Performance Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Performance Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 263 303
Rank change year-on-year -6 +40 +57
Contract jobs citing Performance Management 70 137 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.66% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.78% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 81 93
10th Percentile £202 £200 £250
25th Percentile £388 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -7.27%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £790 £740 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 26 18
10th Percentile £46.47 £15.39 -
25th Percentile £57.19 £17.54 £49.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £47.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% -27.31% +109.68%
75th Percentile - £60.00 -
90th Percentile £61.00 £67.50 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £35.67 £63.75
% change year-on-year +68.23% -44.05% +117.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Performance Management 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Performance Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Performance Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Management in the UK excluding London

Performance Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Management in the UK excluding London

Performance Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Management in the UK excluding London

Performance Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Management in the UK excluding London

Performance Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Management in the UK excluding London

Performance Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +21 18 £500 -16.67% 74
South East +24 14 £525 - 104
North West +13 13 £447 -25.50% 45
Scotland +10 13 £245 -41.67% 18
East of England +18 9 £500 -4.76% 31
South West +33 7 £575 +1177.78% 30
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 7
Yorkshire +7 3 £450 -25.00% 24
East Midlands +14 2 - - 20
North East -3 2 £600 +39.21% 5
Midlands -8 2 - - 41
Performance Management
UK

Performance Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.29%) SAS
2 2 (2.86%) Camunda
2 2 (2.86%) CICS
2 2 (2.86%) Confluence
2 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.86%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.43%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.43%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.43%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Primavera
2 6 (8.57%) SAP PS
3 5 (7.14%) iTrent
4 2 (2.86%) Workday HCM
5 1 (1.43%) Maximo
5 1 (1.43%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.00%) Azure
2 6 (8.57%) AWS
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.86%) SaaS
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.43%) GCP
5 1 (1.43%) OCI
5 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Intranet
1 3 (4.29%) Network Security
2 1 (1.43%) DHCP
2 1 (1.43%) DNS
2 1 (1.43%) Firewall
2 1 (1.43%) FTP
2 1 (1.43%) LAN
2 1 (1.43%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (4.29%) Hadoop
1 3 (4.29%) Tableau
2 2 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (2.86%) DB2
2 2 (2.86%) GIS
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.43%) Big Data
3 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.43%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.43%) HBase
3 1 (1.43%) Metadata
3 1 (1.43%) MSDE
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.43%) Pentaho
3 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.43%) Power BI
3 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.71%) Git
3 3 (4.29%) JIRA
3 3 (4.29%) Selenium
4 2 (2.86%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (2.86%) GitLab
4 2 (2.86%) SOAtest
5 1 (1.43%) Bugzilla
5 1 (1.43%) ERwin
5 1 (1.43%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 24 (34.29%) Finance
2 21 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 7 (10.00%) Legal
6 6 (8.57%) Banking
7 5 (7.14%) Telecoms
8 4 (5.71%) Local Government
8 4 (5.71%) Retail
9 3 (4.29%) Back Office
9 3 (4.29%) Manufacturing
9 3 (4.29%) Retail Banking
10 2 (2.86%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.86%) Billing
10 2 (2.86%) General Ledger
10 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.86%) Law
11 1 (1.43%) Front Office
11 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (17.14%) Project Manager
2 6 (8.57%) Administrator
2 6 (8.57%) Architect
2 6 (8.57%) Project Planner
3 5 (7.14%) Asset Management Project Manager
3 5 (7.14%) IT Manager
3 5 (7.14%) Performance Manager
4 4 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (5.71%) Procurement Officer
4 4 (5.71%) Project Controller
4 4 (5.71%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (4.29%) Analyst
5 3 (4.29%) Consultant
5 3 (4.29%) Data Manager
5 3 (4.29%) IT Operations Manager
5 3 (4.29%) Operations Manager
5 3 (4.29%) Programme Manager
5 3 (4.29%) Service Delivery Manager
5 3 (4.29%) Service Manager
6 2 (2.86%) IT Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.29%) LDAP
2 2 (2.86%) .NET
2 2 (2.86%) J2EE
2 2 (2.86%) JSON
2 2 (2.86%) RESTful
2 2 (2.86%) Spring
2 2 (2.86%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.86%) Web Services
2 2 (2.86%) XML
3 1 (1.43%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.43%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.43%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.14%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.86%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.86%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (2.86%) VSAM
4 1 (1.43%) Blog
4 1 (1.43%) Clustering
4 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.43%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.43%) IoT
4 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.43%) PMI
4 1 (1.43%) SCADA
4 1 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) Windows
2 5 (7.14%) Linux
3 4 (5.71%) Unix
4 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.00%) Project Management
2 13 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (17.14%) Coaching
4 11 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (15.71%) Service Delivery
5 10 (14.29%) Performance Measurement
6 9 (12.86%) Agile
6 9 (12.86%) Business Performance Management
7 8 (11.43%) Change Management
7 8 (11.43%) ITIL
8 7 (10.00%) Data Analysis
8 7 (10.00%) Project Planning
9 6 (8.57%) Asset Management
9 6 (8.57%) Critical Path Analysis
9 6 (8.57%) Earned Value Management
9 6 (8.57%) Incident Management
9 6 (8.57%) ITSM
9 6 (8.57%) Service Management
9 6 (8.57%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.00%) Java
2 5 (7.14%) SQL
3 4 (5.71%) Python
4 2 (2.86%) COBOL
4 2 (2.86%) JCL
4 2 (2.86%) REXX
5 1 (1.43%) Bash
5 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (17.14%) Degree
4 3 (4.29%) HNC
5 2 (2.86%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.86%) PMP
6 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.43%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) HND
6 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) QA
2 5 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.71%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.43%) NIST
4 1 (1.43%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.43%) PMO
4 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) Docker
2 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Ansible
2 3 (4.29%) Automic
2 3 (4.29%) Puppet
3 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.43%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.43%) Grafana
4 1 (1.43%) Perfmon
4 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.43%) SCOM
4 1 (1.43%) Terraform
4 1 (1.43%) VxRail
4 1 (1.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (12.86%) Oracle
2 8 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.43%) SAP
3 4 (5.71%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.29%) Informatica
4 3 (4.29%) Splunk
5 2 (2.86%) Ab Initio
5 2 (2.86%) Citrix
5 2 (2.86%) Parasoft
5 2 (2.86%) VMware
5 2 (2.86%) Workday
6 1 (1.43%) Avaya
6 1 (1.43%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.43%) Fortinet