Performance Monitoring Contracts

Performance Monitoring
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Monitoring skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Monitoring 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 392 497 649
Rank change year-on-year +105 +152 -119
Contract jobs citing Performance Monitoring 183 205 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.36% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.40% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 117 126
10th Percentile £387 £312 £306
25th Percentile £461 £450 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £584
90th Percentile £710 £707 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £475
% change year-on-year +2.44% +7.89% +35.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 2
10th Percentile £11.41 £28.66 -
25th Percentile £18.67 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.43 £65.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.65% +182.61% +73.58%
75th Percentile £43.53 £65.19 £23.50
90th Percentile £50.41 £65.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £7.85 £65.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -87.92% +182.61% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Monitoring 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 Monitoring
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Monitoring over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Monitoring over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Monitoring in the UK

Performance Monitoring
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Monitoring 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 +84 155 £550 +3.77% 104
UK excluding London +64 97 £525 +2.44% 81
London +92 62 £550 +6.80% 31
Work from Home +113 61 £500 -6.10% 51
North of England +41 32 £475 - 17
Yorkshire +43 25 £430 -9.47% 6
South West +24 23 £581 +18.62% 7
South East +10 20 £605 +8.04% 16
Midlands +35 13 £400 -11.11% 25
Scotland +54 8 £513 -6.82% 8
West Midlands +17 7 £375 -16.67% 12
East Midlands +20 6 £675 +68.75% 13
North West +13 4 £500 -8.17% 11
North East - 3 £590 -
Wales - 1 £583 -

