Performance Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Performance Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £456, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 373 416
Rank change year-on-year +26 +43 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Analyst 17 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.045% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.049% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 17
10th Percentile £407 £341 £176
25th Percentile £425 £384 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +8.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £481 £534 £538
90th Percentile £506 £574 £571
UK median daily rate £463 £455 £425
% change year-on-year +1.65% +7.06% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £17.40
25th Percentile - £15.39 £17.67
Median hourly rate - £15.79 £18.77
Median % change year-on-year - -15.85% +29.64%
75th Percentile - £16.20 £20.49
90th Percentile - - £21.14
UK median hourly rate - £15.79 £18.77
% change year-on-year - -15.85% +22.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,527 18,336 21,809
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.58% 92.22% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,321 11,167 14,885
10th Percentile £215 £215 £232
25th Percentile £363 £375 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.02% -0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,154 2,085 1,195
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.64 £16.58 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.85% +4.53% +90.48%
75th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -37.13% -8.57% +70.37%

Performance Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Performance Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Analyst in the UK excluding London

Performance Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Analyst in the UK excluding London

Performance Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Analyst in the UK excluding London

Performance Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Analyst in the UK excluding London

Performance Analyst
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 Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 July 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
North of England +10 8 £463 - 3
Midlands +6 8 £430 +32.15% 5
West Midlands +10 7 £430 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £469 - 1
North East - 3 £450 -
South East +35 1 £488 -18.75% 4
North West +2 1 - - 2
East Midlands +1 1 - - 3
Performance Analyst
UK

Performance Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 July 2025, Performance Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Performance Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (52.94%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) Power BI
2 8 (47.06%) Power Platform
2 8 (47.06%) Decision-Making
3 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (41.18%) SQL
4 6 (35.29%) Visualisation
4 6 (35.29%) Data Analysis
4 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (35.29%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (29.41%) Analytics
5 5 (29.41%) Statistics
5 5 (29.41%) PVCS
5 5 (29.41%) XML
5 5 (29.41%) Windows
5 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
6 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (23.53%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (17.65%) Tableau
7 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (17.65%) Performance Analysis
7 3 (17.65%) Virgin Media
7 3 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (17.65%) OneLogin
7 3 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
7 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (17.65%) Data Collection

Performance Analyst Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.76%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.88%) Google Analytics
3 1 (5.88%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Power BI
2 3 (17.65%) Tableau
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) Star Schema
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) PVCS
General
1 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) NHS
1 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (47.06%) Decision-Making
3 6 (35.29%) Data Analysis
3 6 (35.29%) Performance Metrics
3 6 (35.29%) Visualisation
4 5 (29.41%) Analytics
4 5 (29.41%) Statistics
5 4 (23.53%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (17.65%) Data Collection
6 3 (17.65%) Performance Analysis
7 2 (11.76%) Compliance Management
7 2 (11.76%) Data Extraction
7 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
7 2 (11.76%) Dimensional Modelling
7 2 (11.76%) DMAIC
7 2 (11.76%) ETL
7 2 (11.76%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) SC Cleared
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) OneLogin
1 3 (17.65%) Virgin Media
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Meraki
2 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce