Performance Improvement Jobs

Performance Improvement
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Performance Improvement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Performance Improvement over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 698 780 793
Rank change year-on-year +82 +13 +207
Permanent jobs citing Performance Improvement 30 36 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.042% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.051% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 21 21 49
10th Percentile - - £38,750
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,853 £59,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +9.26% -16.92%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £135,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,853 £59,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.42% +12.38% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Improvement 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 54,503 70,485 71,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.94% 81.72% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 28,919 43,998 47,766
10th Percentile £26,940 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,607 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,315
Median % change year-on-year - -8.81% +0.53%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Performance Improvement
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Improvement in the UK

Performance Improvement
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Improvement.

Salary trend for Performance Improvement in the UK

Performance Improvement
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Improvement over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Improvement in the UK

Performance Improvement
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Improvement within the UK over the 6 months to 11 August 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 +95 27 £52,853 -10.42% 82
UK excluding London +73 23 £52,853 -10.42% 66
South East +33 9 £52,853 -10.42% 13
London +71 5 £56,250 - 31
South West +65 5 £42,750 -27.54% 10
Work from Home +36 5 £57,500 -10.70% 62
North West -6 3 £70,000 +60.92% 14
North of England -15 3 £70,000 +55.56% 19
East of England - 3 - - 4
Midlands +53 2 £55,000 -13.91% 4
West Midlands +38 2 £55,000 -13.91% 1
Wales +8 1 £63,091 +4.28%

Performance Improvement
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 1 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) BPCS
1 1 (3.33%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (6.67%) AWS
2 2 (6.67%) GCP
2 2 (6.67%) Google Analytics
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.67%) SaaS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure
3 1 (3.33%) Google Ads
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) LAN
1 1 (3.33%) WAN
1 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.67%) MS Access
2 5 (16.67%) Power BI
3 2 (6.67%) Tableau
4 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Marketing
3 6 (20.00%) Finance
4 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Advertising
5 1 (3.33%) Japanese Language
5 1 (3.33%) Law
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Consultant
2 5 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
3 4 (13.33%) Senior
4 3 (10.00%) Account Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Insight Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) IT Manager
4 3 (10.00%) IT Support
4 3 (10.00%) IT Support Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Performance Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Insight Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Support Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Data Insight Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Insight Data Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Product Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) NumPy
1 1 (3.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.67%) Culture of Ownership
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.33%) Clustering
4 1 (3.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
1 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Analytics
2 13 (43.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (26.67%) Project Management
5 7 (23.33%) Data Analytics
5 7 (23.33%) Decision-Making
6 6 (20.00%) Data Analysis
7 5 (16.67%) Business Analysis
7 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
8 4 (13.33%) Agile
8 4 (13.33%) Coaching
8 4 (13.33%) Six Sigma
8 4 (13.33%) Visualisation
9 3 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
9 3 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (10.00%) Customer Retention
9 3 (10.00%) Performance Management
9 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 5 (16.67%) VBA
3 2 (6.67%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) CCNP
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.33%) PhD
2 1 (3.33%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (16.67%) QA
3 2 (6.67%) SLA
4 1 (3.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Siemens
2 3 (10.00%) Google
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) Ariba
4 1 (3.33%) Aruba
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco
4 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) SAP
4 1 (3.33%) VMware