Performance Monitoring
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 (13.11%) SAS
2 6 (3.28%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.73%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.19%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.64%) Apache
6 2 (1.09%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.09%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.55%) Confluence
7 1 (0.55%) IIS
7 1 (0.55%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (4.92%) Remedy ITSM
1 9 (4.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.09%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.09%) NEC Housing
2 2 (1.09%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.09%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.55%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 49 (26.78%) Azure
2 16 (8.74%) OCI
3 14 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (7.10%) AWS
5 12 (6.56%) Power Platform
6 11 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (6.01%) GCP
7 6 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (3.28%) SaaS
8 5 (2.73%) GitHub
9 3 (1.64%) Apigee
9 3 (1.64%) Datadog
9 3 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.09%) Akamai
10 2 (1.09%) IaaS
10 2 (1.09%) PaaS
10 2 (1.09%) Slack
11 1 (0.55%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.55%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.55%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.11%) Firewall
2 23 (12.57%) DNS
3 21 (11.48%) DHCP
4 16 (8.74%) SAN
5 6 (3.28%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.73%) LAN
7 4 (2.19%) Internet
7 4 (2.19%) MPLS
7 4 (2.19%) PBX
7 4 (2.19%) PSTN
7 4 (2.19%) SNMP
7 4 (2.19%) VoIP
7 4 (2.19%) WAN
7 4 (2.19%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.64%) 2G
8 3 (1.64%) 3G
8 3 (1.64%) GPRS
8 3 (1.64%) SCCP
8 3 (1.64%) SMTP
8 3 (1.64%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.65%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.56%) Power BI
3 7 (3.83%) Big Data
4 6 (3.28%) Data Lake
4 6 (3.28%) Delta Lake
4 6 (3.28%) MySQL
4 6 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.73%) OLAP
5 5 (2.73%) OLTP
5 5 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.19%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (2.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (1.64%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.64%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.09%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.09%) Redis
8 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.83%) Git
2 4 (2.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.64%) JIRA
4 2 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.09%) Gatling
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
General
1 104 (56.83%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (13.11%) Finance
4 14 (7.65%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.83%) Banking
7 5 (2.73%) Retail
8 4 (2.19%) French Language
8 4 (2.19%) German Language
8 4 (2.19%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.64%) Marketing
9 3 (1.64%) Military
9 3 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.09%) Electronics
10 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.09%) Local Government
10 2 (1.09%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.55%) Advertising
11 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (14.21%) Senior
2 20 (10.93%) Programmer
3 19 (10.38%) Systems Programmer
3 19 (10.38%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 14 (7.65%) DBA
4 14 (7.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (7.10%) Architect
6 12 (6.56%) Lead
7 10 (5.46%) Storage Engineer
8 9 (4.92%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.37%) Analyst
9 8 (4.37%) Capacity Manager
10 7 (3.83%) Administrator
10 7 (3.83%) Availability Manager
10 7 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (3.83%) Consultant
10 7 (3.83%) Data Engineer
10 7 (3.83%) SQL DBA
11 6 (3.28%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (3.28%) Capacity and Availability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.66%) ISPF
2 12 (6.56%) Kafka
3 6 (3.28%) PySpark
4 4 (2.19%) .NET
5 3 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.09%) LDAP
6 2 (1.09%) Middleware
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.09%) REST
6 2 (1.09%) Vue
6 2 (1.09%) Web Services
7 1 (0.55%) Ajax
7 1 (0.55%) CSS
7 1 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.55%) Flash
7 1 (0.55%) HTML
7 1 (0.55%) SOAP
7 1 (0.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.66%) Mainframe
2 17 (9.29%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.56%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.37%) FMCG
5 7 (3.83%) CMDB
5 7 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.28%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.73%) PKI
8 4 (2.19%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.64%) Clustering
9 3 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.64%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (1.09%) HP Storage
10 2 (1.09%) Industry 4.0
10 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 43 (23.50%) Windows
2 27 (14.75%) Linux
3 25 (13.66%) zOS
4 24 (13.11%) Windows 10
5 23 (12.57%) Windows Server
6 14 (7.65%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (7.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (7.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (7.65%) Windows XP
7 4 (2.19%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.09%) AIX
8 2 (1.09%) Android
8 2 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.09%) Solaris
9 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (21.31%) ITIL
3 38 (20.77%) Agile
4 31 (16.94%) Analytics
4 31 (16.94%) Disaster Recovery
5 27 (14.75%) Project Management
5 27 (14.75%) Risk Management
6 25 (13.66%) Performance Tuning
7 22 (12.02%) DevOps
8 21 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (11.48%) Capacity Planning
9 20 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (10.93%) Proactive Monitoring
9 20 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (10.38%) Migration
11 18 (9.84%) Project Delivery
12 17 (9.29%) CI/CD
12 17 (9.29%) Scrum
13 16 (8.74%) Server Management
14 15 (8.20%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (20.22%) PowerShell
2 29 (15.85%) SQL
3 25 (13.66%) JCL
3 25 (13.66%) REXX
4 20 (10.93%) Assembly Language
5 18 (9.84%) Python
6 5 (2.73%) C#
6 5 (2.73%) CLIST
6 5 (2.73%) Java
7 3 (1.64%) Bash
7 3 (1.64%) Bicep
8 2 (1.09%) Go
8 2 (1.09%) Ruby
8 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.55%) Groovy
9 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 50 (27.32%) Security Cleared
2 45 (24.59%) SC Cleared
3 29 (15.85%) Degree
4 19 (10.38%) DV Cleared
5 17 (9.29%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (8.74%) CCNA
6 16 (8.74%) CCNP
7 6 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.73%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.19%) Postgraduate
10 3 (1.64%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.09%) CBAP
12 1 (0.55%) CCIE
12 1 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.55%) PMP
12 1 (0.55%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.65%) SLA
2 7 (3.83%) QA
3 4 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.64%) PMO
5 2 (1.09%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (14.75%) Active Directory
2 25 (13.66%) Time Sharing Option
3 20 (10.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (8.20%) ACF2
4 15 (8.20%) Hyper-V
4 15 (8.20%) RACF
4 15 (8.20%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (4.37%) Docker
6 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.64%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.55%) HDFS
7 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (13.11%) OMEGAMON
1 24 (13.11%) SCCM
2 17 (9.29%) SCOM
3 16 (8.74%) EMC NetWorker
3 16 (8.74%) NetBackup
4 15 (8.20%) vCenter Server
5 14 (7.65%) WSUS
6 12 (6.56%) Terraform
7 7 (3.83%) Puppet
8 6 (3.28%) Ansible
9 5 (2.73%) Kubernetes
9 5 (2.73%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.64%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.64%) Grafana
11 3 (1.64%) OPNET
12 2 (1.09%) HP Data Protector
13 1 (0.55%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 52 (28.42%) Microsoft
2 27 (14.75%) Oracle
3 25 (13.66%) IBM
4 23 (12.57%) Splunk
5 22 (12.02%) VMware
6 20 (10.93%) Broadcom
7 18 (9.84%) Cisco
8 17 (9.29%) HP
9 16 (8.74%) EMC
9 16 (8.74%) Symantec
10 15 (8.20%) Palo Alto
11 14 (7.65%) 3PAR
11 14 (7.65%) Dell
11 14 (7.65%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (7.65%) Juniper
11 14 (7.65%) Veeam
12 13 (7.10%) SAP
13 9 (4.92%) Remedy
14 8 (4.37%) Google
15 6 (3.28%) Databricks