Performance Monitoring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Monitoring
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Performance Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Monitoring 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 274 301 367
Rank change year-on-year +27 +66 +53
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 62 98 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.47% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.56% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 70 54
10th Percentile £313 £400 £228
25th Percentile £400 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £788 £653 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 18
10th Percentile £23.70 - £52.89
25th Percentile £24.76 £6.57 -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £7.85 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +712.04% -87.92% +182.61%
75th Percentile £65.62 £9.14 £65.56
90th Percentile £69.75 - £65.75
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £31.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +102.85% -51.65% +182.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 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 Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Performance Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Performance Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Performance Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Performance Monitoring
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Performance Monitoring
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 Monitoring 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 +3 19 £450 -5.26% 33
South East +38 14 £375 -38.02% 50
South West +33 10 £538 -7.53% 10
North West +20 9 £450 -10.00% 19
Yorkshire -10 8 £500 +16.28% 11
Midlands +15 6 £525 +31.25% 19
Scotland +14 5 £447 -14.86% 8
East of England - 5 £650 - 10
West Midlands +10 3 £500 +33.33% 15
East Midlands +7 3 £550 -18.52% 4
Wales +2 2 £300 -48.50% 4
North East -2 1 £550 -6.78% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
Performance Monitoring
UK

Performance Monitoring
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 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.45%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (6.45%) Skype for Business
3 3 (4.84%) Apache
4 2 (3.23%) Confluence
4 2 (3.23%) SAS
5 1 (1.61%) CMS
5 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.61%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (3.23%) Workday HCM
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.90%) Azure
2 6 (9.68%) AWS
3 4 (6.45%) GCP
4 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.84%) SaaS
5 2 (3.23%) OCI
6 1 (1.61%) Asana
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.61%) Datadog
6 1 (1.61%) IaaS
6 1 (1.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.90%) SMTP
2 6 (9.68%) DNS
3 5 (8.06%) PSTN
3 5 (8.06%) Skype
4 4 (6.45%) DHCP
4 4 (6.45%) Firewall
4 4 (6.45%) LAN
4 4 (6.45%) WAN
5 3 (4.84%) FTP
5 3 (4.84%) tcpdump
5 3 (4.84%) Telnet
6 2 (3.23%) SSL
6 2 (3.23%) VPN
6 2 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.61%) ADSL
7 1 (1.61%) Intranet
7 1 (1.61%) SAN
7 1 (1.61%) SDH
7 1 (1.61%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (4.84%) Power BI
3 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (1.61%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) JIRA
2 3 (4.84%) LoadRunner
3 2 (3.23%) JMeter
4 1 (1.61%) Appium
4 1 (1.61%) Git
4 1 (1.61%) MLflow
4 1 (1.61%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
General
1 21 (33.87%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Finance
4 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.84%) Military
5 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Publishing
7 1 (1.61%) Aviation
7 1 (1.61%) Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Electronics
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Local Government
7 1 (1.61%) Retail
7 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (16.13%) Senior
2 9 (14.52%) Administrator
3 6 (9.68%) DBA
4 4 (6.45%) Analyst
4 4 (6.45%) Collaboration Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Consultant
4 4 (6.45%) Lead
4 4 (6.45%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (4.84%) Exchange Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.84%) Senior DBA
6 2 (3.23%) Developer
6 2 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Performance Tester
6 2 (3.23%) Programmer
6 2 (3.23%) Security Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) SQL DBA
6 2 (3.23%) Systems Programmer
6 2 (3.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.84%) LDAP
1 3 (4.84%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.23%) ISPF
3 1 (1.61%) .NET
3 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.61%) Playwright
3 1 (1.61%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.61%) REST
3 1 (1.61%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.45%) Blackberry
1 4 (6.45%) Handset
2 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.23%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.23%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.23%) NHS
3 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.23%) Replication
4 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.61%) CMDB
4 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.61%) PKI
4 1 (1.61%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.68%) Linux
1 6 (9.68%) Windows
1 6 (9.68%) Windows Server 2019
2 5 (8.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (8.06%) Windows 10
3 4 (6.45%) Android
4 3 (4.84%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (24.19%) Performance Tuning
3 14 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (19.35%) Risk Management
5 11 (17.74%) Change Management
6 10 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (14.52%) Agile
7 9 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (12.90%) Capacity Planning
8 8 (12.90%) ITIL
8 8 (12.90%) Service Delivery
9 7 (11.29%) Analytics
9 7 (11.29%) Data Analysis
9 7 (11.29%) Problem Management
9 7 (11.29%) Project Management
9 7 (11.29%) Resource Allocation
9 7 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (9.68%) Strategic Planning
10 6 (9.68%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.97%) SQL
2 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.84%) Python
4 2 (3.23%) Assembly Language
4 2 (3.23%) Bash
4 2 (3.23%) CLIST
4 2 (3.23%) JCL
4 2 (3.23%) REXX
4 2 (3.23%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.61%) C#
5 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.61%) Java
5 1 (1.61%) Perl
5 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.61%) R
5 1 (1.61%) Ruby
5 1 (1.61%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 22 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 15 (24.19%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.90%) Degree
4 5 (8.06%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.61%) HNC
6 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.61%) MCITP
6 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.13%) SLA
2 5 (8.06%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.84%) PMO
3 3 (4.84%) QA
4 2 (3.23%) GDPR
5 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.61%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.84%) NFS
2 3 (4.84%) Samba
3 2 (3.23%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.23%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.61%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.61%) Docker
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (6.45%) Ansible
1 4 (6.45%) SCCM
1 4 (6.45%) yum
2 2 (3.23%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (3.23%) WSUS
3 1 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.61%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (1.61%) EMC VPLEX
3 1 (1.61%) Grafana
3 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.61%) SCOM
3 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.52%) Oracle
3 7 (11.29%) VMware
4 6 (9.68%) HP
5 5 (8.06%) Red Hat
6 4 (6.45%) Clearswift
6 4 (6.45%) Remedy
6 4 (6.45%) Ribbon
7 2 (3.23%) Ariba
7 2 (3.23%) Cisco
7 2 (3.23%) IBM
7 2 (3.23%) SAP
7 2 (3.23%) Splunk
7 2 (3.23%) Workday
8 1 (1.61%) Dell
8 1 (1.61%) EMC
8 1 (1.61%) Isilon
8 1 (1.61%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (1.61%) Nokia
8 1 (1.61%) Sophos