Performance Management Contracts

Performance Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 444 444
Rank change year-on-year +112 0 +34
Contract jobs citing Performance Management 270 293 447
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.49% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.54% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 165 291
10th Percentile £311 £305 £300
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.53%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £658
90th Percentile £768 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £510 £543
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.99% +35.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 24
10th Percentile £15.39 £19.45 £9.58
25th Percentile £24.56 £49.00 £23.93
Median hourly rate £35.67 £65.00 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.13% +122.22% +29.68%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £34.02
90th Percentile £68.50 £65.75 £37.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.25 £65.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -27.31% +109.68% +34.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Management 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 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Performance Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Performance Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Management in the UK

Performance Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Management.

Daily rate trend for Performance Management in the UK

Performance Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Management in the UK

Performance Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Management.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Management in the UK

Performance Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Management in the UK

Performance Management
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 Management within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 +104 242 £525 -1.41% 308
UK excluding London +63 140 £525 +2.94% 203
Work from Home +113 112 £494 -10.28% 122
London +93 109 £525 -4.55% 120
South East -2 36 £525 +5.00% 59
Midlands +38 30 £488 -22.00% 36
West Midlands +44 26 £488 -20.41% 21
North of England +24 23 £600 -7.69% 40
East of England +15 22 £525 +23.53% 27
South West +21 16 £45 -91.63% 22
North West +13 16 £600 - 26
Scotland +23 14 £500 - 15
Yorkshire +18 4 £600 -14.29% 7
Wales +19 3 £175 -51.39% 9
East Midlands +14 3 £550 -15.38% 15
North East - 3 £431 - 7

