Performance Analysis Job Trends

Performance Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Performance Analysis skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 622 546
Rank change year-on-year +145 -76 +270
Permanent jobs citing Performance Analysis 191 124 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.18% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.22% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 71 50 112
10th Percentile £31,000 £38,975 £26,447
25th Percentile £31,250 £58,056 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £61,754 £49,150
Median % change year-on-year -27.13% +25.64% -18.08%
75th Percentile £61,933 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £82,650 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £60,000 £39,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +51.90% -31.30%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44,303 55,889 50,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.67% 82.62% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 26,710 29,381 38,581
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.43% +2.86% -

Performance Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Performance Analysis job vacancy trend in the UK

Performance Analysis
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Performance Analysis.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Performance Analysis

Performance Analysis
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Analysis over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +141 175 £45,000 -26.53% 207
UK excluding London +118 130 £40,000 -33.33% 154
Midlands +100 59 £45,000 -25.00% 10
West Midlands +82 58 £45,000 -25.00% 5
Work from Home +68 54 £39,625 -35.83% 100
London +84 39 £65,000 -18.75% 87
South East +28 38 £41,750 -33.20% 87
North of England +28 18 £37,500 -53.13% 21
North West +29 13 £36,255 -54.68% 13
East of England +25 7 £32,500 +9.69% 19
South West +31 5 £41,005 +30.17% 16
Yorkshire +7 5 £63,150 - 7
Scotland - 3 - - 2
East Midlands +18 1 £42,500 -22.73% 5

