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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 398 574
Rank change year-on-year +72 +176 +107
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 205 189 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.44% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.51% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 122 80
10th Percentile £266 £300 £398
25th Percentile £332 £403 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -15.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £587 £600 £652
90th Percentile £654 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -13.16% -7.32% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 10
10th Percentile £18.68 £29.51 £40.73
25th Percentile £21.43 £51.25 £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 £79.86 £85.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £66.78 £78.50
% change year-on-year -56.94% -14.94% -

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 26,222 36,703 50,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.02% 85.70% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,758 23,654 34,954
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
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% - +3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,099 2,498 1,668
10th Percentile £14.19 £12.74 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.80 £16.00 £15.70
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £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 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 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 +93 181 £500 +6.67% 2,117
UK excluding London +62 108 £413 -13.16% 1,784
London +61 77 £550 +10.00% 554
Work from Home +46 61 £500 +11.11% 694
North of England +17 42 £325 -25.29% 438
North West +18 22 £325 -25.71% 199
South East +46 21 £350 -17.65% 531
Midlands +16 20 £575 -4.17% 320
West Midlands +26 18 £663 +10.42% 170
Yorkshire +2 17 £298 -31.61% 173
South West +43 12 £450 - 172
Scotland -5 10 £450 -28.71% 76
East of England +33 3 - - 245
North East - 3 £563 - 71
Wales +5 2 - - 39
East Midlands 0 2 £326 -18.63% 129

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 10 (4.88%) Confluence
2 5 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.46%) CMS
3 3 (1.46%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.98%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.49%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (14.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (4.88%) Trello
3 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.41%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.93%) Chatbot
5 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.98%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.98%) LightWave 3D
6 2 (0.98%) Sketch
7 1 (0.49%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.49%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 4 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.95%) Teamcenter
2 3 (1.46%) Magento
2 3 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.98%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.98%) SAP PLM
3 2 (0.98%) SAP SRM
4 1 (0.49%) Primavera
4 1 (0.49%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.49%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.49%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.49%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.49%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.49%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.49%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.49%) Shopify
4 1 (0.49%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.20%) Power Platform
2 23 (11.22%) AWS
3 12 (5.85%) Azure
4 10 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.39%) GCP
5 9 (4.39%) GitHub
6 8 (3.90%) Figma
6 8 (3.90%) Google Analytics
7 7 (3.41%) SaaS
8 4 (1.95%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (1.95%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (1.95%) AWS KMS
8 4 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.95%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.46%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.46%) Veeva
10 2 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.98%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.90%) Wireless
2 5 (2.44%) LAN
2 5 (2.44%) WAN
2 5 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.44%) WLAN
3 4 (1.95%) DNS
3 4 (1.95%) Network Security
4 2 (0.98%) BGP
4 2 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.98%) DHCP
4 2 (0.98%) Firewall
4 2 (0.98%) HTTP
4 2 (0.98%) IPsec
4 2 (0.98%) MPLS
4 2 (0.98%) OSPF
4 2 (0.98%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.98%) SSL
4 2 (0.98%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.98%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.73%) Power BI
2 11 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (4.88%) Data Lake
4 7 (3.41%) Tableau
5 5 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.95%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.46%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.46%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.46%) Power Query
8 2 (0.98%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.98%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.98%) Looker
8 2 (0.98%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.49%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 25 (12.20%) JIRA
2 10 (4.88%) GitLab
3 4 (1.95%) Git
3 4 (1.95%) LoadRunner
4 3 (1.46%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.98%) Gatling
5 2 (0.98%) Introscope
5 2 (0.98%) JMeter
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.49%) Ant
6 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.49%) Gradle
6 1 (0.49%) JUnit
6 1 (0.49%) LSMW
6 1 (0.49%) Maven
6 1 (0.49%) Mockito
General
1 89 (43.41%) Social Skills
