Perfmon Contracts

Perfmon
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Perfmon skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Perfmon over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 - 709
Rank change year-on-year - - +138
Contract jobs citing Perfmon 8 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% - 0.007%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.17% - 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £875
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.67%
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile £503 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £320 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Perfmon falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Perfmon
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Perfmon as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Perfmon in the UK

Perfmon
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Perfmon.

Daily rate trend for Perfmon in the UK

Perfmon
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Perfmon over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Perfmon in the UK

Perfmon
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Perfmon.

Hourly rate trend for Perfmon in the UK

Perfmon
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Perfmon within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England - 8 £488 - 3
Work from Home - 7 £488 -
London - 7 £488 - 2
North West - 1 £320 -
UK excluding London - 1 £320 - 1
North of England - 1 £320 - 1

Perfmon
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) AWS
3 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) NetScaler
1 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) GIS
1 1 (12.50%) MSDE
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) JMeter
1 6 (75.00%) LoadRunner
2 4 (50.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Consultant
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Consultant
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Test Consultant
2 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Performance Consultant
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Test Consultant
2 4 (50.00%) Test Consultant
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tester
3 2 (25.00%) Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) DBA
4 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) Performance Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Load Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Management
5 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
1 6 (75.00%) Java
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kibana
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) SCOM
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (50.00%) New Relic
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Ivanti
2 1 (12.50%) VMware