Performance Management Contracts

Performance Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Performance Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Management 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 383 346 440
Rank change year-on-year -37 +94 +18
Contract jobs citing Performance Management 136 267 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.61% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.71% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 163 156
10th Percentile £262 £311 £303
25th Percentile £413 £393 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £650 £625 £641
90th Percentile £800 £768 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 34 27
10th Percentile £29.19 £15.39 £19.45
25th Percentile £52.66 £24.56 £49.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.67 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.23% -45.13% +122.22%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £69.50 £68.50 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £47.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +26.98% -27.31% +109.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Management 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Performance Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Management in the UK

Performance Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Management in the UK

Performance Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Management in the UK

Performance Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Management in the UK

Performance Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Management in the UK

Performance Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Management 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 -55 113 £550 +4.76% 389
UK excluding London -7 75 £500 - 186
London -20 53 £575 +9.52% 216
Work from Home -12 48 £495 +3.25% 197
North of England +26 18 £500 -16.67% 56
East of England +27 14 £500 -4.76% 15
South East +21 14 £525 - 56
North West +10 13 £447 -25.50% 37
Scotland +7 13 £245 -46.74% 10
South West +35 7 £575 +1177.78% 16
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 5
Yorkshire +15 3 £450 -25.00% 16
East Midlands +10 2 - - 16
North East -1 2 £600 +39.21% 3
Midlands -3 2 - - 24

