Performance Analysis Contracts

Performance Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Analysis over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 636 705
Rank change year-on-year +160 +69 -144
Contract jobs citing Performance Analysis 122 83 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 50 96
10th Percentile £373 £400 £310
25th Percentile £425 £450 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -2.63%
75th Percentile £619 £636 £575
90th Percentile £650 £739 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £434 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +8.50% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 5
10th Percentile £34.25 - £22.23
25th Percentile £39.00 - £36.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £37.50
75th Percentile £60.00 - £38.75
90th Percentile £73.75 - £46.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £31.89
% change year-on-year - - -24.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Analysis 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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
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% +8.25%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Performance Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Analysis over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Analysis over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +157 98 £475 -9.52% 92
UK excluding London +105 61 £434 +8.50% 72
Work from Home +133 41 £540 +3.85% 49
London +92 33 £520 -9.57% 26
North of England +55 23 £425 -17.07% 8
Yorkshire - 21 £430 - 2
South East +41 20 £538 +43.33% 19
East of England - 8 £675 - 25
South West +20 6 - - 10
West Midlands +31 4 £493 - 5
Midlands +22 4 £493 +27.92% 7
North West +17 2 £394 -23.17% 6

Performance Analysis
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 (2.46%) Apache
1 3 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.46%) IIS
1 3 (2.46%) Jupyter
1 3 (2.46%) nginx
1 3 (2.46%) WebLogic
1 3 (2.46%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.82%) CICS
2 1 (0.82%) CMS
2 1 (0.82%) Drupal
2 1 (0.82%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.46%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) ION Anvil
1 2 (1.64%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 19 (15.57%) AWS
2 17 (13.93%) GitHub
3 16 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (9.02%) Azure
4 11 (9.02%) IaaS
4 11 (9.02%) PaaS
4 11 (9.02%) SaaS
5 10 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (8.20%) Snowflake
6 8 (6.56%) Google Analytics
7 5 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (4.10%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (4.10%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (4.10%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (4.10%) dbt
7 5 (4.10%) Serverless
8 4 (3.28%) GCP
8 4 (3.28%) Google Data Studio
9 3 (2.46%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.92%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.10%) DNS
3 4 (3.28%) 2G
3 4 (3.28%) 3G
3 4 (3.28%) 4G
3 4 (3.28%) ATM
3 4 (3.28%) Ethernet
3 4 (3.28%) LAN
3 4 (3.28%) SDH
4 3 (2.46%) Firewall
4 3 (2.46%) WAN
5 2 (1.64%) DHCP
5 2 (1.64%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.64%) VPN
6 1 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.82%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.82%) SNA
6 1 (0.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.20%) Tableau
2 5 (4.10%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (3.28%) DB2
3 4 (3.28%) RDBMS
3 4 (3.28%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (2.46%) ClickHouse
4 3 (2.46%) Looker
4 3 (2.46%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.46%) Power BI
5 1 (0.82%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.20%) SonarQube
2 9 (7.38%) Gradle
3 7 (5.74%) GCC
3 7 (5.74%) JIRA
4 6 (4.92%) CircleCI
5 5 (4.10%) Git
6 4 (3.28%) JUnit
7 3 (2.46%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.64%) JMeter
8 2 (1.64%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.82%) XCTest
9 1 (0.82%) XCUITest
General
1 35 (28.69%) Finance
2 32 (26.23%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (19.67%) Social Skills
4 11 (9.02%) Legal
5 10 (8.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.74%) Banking
7 6 (4.92%) Marketing
7 6 (4.92%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.28%) Back Office
8 4 (3.28%) Retail
9 2 (1.64%) Electronics
9 2 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (22.13%) Analyst
2 14 (11.48%) Lead
3 11 (9.02%) Consultant
4 9 (7.38%) Storage Engineer
5 8 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (6.56%) Senior
