Performance Monitoring Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Performance Monitoring
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 279 392
Rank change year-on-year +19 +113 +134
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 44 66 85
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.43% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.49% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 40 58
10th Percentile £400 £425 £288
25th Percentile £406 £430 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -7.71% +10.31%
75th Percentile £533 £588 £675
90th Percentile £620 £609 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £6.57 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £7.85 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +791.72% -68.12% -3.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £9.14 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £31.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +102.85% -51.65% +182.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Performance Monitoring
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Performance Monitoring
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 Monitoring.

Performance Monitoring daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Performance Monitoring over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Performance Monitoring daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Monitoring
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 Monitoring.

Performance Monitoring hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Monitoring
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 5 (11.36%) Confluence
2 2 (4.55%) Apache
3 1 (2.27%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.27%) Sketch
1 1 (2.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.27%) Azure
2 6 (13.64%) AWS
3 3 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.55%) GCP
4 2 (4.55%) IaaS
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.55%) PaaS
4 2 (4.55%) SaaS
5 1 (2.27%) Asana
5 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.27%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Serverless
5 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) DNS
2 3 (6.82%) DHCP
2 3 (6.82%) SSL
2 3 (6.82%) VPN
2 3 (6.82%) WAN
3 2 (4.55%) BGP
3 2 (4.55%) Firewall
3 2 (4.55%) FTP
3 2 (4.55%) HTTPS
3 2 (4.55%) LAN
3 2 (4.55%) MPLS
3 2 (4.55%) Multicast
3 2 (4.55%) OSPF
3 2 (4.55%) SMTP
3 2 (4.55%) SSH
3 2 (4.55%) tcpdump
3 2 (4.55%) Telnet
4 1 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.27%) NAS
4 1 (2.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.27%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) Power BI
3 1 (2.27%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Jenkins
1 5 (11.36%) JIRA
2 2 (4.55%) Cypress.io
2 2 (4.55%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) GitLab
2 2 (4.55%) JMeter
2 2 (4.55%) LoadRunner
2 2 (4.55%) REST Assured
2 2 (4.55%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.27%) Appium
3 1 (2.27%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (2.27%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.27%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 13 (29.55%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (22.73%) Finance
4 9 (20.45%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.55%) Aviation
5 2 (4.55%) Banking
5 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Electronics
6 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (11.36%) Product Manager
2 4 (9.09%) Analyst
2 4 (9.09%) Implementation Engineer
3 3 (6.82%) Business Analyst
3 3 (6.82%) Security Engineer
3 3 (6.82%) Senior
4 2 (4.55%) Administrator
4 2 (4.55%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 2 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (4.55%) Developer
4 2 (4.55%) Lead
4 2 (4.55%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (4.55%) Performance Tester
4 2 (4.55%) Service Owner
4 2 (4.55%) Tester
4 2 (4.55%) WAN Engineer
4 2 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) MySQL DBA
5 1 (2.27%) Senior Implementation Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Workstream Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) .NET
1 3 (6.82%) LDAP
1 3 (6.82%) Playwright
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.27%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.27%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.27%) ISPF
3 1 (2.27%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.27%) Swagger
3 1 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.27%) PMI
4 1 (2.27%) Replication
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Windows
2 4 (9.09%) Linux
3 3 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.55%) Unix
4 2 (4.55%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (2.27%) Solaris
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) Agile
2 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (20.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
6 7 (15.91%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (15.91%) Scrum
7 6 (13.64%) Product Vision
8 5 (11.36%) DevOps
8 5 (11.36%) Microservices
8 5 (11.36%) Product Strategy
8 5 (11.36%) Risk Management
8 5 (11.36%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (11.36%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (11.36%) Service Delivery
8 5 (11.36%) Test Scripting
8 5 (11.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 4 (9.09%) Data Protection
9 4 (9.09%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) Python
2 5 (11.36%) C#
2 5 (11.36%) Java
2 5 (11.36%) SQL
3 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.55%) ActionScript
4 2 (4.55%) ActionScript 2.0
4 2 (4.55%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.27%) Assembly Language
5 1 (2.27%) Bash
5 1 (2.27%) C++
5 1 (2.27%) CLIST
5 1 (2.27%) JCL
5 1 (2.27%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) CCNP
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.27%) CSPO
4 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.82%) QA
3 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) NIST
3 1 (2.27%) PMO
3 1 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (13.64%) Docker
2 3 (6.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.55%) NFS
3 2 (4.55%) Samba
3 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.27%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.27%) Ceph
4 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.27%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (2.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Ansible
2 6 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.82%) Terraform
4 2 (4.55%) Kibana
4 2 (4.55%) Perfmon
4 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.55%) SCCM
4 2 (4.55%) yum
5 1 (2.27%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (2.27%) Grafana
5 1 (2.27%) Nagios
5 1 (2.27%) Netcool
5 1 (2.27%) OMEGAMON
5 1 (2.27%) Tivoli
5 1 (2.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (2.27%) WSUS
5 1 (2.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.09%) IBM
2 4 (9.09%) Oracle
2 4 (9.09%) VMware
3 3 (6.82%) HP
3 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.55%) Cisco
4 2 (4.55%) IBM Sterling
4 2 (4.55%) SAP
4 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.55%) Splunk
5 1 (2.27%) Adobe
5 1 (2.27%) Ariba
5 1 (2.27%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.27%) EMC
5 1 (2.27%) Isilon
5 1 (2.27%) Qualys
5 1 (2.27%) Remedy
5 1 (2.27%) Serena
5 1 (2.27%) Sybase