Performance Analysis Contracts

Performance Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 456 637
Rank change year-on-year +27 +181 +65
Contract jobs citing Performance Analysis 94 123 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.29% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.34% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 70 37
10th Percentile £352 £358 £400
25th Percentile £413 £421 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £597 £638
90th Percentile £650 £650 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £430 £400
% change year-on-year +27.91% +7.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 0
10th Percentile £19.43 £34.25 -
25th Percentile £20.77 £46.88 -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.00% - -
75th Percentile £26.50 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £28.60 £73.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.18 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year -59.65% - -

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 26,783 36,704 51,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.97% 86.15% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,188 23,629 35,390
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,099 2,440 1,690
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.99 £15.99
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +38.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 18 May 2025.

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
Top 15 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 18 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
England +21 65 £550 +19.89% 254
UK excluding London +16 35 £550 +27.91% 171
London +46 33 £550 +5.77% 125
Work from Home +20 25 £550 +4.76% 153
Midlands +20 11 £488 +14.71% 17
West Midlands +8 7 £474 -3.76% 12
East of England +26 6 £650 -3.70% 42
South East +26 5 £650 +20.93% 55
North of England +3 5 £468 +9.36% 40
Scotland - 5 £600 - 8
East Midlands +12 4 £800 +119.18% 3
South West +35 3 £550 - 17
Yorkshire -1 3 £463 +7.56% 8
North West +11 2 £473 +21.94% 28
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

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 (3.19%) NetWeaver
2 1 (1.06%) CMS
2 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (12.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (4.26%) Trello
5 2 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (1.06%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Aladdin
2 3 (3.19%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.06%) Maximo
3 1 (1.06%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.70%) Power Platform
2 4 (4.26%) AWS
2 4 (4.26%) Azure
2 4 (4.26%) Google Analytics
3 3 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (3.19%) GCP
3 3 (3.19%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 2 (2.13%) Google Data Studio
4 2 (2.13%) Power Automate
4 2 (2.13%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.06%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.06%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.06%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (1.06%) OCI
5 1 (1.06%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.28%) 4G
1 20 (21.28%) 5G
1 20 (21.28%) Wireshark
2 19 (20.21%) 3G
2 19 (20.21%) LTE
2 19 (20.21%) Radio Access Network
2 19 (20.21%) VoLTE
3 18 (19.15%) Diameter Protocol
3 18 (19.15%) RANAP
4 5 (5.32%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (5.32%) iSCSI
5 4 (4.26%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.26%) VLAN
6 3 (3.19%) BGP
6 3 (3.19%) EIGRP
6 3 (3.19%) Network Security
6 3 (3.19%) OSPF
6 3 (3.19%) SAN
7 2 (2.13%) NAS
7 2 (2.13%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.70%) Power BI
2 6 (6.38%) Tableau
3 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.06%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.06%) Looker
4 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.26%) JIRA
2 3 (3.19%) JMeter
2 3 (3.19%) Selenium
3 1 (1.06%) Git
3 1 (1.06%) Mockito
3 1 (1.06%) Toad
3 1 (1.06%) Xcode
General
1 47 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 32 (34.04%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (22.34%) Finance
4 10 (10.64%) Marketing
5 6 (6.38%) Front Office
6 4 (4.26%) Local Government
6 4 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.26%) Retail
7 3 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.13%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.13%) Banking
8 2 (2.13%) Electronics
9 1 (1.06%) Advertising
9 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 26 (27.66%) Analyst
2 11 (11.70%) Performance Analyst
3 10 (10.64%) Architect
4 9 (9.57%) Performance Manager
5 5 (5.32%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (5.32%) Lead
5 5 (5.32%) Senior
5 5 (5.32%) Sustainability Analyst
5 5 (5.32%) VMware Architect
6 4 (4.26%) Commercial Analyst
6 4 (4.26%) Consultant
6 4 (4.26%) Product Manager
7 3 (3.19%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.19%) Performance Engineer
7 3 (3.19%) Performance Test Engineer
7 3 (3.19%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (3.19%) Test Engineer
8 2 (2.13%) RF Engineer
8 2 (2.13%) Senior DBA
8 2 (2.13%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.26%) RESTful
2 3 (3.19%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (3.19%) SAPUI5
3 2 (2.13%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Camel
4 1 (1.06%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.06%) JWT
4 1 (1.06%) OAuth
4 1 (1.06%) OpenID
4 1 (1.06%) REST
4 1 (1.06%) SAML
4 1 (1.06%) Spring
4 1 (1.06%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.06%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.51%) Fixed Income
2 6 (6.38%) Derivative
2 6 (6.38%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.19%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.19%) Replication
4 2 (2.13%) CMDB
4 2 (2.13%) Equities
4 2 (2.13%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.06%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.06%) Symmetrix
5 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.38%) Windows
2 5 (5.32%) Windows Server
2 5 (5.32%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (3.19%) Linux
4 1 (1.06%) Android
4 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (23.40%) Translating Business Requirements
3 21 (22.34%) Customer Experience
4 20 (21.28%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (20.21%) Network Architecture
5 19 (20.21%) Performance Improvement
6 15 (15.96%) Analytics
7 14 (14.89%) Agile
8 13 (13.83%) Data Analysis
9 11 (11.70%) Actionable Insight
9 11 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (10.64%) Decision-Making
10 10 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (9.57%) Asset Management
12 8 (8.51%) DevOps
12 8 (8.51%) Investment Management
13 7 (7.45%) Migration
13 7 (7.45%) Performance Metrics
13 7 (7.45%) Test Automation
13 7 (7.45%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.53%) SQL
2 15 (15.96%) Python
3 4 (4.26%) Java
3 4 (4.26%) R
4 3 (3.19%) ABAP
4 3 (3.19%) C++
5 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.06%) Bash
6 1 (1.06%) C#
6 1 (1.06%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.06%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.06%) Swift
Qualifications
1 10 (10.64%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.45%) Degree
3 5 (5.32%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.32%) MCSE
3 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.32%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.32%) VCP5
3 5 (5.32%) VCP6
3 5 (5.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.19%) CCNP
6 2 (2.13%) CCNA
6 2 (2.13%) CFA
7 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.19%) GDPR
3 2 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.13%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (7.45%) VMware ESXi
1 7 (7.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (7.45%) vSphere
2 5 (5.32%) NFS
3 1 (1.06%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 2 (2.13%) Ansible
1 2 (2.13%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (1.06%) EMC TimeFinder
2 1 (1.06%) Nagios
2 1 (1.06%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (19.15%) Empirix
1 18 (19.15%) NetScout
2 14 (14.89%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.51%) VMware
4 7 (7.45%) Google
5 6 (6.38%) BISAM
5 6 (6.38%) SAP
6 5 (5.32%) NetApp
6 5 (5.32%) Splunk
6 5 (5.32%) Veeam
7 4 (4.26%) Cisco
7 4 (4.26%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.19%) Dell
8 3 (3.19%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.13%) Infoblox
9 2 (2.13%) Juniper
9 2 (2.13%) Oracle
9 2 (2.13%) RedGate
9 2 (2.13%) Zscaler
10 1 (1.06%) Okta