Performance Improvement Contracts with Work from Home Options

Performance Improvement
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 449 431
Rank change year-on-year +116 -18 -2
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 12 28 207
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.078% 0.11% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.12% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 146
10th Percentile £275 £413 £500
25th Percentile £363 £440 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £528 £620
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% -14.92% +37.78%
75th Percentile £488 £594 £700
90th Percentile £503 £731 -
UK median daily rate £425 £550 £615
% change year-on-year -22.73% -10.57% +44.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.55
25th Percentile £15.17 - £21.38
Median hourly rate £15.99 - £23.27
75th Percentile £16.80 - £24.65
90th Percentile - - £25.18
UK median hourly rate £15.99 - £25.29
% change year-on-year - - -0.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,483 23,229 40,650
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.87% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,996 16,418 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 532 548
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Performance Improvement
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Improvement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Improvement trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Improvement
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Improvement.

Performance Improvement daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Performance Improvement over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Performance Improvement daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Improvement.

Performance Improvement hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Improvement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (16.67%) nginx
1 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (16.67%) EasyMock
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) JUnit
1 2 (16.67%) Maven
1 2 (16.67%) Mockito
1 2 (16.67%) Postman
1 2 (16.67%) Selenium
1 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
1 2 (16.67%) TestNG
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Lead
2 4 (33.33%) Administrator
3 3 (25.00%) Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Backend Developer
5 1 (8.33%) C Developer
5 1 (8.33%) C/C++ Developer
5 1 (8.33%) C++ Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (16.67%) Gherkin
1 2 (16.67%) Guice
1 2 (16.67%) JAX-RS
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
1 2 (16.67%) Mustache
1 2 (16.67%) OpenAPI
1 2 (16.67%) REST
1 2 (16.67%) Spring
1 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (16.67%) Swagger
1 2 (16.67%) WireMock
2 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) NHS
2 2 (16.67%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (16.67%) Analytics
2 2 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
2 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (16.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 2 (16.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (16.67%) ETL
2 2 (16.67%) Information Governance
2 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
2 2 (16.67%) MVC
2 2 (16.67%) Storytelling
2 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (8.33%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (8.33%) C
4 1 (8.33%) C++
4 1 (8.33%) ProC
4 1 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) Scala
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Kustomize
1 2 (16.67%) Packer
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) Ariba
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) SAP