Performance Analysis Contract Job Trends

Performance Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Performance Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 443 483
Rank change year-on-year -43 +40 +188
Contract jobs citing Performance Analysis 96 100 126
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.32% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 54 75
10th Percentile £313 £404 £452
25th Percentile £363 £458 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% +2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £637 £617
90th Percentile £673 £696 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -33.33% +4.35% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 13
10th Percentile - - £27.10
25th Percentile - £76.25 £62.50
Median hourly rate £67.00 £77.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.55% +19.23% -11.56%
75th Percentile - £78.75 £67.50
90th Percentile - - £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 - £65.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,247 31,236 40,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.88% 87.47% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,285 18,990 26,947
10th Percentile £300 £308 £310
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,084 1,559
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.19 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

Performance Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Performance Analysis job vacancy trend in the UK

Performance Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Performance Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Analysis over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Performance Analysis
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 December 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
England -29 94 £415 -26.22% 53
UK excluding London -23 63 £400 -33.33% 44
London -16 28 £475 -13.64% 16
Work from Home -11 26 £509 -7.55% 29
North of England -34 20 £325 -27.78% 7
South East -7 18 £650 +15.56% 18
North West -10 12 £325 -1.89% 2
Midlands -39 9 £400 -41.61% 2
South West - 9 £465 - 10
Yorkshire -39 8 £440 -2.22% 3
East of England -8 7 £475 -9.52% 11
West Midlands -36 6 £400 -41.61% 1
East Midlands - 3 £350 - 1

