Performance Improvement Contracts in England

Performance Improvement
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Performance Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 489 549
Rank change year-on-year +43 +60 +135
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 34 49 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.13% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.16% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 34 75
10th Percentile £207 £306 £282
25th Percentile £475 £375 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -22.73% +5.26%
75th Percentile £690 £497 £650
90th Percentile £760 £659 £770
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +5.88% -22.73% -11.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £15.99 -
Median % change year-on-year +337.91% - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £15.99 -
% change year-on-year +337.91% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,762 31,336 43,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 86.24% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,222 20,550 30,257
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 2,253 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

Performance Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Performance Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Improvement in England

Performance Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Improvement in England.

Daily rate trend for Performance Improvement in England

Performance Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Improvement in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Improvement in England

Performance Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Improvement in England.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Improvement in England

Performance Improvement
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
South West +46 13 £601 +51.64% 16
London +49 10 £550 +24.15% 49
South East +35 4 £450 +9.09% 40
North of England +18 4 £140 - 29
Yorkshire +17 3 £140 - 10
East of England +30 1 - - 17
Midlands +15 1 - - 23
North West - 1 - - 15
East Midlands - 1 - - 8
Performance Improvement
UK

Performance Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.94%) Revit
3 1 (2.94%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Actimize
1 2 (5.88%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Run
3 1 (2.94%) GCP
3 1 (2.94%) GitHub
3 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.94%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) 3G
1 2 (5.88%) 4G
1 2 (5.88%) 5G
1 2 (5.88%) Diameter Protocol
1 2 (5.88%) DNS
1 2 (5.88%) GGSN
1 2 (5.88%) LTE
1 2 (5.88%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (5.88%) RANAP
1 2 (5.88%) SGSN
1 2 (5.88%) VoLTE
1 2 (5.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Power BI
2 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.88%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (5.88%) SAP HANA
3 2 (5.88%) Tableau
4 1 (2.94%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (2.94%) Power Query
4 1 (2.94%) PowerPivot
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) CircleCI
1 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.94%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 16 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (23.53%) Finance
4 7 (20.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (17.65%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (14.71%) Banking
7 3 (8.82%) Investment Banking
7 3 (8.82%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (8.82%) Retail
8 2 (5.88%) Advertising
8 2 (5.88%) Financial Institution
8 2 (5.88%) Legal
8 2 (5.88%) Local Government
8 2 (5.88%) Military
8 2 (5.88%) Multimedia
8 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
9 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
9 1 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (2.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Availability Manager
1 9 (26.47%) Capacity and Availability Manager
1 9 (26.47%) Capacity Manager
2 3 (8.82%) Analyst
2 3 (8.82%) Developer
3 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
3 2 (5.88%) C# Developer
3 2 (5.88%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
3 2 (5.88%) Coordinator
4 1 (2.94%) GCP Architect
4 1 (2.94%) IAM Developer
4 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (2.94%) ITIL Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (2.94%) Lead
4 1 (2.94%) Report Specialist
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Reporting Analyst
4 1 (2.94%) Tableau Analyst
4 1 (2.94%) Technologist
4 1 (2.94%) VBA Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) .NET
2 2 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (5.88%) REST
2 2 (5.88%) Web Services
3 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.94%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.94%) jQuery
3 1 (2.94%) KnockoutJS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) NHS
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (35.29%) Statistics
2 12 (35.29%) Time Management
3 11 (32.35%) Quality Management
4 10 (29.41%) ITIL
4 10 (29.41%) Service Management
5 9 (26.47%) Availability Management
5 9 (26.47%) Capacity Management
5 9 (26.47%) Capacity Planning
5 9 (26.47%) Mentoring
5 9 (26.47%) Planning and Forecasting
5 9 (26.47%) Problem Management
6 6 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (14.71%) Performance Management
8 4 (11.76%) Asset Management
8 4 (11.76%) Change Management
8 4 (11.76%) Decision-Making
8 4 (11.76%) Migration
9 3 (8.82%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) SQL
2 3 (8.82%) Python
3 2 (5.88%) C#
3 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.94%) VB.NET
4 1 (2.94%) VBA
4 1 (2.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) ITIL Certification
2 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
3 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
4 5 (14.71%) Degree
5 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
6 2 (5.88%) MBA
7 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.94%) PMP
7 1 (2.94%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) PMO
3 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) SAP
2 2 (5.88%) Alteryx
2 2 (5.88%) Databricks
2 2 (5.88%) Empirix
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) NetScout
3 1 (2.94%) Autodesk
3 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow