Senior Performance Analyst

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.

As a Senior Performance Analyst, you set the highest standards in quality analysis to ensure services that meet the Government’s Digital by Default Service Standard.

You are responsible for delivering high-quality and innovative analysis in relation to digital services and maximising the value of the Department’s data and contributing to the development of new skills and procedures within the Performance Analyst community.

The key purpose of this role is to deliver and improve data collection, performance reporting and analytical insight for the digital services.

You provide analysis, tell data stories and build relationships that drive evidence based decision making and create/maintain a data-driven performance culture for the Department’s digital services.

• Work with service teams to translate business requirements into clear analytical questions and deliver data driven solutions that support decision making and service improvement.
• Lead the collection, analysis and interpretation of digital performance data, providing actionable insights and compelling narratives to inform user centred design and product development.
• Develop, configure and assure digital analytics solutions, ensuring high quality data collection, reporting and compliance with departmental and statistical standards.
• Design and evaluate experiments, including A/B and multivariate testing, ensuring findings are robust, evidence based and statistically valid.
• Identify, integrate and exploit new data sources, technologies and analytical techniques to enhance insight generation and maximise the value of digital analytics.
• Provide expert advice and constructive challenge to stakeholders, helping teams refine analytical requirements and make informed strategic and operational decisions.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and analytical professions to maintain data integrity, resolve reporting issues and promote the effective use of performance analytics.
• Establish and promote best practice across digital performance analytics, driving continuous improvement, innovation and a culture of learning and evidence based decision making.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Stage 1: Application

Your application will consist of three parts:

1. A Personal Details application form.

2. Your employment history detailing your responsibilities, skills, accomplishments, plus your qualifications and relevant training in line with the essential criteria below. Please copy this information into the box field provided.

• Experience of measuring the effectiveness of digital products and services.
• Experience of working with Agile multidisciplinary teams to set measures and KPIs.
• Experience of using web analytics tools to complete analysis.

3. Technical statements: (up to 250 words each). These include:

• (Lead Technical Statement) Performance Measurement: Please tell us about a time you have worked with a team or teams creating a digital product or service to set Key Performance Indicators for the project. What activities did you undertake with the team to set KPIs that align to the goals of the project?
• Communicating Analysis and Insight: Please tell us about a time you have influenced a team, creating a digital product or service, to make a design decision using data. How did you influence the team and how did you communicate your findings?
• SQL Coding Experience: The coding software we use involves a processing cost to the department. Can you tell us what steps can be taken to make SQL queries more efficient and/or run at a lower cost?

Ensure that all examples provided in your statements are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. If you choose to use gen-AI to support your statements, you must follow the guidelines outlined in the Artificial intelligence and recruitment guide.

The sift panel will use the information in your employment history and technical statements to assess your experience, skills and knowledge.

An initial sift will be conducted using the lead technical statement stated above. Candidates who pass the initial sift will progress to a full sift.

For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital.

Important information

• You will be asked to complete your employment history. Any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form.
• Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered.
• If your employment history and technical statements contains any personal details your application will be withdrawn.

Stage 2: Interview

If you’re successful at sift stage, you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the behaviour and technical skills listed below:

• Communicating and Influencing: Communicates clearly and confidently with a wide range of stakeholders, including senior leaders. Adapts style and approach to different audiences and situations. Builds strong relationships, manages difficult viewpoints, and brings people together to reach agreement. Influences decisions by presenting well reasoned arguments and evidence, ensuring messages are understood and acted upon.
• Communicating Analysis and Insight: Leads the clear communication of complex analysis to support senior decision making. Chooses the best formats such as briefings, visuals, dashboards, or data stories and adapts messages for both specialist and non specialist audiences, including senior leaders. Explains risks, uncertainty and trade offs openly and gives strong tactical and strategic recommendations. Supports and guides others to improve how they communicate analysis and ensures outputs are clear, accurate and impactful.
• SQL Coding Experience: Able to write, understand and improve SQL queries to extract, analyse and manage data. Uses SQL confidently to solve problems, check data quality and support reporting or insight work. Comfortable working with tables, joins, filtering and aggregations and can adapt queries to meet different analytical needs.

You will also be asked to do a 10 minute presentation on a specific topic based on the technical skill of: Performance Measurement. Further details will be provided to candidates invited to interview.

Interviews will take place from early November 2026. Sift and Interview dates to be confirmed.

Other information:

If high application volumes are received, the benchmark for candidates to proceed to the next stage may be raised. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to advance all candidates applying under the DCS who meet the minimum standard. However, we may only progress those candidates who best meet the required standards.

All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location.

For these vacancies, we strongly recommend that applicants consult with an immigration specialist or qualified advisor to assess their eligibility for Visa Sponsorship before deciding to apply. Please note that while we consider sponsorship requests in accordance with current DWP guidance and Home Office policy, sponsorship cannot be guaranteed.

Security Clearance Requirement

You must meet the security requirements before you can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

You must have resided continuously in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years, 2 of which must have been the immediately preceding years from the point of applying for this job.

For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the Demystifying Vetting website.

For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How we recruit page.

Further Information​

At the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.

Find out more about working for DWP on the DWP Careers Hub.

Reserve List

A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.

If you are placed on a reserve list but we cannot immediately offer you a post, please note:

• If you are later offered the role you applied for, in a location you have expressed a preference for, and you decline the offer or are unable to take up the post within a reasonable timeframe you will be withdrawn from the campaign and removed from the reserve list, other than in exceptional circumstances (e.g. a contractual Part Time Working Pattern cannot be accommodated in the initial role offered or in cases of serious ill health).
• If DWP makes an offer of an alternative role or location to that which you originally applied for, and you decline that offer, you will be able to remain on the reserve list.

Disability Confident Scheme

If high application volumes are received, the benchmark for candidates to proceed to the next stage may be raised. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to advance all candidates applying under the DCS who meet the minimum standard. However, we may only progress those candidates who best meet the required standards.

Reasonable Adjustments

We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should contact the Government Recruitment Service via DWPRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the “Reasonable Adjustments” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

Integrity, plagiarism and Civil Service Principles

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles.

Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words.

Examples of plagiarism can include:

• Presenting the work, ideas and experience of others as your own
• Copying content or answers from an online or published source that is not your own

Disclosure and Barring Service and Internal Fraud Database Checks

To process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment. A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

If successful and transferring from another Government Department, a criminal record check will be carried out.

Important

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

Before applying for this vacancy, current employees of DWP should check whether a successful application would result in changes to their terms & conditions of employment, e.g. mobility, pay, allowances. If you are a current employee and are successful you must be able to be released from your current post within four weeks.

Those on protected TUPE/ COSoP terms and conditions applying on promotion or voluntary permanent level move will adopt DWP’s Terms and Conditions and this may have a different impact on pay and allowances. Please review this prior to acceptance of a role.

Civil Servants that would transfer into DWP from other government organisations, following successful application, will assume DWP's terms & conditions of employment current on the day they are posted, unless DWP has stated otherwise in writing. Accepting a post will be taken to mean acceptance of revised terms & conditions.

Civil Servants applying on promotion will usually be appointed to the salary minimum or within 10% of existing salary.

Any move to DWP from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may, however, be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at the Childcare Choices Website.

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