Performance Analysis Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Performance Analysis
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Performance Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Analysis 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.74% 0.42% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.48% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £260 - -
25th Percentile £268 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 - -
75th Percentile £343 - -
90th Percentile £358 - -
North West median daily rate £325 £331 £525
% change year-on-year -1.89% -36.90% +100.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Performance Analysis 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 598 420 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.99% 88.61% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 249 224
10th Percentile £268 £325 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% -0.77% +11.11%
75th Percentile £537 £569 £550
90th Percentile £688 £638 £592
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 25 23
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £16.66
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.00 £17.38
Median hourly rate £23.18 £24.18 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +2.41% +54.82%
75th Percentile £40.00 £35.00 £35.38
90th Percentile £70.55 £82.60 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

Performance Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Performance Analysis job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Performance Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Performance Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Performance Analysis

Performance Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Performance Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Performance Analysis

Performance Analysis
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Analysis within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Knutsford - 5 £270 -
Performance Analysis
North West

Performance Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) IaaS
1 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (40.00%) PaaS
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (60.00%) Impala
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Business Strategy
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Decision Tree
1 3 (60.00%) Logistic Regression
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) R
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) PHP
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle