Performance Analysis Contracts

Performance Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Analysis over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 448 624 697
Rank change year-on-year +176 +73 -109
Contract jobs citing Performance Analysis 123 63 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 36 103
10th Percentile £358 £400 £309
25th Percentile £421 £423 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £496 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +7.30% -2.63%
75th Percentile £597 £634 £581
90th Percentile £650 £756 £612
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +7.50% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 5
10th Percentile £34.25 - £22.23
25th Percentile £46.88 - £36.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £37.50
75th Percentile £60.00 - £38.75
90th Percentile £73.75 - £46.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 - £31.89
% change year-on-year - - -27.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Performance Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Analysis.

Daily rate trend for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Analysis over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Analysis.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Analysis over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Analysis in the UK

Performance Analysis
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +158 99 £459 -3.42% 116
UK excluding London +105 64 £430 +7.50% 80
Work from Home +120 43 £525 +10.53% 58
London +103 32 £520 -13.33% 51
North of England - 24 £428 - 19
Yorkshire - 21 £430 - 7
South East +48 20 £538 +43.33% 23
Midlands +27 8 £425 +10.39% 6
South West +7 7 - - 7
East of England - 5 £675 - 18
West Midlands +24 4 £493 - 4
East Midlands +17 4 £365 -5.19% 2
North West - 3 £388 - 8

