Performance Metrics Contracts in the North West

Performance Metrics
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Performance Metrics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Metrics 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 99 130 150
Rank change year-on-year +31 +20 +8
Contract jobs citing Performance Metrics 21 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.07% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.29% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 6
10th Percentile £220 - £311
25th Percentile £322 £350 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% - -
75th Percentile £400 £475 £503
90th Percentile £496 £490 £531
England median daily rate £495 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.88 - -
Median hourly rate £28.75 £83.55 -
Median % change year-on-year -65.59% - -
75th Percentile £30.63 - -
90th Percentile £51.56 - -
England median hourly rate £28.75 £67.50 £78.50
% change year-on-year -57.41% -14.01% +24.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Performance Metrics 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 Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Metrics in the North West

Performance Metrics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Metrics in the North West

Performance Metrics
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the North West

Performance Metrics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Metrics in the North West

Performance Metrics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Metrics in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Metrics in the North West

Performance Metrics
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 Metrics 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
Cheshire - 10 £325 - 6
Lancashire - 5 - - 13
Manchester +16 4 £208 -47.96% 39
Merseyside - 1 - - 4
Performance Metrics
England

Performance Metrics
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 5 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) CMS
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (4.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) GitHub
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) LAN
1 5 (23.81%) WAN
1 5 (23.81%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (23.81%) Wireless
1 5 (23.81%) WLAN
2 1 (4.76%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Administrator
1 5 (23.81%) Analyst
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
1 5 (23.81%) Network Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Business Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Integration Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Programme Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Network Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Network Performance Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Product Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) CMDB
1 5 (23.81%) Management Information System
1 5 (23.81%) Security Posture
1 5 (23.81%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (4.76%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Process Improvement
2 8 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (33.33%) ITIL
3 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 6 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (28.57%) DevOps
5 5 (23.81%) Asset Management
5 5 (23.81%) Budget Management
5 5 (23.81%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (23.81%) Cloud Security
5 5 (23.81%) Customer Acquisition
5 5 (23.81%) High Availability
5 5 (23.81%) Migration
5 5 (23.81%) Problem Management
5 5 (23.81%) Resource Allocation
5 5 (23.81%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 3 (14.29%) Agile
6 3 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
7 2 (9.52%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Degree
2 5 (23.81%) CCNA
2 5 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CBAP
3 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.76%) PMP
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) PSD2
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (28.57%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Meraki
3 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Sitecore