Performance Analysis Contracts

Performance Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Analysis over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 459 619 702
Rank change year-on-year +160 +83 -131
Contract jobs citing Performance Analysis 126 74 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.14% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 44 100
10th Percentile £358 £400 £301
25th Percentile £424 £450 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +12.43% -2.63%
75th Percentile £591 £641 £575
90th Percentile £650 £746 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £428 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +6.88% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 5
10th Percentile £34.25 - £22.23
25th Percentile £45.31 - £36.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £37.50
75th Percentile £62.50 - £38.75
90th Percentile £73.88 - £46.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 - £31.89
% change year-on-year - - -27.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,793 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Performance Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Performance Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Analysis.

Daily rate trend for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Analysis over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Analysis.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Analysis over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Top 13 Contract 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 7 May 2024. 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 +144 101 £455 -10.12% 103
UK excluding London +113 63 £428 +6.88% 80
Work from Home +134 46 £525 +0.96% 56
London +87 34 £520 -9.57% 32
North of England +47 23 £425 -17.07% 14
Yorkshire - 21 £430 - 5
South East +35 20 £538 +43.33% 18
Midlands +37 8 £425 +10.39% 7
South West +14 6 - - 11
East of England - 6 £675 - 20
West Midlands +26 4 £493 - 5
East Midlands +23 4 £365 -5.19% 2
North West +24 2 £381 -25.61% 7

