Performance Metrics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Metrics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Metrics 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 502 657 715
Rank change year-on-year +155 +58 +26
Permanent jobs citing Performance Metrics 436 330 576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.32% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.33% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 240 118 300
10th Percentile £32,450 £41,250 £37,375
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,750 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £77,875 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £50,238 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.47% -8.66% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Metrics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Metrics in the UK

Performance Metrics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Metrics.

Salary trend for Performance Metrics in the UK

Performance Metrics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Metrics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Metrics in the UK

Performance Metrics
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Metrics 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +201 424 £57,500 +4.55% 251
UK excluding London +118 304 £49,500 -1.47% 158
Midlands +101 128 £50,000 -4.76% 36
London +138 120 £77,500 +29.17% 109
West Midlands +93 98 £50,000 -4.76% 25
Work from Home +73 94 £57,500 - 109
South East +56 76 £43,750 -18.60% 24
North of England +101 63 £50,000 +4.88% 50
North West +40 32 £55,000 -4.35% 30
Yorkshire +118 31 £34,500 +32.69% 16
East Midlands - 30 £57,500 - 11
East of England +15 16 £50,000 -21.26% 13
South West -45 14 £45,000 -10.43% 17
Scotland -76 5 £31,500 -42.85% 13
North East -3 2 £80,000 +67.81% 5
Wales - 1 £38,000 - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £42,500 - 4

