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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 620 522
Rank change year-on-year +146 -98 +282
Permanent jobs citing Performance Analysis 175 96 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.16% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.19% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 63 51 115
10th Percentile £31,250 £46,000 £27,037
25th Percentile £34,250 £59,380 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £39,663
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +70.19% -33.90%
75th Percentile £65,325 £80,625 £66,250
90th Percentile £98,500 £102,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,755 £60,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year -33.74% +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 48,535 51,647 46,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.52% 88.55% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 28,396 26,504 35,505
10th Percentile £28,432 £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% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £99,899
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.49% +4.37% -2.51%

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 14 December 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 14 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 +153 162 £50,000 -29.82% 191
UK excluding London +119 121 £39,755 -33.74% 189
Midlands +68 62 £42,500 -29.17% 31
West Midlands +71 61 - - 13
Work from Home +80 45 £42,010 -43.99% 79
London +82 40 £70,000 -12.50% 20
South East +40 30 £47,500 -25.20% 49
North of England +38 14 £37,500 -53.13% 37
North West +41 9 £37,500 -53.13% 18
South West +19 8 £32,760 +4.00% 30
Yorkshire - 5 £63,150 - 15
East of England +24 4 - - 35
Scotland - 3 - - 7
East Midlands -2 1 £42,500 - 16

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 (2.29%) CMS
2 1 (0.57%) IIS
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.57%) nginx
2 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (7.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.14%) Simulink
3 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.86%) Mathcad
5 3 (1.71%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (1.71%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.57%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 12 (6.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.71%) Shopify
3 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (6.29%) Google Analytics
3 10 (5.71%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.14%) Azure
5 8 (4.57%) GCP
6 6 (3.43%) AWS
7 5 (2.86%) SaaS
8 4 (2.29%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (1.14%) Contentsquare
9 2 (1.14%) GitHub
9 2 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.57%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.57%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) npm
10 1 (0.57%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.57%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.43%) Firewall
2 4 (2.29%) Wireless
3 3 (1.71%) BGP
3 3 (1.71%) DNS
3 3 (1.71%) InfiniBand
3 3 (1.71%) OSPF
4 2 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (1.14%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.14%) EIGRP
4 2 (1.14%) LAN
4 2 (1.14%) TACACS
4 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.14%) VPN
4 2 (1.14%) WAAS
4 2 (1.14%) WAN
4 2 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.57%) NAS
5 1 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.57%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.29%) Looker
2 10 (5.71%) Power BI
3 5 (2.86%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.86%) Tableau
4 3 (1.71%) Metadata
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.57%) Redis
6 1 (0.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (9.14%) JIRA
2 12 (6.86%) eCATT
2 12 (6.86%) NeoLoad
3 3 (1.71%) Git
3 3 (1.71%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.14%) GitLab
4 2 (1.14%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.57%) GCC
5 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 104 (59.43%) Analytical Skills
2 97 (55.43%) Marketing
3 37 (21.14%) Finance
4 36 (20.57%) Social Skills
5 17 (9.71%) Manufacturing
5 17 (9.71%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (6.86%) Advertising
8 6 (3.43%) Retail
9 5 (2.86%) French Language
10 4 (2.29%) Arabic Language
10 4 (2.29%) Dutch Language
10 4 (2.29%) Games
10 4 (2.29%) German Language
10 4 (2.29%) Italian Language
10 4 (2.29%) Japanese Language
10 4 (2.29%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (2.29%) Polish Language
10 4 (2.29%) Portuguese Language
10 4 (2.29%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 37 (21.14%) Lead
2 27 (15.43%) Analyst
3 16 (9.14%) Customer Experience Manager
3 16 (9.14%) Digital Transformation
