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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 402 480
Rank change year-on-year +21 +78 +162
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 144 183 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.43% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.50% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 123 117
10th Percentile £353 £387 £312
25th Percentile £402 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +3.96% +1.00%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £638
90th Percentile £743 £710 £707
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -12.81% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 12
10th Percentile £23.70 £11.41 £28.66
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 £65.19
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 26,772 36,679 51,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.96% 86.19% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,185 23,608 35,479
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
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% - +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,093 2,436 1,692
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.64
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.94 £16.10
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 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 +33 124 £500 -9.09% 275
UK excluding London +16 66 £458 -12.81% 168
London +36 61 £500 -6.98% 148
Work from Home +31 48 £500 - 127
North of England +10 24 £478 +0.63% 47
South East +40 15 £375 -38.02% 61
Yorkshire +3 14 £485 +12.79% 19
North West +21 9 £450 -10.00% 22
Midlands +12 7 £500 +25.00% 15
South West +25 6 £525 -10.64% 12
Scotland +6 5 £447 -12.78% 18
East of England - 5 £650 - 15
East Midlands +9 4 £476 -29.48% 4
West Midlands +3 3 £500 +33.33% 11
Wales +2 2 £300 -48.50% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 £350 - 3
North East -5 1 £550 -6.78% 7

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 (4.86%) Confluence
2 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.47%) Apache
3 5 (3.47%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.47%) SAS
4 4 (2.78%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (2.78%) Skype for Business
5 2 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.39%) Drupal
5 2 (1.39%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.69%) CICS
6 1 (0.69%) CMS
6 1 (0.69%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.69%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.69%) Sketch
2 1 (0.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Maximo
1 4 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.39%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.69%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.69%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.69%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.36%) AWS
2 21 (14.58%) Azure
3 10 (6.94%) Serverless
4 9 (6.25%) GCP
5 8 (5.56%) GitHub
6 7 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (3.47%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.78%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.78%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.78%) SaaS
10 3 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.08%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.94%) VPN
2 9 (6.25%) DNS
3 7 (4.86%) SMTP
3 7 (4.86%) WAN
4 6 (4.17%) DHCP
5 5 (3.47%) PSTN
5 5 (3.47%) Skype
6 4 (2.78%) BGP
6 4 (2.78%) Firewall
6 4 (2.78%) LAN
6 4 (2.78%) MPLS
6 4 (2.78%) Multicast
6 4 (2.78%) OSPF
6 4 (2.78%) SSL
6 4 (2.78%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.08%) SAN
8 2 (1.39%) HTTPS
8 2 (1.39%) SSH
8 2 (1.39%) tcpdump
8 2 (1.39%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.47%) Power BI
5 4 (2.78%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.08%) MySQL
6 3 (2.08%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.39%) Tableau
8 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.69%) Big Data
8 1 (0.69%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.69%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (0.69%) Power Query
8 1 (0.69%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (9.03%) JIRA
2 9 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.47%) LoadRunner
4 4 (2.78%) Artifactory
4 4 (2.78%) Cucumber
4 4 (2.78%) git-flow
4 4 (2.78%) Gradle
4 4 (2.78%) JMeter
5 3 (2.08%) Git
5 3 (2.08%) GitLab
5 3 (2.08%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (1.39%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.39%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.39%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.69%) Appium
7 1 (0.69%) Poetry
7 1 (0.69%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.69%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.69%) Zephyr
General
1 59 (40.97%) Social Skills
2 33 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (20.83%) Finance
4 16 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.86%) Banking
6 4 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.08%) Advertising
7 3 (2.08%) Front Office
7 3 (2.08%) Marketing
7 3 (2.08%) Military
8 2 (1.39%) Aviation
8 2 (1.39%) Electronics
8 2 (1.39%) Legal
8 2 (1.39%) Publishing
8 2 (1.39%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.69%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.69%) Local Government
9 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.69%) Police
9 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (12.50%) Analyst
