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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 462 681 692
Rank change year-on-year +219 +11 +62
Permanent jobs citing Performance Metrics 496 285 631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.29% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.30% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 237 114 302
10th Percentile £32,000 £41,250 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £47,460
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £78,375 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,238 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -4.31% +29.63%

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 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
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% +10.53%

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 17 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 17 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 +253 482 £57,500 +4.55% 296
UK excluding London +171 366 £48,500 -3.46% 180
Midlands +143 184 £50,000 -6.32% 33
West Midlands +128 144 £50,000 -4.76% 20
London +136 118 £77,500 +29.17% 144
Work from Home +70 91 £57,500 - 119
South East +24 75 £42,500 -14.57% 67
North of England +103 67 £47,500 -0.36% 43
East Midlands +29 40 £57,500 +5.99% 13
North West +29 36 £52,250 -9.13% 22
Yorkshire +100 31 £34,500 -21.14% 18
East of England +14 16 £50,000 -21.26% 19
South West -43 15 £45,000 -10.43% 12
Scotland -63 6 £31,500 -42.85% 11
North East -4 2 £80,000 +67.81% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £42,500 -
Wales - 1 £38,000 - 6

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 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.41%) WebLogic
4 5 (1.01%) SAS
5 4 (0.81%) CMS
5 4 (0.81%) WordPress
6 3 (0.60%) Confluence
6 3 (0.60%) Joomla!
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.40%) GlassFish
7 2 (0.40%) JCAPS
7 2 (0.40%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 176 (35.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 174 (35.08%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.81%) SPSS
4 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.40%) InDesign
5 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) InVision
6 1 (0.20%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.81%) Shopify
3 2 (0.40%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (11.49%) Azure
2 42 (8.47%) Power Platform
3 25 (5.04%) SaaS
4 24 (4.84%) AWS
5 20 (4.03%) Entra ID
6 18 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
8 9 (1.81%) GCP
9 7 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.81%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (0.81%) Azure Storage
10 4 (0.81%) Google Analytics
11 3 (0.60%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.40%) Azure AKS
12 2 (0.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (0.40%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (0.40%) Contentsquare
12 2 (0.40%) Google Ads
13 1 (0.20%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.03%) Network Security
2 17 (3.43%) Firewall
3 6 (1.21%) NetScaler
4 3 (0.60%) LAN
4 3 (0.60%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.60%) VoIP
4 3 (0.60%) WAN
5 2 (0.40%) FTP
5 2 (0.40%) HTTP
5 2 (0.40%) Intranet
5 2 (0.40%) VPN
6 1 (0.20%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.20%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.85%) Power BI
2 25 (5.04%) Tableau
3 18 (3.63%) Data Mining
4 15 (3.02%) SQL Server
5 10 (2.02%) Big Data
6 6 (1.21%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.01%) MySQL
7 5 (1.01%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.81%) PowerPivot
8 4 (0.81%) QlikView
9 3 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.60%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.40%) Data Mart
10 2 (0.40%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (1.61%) JIRA
2 6 (1.21%) webpack
3 4 (0.81%) Git
4 3 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.60%) JUnit
5 2 (0.40%) Ant
5 2 (0.40%) GitLab
5 2 (0.40%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.40%) Maven
5 2 (0.40%) Subversion
6 1 (0.20%) Appium
6 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.20%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.20%) Gradle
6 1 (0.20%) Mockito
6 1 (0.20%) NUnit
6 1 (0.20%) Selenium
6 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 147 (29.64%) Military
1 147 (29.64%) Social Skills
2 120 (24.19%) Analytical Skills
3 119 (23.99%) Finance
4 52 (10.48%) Marketing
5 25 (5.04%) Retail
6 21 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
7 20 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
8 18 (3.63%) Manufacturing
9 16 (3.23%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.82%) Brand Awareness
10 14 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.22%) Publishing
12 9 (1.81%) Advertising
12 9 (1.81%) Legal
13 8 (1.61%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.41%) Front Office
14 7 (1.41%) Games
14 7 (1.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 152 (30.65%) Graduate
2 64 (12.90%) Senior
3 57 (11.49%) Analyst
4 42 (8.47%) Lead
5 20 (4.03%) Financial Analyst
5 20 (4.03%) IT Manager
5 20 (4.03%) Product Manager
6 17 (3.43%) Service Manager
7 16 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
8 15 (3.02%) Senior Financial Analyst
9 14 (2.82%) Customer Experience Manager
