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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 441 487
Rank change year-on-year +106 +46 +5
Contract jobs citing Performance Management 255 254 408
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.45% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.51% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 143 276
10th Percentile £304 £270 £330
25th Percentile £399 £434 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -3.18% +28.65%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +31.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 18 19
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £20.23 £31.94 £24.35
Median hourly rate £35.00 £49.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +58.06% +43.60%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £33.15
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.23 £37.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -3.06% +58.06% +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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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
England +96 227 £525 -4.55% 326
UK excluding London +56 144 £525 - 205
Work from Home +99 96 £465 -15.54% 133
London +85 94 £515 -4.85% 127
South East +11 45 £500 -6.98% 53
Midlands +35 26 £550 +4.76% 36
North of England +21 24 £600 -14.29% 54
West Midlands +30 23 £550 +41.03% 22
Scotland +38 18 £435 -13.00% 12
North West +23 18 £600 - 35
South West +9 17 £45 -91.43% 18
East of England +4 15 £513 -19.61% 22
Yorkshire +12 4 £525 -25.00% 13
North East +13 2 £666 +2.38% 6
East Midlands +7 2 - - 14
Wales +18 1 £1,000 +185.71% 9

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 8 (3.14%) Confluence
2 7 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.78%) SAS
4 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 10 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (3.92%) Spreadsheet
2 9 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.57%) iTrent
2 3 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.78%) SAP EHS
3 2 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.39%) HFM
4 1 (0.39%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.39%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.39%) Primavera
4 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.39%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.39%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.39%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.39%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 16 (6.27%) SaaS
2 15 (5.88%) Azure
2 15 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 10 (3.92%) AWS
4 9 (3.53%) SuccessFactors
5 6 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.18%) GCP
7 3 (1.18%) Serverless
8 2 (0.78%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (0.78%) Asana
8 2 (0.78%) GitHub
8 2 (0.78%) Miro
9 1 (0.39%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.39%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.39%) IaaS
9 1 (0.39%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.88%) LAN
2 14 (5.49%) WAN
3 13 (5.10%) Firewall
4 11 (4.31%) MPLS
4 11 (4.31%) VoIP
5 10 (3.92%) WLAN
6 9 (3.53%) 3G
6 9 (3.53%) 4G
6 9 (3.53%) 5G
6 9 (3.53%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (3.53%) PBX
6 9 (3.53%) Radio Access Network
6 9 (3.53%) VPN
7 6 (2.35%) Internet
7 6 (2.35%) SD-WAN
7 6 (2.35%) Wireless
8 5 (1.96%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (1.96%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (1.96%) DHCP
8 5 (1.96%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.49%) Power BI
2 4 (1.57%) Big Data
2 4 (1.57%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.57%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.18%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.18%) Tableau
4 2 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (0.78%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.78%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.39%) HDInsight
5 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.39%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 14 (5.49%) JIRA
2 7 (2.75%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.96%) Git
4 4 (1.57%) Artifactory
4 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.18%) JUnit
5 3 (1.18%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.78%) Gatling
6 2 (0.78%) Postman
6 2 (0.78%) Selenium
6 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.39%) GitLab
7 1 (0.39%) JMeter
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.39%) RStudio
7 1 (0.39%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 80 (31.37%) Finance
2 59 (23.14%) Social Skills
3 38 (14.90%) Public Sector
4 35 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (12.16%) Legal
6 27 (10.59%) Local Government
6 27 (10.59%) Telecoms
7 20 (7.84%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.92%) Retail
9 9 (3.53%) Banking
9 9 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.75%) Marketing
11 6 (2.35%) Military
