diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d3e1a20c1..0165c8ea7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [Unreleased]
+
+### Added
+
+- Added `progress.SpeedColumn` a generic speed column with customizable units
+
 ## [13.9.2] - 2024-10-04
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index d8985ca13..4edc03cc1 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -91,3 +91,4 @@ The following people have contributed to the development of Rich:
 - [L. Yeung](https://github.com/lewis-yeung)
 - [chthollyphile](https://github.com/chthollyphile)
 - [Jonathan Helmus](https://github.com/jjhelmus)
+- [Sven Augustin](https://github.com/nichtjens)
diff --git a/docs/source/progress.rst b/docs/source/progress.rst
index baeb3a25a..62f669c1a 100644
--- a/docs/source/progress.rst
+++ b/docs/source/progress.rst
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ The following column objects are available:
 - :class:`~rich.progress.TotalFileSizeColumn` Displays total file size (assumes the steps are bytes).
 - :class:`~rich.progress.DownloadColumn` Displays download progress (assumes the steps are bytes).
 - :class:`~rich.progress.TransferSpeedColumn` Displays transfer speed (assumes the steps are bytes).
+- :class:`~rich.progress.SpeedColumn` Displays generic speed in customizable units (defaults to it/s).
 - :class:`~rich.progress.SpinnerColumn` Displays a "spinner" animation.
 - :class:`~rich.progress.RenderableColumn` Displays an arbitrary Rich renderable in the column.
 - :class:`~rich.progress.IterationSpeedColumn` Displays iteration speed in it/s (iterations per second).
diff --git a/rich/progress.py b/rich/progress.py
index 1e92eb6b1..c8bb8ef41 100644
--- a/rich/progress.py
+++ b/rich/progress.py
@@ -711,6 +711,7 @@ class TaskProgressColumn(TextColumn):
         highlighter (Optional[Highlighter], optional): Highlighter to apply to output. Defaults to None.
         table_column (Optional[Column], optional): Table Column to use. Defaults to None.
         show_speed (bool, optional): Show speed if total is unknown. Defaults to False.
+        speed_units (str, optional): Units of the speed. Defaults to it/s.
     """
 
     def __init__(
@@ -723,9 +724,11 @@ def __init__(
         highlighter: Optional[Highlighter] = None,
         table_column: Optional[Column] = None,
         show_speed: bool = False,
+        speed_units: str = "it/s",
     ) -> None:
         self.text_format_no_percentage = text_format_no_percentage
         self.show_speed = show_speed
+        self.speed_units = speed_units
         super().__init__(
             text_format=text_format,
             style=style,
@@ -736,11 +739,12 @@ def __init__(
         )
 
     @classmethod
-    def render_speed(cls, speed: Optional[float]) -> Text:
-        """Render the speed in iterations per second.
+    def render_speed(cls, speed: Optional[float], units: str = "it/s") -> Text:
+        """Render the speed in iterations per second or the supplied units.
 
         Args:
-            task (Task): A Task object.
+            speed (float): Current value of the speed.
+            units (str): Units of the speed. Defaults to it/s.
 
         Returns:
             Text: Text object containing the task speed.
@@ -753,11 +757,13 @@ def render_speed(cls, speed: Optional[float]) -> Text:
             1000,
         )
         data_speed = speed / unit
-        return Text(f"{data_speed:.1f}{suffix} it/s", style="progress.percentage")
+        return Text(f"{data_speed:.1f}{suffix} {units}", style="progress.percentage")
 
     def render(self, task: "Task") -> Text:
         if task.total is None and self.show_speed:
-            return self.render_speed(task.finished_speed or task.speed)
+            return self.render_speed(
+                task.finished_speed or task.speed, units=self.speed_units
+            )
         text_format = (
             self.text_format_no_percentage if task.total is None else self.text_format
         )
@@ -925,6 +931,24 @@ def render(self, task: "Task") -> Text:
         return Text(f"{data_speed}/s", style="progress.data.speed")
 
