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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 597 575
Rank change year-on-year +84 -22 +224
Permanent jobs citing Performance Analysis 142 100 230
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.20% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.21% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 57 63 171
10th Percentile £33,204 £40,250 £29,629
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +50.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £67,500 £102,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £118,500 £123,000 £84,964
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +41.18% -28.87%

All Process & 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 51,976 46,628 65,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.87% 91.97% 88.39%
Number of salaries quoted 30,795 22,565 51,052
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 7 February 2026.

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 7 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +80 132 £60,000 -20.00% 62
UK excluding London +64 90 £52,500 -12.50% 47
London +48 41 £72,500 -23.68% 25
South East +22 37 £56,430 +8.52% 18
Work from Home +21 35 £50,000 -33.33% 27
West Midlands +42 34 - - 7
Midlands +24 34 - - 7
North of England -4 8 £55,000 +10.00% 7
East of England +24 5 - - 3
South West +3 5 £32,760 +4.00% 8
North West +26 4 £45,005 -9.99% 4
Yorkshire - 4 £63,150 - 2
Scotland - 1 - - 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 2 (1.41%) CMS
1 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.70%) IIS
2 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (13.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (7.04%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.82%) Mathcad
4 4 (2.82%) Simulink
5 2 (1.41%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.70%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 12 (8.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.97%) Power Platform
2 13 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (6.34%) Azure
4 6 (4.23%) GCP
4 6 (4.23%) Google Analytics
5 5 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.52%) SaaS
6 4 (2.82%) AWS
7 3 (2.11%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.41%) Contentsquare
8 2 (1.41%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.70%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.70%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.70%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.70%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.70%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.70%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.93%) Firewall
2 5 (3.52%) Wireless
3 4 (2.82%) DNS
4 3 (2.11%) BGP
4 3 (2.11%) InfiniBand
4 3 (2.11%) OSPF
4 3 (2.11%) VPN
4 3 (2.11%) WAN
5 2 (1.41%) Broadband
5 2 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.41%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.41%) EIGRP
5 2 (1.41%) LAN
5 2 (1.41%) TACACS
5 2 (1.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.41%) Unified Communications
5 2 (1.41%) VLAN
5 2 (1.41%) WAAS
5 2 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.70%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.90%) Looker
2 17 (11.97%) Power BI
3 5 (3.52%) BigQuery
3 5 (3.52%) Tableau
4 3 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (9.15%) JIRA
2 12 (8.45%) eCATT
2 12 (8.45%) NeoLoad
3 3 (2.11%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.41%) Git
4 2 (1.41%) GitLab
4 2 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.70%) GCC
General
1 73 (51.41%) Analytical Skills
2 61 (42.96%) Marketing
3 39 (27.46%) Social Skills
4 38 (26.76%) Finance
5 22 (15.49%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (11.27%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (9.15%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.52%) French Language
8 5 (3.52%) Retail
9 4 (2.82%) Arabic Language
9 4 (2.82%) Dutch Language
9 4 (2.82%) Front Office
9 4 (2.82%) German Language
9 4 (2.82%) Italian Language
9 4 (2.82%) Japanese Language
9 4 (2.82%) Mandarin Language
9 4 (2.82%) Polish Language
9 4 (2.82%) Portuguese Language
9 4 (2.82%) Spanish Language
10 3 (2.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (23.24%) Analyst
2 22 (15.49%) Lead
3 14 (9.86%) Data Analyst
3 14 (9.86%) Performance Analyst
4 12 (8.45%) Financial Analyst
4 12 (8.45%) Performance Test Analyst
4 12 (8.45%) Senior
4 12 (8.45%) Test Analyst
4 12 (8.45%) Testing Analyst
5 10 (7.04%) Customer Experience Manager
6 9 (6.34%) Digital Transformation
7 6 (4.23%) Developer
7 6 (4.23%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (3.52%) Architect
8 5 (3.52%) Data Manager
8 5 (3.52%) Insight Manager
8 5 (3.52%) Performance Manager
9 4 (2.82%) Campaign Manager
9 4 (2.82%) Digital Campaign Manager
9 4 (2.82%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.41%) Java Concurrency
1 2 (1.41%) Kafka
2 1 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.70%) Google JAX
2 1 (0.70%) JAX
2 1 (0.70%) Node.js
2 1 (0.70%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.70%) React
2 1 (0.70%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.70%) Web Services
2 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.46%) Onboarding
2 9 (6.34%) Social Media
3 8 (5.63%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.93%) Algorithms
5 6 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.82%) FMCG
7 3 (2.11%) Blog
7 3 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.11%) Equities
7 3 (2.11%) NVMe
7 3 (2.11%) PCIe
7 3 (2.11%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.41%) Derivative
8 2 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.41%) IoT
8 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.70%) PKI
9 1 (0.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.15%) Linux
2 8 (5.63%) Windows
3 5 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.82%) Unix
5 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (40.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 46 (32.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 43 (30.28%) CRM
4 41 (28.87%) Analytics
4 41 (28.87%) Customer Experience
4 41 (28.87%) Digital Marketing
5 38 (26.76%) Collaborative Working
6 37 (26.06%) Coaching
6 37 (26.06%) E-Commerce
6 37 (26.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 36 (25.35%) B2B
8 35 (24.65%) Dashboard Development
8 35 (24.65%) Digital Innovation
9 34 (23.94%) Commercialisation
9 34 (23.94%) GTM Strategy
10 31 (21.83%) Digital Customer Experience
11 28 (19.72%) Decision-Making
12 25 (17.61%) ERP
13 24 (16.90%) Digital Strategy
14 23 (16.20%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 34 (23.94%) Python
2 21 (14.79%) SQL
3 11 (7.75%) C++
4 10 (7.04%) VBA
5 8 (5.63%) C
6 7 (4.93%) Java
7 6 (4.23%) Bash
7 6 (4.23%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.52%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.82%) Fortran
10 3 (2.11%) C#
11 2 (1.41%) Bicep
11 2 (1.41%) Go
11 2 (1.41%) R
12 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.70%) Perl
12 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (36.62%) Degree
2 13 (9.15%) ACCA
2 13 (9.15%) CIMA
3 10 (7.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.93%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.23%) PhD
6 4 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.82%) Security Cleared
7 3 (2.11%) CCIE
7 3 (2.11%) CCNP
7 3 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.41%) CCNA
8 2 (1.41%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.70%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.52%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.82%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 3 (2.11%) PMO
4 2 (1.41%) QA
5 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.70%) GDPR
5 1 (0.70%) IFRS
System Software
1 5 (3.52%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.82%) Hyper-V
2 4 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.11%) Docker
3 3 (2.11%) Firmware
3 3 (2.11%) GPFS
3 3 (2.11%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 12 (8.45%) HP ALM
2 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.11%) Ansible
3 3 (2.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.41%) Grafana
4 2 (1.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.41%) Terraform
5 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.70%) Icinga
5 1 (0.70%) Nagios
Vendors
1 22 (15.49%) SAP
2 16 (11.27%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.15%) HP
4 11 (7.75%) Google
5 5 (3.52%) VMware
6 4 (2.82%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.82%) MathWorks
6 4 (2.82%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.11%) Cisco
7 3 (2.11%) ConnectWise
7 3 (2.11%) Draytek
7 3 (2.11%) NVIDIA
7 3 (2.11%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.11%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.41%) Hotjar
8 2 (1.41%) Infoblox
8 2 (1.41%) Motorola
8 2 (1.41%) TikTok
8 2 (1.41%) YouTube
9 1 (0.70%) Veeam