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 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 332 431 432
Rank change year-on-year +99 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 9 24 192
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.097% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.070% 0.11% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 137
10th Percentile £454 £408 £465
25th Percentile £459 £440 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £503 £620
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -18.95% +37.78%
75th Percentile £488 £631 £663
90th Percentile - £675 £700
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
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 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

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
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 (22.22%) nginx
1 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
1 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
1 2 (22.22%) EasyMock
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) JUnit
1 2 (22.22%) Maven
1 2 (22.22%) Mockito
1 2 (22.22%) Postman
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
1 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
1 2 (22.22%) TestNG
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Lead
2 4 (44.44%) Administrator
3 3 (33.33%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
4 1 (11.11%) C Developer
4 1 (11.11%) C/C++ Developer
4 1 (11.11%) C++ Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (22.22%) Gherkin
1 2 (22.22%) Guice
1 2 (22.22%) JAX-RS
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
1 2 (22.22%) Mustache
1 2 (22.22%) OpenAPI
1 2 (22.22%) REST
1 2 (22.22%) Spring
1 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
1 2 (22.22%) Swagger
1 2 (22.22%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) Auto-Scaling
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
2 2 (22.22%) MVC
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) B2B
3 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Measurement
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
3 1 (11.11%) SFIA
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Identification
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (11.11%) TDD
3 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) C
2 1 (11.11%) C++
2 1 (11.11%) ProC
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Kustomize
1 2 (22.22%) Packer
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Ariba
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) SAP