 
+class SpeedColumn(ProgressColumn):
+    """Renders human readable speed.
+
+    Args:
+        table_column (Optional[Column], optional): Table Column to use. Defaults to None.
+        units (str, optional): Units of the speed. Defaults to it/s.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, units: str = "it/s", **kwargs) -> None:
+        self.units = units
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    def render(self, task: "Task") -> Text:
+        """Show speed."""
+        speed = task.finished_speed or task.speed
+        return TaskProgressColumn.render_speed(speed, units=self.units)
+
+
 class ProgressSample(NamedTuple):
     """Sample of progress for a given time."""
 
diff --git a/tests/test_progress.py b/tests/test_progress.py
index 0be683c3e..a546364cf 100644
--- a/tests/test_progress.py
+++ b/tests/test_progress.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
     MofNCompleteColumn,
     Progress,
     RenderableColumn,
+    SpeedColumn,
     SpinnerColumn,
     Task,
     TaskID,
@@ -356,6 +357,7 @@ def test_columns() -> None:
         TotalFileSizeColumn(),
         DownloadColumn(),
         TransferSpeedColumn(),
+        SpeedColumn(),
         MofNCompleteColumn(),
         MofNCompleteColumn(separator=" of "),
         transient=True,
@@ -377,7 +379,7 @@ def test_columns() -> None:
 
