Performance Analyst Contracts

Performance Analyst
UK

The median Performance Analyst daily rate in the UK is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 August 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
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 532 585
Rank change year-on-year +15 +53 +129
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Performance Analyst 36 32 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.083% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.089% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 69
10th Percentile £390 £365 £204
25th Percentile £425 £424 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -2.70% -9.76%
75th Percentile £503 £491 £550
90th Percentile £550 £530 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +1.39% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £17.21
Median % change year-on-year - +117.90% +14.73%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £17.21
% change year-on-year - - +9.27%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 30,134 36,051 48,460
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.97% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,011 23,015 33,428
10th Percentile £280 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -1.57%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,572 1,954 1,495
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.16 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.52 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%
75th Percentile £53.89 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £39.58
% change year-on-year -41.51% +8.65% +86.24%

Performance Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Analyst in the UK

Performance Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Performance Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Analyst over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Analyst in the UK

Performance Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Performance Analyst job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Performance Analyst job vacancies in the UK

Performance Analyst
Top 12 DemandTrendContract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +21 33 £463 +2.78% 26
UK excluding London +10 19 £456 +1.39% 20
London +18 13 £466 +3.61% 8
Work from Home +6 12 £480 +6.67% 14
North of England -14 10 £463 +2.78% 9
Midlands -4 8 £430 +32.15% 3
West Midlands -3 7 £430 - 2
Yorkshire -9 5 £463 +2.78% 4
North East 0 4 £463 +2.78% 1
South East +19 1 £488 -18.75% 3
East Midlands -3 1 - - 1
North West -6 1 - - 4

Performance Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 August 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 featuring Performance Analyst in the job title.

1 17 (47.22%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (44.44%) Power BI
2 16 (44.44%) Power Platform
3 15 (41.67%) Decision-Making
3 15 (41.67%) Security Cleared
4 14 (38.89%) Visualisation
4 14 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (38.89%) SC Cleared
5 13 (36.11%) SQL
5 13 (36.11%) Analytics
6 10 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (27.78%) Data Analysis
6 10 (27.78%) Performance Measurement
6 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
6 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
7 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
7 8 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
8 7 (19.44%) Actionable Insight
8 7 (19.44%) Data Visualisation
8 7 (19.44%) Windows
8 7 (19.44%) PVCS
8 7 (19.44%) XML
8 7 (19.44%) Statistics
9 6 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
9 6 (16.67%) Data Collection
10 5 (13.89%) Tableau
10 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (13.89%) Dashboard Development
10 5 (13.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (13.89%) Google Analytics

Performance Analyst Skill Set
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 1 (2.78%) Confluence
1 1 (2.78%) SAS
1 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.78%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 5 (13.89%) Google Analytics
3 3 (8.33%) Google Data Studio
4 2 (5.56%) Google Tag Manager
4 2 (5.56%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.78%) Azure
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.78%) GCP
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) Google Sheets
5 1 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) MPLS
2 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (44.44%) Power BI
2 5 (13.89%) Tableau
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle Database
4 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.56%) Power Query
4 2 (5.56%) Star Schema
5 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.78%) QlikView
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) PVCS
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Local Government
4 3 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Finance
5 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) XML
2 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.78%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) NHS
2 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (41.67%) Decision-Making
3 14 (38.89%) Visualisation
4 13 (36.11%) Analytics
5 10 (27.78%) Data Analysis
5 10 (27.78%) Performance Measurement
6 8 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
7 7 (19.44%) Actionable Insight
7 7 (19.44%) Data Visualisation
7 7 (19.44%) Statistics
8 6 (16.67%) Data Collection
8 6 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
9 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (13.89%) Dashboard Development
9 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (13.89%) Validation
10 3 (8.33%) Agile
10 3 (8.33%) Data Modelling
10 3 (8.33%) ETL
11 2 (5.56%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) SQL
2 3 (8.33%) C++
2 3 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (5.56%) Python
4 1 (2.78%) Assembly Language
4 1 (2.78%) PL/1
4 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.78%) R
4 1 (2.78%) REXX
Qualifications
1 15 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Google
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) OneLogin
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle
3 3 (8.33%) Virgin Media
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco
4 2 (5.56%) Meraki
4 2 (5.56%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.56%) Splunk
5 1 (2.78%) Capita
5 1 (2.78%) FactSet
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow