Senior Performance Analyst Contract Job Trends

Senior Performance Analyst
UK

The median Senior Performance Analyst daily rate in the UK is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 545 581
Rank change year-on-year -31 +36 +193
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Performance Analyst 10 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.024% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.025% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 7
10th Percentile £372 - £540
25th Percentile £413 £538 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £621 £563 £600
90th Percentile £665 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - -

All Contract 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.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 33,689 31,494 40,397
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 92.77% 93.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,297 19,365 27,107
10th Percentile £293 £300 £285
25th Percentile £405 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £640
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,984 978 1,483
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £15.02
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.01 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.25 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% -26.67% +45.77%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.54 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -22.62% -29.62% +84.72%

Senior Performance Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Performance Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Performance Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Performance Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Senior Performance Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Performance Analyst over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Performance Analyst in the UK

Senior Performance Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Senior Performance Analyst
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Performance Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 -25 9 £575 +4.55% 3
London -12 5 £588 +6.82%
UK excluding London -38 4 £475 - 3
Work from Home +5 3 £588 -
North West -28 3 £375 - 3
North of England -48 3 £375 - 3
South East - 1 £600 -
South West - 1 £575 -

Senior Performance Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, Senior Performance Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior Performance Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Analytics
2 8 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (80.00%) Power BI
2 8 (80.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (70.00%) Data Analysis
4 6 (60.00%) Data Quality
4 6 (60.00%) Google
4 6 (60.00%) Google Analytics
5 5 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
5 5 (50.00%) Agile
5 5 (50.00%) BigQuery
5 5 (50.00%) Data Privacy
5 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
5 5 (50.00%) GCP
5 5 (50.00%) Looker
5 5 (50.00%) Performance Measurement
5 5 (50.00%) SQL
5 5 (50.00%) Visualisation
6 4 (40.00%) Google Tag Manager
6 4 (40.00%) Performance Analysis
6 4 (40.00%) QA
6 4 (40.00%) Tableau
6 4 (40.00%) User Research
6 4 (40.00%) Validation
7 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (30.00%) Facebook
7 3 (30.00%) GDPR
7 3 (30.00%) PERC
7 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (30.00%) Storytelling

Senior Performance Analyst Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (60.00%) Google Analytics
3 5 (50.00%) GCP
4 4 (40.00%) Google Tag Manager
5 2 (20.00%) Azure
6 1 (10.00%) Adobe Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Power BI
2 5 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 5 (50.00%) Looker
3 4 (40.00%) Tableau
General
1 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Publishing
5 1 (10.00%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Analytics
2 8 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (70.00%) Data Analysis
4 5 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 5 (50.00%) Data Privacy
4 5 (50.00%) Decision-Making
4 5 (50.00%) Performance Measurement
4 5 (50.00%) Visualisation
5 4 (40.00%) Performance Analysis
5 4 (40.00%) User Research
5 4 (40.00%) Validation
6 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (30.00%) Storytelling
6 3 (30.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (30.00%) User Experience
7 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (20.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (40.00%) QA
3 3 (30.00%) GDPR
3 3 (30.00%) PERC
4 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) Facebook
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Adobe
4 1 (10.00%) Capita