Performance Monitoring Contracts

Performance Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Monitoring over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 403 492 644
Rank change year-on-year +89 +152 -126
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 185 231 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.38% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.42% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 136 129
10th Percentile £400 £300 £313
25th Percentile £459 £450 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £485
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +9.54% +7.78%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £569
90th Percentile £713 £700 £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £463
% change year-on-year +2.44% +10.81% +29.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 22 4
10th Percentile £11.41 £38.00 £12.35
25th Percentile £18.67 - £18.88
Median hourly rate £31.43 £65.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.65% +182.61% -12.80%
75th Percentile £43.53 £65.56 £24.01
90th Percentile £50.41 £65.75 £24.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £7.85 £65.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -87.92% +182.61% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Monitoring is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,706 54,523 81,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 89.87% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,375 37,727 57,191
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,416 1,789 1,947
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -
75th Percentile £58.70 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £19.96
% change year-on-year -2.78% +80.41% -7.83%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
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 Monitoring within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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 +86 158 £525 -2.96% 93
UK excluding London +76 100 £525 +2.44% 69
Work from Home +98 64 £488 -10.47% 46
London +86 59 £575 +5.50% 29
North of England +57 36 £475 -5.00% 11
Yorkshire +43 26 £430 -11.79% 6
South West +31 24 £600 +22.45% 8
South East +3 22 £605 +10.00% 14
Midlands +37 12 £400 -5.88% 27
West Midlands +24 6 £375 -16.67% 18
East Midlands +19 6 £675 +68.75% 9
North West +16 6 £500 -8.17% 4
Scotland +43 4 £525 -4.55% 4
North East - 4 £590 - 1
Wales +17 1 £583 -19.66% 2
East of England +3 1 £480 +174.29% 5

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 24 (12.97%) SAS
2 5 (2.70%) Apache Solr
2 5 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.16%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.62%) Apache
5 2 (1.08%) Confluence
5 2 (1.08%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.08%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.54%) IIS
6 1 (0.54%) nginx
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (4.86%) Remedy ITSM
1 9 (4.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.08%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.08%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.08%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.08%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.08%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (22.70%) Azure
2 15 (8.11%) AWS
3 14 (7.57%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (7.57%) OCI
4 12 (6.49%) GCP
5 11 (5.95%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.78%) SaaS
8 5 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.62%) Akamai
9 3 (1.62%) Apigee
9 3 (1.62%) Datadog
9 3 (1.62%) GitHub
9 3 (1.62%) IaaS
9 3 (1.62%) PaaS
10 2 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.08%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 2 (1.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 24 (12.97%) DNS
2 21 (11.35%) DHCP
2 21 (11.35%) Firewall
3 15 (8.11%) SAN
4 7 (3.78%) TCP/IP
5 6 (3.24%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (2.70%) Internet
7 4 (2.16%) LAN
7 4 (2.16%) MPLS
7 4 (2.16%) PBX
7 4 (2.16%) PSTN
7 4 (2.16%) SNMP
7 4 (2.16%) VoIP
7 4 (2.16%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.62%) Skype
8 3 (1.62%) SMTP
8 3 (1.62%) VSAN
8 3 (1.62%) WAN
9 2 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (1.08%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.03%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.95%) Power BI
3 8 (4.32%) MySQL
4 6 (3.24%) Apache Cassandra
4 6 (3.24%) Big Data
5 5 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.70%) Delta Lake
5 5 (2.70%) OLAP
5 5 (2.70%) OLTP
5 5 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.16%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (1.62%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.62%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.62%) Redis
7 3 (1.62%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.08%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 6 (3.24%) Git
2 4 (2.16%) JIRA
2 4 (2.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.08%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.08%) Gatling
4 2 (1.08%) JMeter
4 2 (1.08%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.54%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.54%) JUnit
5 1 (0.54%) NUnit
5 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 102 (55.14%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (13.51%) Finance
4 11 (5.95%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (4.32%) Banking
7 5 (2.70%) French Language
7 5 (2.70%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.70%) Retail
8 4 (2.16%) German Language
9 3 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.62%) Local Government
9 3 (1.62%) Marketing
9 3 (1.62%) Military
9 3 (1.62%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Electronics
