Performance Analysis Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Performance Analysis
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Performance Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 116 126
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 +52
Contract jobs citing Performance Analysis 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.25% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £402 - -
25th Percentile £406 £454 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £458 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% +1.67% -9.82%
75th Percentile £550 £461 £475
90th Percentile £685 - -
Central London median daily rate £433 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -5.46% +1.67% -9.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Performance Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,771 1,684 2,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.08% 91.62% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,219 1,040 1,502
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.97% -5.08%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £34.25 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £48.67 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

Performance Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Performance Analysis job vacancy trend in the City of London

Performance Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Analysis

Performance Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Analysis in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Analysis in the City of London

Performance Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Analysis

Performance Analysis
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) MemSQL
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Sybase IQ
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Accountant
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Financial Accountant
1 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Sales Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Software Sales Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Model Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Telesales
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GAAP
1 1 (20.00%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Progress
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (20.00%) SAP