Performance Management Contracts

Performance Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Management over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 441 470
Rank change year-on-year +112 +29 +19
Contract jobs citing Performance Management 254 257 431
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.46% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.51% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 142 287
10th Percentile £302 £266 £306
25th Percentile £399 £438 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £543
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -1.38% +25.07%
75th Percentile £625 £647 £675
90th Percentile £775 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 18 20
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.63 £14.19
25th Percentile £22.44 £31.94 £24.35
Median hourly rate £41.25 £49.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.82% +58.06% +46.40%
75th Percentile £62.19 £65.00 £34.02
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.23 £37.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £49.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +4.08% +58.06% +40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Management 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,593 50,587 79,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.80% 89.68% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,580 35,017 55,732
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,483 1,675 1,881
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.78 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.30 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +45.25% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 25 May 2024.

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 25 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Management in the UK

Performance Management
Top 16 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 25 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
England +92 226 £525 -4.55% 337
UK excluding London +67 141 £525 - 250
Work from Home +106 102 £494 -10.24% 127
London +78 94 £515 -4.85% 114
South East +12 44 £513 -4.65% 72
Midlands +41 24 £550 +4.76% 40
North of England +29 22 £600 -14.29% 69
West Midlands +25 21 £550 +41.03% 26
East of England +12 18 £525 - 32
Scotland +32 17 £435 -13.00% 18
North West +26 17 £600 - 43
South West +16 17 £45 -91.43% 15
Yorkshire +3 3 £525 -25.00% 17
North East +14 2 £666 +2.38% 9
East Midlands +9 2 - - 14
Wales +17 1 £1,000 +185.71% 8

