Performance Management Job Trends

Performance Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Performance Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 283 336
Rank change year-on-year -128 +53 +55
Permanent jobs citing Performance Management 252 560 453
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 1.04% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 1.15% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 130 240 249
10th Percentile £40,066 £37,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,938 £49,349
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,500 £64,827
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +1.04% -18.59%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £92,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Management 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 48,808 48,616 49,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.95% 90.71% 89.93%
Number of salaries quoted 28,796 23,669 37,967
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,971
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.83% -5.51%

Performance Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Performance Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Performance Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Performance Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Performance Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Performance Management

Performance Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Management over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Management in the UK

Performance Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Management within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 -121 208 £62,500 -4.58% 206
UK excluding London -82 178 £57,500 -4.17% 187
Work from Home -29 75 £62,500 -18.03% 114
London -67 61 £82,500 - 48
South East +26 44 £57,500 -4.17% 65
North of England -55 39 £53,750 +0.19% 35
East of England +31 32 £62,500 -10.71% 27
Scotland -6 28 £87,500 -12.50% 7
North West -23 19 £56,000 +1.82% 17
Midlands -10 18 £75,000 +38.89% 29
Yorkshire -37 13 £52,500 - 12
West Midlands +1 12 £100,000 +85.19% 17
South West -53 9 £32,760 -57.73% 19
North East +16 7 £62,500 - 6
East Midlands -23 6 £47,224 -0.58% 11
Wales +9 5 £44,336 -15.55% 7
Northern Ireland -22 3 - - 3

