Performance Metrics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 236 303 433
Rank change year-on-year +67 +130 +15
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 100 96 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 0.46% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.55% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 69 20
10th Percentile £200 £278 £288
25th Percentile £317 £400 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £477
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% -0.51% +1.59%
75th Percentile £511 £588 £633
90th Percentile £638 £710 £664
UK median daily rate £500 £463 £552
% change year-on-year +8.11% -16.14% +5.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 4
10th Percentile £20.72 £47.00 £51.90
25th Percentile £22.79 £48.13 £67.88
Median hourly rate £28.75 £50.00 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.50% -36.31% -
75th Percentile £30.63 £66.78 £80.44
90th Percentile £34.81 £76.84 £80.78
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £67.50 £78.50
% change year-on-year -57.41% -14.01% +121.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
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 £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
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 Metrics within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +19 31 £363 -14.71% 102
Midlands +31 24 £449 -25.21% 53
North West +31 21 £325 -18.75% 60
West Midlands +27 20 £575 -4.17% 29
South East +47 19 £325 -23.53% 129
South West +49 13 £450 - 41
Scotland +1 9 £431 -31.00% 13
Yorkshire -8 8 £463 +8.82% 27
East of England +33 4 £406 - 29
East Midlands +6 4 £300 - 16
Wales +2 2 - - 1
North East - 2 £669 - 16
Performance Metrics
UK

Performance Metrics
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 5 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.00%) Confluence
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.00%) CMS
4 1 (1.00%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (13.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (3.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.00%) LightWave 3D
4 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.00%) Trello
5 1 (1.00%) Adobe XD
5 1 (1.00%) Chatbot
5 1 (1.00%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.00%) AWS
2 13 (13.00%) Power Platform
3 9 (9.00%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (8.00%) Azure
5 5 (5.00%) GCP
5 5 (5.00%) GitHub
5 5 (5.00%) Google Analytics
6 4 (4.00%) Adobe Analytics
6 4 (4.00%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.00%) SaaS
8 2 (2.00%) Asana
8 2 (2.00%) OCI
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.00%) Figma
9 1 (1.00%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (1.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.00%) Wireless
2 5 (5.00%) LAN
2 5 (5.00%) WAN
2 5 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (5.00%) WLAN
3 2 (2.00%) BGP
3 2 (2.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (2.00%) HTTP
3 2 (2.00%) IPsec
3 2 (2.00%) Network Security
3 2 (2.00%) OSPF
3 2 (2.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.00%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (1.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.00%) Power BI
2 5 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.00%) Star Schema
4 2 (2.00%) Tableau
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.00%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.00%) QlikView
5 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.00%) Sybase IQ
5 1 (1.00%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 9 (9.00%) JIRA
2 5 (5.00%) GitLab
3 3 (3.00%) LoadRunner
4 2 (2.00%) Introscope
5 1 (1.00%) Ant
5 1 (1.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.00%) Gatling
5 1 (1.00%) Git
5 1 (1.00%) Gradle
5 1 (1.00%) JMeter
5 1 (1.00%) JUnit
5 1 (1.00%) Maven
5 1 (1.00%) Mockito
General
1 50 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 26 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (21.00%) Finance
4 14 (14.00%) Public Sector
5 13 (13.00%) Marketing
6 6 (6.00%) Banking
6 6 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.00%) Electronics
7 5 (5.00%) Telecoms
8 4 (4.00%) Billing
8 4 (4.00%) Brand Awareness
9 3 (3.00%) Dutch Language
9 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.00%) Local Government
10 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (16.00%) Analyst
2 7 (7.00%) Network Engineer
3 6 (6.00%) Administrator
3 6 (6.00%) Architect
3 6 (6.00%) Business Analyst
4 5 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
4 5 (5.00%) Project Manager
5 4 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (4.00%) Campaign Manager
5 4 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (4.00%) Coordinator
5 4 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (4.00%) Lead
5 4 (4.00%) Performance Analyst
5 4 (4.00%) Service Manager
6 3 (3.00%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (3.00%) PMO Manager
6 3 (3.00%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (3.00%) Service Desk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.00%) HTML
1 3 (3.00%) J2EE
1 3 (3.00%) Node.js
2 2 (2.00%) .NET
2 2 (2.00%) RESTful
2 2 (2.00%) Web Services
3 1 (1.00%) CSS
3 1 (1.00%) React
3 1 (1.00%) Spring
3 1 (1.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.00%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.00%) CMDB
3 5 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.00%) Security Posture
3 5 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.00%) Social Media
5 3 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.00%) e-Learning
5 3 (3.00%) IoT
5 3 (3.00%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.00%) SCADA
7 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.00%) AIX
1 2 (2.00%) Unix
1 2 (2.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (23.00%) Agile
2 23 (23.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 18 (18.00%) Project Management
5 17 (17.00%) ITIL
5 17 (17.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (14.00%) Change Management
6 14 (14.00%) Data Analysis
7 12 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (11.00%) Analytics
8 11 (11.00%) User Experience
9 10 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
9 10 (10.00%) DevOps
9 10 (10.00%) Resource Allocation
9 10 (10.00%) Scrum
10 9 (9.00%) Computer Science
10 9 (9.00%) Data Analytics
10 9 (9.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.00%) SQL
2 8 (8.00%) Python
3 3 (3.00%) Java
3 3 (3.00%) VB
4 2 (2.00%) C
5 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (19.00%) Degree
2 15 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 12 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.00%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.00%) CCNA
6 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.00%) PMI Certification
6 4 (4.00%) PMP
7 3 (3.00%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.00%) CCNP
8 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.00%) CBAP
9 1 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.00%) MBA
9 1 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.00%) PMO
2 5 (5.00%) QA
3 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.00%) GDPR
4 2 (2.00%) WCAG
5 1 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 8 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.00%) CA Wily
1 2 (2.00%) Cacti
1 2 (2.00%) OPNET
2 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.00%) Cisco
3 9 (9.00%) SAP
3 9 (9.00%) VMware
4 7 (7.00%) Google
4 7 (7.00%) SolarWinds
5 5 (5.00%) Adobe
5 5 (5.00%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.00%) AppDynamics
7 3 (3.00%) Ariba
7 3 (3.00%) Foundry
7 3 (3.00%) Oracle
7 3 (3.00%) Splunk
8 2 (2.00%) Meraki
8 2 (2.00%) Planview
8 2 (2.00%) Remedy
9 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.00%) New Relic
9 1 (1.00%) Palo Alto