Performance Analysis Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Performance Analysis
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Performance Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 120 139
Rank change year-on-year -34 +19 +67
Contract jobs citing Performance Analysis 7 16 3
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.24% 0.60% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.72% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 1
10th Percentile £349 - -
25th Percentile £385 £612 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £685 £612
Median % change year-on-year -41.61% +11.93% +33.77%
75th Percentile - - £631
90th Percentile £580 £725 -
England median daily rate £420 £565 £560
% change year-on-year -25.66% +0.89% -2.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Performance Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,600 2,217 2,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 89.35% 83.63% 84.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 1,389 1,591
10th Percentile £250 £261 £250
25th Percentile £367 £375 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 69 107
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.00 £17.61
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% -11.11% +58.82%
75th Percentile £26.51 £35.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.96 £53.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +27.14%

Performance Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Performance Analysis job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Performance Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Performance Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Performance Analysis

Performance Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Analysis in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Analysis in the Midlands

Performance Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Performance Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Performance Analysis

Performance Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 November 2025. 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
West Midlands -33 6 £400 -41.61% 2
East Midlands - 1 £350 - 5
Performance Analysis
England

Performance Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) IaaS
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) EIGRP
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) OSPF
1 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless Security
1 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (42.86%) OLTP
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
1 3 (42.86%) Team Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Monitoring Team Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
1 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Performance Metrics
2 4 (57.14%) Incident Management
2 4 (57.14%) Process Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Batch Processing
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Service Management
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) High Availability
5 1 (14.29%) Network Management
5 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Release Management
5 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Juniper
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Sage
2 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds