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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 631 543
Rank change year-on-year +179 -88 +258
Permanent jobs citing Performance Analysis 182 111 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.17% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.20% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 66 51 111
10th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £58,408 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £40,885
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +52.87% -31.86%
75th Percentile £62,541 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,010 £60,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -29.98% +84.62% -38.21%

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 45,531 55,918 47,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.16% 85.44% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 27,749 29,151 36,831
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £99,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

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 30 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 30 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 +167 168 £50,000 -21.57% 60
UK excluding London +136 126 £42,010 -29.98% 52
Midlands +94 64 £45,000 -25.00% 4
West Midlands +97 63 £57,500 -4.17% 3
Work from Home +90 47 £37,500 -40.00% 20
London +76 39 £65,000 -18.75% 22
South East +45 34 £42,255 -33.72% 20
North of England +57 14 £37,500 -53.13% 9
North West +56 9 £37,500 -53.13% 6
South West +36 7 £32,760 +4.00% 12
Yorkshire +12 5 £63,150 - 2
East of England +32 4 - - 8
Scotland - 3 - - 1
East Midlands +23 1 £42,500 - 1

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 (2.75%) CMS
2 1 (0.55%) IIS
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.55%) nginx
2 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (6.59%) Simulink
3 8 (4.40%) Mathcad
4 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (2.20%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (1.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (1.10%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.55%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 12 (6.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (6.59%) Google Analytics
3 10 (5.49%) Power Platform
4 8 (4.40%) Azure
4 8 (4.40%) GCP
5 6 (3.30%) AWS
6 5 (2.75%) SaaS
7 4 (2.20%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.10%) Contentsquare
8 2 (1.10%) GitHub
8 2 (1.10%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.55%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.55%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.55%) npm
9 1 (0.55%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.55%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.20%) Firewall
1 4 (2.20%) Wireless
2 3 (1.65%) BGP
2 3 (1.65%) InfiniBand
2 3 (1.65%) OSPF
3 2 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.10%) EIGRP
3 2 (1.10%) LAN
3 2 (1.10%) TACACS
3 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.10%) VPN
3 2 (1.10%) WAAS
3 2 (1.10%) WAN
3 2 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.55%) Broadband
4 1 (0.55%) DNS
4 1 (0.55%) Internet
4 1 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.29%) Looker
2 10 (5.49%) Power BI
3 5 (2.75%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.75%) Tableau
4 3 (1.65%) Metadata
5 2 (1.10%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.55%) Redis
6 1 (0.55%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (8.79%) JIRA
2 12 (6.59%) eCATT
2 12 (6.59%) NeoLoad
3 3 (1.65%) Git
3 3 (1.65%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.10%) GitLab
4 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.55%) GCC
5 1 (0.55%) JUnit
5 1 (0.55%) Selenium
5 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.55%) TestComplete
General
1 109 (59.89%) Analytical Skills
2 102 (56.04%) Marketing
3 37 (20.33%) Finance
3 37 (20.33%) Social Skills
4 18 (9.89%) Presentation Skills
5 17 (9.34%) Advertising
5 17 (9.34%) Manufacturing
6 14 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.85%) Retail
8 6 (3.30%) Games
9 5 (2.75%) French Language
10 4 (2.20%) Arabic Language
10 4 (2.20%) Dutch Language
10 4 (2.20%) German Language
10 4 (2.20%) Italian Language
10 4 (2.20%) Japanese Language
10 4 (2.20%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (2.20%) Polish Language
10 4 (2.20%) Portuguese Language
10 4 (2.20%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 37 (20.33%) Lead
2 26 (14.29%) Analyst
3 19 (10.44%) Senior
4 16 (8.79%) Customer Experience Manager
4 16 (8.79%) Digital Transformation
5 15 (8.24%) Performance Analyst
6 12 (6.59%) Performance Test Analyst
6 12 (6.59%) Test Analyst
6 12 (6.59%) Testing Analyst
7 11 (6.04%) E-Commerce Manager
