Performance Metrics Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Performance Metrics
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Performance Metrics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 90 115
Rank change year-on-year -22 +25 +48
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 25 15 2
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.12% 0.90% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.05% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 2
10th Percentile £360 £387 £387
25th Percentile £406 £388 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £530
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -19.81% -1.85%
75th Percentile £489 £519 £635
90th Percentile £555 £560 £689
England median daily rate £449 £475 £413
% change year-on-year -5.58% +15.15% -28.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,954 1,425 1,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.23% 85.69% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,233 903 1,066
10th Percentile £263 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £584 £612 £600
90th Percentile £674 £713 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 46 49
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.12 £16.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £20.50 £23.89 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% +3.87% +29.94%
75th Percentile £27.21 £34.69 £55.00
90th Percentile £40.19 £52.50 £67.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Metrics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Performance Metrics job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Performance Metrics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Performance Metrics

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Metrics in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the West Midlands

Performance Metrics
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Performance Metrics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Performance Metrics

Performance Metrics
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Birmingham -1 12 £464 -1.07% 7
Warwickshire -5 7 £563 +38.55% 3
Worcestershire - 2 £369 -
Coventry - 2 - -
Shropshire - 1 £450 - 1
Performance Metrics
England

Performance Metrics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (8.00%) SaaS
4 1 (4.00%) Azure
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.00%) Internet
3 2 (8.00%) Broadband
3 2 (8.00%) Network Security
3 2 (8.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (12.00%) Power BI
3 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.00%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.00%) Finance
5 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Site Engineer
1 10 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 10 (40.00%) Splunk Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) SOC Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Business Performance Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Lead
3 2 (8.00%) Performance Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) PMO Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Team Leader
4 1 (4.00%) Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Network Operations Team Leader
4 1 (4.00%) Network Team Leader
4 1 (4.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Software Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Subject Matter Expert
4 1 (4.00%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.00%) OAuth
2 2 (8.00%) SAML
3 1 (4.00%) LDAP
3 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.00%) OpenID
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (12.00%) PKI
3 3 (12.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.00%) NHS
5 1 (4.00%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Linux
1 10 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Dashboard Development
1 15 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 13 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (48.00%) Data Modelling
4 11 (44.00%) Change Management
4 11 (44.00%) Computer Science
4 11 (44.00%) Migration
5 10 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 10 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
5 10 (40.00%) DevOps
5 10 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 10 (40.00%) Observability
5 10 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 10 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (40.00%) Validation
6 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (20.00%) Incident Management
7 5 (20.00%) SIEM
7 5 (20.00%) SOAR
7 5 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Bash
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (8.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.00%) VB
3 1 (4.00%) Groovy
3 1 (4.00%) Java
3 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (44.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) CCNP
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.00%) CCNA
4 1 (4.00%) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) PMO
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) Ansible
2 10 (40.00%) Kibana
2 10 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (40.00%) Puppet
3 3 (12.00%) QRadar
4 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Splunk
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) Google
4 2 (8.00%) Qualys
5 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (4.00%) ForgeRock
5 1 (4.00%) Ping Identity