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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 455 468
Rank change year-on-year +121 +13 +6
Contract jobs citing Performance Management 252 258 443
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.45% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.50% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 140 290
10th Percentile £303 £250 £299
25th Percentile £396 £431 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -1.18% +25.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £668
90th Percentile £775 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 21
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.63 £13.25
25th Percentile £22.44 - £24.35
Median hourly rate £41.25 £49.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.82% +58.06% +43.60%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £33.15
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £37.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £65.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -21.54% +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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 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 +90 222 £525 -4.55% 292
UK excluding London +50 134 £525 - 200
Work from Home +117 105 £494 -10.20% 117
London +97 98 £525 - 97
South East +12 39 £525 +1.20% 39
Midlands +40 23 £550 -15.38% 31
West Midlands +32 20 £550 - 21
North of England +14 20 £600 -14.29% 72
East of England +14 19 £525 +10.53% 32
Scotland +48 17 £435 -13.00% 10
South West +20 17 £45 -91.43% 16
North West +17 14 £600 - 46
Yorkshire +13 4 £525 -25.00% 13
North East +13 2 £666 +2.38% 13
East Midlands +10 2 - - 10
Wales +23 1 £1,000 +185.71% 8

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 9 (3.57%) Confluence
2 7 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 11 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
1 11 (4.37%) Spreadsheet
2 9 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) iTrent
2 3 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.79%) Primavera
3 2 (0.79%) SAP EHS
3 2 (0.79%) SAP PS
3 2 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.40%) HFM
4 1 (0.40%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.40%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 22 (8.73%) Azure
1 22 (8.73%) SaaS
2 12 (4.76%) Power Platform
3 10 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (3.57%) AWS
5 8 (3.17%) SuccessFactors
6 6 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.59%) IaaS
7 4 (1.59%) PaaS
8 3 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.19%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.19%) GCP
8 3 (1.19%) Serverless
9 2 (0.79%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (0.79%) Asana
9 2 (0.79%) GitHub
9 2 (0.79%) Miro
10 1 (0.40%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.95%) LAN
2 14 (5.56%) WAN
3 13 (5.16%) Firewall
4 11 (4.37%) MPLS
4 11 (4.37%) VoIP
5 10 (3.97%) WLAN
6 9 (3.57%) 3G
6 9 (3.57%) 4G
6 9 (3.57%) 5G
6 9 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (3.57%) PBX
6 9 (3.57%) Radio Access Network
6 9 (3.57%) VPN
7 6 (2.38%) Internet
7 6 (2.38%) SD-WAN
7 6 (2.38%) Wireless
8 5 (1.98%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (1.98%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (1.98%) DHCP
8 5 (1.98%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.37%) Power BI
2 4 (1.59%) Big Data
2 4 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (1.59%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (1.19%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.19%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.79%) Tableau
5 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.40%) DB2
5 1 (0.40%) Essbase
5 1 (0.40%) HDInsight
5 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (5.95%) JIRA
2 7 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.98%) Git
4 4 (1.59%) Artifactory
4 4 (1.59%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.59%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (0.79%) JUnit
5 2 (0.79%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.79%) Postman
5 2 (0.79%) Selenium
5 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.40%) Gatling
6 1 (0.40%) GitLab
6 1 (0.40%) JMeter
6 1 (0.40%) RStudio
6 1 (0.40%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.40%) WebDriver
General
1 78 (30.95%) Finance
2 67 (26.59%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.48%) Public Sector
4 30 (11.90%) Local Government
5 28 (11.11%) Legal
6 25 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (8.73%) Telecoms
8 15 (5.95%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (3.17%) Banking
9 8 (3.17%) Retail
10 7 (2.78%) Marketing
10 7 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.98%) Military
11 5 (1.98%) Police
