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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 642 538
Rank change year-on-year +160 -104 +249
Permanent jobs citing Performance Analysis 167 86 166
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.15% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.17% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 61 52 112
10th Percentile £31,250 £46,650 £28,218
25th Percentile £35,000 £59,690 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £75,000 £40,887
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +83.43% -37.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,500 £82,250
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 49,174 50,059 47,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.96% 89.84% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 28,944 25,024 36,293
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.34%

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 27 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 27 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 +161 155 £52,500 -30.00% 91
UK excluding London +118 116 £39,755 -33.74% 65
West Midlands +70 57 - - 3
Midlands +68 57 - - 5
Work from Home +76 42 £42,010 -43.99% 41
London +52 39 £70,000 -26.32% 30
South East +41 31 £52,500 -17.32% 26
North of England +30 14 £37,500 -53.13% 15
North West +26 9 £37,500 -53.13% 7
South West +6 7 £32,760 +4.00% 10
Yorkshire - 5 £63,150 - 5
East of England +27 4 - - 13
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 (2.40%) CMS
2 1 (0.60%) IIS
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.60%) nginx
2 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.79%) Simulink
3 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.99%) Mathcad
5 4 (2.40%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (1.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.60%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 12 (7.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (6.59%) Power Platform
3 9 (5.39%) Azure
3 9 (5.39%) Google Analytics
4 8 (4.79%) GCP
5 6 (3.59%) AWS
6 5 (2.99%) SaaS
7 3 (1.80%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.20%) Contentsquare
8 2 (1.20%) GitHub
8 2 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.60%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.60%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.60%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.60%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.60%) npm
9 1 (0.60%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.60%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.59%) Firewall
2 4 (2.40%) Wireless
3 3 (1.80%) BGP
3 3 (1.80%) DNS
3 3 (1.80%) InfiniBand
3 3 (1.80%) OSPF
4 2 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (1.20%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.20%) EIGRP
4 2 (1.20%) LAN
4 2 (1.20%) TACACS
4 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.20%) VPN
4 2 (1.20%) WAAS
4 2 (1.20%) WAN
4 2 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.60%) NGN
5 1 (0.60%) SAN
5 1 (0.60%) VLAN
5 1 (0.60%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.37%) Looker
2 11 (6.59%) Power BI
3 5 (2.99%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.99%) Tableau
4 3 (1.80%) Metadata
5 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.60%) Redis
6 1 (0.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (8.98%) JIRA
2 12 (7.19%) eCATT
2 12 (7.19%) NeoLoad
3 3 (1.80%) Git
3 3 (1.80%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.20%) GitLab
4 2 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.60%) GCC
5 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 96 (57.49%) Analytical Skills
2 90 (53.89%) Marketing
3 37 (22.16%) Finance
4 36 (21.56%) Social Skills
5 17 (10.18%) Manufacturing
6 16 (9.58%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (9.58%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (5.39%) Advertising
8 6 (3.59%) Retail
9 5 (2.99%) French Language
10 4 (2.40%) Arabic Language
10 4 (2.40%) Dutch Language
10 4 (2.40%) Front Office
10 4 (2.40%) German Language
10 4 (2.40%) Italian Language
10 4 (2.40%) Japanese Language
10 4 (2.40%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (2.40%) Polish Language
10 4 (2.40%) Portuguese Language
10 4 (2.40%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (20.36%) Lead
2 28 (16.77%) Analyst
3 15 (8.98%) Customer Experience Manager
3 15 (8.98%) Digital Transformation
3 15 (8.98%) Performance Analyst
4 13 (7.78%) Senior
5 12 (7.19%) Performance Test Analyst
5 12 (7.19%) Test Analyst
5 12 (7.19%) Testing Analyst
6 9 (5.39%) E-Commerce Manager