     result = replace_link_ids(console.file.getvalue())
     print(repr(result))
-    expected = "\x1b[?25ltest foo \x1b[38;5;237m━━━━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m-:--:--\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:07\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m10 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/10 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[31m?\x1b[0m \x1b[32m 0/10\x1b[0m \x1b[32m 0 of 10\x1b[0m\ntest bar \x1b[38;5;237m━━━━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m-:--:--\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:18\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m7 bytes \x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/7 bytes \x1b[0m \x1b[31m?\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/7  \x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 of 7  \x1b[0m\r\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2Kfoo\ntest foo \x1b[38;5;237m━━━━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m-:--:--\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:07\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m10 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/10 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[31m?\x1b[0m \x1b[32m 0/10\x1b[0m \x1b[32m 0 of 10\x1b[0m\ntest bar \x1b[38;5;237m━━━━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m-:--:--\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:18\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m7 bytes \x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/7 bytes \x1b[0m \x1b[31m?\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/7  \x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 of 7  \x1b[0m\r\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2K\x1b[2;36m[TIME]\x1b[0m\x1b[2;36m \x1b[0mhello                                                                    \ntest foo \x1b[38;5;237m━━━━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m-:--:--\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:07\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m10 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/10 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[31m?\x1b[0m \x1b[32m 0/10\x1b[0m \x1b[32m 0 of 10\x1b[0m\ntest bar \x1b[38;5;237m━━━━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m-:--:--\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:18\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m7 bytes \x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/7 bytes \x1b[0m \x1b[31m?\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/7  \x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 of 7  \x1b[0m\r\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2Kworld\ntest foo \x1b[38;5;237m━━━━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m-:--:--\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:07\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m10 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/10 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[31m?\x1b[0m \x1b[32m 0/10\x1b[0m \x1b[32m 0 of 10\x1b[0m\ntest bar \x1b[38;5;237m━━━━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m-:--:--\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:18\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m7 bytes \x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/7 bytes \x1b[0m \x1b[31m?\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/7  \x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 of 7  \x1b[0m\r\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2Ktest foo \x1b[38;2;114;156;31m━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m0:00:00\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:34\x1b[0m \x1b[32m12     \x1b[0m \x1b[32m10     \x1b[0m \x1b[32m12/10   \x1b[0m \x1b[31m1      \x1b[0m \x1b[32m12/10\x1b[0m \x1b[32m12 of 10\x1b[0m\n                                 \x1b[32mbytes  \x1b[0m \x1b[32mbytes  \x1b[0m \x1b[32mbytes   \x1b[0m \x1b[31mbyte/s \x1b[0m               \ntest bar \x1b[38;2;114;156;31m━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m0:00:00\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:29\x1b[0m \x1b[32m16     \x1b[0m \x1b[32m7 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m16/7    \x1b[0m \x1b[31m2      \x1b[0m \x1b[32m16/7 \x1b[0m \x1b[32m16 of 7 \x1b[0m\n                                 \x1b[32mbytes  \x1b[0m         \x1b[32mbytes   \x1b[0m \x1b[31mbytes/s\x1b[0m               \r\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2Ktest foo \x1b[38;2;114;156;31m━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m0:00:00\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:34\x1b[0m \x1b[32m12     \x1b[0m \x1b[32m10     \x1b[0m \x1b[32m12/10   \x1b[0m \x1b[31m1      \x1b[0m \x1b[32m12/10\x1b[0m \x1b[32m12 of 10\x1b[0m\n                                 \x1b[32mbytes  \x1b[0m \x1b[32mbytes  \x1b[0m \x1b[32mbytes   \x1b[0m \x1b[31mbyte/s \x1b[0m               \ntest bar \x1b[38;2;114;156;31m━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m0:00:00\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:29\x1b[0m \x1b[32m16     \x1b[0m \x1b[32m7 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m16/7    \x1b[0m \x1b[31m2      \x1b[0m \x1b[32m16/7 \x1b[0m \x1b[32m16 of 7 \x1b[0m\n                                 \x1b[32mbytes  \x1b[0m         \x1b[32mbytes   \x1b[0m \x1b[31mbytes/s\x1b[0m               \n\x1b[?25h\r\x1b[1A\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2K"
