Performance Improvement Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Performance Improvement
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Performance Improvement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 84 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.27% 0.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.19% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile £473 - -
North West median daily rate £450 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 979 1,044 1,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.32% 87.58% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 602 1,050
10th Percentile £300 £301 £270
25th Percentile £371 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £584
90th Percentile £677 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 37 57
10th Percentile £17.02 £15.96 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £28.50 £16.85
Median hourly rate £22.41 £32.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.05% +66.67% -2.82%
75th Percentile £31.40 £58.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £60.38 £66.90 £69.25
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £35.68 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.04% +1.94% +57.30%

Performance Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Performance Improvement job vacancy trend in Manchester

Performance Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Performance Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Performance Improvement

Performance Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Performance Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Performance Improvement

Performance Improvement
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:

General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Aviation
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Vendor Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Contract Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Munging
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) MLOps
2 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality