Performance Metrics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Metrics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Metrics over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 473 686 700
Rank change year-on-year +213 +14 +49
Permanent jobs citing Performance Metrics 475 297 620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.29% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.31% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 239 117 303
10th Percentile £32,000 £41,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,474
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £78,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,699 £50,238 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.07% -8.66% +35.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Metrics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Performance Metrics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Metrics in the UK

Performance Metrics
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Performance Metrics in the UK

Performance Metrics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Metrics over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Metrics in the UK

Performance Metrics
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 Metrics within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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 +237 460 £56,250 +2.27% 251
UK excluding London +155 345 £49,699 -1.07% 143
Midlands +125 165 £50,000 -6.32% 24
West Midlands +114 128 £50,000 -4.76% 14
London +121 117 £77,500 +29.17% 112
Work from Home +83 92 £57,500 - 113
South East +39 75 £43,750 -12.50% 28
North of England +103 65 £48,750 +2.26% 46
East Midlands +30 37 £57,500 +5.99% 10
North West +35 35 £52,500 -8.70% 24
Yorkshire +108 30 £31,500 -25.88% 17
East of England +19 16 £50,000 -21.26% 20
South West -44 15 £45,000 -10.43% 14
Scotland -61 6 £31,500 -42.85% 12
North East -5 2 £80,000 +67.81% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £42,500 - 2
Wales - 1 £38,000 - 4