+    expected = "\x1b[?25ltest foo \x1b[38;5;237m━━━━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m-:--:--\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:07\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m10 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/10     \x1b[0m \x1b[31m?\x1b[0m  \x1b[32m 0/10\x1b[0m \x1b[32m 0 of 10\x1b[0m\n                                                     \x1b[32mbytes    \x1b[0m                  \ntest bar \x1b[38;5;237m━━━━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m-:--:--\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:19\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m7 bytes \x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/7 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[31m?\x1b[0m  \x1b[32m0/7  \x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 of 7  \x1b[0m\r\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2Kfoo\ntest foo \x1b[38;5;237m━━━━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m-:--:--\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:07\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m10 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/10     \x1b[0m \x1b[31m?\x1b[0m  \x1b[32m 0/10\x1b[0m \x1b[32m 0 of 10\x1b[0m\n                                                     \x1b[32mbytes    \x1b[0m                  \ntest bar \x1b[38;5;237m━━━━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m-:--:--\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:19\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m7 bytes \x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/7 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[31m?\x1b[0m  \x1b[32m0/7  \x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 of 7  \x1b[0m\r\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2K\x1b[2;36m[TIME]\x1b[0m\x1b[2;36m \x1b[0mhello                                                                    \ntest foo \x1b[38;5;237m━━━━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m-:--:--\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:07\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m10 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/10     \x1b[0m \x1b[31m?\x1b[0m  \x1b[32m 0/10\x1b[0m \x1b[32m 0 of 10\x1b[0m\n                                                     \x1b[32mbytes    \x1b[0m                  \ntest bar \x1b[38;5;237m━━━━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m-:--:--\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:19\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m7 bytes \x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/7 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[31m?\x1b[0m  \x1b[32m0/7  \x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 of 7  \x1b[0m\r\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2Kworld\ntest foo \x1b[38;5;237m━━━━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m-:--:--\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:07\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m10 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/10     \x1b[0m \x1b[31m?\x1b[0m  \x1b[32m 0/10\x1b[0m \x1b[32m 0 of 10\x1b[0m\n                                                     \x1b[32mbytes    \x1b[0m                  \ntest bar \x1b[38;5;237m━━━━━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m-:--:--\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:19\x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[32m7 bytes \x1b[0m \x1b[32m0/7 bytes\x1b[0m \x1b[31m?\x1b[0m  \x1b[32m0/7  \x1b[0m \x1b[32m0 of 7  \x1b[0m\r\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2Ktest foo \x1b[38;2;114;156;31m━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m0:00:…\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:…\x1b[0m \x1b[32m12    \x1b[0m \x1b[32m10    \x1b[0m \x1b[32m12/10  \x1b[0m \x1b[31m1     \x1b[0m \x1b[35m1.3    \x1b[0m \x1b[32m12/10\x1b[0m \x1b[32m12 of  \x1b[0m\n                              \x1b[32mbytes \x1b[0m \x1b[32mbytes \x1b[0m \x1b[32mbytes  \x1b[0m \x1b[31mbyte/s\x1b[0m \x1b[35mit/s   \x1b[0m       \x1b[32m10     \x1b[0m\ntest bar \x1b[38;2;114;156;31m━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m0:00:…\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:…\x1b[0m \x1b[32m16    \x1b[0m \x1b[32m7     \x1b[0m \x1b[32m16/7   \x1b[0m \x1b[31m2     \x1b[0m \x1b[35m2.0    \x1b[0m \x1b[32m16/7 \x1b[0m \x1b[32m16 of 7\x1b[0m\n                              \x1b[32mbytes \x1b[0m \x1b[32mbytes \x1b[0m \x1b[32mbytes  \x1b[0m \x1b[31mbytes…\x1b[0m \x1b[35mit/s   \x1b[0m              \r\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2Ktest foo \x1b[38;2;114;156;31m━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m0:00:…\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:…\x1b[0m \x1b[32m12    \x1b[0m \x1b[32m10    \x1b[0m \x1b[32m12/10  \x1b[0m \x1b[31m1     \x1b[0m \x1b[35m1.3    \x1b[0m \x1b[32m12/10\x1b[0m \x1b[32m12 of  \x1b[0m\n                              \x1b[32mbytes \x1b[0m \x1b[32mbytes \x1b[0m \x1b[32mbytes  \x1b[0m \x1b[31mbyte/s\x1b[0m \x1b[35mit/s   \x1b[0m       \x1b[32m10     \x1b[0m\ntest bar \x1b[38;2;114;156;31m━━━━━━\x1b[0m \x1b[36m0:00:…\x1b[0m \x1b[33m0:00:…\x1b[0m \x1b[32m16    \x1b[0m \x1b[32m7     \x1b[0m \x1b[32m16/7   \x1b[0m \x1b[31m2     \x1b[0m \x1b[35m2.0    \x1b[0m \x1b[32m16/7 \x1b[0m \x1b[32m16 of 7\x1b[0m\n                              \x1b[32mbytes \x1b[0m \x1b[32mbytes \x1b[0m \x1b[32mbytes  \x1b[0m \x1b[31mbytes…\x1b[0m \x1b[35mit/s   \x1b[0m              \n\x1b[?25h\r\x1b[1A\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2K\x1b[1A\x1b[2K"
 
     assert result == expected
 
@@ -659,6 +661,15 @@ def test_task_progress_column_speed() -> None:
     speed_text = TaskProgressColumn.render_speed(8888888)
     assert speed_text.plain == "8.9×10⁶ it/s"
 
+    speed_text = TaskProgressColumn.render_speed(5, units="Hz")
+    assert speed_text.plain == "5.0 Hz"
+
+    speed_text = TaskProgressColumn.render_speed(5000, units="Hz")
+    assert speed_text.plain == "5.0×10³ Hz"
+
+    speed_text = TaskProgressColumn.render_speed(8888888, units="Hz")
+    assert speed_text.plain == "8.9×10⁶ Hz"
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     _render = render_progress()