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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 517 668
Rank change year-on-year -101 +151 +95
Permanent jobs citing Performance Analysis 96 119 218
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.29% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.31% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 56 89 178
10th Percentile £31,000 £42,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,048 £46,250 £31,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,527
% change year-on-year - +8.85% +1.05%

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 65,329 38,670 81,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.37% 92.92% 85.97%
Number of salaries quoted 40,301 22,594 59,579
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.51%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.41%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -73 92 £55,000 -10.33% 65
UK excluding London -57 65 £55,000 - 47
South East -25 32 £55,000 +5.77% 21
Work from Home -23 29 £55,000 -26.67% 25
London -22 24 £82,500 +24.91% 25
North of England -47 16 £35,009 -26.30% 11
West Midlands -28 9 £37,500 -50.00%
Midlands -40 9 £37,500 -50.00% 2
North West -18 8 £27,500 -38.89% 4
South West -49 6 £32,500 -53.57% 5
Yorkshire -61 6 - - 4
East of England -32 4 £85,000 +54.55% 8
North East - 2 £37,500 - 3

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 (2.08%) CMS
1 2 (2.08%) Confluence
1 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.04%) IIS
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.04%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (19.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (4.17%) Magento
3 2 (2.08%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 25 (26.04%) Power Platform
2 13 (13.54%) Google Analytics
3 9 (9.38%) AWS
3 9 (9.38%) Azure
4 6 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.13%) GCP
6 3 (3.13%) Google Tag Manager
6 3 (3.13%) SaaS
7 2 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.08%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.04%) Contentsquare
8 1 (1.04%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.04%) GitHub
8 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.04%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.04%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.04%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.04%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.04%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.38%) Broadband
2 7 (7.29%) Firewall
3 6 (6.25%) DNS
4 3 (3.13%) Unified Communications
4 3 (3.13%) VLAN
5 2 (2.08%) DHCP
5 2 (2.08%) SMS
5 2 (2.08%) WAN
6 1 (1.04%) BGP
6 1 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.04%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (1.04%) Internet
6 1 (1.04%) LAN
6 1 (1.04%) OSPF
6 1 (1.04%) RTP
6 1 (1.04%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.04%) SNMP
6 1 (1.04%) VPN
6 1 (1.04%) Wireless
6 1 (1.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (26.04%) Power BI
2 14 (14.58%) Looker
3 8 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.29%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.08%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.04%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (2.08%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.08%) GitLab
2 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.08%) JIRA
3 1 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.04%) Git
3 1 (1.04%) JMeter
General
1 44 (45.83%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 28 (29.17%) Finance
4 27 (28.13%) Marketing
5 12 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (11.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
8 7 (7.29%) Games
9 4 (4.17%) Manufacturing
10 3 (3.13%) Law
10 3 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.08%) Banking
11 2 (2.08%) Front Office
11 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
11 2 (2.08%) Legal
11 2 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
12 1 (1.04%) Digital Economy
12 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (23.96%) Analyst
2 14 (14.58%) Data Analyst
2 14 (14.58%) Financial Analyst
3 12 (12.50%) Senior
4 10 (10.42%) Lead
5 6 (6.25%) Developer
6 5 (5.21%) Data Manager
6 5 (5.21%) Insight Manager
6 5 (5.21%) Performance Analyst
6 5 (5.21%) Performance Manager
6 5 (5.21%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) CRM Manager
7 4 (4.17%) E-Commerce Specialist
7 4 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.13%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (3.13%) Associate Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Head of Development
8 3 (3.13%) Head of Sales
8 3 (3.13%) Product Owner
8 3 (3.13%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.33%) REST
2 3 (3.13%) React
3 2 (2.08%) Kafka
4 1 (1.04%) JSON
4 1 (1.04%) XML
4 1 (1.04%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 10 (10.42%) Product Ownership
3 9 (9.38%) Algorithms
4 8 (8.33%) Video\Live Streaming
5 7 (7.29%) Low-Code
5 7 (7.29%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.17%) Social Media
7 3 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (3.13%) Data Centre
7 3 (3.13%) IoT
8 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.08%) Derivative
8 2 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.04%) Blog
9 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.04%) FMCG
9 1 (1.04%) NHS
9 1 (1.04%) Podcast
9 1 (1.04%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.38%) Windows
2 6 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.13%) Linux
4 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.42%) Analytics
2 30 (31.25%) Decision-Making
3 27 (28.13%) CRM
4 26 (27.08%) Actionable Insight
4 26 (27.08%) Agile
4 26 (27.08%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (17.71%) AI
6 17 (17.71%) ERP
7 16 (16.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
7 16 (16.67%) Financial Analysis
8 15 (15.63%) Budgeting
8 15 (15.63%) Business Strategy
8 15 (15.63%) Coaching
8 15 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (13.54%) Customer Experience
9 13 (13.54%) Digital Marketing
9 13 (13.54%) ETL
10 12 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
10 12 (12.50%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (27.08%) Python
2 22 (22.92%) SQL
3 12 (12.50%) VBA
4 8 (8.33%) Go
5 7 (7.29%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.17%) Java
7 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.08%) Bash
8 2 (2.08%) C#
9 1 (1.04%) Bicep
9 1 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.04%) Perl
9 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.04%) R
9 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (22.92%) Degree
2 16 (16.67%) ACCA
2 16 (16.67%) CIMA
3 6 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.21%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.17%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.08%) CCIE
7 2 (2.08%) CCNA
7 2 (2.08%) CCNP
7 2 (2.08%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.08%) MBA
7 2 (2.08%) Postgraduate
8 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.04%) PhD
8 1 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.42%) QA
2 8 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 6 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (4.17%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.04%) GDPR
5 1 (1.04%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 6 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.21%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.17%) Firmware
4 2 (2.08%) Docker
5 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.13%) Ansible
2 3 (3.13%) Terraform
3 2 (2.08%) Grafana
3 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.04%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.04%) Icinga
4 1 (1.04%) Nagios
4 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.75%) SAP
3 14 (14.58%) Google
4 10 (10.42%) Salesforce
5 7 (7.29%) VMware
6 6 (6.25%) Fortinet
7 5 (5.21%) Oracle
8 4 (4.17%) Adobe
8 4 (4.17%) ConnectWise
8 4 (4.17%) Draytek
9 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.08%) Cisco
10 2 (2.08%) Marketo
10 2 (2.08%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.08%) TikTok
10 2 (2.08%) YouTube
11 1 (1.04%) Braze
11 1 (1.04%) Hotjar
11 1 (1.04%) HP
11 1 (1.04%) Red Hat