Performance Metrics
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 13 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.06%) SAS
2 9 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.61%) WebLogic
4 4 (0.92%) CMS
4 4 (0.92%) WordPress
5 3 (0.69%) Confluence
5 3 (0.69%) Joomla!
6 2 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.46%) GlassFish
6 2 (0.46%) JCAPS
6 2 (0.46%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.23%) Apache
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 114 (26.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 111 (25.46%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.46%) SPSS
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.23%) InDesign
6 1 (0.23%) InVision
6 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.23%) Sketch
6 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.92%) Shopify
3 2 (0.46%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.23%) Magento
4 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 60 (13.76%) Azure
2 45 (10.32%) Power Platform
3 30 (6.88%) SaaS
4 22 (5.05%) AWS
5 19 (4.36%) Entra ID
6 17 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (2.29%) GCP
9 7 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.38%) Google Analytics
11 4 (0.92%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (0.92%) Azure Storage
12 3 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.46%) Azure AKS
13 2 (0.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (0.46%) Azure Key Vault
13 2 (0.46%) Contentsquare
14 1 (0.23%) AWS IoT
14 1 (0.23%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.50%) Network Security
2 16 (3.67%) Firewall
3 6 (1.38%) NetScaler
4 3 (0.69%) LAN
4 3 (0.69%) VoIP
5 2 (0.46%) FTP
5 2 (0.46%) HTTP
5 2 (0.46%) Internet
5 2 (0.46%) Intranet
5 2 (0.46%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.46%) VPN
5 2 (0.46%) WAN
6 1 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.49%) Power BI
2 32 (7.34%) Tableau
3 23 (5.28%) Data Mining
4 15 (3.44%) SQL Server
5 11 (2.52%) Big Data
6 7 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.15%) MySQL
7 5 (1.15%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.92%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.92%) PowerPivot
8 4 (0.92%) QlikView
9 3 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.46%) Looker
10 2 (0.46%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (1.83%) JIRA
1 8 (1.83%) webpack
2 3 (0.69%) Git
2 3 (0.69%) JUnit
3 2 (0.46%) Ant
3 2 (0.46%) IntelliJ
3 2 (0.46%) Maven
3 2 (0.46%) Subversion
4 1 (0.23%) Appium
4 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.23%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.23%) Gradle
4 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.23%) NUnit
4 1 (0.23%) Selenium
4 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.23%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.23%) XCUITest
General
1 144 (33.03%) Social Skills
2 122 (27.98%) Analytical Skills
3 119 (27.29%) Finance
4 87 (19.95%) Military
5 51 (11.70%) Marketing
6 23 (5.28%) Retail
7 20 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (3.67%) Telecoms
10 15 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (3.21%) Brand Awareness
11 14 (3.21%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (2.29%) Public Sector
13 10 (2.29%) Publishing
14 9 (2.06%) Billing
14 9 (2.06%) Front Office
14 9 (2.06%) Legal
15 7 (1.61%) Advertising
15 7 (1.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 90 (20.64%) Graduate
2 72 (16.51%) Senior
3 53 (12.16%) Analyst
4 41 (9.40%) Lead
5 21 (4.82%) Service Manager
6 20 (4.59%) IT Manager
6 20 (4.59%) Product Manager
7 19 (4.36%) Financial Analyst
8 15 (3.44%) Senior Analyst
8 15 (3.44%) Senior Manager
9 14 (3.21%) Customer Experience Manager
9 14 (3.21%) Senior Financial Analyst
10 13 (2.98%) Software Engineer
11 12 (2.75%) Service Desk Manager
11 12 (2.75%) Team Leader
12 10 (2.29%) Architect
12 10 (2.29%) Business Analyst
12 10 (2.29%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (2.06%) Administrator
13 9 (2.06%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.05%) CSS
2 18 (4.13%) HTML
3 11 (2.52%) XML
4 10 (2.29%) .NET
4 10 (2.29%) Node.js
5 9 (2.06%) .NET Core
5 9 (2.06%) jQuery
5 9 (2.06%) React
6 8 (1.83%) .NET Framework
6 8 (1.83%) Akka.NET
6 8 (1.83%) AngularJS
6 8 (1.83%) GraphQL
6 8 (1.83%) JSON
6 8 (1.83%) REST
7 4 (0.92%) Django
7 4 (0.92%) Spring
8 3 (0.69%) Kafka
8 3 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (0.46%) J2EE
9 2 (0.46%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 136 (31.19%) Onboarding
2 44 (10.09%) Product Ownership
3 20 (4.59%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.67%) Mobile App
4 16 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.61%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.61%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.38%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.15%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.15%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.92%) Clustering
9 4 (0.92%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.69%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.69%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.69%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.69%) Replication
11 2 (0.46%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.44%) Windows
2 9 (2.06%) Linux
3 6 (1.38%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.46%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.23%) Android
6 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (35.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 133 (30.50%) Problem-Solving
3 128 (29.36%) Customer Experience
4 126 (28.90%) Process Improvement
5 114 (26.15%) Customer Service
5 114 (26.15%) Data Analysis
6 96 (22.02%) Creative Thinking
7 92 (21.10%) Agile
7 92 (21.10%) Logistics
8 87 (19.95%) Contingency Planning
9 60 (13.76%) ITIL
10 58 (13.30%) Project Management
11 56 (12.84%) Analytics
11 56 (12.84%) Decision-Making
12 51 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 44 (10.09%) Computer Science
13 44 (10.09%) Mentoring
13 44 (10.09%) Roadmaps
14 42 (9.63%) Service Management
15 41 (9.40%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 63 (14.45%) SQL
2 41 (9.40%) Python
3 17 (3.90%) C
4 12 (2.75%) R
5 11 (2.52%) C#
5 11 (2.52%) MATLAB
6 10 (2.29%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.06%) TypeScript
8 8 (1.83%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.83%) VBA
9 6 (1.38%) Java
10 4 (0.92%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.69%) Scala
12 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.46%) XPath
13 1 (0.23%) Bash
13 1 (0.23%) Go
13 1 (0.23%) PHP
13 1 (0.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 201 (46.10%) Degree
2 23 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (5.05%) Security Cleared
4 14 (3.21%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.98%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.75%) Azure Certification
7 10 (2.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 10 (2.29%) MBA
8 8 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.61%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.38%) CRISC
11 5 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.15%) OCA
11 5 (1.15%) OCP
11 5 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
11 5 (1.15%) Postgraduate
12 4 (0.92%) CISM
12 4 (0.92%) CISSP
13 3 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.69%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.50%) QA
2 17 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.44%) SLA
4 14 (3.21%) PMO
5 12 (2.75%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.83%) WCAG
7 6 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.38%) NIST
8 5 (1.15%) GDPR
9 4 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.46%) COBIT
11 2 (0.46%) GRC
12 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.23%) GMP
12 1 (0.23%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 22 (5.05%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.38%) XenApp
4 6 (1.38%) XenDesktop
5 5 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (0.92%) Docker
7 1 (0.23%) Firmware
7 1 (0.23%) KVM
7 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (1.38%) SCCM
2 5 (1.15%) Data Guard
2 5 (1.15%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (0.92%) Terraform
4 3 (0.69%) Ansible
4 3 (0.69%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.46%) Control-M
5 2 (0.46%) Grafana
5 2 (0.46%) Kibana
5 2 (0.46%) logstash
5 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.23%) Autotask
6 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.23%) Nagios
6 1 (0.23%) Puppet
6 1 (0.23%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 72 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.19%) Google
3 20 (4.59%) Oracle
4 15 (3.44%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.29%) VMware
6 7 (1.61%) Citrix
7 6 (1.38%) CA
7 6 (1.38%) Commvault
7 6 (1.38%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.15%) Cisco
8 5 (1.15%) Meraki
9 4 (0.92%) Ahrefs
9 4 (0.92%) Apple
9 4 (0.92%) MicroStrategy
9 4 (0.92%) Screaming Frog
10 3 (0.69%) Adobe
10 3 (0.69%) Ericsson
10 3 (0.69%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.69%) Sophos
10 3 (0.69%) ZyXEL