10 2 (1.08%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 23 (12.43%) Senior
2 20 (10.81%) Programmer
3 19 (10.27%) Systems Programmer
3 19 (10.27%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 15 (8.11%) DBA
5 14 (7.57%) Architect
6 13 (7.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.03%) Lead
6 13 (7.03%) Support Engineer
7 8 (4.32%) Administrator
7 8 (4.32%) Capacity Manager
7 8 (4.32%) Storage Engineer
8 7 (3.78%) Availability Manager
8 7 (3.78%) Consultant
8 7 (3.78%) SQL DBA
9 6 (3.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (3.24%) Capacity and Availability Manager
9 6 (3.24%) Data Engineer
9 6 (3.24%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.51%) ISPF
2 12 (6.49%) Kafka
3 5 (2.70%) PySpark
4 4 (2.16%) .NET
4 4 (2.16%) LDAP
4 4 (2.16%) Web Services
5 3 (1.62%) REST
6 2 (1.08%) Flash
6 2 (1.08%) Java EE
6 2 (1.08%) Middleware
6 2 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.08%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.54%) Ajax
7 1 (0.54%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.54%) CSS
7 1 (0.54%) HTML
7 1 (0.54%) JSON
7 1 (0.54%) SOAP
7 1 (0.54%) XML
7 1 (0.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.51%) Mainframe
2 17 (9.19%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.41%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.32%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.78%) CMDB
5 7 (3.78%) FMCG
6 6 (3.24%) PKI
6 6 (3.24%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.16%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.62%) Clustering
8 3 (1.62%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.08%) HP Storage
9 2 (1.08%) Industry 4.0
9 2 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 43 (23.24%) Windows
2 28 (15.14%) Linux
3 25 (13.51%) zOS
4 23 (12.43%) Windows Server
5 21 (11.35%) Windows 10
6 14 (7.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (7.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (6.49%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (6.49%) Windows XP
8 4 (2.16%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.08%) AIX
9 2 (1.08%) Android
9 2 (1.08%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.08%) Solaris
10 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (31.35%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (20.00%) ITIL
3 35 (18.92%) Agile
4 30 (16.22%) Analytics
5 29 (15.68%) Disaster Recovery
5 29 (15.68%) Risk Management
6 24 (12.97%) Performance Tuning
7 23 (12.43%) Project Management
8 22 (11.89%) DevOps
9 20 (10.81%) Migration
10 19 (10.27%) Business Intelligence
10 19 (10.27%) Capacity Planning
10 19 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (9.73%) High Availability
11 18 (9.73%) Proactive Monitoring
12 17 (9.19%) CI/CD
12 17 (9.19%) Project Delivery
12 17 (9.19%) Scrum
13 15 (8.11%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.84%) PowerShell
2 25 (13.51%) JCL
2 25 (13.51%) REXX
3 24 (12.97%) SQL
4 20 (10.81%) Assembly Language
5 17 (9.19%) Python
6 10 (5.41%) Java
7 5 (2.70%) C#
7 5 (2.70%) CLIST
8 3 (1.62%) Bash
8 3 (1.62%) Bicep
8 3 (1.62%) Go
8 3 (1.62%) Ruby
9 2 (1.08%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.08%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.54%) C++
10 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.54%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 55 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 43 (23.24%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.59%) Degree
4 21 (11.35%) DV Cleared
5 14 (7.57%) CCNA
5 14 (7.57%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (7.03%) CCNP
7 6 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.24%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.16%) Postgraduate
9 3 (1.62%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.08%) CBAP
10 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.08%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.08%) PMP
11 1 (0.54%) CISM
11 1 (0.54%) CISSP
11 1 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.54%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.03%) SLA
2 4 (2.16%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.16%) QA
3 3 (1.62%) PMO
4 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.54%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.54%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (13.51%) Active Directory
1 25 (13.51%) Time Sharing Option
1 25 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (8.11%) ACF2
2 15 (8.11%) Hyper-V
2 15 (8.11%) RACF
3 12 (6.49%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (3.78%) Docker
5 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.62%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.62%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.54%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (12.97%) OMEGAMON
2 21 (11.35%) SCCM
3 15 (8.11%) SCOM
4 14 (7.57%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (7.57%) NetBackup
5 13 (7.03%) WSUS
6 12 (6.49%) Terraform
6 12 (6.49%) vCenter Server
7 10 (5.41%) Ansible
8 9 (4.86%) Puppet
9 6 (3.24%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (2.16%) Grafana
10 4 (2.16%) Kubernetes
10 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Clustering
10 4 (2.16%) OPNET
11 2 (1.08%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.08%) HP Data Protector
11 2 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.54%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 49 (26.49%) Microsoft
2 28 (15.14%) Splunk
3 27 (14.59%) VMware
4 26 (14.05%) IBM
5 25 (13.51%) Oracle
6 22 (11.89%) Cisco
7 20 (10.81%) Broadcom
8 19 (10.27%) Juniper
9 16 (8.65%) HP
10 14 (7.57%) EMC
10 14 (7.57%) SAP
10 14 (7.57%) Symantec
11 13 (7.03%) Dell
12 12 (6.49%) 3PAR
12 12 (6.49%) Extreme Networks
12 12 (6.49%) Palo Alto
12 12 (6.49%) Veeam
13 11 (5.95%) Google
14 9 (4.86%) Remedy
15 6 (3.24%) Dynatrace