Performance Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (2.38%) Apache
1 3 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.38%) IIS
1 3 (2.38%) Jupyter
1 3 (2.38%) nginx
1 3 (2.38%) WebLogic
1 3 (2.38%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.79%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (2.38%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) ION Anvil
1 2 (1.59%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (15.08%) AWS
2 17 (13.49%) GitHub
3 16 (12.70%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (10.32%) Azure
5 11 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (8.73%) IaaS
5 11 (8.73%) PaaS
5 11 (8.73%) SaaS
6 10 (7.94%) Snowflake
7 8 (6.35%) Google Analytics
8 5 (3.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (3.97%) Amazon EventBridge
8 5 (3.97%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.97%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (3.97%) dbt
8 5 (3.97%) Serverless
9 4 (3.17%) GCP
9 4 (3.17%) Google Data Studio
10 3 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.97%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.17%) 2G
2 4 (3.17%) 3G
2 4 (3.17%) 4G
2 4 (3.17%) ATM
2 4 (3.17%) DNS
2 4 (3.17%) Ethernet
2 4 (3.17%) Firewall
2 4 (3.17%) LAN
2 4 (3.17%) SDH
3 3 (2.38%) WAN
4 2 (1.59%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (1.59%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.59%) VPN
5 1 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.79%) DHCP
5 1 (0.79%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.79%) SNA
5 1 (0.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.94%) Tableau
2 5 (3.97%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (3.97%) DB2
3 4 (3.17%) Hadoop
3 4 (3.17%) Impala
3 4 (3.17%) RDBMS
3 4 (3.17%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (2.38%) ClickHouse
4 3 (2.38%) Looker
4 3 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.38%) Power BI
5 1 (0.79%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.79%) PowerPivot
5 1 (0.79%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (7.94%) SonarQube
2 9 (7.14%) Gradle
3 7 (5.56%) JIRA
4 6 (4.76%) CircleCI
5 5 (3.97%) GCC
5 5 (3.97%) Git
6 4 (3.17%) JUnit
7 3 (2.38%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.59%) JMeter
8 2 (1.59%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.79%) XCTest
9 1 (0.79%) XCUITest
General
1 39 (30.95%) Finance
2 36 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (19.84%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.52%) Legal
5 10 (7.94%) Banking
6 8 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.97%) Marketing
9 4 (3.17%) Back Office
9 4 (3.17%) Retail
10 2 (1.59%) Electronics
10 2 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Law
11 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (25.40%) Analyst
2 15 (11.90%) Lead
3 12 (9.52%) Consultant
4 9 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
5 8 (6.35%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (6.35%) Data Analyst
5 8 (6.35%) Performance Analyst
5 8 (6.35%) Senior
6 6 (4.76%) Software Engineer
7 5 (3.97%) AWS Data Engineer
7 5 (3.97%) Compiler Engineer
7 5 (3.97%) Data Engineer
7 5 (3.97%) Storage Consultant
8 4 (3.17%) Android Engineer
8 4 (3.17%) Architect
9 3 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (2.38%) Java Engineer
9 3 (2.38%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (2.38%) Transmission Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.11%) REST
2 10 (7.94%) ARM Templates
2 10 (7.94%) Azure Blueprints
3 8 (6.35%) RAML
4 7 (5.56%) XML
5 6 (4.76%) PySpark
5 6 (4.76%) Web Services
6 5 (3.97%) LLVM
7 4 (3.17%) Android Jetpack
7 4 (3.17%) Dagger
7 4 (3.17%) Jetpack Compose
7 4 (3.17%) JSON
7 4 (3.17%) LDAP
7 4 (3.17%) OkHttp
7 4 (3.17%) RxJava
7 4 (3.17%) WireMock
8 3 (2.38%) Apache Beam
8 3 (2.38%) EJB
8 3 (2.38%) Kafka
8 3 (2.38%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.49%) Management Information System
2 10 (7.94%) Credit Risk
2 10 (7.94%) Legacy Code
2 10 (7.94%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 6 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.76%) Virtual Team
4 5 (3.97%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.38%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.38%) CMDB
6 3 (2.38%) EMC VNX
6 3 (2.38%) Replication
6 3 (2.38%) Social Media
7 2 (1.59%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.59%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.59%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.79%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (0.79%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.32%) Linux
2 10 (7.94%) Windows
3 7 (5.56%) Android
3 7 (5.56%) Unix
4 3 (2.38%) AIX
4 3 (2.38%) Debian
4 3 (2.38%) Solaris
5 2 (1.59%) zOS
6 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (26.98%) DevOps
2 30 (23.81%) Analytics
3 28 (22.22%) Continuous Delivery
3 28 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 24 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (18.25%) CI/CD
5 23 (18.25%) Mentoring
6 17 (13.49%) Decision-Making
6 17 (13.49%) Open Source
7 16 (12.70%) ITIL
7 16 (12.70%) Project Management
7 16 (12.70%) Software Engineering
8 15 (11.90%) Build Automation
8 15 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (11.90%) Test Automation
8 15 (11.90%) Validation
9 14 (11.11%) Agile
9 14 (11.11%) Mathematics
10 13 (10.32%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (10.32%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.67%) Python
2 20 (15.87%) SQL
3 16 (12.70%) Java
4 9 (7.14%) Bash
5 8 (6.35%) Kotlin
5 8 (6.35%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.56%) C
7 5 (3.97%) Perl
7 5 (3.97%) R
8 4 (3.17%) C++
8 4 (3.17%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.38%) Go
9 3 (2.38%) Groovy
9 3 (2.38%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.38%) Ruby
9 3 (2.38%) Scala
9 3 (2.38%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.59%) C#
11 1 (0.79%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (23.81%) Degree
2 20 (15.87%) Security Cleared
3 16 (12.70%) SC Cleared
4 12 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (7.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.97%) PhD
7 3 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (2.38%) CISSP
7 3 (2.38%) SANS
8 2 (1.59%) CCNA
9 1 (0.79%) ACCA
9 1 (0.79%) CCNP
9 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.73%) QA
2 10 (7.94%) NCSC
3 4 (3.17%) ISO 15022
4 3 (2.38%) GRC
5 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.79%) GDPR
5 1 (0.79%) IFRS
5 1 (0.79%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (10.32%) Docker
2 5 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.38%) SRDF
3 3 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.79%) RACF
Systems Management
1 22 (17.46%) Ansible
2 19 (15.08%) Terraform
3 10 (7.94%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.38%) EMC TimeFinder
4 3 (2.38%) Grafana
5 1 (0.79%) Nagios
5 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (14.29%) EMC
2 10 (7.94%) Alteryx
3 9 (7.14%) Google
4 7 (5.56%) SAP
5 5 (3.97%) Cisco
5 5 (3.97%) VMware
6 4 (3.17%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.38%) Adobe
7 3 (2.38%) Ariba
7 3 (2.38%) Brocade
7 3 (2.38%) Dell
7 3 (2.38%) Dell Compellent
7 3 (2.38%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.38%) EqualLogic
7 3 (2.38%) IBM
7 3 (2.38%) Isilon
7 3 (2.38%) Oracle
7 3 (2.38%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.38%) Splunk
8 2 (1.59%) SolarWinds