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 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 106 137
Rank change year-on-year -8 +31 +44
Contract jobs citing Performance Management 18 18 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.81% 0.75% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.90% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 11
10th Percentile £425 £403 £475
25th Percentile £431 £527 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +76.00%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £613
90th Percentile £671 £741 £650
England median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £47.83 - -
25th Percentile £49.86 - -
Median hourly rate £55.49 - £21.36
75th Percentile £58.87 - -
90th Percentile £59.55 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £51.25 £41.04
% change year-on-year +17.07% +24.88% +32.39%

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 1,960 2,010 2,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.73% 84.21% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,273 1,207 1,840
10th Percentile £282 £309 £288
25th Percentile £375 £405 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £665 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 170 171
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £19.08
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.61 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.98% -1.13% +60.70%
75th Percentile £53.25 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.63 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +1 7 £450 -25.00% 8
Cheshire -10 7 £625 +177.78% 3
Merseyside 0 3 £500 -16.67% 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 (11.11%) CICS
1 2 (11.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (11.11%) Primavera
2 2 (11.11%) SAP PS
3 1 (5.56%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
1 3 (16.67%) Google Sheets
1 3 (16.67%) SaaS
1 3 (16.67%) Smartsheet
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.56%) GitHub
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (11.11%) DB2
1 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (5.56%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) SAP BW
2 1 (5.56%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (5.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) Selenium
2 2 (11.11%) SOAtest
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Banking
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 3 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.11%) General Ledger
5 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Law
6 1 (5.56%) Local Government
6 1 (5.56%) Military
6 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Operations Manager
1 3 (16.67%) Senior
1 3 (16.67%) Senior PMO
2 2 (11.11%) Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Programme Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Project Planner
2 2 (11.11%) Technical Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Technical Operations Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Test Architect
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Head of IT
3 1 (5.56%) Head of Performance Improvement
3 1 (5.56%) Head of Software Engineering
3 1 (5.56%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Project Controller
3 1 (5.56%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) SAP Manager
3 1 (5.56%) SAP Programme Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
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
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.56%) SAP Basis
2 1 (5.56%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) PMI
2 2 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 2 (11.11%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (11.11%) VSAM
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Unix
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) Project Management
3 6 (33.33%) Programme Management
4 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 3 (16.67%) Business Case
5 3 (16.67%) Change Control
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 3 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
5 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Project Governance
5 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (16.67%) Strategic Planning
5 3 (16.67%) Waterfall
6 2 (11.11%) Critical Path Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) COBOL
2 2 (11.11%) JCL
2 2 (11.11%) REXX
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 3 (16.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) P3O
1 3 (16.67%) PMO
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) GxP
2 2 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) SAP
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) Google
3 3 (16.67%) Planview
4 2 (11.11%) Ab Initio
4 2 (11.11%) Informatica
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle
4 2 (11.11%) Parasoft