8 8 (4.40%) Developer
9 6 (3.30%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.30%) Mathematical Modeller
10 5 (2.75%) Architect
10 5 (2.75%) PPC Executive
10 5 (2.75%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (2.20%) Coordinator
11 4 (2.20%) Financial Analyst
11 4 (2.20%) Hardware Engineer
11 4 (2.20%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.65%) Java Concurrency
1 3 (1.65%) Node.js
2 2 (1.10%) Kafka
2 2 (1.10%) React
3 1 (0.55%) Bootstrap
3 1 (0.55%) CSS3
3 1 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.55%) Electron
3 1 (0.55%) Express.js
3 1 (0.55%) Google JAX
3 1 (0.55%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.55%) JAX
3 1 (0.55%) Next.js
3 1 (0.55%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.55%) Redux
3 1 (0.55%) Sass
3 1 (0.55%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.55%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (0.55%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (0.55%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 66 (36.26%) Onboarding
2 14 (7.69%) Social Media
3 13 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 9 (4.95%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (4.40%) Blog
6 5 (2.75%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.20%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.20%) FMCG
7 4 (2.20%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.65%) Equities
8 3 (1.65%) NVMe
8 3 (1.65%) PCIe
9 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.55%) Derivative
10 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.55%) Robotics
10 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.55%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.55%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.59%) Linux
2 4 (2.20%) Unix
2 4 (2.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (43.96%) Continuous Improvement
2 78 (42.86%) Digital Marketing
3 74 (40.66%) E-Commerce
4 71 (39.01%) Customer Experience
5 70 (38.46%) CRM
5 70 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 69 (37.91%) Dashboard Development
7 67 (36.81%) B2B
8 64 (35.16%) Collaborative Working
9 62 (34.07%) Coaching
9 62 (34.07%) Digital Innovation
10 61 (33.52%) Commercialisation
10 61 (33.52%) GTM Strategy
11 48 (26.37%) Analytics
12 37 (20.33%) Digital Customer Experience
13 33 (18.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 24 (13.19%) Digital Strategy
15 23 (12.64%) User Experience
16 19 (10.44%) Validation
16 19 (10.44%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.48%) Python
2 11 (6.04%) C++
2 11 (6.04%) MATLAB
2 11 (6.04%) SQL
3 8 (4.40%) C
4 7 (3.85%) Bash
4 7 (3.85%) Java
5 4 (2.20%) Fortran
6 2 (1.10%) C#
6 2 (1.10%) Go
6 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.10%) VBA
7 1 (0.55%) Bicep
7 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.55%) Perl
7 1 (0.55%) PHP
7 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.55%) R
7 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 81 (44.51%) Degree
2 12 (6.59%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (4.40%) ACCA
3 8 (4.40%) CIMA
4 6 (3.30%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.75%) PhD
5 5 (2.75%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.65%) CCNP
6 3 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) CCIE
7 2 (1.10%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.10%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CCNA
8 1 (0.55%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 5 (2.75%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.20%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.20%) QA
4 3 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) IFRS
5 2 (1.10%) PMO
5 2 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (2.75%) Docker
2 3 (1.65%) GPFS
2 3 (1.65%) Lustre
2 3 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (6.59%) HP ALM
2 5 (2.75%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.65%) Ansible
3 3 (1.65%) Grafana
3 3 (1.65%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.65%) Terraform
4 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.55%) HAProxy
4 1 (0.55%) Icinga
4 1 (0.55%) Istio
4 1 (0.55%) linkerd
4 1 (0.55%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (13.19%) Google
2 15 (8.24%) SAP
3 12 (6.59%) HP
4 11 (6.04%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.40%) MathWorks
6 5 (2.75%) TikTok
7 4 (2.20%) Ahrefs
8 3 (1.65%) Adobe
8 3 (1.65%) Cisco
8 3 (1.65%) IBM
8 3 (1.65%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.65%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.65%) VMware
9 2 (1.10%) Hotjar
9 2 (1.10%) Infoblox
9 2 (1.10%) Motorola
9 2 (1.10%) Screaming Frog
9 2 (1.10%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.10%) Splunk
9 2 (1.10%) Xero