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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 593 576
Rank change year-on-year +101 -17 +208
Permanent jobs citing Performance Analysis 143 100 206
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.19% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.21% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 60 64 148
10th Percentile £32,760 £40,375 £29,206
25th Percentile £40,015 £52,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,215 £75,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.38% +50.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £67,500 £102,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £117,750 £122,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £36,476
% change year-on-year -12.50% +64.49% -38.44%

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 50,453 47,821 60,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.27% 91.48% 88.85%
Number of salaries quoted 29,778 22,900 47,030
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 January 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 27 January 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 +90 134 £56,430 -24.76% 58
UK excluding London +82 92 £52,500 -12.50% 47
London +55 40 £75,000 -21.05% 20
Work from Home +44 36 £50,000 -33.33% 27
South East +29 36 £54,465 +4.74% 18
West Midlands +43 34 - - 6
Midlands +22 34 - - 6
North of England +26 12 £37,500 - 13
North West +32 8 £36,255 - 4
South West +4 5 £32,760 +4.00% 3
East of England +22 4 - - 7
Yorkshire - 4 £63,150 - 6
Scotland - 1 - - 4

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 (1.40%) CMS
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.70%) IIS
2 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 16 (11.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.29%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.80%) Mathcad
4 4 (2.80%) Simulink
5 3 (2.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (1.40%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.70%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 12 (8.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.89%) Power Platform
2 13 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (8.39%) Azure
4 6 (4.20%) GCP
4 6 (4.20%) Google Analytics
5 5 (3.50%) SaaS
6 4 (2.80%) AWS
6 4 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.10%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.40%) Contentsquare
8 2 (1.40%) GitHub
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.70%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.70%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.70%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.70%) npm
9 1 (0.70%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.70%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.90%) Firewall
2 5 (3.50%) Wireless
3 4 (2.80%) DNS
4 3 (2.10%) BGP
4 3 (2.10%) InfiniBand
4 3 (2.10%) OSPF
4 3 (2.10%) VPN
4 3 (2.10%) WAN
5 2 (1.40%) Broadband
5 2 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.40%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.40%) EIGRP
5 2 (1.40%) LAN
5 2 (1.40%) TACACS
5 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.40%) Unified Communications
5 2 (1.40%) VLAN
5 2 (1.40%) WAAS
5 2 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.78%) Looker
2 17 (11.89%) Power BI
3 5 (3.50%) BigQuery
3 5 (3.50%) Tableau
4 3 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (9.09%) JIRA
2 12 (8.39%) eCATT
2 12 (8.39%) NeoLoad
3 3 (2.10%) Git
3 3 (2.10%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.40%) GitLab
4 2 (1.40%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.70%) GCC
5 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 71 (49.65%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (43.36%) Marketing
3 40 (27.97%) Social Skills
4 37 (25.87%) Finance
5 21 (14.69%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (11.19%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (9.09%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.90%) Retail
9 5 (3.50%) Advertising
9 5 (3.50%) French Language
10 4 (2.80%) Arabic Language
10 4 (2.80%) Dutch Language
10 4 (2.80%) German Language
10 4 (2.80%) Italian Language
10 4 (2.80%) Japanese Language
10 4 (2.80%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (2.80%) Polish Language
10 4 (2.80%) Portuguese Language
10 4 (2.80%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.80%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (23.78%) Analyst
2 22 (15.38%) Lead
3 16 (11.19%) Performance Analyst
4 13 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 12 (8.39%) Performance Test Analyst
5 12 (8.39%) Senior
5 12 (8.39%) Test Analyst