Performance Management
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 4 (2.94%) WebSphere
2 3 (2.21%) Confluence
2 3 (2.21%) SAS
3 2 (1.47%) Camunda
3 2 (1.47%) CICS
3 2 (1.47%) Documentum
3 2 (1.47%) JBoss
3 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.47%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.74%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.74%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.74%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.41%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (2.94%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.74%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Primavera
2 6 (4.41%) SAP PS
3 5 (3.68%) iTrent
3 5 (3.68%) Workday HCM
4 3 (2.21%) Maximo
5 2 (1.47%) Actimize
5 2 (1.47%) HFM
5 2 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (1.47%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.74%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.74%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.74%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.74%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.56%) Azure
2 11 (8.09%) AWS
3 5 (3.68%) OCI
4 4 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (2.94%) SaaS
5 3 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.21%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.21%) GCP
5 3 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.47%) GitHub
6 2 (1.47%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.47%) Serverless
7 1 (0.74%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.74%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.88%) Intranet
2 6 (4.41%) Firewall
3 5 (3.68%) VPN
4 4 (2.94%) Network Security
5 3 (2.21%) DHCP
5 3 (2.21%) DNS
5 3 (2.21%) WAN
6 2 (1.47%) BGP
6 2 (1.47%) HTTP
6 2 (1.47%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.47%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.74%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.74%) FTP
7 1 (0.74%) IPsec
7 1 (0.74%) LAN
7 1 (0.74%) OSPF
7 1 (0.74%) SSL
7 1 (0.74%) VRRP
7 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (2.94%) DB2
1 4 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (2.94%) Tableau
2 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.21%) GIS
2 3 (2.21%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.47%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (1.47%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.47%) Essbase
3 2 (1.47%) IMS/DB
3 2 (1.47%) Metadata
3 2 (1.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (1.47%) Power BI
4 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.74%) MSDE
4 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.68%) Git
3 4 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.21%) JIRA
4 3 (2.21%) Selenium
5 2 (1.47%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.47%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (1.47%) GitLab
5 2 (1.47%) SOAtest
6 1 (0.74%) Bugzilla
6 1 (0.74%) ERwin
6 1 (0.74%) Maven
6 1 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 49 (36.03%) Finance
2 41 (30.15%) Social Skills
3 23 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.09%) Banking
6 10 (7.35%) Legal
7 9 (6.62%) Back Office
8 8 (5.88%) Manufacturing
9 7 (5.15%) Billing
10 6 (4.41%) Local Government
10 6 (4.41%) Telecoms
11 5 (3.68%) Law
11 5 (3.68%) Retail
12 4 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (2.21%) Aerospace
13 3 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (2.21%) Retail Banking
14 2 (1.47%) Dutch Language
14 2 (1.47%) French Language
14 2 (1.47%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 20 (14.71%) Consultant
2 15 (11.03%) Project Manager
3 11 (8.09%) Architect
4 10 (7.35%) Delivery Manager
4 10 (7.35%) IT Manager
4 10 (7.35%) Oracle Consultant
5 8 (5.88%) Service Delivery Manager
5 8 (5.88%) Service Manager
6 7 (5.15%) Analyst
6 7 (5.15%) IT Services Delivery Manager
6 7 (5.15%) IT Services Manager
7 6 (4.41%) Administrator
7 6 (4.41%) Performance Manager
7 6 (4.41%) Project Planner
7 6 (4.41%) Senior
8 5 (3.68%) Asset Management Project Manager
8 5 (3.68%) Lead
8 5 (3.68%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
8 5 (3.68%) Payroll Consultant
9 4 (2.94%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (5.88%) Middleware
3 5 (3.68%) RESTful
3 5 (3.68%) XML
4 4 (2.94%) J2EE
4 4 (2.94%) Web Services
5 3 (2.21%) JSON
5 3 (2.21%) LDAP
5 3 (2.21%) REST
6 2 (1.47%) .NET
6 2 (1.47%) EJB
6 2 (1.47%) JDBC
6 2 (1.47%) SOAP
6 2 (1.47%) Spring
6 2 (1.47%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.47%) WebSphere MQ
6 2 (1.47%) XSLT
7 1 (0.74%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.74%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.74%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.29%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.15%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.21%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.47%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.47%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.47%) PKI
5 2 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.47%) VSAM
6 1 (0.74%) Clustering
6 1 (0.74%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.74%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.74%) NHS
6 1 (0.74%) PMI
6 1 (0.74%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.35%) Windows
2 8 (5.88%) Linux
3 6 (4.41%) Unix
4 4 (2.94%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (15.44%) Service Delivery
3 19 (13.97%) Analytics
3 19 (13.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (13.97%) Project Management
3 19 (13.97%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (13.24%) Agile
5 16 (11.76%) ITIL
6 15 (11.03%) Change Management
6 15 (11.03%) Coaching
6 15 (11.03%) Decision-Making
7 14 (10.29%) Data Analysis
7 14 (10.29%) Incident Management
8 12 (8.82%) Asset Management
8 12 (8.82%) Contract Management
8 12 (8.82%) Problem Management
8 12 (8.82%) Service Management
9 11 (8.09%) CI/CD
10 10 (7.35%) Performance Measurement
10 10 (7.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.35%) Python
1 10 (7.35%) SQL
2 9 (6.62%) Java
3 4 (2.94%) REXX
4 3 (2.21%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.47%) COBOL
5 2 (1.47%) Groovy
5 2 (1.47%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.47%) JCL
5 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.47%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.74%) ABAP
6 1 (0.74%) Bash
6 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (22.79%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.85%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.50%) Degree
4 3 (2.21%) HNC
4 3 (2.21%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.21%) PMP
5 2 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.74%) CIPD
6 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.74%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.74%) HND
6 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.62%) QA
2 8 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.47%) NCSC
4 2 (1.47%) PMO
5 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.74%) GDPR
5 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.74%) NIST
5 1 (0.74%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.94%) Docker
2 3 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.41%) Ansible
1 6 (4.41%) Terraform
2 3 (2.21%) Automic
2 3 (2.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.21%) Puppet
3 2 (1.47%) Grafana
3 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.74%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.74%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.74%) Perfmon
4 1 (0.74%) SCOM
4 1 (0.74%) VxRail
4 1 (0.74%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (20.59%) Oracle
2 16 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 15 (11.03%) SAP
4 7 (5.15%) Workday
5 4 (2.94%) Cisco
5 4 (2.94%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.94%) MuleSoft
5 4 (2.94%) Splunk
6 3 (2.21%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.21%) Google
6 3 (2.21%) Informatica
6 3 (2.21%) Meraki
7 2 (1.47%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.47%) Citrix
7 2 (1.47%) Facebook
7 2 (1.47%) Hyperion
7 2 (1.47%) IBM
7 2 (1.47%) OpenText
7 2 (1.47%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.47%) VMware