Performance Management Contracts in the North of England

Performance Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Performance Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 165 187
Rank change year-on-year +17 +22 +13
Contract jobs citing Performance Management 18 20 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.55% 0.42% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.49% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 22
10th Percentile £302 £426 £478
25th Percentile £399 £492 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -11.11% +38.46%
75th Percentile £676 £708 £750
90th Percentile £698 £749 £823
England median daily rate £550 £525 £533
% change year-on-year +4.76% -1.41% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £52.35 £32.55 -
25th Percentile £57.27 £38.72 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £49.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -24.62% +109.68%
75th Percentile - £54.50 -
90th Percentile - £57.80 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £35.67 £65.00
% change year-on-year +68.23% -45.13% +136.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Performance Management 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Performance Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Performance Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Management in the North of England

Performance Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Performance Management in the North of England

Performance Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Management in the North of England

Performance Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Management in the North of England

Performance Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Management within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +16 13 £447 -25.50% 77
Yorkshire +8 3 £450 -25.00% 47
North East -1 2 £600 +39.21% 13
Performance Management
England

Performance Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (11.11%) CICS
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.11%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.56%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Primavera
1 4 (22.22%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.11%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DHCP
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) Intranet
1 1 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 2 (11.11%) DB2
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.56%) Big Data
3 1 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) GIS
3 1 (5.56%) HBase
3 1 (5.56%) Metadata
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) MSDE
3 1 (5.56%) Pentaho
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) Selenium
3 2 (11.11%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) SOAtest
4 1 (5.56%) Bugzilla
4 1 (5.56%) ERwin
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Banking
5 2 (11.11%) General Ledger
5 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (5.56%) Law
6 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Project Planner
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Project Controller
3 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Test Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) Head of Performance Improvement
4 1 (5.56%) Head of Software Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) Performance Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) J2EE
1 2 (11.11%) JSON
1 2 (11.11%) Web Services
1 2 (11.11%) XML
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Mainframe
1 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 2 (11.11%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (11.11%) VSAM
2 1 (5.56%) Blog
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.56%) PMI
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Unix
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (33.33%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Coaching
3 5 (27.78%) Project Management
4 4 (22.22%) Business Performance Management
4 4 (22.22%) Critical Path Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) Earned Value Management
4 4 (22.22%) Performance Measurement
4 4 (22.22%) Project Planning
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (16.67%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) ETL
5 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.11%) Data Integration
6 2 (11.11%) Migration
6 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
6 2 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (11.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) COBOL
2 2 (11.11%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) JCL
2 2 (11.11%) REXX
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (5.56%) Grafana
1 1 (5.56%) Perfmon
1 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.56%) SCOM
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
1 1 (5.56%) VxRail
1 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle
1 4 (22.22%) SAP
2 3 (16.67%) Informatica
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Ab Initio
3 2 (11.11%) Parasoft
4 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.56%) VMware