Analytical Mindset
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Mindset in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Mindset over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 676 753
Rank change year-on-year +182 +77 -93
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 461 284 542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.29% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.30% 0.68% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 304 182 207
10th Percentile £27,500 £23,825 £30,150
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,188 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,563 £71,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £93,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +5.88%

All Generic Skills
UK

Analytical Mindset is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,381 41,658 80,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.48% 42.79% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23,078 22,714 34,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,738 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,070 £46,350 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytical Mindset as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analytical Mindset.

Salary trend for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Mindset over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Mindset within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +189 407 £43,000 -14.00% 187
UK excluding London +96 313 £42,500 -15.00% 109
Work from Home +104 129 £50,000 -13.04% 74
South East +76 124 £47,500 +11.76% 15
London +178 122 £65,000 +16.07% 75
South West +4 47 £40,000 -23.81% 18
North of England +33 46 £43,000 -13.13% 41
Midlands +12 43 £29,000 -42.00% 14
North West +9 31 £53,750 +13.76% 31
West Midlands +14 27 £32,500 -35.00% 9
East of England +11 22 £42,500 -34.62% 17
Scotland -42 22 £63,500 +139.62% 5
East Midlands -2 16 £29,000 -55.38% 5
Yorkshire +78 14 £42,810 -4.87% 8
Wales -8 5 £50,000 -
Isle of Man - 4 - - 1
North East -23 1 £29,500 -44.46% 2