12 4 (1.59%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.19%) Law
13 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.79%) Advertising
14 2 (0.79%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 29 (11.51%) Lead
2 26 (10.32%) Analyst
3 24 (9.52%) Consultant
4 21 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 20 (7.94%) Senior
6 18 (7.14%) Architect
7 10 (3.97%) Performance Analyst
8 9 (3.57%) Procurement Officer
8 9 (3.57%) Programme Manager
9 8 (3.17%) Enterprise Architect
10 7 (2.78%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (2.78%) IT Manager
10 7 (2.78%) Senior Manager
11 6 (2.38%) Development Manager
11 6 (2.38%) Performance Consultant
12 5 (1.98%) Administrator
12 5 (1.98%) Desktop Support
12 5 (1.98%) Network Architect
12 5 (1.98%) Senior Consultant
12 5 (1.98%) Senior Performance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.76%) Web Services
2 6 (2.38%) XML
3 4 (1.59%) EDI
3 4 (1.59%) RESTful
3 4 (1.59%) SOAP
4 3 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.19%) React
5 2 (0.79%) ADO
5 2 (0.79%) HTML
5 2 (0.79%) Swagger
6 1 (0.40%) .NET
6 1 (0.40%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.40%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.40%) Flash
6 1 (0.40%) JSON
6 1 (0.40%) LDAP
6 1 (0.40%) Middleware
6 1 (0.40%) Node.js
6 1 (0.40%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.40%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.49%) Management Information System
2 16 (6.35%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.17%) NHS
5 7 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.59%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.79%) IoT
8 2 (0.79%) Life Science
8 2 (0.79%) Wiki
9 1 (0.40%) CMDB
9 1 (0.40%) Equity Risk
9 1 (0.40%) Graphic Design
9 1 (0.40%) PKI
9 1 (0.40%) SCADA
9 1 (0.40%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.75%) Windows
2 10 (3.97%) Linux
3 5 (1.98%) Unix
4 4 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (1.59%) Solaris
5 3 (1.19%) VMS
6 2 (0.79%) Android
6 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (19.84%) Agile
1 50 (19.84%) Project Management
2 45 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (17.06%) Change Management
4 39 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (15.08%) Decision-Making
6 34 (13.49%) Risk Management
7 30 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (11.90%) Programme Management
7 30 (11.90%) Roadmaps
8 28 (11.11%) Analytics
9 22 (8.73%) ITIL
10 21 (8.33%) Business Case
10 21 (8.33%) Service Delivery
11 20 (7.94%) Contract Management
12 19 (7.54%) DevOps
12 19 (7.54%) Project Delivery
13 18 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (7.14%) Project Planning
14 17 (6.75%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.95%) SQL
2 13 (5.16%) Python
3 5 (1.98%) C++
3 5 (1.98%) Java
4 4 (1.59%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.79%) C#
5 2 (0.79%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.79%) R
6 1 (0.40%) C
6 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 35 (13.89%) Degree
3 24 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (3.57%) CCIE
5 9 (3.57%) CCIE Data Center
6 8 (3.17%) CTC Cleared
6 8 (3.17%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.59%) CCNP
7 4 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.19%) CCSK
8 3 (1.19%) CISSP
8 3 (1.19%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.79%) HNC
9 2 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.79%) PMP
9 2 (0.79%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.40%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.95%) Data Quality
1 15 (5.95%) QA
2 13 (5.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.76%) NIST
4 11 (4.37%) PMO
5 7 (2.78%) SLA
6 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.59%) ISO 22301
8 3 (1.19%) GRC
8 3 (1.19%) NCSC
9 2 (0.79%) COBIT
9 2 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 1 (0.40%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (1.59%) VirtualBox
2 3 (1.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) Docker
3 1 (0.40%) Firmware
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.59%) Nagios
1 4 (1.59%) OpenView
2 3 (1.19%) Terraform
3 2 (0.79%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.40%) Ansible
4 1 (0.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 36 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.71%) Oracle
3 25 (9.92%) SAP
4 16 (6.35%) Cisco
5 7 (2.78%) HP
6 6 (2.38%) Citrix
6 6 (2.38%) Palo Alto
6 6 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.98%) Cadence
7 5 (1.98%) CheckPoint
7 5 (1.98%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.98%) Infoblox
7 5 (1.98%) Symantec
7 5 (1.98%) Zscaler
8 4 (1.59%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.19%) AlienVault
9 3 (1.19%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.19%) Google
9 3 (1.19%) Phenom
9 3 (1.19%) Workday