Performance Management Contracts in the North West

Performance Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 107 123 137
Rank change year-on-year +16 +14 +14
Contract jobs citing Performance Management 13 14 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 0.51% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.59% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £274 £486 £490
25th Percentile £384 £578 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.50% - +11.63%
75th Percentile £665 £708 £800
90th Percentile £688 £743 £845
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Management in the North West

Performance Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Management in the North West

Performance Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Management in the North West

Performance Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Management in the North West

Performance Management
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 Management within the North West 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
Manchester +17 7 £650 +8.33% 37
Cheshire +2 3 £447 -14.86% 17
Merseyside +3 1 £680 +13.33% 6
Lancashire 0 1 - - 17
Cumbria - 1 - - 1
Performance Management
England

Performance Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (15.38%) CICS
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
1 2 (15.38%) WebSphere
2 1 (7.69%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.69%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Primavera
1 4 (30.77%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) SaaS
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DHCP
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Intranet
1 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
2 2 (15.38%) DB2
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) GIS
3 1 (7.69%) HBase
3 1 (7.69%) Metadata
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) MSDE
3 1 (7.69%) Pentaho
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) Selenium
1 2 (15.38%) SOAtest
2 1 (7.69%) ERwin
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (15.38%) General Ledger
4 2 (15.38%) Retail Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
5 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Law
5 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Project Planner
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Project Controller
3 2 (15.38%) Test Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support
4 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Performance Improvement
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Software Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) SQL DBA
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (7.69%) Strategy Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) J2EE
1 2 (15.38%) JSON
1 2 (15.38%) Web Services
1 2 (15.38%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
1 2 (15.38%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (15.38%) VSAM
2 1 (7.69%) Blog
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Unix
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Coaching
1 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (30.77%) Business Performance Management
2 4 (30.77%) Critical Path Analysis
2 4 (30.77%) Earned Value Management
2 4 (30.77%) Performance Measurement
2 4 (30.77%) Project Management
2 4 (30.77%) Project Planning
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) ETL
4 2 (15.38%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
4 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (15.38%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Test Planning
4 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
4 2 (15.38%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) COBOL
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) JCL
2 2 (15.38%) REXX
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (7.69%) Perfmon
1 1 (7.69%) SCOM
1 1 (7.69%) VxRail
1 1 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) SAP
2 3 (23.08%) Informatica
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) Ab Initio
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Parasoft
4 1 (7.69%) VMware