Performance Monitoring Contracts in the Thames Valley

Performance Monitoring
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Performance Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Monitoring 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 92 129 130
Rank change year-on-year +37 +1 +29
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 10 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.66% 0.60% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.68% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 13
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £363 £603 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -38.02% +10.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £388 £608 £650
90th Percentile £395 - -
South East median daily rate £375 £605 £550
% change year-on-year -38.02% +10.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.87 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 - -
75th Percentile £65.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £63.75 - £65.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Performance Monitoring 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 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Performance Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Monitoring in the Thames Valley

Performance Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Monitoring in the Thames Valley

Performance Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Monitoring in the Thames Valley

Performance Monitoring
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 Monitoring within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +26 9 £375 -38.02% 6
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 5
Performance Monitoring
South East

Performance Monitoring
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 3 (30.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DHCP
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
1 3 (30.00%) FTP
1 3 (30.00%) SMTP
1 3 (30.00%) tcpdump
1 3 (30.00%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Power Query
General
1 2 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Publishing
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Administrator
2 5 (50.00%) Senior
3 4 (40.00%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (30.00%) DBA
4 3 (30.00%) Senior DBA
5 1 (10.00%) Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Business IT Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Developer
5 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 1 (10.00%) Senior SQL Server DBA
5 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (50.00%) Process Improvement
3 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) Strategic Planning
3 4 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (30.00%) Server Migrations
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
6 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Information Management
6 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Management
6 1 (10.00%) Migration
6 1 (10.00%) Release Management
6 1 (10.00%) Strategic Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) R
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (10.00%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) SLA
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) NFS
1 3 (30.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) HP
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Liquidlogic
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft