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 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 397 329 442
Rank change year-on-year -68 +113 +10
Contract jobs citing Performance Management 125 254 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.60% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.69% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 146 143
10th Percentile £319 £302 £270
25th Percentile £413 £399 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -1.41% -1.84%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £644
90th Percentile £778 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 32 18
10th Percentile £28.45 £15.39 £18.63
25th Percentile £42.53 £22.44 £31.94
Median hourly rate £60.00 £41.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -15.82% +58.06%
75th Percentile - £62.19 £65.00
90th Percentile - £70.00 £65.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £51.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +17.65% +4.08% +58.06%

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 26,262 36,577 50,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.02% 85.85% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,834 23,572 35,094
10th Percentile £303 £300 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,069 2,481 1,678
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.10 £16.00 £15.73
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £36.13
Median % change year-on-year -23.71% -0.22% +40.67%
75th Percentile £58.69 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%

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 25 May 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 25 May 2025.

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 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 -42 102 £550 +4.76% 1,536
UK excluding London -26 67 £525 - 1,367
London +2 50 £525 +1.94% 332
Work from Home -14 49 £500 +1.24% 733
North of England +10 18 £588 -2.08% 313
Scotland 0 13 £400 -8.05% 61
North West 0 12 £549 -8.58% 151
East of England +17 9 £500 -4.76% 185
South East +13 9 £700 +36.59% 388
South West +31 7 £575 +1177.78% 156
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 16
Yorkshire +16 4 £538 +2.38% 123
Midlands -10 4 - - 251
East Midlands +4 2 - - 100
North East -1 2 £600 -9.84% 39
West Midlands -4 2 - - 134

