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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 583 632
Rank change year-on-year +64 +49 -13
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 52 113 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.20% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.22% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 83 161
10th Percentile £304 £300 £413
25th Percentile £375 £450 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £620
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -11.29% +45.88%
75th Percentile £500 £650 £660
90th Percentile £734 £760 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +60.00%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £15.99 - £21.00
% change year-on-year - - -23.64%

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 36,539 50,904 80,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.04% 89.75% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,560 35,264 56,167
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £440 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,684 1,915
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.51
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.21%

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 21 May 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 21 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
England +46 49 £425 -22.73% 76
UK excluding London +22 32 £425 -10.53% 49
South East +21 20 £413 -10.81% 11
London +67 17 £443 -26.17% 28
Work from Home +96 8 £475 -5.47% 18
South West - 5 £396 - 4
Midlands +17 4 £406 +35.42% 13
West Midlands +11 4 £406 +35.42% 12
Scotland +41 2 £650 - 2
Yorkshire +17 1 - - 8
North of England +13 1 - - 19
East of England +5 1 £500 -13.04%
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 2 (3.85%) nginx
1 2 (3.85%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (11.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (5.77%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.15%) Power Platform
2 4 (7.69%) Azure
2 4 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (7.69%) Azure Functions
2 4 (7.69%) Serverless
3 3 (5.77%) AWS
3 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (3.85%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.92%) Figma
5 1 (1.92%) GCP
5 1 (1.92%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (1.92%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.92%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.54%) 3G
1 6 (11.54%) 4G
1 6 (11.54%) 5G
1 6 (11.54%) Diameter Protocol
1 6 (11.54%) DNS
1 6 (11.54%) GGSN
1 6 (11.54%) LTE
1 6 (11.54%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (11.54%) RANAP
1 6 (11.54%) SGSN
1 6 (11.54%) VoLTE
1 6 (11.54%) Wireshark
2 2 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (3.85%) VPN
3 1 (1.92%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.15%) Power BI
2 6 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (5.77%) BusinessObjects XI
4 3 (5.77%) Power Query
4 3 (5.77%) PowerPivot
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.85%) Tableau
6 1 (1.92%) DataStage
6 1 (1.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
1 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
1 2 (3.85%) EasyMock
1 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.85%) JUnit
1 2 (3.85%) Maven
1 2 (3.85%) Mockito
1 2 (3.85%) Postman
1 2 (3.85%) Selenium
1 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
1 2 (3.85%) TestNG
General
1 13 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Finance
3 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (19.23%) Telecoms
4 7 (13.46%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (11.54%) Multimedia
6 5 (9.62%) Billing
7 4 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (7.69%) Local Government
8 3 (5.77%) Banking
9 2 (3.85%) Law
9 2 (3.85%) Marketing
10 1 (1.92%) Advertising
10 1 (1.92%) Automotive
10 1 (1.92%) Legal
10 1 (1.92%) Retail
10 1 (1.92%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Lead
2 12 (23.08%) Administrator
3 8 (15.38%) Developer
4 5 (9.62%) C Developer
4 5 (9.62%) Data Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Server Administrator
4 5 (9.62%) Windows Administrator
4 5 (9.62%) Windows Server Administrator
5 4 (7.69%) Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Backup Administrator
6 3 (5.77%) Commercial Director
7 2 (3.85%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Junior
7 2 (3.85%) Technology Director
8 1 (1.92%) C++ Developer
8 1 (1.92%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (1.92%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) XML
2 2 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.85%) Gherkin
2 2 (3.85%) Guice
2 2 (3.85%) JAX-RS
2 2 (3.85%) Kafka
2 2 (3.85%) Mustache
2 2 (3.85%) OpenAPI
2 2 (3.85%) REST
2 2 (3.85%) Spring
2 2 (3.85%) Spring Boot
2 2 (3.85%) Swagger
2 2 (3.85%) WireMock
3 1 (1.92%) CSS
3 1 (1.92%) PySpark
3 1 (1.92%) React
3 1 (1.92%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) NHS
1 4 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 4 (7.69%) Smart Meter
2 3 (5.77%) Linked Data
3 1 (1.92%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.31%) Linux
1 9 (17.31%) Unix
1 9 (17.31%) Windows
2 5 (9.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (9.62%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (17.31%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
3 7 (13.46%) Customer Experience
4 6 (11.54%) Analytics
4 6 (11.54%) Computer Science
4 6 (11.54%) Mentoring
4 6 (11.54%) Network Architecture
4 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (11.54%) Statistics
5 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (9.62%) Data Engineering
5 5 (9.62%) ETL
5 5 (9.62%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (9.62%) Performance Management
5 5 (9.62%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (9.62%) Reverse Engineering
5 5 (9.62%) Server Management
5 5 (9.62%) User Experience
5 5 (9.62%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 4 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.00%) SQL
2 5 (9.62%) C
2 5 (9.62%) ProC
2 5 (9.62%) Shell Script
3 4 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (1.92%) C++
5 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Degree
2 6 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) GDPR
2 4 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.77%) PMO
3 3 (5.77%) SLA
4 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Firmware
2 4 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) NetBackup
2 2 (3.85%) Ansible
2 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.85%) Kustomize
2 2 (3.85%) Packer
2 2 (3.85%) Terraform
3 1 (1.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Empirix
1 6 (11.54%) NetScout
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle
2 5 (9.62%) Veeam
2 5 (9.62%) VMware
3 4 (7.69%) Ab Initio
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.85%) Laserfiche
5 2 (3.85%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.92%) Ariba
6 1 (1.92%) Cadence
6 1 (1.92%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.92%) Google
6 1 (1.92%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.92%) Pardot
6 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.92%) SAP