Performance Metrics
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 14 (2.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.47%) WebLogic
4 5 (1.05%) SAS
5 4 (0.84%) CMS
5 4 (0.84%) WordPress
6 3 (0.63%) Confluence
6 3 (0.63%) Joomla!
7 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.42%) GlassFish
7 2 (0.42%) JCAPS
7 2 (0.42%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.21%) Apache
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 155 (32.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (32.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.84%) SPSS
4 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.42%) InDesign
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.21%) InVision
6 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.21%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.84%) Shopify
3 2 (0.42%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.21%) Magento
4 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 60 (12.63%) Azure
2 43 (9.05%) Power Platform
3 28 (5.89%) SaaS
4 24 (5.05%) AWS
5 20 (4.21%) Entra ID
6 18 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (1.89%) GCP
9 7 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.05%) Google Analytics
11 4 (0.84%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (0.84%) Azure Storage
12 3 (0.63%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.42%) Azure AKS
13 2 (0.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (0.42%) Azure Key Vault
13 2 (0.42%) Contentsquare
14 1 (0.21%) AWS IoT
14 1 (0.21%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.63%) Network Security
2 17 (3.58%) Firewall
3 6 (1.26%) NetScaler
4 3 (0.63%) LAN
4 3 (0.63%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.63%) VoIP
4 3 (0.63%) WAN
5 2 (0.42%) FTP
5 2 (0.42%) HTTP
5 2 (0.42%) Internet
5 2 (0.42%) Intranet
5 2 (0.42%) VPN
6 1 (0.21%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.37%) Power BI
2 26 (5.47%) Tableau
3 18 (3.79%) Data Mining
4 15 (3.16%) SQL Server
5 11 (2.32%) Big Data
6 5 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.05%) MySQL
6 5 (1.05%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.05%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.84%) PowerPivot
7 4 (0.84%) QlikView
8 3 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.63%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.42%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.42%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.21%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (1.68%) JIRA
2 6 (1.26%) webpack
3 4 (0.84%) Git
4 3 (0.63%) JUnit
5 2 (0.42%) Ant
5 2 (0.42%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.42%) Maven
5 2 (0.42%) Subversion
6 1 (0.21%) Appium
6 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.21%) GitLab
6 1 (0.21%) Gradle
6 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.21%) Mockito
6 1 (0.21%) NUnit
6 1 (0.21%) Selenium
6 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.21%) XCUITest
General
1 147 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 126 (26.53%) Military
3 121 (25.47%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (25.05%) Finance
5 53 (11.16%) Marketing
6 24 (5.05%) Retail
7 21 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (3.79%) Manufacturing
10 16 (3.37%) Telecoms
11 14 (2.95%) Brand Awareness
11 14 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (2.32%) Publishing
13 9 (1.89%) Legal
14 8 (1.68%) Advertising
14 8 (1.68%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.47%) Front Office
15 7 (1.47%) Games
15 7 (1.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 131 (27.58%) Graduate
2 64 (13.47%) Senior
3 58 (12.21%) Analyst
4 42 (8.84%) Lead
5 20 (4.21%) Financial Analyst
5 20 (4.21%) IT Manager
5 20 (4.21%) Product Manager
6 18 (3.79%) Service Manager
7 16 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
8 15 (3.16%) Senior Financial Analyst
9 14 (2.95%) Customer Experience Manager
9 14 (2.95%) Senior Manager
10 13 (2.74%) Software Engineer
10 13 (2.74%) Team Leader
11 11 (2.32%) Architect
12 10 (2.11%) Business Analyst
12 10 (2.11%) Service Desk Manager
13 9 (1.89%) Administrator
13 9 (1.89%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (1.68%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.21%) CSS
2 16 (3.37%) HTML
3 12 (2.53%) XML
4 10 (2.11%) .NET
5 9 (1.89%) .NET Core
5 9 (1.89%) jQuery
6 8 (1.68%) .NET Framework
6 8 (1.68%) Akka.NET
6 8 (1.68%) AngularJS
6 8 (1.68%) JSON
6 8 (1.68%) Node.js
7 7 (1.47%) React
8 6 (1.26%) GraphQL
8 6 (1.26%) REST
9 5 (1.05%) Spring
10 4 (0.84%) Django
11 3 (0.63%) Kafka
11 3 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
12 2 (0.42%) J2EE
12 2 (0.42%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 176 (37.05%) Onboarding
2 44 (9.26%) Product Ownership
3 21 (4.42%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.37%) Mobile App
4 16 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.68%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.47%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.26%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.05%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.05%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.84%) Clustering
9 4 (0.84%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.84%) Driving Licence
9 4 (0.84%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.63%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.63%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.63%) Replication
10 3 (0.63%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.37%) Windows
2 10 (2.11%) Linux
3 7 (1.47%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.63%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.21%) Android
6 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (42.32%) Continuous Improvement
2 170 (35.79%) Process Improvement
3 169 (35.58%) Customer Experience
4 156 (32.84%) Customer Service
5 155 (32.63%) Data Analysis
6 138 (29.05%) Creative Thinking
7 136 (28.63%) Problem-Solving
8 133 (28.00%) Logistics
9 128 (26.95%) Contingency Planning
10 90 (18.95%) Agile
11 60 (12.63%) Decision-Making
11 60 (12.63%) Project Management
12 58 (12.21%) ITIL
13 53 (11.16%) Analytics
14 51 (10.74%) Computer Science
15 47 (9.89%) Mentoring
15 47 (9.89%) Roadmaps
16 43 (9.05%) Stakeholder Management
17 39 (8.21%) Service Delivery
18 35 (7.37%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (13.05%) SQL
2 36 (7.58%) Python
3 17 (3.58%) C
4 11 (2.32%) C#
5 10 (2.11%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.11%) VBA
6 8 (1.68%) T-SQL
7 7 (1.47%) Java
7 7 (1.47%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.26%) R
9 5 (1.05%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.84%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.63%) Scala
12 2 (0.42%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.42%) XPath
13 1 (0.21%) Bash
13 1 (0.21%) Go
13 1 (0.21%) PHP
13 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 250 (52.63%) Degree
2 25 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (4.63%) Security Cleared
4 15 (3.16%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.74%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.53%) SC Cleared
7 11 (2.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 11 (2.32%) MBA
8 8 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.26%) CRISC
9 6 (1.26%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (1.05%) OCA
10 5 (1.05%) OCP
10 5 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
10 5 (1.05%) Postgraduate
11 4 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.84%) CISSP
11 4 (0.84%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.47%) QA
2 16 (3.37%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.16%) SLA
4 8 (1.68%) PMO
5 6 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.26%) NIST
5 6 (1.26%) WCAG
6 5 (1.05%) GDPR
7 4 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.42%) COBIT
9 2 (0.42%) GRC
10 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.21%) GMP
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 14001
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 23 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.26%) XenApp
4 6 (1.26%) XenDesktop
5 5 (1.05%) Docker
5 5 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.21%) Firmware
6 1 (0.21%) KVM
6 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (1.26%) SCCM
2 5 (1.05%) Data Guard
2 5 (1.05%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (0.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.84%) Terraform
4 3 (0.63%) Ansible
4 3 (0.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.42%) Control-M
5 2 (0.42%) Grafana
5 2 (0.42%) Kibana
5 2 (0.42%) logstash
5 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Autotask
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.21%) Nagios
6 1 (0.21%) Puppet
6 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.21%) vRealize
Vendors
1 72 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.47%) Google
3 20 (4.21%) Oracle
4 12 (2.53%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.11%) VMware
6 7 (1.47%) CA
6 7 (1.47%) Citrix
6 7 (1.47%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.26%) Cisco
7 6 (1.26%) Commvault
8 5 (1.05%) Ahrefs
8 5 (1.05%) Meraki
8 5 (1.05%) Screaming Frog
9 4 (0.84%) Adobe
9 4 (0.84%) Apple
9 4 (0.84%) Facebook
9 4 (0.84%) Instagram
9 4 (0.84%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.63%) Ericsson
10 3 (0.63%) ZyXEL