Performance Consultant Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Performance Consultant
North West > Manchester

The median Performance Consultant daily rate in Manchester is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Consultant 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.10% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £432 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £529 - -
90th Percentile £554 - -
North West median daily rate £586 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,820 914 1,189
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 92.42% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,052 581 778
10th Percentile £319 £298 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £592
90th Percentile £687 £671 £688
North West median daily rate £499 £450 £489
% change year-on-year +10.94% -7.98% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 70 58
10th Percentile £22.68 £13.00 £14.23
25th Percentile £29.96 £13.48 £21.44
Median hourly rate £60.00 £20.26 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +196.22% -54.99% +136.84%
75th Percentile £76.00 £48.44 £64.38
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.88 £77.05
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £27.00 £32.90
% change year-on-year +85.19% -17.92% +12.27%

Performance Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Performance Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Performance Consultant job vacancy trend in Manchester

Performance Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Consultant job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Consultant job vacancies in Manchester

Performance Consultant Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 31 July 2026, Performance Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Performance Consultant in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Scalability Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Statistics
1 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Windows

Performance Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Scalability Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Statistics
1 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk