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 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 271 294 352
Rank change year-on-year +23 +58 +72
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 64 103 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.50% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.60% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 72 46
10th Percentile £324 £385 £233
25th Percentile £403 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £528 £608 £574
90th Percentile £680 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £538 £504
% change year-on-year -11.63% +6.65% +3.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile £34.66 - £24.62
25th Percentile £52.15 £6.57 -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £7.85 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +712.04% -87.92% +182.61%
75th Percentile £67.34 £9.14 -
90th Percentile £70.44 - £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 11,664 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 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 29 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 29 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 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 -2 24 £475 +0.53% 161
South East +39 16 £350 -42.15% 214
Yorkshire +1 16 £478 +11.16% 64
North West +6 8 £450 -10.00% 78
Midlands +6 7 £500 +25.00% 121
Scotland +8 5 £447 -12.78% 36
South West +20 4 £550 -7.37% 74
East Midlands +5 4 £476 -29.48% 48
East of England - 4 £613 - 96
West Midlands +11 3 £500 +33.33% 65
Wales +5 2 £300 -48.50% 17
Northern Ireland - 2 £350 - 16
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 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.25%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (6.25%) Skype for Business
3 2 (3.13%) Apache
3 2 (3.13%) Confluence
3 2 (3.13%) SAS
3 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (3.13%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.94%) AWS
2 6 (9.38%) Azure
3 4 (6.25%) GCP
3 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.13%) OCI
5 2 (3.13%) SaaS
6 1 (1.56%) Asana
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.94%) SMTP
2 5 (7.81%) PSTN
2 5 (7.81%) Skype
3 3 (4.69%) DHCP
3 3 (4.69%) DNS
4 2 (3.13%) Firewall
4 2 (3.13%) FTP
4 2 (3.13%) LAN
4 2 (3.13%) SAN
4 2 (3.13%) tcpdump
4 2 (3.13%) Telnet
4 2 (3.13%) WAN
5 1 (1.56%) ADSL
5 1 (1.56%) SDH
5 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.25%) Power BI
3 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) JIRA
2 3 (4.69%) LoadRunner
3 2 (3.13%) JMeter
4 1 (1.56%) Appium
4 1 (1.56%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (1.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 19 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Finance
4 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.69%) Military
5 3 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Local Government
7 1 (1.56%) Electronics
7 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Police
7 1 (1.56%) Publishing
7 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (26.56%) Analyst
2 9 (14.06%) Administrator
3 7 (10.94%) Network Analyst
3 7 (10.94%) Senior
4 6 (9.38%) DBA
5 5 (7.81%) Business IT Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) Business Support Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) Business Systems Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) Consultant
5 5 (7.81%) IT Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) IT Support
5 5 (7.81%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) Support Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) Systems Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) Systems Support
5 5 (7.81%) Systems Support Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Collaboration Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Lead
7 3 (4.69%) Exchange Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) ISPF
1 2 (3.13%) LDAP
2 1 (1.56%) .NET
2 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.56%) Playwright
2 1 (1.56%) REST
2 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.25%) Blackberry
2 4 (6.25%) Handset
3 2 (3.13%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.13%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.13%) NHS
3 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.13%) Replication
4 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.56%) CMDB
4 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.56%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.56%) PKI
4 1 (1.56%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Linux
1 5 (7.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (6.25%) Android
2 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (3.13%) Windows
3 2 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.13%) zOS
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (29.69%) Problem-Solving
1 19 (29.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (21.88%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (17.19%) Analytics
3 11 (17.19%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (17.19%) Risk Management
4 9 (14.06%) Capacity Planning
4 9 (14.06%) Process Improvement
5 8 (12.50%) Agile
5 8 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 8 (12.50%) Knowledge Management
5 8 (12.50%) Problem Management
5 8 (12.50%) Service Delivery
6 7 (10.94%) Business Continuity
6 7 (10.94%) Change Management
6 7 (10.94%) Performance Metrics
7 6 (9.38%) Proactive Monitoring
7 6 (9.38%) Strategic Planning
7 6 (9.38%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.88%) SQL
2 2 (3.13%) Assembly Language
2 2 (3.13%) CLIST
2 2 (3.13%) JCL
2 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.13%) Python
2 2 (3.13%) REXX
2 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.56%) Bash
3 1 (1.56%) C#
3 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.56%) Java
3 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.56%) R
3 1 (1.56%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 21 (32.81%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) Degree
3 5 (7.81%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.56%) HNC
5 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.63%) SLA
2 9 (14.06%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.69%) PMO
4 2 (3.13%) GDPR
4 2 (3.13%) QA
5 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.56%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) NFS
1 2 (3.13%) Samba
1 2 (3.13%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Ansible
1 3 (4.69%) yum
2 2 (3.13%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (3.13%) EMC VPLEX
2 2 (3.13%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.56%) Grafana
3 1 (1.56%) SCCM
3 1 (1.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.50%) SolarWinds
3 6 (9.38%) Oracle
3 6 (9.38%) VMware
4 5 (7.81%) Liquidlogic
4 5 (7.81%) Red Hat
5 4 (6.25%) Clearswift
5 4 (6.25%) Ribbon
6 3 (4.69%) Cisco
6 3 (4.69%) HP
7 2 (3.13%) Brocade
7 2 (3.13%) Dell
7 2 (3.13%) EMC
7 2 (3.13%) IBM
7 2 (3.13%) Isilon
7 2 (3.13%) Remedy
7 2 (3.13%) Splunk
7 2 (3.13%) Workday
8 1 (1.56%) Civica
8 1 (1.56%) Sophos