Analytical Mindset
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 15 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.43%) Confluence
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) IIS
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 66 (14.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.08%) OrCAD
3 5 (1.08%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) CapCut
5 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.22%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.08%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.65%) Shopify
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.43%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.22%) JDE OneWorld
4 1 (0.22%) JDE World
4 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (16.27%) Power Platform
2 51 (11.06%) Azure
3 26 (5.64%) AWS
4 25 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (3.04%) SaaS
6 12 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (1.52%) GCP
8 7 (1.52%) Power Automate
8 7 (1.52%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.08%) Google Analytics
10 4 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.87%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.65%) Amazon Ads
11 3 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.65%) Google Ads
11 3 (0.65%) Snowflake
11 3 (0.65%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.25%) Ethernet
2 11 (2.39%) RS-232
3 9 (1.95%) DNS
4 8 (1.74%) Intranet
5 7 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (1.52%) Firewall
6 4 (0.87%) HTTP
6 4 (0.87%) Profibus
6 4 (0.87%) WAN
7 3 (0.65%) LAN
7 3 (0.65%) SAN
8 2 (0.43%) Cisco IPT
8 2 (0.43%) DHCP
8 2 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.43%) SMTP
8 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.22%) HSRP
9 1 (0.22%) Network Security
9 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (13.23%) Power BI
2 22 (4.77%) Tableau
3 11 (2.39%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.52%) Spotfire
4 7 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.87%) Big Data
5 4 (0.87%) Data Mining
5 4 (0.87%) PowerPivot
5 4 (0.87%) QlikView
6 3 (0.65%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.65%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.43%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.43%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.43%) DB2
7 2 (0.43%) Looker
7 2 (0.43%) Redis
7 2 (0.43%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.22%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (1.74%) Git
2 7 (1.52%) JIRA
2 7 (1.52%) RStudio
3 5 (1.08%) LabVIEW
4 3 (0.65%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) Bugzilla
5 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 461 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 251 (54.45%) Social Skills
3 95 (20.61%) Marketing
4 77 (16.70%) Retail
5 75 (16.27%) Finance
6 61 (13.23%) Advertising
7 53 (11.50%) German Language
7 53 (11.50%) Manufacturing
8 32 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (6.29%) Electronics
10 28 (6.07%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (5.86%) Legal
12 20 (4.34%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (3.90%) Law
14 16 (3.47%) Public Sector
15 13 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (2.39%) Aerospace
18 10 (2.17%) Banking
19 5 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 104 (22.56%) Analyst
2 59 (12.80%) Graduate
3 35 (7.59%) Lead
3 35 (7.59%) Senior
4 28 (6.07%) Developer
5 22 (4.77%) Data Analyst
6 18 (3.90%) Software Engineer
7 16 (3.47%) Architect
7 16 (3.47%) Product Manager
8 12 (2.60%) Data Manager
8 12 (2.60%) Data Steward
8 12 (2.60%) IT Support
8 12 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (2.39%) Applications Support
9 11 (2.39%) IT Analyst
9 11 (2.39%) Support Analyst
10 10 (2.17%) Applications Support Analyst
10 10 (2.17%) Business Manager
10 10 (2.17%) Consultant
10 10 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.95%) .NET
1 9 (1.95%) HTML
2 4 (0.87%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.65%) CSS
3 3 (0.65%) Django
3 3 (0.65%) Flask
3 3 (0.65%) Guice
3 3 (0.65%) Hibernate
3 3 (0.65%) JSON
3 3 (0.65%) RESTful
3 3 (0.65%) Spring
3 3 (0.65%) Spring Boot
3 3 (0.65%) Web Services
3 3 (0.65%) XML
4 2 (0.43%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.43%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (0.43%) Entity Framework
4 2 (0.43%) HTML5
4 2 (0.43%) Memcached
4 2 (0.43%) Tapestry
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.58%) Social Media
2 52 (11.28%) Photography
3 33 (7.16%) Management Information System
4 31 (6.72%) Algorithms
5 23 (4.99%) Analogue Electronics
6 22 (4.77%) Data Structures
6 22 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (4.56%) Product Ownership
8 18 (3.90%) FPGA
9 13 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
10 12 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (2.60%) VHDL
11 9 (1.95%) Fibre Optics
11 9 (1.95%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.52%) Biopharmaceutical
12 7 (1.52%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.52%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.52%) Robotics
13 6 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.87%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.90%) Linux
2 17 (3.69%) Windows
3 7 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.87%) Android
5 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.43%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (47.29%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
3 73 (15.84%) Analytics
4 69 (14.97%) Project Management
5 57 (12.36%) Business Intelligence
6 55 (11.93%) Agile
6 55 (11.93%) Decision-Making
6 55 (11.93%) Strategic Planning
7 53 (11.50%) Computer Science
8 50 (10.85%) Mathematics
9 45 (9.76%) Physics
10 44 (9.54%) ERP
11 37 (8.03%) Customer Service
12 32 (6.94%) Data Analysis
13 31 (6.72%) Roadmaps
14 30 (6.51%) Mentoring
14 30 (6.51%) Visualisation
15 29 (6.29%) Cybersecurity
16 28 (6.07%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (5.86%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 60 (13.02%) SQL
2 51 (11.06%) Python
3 37 (8.03%) C
4 23 (4.99%) C++
4 23 (4.99%) Java
5 17 (3.69%) Fortran
6 16 (3.47%) C#
7 12 (2.60%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (1.30%) R
9 5 (1.08%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.87%) Bicep
10 4 (0.87%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.65%) Scala
12 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.43%) RPG
12 2 (0.43%) Tcl
12 2 (0.43%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 175 (37.96%) Degree
2 63 (13.67%) DBS Check
3 29 (6.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 29 (6.29%) PhD
3 29 (6.29%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.29%) Security Cleared
4 22 (4.77%) Master's Degree
5 19 (4.12%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (2.60%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.95%) CISSP
10 7 (1.52%) A+ Certification
10 7 (1.52%) CCNP
10 7 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (1.30%) CCNA
11 6 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (0.87%) CEH
12 4 (0.87%) CISM
13 3 (0.65%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.72%) QA
2 22 (4.77%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.95%) GDPR
6 4 (0.87%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (0.87%) ISO 13485
6 4 (0.87%) NIST
7 3 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.65%) GMP
8 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.43%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.43%) MISRA
8 2 (0.43%) MISRA C
8 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.43%) SLA
8 2 (0.43%) WCAG
9 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.22%) JTAG
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (2.60%) Firmware
2 8 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.30%) QRadar
2 5 (1.08%) Terraform
3 3 (0.65%) Ansible
3 3 (0.65%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.22%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.22%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 96 (20.82%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.82%) Splunk
3 10 (2.17%) Google
4 9 (1.95%) Meraki
5 8 (1.74%) IBM
6 7 (1.52%) Alteryx
6 7 (1.52%) Cisco
6 7 (1.52%) ForeScout
6 7 (1.52%) SAP
7 6 (1.30%) Canon
7 6 (1.30%) McAfee
7 6 (1.30%) Rapid7
8 5 (1.08%) Apple
8 5 (1.08%) Oracle
8 5 (1.08%) VMware
9 4 (0.87%) IFS
10 3 (0.65%) Cadence
10 3 (0.65%) Criteo
10 3 (0.65%) Dell
10 3 (0.65%) Salesforce