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 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 621 540
Rank change year-on-year +150 -81 +268
Permanent jobs citing Performance Analysis 171 85 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.15% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.17% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 61 51 110
10th Percentile £31,250 £46,000 £28,218
25th Percentile £35,000 £59,380 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £72,500 £41,081
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +76.48% -31.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £60,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -37.50% +84.62% -35.00%

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 48,923 50,285 45,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.61% 89.72% 93.38%
Number of salaries quoted 28,723 25,244 34,703
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
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% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -2.78%

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 23 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Top 13 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 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +157 158 £52,500 -30.00% 98
UK excluding London +123 119 £37,500 -37.50% 66
West Midlands +78 61 - - 3
Midlands +63 61 - - 4
Work from Home +47 42 £42,010 -43.99% 40
London +57 39 £70,000 -26.32% 37
South East +42 30 £47,500 -25.20% 26
North of England +28 14 £37,500 -53.13% 13
North West +40 9 £37,500 -53.13% 7
South West +13 7 £32,760 +4.00% 12
Yorkshire - 5 £63,150 - 3
East of England +23 4 - - 14
Scotland - 3 - - 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 4 (2.34%) CMS
2 1 (0.58%) IIS
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.58%) nginx
2 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.68%) Simulink
3 6 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.92%) Mathcad
5 3 (1.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.17%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.58%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 12 (7.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.75%) Shopify
3 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (5.85%) Google Analytics
2 10 (5.85%) Power Platform
3 9 (5.26%) Azure
4 8 (4.68%) GCP
5 6 (3.51%) AWS
6 5 (2.92%) SaaS
7 3 (1.75%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.17%) Contentsquare
8 2 (1.17%) GitHub
8 2 (1.17%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.58%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.58%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.58%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.58%) npm
9 1 (0.58%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.58%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.51%) Firewall
2 4 (2.34%) Wireless
3 3 (1.75%) BGP
3 3 (1.75%) DNS
3 3 (1.75%) InfiniBand
3 3 (1.75%) OSPF
4 2 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (1.17%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.17%) EIGRP
4 2 (1.17%) LAN
4 2 (1.17%) TACACS
4 2 (1.17%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.17%) VPN
4 2 (1.17%) WAAS
4 2 (1.17%) WAN
4 2 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.58%) MIMO
5 1 (0.58%) NAS
5 1 (0.58%) Network Security
5 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.04%) Looker
2 10 (5.85%) Power BI
3 5 (2.92%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.92%) Tableau
4 3 (1.75%) Metadata
5 2 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.58%) Redis
6 1 (0.58%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (8.77%) JIRA
2 12 (7.02%) eCATT
2 12 (7.02%) NeoLoad
3 3 (1.75%) Git
3 3 (1.75%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.17%) GitLab
4 2 (1.17%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.58%) GCC
5 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
General
1 100 (58.48%) Analytical Skills
2 95 (55.56%) Marketing
3 37 (21.64%) Finance
4 35 (20.47%) Social Skills
5 17 (9.94%) Manufacturing
6 16 (9.36%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (8.77%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (5.26%) Advertising
9 6 (3.51%) Retail
10 5 (2.92%) French Language
11 4 (2.34%) Arabic Language
11 4 (2.34%) Dutch Language
11 4 (2.34%) Front Office
11 4 (2.34%) German Language
11 4 (2.34%) Italian Language
11 4 (2.34%) Japanese Language
11 4 (2.34%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (2.34%) Polish Language
11 4 (2.34%) Portuguese Language
11 4 (2.34%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 37 (21.64%) Lead
2 27 (15.79%) Analyst
3 16 (9.36%) Customer Experience Manager
3 16 (9.36%) Digital Transformation
4 15 (8.77%) Performance Analyst
5 13 (7.60%) Senior
6 12 (7.02%) Performance Test Analyst
6 12 (7.02%) Test Analyst
6 12 (7.02%) Testing Analyst