2 17 (11.81%) Senior
3 14 (9.72%) DBA
4 11 (7.64%) Administrator
4 11 (7.64%) Developer
5 10 (6.94%) Lead
6 8 (5.56%) Consultant
7 7 (4.86%) Programmer
7 7 (4.86%) Systems Programmer
7 7 (4.86%) z/OS Systems Programmer
8 6 (4.17%) Implementation Engineer
8 6 (4.17%) Network Analyst
9 5 (3.47%) Architect
9 5 (3.47%) Java Developer
9 5 (3.47%) Product Manager
10 4 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Network Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Performance Tester
10 4 (2.78%) Tester
10 4 (2.78%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.86%) ISPF
2 5 (3.47%) Kafka
2 5 (3.47%) Spring
2 5 (3.47%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.08%) .NET
4 3 (2.08%) LDAP
4 3 (2.08%) Playwright
5 2 (1.39%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.39%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.39%) REST
5 2 (1.39%) RESTful
6 1 (0.69%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.69%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.69%) Middleware
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.69%) pytest
6 1 (0.69%) React
6 1 (0.69%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.86%) Data Centre
1 7 (4.86%) Mainframe
1 7 (4.86%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.47%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.47%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.47%) Replication
4 4 (2.78%) Blackberry
4 4 (2.78%) Credit Risk
4 4 (2.78%) Handset
5 3 (2.08%) Clustering
5 3 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.08%) PKI
5 3 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.39%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.39%) NHS
6 2 (1.39%) PMI
6 2 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.03%) Windows
2 11 (7.64%) Linux
3 8 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.86%) zOS
5 6 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.47%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.78%) Android
8 2 (1.39%) Unix
9 1 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (20.83%) Agile
2 30 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 20 (13.89%) Disaster Recovery
5 18 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 17 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (11.81%) Risk Management
7 16 (11.11%) Analytics
7 16 (11.11%) Service Delivery
7 16 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (9.72%) High Availability
8 14 (9.72%) Migration
9 13 (9.03%) ITIL
9 13 (9.03%) Project Management
9 13 (9.03%) Roadmaps
10 12 (8.33%) Change Management
10 12 (8.33%) Data Analysis
10 12 (8.33%) Decision-Making
10 12 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.67%) Python
1 24 (16.67%) SQL
2 11 (7.64%) Java
3 10 (6.94%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.86%) Assembly Language
4 7 (4.86%) CLIST
4 7 (4.86%) JCL
4 7 (4.86%) REXX
5 5 (3.47%) C#
6 3 (2.08%) Bash
6 3 (2.08%) C++
6 3 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.39%) ActionScript
7 2 (1.39%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (1.39%) PHP
7 2 (1.39%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.39%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.39%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.69%) Scala
8 1 (0.69%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 31 (21.53%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.72%) Degree
4 5 (3.47%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.39%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.39%) PMP
8 1 (0.69%) CCNP
8 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.69%) CSPO
8 1 (0.69%) HNC
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.64%) SLA
2 8 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.56%) QA
3 4 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.08%) GDPR
4 3 (2.08%) PMO
5 2 (1.39%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.39%) NCSC
5 2 (1.39%) SEPA
6 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.69%) NIST
6 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (6.94%) Docker
2 8 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.86%) Time Sharing Option
4 3 (2.08%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 3 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.39%) NFS
5 2 (1.39%) Samba
5 2 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.69%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.69%) Ceph
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (10.42%) Terraform
2 14 (9.72%) Ansible
3 12 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 7 (4.86%) OMEGAMON
5 5 (3.47%) SCCM
6 4 (2.78%) Tivoli
7 3 (2.08%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (2.08%) Grafana
7 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.08%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.08%) yum
8 2 (1.39%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (1.39%) Kibana
8 2 (1.39%) Perfmon
9 1 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.69%) Nagios
9 1 (0.69%) Netcool
9 1 (0.69%) SCOM
9 1 (0.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.03%) IBM
3 12 (8.33%) Oracle
4 8 (5.56%) VMware
5 7 (4.86%) SolarWinds
6 6 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 6 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.47%) Cisco
7 5 (3.47%) Google
7 5 (3.47%) HP
7 5 (3.47%) Splunk
8 4 (2.78%) Clearswift
8 4 (2.78%) Remedy
8 4 (2.78%) Ribbon
9 3 (2.08%) Databricks
9 3 (2.08%) EMC
9 3 (2.08%) Isilon
9 3 (2.08%) Liquidlogic
9 3 (2.08%) SAP
10 2 (1.39%) Dynatrace