Performance Improvement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Performance Improvement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 119 123 120
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +71
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 5 5 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.28% 0.23% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.25% 0.86%
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% +20.83%
75th Percentile £438 £825 £800
90th Percentile - £885 £825
Central London median daily rate £425 £700 £725
% change year-on-year -39.29% -3.45% +16.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,662 1,968 2,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.98% 91.62% 89.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,216 1,650
10th Percentile £338 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.70 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +54.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £92.50 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £122.20 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

Performance Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Performance Improvement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Performance Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Improvement

Performance Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Improvement

Performance Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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