4 15 (8.57%) Performance Analyst
4 15 (8.57%) Senior
5 12 (6.86%) Performance Test Analyst
5 12 (6.86%) Test Analyst
5 12 (6.86%) Testing Analyst
6 10 (5.71%) E-Commerce Manager
7 8 (4.57%) Developer
8 7 (4.00%) Data Analyst
9 5 (2.86%) Architect
9 5 (2.86%) Financial Analyst
10 4 (2.29%) Campaign Manager
10 4 (2.29%) Data Manager
10 4 (2.29%) Hardware Engineer
10 4 (2.29%) Performance Manager
10 4 (2.29%) Software Engineer
10 4 (2.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.71%) Java Concurrency
1 3 (1.71%) Node.js
2 2 (1.14%) Kafka
2 2 (1.14%) React
3 1 (0.57%) CSS
3 1 (0.57%) CSS3
3 1 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.57%) Electron
3 1 (0.57%) Google JAX
3 1 (0.57%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.57%) HTML
3 1 (0.57%) JAX
3 1 (0.57%) Laravel
3 1 (0.57%) Next.js
3 1 (0.57%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.57%) Redux
3 1 (0.57%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.57%) Web Services
3 1 (0.57%) WebSockets
3 1 (0.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (37.71%) Onboarding
2 14 (8.00%) Social Media
3 11 (6.29%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (4.57%) Blog
5 5 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.29%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.29%) Equities
6 4 (2.29%) FMCG
7 3 (1.71%) NVMe
7 3 (1.71%) PCIe
7 3 (1.71%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.57%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.57%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.57%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.57%) IoT
9 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.57%) SystemC
9 1 (0.57%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.86%) Linux
2 6 (3.43%) Windows
3 4 (2.29%) Unix
4 3 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (45.71%) Continuous Improvement
2 76 (43.43%) Digital Marketing
3 72 (41.14%) E-Commerce
4 71 (40.57%) Customer Experience
4 71 (40.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 70 (40.00%) CRM
6 67 (38.29%) Dashboard Development
7 66 (37.71%) B2B
8 64 (36.57%) Collaborative Working
9 62 (35.43%) Coaching
10 61 (34.86%) Commercialisation
10 61 (34.86%) Digital Innovation
10 61 (34.86%) GTM Strategy
11 44 (25.14%) Analytics
12 37 (21.14%) Digital Customer Experience
13 34 (19.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (13.14%) Digital Strategy
15 22 (12.57%) User Experience
16 19 (10.86%) ERP
16 19 (10.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.57%) Python
2 12 (6.86%) SQL
3 11 (6.29%) C++
4 8 (4.57%) C
4 8 (4.57%) Java
5 7 (4.00%) Bash
5 7 (4.00%) MATLAB
6 4 (2.29%) Fortran
6 4 (2.29%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.71%) VBA
8 2 (1.14%) C#
8 2 (1.14%) Go
9 1 (0.57%) Bicep
9 1 (0.57%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.57%) Perl
9 1 (0.57%) PHP
9 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.57%) R
9 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 79 (45.14%) Degree
2 9 (5.14%) ACCA
2 9 (5.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 9 (5.14%) CIMA
3 7 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.43%) PhD
5 4 (2.29%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.71%) CCNP
6 3 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.14%) CCIE
7 2 (1.14%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CCNA
8 1 (0.57%) City & Guilds
8 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.86%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 4 (2.29%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (2.29%) QA
3 3 (1.71%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.14%) IFRS
4 2 (1.14%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.86%) Docker
2 4 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.71%) GPFS
3 3 (1.71%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.71%) Lustre
4 2 (1.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (6.86%) HP ALM
2 5 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.71%) Ansible
3 3 (1.71%) Grafana
3 3 (1.71%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.71%) Terraform
4 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.57%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.57%) Icinga
5 1 (0.57%) Istio
5 1 (0.57%) linkerd
5 1 (0.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (12.00%) Google
2 15 (8.57%) SAP
3 12 (6.86%) HP
4 11 (6.29%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.86%) MathWorks
5 5 (2.86%) VMware
6 3 (1.71%) Adobe
6 3 (1.71%) Cisco
6 3 (1.71%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.71%) IBM
6 3 (1.71%) NVIDIA
6 3 (1.71%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.71%) TikTok
7 2 (1.14%) Ahrefs
7 2 (1.14%) ConnectWise
7 2 (1.14%) Draytek
7 2 (1.14%) Hotjar
7 2 (1.14%) Motorola
7 2 (1.14%) Splunk
7 2 (1.14%) Xero