Performance Analysis Job Trends

Performance Analysis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Performance Analysis skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 643 592
Rank change year-on-year +153 -51 +253
Permanent jobs citing Performance Analysis 187 150 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.19% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.24% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 89 69 102
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £26,046
25th Percentile £31,250 £52,500 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,140 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +9.09% -5.98%
75th Percentile £60,715 £72,500 £69,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,010 £60,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -29.98% +50.00% -30.43%

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 43,694 63,053 58,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.68% 81.08% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,544 35,778 43,624
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Performance Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Performance Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Analysis 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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 +124 164 £45,000 -25.00% 99
UK excluding London +108 126 £42,010 -29.98% 79
Work from Home +77 59 £41,750 -30.42% 58
Midlands +93 53 £55,000 -8.33% 7
West Midlands +89 51 £55,000 -8.33% 2
London +61 35 £62,500 -28.57% 43
South East +12 30 £42,010 -27.57% 30
North of England +68 21 £37,500 -53.13% 15
North West +17 14 £35,750 -55.31% 10
East of England -6 12 £32,500 -35.68% 14
Yorkshire +20 7 £70,000 - 3
South West +69 4 £49,250 - 4
Wales - 3 £61,500 - 2
Scotland - 3 - - 9
East Midlands +15 2 £61,250 -9.26% 5

