Performance Metrics Contracts

Performance Metrics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Metrics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Metrics over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 580 667
Rank change year-on-year +173 +87 -46
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 184 119 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.23% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 85 92
10th Percentile £294 £389 £215
25th Percentile £400 £500 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +9.52% +40.00%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £588
90th Percentile £738 £700 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +35.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 3
10th Percentile £29.51 £40.73 £22.05
25th Percentile £51.25 £76.38 £26.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £78.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.01% +121.13% -36.89%
75th Percentile £71.25 £81.00 £63.83
90th Percentile £79.86 £85.05 £80.07
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.78 £78.50 -
% change year-on-year -14.94% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Metrics 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 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Metrics in the UK

Performance Metrics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Metrics in the UK

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Metrics over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the UK

Performance Metrics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Metrics in the UK

Performance Metrics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Metrics over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the UK

Performance Metrics
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 Metrics within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +146 149 £456 -18.89% 240
UK excluding London +120 99 £475 -5.00% 140
London +100 73 £500 -14.89% 106
Work from Home +115 57 £450 -25.00% 114
North of England +51 33 £425 -15.00% 44
Yorkshire +37 24 £425 -39.29% 17
Scotland - 23 £625 - 12
South East +28 16 £425 +6.50% 28
Midlands +41 15 £600 -4.00% 23
South West +18 11 £450 -5.75% 13
North West +14 9 £438 -12.50% 23
East Midlands - 8 - - 9
West Midlands +20 7 £600 -4.00% 14
East of England +12 1 - - 21
Northern Ireland - 1 £225 - 2
Wales - 1 £145 - 4