7 10 (5.85%) E-Commerce Manager
8 8 (4.68%) Developer
9 7 (4.09%) Data Analyst
10 5 (2.92%) Architect
10 5 (2.92%) Financial Analyst
11 4 (2.34%) Campaign Manager
11 4 (2.34%) Data Manager
11 4 (2.34%) Hardware Engineer
11 4 (2.34%) Performance Manager
11 4 (2.34%) Software Engineer
11 4 (2.34%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.75%) Java Concurrency
1 3 (1.75%) Node.js
2 2 (1.17%) Kafka
2 2 (1.17%) React
3 1 (0.58%) Bootstrap
3 1 (0.58%) CSS3
3 1 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.58%) Electron
3 1 (0.58%) Express.js
3 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.58%) Laravel
3 1 (0.58%) Next.js
3 1 (0.58%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.58%) Redux
3 1 (0.58%) Sass
3 1 (0.58%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.58%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (0.58%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (0.58%) WebSockets
3 1 (0.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (38.60%) Onboarding
2 14 (8.19%) Social Media
3 10 (5.85%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.68%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.68%) Blog
5 5 (2.92%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.34%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.34%) Equities
6 4 (2.34%) FMCG
7 3 (1.75%) NVMe
7 3 (1.75%) PCIe
8 2 (1.17%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.17%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.58%) Derivative
9 1 (0.58%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.58%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.58%) IoT
9 1 (0.58%) SystemC
9 1 (0.58%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.02%) Linux
2 6 (3.51%) Windows
3 4 (2.34%) Unix
4 3 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (46.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 75 (43.86%) Digital Marketing
3 71 (41.52%) Customer Experience
3 71 (41.52%) E-Commerce
3 71 (41.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 70 (40.94%) CRM
5 66 (38.60%) Dashboard Development
6 65 (38.01%) B2B
7 64 (37.43%) Collaborative Working
8 62 (36.26%) Coaching
9 61 (35.67%) Commercialisation
9 61 (35.67%) Digital Innovation
9 61 (35.67%) GTM Strategy
10 43 (25.15%) Analytics
11 37 (21.64%) Digital Customer Experience
12 34 (19.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (12.87%) Digital Strategy
13 22 (12.87%) User Experience
14 19 (11.11%) ERP
15 18 (10.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.96%) Python
2 12 (7.02%) SQL
3 11 (6.43%) C++
4 8 (4.68%) C
4 8 (4.68%) Java
5 7 (4.09%) Bash
5 7 (4.09%) MATLAB
6 4 (2.34%) Fortran
6 4 (2.34%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.75%) VBA
8 2 (1.17%) C#
8 2 (1.17%) Go
9 1 (0.58%) Bicep
9 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.58%) Perl
9 1 (0.58%) PHP
9 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.58%) R
9 1 (0.58%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 78 (45.61%) Degree
2 9 (5.26%) ACCA
2 9 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 9 (5.26%) CIMA
3 7 (4.09%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.51%) PhD
5 4 (2.34%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.75%) CCNP
6 3 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.17%) CCIE
7 2 (1.17%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.58%) CCNA
8 1 (0.58%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.58%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.92%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 4 (2.34%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (2.34%) QA
3 3 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.17%) IFRS
4 2 (1.17%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.92%) Docker
2 4 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.75%) GPFS
3 3 (1.75%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.75%) Lustre
4 2 (1.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (7.02%) HP ALM
2 5 (2.92%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.75%) Ansible
3 3 (1.75%) Grafana
3 3 (1.75%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.75%) Terraform
4 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.58%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.58%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.58%) Icinga
5 1 (0.58%) Istio
5 1 (0.58%) linkerd
5 1 (0.58%) Nagios
Vendors
1 19 (11.11%) Google
2 15 (8.77%) SAP
3 12 (7.02%) HP
4 10 (5.85%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.92%) MathWorks
5 5 (2.92%) VMware
6 3 (1.75%) Adobe
6 3 (1.75%) Cisco
6 3 (1.75%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.75%) NVIDIA
6 3 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.17%) ConnectWise
7 2 (1.17%) Draytek
7 2 (1.17%) Hotjar
7 2 (1.17%) IBM
7 2 (1.17%) Infoblox
7 2 (1.17%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.17%) Splunk
7 2 (1.17%) TikTok
7 2 (1.17%) Xero