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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 508 656
Rank change year-on-year -80 +148 +70
Permanent jobs citing Performance Analysis 149 153 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.36% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 111 102 160
10th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,344 £40,906 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,140 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.01% -15.28% +0.87%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £80,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% -10.34% +34.67%

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 69,907 41,954 86,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.40% 92.11% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48,219 22,640 61,471
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - -9.09%

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 June 2026.

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 27 June 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 -66 145 £57,500 +21.05% 73
UK excluding London -23 109 £55,000 +5.77% 66
Work from Home +7 60 £57,500 +17.01% 33
North of England +11 52 £62,500 +25.00% 19
South East -21 38 £55,000 +5.77% 21
North West +24 33 £85,000 +88.89% 12
London -46 30 £66,250 +39.47% 13
Yorkshire -21 16 £47,500 -36.67% 5
South West -52 9 £31,500 -55.00% 6
West Midlands -25 7 £43,000 -36.30% 7
Midlands -42 7 £43,000 -36.30% 11
East of England -20 4 £85,000 +161.54% 14
North East - 3 £37,500 - 2
Scotland - 1 £27,000 -

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 (1.34%) Confluence
1 2 (1.34%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.67%) CMS
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 25 (16.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.37%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.68%) Magento
3 2 (1.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (24.16%) Power Platform
2 25 (16.78%) Google Analytics
3 13 (8.72%) Azure
4 11 (7.38%) AWS
5 9 (6.04%) SaaS
6 8 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.70%) GCP
8 6 (4.03%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.01%) Dataform
11 2 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.34%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.67%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.67%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.67%) Mimecast
12 1 (0.67%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.67%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.67%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.37%) Broadband
2 6 (4.03%) SMS
3 5 (3.36%) DNS
3 5 (3.36%) Firewall
4 3 (2.01%) DHCP
4 3 (2.01%) VLAN
5 2 (1.34%) Internet
5 2 (1.34%) Network Security
5 2 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.34%) Unified Communications
5 2 (1.34%) VPN
5 2 (1.34%) WAN
5 2 (1.34%) Wireless
6 1 (0.67%) BGP
6 1 (0.67%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.67%) IGMP
6 1 (0.67%) Multicast
6 1 (0.67%) OSPF
6 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (24.16%) Power BI
2 11 (7.38%) Looker
3 9 (6.04%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.70%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.36%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.01%) Power Query
7 2 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.67%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.67%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (1.34%) JIRA
2 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.67%) Git
2 1 (0.67%) JMeter
2 1 (0.67%) PHPUnit
General
1 65 (43.62%) Finance
2 56 (37.58%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (25.50%) Marketing
3 38 (25.50%) Social Skills
4 25 (16.78%) Legal
5 23 (15.44%) Public Sector
6 20 (13.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (9.40%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (7.38%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (6.71%) Law
10 8 (5.37%) Manufacturing
11 7 (4.70%) Games
12 4 (2.68%) Retail
13 3 (2.01%) Advertising
13 3 (2.01%) Telecoms
14 2 (1.34%) Banking
14 2 (1.34%) Front Office
14 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
14 2 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.67%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 37 (24.83%) Analyst
2 25 (16.78%) CRM Manager
3 21 (14.09%) Analytics Manager
3 21 (14.09%) Business Analytics Manager
3 21 (14.09%) Business Manager
4 19 (12.75%) Senior
5 18 (12.08%) Performance Analyst
6 16 (10.74%) Lead
7 14 (9.40%) Financial Analyst
8 10 (6.71%) Data Analyst
9 8 (5.37%) Developer
10 7 (4.70%) Administrator
10 7 (4.70%) Report Analyst
10 7 (4.70%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.70%) Team Leader
11 5 (3.36%) Architect
11 5 (3.36%) CRM Executive
11 5 (3.36%) Finance Manager
11 5 (3.36%) Head of Development
11 5 (3.36%) Head of Sales
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.37%) REST
2 3 (2.01%) React
3 1 (0.67%) CSS
3 1 (0.67%) HTML
3 1 (0.67%) JSON
3 1 (0.67%) LAMP
3 1 (0.67%) SAP Basis
3 1 (0.67%) Sass
3 1 (0.67%) XML
3 1 (0.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.07%) Management Information System
2 12 (8.05%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.37%) Algorithms
4 7 (4.70%) Low-Code
4 7 (4.70%) Video\Live Streaming
5 5 (3.36%) NHS
6 4 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.68%) Blog
6 4 (2.68%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.68%) Social Media
6 4 (2.68%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (2.01%) CMDB
7 3 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.01%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.34%) Acoustics
8 2 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.34%) Derivative
8 2 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.34%) IoT
8 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.03%) Windows
2 4 (2.68%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.01%) Linux
4 1 (0.67%) Debian
4 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (46.98%) Analytics
2 49 (32.89%) Decision-Making
3 47 (31.54%) CRM
4 46 (30.87%) Actionable Insight
5 37 (24.83%) Business Intelligence
6 34 (22.82%) Agile
7 33 (22.15%) AI
8 25 (16.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (14.77%) ERP
10 21 (14.09%) Business Analytics
11 19 (12.75%) Dashboard Development
11 19 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (12.08%) Marketing Strategy
13 17 (11.41%) Business Strategy
14 15 (10.07%) Budgeting and Forecasting
14 15 (10.07%) Financial Analysis
14 15 (10.07%) Performance Management
14 15 (10.07%) Performance Measurement
14 15 (10.07%) Test Automation
15 14 (9.40%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (20.13%) Python
2 29 (19.46%) SQL
3 10 (6.71%) JavaScript
4 8 (5.37%) VBA
5 7 (4.70%) Go
5 7 (4.70%) R
6 5 (3.36%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.68%) C#
7 4 (2.68%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.34%) C
8 2 (1.34%) C++
8 2 (1.34%) Java
8 2 (1.34%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.67%) Bicep
9 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.67%) PHP
9 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (17.45%) Degree
2 17 (11.41%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.74%) ACCA
4 15 (10.07%) CIMA
5 14 (9.40%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.34%) CCIE
9 2 (1.34%) CCNP
9 2 (1.34%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.34%) MBA
9 2 (1.34%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.67%) CCNA
10 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.05%) QA
2 11 (7.38%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.03%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (3.36%) SLA
5 4 (2.68%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.01%) GAAP
6 3 (2.01%) GDPR
7 2 (1.34%) PMO
8 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.68%) Active Directory
1 4 (2.68%) Hyper-V
1 4 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.34%) Firmware
2 2 (1.34%) vSphere
3 1 (0.67%) Docker
3 1 (0.67%) UAG
3 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (2.01%) Terraform
2 1 (0.67%) Ansible
2 1 (0.67%) Autotask
2 1 (0.67%) Grafana
2 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.67%) Puppet
2 1 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (28.19%) Microsoft
2 25 (16.78%) Google
3 22 (14.77%) HubSpot
4 16 (10.74%) SAP
5 14 (9.40%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.03%) Cisco
7 5 (3.36%) VMware
8 4 (2.68%) Adobe
8 4 (2.68%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.68%) Meraki
8 4 (2.68%) Oracle
9 3 (2.01%) Braze
9 3 (2.01%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.34%) ConnectWise
10 2 (1.34%) dotdigital
10 2 (1.34%) Draytek
10 2 (1.34%) Marketo
10 2 (1.34%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.34%) TikTok
10 2 (1.34%) YouTube