metrics in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Metrics in the Thames Valley

Performance Metrics
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 July 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
Berkshire +29 12 £451 -5.79% 9
Buckinghamshire +12 7 £413 -26.34% 17
Oxfordshire -6 5 - - 9
Performance Metrics
South East

Performance Metrics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.33%) LightWave 3D
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
1 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 4 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
1 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
1 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (16.67%) ChatGPT
1 4 (16.67%) Serverless
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
3 1 (4.17%) SaaS
3 1 (4.17%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) 5G
1 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (20.83%) Electronics
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Billing
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Legal
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Business IT Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Business Support Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Business Systems Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) IT Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) IT Support
2 5 (20.83%) IT Support Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Support Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Systems Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Systems Support
2 5 (20.83%) Systems Support Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Data Scientist
4 3 (12.50%) Trainee
4 3 (12.50%) Trainee Technician
5 2 (8.33%) Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Coordinator
5 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Commercial Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Hugging Face
1 4 (16.67%) NumPy
1 4 (16.67%) Pandas
1 4 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 4 (16.67%) scikit-learn
2 3 (12.50%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) IoT
1 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) VMS
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows 7
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 7 (29.17%) Process Improvement
4 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (20.83%) Agile
5 5 (20.83%) Analytics
5 5 (20.83%) Application Security
5 5 (20.83%) Business Continuity
5 5 (20.83%) Change Control
5 5 (20.83%) Customer-Centricity
5 5 (20.83%) Information Management
5 5 (20.83%) Knowledge Management
5 5 (20.83%) Mathematics
5 5 (20.83%) Performance Monitoring
5 5 (20.83%) Physics
5 5 (20.83%) Proactive Maintenance
5 5 (20.83%) Proactive Monitoring
5 5 (20.83%) Release Management
6 4 (16.67%) Data Science
6 4 (16.67%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Python
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.17%) PMP
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) Data Quality
2 4 (16.67%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) RMADS
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) HP ALM
1 1 (4.17%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Liquidlogic
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Sage
3 2 (8.33%) SAP
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) Ariba
4 1 (4.17%) Aruba
4 1 (4.17%) HP
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) VMware