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 (3.20%) WebSphere
2 3 (2.40%) Confluence
3 2 (1.60%) Camunda
3 2 (1.60%) CICS
3 2 (1.60%) Documentum
3 2 (1.60%) JBoss
3 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.60%) SAS
3 2 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.60%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.80%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.80%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.80%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 7 (5.60%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.20%) Oracle Smart View
5 2 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.80%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (7.20%) Primavera
2 7 (5.60%) SAP PS
3 4 (3.20%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (3.20%) Workday HCM
4 3 (2.40%) iTrent
4 3 (2.40%) Maximo
5 2 (1.60%) Actimize
5 2 (1.60%) HFM
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (1.60%) SAP PM
5 2 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.80%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.80%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.80%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.80%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.80%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 15 (12.00%) Azure
2 11 (8.80%) AWS
3 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (4.00%) OCI
4 4 (3.20%) GitHub
4 4 (3.20%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.40%) GCP
5 3 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.40%) Serverless
6 2 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (1.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.60%) Collibra
6 2 (1.60%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.20%) Firewall
2 6 (4.80%) VPN
3 5 (4.00%) Network Security
4 4 (3.20%) WAN
5 3 (2.40%) BGP
5 3 (2.40%) DNS
5 3 (2.40%) HTTP
5 3 (2.40%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.60%) DHCP
6 2 (1.60%) Intranet
6 2 (1.60%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.60%) SSL
6 2 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.80%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.80%) FTP
7 1 (0.80%) Internet
7 1 (0.80%) IPsec
7 1 (0.80%) LAN
7 1 (0.80%) OSPF
7 1 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.00%) GIS
1 5 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.20%) DB2
2 4 (3.20%) Power BI
3 3 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.40%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.40%) Tableau
4 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.60%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.60%) Essbase
4 2 (1.60%) IMS/DB
4 2 (1.60%) Metadata
4 2 (1.60%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (1.60%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.00%) Git
3 4 (3.20%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.40%) JIRA
4 3 (2.40%) Selenium
5 2 (1.60%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (1.60%) GitLab
5 2 (1.60%) SOAtest
6 1 (0.80%) Bugzilla
6 1 (0.80%) ERwin
6 1 (0.80%) Maven
6 1 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 41 (32.80%) Finance
1 41 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.20%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.00%) Legal
5 9 (7.20%) Banking
6 7 (5.60%) Local Government
7 5 (4.00%) Law
8 4 (3.20%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.40%) Back Office
10 2 (1.60%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.60%) Billing
10 2 (1.60%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.80%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (12.80%) Consultant
2 15 (12.00%) Project Manager
3 13 (10.40%) Architect
4 9 (7.20%) Oracle Consultant
5 8 (6.40%) Senior
6 7 (5.60%) Project Planner
7 6 (4.80%) Lead
8 5 (4.00%) Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) Asset Management Project Manager
8 5 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (4.00%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.00%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
8 5 (4.00%) Payroll Consultant
8 5 (4.00%) Project Controller
8 5 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.20%) Administrator
9 4 (3.20%) Performance Manager
9 4 (3.20%) Procurement Officer
9 4 (3.20%) SAP Consultant
10 3 (2.40%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.40%) Middleware
1 8 (6.40%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.00%) RESTful
2 5 (4.00%) XML
3 4 (3.20%) J2EE
3 4 (3.20%) Web Services
4 3 (2.40%) JSON
4 3 (2.40%) REST
5 2 (1.60%) .NET
5 2 (1.60%) EJB
5 2 (1.60%) JDBC
5 2 (1.60%) Kafka
5 2 (1.60%) LDAP
5 2 (1.60%) SOAP
5 2 (1.60%) Spring
5 2 (1.60%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.60%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (1.60%) XSLT
6 1 (0.80%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.80%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.80%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.60%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.20%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.40%) IoT
5 3 (2.40%) SCADA
6 2 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.60%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.60%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.60%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (1.60%) PKI
6 2 (1.60%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.60%) VSAM
7 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.80%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.00%) Windows
2 8 (6.40%) Linux
3 7 (5.60%) Unix
4 5 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
1 23 (18.40%) Project Management
2 21 (16.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (12.80%) Analytics
4 15 (12.00%) Coaching
4 15 (12.00%) Service Delivery
5 13 (10.40%) Agile
5 13 (10.40%) CI/CD
5 13 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (10.40%) Data Analysis
6 12 (9.60%) Change Management
6 12 (9.60%) Decision-Making
7 11 (8.80%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (8.80%) ERP
7 11 (8.80%) Performance Measurement
7 11 (8.80%) Programme Management
8 10 (8.00%) Business Performance Management
8 10 (8.00%) Mentoring
8 10 (8.00%) Migration
8 10 (8.00%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.40%) Python
2 11 (8.80%) SQL
3 9 (7.20%) Java
4 4 (3.20%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.20%) REXX
5 2 (1.60%) Bicep
5 2 (1.60%) COBOL
5 2 (1.60%) Groovy
5 2 (1.60%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.60%) JCL
5 2 (1.60%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.60%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.60%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.80%) ABAP
6 1 (0.80%) Bash
6 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (25.60%) Security Cleared
2 29 (23.20%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.60%) Degree
4 4 (3.20%) PMP
5 3 (2.40%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.60%) HNC
7 1 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.80%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) HND
7 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.60%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.80%) QA
3 4 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.40%) GDPR
4 3 (2.40%) PMO
5 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.60%) NCSC
6 1 (0.80%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.80%) NIST
6 1 (0.80%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (3.20%) Docker
2 2 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (6.40%) Terraform
2 7 (5.60%) Ansible
3 3 (2.40%) Automic
3 3 (2.40%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.40%) Puppet
4 2 (1.60%) Grafana
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.60%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.80%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.80%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.80%) Perfmon
5 1 (0.80%) SCOM
5 1 (0.80%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (26.40%) Oracle
2 18 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 18 (14.40%) SAP
3 5 (4.00%) Cisco
3 5 (4.00%) Informatica
3 5 (4.00%) Workday
4 4 (3.20%) Meraki
4 4 (3.20%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.40%) Databricks
5 3 (2.40%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.40%) Google
6 2 (1.60%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.60%) Arista
6 2 (1.60%) Citrix
6 2 (1.60%) Hyperion
6 2 (1.60%) IBM
6 2 (1.60%) OpenText
6 2 (1.60%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.60%) Sun
6 2 (1.60%) VMware