Performance Management
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 10 (3.70%) Confluence
2 7 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.37%) Apache
3 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 13 (4.81%) Spreadsheet
2 10 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.48%) Primavera
2 4 (1.48%) SAP PS
3 2 (0.74%) iTrent
3 2 (0.74%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.74%) SAP EHS
3 2 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.37%) HFM
4 1 (0.37%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.37%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 26 (9.63%) Azure
2 24 (8.89%) SaaS
3 14 (5.19%) Power Platform
4 12 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.33%) AWS
6 8 (2.96%) SuccessFactors
7 7 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.85%) IaaS
8 5 (1.85%) PaaS
9 4 (1.48%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.11%) Google Analytics
10 3 (1.11%) Serverless
11 2 (0.74%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (0.74%) Asana
11 2 (0.74%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.74%) GCP
11 2 (0.74%) GitHub
11 2 (0.74%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.30%) LAN
2 16 (5.93%) WAN
3 13 (4.81%) Firewall
4 11 (4.07%) MPLS
4 11 (4.07%) VoIP
5 10 (3.70%) WLAN
6 9 (3.33%) 3G
6 9 (3.33%) 4G
6 9 (3.33%) 5G
6 9 (3.33%) PBX
6 9 (3.33%) Radio Access Network
6 9 (3.33%) VPN
7 8 (2.96%) Cisco ASA
7 8 (2.96%) SD-WAN
8 7 (2.59%) Internet
9 6 (2.22%) Wireless
10 5 (1.85%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (1.85%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (1.85%) DHCP
10 5 (1.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.81%) Power BI
2 5 (1.85%) Big Data
3 4 (1.48%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (1.11%) NonStop SQL
4 3 (1.11%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (0.74%) Tableau
6 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.37%) HDInsight
6 1 (0.37%) Metadata
6 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.37%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 15 (5.56%) JIRA
2 8 (2.96%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.85%) Git
3 5 (1.85%) Oracle APEX
4 4 (1.48%) Artifactory
4 4 (1.48%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.74%) JMeter
5 2 (0.74%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.74%) Postman
5 2 (0.74%) Selenium
5 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.37%) GitLab
6 1 (0.37%) RStudio
6 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.37%) WebDriver
General
1 77 (28.52%) Social Skills
2 75 (27.78%) Finance
3 41 (15.19%) Public Sector
4 33 (12.22%) Local Government
5 28 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (10.00%) Legal
7 26 (9.63%) Telecoms
8 18 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.59%) Banking
9 7 (2.59%) Law
9 7 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.22%) Retail
11 5 (1.85%) Marketing
11 5 (1.85%) Military
11 5 (1.85%) Police
11 5 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.48%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.74%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 29 (10.74%) Analyst
2 28 (10.37%) Lead
3 27 (10.00%) Consultant
4 20 (7.41%) Architect
4 20 (7.41%) Senior
5 19 (7.04%) Project Manager
6 11 (4.07%) Programme Manager
7 10 (3.70%) Performance Analyst
8 9 (3.33%) Procurement Officer
9 8 (2.96%) Delivery Manager
9 8 (2.96%) Enterprise Architect
10 7 (2.59%) Development Manager
10 7 (2.59%) Incident Analyst
11 6 (2.22%) Desktop Support
11 6 (2.22%) Performance Consultant
11 6 (2.22%) Performance Specialist
11 6 (2.22%) Senior Manager
12 5 (1.85%) Commercial Manager
12 5 (1.85%) IT Manager
12 5 (1.85%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.56%) Web Services
2 7 (2.59%) XML
3 4 (1.48%) EDI
3 4 (1.48%) React
3 4 (1.48%) RESTful
3 4 (1.48%) SOAP
4 3 (1.11%) HTML
5 2 (0.74%) ADO
5 2 (0.74%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.74%) Java EE
5 2 (0.74%) JSON
5 2 (0.74%) Kafka
5 2 (0.74%) Swagger
5 2 (0.74%) XSLT
6 1 (0.37%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.37%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.37%) Node.js
6 1 (0.37%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.37%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.59%) Management Information System
2 17 (6.30%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.07%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.70%) Operational Technology
5 7 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.22%) NHS
6 6 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.48%) Life Science
8 3 (1.11%) IoT
8 3 (1.11%) Wiki
9 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.74%) PKI
10 1 (0.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.37%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.37%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.37%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.15%) Windows
2 10 (3.70%) Linux
3 6 (2.22%) Unix
4 5 (1.85%) Solaris
5 4 (1.48%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (1.48%) VMS
5 4 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.74%) Android
6 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (18.52%) Project Management
2 49 (18.15%) Agile
3 46 (17.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 42 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (15.19%) Change Management
6 40 (14.81%) Decision-Making
7 33 (12.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (12.22%) Risk Management
8 32 (11.85%) Analytics
9 30 (11.11%) Programme Management
10 28 (10.37%) ITIL
10 28 (10.37%) Roadmaps
11 25 (9.26%) Service Management
12 22 (8.15%) Service Delivery
13 21 (7.78%) Business Case
14 20 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (7.41%) DevOps
14 20 (7.41%) Project Delivery
15 19 (7.04%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 16 (5.93%) SQL
2 13 (4.81%) Python
3 7 (2.59%) Java
4 6 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.85%) C++
6 3 (1.11%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.74%) C#
7 2 (0.74%) R
8 1 (0.37%) C
8 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.37%) Scala
8 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (15.93%) Security Cleared
2 37 (13.70%) Degree
3 28 (10.37%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (3.33%) CCIE
5 9 (3.33%) CCIE Data Center
6 8 (2.96%) CTC Cleared
6 8 (2.96%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.48%) CCNP
7 4 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.11%) CCSK
8 3 (1.11%) CISSP
8 3 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.74%) HNC
9 2 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.74%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.74%) PMP
9 2 (0.74%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.30%) QA
2 16 (5.93%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (4.44%) NIST
5 11 (4.07%) PMO
6 7 (2.59%) SLA
7 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 4 (1.48%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.48%) ISO 22301
9 3 (1.11%) GRC
9 3 (1.11%) NCSC
10 2 (0.74%) COBIT
10 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 1 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.37%) GDPR
11 1 (0.37%) P3O
System Software
1 6 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.48%) VirtualBox
3 3 (1.11%) Docker
4 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.11%) Nagios
1 3 (1.11%) OpenView
1 3 (1.11%) Terraform
2 2 (0.74%) Grafana
3 1 (0.37%) Ansible
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 37 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 29 (10.74%) SAP
3 28 (10.37%) Oracle
4 15 (5.56%) Cisco
5 10 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.59%) HP
7 6 (2.22%) Citrix
7 6 (2.22%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.85%) Cadence
8 5 (1.85%) CheckPoint
8 5 (1.85%) Infoblox
8 5 (1.85%) Symantec
8 5 (1.85%) Zscaler
9 4 (1.48%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.48%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.48%) Google
10 3 (1.11%) Adobe
10 3 (1.11%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.11%) Splunk
10 3 (1.11%) VMware