Performance Attribution Contract Job Trends

Performance Attribution
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Performance Attribution skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 488 557
Rank change year-on-year -125 +69 +134
Contract jobs citing Performance Attribution 10 42 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.14% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.16% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 42 25
10th Percentile £485 - £500
25th Percentile £518 £538 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -20.74% -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £570 £875 £800
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Attribution 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 39,566 26,667 37,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.67% 90.82% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,976 17,238 24,315
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,367 1,068 2,431
10th Percentile £14.87 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.22% -16.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £28.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +49.79% -22.11% +0.14%

Performance Attribution
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Performance Attribution job vacancy trend in the UK

Performance Attribution
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Performance Attribution
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Performance Attribution
Top 3 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 Attribution within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2026. 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
London -103 10 £535 -20.74% 4
England -128 10 £535 -20.74% 6
Work from Home -63 3 £570 -15.56% 3

Performance Attribution
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 3 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (30.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 3 (30.00%) dbt
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (20.00%) SaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Delta Lake
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (30.00%) Star Schema
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Charles Proxy
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Marketing
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Front Office
3 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Asset Management Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Asset Management Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Investment Management Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) Jest
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (40.00%) Fixed Income
2 3 (30.00%) Equities
3 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Asset Management
2 7 (70.00%) Analytics
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) Validation
5 3 (30.00%) Business Strategy
5 3 (30.00%) Dimensional Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (30.00%) ETL
5 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Performance Measurement
5 3 (30.00%) Wealth Management
6 2 (20.00%) AI
6 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
6 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (20.00%) Data Security
6 2 (20.00%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (30.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) SimCorp
2 2 (20.00%) Vermilion
3 1 (10.00%) Adobe
3 1 (10.00%) Google