Performance Monitoring Contracts

Performance Monitoring
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Performance Monitoring skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Monitoring 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 381 413 491
Rank change year-on-year +32 +78 +154
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 139 189 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.43% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.50% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 127 134
10th Percentile £358 £400 £311
25th Percentile £400 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.87%
75th Percentile £620 £608 £650
90th Percentile £793 £705 £737
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 18
10th Percentile £23.70 £11.41 £52.89
25th Percentile £24.76 £18.67 -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £31.43 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.85% -51.65% +182.61%
75th Percentile £65.62 £43.53 £65.56
90th Percentile £69.75 £50.41 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.75 £7.85 £65.00
% change year-on-year +712.04% -87.92% +182.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Monitoring 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 Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Monitoring 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 +23 121 £520 -0.95% 203
UK excluding London +19 62 £500 -4.76% 112
London +28 59 £518 -5.91% 100
Work from Home +26 43 £500 +2.56% 91
North of England +12 19 £450 -5.26% 34
South East +36 14 £375 -38.02% 33
South West +32 10 £538 -7.53% 7
North West +14 9 £450 -10.00% 19
Yorkshire -3 8 £500 +16.28% 11
Midlands +17 6 £525 +31.25% 18
Scotland +10 5 £447 -14.86% 8
East of England - 5 £650 - 8
West Midlands +12 3 £500 +33.33% 14
East Midlands +7 3 £550 -18.52% 4
Wales +6 2 £300 -48.50% 4
North East -2 1 £550 -6.78% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

Performance Monitoring
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 7 (5.04%) Confluence
2 6 (4.32%) Apache
2 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.60%) SAS
4 4 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.88%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (2.88%) Skype for Business
5 2 (1.44%) Drupal
6 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.72%) CICS
6 1 (0.72%) CMS
6 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.72%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.72%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.72%) Sketch
2 1 (0.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Maximo
1 4 (2.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.44%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.44%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.72%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.72%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.72%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (16.55%) AWS
2 21 (15.11%) Azure
3 9 (6.47%) GCP
3 9 (6.47%) Serverless
4 7 (5.04%) GitHub
5 6 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.60%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.60%) Power Platform
6 5 (3.60%) SaaS
7 4 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.16%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (2.16%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.16%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.16%) IaaS
8 3 (2.16%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.19%) DNS
1 10 (7.19%) VPN
2 8 (5.76%) SMTP
2 8 (5.76%) WAN
3 7 (5.04%) DHCP
4 6 (4.32%) Firewall
5 5 (3.60%) LAN
5 5 (3.60%) Multicast
5 5 (3.60%) PSTN
5 5 (3.60%) Skype
6 4 (2.88%) BGP
6 4 (2.88%) MPLS
6 4 (2.88%) OSPF
6 4 (2.88%) SSL
6 4 (2.88%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.16%) FTP
7 3 (2.16%) tcpdump
7 3 (2.16%) Telnet
8 2 (1.44%) HTTPS
8 2 (1.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.47%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.32%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.60%) Power BI
5 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.88%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.16%) MySQL
6 3 (2.16%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.44%) Tableau
8 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.72%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.72%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.72%) DataStage
8 1 (0.72%) DB2
8 1 (0.72%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.72%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (0.72%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 11 (7.91%) JIRA
2 8 (5.76%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.60%) LoadRunner
4 4 (2.88%) Git
4 4 (2.88%) JMeter
5 3 (2.16%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.16%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.16%) git-flow
5 3 (2.16%) GitLab
5 3 (2.16%) Gradle
6 2 (1.44%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.44%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.44%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.72%) Appium
7 1 (0.72%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.72%) MLflow
7 1 (0.72%) Poetry
7 1 (0.72%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.72%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (44.60%) Social Skills
2 33 (23.74%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (20.86%) Finance
4 16 (11.51%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.88%) Banking
5 4 (2.88%) Front Office
5 4 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.16%) Advertising
6 3 (2.16%) Aviation
6 3 (2.16%) Marketing
6 3 (2.16%) Military
7 2 (1.44%) Electronics
7 2 (1.44%) Publishing
7 2 (1.44%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.72%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.72%) Legal
8 1 (0.72%) Local Government
8 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.72%) Retail
