Performance Improvement Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Improvement
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 394 433
Rank change year-on-year +32 +39 -23
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 32 52 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.25% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 36 32
10th Percentile £256 £304 £305
25th Percentile £306 £440 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +60.00%
75th Percentile £484 £581 £541
90th Percentile £525 £650 £629
UK median daily rate £434 £550 £620
% change year-on-year -21.09% -11.29% +45.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.17 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.99 - £21.00
75th Percentile £16.80 - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £15.99 - £21.00
% change year-on-year - - -17.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,076 20,688 27,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.26% 89.44% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,247 19,122
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 1,260 1,365
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.71 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

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 20 May 2024.

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 20 May 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
South East +24 20 £413 -10.81% 13
South West - 5 £396 - 5
West Midlands +17 4 £406 +35.42% 12
Midlands +13 4 £406 +35.42% 13
Scotland +42 2 £650 - 2
North of England +16 1 - - 20
Yorkshire +15 1 - - 8
East of England +2 1 £500 -13.04%
Wales - 1 £1,000 -
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 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (18.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (12.50%) Azure Functions
2 4 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (3.13%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) 3G
1 6 (18.75%) 4G
1 6 (18.75%) 5G
1 6 (18.75%) Diameter Protocol
1 6 (18.75%) DNS
1 6 (18.75%) GGSN
1 6 (18.75%) LTE
1 6 (18.75%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (18.75%) RANAP
1 6 (18.75%) SGSN
1 6 (18.75%) VoLTE
1 6 (18.75%) Wireshark
2 2 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (6.25%) VPN
3 1 (3.13%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Power BI
2 4 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.13%) DataStage
3 1 (3.13%) Spark SQL
General
1 10 (31.25%) Telecoms
2 8 (25.00%) Finance
2 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (18.75%) Multimedia
4 6 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (15.63%) Billing
6 2 (6.25%) Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Law
7 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Legal
7 1 (3.13%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Lead
2 7 (21.88%) Administrator
3 5 (15.63%) C Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Backup Administrator
6 2 (6.25%) Junior
7 1 (3.13%) Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Architect
7 1 (3.13%) C/C++ Developer
7 1 (3.13%) C++ Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Commercial Director
7 1 (3.13%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Technology Director
7 1 (3.13%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (3.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) NHS
1 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 4 (12.50%) Smart Meter
2 1 (3.13%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
1 9 (28.13%) Unix
2 5 (15.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (18.75%) Computer Science
2 6 (18.75%) Customer Experience
2 6 (18.75%) Network Architecture
2 6 (18.75%) Statistics
3 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (15.63%) ETL
3 5 (15.63%) Full Stack Development
3 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
3 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (15.63%) Reverse Engineering
4 4 (12.50%) Analytics
4 4 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 4 (12.50%) Data Science
4 4 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
4 4 (12.50%) ETL Development
4 4 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
4 4 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) SQL
2 5 (15.63%) C
2 5 (15.63%) ProC
2 5 (15.63%) Shell Script
3 4 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.13%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
2 6 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) GDPR
2 3 (9.38%) PMO
2 3 (9.38%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Empirix
1 6 (18.75%) NetScout
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle
3 4 (12.50%) Ab Initio
4 2 (6.25%) Laserfiche
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.13%) Cadence
5 1 (3.13%) Cloudera