Performance Metrics Contracts

Performance Metrics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Performance Metrics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Metrics 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 325 425 601
Rank change year-on-year +100 +176 +69
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 201 177 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.41% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.47% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 118 78
10th Percentile £287 £277 £367
25th Percentile £363 £380 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £552
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -15.00% +5.05%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £656
90th Percentile £655 £729 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £475 £477
% change year-on-year -15.37% -0.51% +1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 10
10th Percentile £21.15 £24.73 £40.73
25th Percentile £24.89 £49.06 £76.38
Median hourly rate £28.75 £67.50 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.41% -14.01% +121.13%
75th Percentile £32.14 £71.25 £81.00
90th Percentile £43.58 - £85.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £50.00 £78.50
% change year-on-year -42.50% -36.31% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Metrics 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 Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Metrics in the UK

Performance Metrics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Metrics in the UK

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the UK

Performance Metrics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Metrics in the UK

Performance Metrics
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the UK

Performance Metrics
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 Metrics 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 +87 174 £495 +10.00% 608
UK excluding London +56 99 £402 -15.37% 262
London +44 77 £525 +5.00% 356
Work from Home +45 53 £500 +11.11% 255
North of England +28 31 £363 -14.71% 89
Midlands +33 24 £449 -25.21% 47
North West +25 21 £325 -18.75% 48
West Midlands +29 20 £575 -4.17% 29
South East +43 19 £325 -23.53% 66
South West +47 12 £450 - 33
Scotland -3 9 £431 -31.00% 12
Yorkshire -1 8 £463 +8.82% 26
East of England +36 4 £406 - 18
East Midlands +6 4 £300 - 17
Wales +6 2 - -
North East - 2 £669 - 15