8 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (13.67%) Senior
2 13 (9.35%) DBA
3 11 (7.91%) Administrator
3 11 (7.91%) Lead
4 10 (7.19%) Developer
5 7 (5.04%) Analyst
5 7 (5.04%) Programmer
5 7 (5.04%) Systems Programmer
5 7 (5.04%) z/OS Systems Programmer
6 6 (4.32%) Consultant
7 5 (3.60%) Implementation Engineer
7 5 (3.60%) Product Manager
8 4 (2.88%) Architect
8 4 (2.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (2.88%) Java Developer
8 4 (2.88%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (2.88%) Performance Tester
8 4 (2.88%) Project Manager
8 4 (2.88%) Senior Developer
8 4 (2.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.04%) ISPF
2 6 (4.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (2.88%) Kafka
3 4 (2.88%) LDAP
3 4 (2.88%) Spring
3 4 (2.88%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.16%) .NET
4 3 (2.16%) Playwright
4 3 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.44%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.44%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.44%) REST
5 2 (1.44%) RESTful
6 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.72%) pytest
6 1 (0.72%) React
6 1 (0.72%) Swagger
6 1 (0.72%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.76%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.04%) Mainframe
2 7 (5.04%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.32%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.60%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.88%) Blackberry
5 4 (2.88%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.88%) Handset
5 4 (2.88%) Replication
6 3 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.16%) PKI
6 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.44%) Clustering
7 2 (1.44%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.44%) NHS
7 2 (1.44%) PMI
8 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.07%) Linux
1 14 (10.07%) Windows
2 9 (6.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (5.04%) zOS
4 6 (4.32%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.32%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (3.60%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.88%) Android
7 3 (2.16%) Unix
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.72%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (28.78%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (21.58%) Agile
3 27 (19.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (17.27%) Performance Tuning
5 20 (14.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 18 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (12.95%) Disaster Recovery
7 17 (12.23%) CI/CD
7 17 (12.23%) Risk Management
8 16 (11.51%) Roadmaps
9 15 (10.79%) Analytics
9 15 (10.79%) Change Management
9 15 (10.79%) Service Delivery
10 13 (9.35%) Computer Science
10 13 (9.35%) Data Analysis
10 13 (9.35%) High Availability
10 13 (9.35%) Mentoring
10 13 (9.35%) Migration
10 13 (9.35%) Project Management
11 12 (8.63%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.27%) SQL
2 22 (15.83%) Python
3 11 (7.91%) Java
4 9 (6.47%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.04%) Assembly Language
5 7 (5.04%) CLIST
5 7 (5.04%) JCL
5 7 (5.04%) REXX
6 6 (4.32%) C#
7 3 (2.16%) C++
7 3 (2.16%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.44%) ActionScript
8 2 (1.44%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (1.44%) Bash
8 2 (1.44%) PHP
8 2 (1.44%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.44%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.44%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (21.58%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.95%) Degree
4 5 (3.60%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.44%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.44%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.44%) PMP
8 1 (0.72%) CCNP
8 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.72%) CSPO
8 1 (0.72%) HNC
8 1 (0.72%) MCITP
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.19%) QA
1 10 (7.19%) SLA
2 8 (5.76%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.32%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.16%) GDPR
4 3 (2.16%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.16%) PMO
5 2 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.44%) NCSC
5 2 (1.44%) NIST
6 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (6.47%) Docker
2 8 (5.76%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.04%) Time Sharing Option
4 3 (2.16%) NFS
4 3 (2.16%) Samba
4 3 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.72%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.72%) Ceph
6 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.72%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.72%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (10.79%) Terraform
2 14 (10.07%) Ansible
3 11 (7.91%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.04%) OMEGAMON
5 5 (3.60%) SCCM
6 4 (2.88%) yum
7 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.16%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.44%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (1.44%) Grafana
8 2 (1.44%) Kibana
8 2 (1.44%) Perfmon
8 2 (1.44%) Tivoli
8 2 (1.44%) WSUS
9 1 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.72%) Nagios
9 1 (0.72%) Netcool
9 1 (0.72%) SCOM
9 1 (0.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (13.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.79%) Oracle
3 11 (7.91%) IBM
4 8 (5.76%) VMware
5 6 (4.32%) HP
5 6 (4.32%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.60%) Google
6 5 (3.60%) SAP
6 5 (3.60%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.60%) Splunk
7 4 (2.88%) Cisco
7 4 (2.88%) Clearswift
7 4 (2.88%) Remedy
7 4 (2.88%) Ribbon
8 3 (2.16%) Databricks
9 2 (1.44%) Ariba
9 2 (1.44%) EMC
9 2 (1.44%) IBM Sterling
9 2 (1.44%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.44%) Workday