Performance Monitoring Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Performance Monitoring
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Performance Monitoring 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 122 105 134
Rank change year-on-year -17 +29 +25
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 14 19 10
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.67% 0.95% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.07% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 3
10th Percentile - £423 £390
25th Percentile £222 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% +27.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £531 £608 £529
90th Percentile £586 £675 £576
South East median daily rate £400 £569 £500
% change year-on-year -29.67% +13.75% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £63.75 -
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £63.75 £57.99
% change year-on-year -66.66% +9.92% -

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 1,830 1,780 2,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.48% 89.04% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 1,046 1,460
10th Percentile £266 £276 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £686 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 51 103
10th Percentile £15.23 £19.30 £18.95
25th Percentile £18.00 £30.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +14.11% +136.81%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.00 £63.90
90th Percentile £89.63 £67.00 £72.33
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.78 £53.50
% change year-on-year -52.91% -10.69% +42.67%

Performance Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Monitoring relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Performance Monitoring job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Performance Monitoring
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Performance Monitoring.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Performance Monitoring

Performance Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Monitoring in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Monitoring in the Thames Valley

Performance Monitoring
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Performance Monitoring.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Performance Monitoring

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 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
Buckinghamshire +6 5 £469 -6.25% 6
Berkshire -23 5 £594 -1.86% 6
Oxfordshire - 4 £225 - 2
Performance Monitoring
South East

Performance Monitoring
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (7.14%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
1 4 (28.57%) PowerApps
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Storage
2 2 (14.29%) IaaS
2 2 (14.29%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Database
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (7.14%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (28.57%) Local Government
4 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Accountant
2 4 (28.57%) Financial Accountant
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Accountant
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Systems Accountant
2 4 (28.57%) Systems Accountant
3 3 (21.43%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) DBA
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Service Transition Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Service Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Service Design Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Service Transition Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Transition Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) SAP Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (35.71%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 4 (28.57%) Data Management
3 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 4 (28.57%) High Availability
3 4 (28.57%) Process Improvement
3 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 4 (28.57%) Project Management
3 4 (28.57%) Systems Thinking
3 4 (28.57%) Task Automation
3 4 (28.57%) User Experience
4 3 (21.43%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Programme Management
4 3 (21.43%) Service Catalogue
4 3 (21.43%) Service Design
4 3 (21.43%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CCAB
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 2 (14.29%) OCP
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (21.43%) SLA
3 2 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (14.29%) Data Guard
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (14.29%) systemd
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle
4 2 (14.29%) BMC
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 2 (14.29%) Remedy
5 1 (7.14%) SAP