Performance Analysis
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 5 (2.62%) CMS
2 3 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.05%) nginx
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (9.42%) Simulink
2 14 (7.33%) Mathcad
3 13 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (2.09%) AutoCAD
4 4 (2.09%) Autodesk Inventor
4 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.09%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (1.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.52%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 12 (6.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.62%) Shopify
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (6.28%) Google Analytics
3 9 (4.71%) Azure
4 8 (4.19%) GCP
5 7 (3.66%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.14%) AWS
7 5 (2.62%) SaaS
8 4 (2.09%) Google Tag Manager
8 4 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.05%) Contentsquare
9 2 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.05%) Google Ads
10 1 (0.52%) AppsFlyer
10 1 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.52%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (0.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Advertising
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.09%) Firewall
1 4 (2.09%) Wireless
2 3 (1.57%) InfiniBand
3 2 (1.05%) BGP
3 2 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.05%) DNS
3 2 (1.05%) EIGRP
3 2 (1.05%) LAN
3 2 (1.05%) NAS
3 2 (1.05%) Network Security
3 2 (1.05%) OSPF
3 2 (1.05%) SAN
3 2 (1.05%) SNMP
3 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.05%) VPN
3 2 (1.05%) WAAS
3 2 (1.05%) WAN
3 2 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.05%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.47%) Looker
2 7 (3.66%) Power BI
3 5 (2.62%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.62%) Tableau
4 3 (1.57%) Metadata
5 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.52%) Redis
5 1 (0.52%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (8.38%) JIRA
2 12 (6.28%) eCATT
2 12 (6.28%) NeoLoad
3 3 (1.57%) Git
4 1 (0.52%) GCC
4 1 (0.52%) JUnit
4 1 (0.52%) Selenium
4 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.52%) TestComplete
4 1 (0.52%) WaveMaker
General
1 106 (55.50%) Analytical Skills
2 101 (52.88%) Marketing
3 40 (20.94%) Social Skills
4 35 (18.32%) Finance
5 22 (11.52%) Manufacturing
6 20 (10.47%) Advertising
7 18 (9.42%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (6.28%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (5.24%) Retail
10 9 (4.71%) Games
11 5 (2.62%) French Language
11 5 (2.62%) German Language
12 4 (2.09%) Arabic Language
12 4 (2.09%) Dutch Language
12 4 (2.09%) Italian Language
12 4 (2.09%) Japanese Language
12 4 (2.09%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (2.09%) Polish Language
12 4 (2.09%) Portuguese Language
12 4 (2.09%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 36 (18.85%) Lead
2 31 (16.23%) Senior
3 25 (13.09%) Analyst
4 15 (7.85%) Performance Analyst
5 14 (7.33%) Customer Experience Manager
5 14 (7.33%) Digital Transformation
6 12 (6.28%) E-Commerce Manager
6 12 (6.28%) Performance Test Analyst
6 12 (6.28%) Test Analyst
6 12 (6.28%) Testing Analyst
7 9 (4.71%) Developer
8 8 (4.19%) Mathematical Modeller
9 6 (3.14%) Data Analyst
10 5 (2.62%) Architect
10 5 (2.62%) PPC Executive
11 4 (2.09%) Campaign Manager
11 4 (2.09%) Coordinator
11 4 (2.09%) Software Engineer
11 4 (2.09%) Support Engineer
11 4 (2.09%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.57%) Java Concurrency
1 3 (1.57%) Node.js
2 2 (1.05%) React
3 1 (0.52%) Bootstrap
3 1 (0.52%) CSS3
3 1 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.52%) Electron
3 1 (0.52%) Express.js
3 1 (0.52%) Google JAX
3 1 (0.52%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.52%) JAX
3 1 (0.52%) Laravel
3 1 (0.52%) Next.js
3 1 (0.52%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.52%) Redux
3 1 (0.52%) Sass
3 1 (0.52%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.52%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (0.52%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (0.52%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 61 (31.94%) Onboarding
2 13 (6.81%) Algorithms
3 12 (6.28%) Social Media
4 9 (4.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (4.19%) Blog
5 8 (4.19%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.09%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.09%) FMCG
6 4 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.57%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.57%) Equities
7 3 (1.57%) NVMe
7 3 (1.57%) PCIe
7 3 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.05%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.52%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.52%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.52%) Robotics
9 1 (0.52%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.24%) Linux
2 4 (2.09%) Unix
3 1 (0.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (40.31%) Continuous Improvement
2 73 (38.22%) Digital Marketing
3 70 (36.65%) E-Commerce
4 69 (36.13%) Customer Experience
5 66 (34.55%) Dashboard Development
6 64 (33.51%) CRM
6 64 (33.51%) Stakeholder Management
7 61 (31.94%) B2B
8 60 (31.41%) Coaching
9 57 (29.84%) Digital Innovation
10 56 (29.32%) Collaborative Working
11 55 (28.80%) Commercialisation
11 55 (28.80%) GTM Strategy
12 44 (23.04%) Analytics
13 31 (16.23%) Digital Customer Experience
14 29 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (14.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 25 (13.09%) Validation
17 24 (12.57%) User Experience
18 23 (12.04%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.28%) Python
2 17 (8.90%) MATLAB
3 11 (5.76%) C++
4 8 (4.19%) C
4 8 (4.19%) SQL
5 6 (3.14%) Bash
5 6 (3.14%) Java
6 4 (2.09%) Fortran
7 2 (1.05%) C#
8 1 (0.52%) Bicep
8 1 (0.52%) Go
8 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.52%) PHP
8 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.52%) R
8 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 77 (40.31%) Degree
2 15 (7.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (2.62%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.62%) PhD
3 5 (2.62%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.09%) ACCA
4 4 (2.09%) CIMA
4 4 (2.09%) HND
5 3 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.05%) CCIE
6 2 (1.05%) CCNP
6 2 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.05%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.52%) City & Guilds
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.81%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 6 (3.14%) SLA
3 4 (2.09%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.09%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.57%) QA
5 2 (1.05%) IFRS
5 2 (1.05%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.62%) Docker
2 3 (1.57%) GPFS
2 3 (1.57%) Lustre
3 2 (1.05%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (6.28%) HP ALM
2 5 (2.62%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.57%) Grafana
3 3 (1.57%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.57%) Terraform
4 2 (1.05%) HAProxy
4 2 (1.05%) Istio
4 2 (1.05%) linkerd
5 1 (0.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 26 (13.61%) Google
2 17 (8.90%) SAP
3 14 (7.33%) MathWorks
4 12 (6.28%) HP
5 11 (5.76%) Microsoft
6 8 (4.19%) TikTok
7 5 (2.62%) Ahrefs
8 4 (2.09%) Adobe
9 3 (1.57%) IBM
9 3 (1.57%) NVIDIA
9 3 (1.57%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.05%) F5
10 2 (1.05%) Hotjar
10 2 (1.05%) Infoblox
10 2 (1.05%) Motorola
10 2 (1.05%) Screaming Frog
10 2 (1.05%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.05%) Splunk
10 2 (1.05%) VMware
10 2 (1.05%) Xero