Performance Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.28%) CMS
2 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.60%) WordPress
3 2 (1.07%) nginx
3 2 (1.07%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 26 (13.90%) Simulink
2 22 (11.76%) Mathcad
3 13 (6.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (2.67%) AutoCAD
4 5 (2.67%) Autodesk Inventor
4 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.67%) Photoshop
5 4 (2.14%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (1.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.53%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.67%) Shopify
2 2 (1.07%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (11.23%) Google Analytics
2 10 (5.35%) GCP
3 9 (4.81%) Google Ads
4 7 (3.74%) AWS
4 7 (3.74%) Azure
4 7 (3.74%) Microsoft Advertising
5 5 (2.67%) Canva
5 5 (2.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.14%) Google Tag Manager
6 4 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.07%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.53%) AppsFlyer
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.60%) InfiniBand
2 2 (1.07%) DNS
2 2 (1.07%) Firewall
2 2 (1.07%) NAS
2 2 (1.07%) Network Security
2 2 (1.07%) SAN
2 2 (1.07%) SNMP
2 2 (1.07%) Wireless
2 2 (1.07%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.53%) Internet
3 1 (0.53%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.35%) Looker
2 5 (2.67%) Power BI
3 4 (2.14%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.14%) Tableau
4 3 (1.60%) Big Data
4 3 (1.60%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.60%) Metadata
5 2 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.53%) DB2
6 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.53%) Redis
6 1 (0.53%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.14%) JIRA
2 3 (1.60%) Git
3 2 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.53%) CMake
4 1 (0.53%) GCC
4 1 (0.53%) JUnit
4 1 (0.53%) Selenium
4 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.53%) TestComplete
4 1 (0.53%) WaveMaker
General
1 92 (49.20%) Analytical Skills
2 78 (41.71%) Marketing
3 50 (26.74%) Social Skills
4 26 (13.90%) Finance
5 25 (13.37%) Advertising
6 11 (5.88%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.81%) Games
8 8 (4.28%) Retail
9 6 (3.21%) Banking
10 5 (2.67%) Police
10 5 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.67%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.14%) Front Office
12 2 (1.07%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.07%) Automotive
12 2 (1.07%) German Language
12 2 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.07%) Local Government
12 2 (1.07%) Military
12 2 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (19.79%) Lead
2 36 (19.25%) Senior
3 14 (7.49%) Mathematical Modeller
4 13 (6.95%) Analyst
5 11 (5.88%) Customer Experience Manager
5 11 (5.88%) Digital Transformation
6 10 (5.35%) E-Commerce Manager
7 9 (4.81%) Team Leader
8 8 (4.28%) 1st Line Support
8 8 (4.28%) Developer
8 8 (4.28%) Support Team Leader
9 6 (3.21%) PPC Executive
10 5 (2.67%) Data Analyst
10 5 (2.67%) Performance Analyst
10 5 (2.67%) Support Engineer
10 5 (2.67%) Technical Engineer
10 5 (2.67%) Technical Support
10 5 (2.67%) Technical Support Engineer
11 4 (2.14%) Consultant
11 4 (2.14%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.60%) Java Concurrency
1 3 (1.60%) Node.js
2 2 (1.07%) CSS
2 2 (1.07%) HTML
2 2 (1.07%) React
3 1 (0.53%) Bazel
3 1 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.53%) Electron
3 1 (0.53%) Google JAX
3 1 (0.53%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.53%) HTML5
3 1 (0.53%) ISPF
3 1 (0.53%) JAX
3 1 (0.53%) Next.js
3 1 (0.53%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.53%) Redux
3 1 (0.53%) RESTful
3 1 (0.53%) Sass
3 1 (0.53%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (24.60%) Onboarding
2 15 (8.02%) Algorithms
3 13 (6.95%) Social Media
4 8 (4.28%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.28%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.21%) Blog
6 3 (1.60%) Credit Risk
6 3 (1.60%) Equities
6 3 (1.60%) NVMe
6 3 (1.60%) PCIe
6 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.07%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.07%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.07%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.53%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.53%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.53%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.28%) Linux
2 3 (1.60%) Unix
2 3 (1.60%) Windows
3 2 (1.07%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.53%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (35.29%) Digital Marketing
2 59 (31.55%) Customer Experience
3 58 (31.02%) Continuous Improvement
4 57 (30.48%) E-Commerce
5 55 (29.41%) Dashboard Development
6 54 (28.88%) Coaching
7 52 (27.81%) CRM
8 50 (26.74%) B2B
8 50 (26.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 45 (24.06%) Collaborative Working
10 44 (23.53%) Commercialisation
10 44 (23.53%) GTM Strategy
11 41 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (20.86%) Analytics
13 33 (17.65%) Validation
14 29 (15.51%) Mathematics
15 27 (14.44%) Systems Engineering
16 23 (12.30%) Verification and Validation
17 22 (11.76%) Mathematical Modelling
18 21 (11.23%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 40 (21.39%) Python
2 25 (13.37%) MATLAB
3 10 (5.35%) C++
3 10 (5.35%) SQL
4 8 (4.28%) C
5 5 (2.67%) Bash
5 5 (2.67%) Java
6 3 (1.60%) Fortran
6 3 (1.60%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.53%) Bicep
7 1 (0.53%) C#
7 1 (0.53%) Go
7 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.53%) JCL
7 1 (0.53%) PHP
7 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.53%) R
7 1 (0.53%) Rust
7 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 65 (34.76%) Degree
2 23 (12.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (4.28%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.74%) DBS Check
5 5 (2.67%) HND
5 5 (2.67%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.14%) ACCA
6 4 (2.14%) CIMA
6 4 (2.14%) PhD
7 3 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.07%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.23%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 11 (5.88%) SLA
3 4 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.14%) GDPR
4 3 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.60%) QA
5 2 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.07%) IFRS
5 2 (1.07%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.14%) Docker
1 4 (2.14%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.60%) GPFS
2 3 (1.60%) Lustre
3 2 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (2.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.60%) Grafana
2 3 (1.60%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.60%) Terraform
3 2 (1.07%) HAProxy
3 2 (1.07%) Istio
3 2 (1.07%) linkerd
Vendors
1 34 (18.18%) Google
2 22 (11.76%) MathWorks
3 21 (11.23%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.28%) TikTok
5 6 (3.21%) Ahrefs
5 6 (3.21%) SAP
6 4 (2.14%) Adobe
6 4 (2.14%) IBM
7 3 (1.60%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.07%) F5
8 2 (1.07%) Oracle
8 2 (1.07%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.07%) Screaming Frog
8 2 (1.07%) Splunk
8 2 (1.07%) VMware
8 2 (1.07%) Xero
9 1 (0.53%) Dell
9 1 (0.53%) Facebook
9 1 (0.53%) Pardot
9 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow