Performance Analysis Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Performance Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 337 441
Rank change year-on-year +33 +104 +20
Contract jobs citing Performance Analysis 32 62 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.30% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.35% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 12
10th Percentile £416 £361 £365
25th Percentile £472 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £432 £400
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +8.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £517 £413
90th Percentile £684 £572 £512
UK median daily rate £450 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -10.89% -3.81% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £18.99 £47.50 -
25th Percentile £19.66 - -
Median hourly rate £21.18 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.64% - -
75th Percentile £22.30 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £22.72 £68.50 -
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -54.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Performance Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Performance Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Analysis in the UK excluding London

Performance Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Analysis in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Analysis in the UK excluding London

Performance Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Analysis in the UK excluding London

Performance Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Analysis in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Analysis in the UK excluding London

Performance Analysis
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Midlands +29 11 £488 -1.02% 54
West Midlands +17 7 £474 -3.76% 29
South East +32 6 £650 +20.93% 75
North of England 0 5 £468 +10.00% 72
Scotland - 5 £600 - 15
East of England +26 4 £650 -3.70% 69
East Midlands - 4 £800 - 22
Yorkshire -10 3 £463 +7.56% 25
North West +16 2 £473 +21.94% 38
South West +41 1 - - 43
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -
Performance Analysis
UK

Performance Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (3.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) Azure
1 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (9.38%) AWS
2 3 (9.38%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (9.38%) Google Analytics
3 2 (6.25%) Google Data Studio
3 2 (6.25%) Power Automate
3 2 (6.25%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
4 1 (3.13%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (3.13%) IaaS
4 1 (3.13%) PaaS
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (12.50%) iSCSI
2 2 (6.25%) BGP
2 2 (6.25%) EIGRP
2 2 (6.25%) Network Security
2 2 (6.25%) OSPF
2 2 (6.25%) SSL
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (3.13%) DHCP
3 1 (3.13%) DNS
3 1 (3.13%) Firewall
3 1 (3.13%) FTP
3 1 (3.13%) Internet
3 1 (3.13%) LAN
3 1 (3.13%) MPLS
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.13%) WAN
3 1 (3.13%) Wireless
3 1 (3.13%) Wireless Security
3 1 (3.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Power BI
1 4 (12.50%) Tableau
2 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Mockito
1 1 (3.13%) Toad
General
1 14 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 9 (28.13%) Finance
4 4 (12.50%) Local Government
4 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Analyst
2 8 (25.00%) Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Sustainability Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Performance Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) VMware Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
6 2 (6.25%) DBA
6 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Supply Chain Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Sybase DBA
7 1 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Consultant
7 1 (3.13%) Data Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Integration Architect
7 1 (3.13%) IT Operations Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) 802.1X
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Camel
1 1 (3.13%) AWS CDK
1 1 (3.13%) JWT
1 1 (3.13%) OAuth
1 1 (3.13%) OpenID
1 1 (3.13%) REST
1 1 (3.13%) SAML
1 1 (3.13%) Spring
1 1 (3.13%) Spring Batch
1 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Replication
2 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.13%) CMDB
2 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Windows
2 4 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (28.13%) Data Analysis
3 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (18.75%) Decision-Making
5 5 (15.63%) Analytics
5 5 (15.63%) Design Thinking
5 5 (15.63%) DevOps
6 4 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (12.50%) Decarbonisation
6 4 (12.50%) Edge Virtualization
6 4 (12.50%) Migration
6 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 3 (9.38%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (9.38%) ITIL
7 3 (9.38%) ITSM
7 3 (9.38%) Performance Measurement
7 3 (9.38%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (9.38%) Visualisation
8 2 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) SQL
2 5 (15.63%) Python
3 2 (6.25%) Perl
3 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.13%) Bash
4 1 (3.13%) C#
4 1 (3.13%) Java
4 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) MCSE
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (12.50%) VCP5
2 4 (12.50%) VCP6
2 4 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (9.38%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.25%) CCNA
4 2 (6.25%) CCNP
4 2 (6.25%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) NFS
1 4 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) Foglight
3 1 (3.13%) Nagios
3 1 (3.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) Splunk
3 4 (12.50%) NetApp
3 4 (12.50%) Veeam
3 4 (12.50%) VMware
4 3 (9.38%) Google
4 3 (9.38%) Oracle
5 2 (6.25%) Cisco
5 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.25%) Sybase
6 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.13%) Ericsson
6 1 (3.13%) Infoblox
6 1 (3.13%) Juniper
6 1 (3.13%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.13%) Okta
6 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.13%) Siemens
6 1 (3.13%) Talend
6 1 (3.13%) Zscaler