5 12 (8.39%) Testing Analyst
6 11 (7.69%) Financial Analyst
7 10 (6.99%) Customer Experience Manager
8 9 (6.29%) Digital Transformation
9 6 (4.20%) Developer
9 6 (4.20%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Architect
11 4 (2.80%) Campaign Manager
11 4 (2.80%) Data Manager
11 4 (2.80%) Hardware Engineer
11 4 (2.80%) Insight Manager
11 4 (2.80%) Performance Manager
11 4 (2.80%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.40%) Java Concurrency
1 2 (1.40%) Kafka
1 2 (1.40%) Node.js
2 1 (0.70%) Bootstrap
2 1 (0.70%) CSS
2 1 (0.70%) CSS3
2 1 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.70%) Express.js
2 1 (0.70%) GraphQL
2 1 (0.70%) HTML
2 1 (0.70%) HTML5
2 1 (0.70%) Next.js
2 1 (0.70%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.70%) React
2 1 (0.70%) Redux
2 1 (0.70%) RESTful
2 1 (0.70%) Sass
2 1 (0.70%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.70%) Web Services
2 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.27%) Onboarding
2 11 (7.69%) Social Media
3 7 (4.90%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (4.20%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.50%) Blog
6 4 (2.80%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.80%) FMCG
7 3 (2.10%) Equities
7 3 (2.10%) NVMe
7 3 (2.10%) PCIe
7 3 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.40%) IoT
9 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.70%) Derivative
9 1 (0.70%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.70%) PKI
9 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.70%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.09%) Linux
2 8 (5.59%) Windows
3 5 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.80%) Unix
5 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (39.16%) Continuous Improvement
2 46 (32.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (28.67%) CRM
3 41 (28.67%) Customer Experience
3 41 (28.67%) Digital Marketing
4 38 (26.57%) Analytics
4 38 (26.57%) B2B
4 38 (26.57%) Dashboard Development
4 38 (26.57%) E-Commerce
5 37 (25.87%) Collaborative Working
5 37 (25.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 36 (25.17%) Coaching
7 35 (24.48%) Digital Innovation
8 34 (23.78%) Commercialisation
8 34 (23.78%) GTM Strategy
9 31 (21.68%) Digital Customer Experience
10 26 (18.18%) Decision-Making
11 25 (17.48%) ERP
12 23 (16.08%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (16.08%) Digital Strategy
Programming Languages
1 32 (22.38%) Python
2 18 (12.59%) SQL
3 11 (7.69%) C++
4 9 (6.29%) VBA
5 8 (5.59%) C
6 7 (4.90%) Java
7 6 (4.20%) Bash
7 6 (4.20%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.50%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.80%) Fortran
10 2 (1.40%) Bicep
10 2 (1.40%) C#
10 2 (1.40%) Go
11 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.70%) Perl
11 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.70%) R
11 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 51 (35.66%) Degree
2 13 (9.09%) ACCA
2 13 (9.09%) CIMA
3 10 (6.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.90%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.20%) PhD
6 4 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.80%) Security Cleared
7 3 (2.10%) CCIE
7 3 (2.10%) CCNP
7 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.40%) CCNA
8 2 (1.40%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.70%) City & Guilds
9 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.80%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 4 (2.80%) QA
3 3 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.10%) PMO
4 2 (1.40%) IFRS
5 1 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (3.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.80%) Hyper-V
2 4 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.10%) Docker
3 3 (2.10%) Firmware
3 3 (2.10%) GPFS
3 3 (2.10%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 12 (8.39%) HP ALM
2 4 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.10%) Ansible
3 3 (2.10%) Terraform
4 2 (1.40%) Grafana
4 2 (1.40%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.70%) Icinga
5 1 (0.70%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (14.69%) SAP
2 16 (11.19%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.09%) HP
4 11 (7.69%) Google
5 5 (3.50%) VMware
6 4 (2.80%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.80%) MathWorks
6 4 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.10%) Adobe
7 3 (2.10%) Cisco
7 3 (2.10%) ConnectWise
7 3 (2.10%) Draytek
7 3 (2.10%) NVIDIA
7 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.10%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.10%) TikTok
8 2 (1.40%) Hotjar
8 2 (1.40%) Infoblox
8 2 (1.40%) Motorola
8 2 (1.40%) YouTube