7 8 (4.79%) Data Analyst
7 8 (4.79%) Developer
8 6 (3.59%) Financial Analyst
9 5 (2.99%) Architect
10 4 (2.40%) Data Manager
10 4 (2.40%) Digital Campaign Manager
10 4 (2.40%) Hardware Engineer
10 4 (2.40%) Performance Manager
10 4 (2.40%) Software Engineer
10 4 (2.40%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.80%) Java Concurrency
1 3 (1.80%) Node.js
2 2 (1.20%) Kafka
2 2 (1.20%) React
3 1 (0.60%) CSS
3 1 (0.60%) CSS3
3 1 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.60%) Electron
3 1 (0.60%) Google JAX
3 1 (0.60%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.60%) HTML
3 1 (0.60%) JAX
3 1 (0.60%) Laravel
3 1 (0.60%) Next.js
3 1 (0.60%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.60%) Redux
3 1 (0.60%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.60%) Web Services
3 1 (0.60%) WebSockets
3 1 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (37.13%) Onboarding
2 14 (8.38%) Social Media
3 10 (5.99%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.79%) Blog
5 7 (4.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.40%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.40%) Equities
7 4 (2.40%) FMCG
8 3 (1.80%) NVMe
8 3 (1.80%) PCIe
9 2 (1.20%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.60%) Derivative
10 1 (0.60%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.60%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.60%) SystemC
10 1 (0.60%) Video on Demand
10 1 (0.60%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.19%) Linux
2 6 (3.59%) Windows
3 4 (2.40%) Unix
4 3 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (45.51%) Continuous Improvement
2 70 (41.92%) Digital Marketing
3 67 (40.12%) Customer Experience
3 67 (40.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 66 (39.52%) E-Commerce
5 65 (38.92%) CRM
6 62 (37.13%) Dashboard Development
7 61 (36.53%) B2B
8 60 (35.93%) Collaborative Working
9 58 (34.73%) Coaching
10 57 (34.13%) Commercialisation
10 57 (34.13%) Digital Innovation
10 57 (34.13%) GTM Strategy
11 42 (25.15%) Analytics
12 36 (21.56%) Digital Customer Experience
13 34 (20.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 22 (13.17%) Digital Strategy
15 21 (12.57%) User Experience
16 20 (11.98%) ERP
17 19 (11.38%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 30 (17.96%) Python
2 13 (7.78%) SQL
3 11 (6.59%) C++
4 8 (4.79%) C
4 8 (4.79%) Java
5 7 (4.19%) Bash
5 7 (4.19%) MATLAB
6 4 (2.40%) Fortran
6 4 (2.40%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.40%) VBA
7 2 (1.20%) C#
7 2 (1.20%) Go
8 1 (0.60%) Bicep
8 1 (0.60%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.60%) Perl
8 1 (0.60%) PHP
8 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.60%) R
8 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 74 (44.31%) Degree
2 10 (5.99%) ACCA
2 10 (5.99%) CIMA
3 9 (5.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.19%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.59%) PhD
6 4 (2.40%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.80%) CCNP
7 3 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.20%) CCIE
8 2 (1.20%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.60%) CCNA
9 1 (0.60%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.99%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 4 (2.40%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (2.40%) QA
3 3 (1.80%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.20%) IFRS
4 2 (1.20%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.99%) Docker
2 4 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.80%) GPFS
3 3 (1.80%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.80%) Lustre
4 2 (1.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (7.19%) HP ALM
2 5 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.80%) Ansible
3 3 (1.80%) Grafana
3 3 (1.80%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.80%) Terraform
4 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.60%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.60%) Icinga
5 1 (0.60%) Istio
5 1 (0.60%) linkerd
5 1 (0.60%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (10.78%) Google
2 16 (9.58%) SAP
3 12 (7.19%) HP
4 10 (5.99%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.99%) MathWorks
5 5 (2.99%) VMware
6 3 (1.80%) Adobe
6 3 (1.80%) Cisco
6 3 (1.80%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.80%) NVIDIA
6 3 (1.80%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.20%) ConnectWise
7 2 (1.20%) Draytek
7 2 (1.20%) IBM
7 2 (1.20%) Infoblox
7 2 (1.20%) Motorola
7 2 (1.20%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.20%) Splunk
7 2 (1.20%) TikTok
7 2 (1.20%) Xero