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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 258 305
Rank change year-on-year -13 +47 +72
Contract jobs citing Performance Management 64 143 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.69% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.83% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 74 85
10th Percentile £308 £200 £243
25th Percentile £442 £399 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £676 £600 £650
90th Percentile £800 £747 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £533
% change year-on-year - -1.41% -2.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 26 13
10th Percentile £44.13 £15.39 -
25th Percentile £57.19 £17.54 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £49.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.83% +0.51% +58.06%
75th Percentile - £64.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £70.00 £65.60
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +71.43% -28.57% +58.06%

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 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +3 18 £588 -2.08% 64
Scotland +6 13 £400 -8.05% 9
North West -1 12 £549 -8.58% 36
East of England +23 9 £500 -4.76% 14
South East +7 8 £738 +47.50% 49
South West +33 7 £575 +1177.78% 18
Northern Ireland - 5 - - 3
Yorkshire +10 4 £538 +2.38% 20
Midlands -9 4 - - 26
East Midlands +7 2 - - 10
North East -1 2 £600 -9.84% 8
West Midlands -5 2 - - 16
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 2 (3.13%) Camunda
1 2 (3.13%) CICS
1 2 (3.13%) Confluence
1 2 (3.13%) SAS
1 2 (3.13%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.56%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.56%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.56%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Primavera
2 7 (10.94%) SAP PS
3 3 (4.69%) iTrent
4 2 (3.13%) SAP PM
4 2 (3.13%) Workday HCM
5 1 (1.56%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.50%) Azure
2 6 (9.38%) AWS
3 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (4.69%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.13%) Collibra
5 2 (3.13%) GitHub
5 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (3.13%) Serverless
6 1 (1.56%) GCP
6 1 (1.56%) OCI
6 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) Firewall
1 3 (4.69%) Network Security
2 2 (3.13%) Intranet
3 1 (1.56%) FTP
3 1 (1.56%) Internet
3 1 (1.56%) LAN
3 1 (1.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (4.69%) GIS
1 3 (4.69%) Hadoop
1 3 (4.69%) Power BI
2 2 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (3.13%) DB2
2 2 (3.13%) Delta Lake
2 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.13%) Tableau
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.56%) Big Data
3 1 (1.56%) HBase
3 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.56%) MSDE
3 1 (1.56%) Pentaho
3 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.25%) Git
3 3 (4.69%) JIRA
3 3 (4.69%) Selenium
4 2 (3.13%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (3.13%) GitLab
4 2 (3.13%) SOAtest
5 1 (1.56%) Bugzilla
5 1 (1.56%) ERwin
5 1 (1.56%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 24 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 17 (26.56%) Finance
3 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 7 (10.94%) Legal
6 5 (7.81%) Banking
6 5 (7.81%) Local Government
7 3 (4.69%) Back Office
7 3 (4.69%) Law
7 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.13%) Aerospace
8 2 (3.13%) Billing
8 2 (3.13%) General Ledger
8 2 (3.13%) Retail Banking
8 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (15.63%) Project Manager
2 8 (12.50%) Architect
3 7 (10.94%) Project Planner
4 5 (7.81%) Project Controller
5 4 (6.25%) Administrator
5 4 (6.25%) Asset Management Project Manager
5 4 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (6.25%) Procurement Officer
6 3 (4.69%) Data Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Performance Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Programme Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Service Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Service Manager
7 2 (3.13%) CRM Manager
7 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (3.13%) IT Manager
7 2 (3.13%) IT Services Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.13%) IT Services Manager
7 2 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) .NET
1 2 (3.13%) J2EE
1 2 (3.13%) JSON
1 2 (3.13%) Kafka
1 2 (3.13%) LDAP
1 2 (3.13%) RESTful
1 2 (3.13%) Spring
1 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
1 2 (3.13%) Web Services
1 2 (3.13%) XML
2 1 (1.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.69%) IoT
3 3 (4.69%) SCADA
4 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.13%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.13%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (3.13%) VSAM
5 1 (1.56%) Clustering
5 1 (1.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.56%) PMI
5 1 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.38%) Windows
2 5 (7.81%) Linux
2 5 (7.81%) Unix
3 3 (4.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.56%) Project Management
2 13 (20.31%) Coaching
2 13 (20.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (17.19%) Performance Measurement
3 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (15.63%) Business Performance Management
4 10 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (15.63%) Service Delivery
5 9 (14.06%) Agile
6 8 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 8 (12.50%) Project Planning
7 7 (10.94%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (10.94%) Change Management
7 7 (10.94%) Critical Path Analysis
7 7 (10.94%) DevOps
7 7 (10.94%) Earned Value Management
7 7 (10.94%) ITIL
7 7 (10.94%) Mentoring
7 7 (10.94%) Service Management
8 6 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.94%) Java
2 6 (9.38%) Python
2 6 (9.38%) SQL
3 2 (3.13%) Bicep
3 2 (3.13%) COBOL
3 2 (3.13%) JCL
3 2 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (3.13%) REXX
4 1 (1.56%) Bash
4 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.44%) SC Cleared
3 12 (18.75%) Degree
4 3 (4.69%) PMP
5 2 (3.13%) HNC
5 2 (3.13%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.56%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.81%) QA
3 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (3.13%) GDPR
5 1 (1.56%) NIST
5 1 (1.56%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.56%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Ansible
2 3 (4.69%) Automic
2 3 (4.69%) Puppet
2 3 (4.69%) Terraform
3 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.56%) Grafana
4 1 (1.56%) Perfmon
4 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.56%) SCOM
4 1 (1.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (18.75%) Oracle
2 11 (17.19%) SAP
3 9 (14.06%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.81%) Informatica
5 2 (3.13%) Ab Initio
5 2 (3.13%) Citrix
5 2 (3.13%) Databricks
5 2 (3.13%) Parasoft
5 2 (3.13%) VMware
5 2 (3.13%) Workday
6 1 (1.56%) Avaya
6 1 (1.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.56%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.56%) Fortinet