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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 333 413
Rank change year-on-year +35 +80 +54
Contract jobs citing Performance Analysis 37 64 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.31% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.37% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 29 13
10th Percentile £424 £358 £367
25th Percentile £473 £381 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £430 £400
Median % change year-on-year +33.72% +7.50% -13.51%
75th Percentile £650 £510 £450
90th Percentile - £563 £585
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 0
10th Percentile £19.43 £48.13 -
25th Percentile £20.77 £50.00 -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -56.19% - -
75th Percentile £46.50 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £60.60 £67.63 -
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -48.00% - -

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 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 29 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 +15 11 £488 +14.71% 72
West Midlands +18 7 £474 -3.76% 41
South East +29 6 £650 +20.93% 126
North of England -9 6 £468 +9.36% 99
East of England +31 5 £650 -3.70% 59
Scotland - 5 £600 - 20
South West +40 4 £550 - 39
East Midlands +7 4 £800 +119.18% 25
North West +5 3 £473 +21.94% 57
Yorkshire -8 3 £463 +7.56% 33
Channel Islands - 1 £450 - 2
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 (2.70%) Confluence
1 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (5.41%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.70%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.81%) Azure
1 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
2 3 (8.11%) AWS
2 3 (8.11%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (8.11%) Google Analytics
3 2 (5.41%) Google Data Studio
3 2 (5.41%) Power Automate
3 2 (5.41%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.70%) GCP
4 1 (2.70%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (2.70%) IaaS
4 1 (2.70%) PaaS
4 1 (2.70%) SaaS
4 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) Fibre Channel
1 6 (16.22%) iSCSI
2 2 (5.41%) BGP
2 2 (5.41%) EIGRP
2 2 (5.41%) Network Security
2 2 (5.41%) OSPF
2 2 (5.41%) SSL
3 1 (2.70%) 4G
3 1 (2.70%) 5G
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.70%) Firewall
3 1 (2.70%) Internet
3 1 (2.70%) MPLS
3 1 (2.70%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (2.70%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.70%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (2.70%) VLAN
3 1 (2.70%) Wireless
3 1 (2.70%) Wireless Security
3 1 (2.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Power BI
1 4 (10.81%) Tableau
2 1 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
1 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.70%) Git
1 1 (2.70%) Gradle
1 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
1 1 (2.70%) JUnit
1 1 (2.70%) Maven
1 1 (2.70%) Mockito
1 1 (2.70%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (2.70%) Rational Rhapsody
1 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
1 1 (2.70%) Toad
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 12 (32.43%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Finance
4 4 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (10.81%) Telecoms
5 3 (8.11%) Aerospace
5 3 (8.11%) Electronics
5 3 (8.11%) Local Government
5 3 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Analyst
2 10 (27.03%) Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Lead
3 6 (16.22%) VMware Architect
4 5 (13.51%) Sustainability Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Performance Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Project Planner
6 3 (8.11%) Radio Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) RF Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Network Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Supply Chain Architect
8 1 (2.70%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) Data Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) IT Operations Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Operations Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) Technical Architect
8 1 (2.70%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Spring
2 1 (2.70%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Camel
2 1 (2.70%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.70%) JavaFX
2 1 (2.70%) JWT
2 1 (2.70%) OAuth
2 1 (2.70%) OpenID
2 1 (2.70%) REST
2 1 (2.70%) SAML
2 1 (2.70%) Spring Batch
2 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.70%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Raspberry Pi
2 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.70%) CMDB
2 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Windows
2 6 (16.22%) Windows Server
2 6 (16.22%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (10.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (29.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 9 (24.32%) Data Analysis
4 6 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (16.22%) Edge Virtualization
5 5 (13.51%) Analytics
5 5 (13.51%) Design Thinking
5 5 (13.51%) DevOps
5 5 (13.51%) Software Engineering
6 4 (10.81%) Computer Science
6 4 (10.81%) Decarbonisation
6 4 (10.81%) Decision-Making
6 4 (10.81%) Dependency Management
6 4 (10.81%) Migration
6 4 (10.81%) Project Delivery
6 4 (10.81%) Test Automation
7 3 (8.11%) CI/CD
7 3 (8.11%) Performance Measurement
7 3 (8.11%) Programme Governance
7 3 (8.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) SQL
2 3 (8.11%) C++
2 3 (8.11%) Python
3 2 (5.41%) Java
3 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.70%) Bash
4 1 (2.70%) C#
4 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) DV Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) MCSE
2 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (16.22%) VCP5
2 6 (16.22%) VCP6
2 6 (16.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.41%) CCNA
5 2 (5.41%) CCNP
5 2 (5.41%) Degree
6 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) GDPR
2 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.70%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) NFS
1 6 (16.22%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (16.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (16.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Ansible
1 1 (2.70%) Nagios
1 1 (2.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (16.22%) NetApp
2 6 (16.22%) Splunk
2 6 (16.22%) Veeam
2 6 (16.22%) VMware
3 3 (8.11%) Google
4 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.41%) Cisco
4 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.70%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.70%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.70%) Juniper
5 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.70%) Okta
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.70%) Siemens
5 1 (2.70%) Talend
5 1 (2.70%) Zscaler