Performance Metrics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 405 449
Rank change year-on-year +114 +44 -44
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 110 32 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.16% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 23 37
10th Percentile £294 £284 £193
25th Percentile £411 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +10.53% +26.67%
75th Percentile £598 £638 £574
90th Percentile £729 £672 £577
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% +39.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £47.38 £51.90 -
25th Percentile £49.06 £67.88 -
Median hourly rate £66.78 £78.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.94% - -
75th Percentile £84.11 £80.44 -
90th Percentile £85.11 £80.78 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £78.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -14.01% +118.06% -47.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,592 20,238 27,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.79% 89.10% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,357 13,876 18,979
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,189 1,255 1,329
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.46 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +66.67% +0.65%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.97 £74.92 £63.05
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the UK excluding London

Performance Metrics
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 Metrics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 June 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 +47 34 £445 -11.00% 55
Scotland +64 25 £631 +281.42% 9
Yorkshire +32 25 £435 -37.86% 23
Midlands +32 18 £600 -4.00% 30
South East +32 18 £444 -30.66% 43
South West +11 13 £450 -5.75% 17
East Midlands - 10 £400 - 10
North West +10 9 £475 -5.00% 25
West Midlands +22 8 £600 -4.00% 20
Wales - 2 £145 - 3
East of England +4 1 - - 18
Northern Ireland - 1 £225 -
Performance Metrics
UK

Performance Metrics
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 17 (15.45%) Confluence
2 2 (1.82%) CMS
2 2 (1.82%) Drupal
3 1 (0.91%) SAS
3 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.91%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (0.91%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.55%) AWS
2 14 (12.73%) Azure
3 10 (9.09%) SaaS
4 9 (8.18%) Power Platform
5 8 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (6.36%) GCP
7 2 (1.82%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.82%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.91%) OCI
8 1 (0.91%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.64%) Firewall
2 3 (2.73%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.82%) DHCP
3 2 (1.82%) DNS
3 2 (1.82%) FabricPath
3 2 (1.82%) InfiniBand
3 2 (1.82%) LAN
3 2 (1.82%) NX-OS
3 2 (1.82%) VPN
3 2 (1.82%) VSAN
4 1 (0.91%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.18%) Power BI
2 6 (5.45%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.55%) Data Mining
4 4 (3.64%) Big Data
5 2 (1.82%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.91%) DB2
6 1 (0.91%) Looker
6 1 (0.91%) Metadata
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.91%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.91%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (17.27%) JIRA
2 3 (2.73%) JMeter
2 3 (2.73%) LoadRunner
2 3 (2.73%) Selenium
3 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (0.91%) XCUITest
General
1 43 (39.09%) Social Skills
2 27 (24.55%) Finance
3 25 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.91%) Legal
5 10 (9.09%) Marketing
5 10 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.36%) Banking
7 5 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.64%) Electronics
8 4 (3.64%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.82%) Local Government
9 2 (1.82%) Retail
10 1 (0.91%) Advertising
10 1 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (10.91%) Service Manager
2 11 (10.00%) IT Manager
3 10 (9.09%) Analyst
4 9 (8.18%) Consultant
4 9 (8.18%) Lead
5 8 (7.27%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (7.27%) Delivery Manager
5 8 (7.27%) IT Services Delivery Manager
5 8 (7.27%) IT Services Manager
5 8 (7.27%) JIRA Engineer
5 8 (7.27%) Service Delivery Manager
6 6 (5.45%) Applications Support
6 6 (5.45%) Applications Support Engineer
6 6 (5.45%) Product Manager
6 6 (5.45%) Project Manager
6 6 (5.45%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Administrator
7 5 (4.55%) Data Scientist
7 5 (4.55%) Developer
8 4 (3.64%) Database Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.27%) REST
1 8 (7.27%) Web Services
2 3 (2.73%) CSS
2 3 (2.73%) HTML
3 2 (1.82%) jQuery
4 1 (0.91%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.91%) CSS3
4 1 (0.91%) HTML5
4 1 (0.91%) JSON
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.91%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.27%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.36%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (6.36%) Replication
4 3 (2.73%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.73%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.73%) Social Media
5 2 (1.82%) FMCG
5 2 (1.82%) Grid Computing
5 2 (1.82%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.91%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.91%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (0.91%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.45%) Linux
2 11 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 7 (6.36%) Unix
4 5 (4.55%) Android
5 4 (3.64%) Windows
6 1 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.91%) VMS
6 1 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.91%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (26.36%) Service Management
3 27 (24.55%) Agile
4 24 (21.82%) Migration
5 22 (20.00%) Project Management
6 21 (19.09%) Decision-Making
7 19 (17.27%) Mentoring
8 18 (16.36%) Analytics
9 17 (15.45%) Roadmaps
9 17 (15.45%) Service Delivery
10 15 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (12.73%) ITSM
11 14 (12.73%) Problem Management
11 14 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (11.82%) Change Management
12 13 (11.82%) Data Analysis
12 13 (11.82%) ITIL
13 12 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (10.91%) Information Security
14 11 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.09%) Python
1 10 (9.09%) Swift
2 6 (5.45%) Bash
3 5 (4.55%) Kotlin
4 4 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.64%) SQL
5 2 (1.82%) Groovy
5 2 (1.82%) Java
5 2 (1.82%) PHP
5 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.91%) Perl
6 1 (0.91%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (20.91%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.73%) Degree
3 13 (11.82%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.73%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.91%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.45%) PMO
2 4 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.82%) QA
3 2 (1.82%) SLA
4 1 (0.91%) COBIT
System Software
1 6 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (1.82%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.82%) vSphere
4 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.91%) Docker
4 1 (0.91%) Firmware
4 1 (0.91%) NFS
4 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (2.73%) MOM
1 3 (2.73%) NetBackup
2 2 (1.82%) vCenter Server
2 2 (1.82%) VxRail
3 1 (0.91%) Ansible
3 1 (0.91%) CFEngine
3 1 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.91%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 10 (9.09%) SAP
3 8 (7.27%) Okta
4 6 (5.45%) VMware
5 5 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.64%) Remedy
6 4 (3.64%) Splunk
7 2 (1.82%) Cisco
7 2 (1.82%) Dell
7 2 (1.82%) Oracle
8 1 (0.91%) Adobe
8 1 (0.91%) Ariba
8 1 (0.91%) Cadence
8 1 (0.91%) Google
8 1 (0.91%) IBM
8 1 (0.91%) LogRhythm