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 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 293 413
Rank change year-on-year +56 +120 +29
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 111 105 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.86% 0.50% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.61% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 76 23
10th Percentile £208 £290 £284
25th Percentile £303 £411 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £638
90th Percentile £638 £731 £672
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 4
10th Percentile £20.00 £47.38 £51.90
25th Percentile £21.43 £49.06 £67.88
Median hourly rate £28.75 £66.78 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.94% -14.94% -
75th Percentile £30.63 £84.11 £80.44
90th Percentile £39.00 £85.11 £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 11,724 17,354 20,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.65% 83.24% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,283 10,295 14,019
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% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 863 2,139 1,241
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.47 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.39% +40.19%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +28 44 £325 -26.97% 133
North West +24 24 £325 -31.58% 60
South East +53 22 £425 -4.23% 105
Midlands +14 20 £575 -4.17% 71
West Midlands +30 18 £663 +10.42% 41
Yorkshire +4 17 £298 -31.61% 51
South West +38 12 £450 - 24
Scotland -5 10 £450 -28.71% 21
East of England +28 3 - - 39
North East - 3 £563 - 26
Wales +4 2 - - 8
East Midlands +1 2 £326 -18.63% 29
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 8 (7.21%) Confluence
2 5 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.90%) CMS
4 1 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.90%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (18.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (8.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (8.11%) MS Visio
3 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.80%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.80%) LightWave 3D
4 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.80%) Trello
5 1 (0.90%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.90%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.90%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.22%) AWS
2 15 (13.51%) Power Platform
3 9 (8.11%) Azure
3 9 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (6.31%) GitHub
5 5 (4.50%) GCP
5 5 (4.50%) Google Analytics
6 4 (3.60%) Adobe Analytics
6 4 (3.60%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.80%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.80%) Amazon Macie
7 2 (1.80%) Asana
7 2 (1.80%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (1.80%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (1.80%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.80%) Figma
7 2 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.31%) Wireless
2 5 (4.50%) LAN
2 5 (4.50%) WAN
2 5 (4.50%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (4.50%) WLAN
3 4 (3.60%) Network Security
4 2 (1.80%) BGP
4 2 (1.80%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (1.80%) DNS
4 2 (1.80%) Firewall
4 2 (1.80%) HTTP
4 2 (1.80%) IPsec
4 2 (1.80%) OSPF
4 2 (1.80%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.80%) SSL
4 2 (1.80%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.80%) VPN
5 1 (0.90%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.81%) Power BI
2 5 (4.50%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.80%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.80%) Star Schema
4 2 (1.80%) Tableau
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.90%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.90%) QlikView
5 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.90%) Sybase IQ
5 1 (0.90%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 9 (8.11%) JIRA
2 7 (6.31%) GitLab
3 3 (2.70%) Git
3 3 (2.70%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.80%) Introscope
4 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.90%) Ant
5 1 (0.90%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.90%) Gatling
5 1 (0.90%) Gradle
5 1 (0.90%) JMeter
5 1 (0.90%) JUnit
5 1 (0.90%) Maven
5 1 (0.90%) Mockito
General
1 53 (47.75%) Social Skills
2 29 (26.13%) Finance
3 27 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.61%) Public Sector
5 13 (11.71%) Marketing
6 9 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (6.31%) Banking
8 6 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (4.50%) Electronics
9 5 (4.50%) Legal
10 4 (3.60%) Brand Awareness
10 4 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.70%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.80%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.80%) Local Government
12 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.80%) Military
13 1 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (22.52%) Analyst
2 9 (8.11%) Business Analyst
3 7 (6.31%) Architect
3 7 (6.31%) IT Analyst
3 7 (6.31%) Network Engineer
4 6 (5.41%) Administrator
4 6 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (5.41%) IT Support
4 6 (5.41%) IT Support Analyst
4 6 (5.41%) Project Manager
5 5 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (4.50%) Business IT Analyst
5 5 (4.50%) Business Support Analyst
5 5 (4.50%) Business Systems Analyst
5 5 (4.50%) Designer
5 5 (4.50%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
5 5 (4.50%) Support Analyst
5 5 (4.50%) Systems Analyst
5 5 (4.50%) Systems Support
5 5 (4.50%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.70%) HTML
1 3 (2.70%) J2EE
1 3 (2.70%) Node.js
2 2 (1.80%) .NET
2 2 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.80%) RESTful
2 2 (1.80%) Web Services
3 1 (0.90%) CSS
3 1 (0.90%) React
3 1 (0.90%) Spring
3 1 (0.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.11%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.21%) CMDB
3 6 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.50%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.50%) Security Posture
4 5 (4.50%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.60%) Social Media
6 3 (2.70%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.70%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.80%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.80%) SCADA
8 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.90%) IoT
8 1 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.80%) AIX
1 2 (1.80%) Unix
1 2 (1.80%) Windows
2 1 (0.90%) Linux
2 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (22.52%) Process Improvement
3 24 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (20.72%) Agile
4 23 (20.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (17.12%) Data Analysis
6 18 (16.22%) Analytics
6 18 (16.22%) ITIL
7 17 (15.32%) Project Management
8 15 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (13.51%) Change Management
9 13 (11.71%) Actionable Insight
9 13 (11.71%) DevOps
10 12 (10.81%) Service Delivery
11 11 (9.91%) CI/CD
11 11 (9.91%) Scrum
11 11 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (9.91%) Visualisation
12 10 (9.01%) Data Analytics
12 10 (9.01%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.51%) SQL
2 10 (9.01%) Python
3 6 (5.41%) VB
4 3 (2.70%) Java
4 3 (2.70%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.80%) C
6 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (18.02%) Degree
2 17 (15.32%) Security Cleared
3 13 (11.71%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.31%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.50%) CCNA
6 4 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.60%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.80%) CCNP
7 2 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.80%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.80%) PMP
8 1 (0.90%) CBAP
8 1 (0.90%) IIBA
8 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.90%) MBA
8 1 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.21%) PMO
2 6 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.50%) QA
4 4 (3.60%) GDPR
5 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.80%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.80%) NIST
6 2 (1.80%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.80%) WCAG
7 1 (0.90%) Automotive SPICE
7 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.90%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.90%) PSD2
System Software
1 8 (7.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.70%) Docker
3 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.80%) Ansible
2 2 (1.80%) CA Wily
2 2 (1.80%) Cacti
2 2 (1.80%) Grafana
2 2 (1.80%) Kustomize
2 2 (1.80%) OPNET
2 2 (1.80%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.80%) Puppet
2 2 (1.80%) Terraform
3 1 (0.90%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.90%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 23 (20.72%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.11%) Cisco
2 9 (8.11%) VMware
3 7 (6.31%) Google
3 7 (6.31%) SolarWinds
4 6 (5.41%) SAP
5 5 (4.50%) Adobe
5 5 (4.50%) Liquidlogic
5 5 (4.50%) Splunk
6 4 (3.60%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.70%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.70%) Ariba
8 2 (1.80%) Foundry
8 2 (1.80%) HP
8 2 (1.80%) Oracle
8 2 (1.80%) Remedy
8 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.90%) Aruba
9 1 (0.90%) Niku
9 1 (0.90%) Teradata