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 9 (3.54%) Confluence
2 7 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.79%) SAS
4 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.94%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) iTrent
2 3 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.79%) SAP EHS
3 2 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.39%) HFM
4 1 (0.39%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.39%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.39%) Primavera
4 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.39%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.39%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.39%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.39%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.09%) SaaS
2 16 (6.30%) Azure
3 13 (5.12%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.54%) AWS
4 9 (3.54%) SuccessFactors
5 7 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.18%) GCP
6 3 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.18%) Serverless
7 2 (0.79%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (0.79%) Asana
7 2 (0.79%) GitHub
7 2 (0.79%) Miro
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.39%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.39%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (0.39%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.39%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.91%) LAN
2 14 (5.51%) WAN
3 13 (5.12%) Firewall
4 11 (4.33%) MPLS
4 11 (4.33%) VoIP
5 10 (3.94%) WLAN
6 9 (3.54%) 3G
6 9 (3.54%) 4G
6 9 (3.54%) 5G
6 9 (3.54%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (3.54%) PBX
6 9 (3.54%) Radio Access Network
6 9 (3.54%) VPN
7 6 (2.36%) Internet
7 6 (2.36%) SD-WAN
7 6 (2.36%) Wireless
8 5 (1.97%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (1.97%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (1.97%) DHCP
8 5 (1.97%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.72%) Power BI
2 4 (1.57%) Big Data
2 4 (1.57%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (1.57%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (1.18%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.18%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (0.79%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.79%) Tableau
5 1 (0.39%) DB2
5 1 (0.39%) Essbase
5 1 (0.39%) HDInsight
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.91%) JIRA
2 7 (2.76%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.97%) Git
4 4 (1.57%) Artifactory
4 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.79%) JUnit
5 2 (0.79%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.79%) Postman
5 2 (0.79%) Selenium
5 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.39%) Gatling
6 1 (0.39%) GitLab
6 1 (0.39%) JMeter
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.39%) RStudio
6 1 (0.39%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 81 (31.89%) Finance
2 62 (24.41%) Social Skills
3 37 (14.57%) Public Sector
4 32 (12.60%) Legal
5 31 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (10.63%) Local Government
7 25 (9.84%) Telecoms
8 16 (6.30%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.94%) Retail
10 9 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (3.15%) Banking
12 7 (2.76%) Marketing
12 7 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.97%) Military
13 5 (1.97%) Police
14 4 (1.57%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.57%) Law
15 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.79%) Advertising
16 2 (0.79%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 28 (11.02%) Analyst
1 28 (11.02%) Lead
2 26 (10.24%) Consultant
3 24 (9.45%) Senior
4 21 (8.27%) Project Manager
5 15 (5.91%) Architect
6 12 (4.72%) Procurement Officer
7 10 (3.94%) IT Manager
8 9 (3.54%) Performance Analyst
8 9 (3.54%) Programme Manager
9 8 (3.15%) Enterprise Architect
10 7 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (2.76%) Senior Consultant
10 7 (2.76%) Senior Manager
11 6 (2.36%) Development Manager
11 6 (2.36%) Performance Consultant
12 5 (1.97%) Administrator
12 5 (1.97%) Performance Specialist
12 5 (1.97%) SAP Consultant
12 5 (1.97%) Senior Performance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.72%) Web Services
2 6 (2.36%) XML
3 4 (1.57%) EDI
3 4 (1.57%) RESTful
3 4 (1.57%) SOAP
4 3 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.18%) React
5 2 (0.79%) ADO
5 2 (0.79%) HTML
5 2 (0.79%) Swagger
6 1 (0.39%) .NET
6 1 (0.39%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.39%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.39%) Flash
6 1 (0.39%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.39%) JSON
6 1 (0.39%) LDAP
6 1 (0.39%) Middleware
6 1 (0.39%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.39%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.39%) Management Information System
2 16 (6.30%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.54%) NHS
4 7 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.36%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.57%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.79%) IoT
7 2 (0.79%) Life Science
7 2 (0.79%) Wiki
8 1 (0.39%) CMDB
8 1 (0.39%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.39%) Equity Risk
8 1 (0.39%) Social Media
8 1 (0.39%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.51%) Windows
2 10 (3.94%) Linux
3 4 (1.57%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.79%) Android
4 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.79%) Unix
4 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (20.08%) Agile
2 50 (19.69%) Project Management
3 48 (18.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 42 (16.54%) Decision-Making
5 41 (16.14%) Change Management
6 37 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (13.39%) Risk Management
8 32 (12.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (12.20%) Analytics
10 30 (11.81%) Programme Management
10 30 (11.81%) Roadmaps
11 24 (9.45%) ITIL
12 23 (9.06%) Contract Management
13 19 (7.48%) Business Case
13 19 (7.48%) Mentoring
14 18 (7.09%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (7.09%) Project Delivery
15 17 (6.69%) Data Analytics
15 17 (6.69%) Project Planning
15 17 (6.69%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.09%) SQL
2 16 (6.30%) Python
3 5 (1.97%) C++
3 5 (1.97%) Java
4 4 (1.57%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.57%) R
5 2 (0.79%) C#
5 2 (0.79%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.39%) C
6 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (14.17%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.39%) Degree
3 21 (8.27%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.54%) CCIE
4 9 (3.54%) CCIE Data Center
4 9 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (3.15%) CTC Cleared
5 8 (3.15%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.57%) CCNP
6 4 (1.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.79%) CIPD
7 2 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.79%) HNC
7 2 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.79%) PMP
7 2 (0.79%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.09%) QA
2 15 (5.91%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.33%) PMO
5 10 (3.94%) NIST
6 6 (2.36%) SLA
7 4 (1.57%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.18%) GRC
8 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.79%) COBIT
9 2 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.79%) GDPR
9 2 (0.79%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (1.57%) VirtualBox
2 3 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Docker
3 1 (0.39%) Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.57%) Nagios
1 4 (1.57%) OpenView
2 3 (1.18%) Terraform
3 2 (0.79%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.39%) Ansible
4 1 (0.39%) Grafana
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.24%) SAP
3 25 (9.84%) Oracle
4 16 (6.30%) Cisco
5 6 (2.36%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.36%) HP
5 6 (2.36%) Palo Alto
5 6 (2.36%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.97%) Cadence
6 5 (1.97%) CheckPoint
6 5 (1.97%) Citrix
6 5 (1.97%) Fortinet
6 5 (1.97%) Infoblox
6 5 (1.97%) Symantec
6 5 (1.97%) Zscaler
7 4 (1.57%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.57%) Splunk
8 3 (1.18%) AlienVault
8 3 (1.18%) Google
8 3 (1.18%) Phenom