Performance Improvement Contract Job Trends in the North West

Performance Improvement
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 137 113 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 3 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.12% 0.21% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.25% -
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 - -
England median daily rate £478 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -4.40% -13.04% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,127 1,977 2,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.97% 83.91% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,395 1,072 1,684
10th Percentile £213 £294 £270
25th Percentile £360 £391 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £593
90th Percentile £678 £650 £675
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 112 163
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.28 £15.80
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.18 £17.88
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.68 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.04% +1.94% +57.30%
75th Percentile £45.46 £52.05 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.29 £70.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

Performance Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Performance Improvement job vacancy trend in the North West

Performance Improvement
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Performance Improvement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Performance Improvement

Performance Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Performance Improvement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Performance Improvement

Performance Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 16 November 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
Manchester -5 3 £450 - 4
Performance Improvement
England

Performance Improvement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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