2 56 (27.32%) Analytical Skills
2 56 (27.32%) Finance
3 37 (18.05%) Marketing
4 25 (12.20%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.83%) Banking
5 14 (6.83%) Legal
6 13 (6.34%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (5.85%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.41%) Retail
9 6 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.93%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.93%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.44%) Brand Awareness
10 5 (2.44%) Electronics
11 4 (1.95%) Back Office
11 4 (1.95%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.95%) Local Government
11 4 (1.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (17.56%) Analyst
2 18 (8.78%) Product Manager
3 17 (8.29%) Project Manager
4 14 (6.83%) Lead
5 11 (5.37%) Architect
5 11 (5.37%) Designer
6 10 (4.88%) Business Analyst
6 10 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (3.41%) IT Analyst
7 7 (3.41%) Network Engineer
8 6 (2.93%) Administrator
8 6 (2.93%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (2.93%) Consultant
8 6 (2.93%) IT Support
8 6 (2.93%) IT Support Analyst
8 6 (2.93%) Senior
9 5 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (2.44%) Business IT Analyst
9 5 (2.44%) Business Support Analyst
9 5 (2.44%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.93%) PySpark
2 5 (2.44%) HTML
3 4 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.95%) Node.js
3 4 (1.95%) RESTful
4 3 (1.46%) .NET
4 3 (1.46%) J2EE
5 2 (0.98%) React
5 2 (0.98%) Web Services
6 1 (0.49%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.49%) Bootstrap
6 1 (0.49%) CSS
6 1 (0.49%) LDAP
6 1 (0.49%) OAuth
6 1 (0.49%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.49%) OpenID
6 1 (0.49%) SAML
6 1 (0.49%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.49%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.80%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.39%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.41%) CMDB
3 7 (3.41%) Social Media
4 6 (2.93%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.46%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.46%) IoT
6 3 (1.46%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.98%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.98%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.98%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (0.98%) LIMS
7 2 (0.98%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.98%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.44%) Linux
2 4 (1.95%) Windows
3 2 (0.98%) AIX
3 2 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.98%) Rocky
3 2 (0.98%) Unix
4 1 (0.49%) SUSE
4 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (29.76%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (26.34%) Agile
3 50 (24.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (18.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (17.56%) Analytics
6 32 (15.61%) Project Management
7 31 (15.12%) Process Improvement
8 30 (14.63%) Decision-Making
9 29 (14.15%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (14.15%) Roadmaps
9 29 (14.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 26 (12.68%) Actionable Insight
10 26 (12.68%) Data Analysis
10 26 (12.68%) ITIL
11 24 (11.71%) User Experience
12 22 (10.73%) Service Delivery
13 20 (9.76%) Change Management
14 19 (9.27%) Budget Management
15 17 (8.29%) DevOps
15 17 (8.29%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.20%) SQL
2 19 (9.27%) Python
3 6 (2.93%) VB
4 4 (1.95%) Java
4 4 (1.95%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.46%) C
5 3 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.46%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.98%) Bash
6 2 (0.98%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.49%) C#
7 1 (0.49%) Groovy
7 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (16.59%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.66%) Degree
4 7 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.44%) CCNA
5 5 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.95%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.46%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.98%) CCNP
8 2 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.98%) PMP
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.49%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.32%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.34%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.88%) PMO
4 9 (4.39%) QA
5 5 (2.44%) GDPR
6 3 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.98%) GxP
7 2 (0.98%) NIST
7 2 (0.98%) SLA
7 2 (0.98%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.98%) WCAG
8 1 (0.49%) Automotive SPICE
8 1 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.49%) GRC
8 1 (0.49%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.49%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.49%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.93%) Docker
3 3 (1.46%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (3.90%) Terraform
2 7 (3.41%) Ansible
3 6 (2.93%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.95%) Puppet
5 2 (0.98%) CA Wily
5 2 (0.98%) Cacti
5 2 (0.98%) Grafana
5 2 (0.98%) Kustomize
5 2 (0.98%) OPNET
5 2 (0.98%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.49%) Rancher
6 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (13.17%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.32%) SAP
3 14 (6.83%) Google
4 13 (6.34%) ServiceNow
5 12 (5.85%) Cisco
6 10 (4.88%) Adobe
6 10 (4.88%) VMware
7 8 (3.90%) SolarWinds
8 6 (2.93%) Oracle
8 6 (2.93%) Splunk
9 5 (2.44%) Liquidlogic
10 4 (1.95%) Siemens
11 3 (1.46%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.46%) Ariba
11 3 (1.46%) Genesys
11 3 (1.46%) Juniper
11 3 (1.46%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.98%) Foundry
12 2 (0.98%) Meraki
12 2 (0.98%) Remedy