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 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 391 581 681
Rank change year-on-year +190 +100 -80
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 184 119 176
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 120 84 91
10th Percentile £298 £387 £213
25th Percentile £400 £500 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £564 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.78% +7.43% +22.81%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £588
90th Percentile £738 £700 £650
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 5
10th Percentile £29.51 £40.73 £23.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £76.38 £30.25
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 £41.75
90th Percentile £79.86 £85.05 £71.24
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 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 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 15 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 15 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 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 +137 150 £469 -14.77% 239
UK excluding London +118 100 £475 -5.00% 140
London +104 73 £500 -13.04% 102
Work from Home +123 56 £450 -25.00% 98
North of England +39 34 £435 -13.00% 44
Yorkshire +41 25 £435 -37.86% 19
Scotland - 23 £625 - 11
South East +30 16 £425 +6.50% 32
Midlands +44 15 £600 -4.00% 28
South West +24 11 £450 -5.75% 13
North West +16 9 £438 -12.50% 22
East Midlands - 8 - - 12
West Midlands +23 7 £600 -4.00% 16
East of England +11 1 - - 18
Northern Ireland - 1 £225 -
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 24 (13.04%) 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 23 (12.50%) AWS
2 22 (11.96%) Azure
3 21 (11.41%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.43%) SaaS
5 9 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.35%) GCP
7 6 (3.26%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.63%) BigCommerce
9 2 (1.09%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.09%) GitHub
9 2 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.54%) Akamai
10 1 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.54%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.54%) IaaS
10 1 (0.54%) OCI
10 1 (0.54%) PaaS
10 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%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.54%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.54%) Sisense
8 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 34 (18.48%) 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%) XCUITest
General
1 75 (40.76%) Social Skills
2 49 (26.63%) Finance
3 35 (19.02%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (15.76%) Marketing
5 18 (9.78%) Banking
6 14 (7.61%) Legal
7 13 (7.07%) Telecoms
8 12 (6.52%) Public Sector
9 11 (5.98%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.72%) Retail
12 4 (2.17%) Electronics
12 4 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.17%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.63%) Advertising
13 3 (1.63%) Military
14 2 (1.09%) German Language
14 2 (1.09%) Local Government
14 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 7 (3.80%) Developer
11 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%) HTML5
7 1 (0.54%) JSON
7 1 (0.54%) Next.js
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
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 4 (2.17%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.17%) Social Media
7 3 (1.63%) Podcast
7 3 (1.63%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.09%) FMCG
8 2 (1.09%) Grid Computing
8 2 (1.09%) LPAR
8 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.09%) Tandem
9 1 (0.54%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.59%) Linux
2 11 (5.98%) Apple iOS
2 11 (5.98%) Unix
3 6 (3.26%) Windows
4 5 (2.72%) 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 52 (28.26%) Agile
2 51 (27.72%) 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%) Mentoring
6 25 (13.59%) Service Delivery
7 24 (13.04%) Roadmaps
8 22 (11.96%) Data Analysis
9 20 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (8.70%) Data Science
10 16 (8.70%) ITIL
11 15 (8.15%) Data Migration
11 15 (8.15%) Digital Marketing
11 15 (8.15%) ITSM
11 15 (8.15%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (6.52%) 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
5 5 (2.72%) Kotlin
6 3 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.63%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.09%) PHP
7 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.09%) VBA
8 1 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 29 (15.76%) Degree
3 18 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.80%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.80%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.17%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.17%) PMP
6 3 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.09%) CBAP
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.54%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.54%) MBA
8 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%) Firmware
2 3 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.63%) VMware NSX
2 3 (1.63%) vSphere
3 2 (1.09%) Docker
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%) MOM
3 3 (1.63%) NetBackup
3 3 (1.63%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.09%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.54%) Ansible
5 1 (0.54%) CFEngine
5 1 (0.54%) Puppet
5 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%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.72%) Google
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%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.09%) Oracle
12 1 (0.54%) Ariba
12 1 (0.54%) BMC
12 1 (0.54%) TIBCO