Performance Measurement Contract Job Trends in the North West

Performance Measurement
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Performance Measurement skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 117 138
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 +43
Contract jobs citing Performance Measurement 7 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.32% 0.083% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.100% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £258 - £424
25th Percentile £269 - £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £571 £511
Median % change year-on-year -49.65% +11.69% -21.35%
75th Percentile £306 - £554
90th Percentile £318 - £557
England median daily rate £456 £454 £536
% change year-on-year +0.55% -15.38% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £49.43 - -
25th Percentile £53.86 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £64.38 - -
90th Percentile £64.75 - -
England median hourly rate £22.14 £59.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -62.47% +20.41% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Performance Measurement 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 1,918 2,001 2,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.55% 83.44% 87.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,274 1,111 1,707
10th Percentile £270 £294 £270
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% -2.20% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £579 £600
90th Percentile £680 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 109 165
10th Percentile £13.61 £16.45 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.30 £29.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% +21.43% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.12 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £66.58 £73.75 £65.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.16%

Performance Measurement
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Measurement in the North West

Performance Measurement
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Performance Measurement
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Performance Measurement
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Measurement in the North West over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Measurement in the North West

Performance Measurement
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 Measurement within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 September 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 +2 7 £288 - 5
Performance Measurement
England

Performance Measurement
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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Primavera
1 1 (14.29%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) Google Analytics
1 2 (28.57%) Google Tag Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
1 2 (28.57%) Looker
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Electronics
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Brand Awareness
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Process Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Project Controller
3 1 (14.29%) Project Planner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Autonomous Agent
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Process Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Coaching
3 2 (28.57%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (28.57%) Data Collection
3 2 (28.57%) Data Privacy
3 2 (28.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Service Design
3 2 (28.57%) Statistical Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
3 2 (28.57%) User Research
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Enablement
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) SAP