Performance Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.17%) CMS
2 2 (2.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.04%) Apache
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.08%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (3.13%) assyst
3 2 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.58%) Azure
2 13 (13.54%) Power Platform
3 7 (7.29%) GCP
3 7 (7.29%) Google Analytics
3 7 (7.29%) Google Tag Manager
4 5 (5.21%) IaaS
5 4 (4.17%) Figma
5 4 (4.17%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 4 (4.17%) Serverless
6 3 (3.13%) PaaS
6 3 (3.13%) SaaS
7 2 (2.08%) GitHub
7 2 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.04%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (1.04%) AWS
8 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.04%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.25%) Wireshark
2 5 (5.21%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (5.21%) iSCSI
2 5 (5.21%) Multicast
2 5 (5.21%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.21%) tcpdump
3 3 (3.13%) Ethernet
3 3 (3.13%) WAN
4 2 (2.08%) Bluetooth
4 2 (2.08%) Internet
4 2 (2.08%) LAN
5 1 (1.04%) BGP
5 1 (1.04%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.04%) Firewall
5 1 (1.04%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.04%) IPsec
5 1 (1.04%) OSPF
5 1 (1.04%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.04%) VLAN
5 1 (1.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.54%) Power BI
2 7 (7.29%) Hadoop
3 6 (6.25%) BigQuery
3 6 (6.25%) Looker
4 5 (5.21%) DB2
5 4 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.17%) MemSQL
5 4 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.17%) Oracle Database
5 4 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (4.17%) Sybase IQ
6 3 (3.13%) Impala
6 3 (3.13%) OLTP
6 3 (3.13%) Tableau
7 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.04%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Git
2 5 (5.21%) Gradle
3 4 (4.17%) Android Studio
3 4 (4.17%) Storybook
4 3 (3.13%) KGDB
5 2 (2.08%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.08%) GitLab
5 2 (2.08%) JIRA
5 2 (2.08%) JUnit
5 2 (2.08%) WiX
6 1 (1.04%) Selenium
6 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.04%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (17.71%) Finance
4 15 (15.63%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.33%) Banking
5 8 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.25%) Aerospace
6 6 (6.25%) Front Office
6 6 (6.25%) Retail
7 4 (4.17%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Billing
9 1 (1.04%) Local Government
9 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (23.96%) Analyst
2 15 (15.63%) Developer
3 11 (11.46%) Lead
3 11 (11.46%) Performance Analyst
4 9 (9.38%) Senior
4 9 (9.38%) Software Engineer
5 7 (7.29%) Architect
6 6 (6.25%) Android Developer
6 6 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.21%) Infrastructure Architect
7 5 (5.21%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (5.21%) VMware Architect
8 4 (4.17%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.17%) Technical Leader
9 3 (3.13%) Kernel Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Senior Performance Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Service Desk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.29%) Node.js
2 5 (5.21%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (5.21%) Middleware
2 5 (5.21%) Ultra Messaging
3 4 (4.17%) Bootstrap
3 4 (4.17%) CSS
3 4 (4.17%) CSS3
3 4 (4.17%) Express.js
3 4 (4.17%) Flask
3 4 (4.17%) HTML
3 4 (4.17%) HTML5
3 4 (4.17%) Next.js
3 4 (4.17%) React
3 4 (4.17%) Redux
3 4 (4.17%) RESTful
4 3 (3.13%) OpenEmbedded
4 3 (3.13%) REST
4 3 (3.13%) Yocto
5 2 (2.08%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.08%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.29%) FPGA
1 7 (7.29%) PCIe
2 6 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.25%) State Machine
3 4 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.13%) Device Driver
4 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.08%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.08%) Tandem
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.92%) Linux
2 17 (17.71%) Windows
3 6 (6.25%) Android
4 5 (5.21%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.21%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.08%) Unix
6 1 (1.04%) CentOS
6 1 (1.04%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (22.92%) Analytics
3 16 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 16 (16.67%) Validation
4 15 (15.63%) Actionable Insight
4 15 (15.63%) Test Automation
5 13 (13.54%) CI/CD
5 13 (13.54%) Decision-Making
6 12 (12.50%) Agile
6 12 (12.50%) Data Analysis
7 11 (11.46%) Performance Metrics
8 10 (10.42%) AI
8 10 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (9.38%) Capacity Planning
9 9 (9.38%) Performance Measurement
9 9 (9.38%) User Experience
10 8 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (8.33%) Observability
10 8 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (30.21%) Python
2 18 (18.75%) SQL
3 10 (10.42%) C++
4 9 (9.38%) C#
4 9 (9.38%) Java
4 9 (9.38%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.25%) Bash
5 6 (6.25%) C
6 4 (4.17%) R
6 4 (4.17%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.13%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.08%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.08%) PHP
9 1 (1.04%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.04%) Korn
9 1 (1.04%) Perl
9 1 (1.04%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (1.04%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 18 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.29%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (5.21%) MCSE
5 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (5.21%) VCP5
5 5 (5.21%) VCP6
6 4 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.17%) Degree
7 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.04%) CCNP
7 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.04%) CSPO
7 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.42%) QA
2 9 (9.38%) Data Quality
3 6 (6.25%) Accessibility
4 4 (4.17%) SLA
5 1 (1.04%) GDPR
5 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (6.25%) vSphere
3 5 (5.21%) Docker
3 5 (5.21%) NFS
4 1 (1.04%) GPFS
4 1 (1.04%) Lustre
4 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.38%) Grafana
3 6 (6.25%) Ansible
4 5 (5.21%) ITRS Geneos
4 5 (5.21%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.21%) Terraform
5 2 (2.08%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (2.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.04%) Kibana
6 1 (1.04%) VxRail
6 1 (1.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.42%) Oracle
3 9 (9.38%) VMware
4 7 (7.29%) Google
4 7 (7.29%) Salesforce
5 6 (6.25%) Splunk
6 5 (5.21%) NetApp
6 5 (5.21%) Solace
6 5 (5.21%) TIBCO
6 5 (5.21%) Veeam
7 3 (3.13%) AppDynamics
7 3 (3.13%) IFS
8 2 (2.08%) Cisco
8 2 (2.08%) NVIDIA
8 2 (2.08%) Sage
8 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.08%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.08%) Teradata
9 1 (1.04%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.04%) Palo Alto