Performance Improvement Contracts in the Thames Valley

Performance Improvement
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Performance Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Improvement over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 139 160
Rank change year-on-year +15 +21 -22
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 10 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.38% 0.38% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.41% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 2
10th Percentile - £446 £383
25th Percentile £413 - £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £514
Median % change year-on-year - -12.41% +5.38%
75th Percentile £482 £493 £588
90th Percentile £485 £650 £625
South East median daily rate £413 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -10.81% +8.82% -12.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Performance Improvement 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 advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,314 2,662 3,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.03% 91.76% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 1,857 2,108
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 63 87
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £12.15
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +200.00% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%

Performance Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Performance Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Improvement in the Thames Valley

Performance Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Improvement in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Performance Improvement in the Thames Valley

Performance Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Improvement in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Improvement in the Thames Valley

Performance Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Improvement within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 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
Berkshire +7 9 £475 - 3
Buckinghamshire +22 1 £425 -5.56%
Performance Improvement
South East

Performance Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Functions
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
1 4 (40.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) 3G
1 5 (50.00%) 4G
1 5 (50.00%) 5G
1 5 (50.00%) Diameter Protocol
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
1 5 (50.00%) GGSN
1 5 (50.00%) LTE
1 5 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
1 5 (50.00%) RANAP
1 5 (50.00%) SGSN
1 5 (50.00%) VoLTE
1 5 (50.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (10.00%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
General
1 9 (90.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (50.00%) Multimedia
2 5 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
1 4 (40.00%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Unix
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 5 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 5 (50.00%) Statistics
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) Data Science
2 4 (40.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) ETL
2 4 (40.00%) ETL Development
2 4 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
2 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
2 4 (40.00%) User Stories
3 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (10.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 5 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Empirix
1 5 (50.00%) NetScout
2 4 (40.00%) Ab Initio