Performance Analysis
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 4 (3.25%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.44%) Apache
2 3 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.44%) IIS
2 3 (2.44%) nginx
2 3 (2.44%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.44%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) ION Anvil
1 2 (1.63%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (15.45%) AWS
2 17 (13.82%) GitHub
3 16 (13.01%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (10.57%) Azure
5 11 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (8.94%) IaaS
5 11 (8.94%) PaaS
5 11 (8.94%) SaaS
5 11 (8.94%) Snowflake
6 6 (4.88%) Google Analytics
7 4 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.25%) Amazon EventBridge
7 4 (3.25%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.25%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (3.25%) dbt
7 4 (3.25%) GCP
7 4 (3.25%) Google Data Studio
7 4 (3.25%) Serverless
8 3 (2.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.07%) DNS
1 5 (4.07%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.25%) 2G
2 4 (3.25%) 3G
2 4 (3.25%) 4G
2 4 (3.25%) ATM
2 4 (3.25%) Ethernet
2 4 (3.25%) Firewall
2 4 (3.25%) LAN
2 4 (3.25%) SDH
3 3 (2.44%) WAN
4 2 (1.63%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (1.63%) DHCP
4 2 (1.63%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.63%) VPN
5 1 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.81%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.81%) Network Security
5 1 (0.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.13%) Tableau
2 4 (3.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (3.25%) DB2
2 4 (3.25%) Hadoop
2 4 (3.25%) Impala
2 4 (3.25%) RDBMS
2 4 (3.25%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (2.44%) ClickHouse
3 3 (2.44%) Looker
3 3 (2.44%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.44%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.44%) Power BI
4 1 (0.81%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.81%) PowerPivot
4 1 (0.81%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.13%) SonarQube
2 9 (7.32%) Gradle
3 6 (4.88%) CircleCI
3 6 (4.88%) JIRA
4 5 (4.07%) Git
5 4 (3.25%) GCC
5 4 (3.25%) JUnit
6 3 (2.44%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.81%) XCTest
7 1 (0.81%) XCUITest
General
1 39 (31.71%) Finance
2 37 (30.08%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (21.14%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.76%) Legal
5 9 (7.32%) Banking
6 7 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.88%) Marketing
7 6 (4.88%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.25%) Back Office
8 4 (3.25%) Retail
9 2 (1.63%) Electronics
9 2 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (26.83%) Analyst
2 15 (12.20%) Lead
3 11 (8.94%) Consultant
4 9 (7.32%) Senior
4 9 (7.32%) Storage Engineer
5 8 (6.50%) Data Analyst
5 8 (6.50%) Performance Analyst
6 7 (5.69%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) Software Engineer
7 5 (4.07%) Storage Consultant
8 4 (3.25%) Android Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Architect
8 4 (3.25%) AWS Data Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Compiler Engineer
8 4 (3.25%) Data Engineer
9 3 (2.44%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (2.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (2.44%) CyberArk Architect
9 3 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (2.44%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.38%) REST
2 10 (8.13%) ARM Templates
2 10 (8.13%) Azure Blueprints
3 8 (6.50%) RAML
4 7 (5.69%) XML
5 5 (4.07%) PySpark
6 4 (3.25%) Android Jetpack
6 4 (3.25%) Dagger
6 4 (3.25%) Jetpack Compose
6 4 (3.25%) JSON
6 4 (3.25%) LDAP
6 4 (3.25%) LLVM
6 4 (3.25%) OkHttp
6 4 (3.25%) RxJava
6 4 (3.25%) Web Services
6 4 (3.25%) WireMock
7 3 (2.44%) .NET
7 3 (2.44%) Apache Beam
7 3 (2.44%) Kafka
7 3 (2.44%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.63%) Management Information System
2 10 (8.13%) Credit Risk
2 10 (8.13%) Legacy Code
2 10 (8.13%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.88%) Mobile App
3 6 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.88%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.07%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.25%) CMDB
5 4 (3.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.44%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.44%) EMC VNX
6 3 (2.44%) Replication
6 3 (2.44%) Social Media
7 2 (1.63%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.63%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.81%) FMCG
8 1 (0.81%) Life Science
8 1 (0.81%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.57%) Linux
2 8 (6.50%) Windows
3 7 (5.69%) Android
3 7 (5.69%) Unix
4 3 (2.44%) AIX
4 3 (2.44%) Debian
4 3 (2.44%) Solaris
5 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.81%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (26.83%) DevOps
2 28 (22.76%) Continuous Delivery
2 28 (22.76%) Continuous Integration
3 27 (21.95%) Analytics
4 25 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (18.70%) CI/CD
6 22 (17.89%) Mentoring
7 18 (14.63%) Decision-Making
8 17 (13.82%) ITIL
9 16 (13.01%) Open Source
9 16 (13.01%) Project Management
10 15 (12.20%) Build Automation
10 15 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (12.20%) Mathematics
10 15 (12.20%) Software Engineering
10 15 (12.20%) Validation
11 14 (11.38%) Test Automation
12 13 (10.57%) Agile
12 13 (10.57%) Change Management
12 13 (10.57%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.89%) Python
1 22 (17.89%) SQL
2 14 (11.38%) Java
3 10 (8.13%) Bash
4 9 (7.32%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.50%) Kotlin
6 6 (4.88%) C
7 5 (4.07%) Perl
7 5 (4.07%) R
8 4 (3.25%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.44%) C++
9 3 (2.44%) Go
9 3 (2.44%) Groovy
9 3 (2.44%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.44%) Ruby
9 3 (2.44%) Scala
9 3 (2.44%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.63%) C#
11 1 (0.81%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (24.39%) Degree
2 20 (16.26%) Security Cleared
3 15 (12.20%) SC Cleared
4 12 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (8.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.25%) PhD
8 3 (2.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (2.44%) CCNA
8 3 (2.44%) CISSP
8 3 (2.44%) SANS
9 2 (1.63%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.81%) ACCA
10 1 (0.81%) CCNP
10 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.94%) QA
2 10 (8.13%) NCSC
3 4 (3.25%) ISO 15022
4 3 (2.44%) GRC
5 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.81%) GDPR
5 1 (0.81%) IFRS
5 1 (0.81%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 14 (11.38%) Docker
2 4 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.44%) SRDF
4 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (17.89%) Ansible
2 18 (14.63%) Terraform
3 11 (8.94%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.44%) EMC TimeFinder
4 3 (2.44%) Grafana
5 2 (1.63%) Nagios
5 2 (1.63%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (14.63%) EMC
2 10 (8.13%) Alteryx
3 8 (6.50%) SAP
4 7 (5.69%) Google
5 5 (4.07%) Cisco
6 4 (3.25%) CyberArk
6 4 (3.25%) VMware
7 3 (2.44%) Ariba
7 3 (2.44%) Brocade
7 3 (2.44%) Dell
7 3 (2.44%) Dell Compellent
7 3 (2.44%) EqualLogic
7 3 (2.44%) Isilon
7 3 (2.44%) Oracle
7 3 (2.44%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.44%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.63%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.63%) Facebook
8 2 (1.63%) IBM
8 2 (1.63%) ION Trading