Performance Improvement Contract Job Trends in Central London

Performance Improvement
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Performance Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 129 130
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +73
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 5 5 20
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.25% 0.21% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.23% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 11
10th Percentile - £555 £463
25th Percentile £413 £600 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% -3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £438 £825 £800
90th Percentile - £885 £825
London median daily rate £425 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -19.05% -12.50% -3.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Performance Improvement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,825 2,205 2,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 91.80% 91.65% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,270 1,386 1,770
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £669 £688 £690
90th Percentile £750 £778 £825
London median daily rate £526 £550 £567
% change year-on-year -4.45% -3.04% -3.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 28 16
10th Percentile £19.98 £19.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.60 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%
75th Percentile £46.11 £48.13 £51.31
90th Percentile £60.25 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £29.75 £37.25 £36.28
% change year-on-year -20.13% +2.67% -7.57%

Performance Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Improvement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Performance Improvement job vacancy trend in Central London

Performance Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Performance Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Performance Improvement

Performance Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Performance Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Performance Improvement

Performance Improvement
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 4 December 2025. 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
City of London +4 5 £425 -39.29% 4
Performance Improvement
London

Performance Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) ChatGPT
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Service Desk Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Change Control
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Time Management
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Ariba
2 1 (20.00%) SAP