Performance Management
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 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.40%) Confluence
2 1 (0.40%) LiveLink
2 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (7.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.95%) Oracle Smart View
3 12 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.59%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (6.75%) Oracle Assets
1 17 (6.75%) Oracle General Ledger
1 17 (6.75%) Oracle Payables
1 17 (6.75%) Oracle Receivables
2 14 (5.56%) Hyperion Planning
2 14 (5.56%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (1.59%) Maximo
3 4 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.59%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (1.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.79%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.79%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.40%) Cognos Controller
6 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.40%) HFM
6 1 (0.40%) Primavera
6 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (14.29%) SaaS
2 20 (7.94%) Azure
3 14 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 13 (5.16%) Amazon Alexa
5 11 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (3.97%) AWS
7 7 (2.78%) OCI
8 5 (1.98%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.79%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.79%) Intacct
11 2 (0.79%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.40%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (0.40%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.40%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.40%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.40%) IaaS
12 1 (0.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) Cisco IOS
1 5 (1.98%) WAAS
2 4 (1.59%) SSL
2 4 (1.59%) WAN
3 3 (1.19%) LAN
3 3 (1.19%) WLAN
4 2 (0.79%) Firewall
4 2 (0.79%) Internet
4 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.40%) 4G
5 1 (0.40%) 5G
5 1 (0.40%) BGP
5 1 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.40%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.40%) IKE
5 1 (0.40%) IPsec
5 1 (0.40%) Network Security
5 1 (0.40%) OSPF
5 1 (0.40%) VPN
5 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.56%) Essbase
2 13 (5.16%) Power BI
3 4 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (1.59%) Data Mining
3 4 (1.59%) DB2
4 3 (1.19%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.79%) Data Mart
5 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.79%) Redis
5 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.79%) Tableau
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.40%) Metadata
6 1 (0.40%) MySQL
6 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (1.19%) JIRA
3 1 (0.40%) Selenium
3 1 (0.40%) TestRail
General
1 117 (46.43%) Finance
2 98 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 57 (22.62%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.32%) Marketing
5 24 (9.52%) Law
6 23 (9.13%) Public Sector
7 21 (8.33%) Legal
8 19 (7.54%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (5.56%) Italian Language
11 13 (5.16%) French Language
11 13 (5.16%) German Language
12 11 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (3.97%) Banking
14 9 (3.57%) Retail
14 9 (3.57%) Telecoms
15 8 (3.17%) Local Government
16 6 (2.38%) General Ledger
17 5 (1.98%) Games
Job Titles
1 45 (17.86%) Senior
2 34 (13.49%) Analyst
3 28 (11.11%) Lead
4 22 (8.73%) Senior Analyst
5 17 (6.75%) Business Manager
6 16 (6.35%) Oracle Analyst
7 15 (5.95%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 15 (5.95%) Service Manager
8 12 (4.76%) Architect
8 12 (4.76%) Head of IT
8 12 (4.76%) Operations Manager
9 11 (4.37%) Senior Manager
9 11 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.57%) Consultant
11 7 (2.78%) Business Analyst
11 7 (2.78%) HR Manager
11 7 (2.78%) Performance Manager
11 7 (2.78%) Support Manager
12 6 (2.38%) Oracle Architect
12 6 (2.38%) Oracle Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.98%) React
1 5 (1.98%) RESTful
2 4 (1.59%) Web Services
3 3 (1.19%) Flash
3 3 (1.19%) Middleware
3 3 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (1.19%) REST
3 3 (1.19%) SOAP
4 2 (0.79%) .NET
4 2 (0.79%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.79%) EDI
4 2 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.79%) Laravel
4 2 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (0.79%) Visualforce
4 2 (0.79%) XML
5 1 (0.40%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.40%) Kafka
5 1 (0.40%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.40%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 40 (15.87%) Onboarding
2 19 (7.54%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.17%) e-Learning
5 7 (2.78%) CMDB
5 7 (2.78%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.98%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.98%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.59%) AS400
8 4 (1.59%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.59%) Spread Betting
8 4 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.19%) IBM Storwize
10 2 (0.79%) Culture of Ownership
10 2 (0.79%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.40%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.78%) Android
1 7 (2.78%) Windows
2 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (26.98%) Coaching
2 57 (22.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 56 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 54 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 53 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (19.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 38 (15.08%) Customer Service
7 38 (15.08%) Performance Metrics
8 37 (14.68%) Mentoring
9 35 (13.89%) Agile
9 35 (13.89%) Project Management
10 34 (13.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 31 (12.30%) ERP
12 30 (11.90%) Process Improvement
13 29 (11.51%) Data Management
14 27 (10.71%) Service Delivery
15 25 (9.92%) Business Strategy
15 25 (9.92%) Customer Experience
16 23 (9.13%) Enterprise Architecture
17 22 (8.73%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.51%) SQL
2 14 (5.56%) Groovy
3 11 (4.37%) Java
4 5 (1.98%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.59%) PHP
5 4 (1.59%) VBA
6 3 (1.19%) C#
6 3 (1.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.19%) Python
7 2 (0.79%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.79%) SOQL
7 2 (0.79%) SOSL
7 2 (0.79%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.40%) Ada
Qualifications
1 45 (17.86%) Degree
2 16 (6.35%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.95%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.56%) CIPD
5 12 (4.76%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.17%) MBA
6 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.17%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.17%) PMP
7 6 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.98%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.59%) CIMA
10 3 (1.19%) ACCA
11 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.79%) CCNA
11 2 (0.79%) CCNP
11 2 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.79%) CISSP
11 2 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.73%) QA
2 14 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 13 (5.16%) SLA
4 12 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (4.37%) GDPR
6 7 (2.78%) GRC
7 6 (2.38%) NIST
8 4 (1.59%) PMO
9 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.40%) NEBOSH
10 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (1.98%) Firmware
2 3 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.79%) Docker
4 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.98%) SCCM
3 4 (1.59%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.19%) ZABBIX
5 2 (0.79%) Kibana
5 2 (0.79%) logstash
5 2 (0.79%) Terraform
6 1 (0.40%) Netcool
6 1 (0.40%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 30 (11.90%) Oracle
2 27 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.14%) Hyperion
4 15 (5.95%) YouTube
5 12 (4.76%) IBM
5 12 (4.76%) SAP
6 8 (3.17%) Anaplan
7 7 (2.78%) Cisco
8 5 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.98%) Workday
9 4 (1.59%) Facebook
9 4 (1.59%) HubSpot
10 3 (1.19%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.79%) Google
11 2 (0.79%) Sage
12 1 (0.40%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.40%) Citrix
12 1 (0.40%) Cognos
12 1 (0.40%) HP
12 1 (0.40%) Pega