5 8 (6.56%) Software Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Compiler Engineer
6 7 (5.74%) Performance Analyst
7 5 (4.10%) AWS Data Engineer
7 5 (4.10%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.10%) Storage Consultant
8 4 (3.28%) Android Engineer
8 4 (3.28%) Architect
9 3 (2.46%) Data Analyst
9 3 (2.46%) Java Engineer
9 3 (2.46%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (2.46%) Tableau Analyst
9 3 (2.46%) Transmission Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.48%) REST
2 10 (8.20%) ARM Templates
2 10 (8.20%) Azure Blueprints
3 8 (6.56%) RAML
4 7 (5.74%) LLVM
4 7 (5.74%) XML
5 6 (4.92%) PySpark
6 5 (4.10%) Web Services
7 4 (3.28%) Android Jetpack
7 4 (3.28%) Dagger
7 4 (3.28%) Jetpack Compose
7 4 (3.28%) JSON
7 4 (3.28%) LDAP
7 4 (3.28%) OkHttp
7 4 (3.28%) RxJava
7 4 (3.28%) WireMock
8 3 (2.46%) .NET
8 3 (2.46%) Apache Beam
8 3 (2.46%) Kafka
8 3 (2.46%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.75%) Management Information System
2 10 (8.20%) Credit Risk
2 10 (8.20%) Legacy Code
2 10 (8.20%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.92%) Mobile App
3 6 (4.92%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.10%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.28%) CMDB
5 4 (3.28%) Social Media
5 4 (3.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.46%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.46%) EMC VNX
6 3 (2.46%) Replication
7 2 (1.64%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.64%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.82%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (0.82%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.82%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.84%) Linux
2 10 (8.20%) Windows
3 7 (5.74%) Android
3 7 (5.74%) Unix
4 3 (2.46%) AIX
4 3 (2.46%) Debian
4 3 (2.46%) Solaris
5 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.82%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.05%) DevOps
2 28 (22.95%) Continuous Delivery
2 28 (22.95%) Continuous Integration
3 25 (20.49%) Analytics
4 24 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (18.85%) CI/CD
5 23 (18.85%) Mentoring
6 19 (15.57%) Open Source
7 18 (14.75%) Software Engineering
8 17 (13.93%) Decision-Making
8 17 (13.93%) ITIL
9 16 (13.11%) Project Management
10 15 (12.30%) Build Automation
10 15 (12.30%) Test Automation
10 15 (12.30%) Validation
11 14 (11.48%) Agile
11 14 (11.48%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (11.48%) Mathematics
12 13 (10.66%) Containerisation
13 12 (9.84%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.75%) Python
2 16 (13.11%) Java
2 16 (13.11%) SQL
3 9 (7.38%) Bash
3 9 (7.38%) C
4 8 (6.56%) Kotlin
4 8 (6.56%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.92%) C++
6 5 (4.10%) Perl
7 4 (3.28%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.46%) Go
8 3 (2.46%) Groovy
8 3 (2.46%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.46%) Ruby
8 3 (2.46%) Scala
8 3 (2.46%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.64%) C#
10 1 (0.82%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.82%) R
10 1 (0.82%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (23.77%) Degree
2 19 (15.57%) Security Cleared
3 16 (13.11%) SC Cleared
4 12 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (8.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (5.74%) PhD
7 6 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (2.46%) CCNA
8 3 (2.46%) CISSP
8 3 (2.46%) SANS
9 2 (1.64%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.82%) ACCA
10 1 (0.82%) CCNP
10 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.20%) NCSC
1 10 (8.20%) QA
2 4 (3.28%) ISO 15022
3 3 (2.46%) GRC
4 1 (0.82%) IFRS
4 1 (0.82%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (10.66%) Docker
2 4 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.46%) SRDF
3 3 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.82%) RACF
Systems Management
1 21 (17.21%) Ansible
2 18 (14.75%) Terraform
3 10 (8.20%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.46%) EMC TimeFinder
4 3 (2.46%) Grafana
5 2 (1.64%) Nagios
5 2 (1.64%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (14.75%) EMC
2 10 (8.20%) Alteryx
3 9 (7.38%) Google
4 6 (4.92%) SAP
5 4 (3.28%) Cisco
5 4 (3.28%) CyberArk
5 4 (3.28%) VMware
6 3 (2.46%) Adobe
6 3 (2.46%) Ariba
6 3 (2.46%) Brocade
6 3 (2.46%) Dell
6 3 (2.46%) Dell Compellent
6 3 (2.46%) EqualLogic
6 3 (2.46%) Isilon
6 3 (2.46%) Oracle
6 3 (2.46%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.46%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.46%) Splunk
7 2 (1.64%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.64%) Omniture