Performance Improvement Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Improvement
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Performance Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 367 394
Rank change year-on-year +51 +27 +56
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 23 32 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.15% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.18% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 36
10th Percentile £135 £256 £304
25th Percentile £450 £306 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +41.29% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £484 £581
90th Percentile £775 £525 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +5.88% -22.73% -10.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £15.99 -
Median % change year-on-year +337.91% - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £15.99 -
% change year-on-year +337.91% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Performance Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Performance Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Improvement in the UK excluding London

Performance Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Improvement in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Improvement in the UK excluding London

Performance Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Improvement in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Improvement in the UK excluding London

Performance Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Improvement in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Improvement in the UK excluding London

Performance Improvement
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South West +51 13 £601 +51.64% 4
South East +31 4 £450 +9.09% 16
North of England +26 4 £140 - 10
Yorkshire +9 3 £140 - 3
East of England +29 1 - - 6
Midlands +16 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
North West - 1 - - 6
Performance Improvement
UK

Performance Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (4.35%) Revit
4 1 (4.35%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) 3G
1 2 (8.70%) 4G
1 2 (8.70%) 5G
1 2 (8.70%) Diameter Protocol
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
1 2 (8.70%) GGSN
1 2 (8.70%) LTE
1 2 (8.70%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (8.70%) RANAP
1 2 (8.70%) SGSN
1 2 (8.70%) VoLTE
1 2 (8.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Power BI
2 2 (8.70%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (8.70%) SAP HANA
2 2 (8.70%) Tableau
General
1 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
2 14 (60.87%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (30.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (21.74%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (8.70%) Finance
6 2 (8.70%) Legal
6 2 (8.70%) Military
6 2 (8.70%) Multimedia
6 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
7 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
7 1 (4.35%) Banking
7 1 (4.35%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.35%) Local Government
7 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (4.35%) Retail
7 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Availability Manager
1 9 (39.13%) Capacity and Availability Manager
1 9 (39.13%) Capacity Manager
2 2 (8.70%) Coordinator
3 1 (4.35%) Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Fraud Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Information Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Lead
3 1 (4.35%) Performance Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Report Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Report Specialist
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Reporting Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Tableau Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Technologist
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (52.17%) Statistics
3 11 (47.83%) Time Management
4 9 (39.13%) Availability Management
4 9 (39.13%) Capacity Management
4 9 (39.13%) Capacity Planning
4 9 (39.13%) ITIL
4 9 (39.13%) Mentoring
4 9 (39.13%) Planning and Forecasting
4 9 (39.13%) Problem Management
4 9 (39.13%) Quality Management
4 9 (39.13%) Service Management
5 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (17.39%) Asset Management
7 3 (13.04%) Change Management
7 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (13.04%) Performance Metrics
7 3 (13.04%) Strategic Planning
7 3 (13.04%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) ITIL Certification
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) Degree
4 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
4 2 (8.70%) MBA
5 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
5 1 (4.35%) PMP
5 1 (4.35%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Alteryx
1 2 (8.70%) Empirix
1 2 (8.70%) NetScout
1 2 (8.70%) SAP
2 1 (4.35%) Autodesk