Performance Monitoring Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Monitoring
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 362 410
Rank change year-on-year +75 +48 -27
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 98 84 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.41% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 45 59
10th Percentile £398 £227 £180
25th Percentile £430 £463 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% +35.71%
75th Percentile £608 £615 £556
90th Percentile £653 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £28.66 -
25th Percentile £6.57 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £7.85 £65.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -87.92% +182.61% -
75th Percentile £9.14 £65.19 £23.50
90th Percentile - £65.75 -
UK median hourly rate £31.43 £65.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -51.65% +182.61% +73.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Performance Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Performance Monitoring as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Performance Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Monitoring in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Performance Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Monitoring in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Performance Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Monitoring in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Monitoring in the UK excluding London

Performance Monitoring
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
North of England +48 33 £475 - 17
Yorkshire +36 25 £430 -9.47% 7
South West +8 24 £588 +18.69% 9
South East +6 20 £605 +8.04% 17
Midlands +33 13 £400 -11.11% 24
Scotland +51 7 £513 -6.82% 6
West Midlands +23 7 £375 -16.67% 10
East Midlands +18 6 £675 +68.75% 14
North West +12 5 £500 -8.17% 10
North East - 3 £590 -
Wales - 1 £583 -
Performance Monitoring
UK

Performance Monitoring
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (20.41%) SAS
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.02%) Apache
4 1 (1.02%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.04%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.02%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.02%) SAP BPC
3 1 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.39%) Azure
2 14 (14.29%) OCI
3 10 (10.20%) Power Platform
4 7 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.04%) AWS
5 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.04%) Datadog
5 2 (2.04%) GitHub
5 2 (2.04%) Slack
6 1 (1.02%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.02%) GCP
6 1 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.02%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.37%) DNS
1 18 (18.37%) Firewall
2 16 (16.33%) DHCP
2 16 (16.33%) SAN
3 3 (3.06%) 2G
3 3 (3.06%) 3G
3 3 (3.06%) 4G
3 3 (3.06%) 5G
3 3 (3.06%) GPRS
3 3 (3.06%) GSM
3 3 (3.06%) LAN
3 3 (3.06%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (3.06%) SCCP
3 3 (3.06%) SS7
4 2 (2.04%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (2.04%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.04%) Skype
4 2 (2.04%) SMS
4 2 (2.04%) VSAN
4 2 (2.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.20%) Power BI
2 8 (8.16%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (5.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (4.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.02%) Flink
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (2.04%) Git
2 2 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 65 (66.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.39%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.18%) Finance
5 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.04%) Electronics
6 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.04%) Local Government
6 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.04%) Marketing
6 2 (2.04%) Military
6 2 (2.04%) Retail
6 2 (2.04%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.02%) Advertising
7 1 (1.02%) Banking
7 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.02%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.02%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (19.39%) Programmer
2 18 (18.37%) Systems Programmer
2 18 (18.37%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) Storage Engineer
5 8 (8.16%) Capacity Manager
6 7 (7.14%) Availability Manager
6 7 (7.14%) DBA
7 6 (6.12%) Analyst
7 6 (6.12%) Capacity and Availability Manager
7 6 (6.12%) Senior
8 5 (5.10%) Administrator
8 5 (5.10%) SQL DBA
8 5 (5.10%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Desktop Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Desktop Support
9 4 (4.08%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Server Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Service Level Manager
9 4 (4.08%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.43%) ISPF
2 3 (3.06%) Kafka
3 2 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.02%) .NET
4 1 (1.02%) Flash
4 1 (1.02%) Middleware
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.02%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.43%) Mainframe
2 16 (16.33%) Data Centre
3 12 (12.24%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.12%) CMDB
5 5 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.08%) PKI
7 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.06%) Driving Licence
7 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.04%) HP Storage
8 2 (2.04%) NHS
9 1 (1.02%) Clustering
9 1 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.51%) Windows
2 21 (21.43%) Windows 10
2 21 (21.43%) zOS
3 20 (20.41%) Linux
4 16 (16.33%) Windows Server
5 14 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (14.29%) Windows XP
6 4 (4.08%) Windows 7
7 2 (2.04%) AIX
7 2 (2.04%) Android
7 2 (2.04%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.04%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (39.80%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (35.71%) ITIL
3 23 (23.47%) Risk Management
4 22 (22.45%) Project Management
5 20 (20.41%) Performance Tuning
6 19 (19.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (18.37%) Proactive Monitoring
8 17 (17.35%) Agile
9 15 (15.31%) Server Management
10 14 (14.29%) Break/Fix
10 14 (14.29%) Converged Infrastructure
10 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (14.29%) Storage Management
11 13 (13.27%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (13.27%) Capacity Planning
12 12 (12.24%) Service Management
13 11 (11.22%) ITSM
14 9 (9.18%) Capacity Management
15 8 (8.16%) Availability Management
15 8 (8.16%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (25.51%) PowerShell
2 21 (21.43%) JCL
2 21 (21.43%) REXX
3 17 (17.35%) SQL
4 16 (16.33%) Assembly Language
5 3 (3.06%) Bash
6 2 (2.04%) C#
6 2 (2.04%) Java
6 2 (2.04%) Python
6 2 (2.04%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.02%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 44 (44.90%) Security Cleared
2 39 (39.80%) SC Cleared
3 22 (22.45%) Degree
4 19 (19.39%) DV Cleared
5 15 (15.31%) CCNA
5 15 (15.31%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (14.29%) CCNP
7 5 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (3.06%) DBS Check
9 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
9 2 (2.04%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (2.04%) Postgraduate
10 1 (1.02%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.06%) SLA
3 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.02%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.02%) ISO 8583
3 1 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (22.45%) Active Directory
2 21 (21.43%) Time Sharing Option
3 16 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (15.31%) ACF2
4 15 (15.31%) RACF
5 14 (14.29%) Hyper-V
5 14 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.04%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (21.43%) SCCM
2 20 (20.41%) OMEGAMON
3 16 (16.33%) EMC NetWorker
3 16 (16.33%) NetBackup
3 16 (16.33%) SCOM
4 14 (14.29%) vCenter Server
4 14 (14.29%) WSUS
5 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (3.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.04%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.04%) HP Data Protector
7 2 (2.04%) OPNET
7 2 (2.04%) Terraform
8 1 (1.02%) Ansible
8 1 (1.02%) Kubernetes
8 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.02%) Packer
8 1 (1.02%) QRadar
8 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (29.59%) Microsoft
2 21 (21.43%) IBM
3 20 (20.41%) Broadcom
3 20 (20.41%) Oracle
3 20 (20.41%) Splunk
4 18 (18.37%) VMware
5 17 (17.35%) Cisco
6 16 (16.33%) EMC
6 16 (16.33%) HP
6 16 (16.33%) Symantec
7 14 (14.29%) 3PAR
7 14 (14.29%) Dell
7 14 (14.29%) Extreme Networks
7 14 (14.29%) Juniper
7 14 (14.29%) Palo Alto
7 14 (14.29%) Veeam
8 8 (8.16%) Remedy
9 3 (3.06%) SAP
10 2 (2.04%) NEC
10 2 (2.04%) Northgate