Performance Metrics
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 5 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (2.49%) Confluence
2 3 (1.49%) CMS
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (11.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.98%) Trello
3 5 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.49%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.00%) Adobe XD
6 2 (1.00%) Chatbot
6 2 (1.00%) LightWave 3D
6 2 (1.00%) Sketch
7 1 (0.50%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.50%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 4 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.99%) Teamcenter
2 3 (1.49%) Magento
2 3 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.00%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.00%) SAP PLM
3 2 (1.00%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.50%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.50%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.50%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.50%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.50%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.50%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.50%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.50%) Shopify
4 1 (0.50%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.44%) Power Platform
2 22 (10.95%) AWS
3 11 (5.47%) Azure
4 10 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.48%) GCP
6 8 (3.98%) Google Analytics
6 8 (3.98%) SaaS
7 7 (3.48%) Adobe Analytics
7 7 (3.48%) GitHub
8 5 (2.49%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.49%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.49%) Figma
9 3 (1.49%) OCI
9 3 (1.49%) Veeva
10 2 (1.00%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (1.00%) Asana
10 2 (1.00%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.00%) Google Data Studio
10 2 (1.00%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.48%) Wireless
2 5 (2.49%) LAN
2 5 (2.49%) WAN
2 5 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.49%) WLAN
3 2 (1.00%) BGP
3 2 (1.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (1.00%) DHCP
3 2 (1.00%) DNS
3 2 (1.00%) HTTP
3 2 (1.00%) IPsec
3 2 (1.00%) MPLS
3 2 (1.00%) Network Security
3 2 (1.00%) OSPF
3 2 (1.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.44%) Power BI
2 11 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (4.98%) Data Lake
3 10 (4.98%) Tableau
4 4 (1.99%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.49%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.49%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.49%) Power Query
6 2 (1.00%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.00%) Looker
6 2 (1.00%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.50%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 24 (11.94%) JIRA
2 8 (3.98%) GitLab
3 3 (1.49%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.00%) Git
4 2 (1.00%) Introscope
4 2 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.50%) Ant
5 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.50%) Gatling
5 1 (0.50%) Gradle
5 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.50%) JMeter
5 1 (0.50%) JUnit
5 1 (0.50%) LSMW
5 1 (0.50%) Maven
5 1 (0.50%) Mockito
General
1 89 (44.28%) Social Skills
2 55 (27.36%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (21.39%) Finance
4 38 (18.91%) Marketing
5 25 (12.44%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.97%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (5.97%) Banking
8 11 (5.47%) Legal
9 9 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (3.98%) Telecoms
11 7 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.99%) Retail
13 5 (2.49%) Brand Awareness
13 5 (2.49%) Electronics
13 5 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (2.49%) Investment Banking
13 5 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.99%) Back Office
14 4 (1.99%) Billing
14 4 (1.99%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 30 (14.93%) Analyst
2 18 (8.96%) Product Manager
3 15 (7.46%) Lead
3 15 (7.46%) Project Manager
4 11 (5.47%) Business Analyst
5 10 (4.98%) Architect
6 8 (3.98%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.48%) Designer
7 7 (3.48%) Network Engineer
7 7 (3.48%) Senior
8 6 (2.99%) Administrator
8 6 (2.99%) Change Manager
8 6 (2.99%) Consultant
9 5 (2.49%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 5 (2.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (2.49%) Developer
9 5 (2.49%) IT Manager
9 5 (2.49%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
9 5 (2.49%) Performance Analyst
10 4 (1.99%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.98%) HTML
2 6 (2.99%) PySpark
3 4 (1.99%) CSS
3 4 (1.99%) Node.js
4 3 (1.49%) .NET
4 3 (1.49%) J2EE
4 3 (1.49%) RESTful
5 2 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.00%) React
5 2 (1.00%) Web Services
6 1 (0.50%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.50%) Bootstrap
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.50%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.50%) Spring
6 1 (0.50%) Vue
6 1 (0.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.97%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.48%) CMDB
2 7 (3.48%) Social Media
3 6 (2.99%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.99%) Security Posture
4 5 (2.49%) IoT
4 5 (2.49%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.49%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.49%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.49%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.00%) LIMS
6 2 (1.00%) SCADA
6 2 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.50%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.49%) Linux
2 4 (1.99%) Windows
3 2 (1.00%) AIX
3 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.00%) Rocky
3 2 (1.00%) Unix
4 1 (0.50%) SUSE
4 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (28.86%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (25.37%) Agile
2 51 (25.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 38 (18.91%) Project Management
4 31 (15.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 30 (14.93%) Analytics
6 29 (14.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 28 (13.93%) ITIL
8 27 (13.43%) Process Improvement
8 27 (13.43%) Roadmaps
9 26 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
9 26 (12.94%) Decision-Making
10 25 (12.44%) Actionable Insight
11 24 (11.94%) User Experience
12 23 (11.44%) Data Analysis
13 20 (9.95%) Product Management
13 20 (9.95%) Risk Management
14 19 (9.45%) Budget Management
14 19 (9.45%) Change Management
14 19 (9.45%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.44%) SQL
2 18 (8.96%) Python
3 5 (2.49%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.49%) C
4 3 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.49%) Java
4 3 (1.49%) VB
5 2 (1.00%) Bash
5 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.50%) C#
6 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (15.42%) Degree
1 31 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.43%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.99%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.49%) CCNA
5 5 (2.49%) PMP
6 4 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.00%) CCNP
8 2 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.50%) CBAP
9 1 (0.50%) MBA
9 1 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.46%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.97%) QA
3 10 (4.98%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.48%) PMO
5 6 (2.99%) GDPR
6 4 (1.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (1.49%) GxP
8 2 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (1.00%) GRC
8 2 (1.00%) ISO 13485
8 2 (1.00%) ISO 9001
8 2 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.00%) SLA
8 2 (1.00%) WCAG
9 1 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.50%) PSD2
9 1 (0.50%) SOX 404
System Software
1 9 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.99%) Docker
3 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (2.49%) Terraform
2 4 (1.99%) Ansible
2 4 (1.99%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.00%) CA Wily
3 2 (1.00%) Cacti
3 2 (1.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.00%) Puppet
4 1 (0.50%) OPNET
4 1 (0.50%) Rancher
4 1 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (11.44%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.96%) SAP
3 14 (6.97%) Adobe
3 14 (6.97%) Google
4 13 (6.47%) Cisco
4 13 (6.47%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.98%) VMware
6 9 (4.48%) Oracle
7 8 (3.98%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.98%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.99%) Siemens
8 4 (1.99%) Splunk
9 3 (1.49%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.49%) Ariba
9 3 (1.49%) Foundry
9 3 (1.49%) Juniper
9 3 (1.49%) Meraki
10 2 (1.00%) Marketo
10 2 (1.00%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.00%) Planview