Performance Metrics
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 25 (13.59%) Confluence
2 3 (1.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.09%) CMS
3 2 (1.09%) Drupal
3 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 16 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.09%) AutoCAD
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.09%) Revit
4 1 (0.54%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.54%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.63%) Shopify
3 1 (0.54%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.04%) AWS
2 23 (12.50%) Azure
3 21 (11.41%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.43%) SaaS
5 9 (4.89%) GCP
5 9 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.26%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.63%) BigCommerce
8 2 (1.09%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.09%) GitHub
8 2 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.54%) Akamai
9 1 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.54%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.54%) IaaS
9 1 (0.54%) OCI
9 1 (0.54%) PaaS
9 1 (0.54%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.26%) Firewall
2 4 (2.17%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.17%) VPN
3 3 (1.63%) Broadband
3 3 (1.63%) DNS
3 3 (1.63%) FabricPath
3 3 (1.63%) LAN
3 3 (1.63%) NX-OS
3 3 (1.63%) VSAN
4 2 (1.09%) DHCP
4 2 (1.09%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.54%) Internet
5 1 (0.54%) Network Security
5 1 (0.54%) SMS
5 1 (0.54%) SSL
5 1 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.41%) Power BI
2 7 (3.80%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.26%) Big Data
4 5 (2.72%) Data Mining
4 5 (2.72%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.17%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.63%) DB2
6 3 (1.63%) Metadata
6 3 (1.63%) MySQL
6 3 (1.63%) Tableau
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.54%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.54%) Power Query
8 1 (0.54%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.54%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 35 (19.02%) JIRA
2 5 (2.72%) Bitbucket
2 5 (2.72%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (1.63%) JMeter
3 3 (1.63%) LoadRunner
3 3 (1.63%) Maven
3 3 (1.63%) Selenium
4 1 (0.54%) Git
4 1 (0.54%) GoCD
4 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.54%) XCUITest
General
1 75 (40.76%) Social Skills
2 50 (27.17%) Finance
3 35 (19.02%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (15.22%) Marketing
5 18 (9.78%) Banking
6 14 (7.61%) Legal
7 13 (7.07%) Telecoms
8 12 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (6.52%) Public Sector
9 8 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (3.26%) Retail
11 4 (2.17%) Electronics
11 4 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.63%) Advertising
12 3 (1.63%) Military
13 2 (1.09%) German Language
13 2 (1.09%) Local Government
13 2 (1.09%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 20 (10.87%) Analyst
2 16 (8.70%) Service Manager
3 14 (7.61%) Project Manager
4 13 (7.07%) IT Manager
5 12 (6.52%) Applications Engineer
5 12 (6.52%) Delivery Manager
5 12 (6.52%) JIRA Engineer
6 11 (5.98%) Administrator
6 11 (5.98%) Lead
6 11 (5.98%) Service Delivery Manager
7 10 (5.43%) Applications Support
7 10 (5.43%) Applications Support Engineer
7 10 (5.43%) Consultant
7 10 (5.43%) Product Manager
7 10 (5.43%) Support Engineer
8 9 (4.89%) IT Services Manager
8 9 (4.89%) Senior
9 8 (4.35%) IT Services Delivery Manager
10 6 (3.26%) Developer
10 6 (3.26%) Digital Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.61%) Web Services
2 13 (7.07%) REST
3 6 (3.26%) CSS
4 5 (2.72%) jQuery
5 4 (2.17%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.63%) HTML
6 3 (1.63%) J2EE
6 3 (1.63%) Sass
6 3 (1.63%) Spring
6 3 (1.63%) Spring MVC
6 3 (1.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (1.63%) VML
7 1 (0.54%) CSS3
7 1 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.54%) HTML5
7 1 (0.54%) JSON
7 1 (0.54%) Kafka
7 1 (0.54%) Next.js
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.54%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 15 (8.15%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.43%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (4.35%) Over-the-Top Content
4 8 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.35%) Replication
4 8 (4.35%) Video\Live Streaming
5 7 (3.80%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 3 (1.63%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.63%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.63%) Social Media
7 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.09%) FMCG
7 2 (1.09%) Grid Computing
7 2 (1.09%) LPAR
7 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.09%) Podcast
8 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.54%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.54%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.13%) Linux
2 11 (5.98%) Apple iOS
2 11 (5.98%) Unix
3 6 (3.26%) Windows
4 4 (2.17%) Android
5 3 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.63%) zOS
6 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (28.80%) Agile
2 50 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (22.28%) Service Management
4 34 (18.48%) Analytics
4 34 (18.48%) Decision-Making
4 34 (18.48%) Migration
5 32 (17.39%) Project Management
6 25 (13.59%) Business Intelligence
6 25 (13.59%) Service Delivery
7 24 (13.04%) Mentoring
7 24 (13.04%) Roadmaps
8 23 (12.50%) Data Analysis
9 20 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (8.70%) Data Science
11 16 (8.70%) ITIL
12 15 (8.15%) Change Management
12 15 (8.15%) Data Migration
12 15 (8.15%) Digital Marketing
12 15 (8.15%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 13 (7.07%) Python
2 10 (5.43%) SQL
2 10 (5.43%) Swift
3 8 (4.35%) Bash
4 7 (3.80%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.72%) Groovy
5 5 (2.72%) Java
6 4 (2.17%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.63%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.09%) PHP
8 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.09%) VBA
9 1 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (16.30%) Degree
1 30 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.78%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.80%) DV Cleared
3 7 (3.80%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.17%) PMI Certification
4 4 (2.17%) PMP
5 3 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.09%) CBAP
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.54%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.54%) MBA
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.98%) SLA
2 9 (4.89%) PMO
3 8 (4.35%) QA
4 6 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.63%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.54%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 10 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.63%) Docker
2 3 (1.63%) Firmware
2 3 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.63%) VMware NSX
2 3 (1.63%) vSphere
3 2 (1.09%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.54%) NFS
4 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (3.80%) VxRail
2 4 (2.17%) PowerCLI
3 3 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.63%) MOM
3 3 (1.63%) NetBackup
3 3 (1.63%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.54%) Ansible
4 1 (0.54%) CFEngine
4 1 (0.54%) Grafana
4 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.54%) Puppet
4 1 (0.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.24%) Atlassian
3 16 (8.70%) VMware
4 15 (8.15%) SAP
5 10 (5.43%) Dell
6 8 (4.35%) Okta
7 6 (3.26%) Adobe
7 6 (3.26%) Google
7 6 (3.26%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.72%) Remedy
9 4 (2.17%) Cisco
10 3 (1.63%) IBM
10 3 (1.63%) Intel
10 3 (1.63%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.63%) Sitecore
11 2 (1.09%) Cadence
11 2 (1.09%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.09%) Oracle
12 1 (0.54%) Ariba
12 1 (0.54%) ForeScout