Performance Improvement Contracts

Performance Improvement
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Improvement skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Improvement over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 588 623
Rank change year-on-year +48 +35 -11
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 51 119 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.22% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 84 168
10th Percentile £275 £300 £421
25th Percentile £375 £440 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £615
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -10.57% +44.71%
75th Percentile £497 £650 £700
90th Percentile £723 £700 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -13.16% -5.00% +53.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.87
25th Percentile £15.17 - £22.17
Median hourly rate £15.99 - £25.29
75th Percentile £16.80 - £25.88
90th Percentile - - £26.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.99 - £25.29
% change year-on-year - - -8.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Improvement is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,683 54,210 80,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.89% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,351 37,527 56,743
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,790 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.07 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +86.50% -8.17%

Performance Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Performance Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Improvement in the UK

Performance Improvement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Improvement.

Daily rate trend for Performance Improvement in the UK

Performance Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Improvement over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Improvement in the UK

Performance Improvement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Improvement.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Improvement in the UK

Performance Improvement
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
England +62 46 £425 -17.48% 67
UK excluding London +32 30 £413 -13.16% 47
London +74 17 £443 -22.96% 25
South East +17 17 £400 -13.51% 14
Work from Home +101 12 £475 -9.95% 14
South West +24 5 £396 -34.00% 7
West Midlands +34 4 £406 +35.42% 3
Midlands +32 4 £406 +35.42% 8
Scotland +37 3 £650 - 3
Yorkshire +17 1 - - 7
North of England +17 1 - - 16
East of England +7 1 £500 -13.04% 3
Wales - 1 £1,000 -

Performance Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (5.88%) nginx
1 3 (5.88%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (7.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (5.88%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 10 (19.61%) Power Platform
2 6 (11.76%) Azure
3 5 (9.80%) AWS
4 4 (7.84%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (7.84%) Azure Functions
4 4 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.84%) Serverless
5 3 (5.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.96%) Figma
7 1 (1.96%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.96%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) 3G
1 4 (7.84%) 4G
1 4 (7.84%) 5G
1 4 (7.84%) Diameter Protocol
1 4 (7.84%) DNS
1 4 (7.84%) GGSN
1 4 (7.84%) LTE
1 4 (7.84%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (7.84%) RANAP
1 4 (7.84%) SGSN
1 4 (7.84%) VoLTE
1 4 (7.84%) Wireshark
2 2 (3.92%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (3.92%) VPN
3 1 (1.96%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.61%) Power BI
2 7 (13.73%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (5.88%) BusinessObjects XI
4 3 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.88%) Power Query
4 3 (5.88%) PowerPivot
5 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.96%) DataStage
6 1 (1.96%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket
1 3 (5.88%) Cucumber
1 3 (5.88%) EasyMock
1 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 3 (5.88%) JUnit
1 3 (5.88%) Maven
1 3 (5.88%) Mockito
1 3 (5.88%) Postman
1 3 (5.88%) Selenium
1 3 (5.88%) SonarQube
1 3 (5.88%) TestNG
General
1 10 (19.61%) Finance
2 9 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Telecoms
4 7 (13.73%) Social Skills
5 5 (9.80%) Billing
5 5 (9.80%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (7.84%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (7.84%) Local Government
6 4 (7.84%) Multimedia
7 3 (5.88%) Banking
8 2 (3.92%) Law
9 1 (1.96%) Advertising
9 1 (1.96%) Automotive
9 1 (1.96%) Marketing
9 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.96%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Administrator
1 12 (23.53%) Lead
2 9 (17.65%) Developer
3 5 (9.80%) C Developer
3 5 (9.80%) Data Engineer
3 5 (9.80%) Server Administrator
3 5 (9.80%) Windows Administrator
3 5 (9.80%) Windows Server Administrator
4 4 (7.84%) Analyst
4 4 (7.84%) Azure Data Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Backup Administrator
5 3 (5.88%) Commercial Director
6 2 (3.92%) Backend Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Junior
6 2 (3.92%) Technology Director
7 1 (1.96%) Architect
7 1 (1.96%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) XML
2 3 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (5.88%) Gherkin
2 3 (5.88%) Guice
2 3 (5.88%) JAX-RS
2 3 (5.88%) Kafka
2 3 (5.88%) Mustache
2 3 (5.88%) OpenAPI
2 3 (5.88%) REST
2 3 (5.88%) Spring
2 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
2 3 (5.88%) Swagger
2 3 (5.88%) WireMock
3 2 (3.92%) PySpark
4 1 (1.96%) CSS
4 1 (1.96%) React
4 1 (1.96%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) NHS
1 4 (7.84%) Product Ownership
1 4 (7.84%) Smart Meter
2 3 (5.88%) Linked Data
3 2 (3.92%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Linux
1 9 (17.65%) Unix
1 9 (17.65%) Windows
2 5 (9.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (9.80%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.84%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.61%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (15.69%) Mentoring
3 7 (13.73%) Analytics
3 7 (13.73%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (13.73%) ETL
3 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (9.80%) Data Visualisation
4 5 (9.80%) Full Stack Development
4 5 (9.80%) Reverse Engineering
4 5 (9.80%) Server Management
4 5 (9.80%) User Experience
4 5 (9.80%) Visualisation
4 5 (9.80%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 4 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (7.84%) ETL Development
5 4 (7.84%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (7.84%) Performance Metrics
5 4 (7.84%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (7.84%) User Stories
5 4 (7.84%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (31.37%) SQL
2 5 (9.80%) C
2 5 (9.80%) ProC
2 5 (9.80%) Shell Script
3 4 (7.84%) Java
3 4 (7.84%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.96%) C++
5 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.96%) Python
5 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) Degree
2 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.96%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) Data Quality
1 4 (7.84%) GDPR
2 3 (5.88%) PMO
3 2 (3.92%) SLA
4 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.96%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) Firmware
2 4 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Ansible
1 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 3 (5.88%) Kustomize
1 3 (5.88%) NetBackup
1 3 (5.88%) Packer
1 3 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (1.96%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) Oracle
1 5 (9.80%) Veeam
1 5 (9.80%) VMware
2 4 (7.84%) Ab Initio
2 4 (7.84%) Empirix
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.84%) NetScout
3 3 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.92%) Laserfiche
5 1 (1.96%) Ariba
5 1 (1.96%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.96%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.96%) Pardot
5 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.96%) SAP