9 14 (2.82%) Senior Manager
10 13 (2.62%) Software Engineer
10 13 (2.62%) Team Leader
11 12 (2.42%) Architect
12 10 (2.02%) Service Desk Manager
13 9 (1.81%) Administrator
13 9 (1.81%) Business Analyst
14 8 (1.61%) DBA
14 8 (1.61%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.03%) CSS
2 16 (3.23%) HTML
3 12 (2.42%) XML
4 9 (1.81%) .NET
4 9 (1.81%) .NET Core
4 9 (1.81%) jQuery
5 8 (1.61%) .NET Framework
5 8 (1.61%) Akka.NET
5 8 (1.61%) AngularJS
5 8 (1.61%) JSON
5 8 (1.61%) Node.js
6 7 (1.41%) React
7 6 (1.21%) GraphQL
7 6 (1.21%) REST
8 5 (1.01%) Spring
9 4 (0.81%) Django
10 3 (0.60%) Kafka
10 3 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
11 2 (0.40%) Java EE
11 2 (0.40%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 197 (39.72%) Onboarding
2 45 (9.07%) Product Ownership
3 20 (4.03%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 16 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.81%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.41%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.21%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.01%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.01%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.81%) Clustering
9 4 (0.81%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.81%) Driving Licence
9 4 (0.81%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.81%) Social Media
10 3 (0.60%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.60%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.23%) Windows
2 10 (2.02%) Linux
3 7 (1.41%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.60%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.20%) Android
6 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (44.76%) Continuous Improvement
2 191 (38.51%) Process Improvement
3 190 (38.31%) Customer Experience
4 177 (35.69%) Customer Service
5 176 (35.48%) Data Analysis
6 159 (32.06%) Creative Thinking
7 154 (31.05%) Logistics
8 149 (30.04%) Contingency Planning
9 135 (27.22%) Problem-Solving
10 88 (17.74%) Agile
11 60 (12.10%) Decision-Making
12 58 (11.69%) Project Management
13 57 (11.49%) ITIL
14 53 (10.69%) Analytics
15 52 (10.48%) Computer Science
16 46 (9.27%) Mentoring
16 46 (9.27%) Roadmaps
17 43 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
18 38 (7.66%) Service Delivery
19 34 (6.85%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (12.50%) SQL
2 35 (7.06%) Python
3 17 (3.43%) C
4 11 (2.22%) C#
5 10 (2.02%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.02%) VBA
6 8 (1.61%) T-SQL
7 7 (1.41%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.21%) Java
8 6 (1.21%) R
9 5 (1.01%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.81%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.40%) Bash
11 2 (0.40%) Scala
11 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.40%) XPath
12 1 (0.20%) Go
12 1 (0.20%) PHP
12 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 272 (54.84%) Degree
2 27 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (4.64%) Security Cleared
4 15 (3.02%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.62%) Azure Certification
5 13 (2.62%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 11 (2.22%) MBA
7 8 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.21%) CRISC
8 6 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (1.01%) OCA
9 5 (1.01%) OCP
9 5 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (1.01%) Postgraduate
10 4 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.81%) CISM
10 4 (0.81%) CISSP
10 4 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.04%) QA
2 16 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.02%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.02%) SLA
4 8 (1.61%) PMO
5 6 (1.21%) GDPR
5 6 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.21%) NIST
5 6 (1.21%) WCAG
6 4 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.40%) COBIT
8 2 (0.40%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 23 (4.64%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.21%) Docker
4 6 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.21%) XenApp
4 6 (1.21%) XenDesktop
5 5 (1.01%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.20%) Firmware
6 1 (0.20%) KVM
6 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (1.21%) SCCM
2 5 (1.01%) Data Guard
2 5 (1.01%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.01%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (1.01%) Terraform
3 4 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 4 (0.81%) Ansible
4 3 (0.60%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.40%) Control-M
5 2 (0.40%) Grafana
5 2 (0.40%) Kibana
5 2 (0.40%) logstash
5 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.40%) Puppet
6 1 (0.20%) Autotask
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.20%) Nagios
6 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 72 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.44%) Google
3 20 (4.03%) Oracle
4 12 (2.42%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.02%) VMware
6 7 (1.41%) CA
6 7 (1.41%) Citrix
6 7 (1.41%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.21%) Ahrefs
7 6 (1.21%) Cisco
7 6 (1.21%) Commvault
7 6 (1.21%) Screaming Frog
8 5 (1.01%) Meraki
9 4 (0.81%) Adobe
9 4 (0.81%) Apple
9 4 (0.81%) Facebook
9 4 (0.81%) Instagram
9 4 (0.81%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.60%) ZyXEL