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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 482 644
Rank change year-on-year -134 +162 -38
Permanent jobs citing Performance Analysis 179 191 146
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.39% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.44% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 128 93 70
10th Percentile £30,750 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,140 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.93% -18.10% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £60,000 £72,188
90th Percentile - £79,180 £88,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £42,010 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.92% -29.98% +46.75%

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 81,075 43,637 63,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.98% 88.47% 80.58%
Number of salaries quoted 56,400 24,673 38,159
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,700 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -4.74%

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 5 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Top 15 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 5 September 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 -109 175 £55,000 +22.22% 220
UK excluding London -100 131 £55,000 +30.92% 141
North of England -13 69 £62,500 +66.67% 22
Work from Home -27 69 £57,500 +37.72% 90
North West +21 44 £85,000 +137.76% 16
London -48 41 £57,500 -4.17% 106
South East -40 28 £55,000 +30.92% 49
Yorkshire -39 16 £62,500 -10.71% 3
South West -67 15 £32,000 -35.03% 16
Midlands -79 13 £56,000 +1.82% 16
West Midlands -74 12 £56,000 +1.82% 11
North East - 9 £52,500 - 3
East of England -42 5 £52,500 +61.54% 31
Scotland +3 2 £27,000 - 6
East Midlands -34 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 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.12%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) IIS
Applications
1 28 (15.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.79%) Simulink
3 5 (2.79%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.56%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.56%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.56%) Revit
5 1 (0.56%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Magento
2 4 (2.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.68%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (1.12%) NetSuite
4 2 (1.12%) Shopify
5 1 (0.56%) Odoo
5 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (22.35%) Power Platform
2 30 (16.76%) Google Analytics
3 18 (10.06%) AWS
4 15 (8.38%) Azure
5 14 (7.82%) GCP
6 9 (5.03%) Google Tag Manager
6 9 (5.03%) SaaS
7 7 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.23%) Dataform
9 3 (1.68%) Cloudflare
9 3 (1.68%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.12%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.56%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.47%) SMS
2 6 (3.35%) Broadband
3 4 (2.23%) DHCP
3 4 (2.23%) Firewall
3 4 (2.23%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.23%) VLAN
4 3 (1.68%) DNS
4 3 (1.68%) VPN
4 3 (1.68%) Wireless
5 2 (1.12%) Network Security
5 2 (1.12%) VoIP
6 1 (0.56%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.56%) IGMP
6 1 (0.56%) Internet
6 1 (0.56%) Multicast
6 1 (0.56%) NAS
6 1 (0.56%) OSPF
6 1 (0.56%) SAN
6 1 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.56%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (22.35%) Power BI
2 18 (10.06%) Looker
3 8 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.35%) BigQuery
4 6 (3.35%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.35%) Power Query
5 5 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.79%) Tableau
6 4 (2.23%) Data Mining
6 4 (2.23%) Metadata
7 3 (1.68%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.56%) GIS
8 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.68%) PHPUnit
2 2 (1.12%) JIRA
3 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.56%) Git
General
1 80 (44.69%) Finance
2 77 (43.02%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (29.61%) Social Skills
4 43 (24.02%) Marketing
5 28 (15.64%) Legal
6 25 (13.97%) Public Sector
7 23 (12.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (10.06%) Manufacturing
9 16 (8.94%) Law
9 16 (8.94%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (5.03%) Retail
11 6 (3.35%) Games
11 6 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.23%) Advertising
12 4 (2.23%) Aerospace
12 4 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.68%) Automotive
13 3 (1.68%) Banking
13 3 (1.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 40 (22.35%) Analyst
2 25 (13.97%) Analytics Manager
2 25 (13.97%) CRM Manager
3 24 (13.41%) Business Analytics Manager
3 24 (13.41%) Business Manager
4 20 (11.17%) Performance Analyst
5 17 (9.50%) Senior
6 15 (8.38%) Report Analyst
7 12 (6.70%) Lead
8 11 (6.15%) Financial Analyst
9 9 (5.03%) Architect
9 9 (5.03%) Developer
10 8 (4.47%) Marketing Manager
11 7 (3.91%) Administrator
11 7 (3.91%) Team Leader
12 6 (3.35%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 5 (2.79%) Digital Analyst
13 5 (2.79%) Head of Development
13 5 (2.79%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.91%) REST
2 4 (2.23%) Middleware
3 3 (1.68%) CSS
3 3 (1.68%) HTML
3 3 (1.68%) LAMP
3 3 (1.68%) Sass
3 3 (1.68%) Terraform
4 2 (1.12%) React
5 1 (0.56%) JSON
5 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.56%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.56%) XML
5 1 (0.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.50%) Management Information System
2 13 (7.26%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.15%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.03%) Algorithms
5 8 (4.47%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.91%) Low-Code
7 6 (3.35%) AI Agents
7 6 (3.35%) Reinsurance
7 6 (3.35%) Video\Live Streaming
8 5 (2.79%) Educational Technology
8 5 (2.79%) NHS
8 5 (2.79%) Social Media
9 4 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (2.23%) Blog
9 4 (2.23%) Driving Licence
9 4 (2.23%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.23%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (2.23%) Replication
10 3 (1.68%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.35%) Linux
2 5 (2.79%) Windows
3 4 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.68%) Debian
5 1 (0.56%) VMS
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (45.25%) Analytics
2 63 (35.20%) Decision-Making
3 56 (31.28%) AI
4 53 (29.61%) Actionable Insight
5 48 (26.82%) Business Intelligence
6 46 (25.70%) CRM
7 39 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (20.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (18.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (17.32%) Agile
11 29 (16.20%) Dashboard Development
12 24 (13.41%) Business Analytics
12 24 (13.41%) Validation
13 22 (12.29%) ERP
13 22 (12.29%) Performance Metrics
14 21 (11.73%) Visualisation
15 19 (10.61%) Performance Measurement
16 16 (8.94%) Data Modelling
16 16 (8.94%) SEO
17 15 (8.38%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 39 (21.79%) SQL
2 27 (15.08%) Python
3 12 (6.70%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.35%) Go
4 6 (3.35%) MATLAB
4 6 (3.35%) R
5 5 (2.79%) C++
6 4 (2.23%) C
6 4 (2.23%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.68%) C#
7 3 (1.68%) Perl
7 3 (1.68%) PHP
7 3 (1.68%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.12%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.56%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.56%) Embedded C++
9 1 (0.56%) Java
9 1 (0.56%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 37 (20.67%) Degree
2 18 (10.06%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.94%) ACCA
4 15 (8.38%) CIMA
5 14 (7.82%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.79%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.68%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) CCNP
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.61%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.15%) QA
3 7 (3.91%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (3.35%) GAAP
5 5 (2.79%) SLA
6 3 (1.68%) GDPR
6 3 (1.68%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.68%) PMO
7 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (2.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.68%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.12%) Firmware
3 2 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.56%) Docker
4 1 (0.56%) UAG
4 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.68%) Puppet
2 1 (0.56%) Ansible
2 1 (0.56%) Autotask
2 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 37 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 34 (18.99%) Google
3 25 (13.97%) HubSpot
4 11 (6.15%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.47%) SAP
6 5 (2.79%) ANSYS
6 5 (2.79%) Cisco
7 4 (2.23%) Adobe
7 4 (2.23%) Meraki
7 4 (2.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 4 (2.23%) VMware
7 4 (2.23%) YouTube
8 2 (1.12%) Braze
8 2 (1.12%) dotdigital
8 2 (1.12%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (1.12%) Veeam
9 1 (0.56%) Aruba
9 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.56%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.56%) WatchGuard