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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 537 692
Rank change year-on-year +36 +155 -87
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 49 99 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.21% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.23% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 76 51
10th Percentile £327 £278 £350
25th Percentile £376 £440 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.62% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £525 £650 £638
90th Percentile £715 £775 £700
UK median daily rate £443 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -19.45% -15.38% +48.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.17 - -
Median hourly rate £15.99 - -
75th Percentile £16.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £15.99 - -

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 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 16 June 2024.

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 16 June 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
South East +17 18 £413 -8.33% 9
London +48 17 £443 -26.17% 29
South West +6 5 £396 +36.55% 6
West Midlands +14 4 £406 +35.42% 5
Midlands +12 4 £406 +35.42% 7
Yorkshire +10 2 - - 10
North of England +6 2 - - 19
East of England -2 1 £500 -14.89% 2
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 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.04%) nginx
2 1 (2.04%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (16.33%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (12.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (6.12%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.41%) Power Platform
2 4 (8.16%) Azure
2 4 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (8.16%) Azure Functions
2 4 (8.16%) Serverless
2 4 (8.16%) WhatsApp
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.08%) AWS
4 2 (4.08%) GCP
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.04%) Figma
5 1 (2.04%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (2.04%) PaaS
5 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) 3G
1 6 (12.24%) 4G
1 6 (12.24%) 5G
1 6 (12.24%) Diameter Protocol
1 6 (12.24%) DNS
1 6 (12.24%) GGSN
1 6 (12.24%) LTE
1 6 (12.24%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (12.24%) RANAP
1 6 (12.24%) SGSN
1 6 (12.24%) VoLTE
1 6 (12.24%) Wireshark
2 2 (4.08%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (4.08%) VPN
3 1 (2.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.41%) Power BI
2 5 (10.20%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (6.12%) BusinessObjects XI
4 3 (6.12%) Power Query
4 3 (6.12%) PowerPivot
5 2 (4.08%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.04%) DataStage
6 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.04%) EasyMock
1 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.04%) JIRA
1 1 (2.04%) JUnit
1 1 (2.04%) Maven
1 1 (2.04%) Mockito
1 1 (2.04%) Postman
1 1 (2.04%) Selenium
1 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
1 1 (2.04%) TestNG
General
1 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.49%) Finance
3 10 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (20.41%) Telecoms
4 8 (16.33%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (12.24%) Multimedia
6 5 (10.20%) Billing
7 4 (8.16%) Local Government
8 3 (6.12%) Banking
8 3 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (4.08%) Law
9 2 (4.08%) Retail
10 1 (2.04%) Advertising
10 1 (2.04%) Automotive
10 1 (2.04%) Legal
10 1 (2.04%) Marketing
10 1 (2.04%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) Lead
2 11 (22.45%) Administrator
3 8 (16.33%) Developer
4 5 (10.20%) C Developer
4 5 (10.20%) Data Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Server Administrator
4 5 (10.20%) Windows Administrator
4 5 (10.20%) Windows Server Administrator
5 4 (8.16%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Backup Administrator
6 2 (4.08%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Commercial Director
6 2 (4.08%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Junior
6 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (2.04%) C++ Developer
7 1 (2.04%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) XML
2 2 (4.08%) Kafka
2 2 (4.08%) PySpark
2 2 (4.08%) REST
2 2 (4.08%) Spring
3 1 (2.04%) CSS
3 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.04%) Gherkin
3 1 (2.04%) Guice
3 1 (2.04%) JAX-RS
3 1 (2.04%) Mustache
3 1 (2.04%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.04%) React
3 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.04%) Swagger
3 1 (2.04%) WebGL
3 1 (2.04%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) NHS
1 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
1 4 (8.16%) Smart Meter
2 3 (6.12%) Linked Data
3 2 (4.08%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.37%) Linux
1 9 (18.37%) Unix
1 9 (18.37%) Windows
2 5 (10.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (10.20%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.33%) Analytics
1 8 (16.33%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 6 (12.24%) Computer Science
3 6 (12.24%) Network Architecture
3 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (12.24%) Statistics
4 5 (10.20%) Agile
4 5 (10.20%) Data Engineering
4 5 (10.20%) ETL
4 5 (10.20%) Full Stack Development
4 5 (10.20%) Mentoring
4 5 (10.20%) Reverse Engineering
4 5 (10.20%) Scrum
4 5 (10.20%) Server Management
4 5 (10.20%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 4 (8.16%) Data Modelling
5 4 (8.16%) Dimensional Modelling
5 4 (8.16%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.57%) SQL
2 5 (10.20%) C
2 5 (10.20%) ProC
2 5 (10.20%) Shell Script
3 4 (8.16%) PL/SQL
4 2 (4.08%) Java
5 1 (2.04%) C++
5 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Degree
2 6 (12.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.04%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) GDPR
2 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.12%) PMO
2 3 (6.12%) SLA
3 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Firmware
2 4 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Grafana
1 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.08%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.04%) Ansible
2 1 (2.04%) Kustomize
2 1 (2.04%) Packer
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Empirix
1 6 (12.24%) NetScout
1 6 (12.24%) Oracle
2 5 (10.20%) Veeam
2 5 (10.20%) VMware
3 4 (8.16%) Ab Initio
4 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.08%) Cloudera
5 2 (4.08%) Laserfiche
6 1 (2.04%) Cadence
6 1 (2.04%) Google
6 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.04%) Virgin Media