Performance Metrics Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Performance Metrics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 280 379
Rank change year-on-year +27 +99 +162
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 59 54 56
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.41% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.47% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 25 42
10th Percentile £335 £321 £193
25th Percentile £405 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -8.70% +6.48%
75th Percentile £630 £646 £684
90th Percentile £663 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £21.18 £83.77 £31.48
25th Percentile £28.21 £84.11 £31.81
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.67 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.72% +125.77% +67.41%
75th Percentile £70.16 £85.22 £52.88
90th Percentile £71.56 £85.56 £69.30
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £67.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -57.41% +80.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,293 11,380 19,715
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.91% 87.30% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,233 7,602 13,912
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.76% -0.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 397 470
10th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.77 £31.25 £25.56
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.03 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.13 £75.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £41.80
% change year-on-year -38.66% -1.91% +57.74%

Performance Metrics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Metrics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Metrics trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Metrics.

Performance Metrics daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Performance Metrics over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Performance Metrics daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Metrics
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Metrics.

Performance Metrics hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Metrics
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Performance Metrics over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Performance Metrics hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Metrics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (6.78%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.39%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.69%) Adobe XD
4 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.69%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Magento
1 2 (3.39%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.95%) Power Platform
2 6 (10.17%) AWS
2 6 (10.17%) Azure
3 5 (8.47%) GCP
4 3 (5.08%) SaaS
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.39%) Figma
5 2 (3.39%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.39%) Serverless
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.69%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (1.69%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) DNS
1 2 (3.39%) Network Security
2 1 (1.69%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.69%) LAN
2 1 (1.69%) MPLS
2 1 (1.69%) SMS
2 1 (1.69%) SSL
2 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.69%) VPN
2 1 (1.69%) WAN
2 1 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.95%) Power BI
2 5 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.78%) Tableau
4 3 (5.08%) Looker
5 2 (3.39%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.39%) Power Query
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.69%) Big Data
6 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) Git
2 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.69%) Gatling
3 1 (1.69%) GitLab
3 1 (1.69%) JMeter
3 1 (1.69%) LoadRunner
General
1 22 (37.29%) Social Skills
2 20 (33.90%) Finance
3 13 (22.03%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (8.47%) Marketing
6 4 (6.78%) Back Office
6 4 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.78%) Legal
6 4 (6.78%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.08%) Banking
7 3 (5.08%) Local Government
8 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.39%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.69%) Automotive
9 1 (1.69%) Billing
9 1 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Analyst
2 6 (10.17%) Support Analyst
3 5 (8.47%) Business IT Analyst
3 5 (8.47%) Business Support Analyst
3 5 (8.47%) Business Systems Analyst
3 5 (8.47%) IT Analyst
3 5 (8.47%) IT Support
3 5 (8.47%) IT Support Analyst
3 5 (8.47%) Systems Analyst
3 5 (8.47%) Systems Support
3 5 (8.47%) Systems Support Analyst
4 3 (5.08%) Architect
4 3 (5.08%) Business Analyst
4 3 (5.08%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 3 (5.08%) Consultant
4 3 (5.08%) Performance Analyst
5 2 (3.39%) Business Performance Analyst
5 2 (3.39%) Data Manager
5 2 (3.39%) Designer
5 2 (3.39%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.39%) JSON
1 2 (3.39%) RESTful
2 1 (1.69%) ATL
2 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.69%) Fluent Bit
2 1 (1.69%) HTML
2 1 (1.69%) Hugging Face
2 1 (1.69%) LDAP
2 1 (1.69%) NumPy
2 1 (1.69%) OAuth
2 1 (1.69%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.69%) OpenID
2 1 (1.69%) Pandas
2 1 (1.69%) Prophet
2 1 (1.69%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.69%) Regular Expression
2 1 (1.69%) SAML
2 1 (1.69%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.39%) CMDB
2 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.69%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.69%) IVR
3 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.69%) YARA
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.51%) Analytics
1 18 (30.51%) Decision-Making
2 16 (27.12%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (23.73%) Agile
3 14 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (20.34%) Actionable Insight
4 12 (20.34%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (20.34%) Roadmaps
5 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (16.95%) Process Improvement
5 10 (16.95%) Service Delivery
6 9 (15.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (13.56%) Release Management
8 7 (11.86%) Customer-Centricity
8 7 (11.86%) Performance Monitoring
9 6 (10.17%) Business Continuity
9 6 (10.17%) Change Control
9 6 (10.17%) ITIL
9 6 (10.17%) ITSM
9 6 (10.17%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.34%) SQL
2 4 (6.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 4 (6.78%) Python
3 1 (1.69%) Groovy
3 1 (1.69%) Java
3 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.69%) R
3 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared
1 7 (11.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.08%) Degree
3 2 (3.39%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.47%) GDPR
2 5 (8.47%) QA
3 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.39%) PMO
3 2 (3.39%) SLA
4 1 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.69%) Automotive SPICE
4 1 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.69%) ISO 26262
4 1 (1.69%) NIST
4 1 (1.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.39%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Ansible
1 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.39%) Terraform
2 1 (1.69%) Demisto
2 1 (1.69%) Fluentd
2 1 (1.69%) Grafana
2 1 (1.69%) Kustomize
2 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.69%) Puppet
2 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) Liquidlogic
2 5 (8.47%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.78%) Google
4 3 (5.08%) Adobe
5 2 (3.39%) CyberArk
5 2 (3.39%) SAP
5 2 (3.39%) Snow
6 1 (1.69%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco
6 1 (1.69%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.69%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.69%) Intel
6 1 (1.69%) Meraki
6 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.69%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.69%) Sage
6 1 (1.69%) Splunk
6 1 (1.69%) WooCommerce
6 1 (1.69%) Zoho