11 6 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.96%) Police
13 4 (1.57%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.57%) Law
13 4 (1.57%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.78%) Advertising
14 2 (0.78%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 29 (11.37%) Analyst
1 29 (11.37%) Lead
2 26 (10.20%) Senior
3 24 (9.41%) Consultant
4 21 (8.24%) Project Manager
5 15 (5.88%) Architect
6 12 (4.71%) Procurement Officer
7 11 (4.31%) IT Manager
8 9 (3.53%) Performance Analyst
8 9 (3.53%) Programme Manager
9 8 (3.14%) Enterprise Architect
10 7 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (2.75%) Performance Manager
10 7 (2.75%) Senior Consultant
10 7 (2.75%) Senior Manager
11 6 (2.35%) Development Manager
12 5 (1.96%) Administrator
12 5 (1.96%) Network Architect
12 5 (1.96%) SAP Consultant
12 5 (1.96%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.71%) Web Services
2 6 (2.35%) XML
3 4 (1.57%) EDI
3 4 (1.57%) RESTful
3 4 (1.57%) SOAP
4 3 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.18%) React
5 2 (0.78%) ADO
5 2 (0.78%) HTML
5 2 (0.78%) Swagger
6 1 (0.39%) .NET
6 1 (0.39%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.39%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.39%) Flash
6 1 (0.39%) JSON
6 1 (0.39%) LDAP
6 1 (0.39%) Middleware
6 1 (0.39%) Node.js
6 1 (0.39%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.39%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.29%) Management Information System
2 16 (6.27%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.31%) NHS
4 7 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.96%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.57%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.78%) IoT
8 2 (0.78%) Life Science
8 2 (0.78%) Wiki
9 1 (0.39%) CMDB
9 1 (0.39%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.39%) Graphic Design
9 1 (0.39%) PKI
9 1 (0.39%) SCADA
9 1 (0.39%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.49%) Windows
2 10 (3.92%) Linux
3 4 (1.57%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.78%) Android
4 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.78%) Unix
4 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (20.00%) Project Management
2 50 (19.61%) Agile
3 47 (18.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 45 (17.65%) Decision-Making
5 42 (16.47%) Change Management
6 38 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (12.94%) Risk Management
9 32 (12.55%) Analytics
9 32 (12.55%) Roadmaps
10 30 (11.76%) Programme Management
11 25 (9.80%) ITIL
12 24 (9.41%) Contract Management
13 20 (7.84%) Business Case
13 20 (7.84%) Mentoring
13 20 (7.84%) Project Delivery
13 20 (7.84%) Service Delivery
14 19 (7.45%) Business Intelligence
15 18 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
16 17 (6.67%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.24%) SQL
2 16 (6.27%) Python
3 6 (2.35%) Java
4 5 (1.96%) C++
5 4 (1.57%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.57%) R
6 2 (0.78%) C#
6 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.39%) C
7 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (14.12%) Degree
1 36 (14.12%) Security Cleared
2 20 (7.84%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.53%) CCIE
3 9 (3.53%) CCIE Data Center
3 9 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (3.14%) CTC Cleared
4 8 (3.14%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.57%) CCNP
5 4 (1.57%) CIPD
5 4 (1.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.78%) HNC
7 2 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.78%) PMP
7 2 (0.78%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.45%) QA
2 15 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 11 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.92%) PMO
5 9 (3.53%) NIST
6 7 (2.75%) SLA
7 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.18%) GDPR
7 3 (1.18%) GRC
7 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.78%) COBIT
8 2 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.78%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 1 (0.39%) GMP
9 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (1.57%) VirtualBox
2 3 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Docker
3 1 (0.39%) Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.57%) Nagios
1 4 (1.57%) OpenView
2 3 (1.18%) Terraform
3 2 (0.78%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.39%) Ansible
4 1 (0.39%) Grafana
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 27 (10.59%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.20%) SAP
3 23 (9.02%) Oracle
4 16 (6.27%) Cisco
5 6 (2.35%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.35%) Palo Alto
5 6 (2.35%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.96%) Cadence
6 5 (1.96%) CheckPoint
6 5 (1.96%) Fortinet
6 5 (1.96%) Infoblox
6 5 (1.96%) Splunk
6 5 (1.96%) Symantec
6 5 (1.96%) Zscaler
7 4 (1.57%) HP
7 4 (1.57%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.18%) AlienVault
8 3 (1.18%) Citrix
8 3 (1.18%) Google
8 3 (1.18%) Phenom