Performance Monitoring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Monitoring
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Performance Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Monitoring over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 353 419
Rank change year-on-year +63 +66 -39
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 98 94 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.39% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.44% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 53 56
10th Percentile £400 £278 £224
25th Percentile £430 £463 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +37.50%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 1
10th Percentile - £40.77 -
25th Percentile £6.57 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £7.85 £65.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -87.92% +182.61% -
75th Percentile £9.14 £65.38 £23.50
90th Percentile - £65.75 -
UK median hourly rate £31.43 £65.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -51.65% +182.61% +80.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Performance Monitoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

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 6 May 2024.

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
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 6 May 2024. 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 +48 34 £475 -5.00% 19
Yorkshire +44 26 £430 -9.47% 7
South West +29 23 £581 +17.42% 9
South East +5 21 £605 +10.00% 15
Midlands +33 13 £400 -11.11% 35
West Midlands +17 7 £375 -16.67% 19
Scotland +44 6 £500 -9.09% 6
East Midlands +24 6 £675 +68.75% 16
North West +21 5 £500 -9.87% 11
North East - 3 £590 - 2
Wales +16 1 £583 -19.66% 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 20 (20.41%) SAS
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.02%) Apache
4 1 (1.02%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.02%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.04%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.02%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.02%) SAP BPC
3 1 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.39%) Azure
2 14 (14.29%) OCI
3 8 (8.16%) Power Platform
4 7 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.08%) AWS
6 3 (3.06%) Datadog
7 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.04%) GitHub
7 2 (2.04%) Slack
8 1 (1.02%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.02%) GCP
8 1 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.02%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.37%) DNS
2 17 (17.35%) Firewall
3 16 (16.33%) DHCP
3 16 (16.33%) SAN
4 3 (3.06%) LAN
4 3 (3.06%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (2.04%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (2.04%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (2.04%) Skype
5 2 (2.04%) SMS
5 2 (2.04%) SMTP
5 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.04%) VSAN
5 2 (2.04%) WAN
6 1 (1.02%) 3G
6 1 (1.02%) 4G
6 1 (1.02%) GPRS
6 1 (1.02%) GSM
6 1 (1.02%) SS7
6 1 (1.02%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.18%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.16%) Power BI
3 5 (5.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (5.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (4.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.04%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.02%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.02%) Big Data
6 1 (1.02%) DB2
6 1 (1.02%) Flink
6 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.02%) HBase
Development Applications
1 4 (4.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (3.06%) Git
3 2 (2.04%) JIRA
4 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
General
1 65 (66.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.20%) Finance
4 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.04%) Electronics
5 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.04%) Local Government
5 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.04%) Marketing
5 2 (2.04%) Military
5 2 (2.04%) Retail
5 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.02%) Advertising
6 1 (1.02%) Banking
6 1 (1.02%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.02%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (19.39%) Programmer
2 18 (18.37%) Systems Programmer
2 18 (18.37%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) Storage Engineer
5 8 (8.16%) Capacity Manager
5 8 (8.16%) DBA
6 7 (7.14%) Availability Manager
6 7 (7.14%) Support Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Capacity and Availability Manager
8 5 (5.10%) Administrator
8 5 (5.10%) SQL DBA
9 4 (4.08%) Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) Desktop Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Desktop Support
9 4 (4.08%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Senior
9 4 (4.08%) Server Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Service Level Manager
9 4 (4.08%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.43%) ISPF
2 4 (4.08%) Kafka
3 2 (2.04%) Flash
3 2 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.02%) .NET
4 1 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.02%) Middleware
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.02%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.43%) Mainframe
2 16 (16.33%) Data Centre
3 11 (11.22%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.12%) CMDB
5 5 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.08%) PKI
7 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.06%) Driving Licence
8 2 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.04%) HP Storage
9 1 (1.02%) Clustering
9 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.51%) Windows
2 22 (22.45%) Linux
3 21 (21.43%) Windows 10
3 21 (21.43%) zOS
4 16 (16.33%) Windows Server
5 14 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (14.29%) Windows XP
6 4 (4.08%) Windows 7
7 2 (2.04%) AIX
7 2 (2.04%) Android
7 2 (2.04%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.04%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (39.80%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (35.71%) ITIL
3 24 (24.49%) Risk Management
4 22 (22.45%) Project Management
5 21 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 21 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
6 18 (18.37%) Agile
6 18 (18.37%) Proactive Monitoring
7 15 (15.31%) Server Management
8 14 (14.29%) Break/Fix
8 14 (14.29%) Converged Infrastructure
8 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (14.29%) Storage Management
9 12 (12.24%) ITSM
10 11 (11.22%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (11.22%) Capacity Planning
10 11 (11.22%) Service Management
11 10 (10.20%) Capacity Management
12 8 (8.16%) Availability Management
12 8 (8.16%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 26 (26.53%) PowerShell
2 21 (21.43%) JCL
2 21 (21.43%) REXX
3 16 (16.33%) Assembly Language
4 15 (15.31%) SQL
5 4 (4.08%) Java
6 3 (3.06%) Bash
6 3 (3.06%) Python
7 2 (2.04%) C#
7 2 (2.04%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.02%) CLIST
8 1 (1.02%) Groovy
8 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (46.94%) Security Cleared
2 39 (39.80%) SC Cleared
3 20 (20.41%) Degree
3 20 (20.41%) DV Cleared
4 15 (15.31%) CCNA
4 15 (15.31%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (14.29%) CCNP
6 5 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (3.06%) DBS Check
8 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.04%) Postgraduate
9 1 (1.02%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.06%) SLA
3 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.02%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.02%) ISO 8583
3 1 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (22.45%) Active Directory
2 21 (21.43%) Time Sharing Option
3 18 (18.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (15.31%) ACF2
4 15 (15.31%) RACF
5 14 (14.29%) Hyper-V
5 14 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.04%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.02%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (1.02%) Docker
7 1 (1.02%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (21.43%) SCCM
2 20 (20.41%) OMEGAMON
3 16 (16.33%) EMC NetWorker
3 16 (16.33%) NetBackup
3 16 (16.33%) SCOM
4 14 (14.29%) vCenter Server
4 14 (14.29%) WSUS
5 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (3.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.04%) HP Data Protector
7 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
7 2 (2.04%) OPNET
7 2 (2.04%) Terraform
8 1 (1.02%) Ansible
8 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.02%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.02%) Packer
8 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (29.59%) Microsoft
2 22 (22.45%) Oracle
3 21 (21.43%) IBM
3 21 (21.43%) Splunk
4 20 (20.41%) Broadcom
4 20 (20.41%) VMware
5 19 (19.39%) Cisco
6 16 (16.33%) EMC
6 16 (16.33%) HP
6 16 (16.33%) Juniper
6 16 (16.33%) Symantec
7 14 (14.29%) 3PAR
7 14 (14.29%) Dell
7 14 (14.29%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (14.29%) Palo Alto
7 14 (14.29%) Veeam
8 8 (8.16%) Remedy
9 3 (3.06%) SAP
10 2 (2.04%) NEC
10 2 (2.04%) SolarWinds