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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 499 699 768
Rank change year-on-year +200 +69 -96
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 450 279 503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.28% 0.64% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 296 177 221
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,100 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,313 £71,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £94,250 £80,000
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 35,043 43,311 74,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 42.74% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,056 23,480 33,820
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £84,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,550 £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 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Top 16 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 9 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 +222 400 £42,500 -15.00% 179
UK excluding London +111 308 £42,500 -15.00% 115
South East +68 120 £48,750 +8.94% 15
Work from Home +104 118 £50,000 -14.89% 78
London +137 117 £58,750 +5.86% 76
South West +12 46 £40,000 -23.81% 20
North of England +36 45 £37,500 -16.67% 38
Midlands +13 44 £29,000 -42.00% 16
North West +14 29 £37,500 -16.67% 21
West Midlands +22 28 £35,000 -8.20% 10
East of England +34 24 £42,500 -34.62% 9
Scotland -53 19 £52,850 +115.71% 12
Yorkshire +90 16 £38,810 -13.76% 12
East Midlands -3 16 £29,000 -55.38% 6
Wales -6 6 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Isle of Man - 4 - - 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 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.44%) Apache
4 2 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) IIS
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 61 (13.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.11%) OrCAD
3 5 (1.11%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.22%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Shopify
2 2 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.44%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.44%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.22%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.22%) iTrent
3 1 (0.22%) JDE OneWorld
3 1 (0.22%) JDE World
3 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (15.33%) Power Platform
2 50 (11.11%) Azure
3 29 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (5.78%) AWS
5 15 (3.33%) SaaS
6 12 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.78%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (1.56%) GCP
8 7 (1.56%) Power Automate
8 7 (1.56%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.11%) Google Analytics
10 4 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.67%) Amazon Ads
11 3 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.67%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.67%) Google Ads
11 3 (0.67%) Serverless
11 3 (0.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.33%) Ethernet
2 11 (2.44%) RS-232
3 8 (1.78%) DNS
3 8 (1.78%) Intranet
4 7 (1.56%) Firewall
5 6 (1.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (1.11%) HTTP
7 4 (0.89%) Profibus
7 4 (0.89%) WAN
8 3 (0.67%) LAN
8 3 (0.67%) Network Security
8 3 (0.67%) SAN
8 3 (0.67%) SMTP
8 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.44%) Cisco IPT
9 2 (0.44%) DHCP
9 2 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.44%) VPN
10 1 (0.22%) HSRP
10 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (12.22%) Power BI
2 20 (4.44%) Tableau
3 10 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.56%) Spotfire
4 7 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.89%) Big Data
5 4 (0.89%) PowerPivot
5 4 (0.89%) QlikView
6 3 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.67%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.67%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.44%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.44%) DB2
7 2 (0.44%) Looker
7 2 (0.44%) Redis
7 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (1.78%) Git
1 8 (1.78%) JIRA
2 7 (1.56%) RStudio
3 5 (1.11%) LabVIEW
4 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) Bugzilla
5 1 (0.22%) Selenium
5 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.22%) WebDriver
General
1 450 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 242 (53.78%) Social Skills
3 95 (21.11%) Marketing
4 77 (17.11%) Retail
5 72 (16.00%) Finance
6 61 (13.56%) Advertising
7 53 (11.78%) German Language
8 52 (11.56%) Manufacturing
9 30 (6.67%) Electronics
10 29 (6.44%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (5.78%) Legal
13 20 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (3.56%) Public Sector
15 15 (3.33%) Law
16 14 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (2.44%) Aerospace
18 9 (2.00%) Banking
18 9 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
19 5 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 103 (22.89%) Analyst
2 58 (12.89%) Graduate
3 32 (7.11%) Lead
3 32 (7.11%) Senior
4 28 (6.22%) Developer
5 22 (4.89%) Data Analyst
6 19 (4.22%) Software Engineer
7 17 (3.78%) Architect
8 14 (3.11%) IT Support
8 14 (3.11%) Product Manager
9 13 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (2.67%) Data Manager
10 12 (2.67%) Data Steward
11 11 (2.44%) Applications Support
11 11 (2.44%) Support Analyst
12 10 (2.22%) Applications Support Analyst
12 10 (2.22%) Consultant
12 10 (2.22%) IT Analyst
12 10 (2.22%) Junior
12 10 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.22%) .NET
1 10 (2.22%) HTML
2 4 (0.89%) ARM Templates
2 4 (0.89%) CSS
2 4 (0.89%) JSON
3 3 (0.67%) Django
3 3 (0.67%) Flask
3 3 (0.67%) Guice
3 3 (0.67%) Hibernate
3 3 (0.67%) RESTful
3 3 (0.67%) Spring
3 3 (0.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (0.67%) Web Services
4 2 (0.44%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.44%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (0.44%) COM
4 2 (0.44%) EDI
4 2 (0.44%) Entity Framework
4 2 (0.44%) Memcached
4 2 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.89%) Social Media
2 52 (11.56%) Photography
3 33 (7.33%) Management Information System
4 32 (7.11%) Algorithms
5 24 (5.33%) Analogue Electronics
6 22 (4.89%) Product Ownership
7 21 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (4.22%) Data Structures
8 19 (4.22%) FPGA
9 15 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
10 13 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (2.89%) VHDL
11 9 (2.00%) Fibre Optics
11 9 (2.00%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.56%) Biopharmaceutical
12 7 (1.56%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.56%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.56%) Robotics
13 6 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (0.89%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.00%) Linux
2 17 (3.78%) Windows
3 6 (1.33%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.89%) Android
6 2 (0.44%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.44%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.44%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.44%) Windows 8
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 (48.44%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 71 (15.78%) Analytics
4 69 (15.33%) Project Management
5 56 (12.44%) Agile
6 55 (12.22%) Business Intelligence
6 55 (12.22%) Strategic Planning
7 54 (12.00%) Decision-Making
8 53 (11.78%) Computer Science
9 50 (11.11%) Mathematics
10 44 (9.78%) Physics
11 41 (9.11%) ERP
12 39 (8.67%) Customer Service
13 32 (7.11%) Data Analysis
14 31 (6.89%) Roadmaps
15 29 (6.44%) Collaborative Working
15 29 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
16 28 (6.22%) E-Commerce
17 27 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
18 26 (5.78%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 56 (12.44%) SQL
2 50 (11.11%) Python
3 39 (8.67%) C
4 25 (5.56%) Java
5 24 (5.33%) C++
6 17 (3.78%) C#
6 17 (3.78%) Fortran
7 12 (2.67%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (1.33%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.33%) R
9 4 (0.89%) Bicep
9 4 (0.89%) Embedded C++
10 3 (0.67%) Scala
11 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.44%) RPG
11 2 (0.44%) Tcl
12 1 (0.22%) Ruby
12 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 172 (38.22%) Degree
2 63 (14.00%) DBS Check
3 31 (6.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 31 (6.89%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.89%) Security Cleared
4 30 (6.67%) PhD
5 22 (4.89%) Master's Degree
6 19 (4.22%) Azure Certification
6 19 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.89%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (2.00%) CISSP
10 7 (1.56%) A+ Certification
10 7 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (1.33%) CCNA
11 6 (1.33%) CCNP
11 6 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (0.89%) CEH
12 4 (0.89%) CISM
13 3 (0.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.00%) QA
2 21 (4.67%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.00%) GDPR
6 4 (0.89%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (0.89%) ISO 13485
6 4 (0.89%) NIST
6 4 (0.89%) SLA
7 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.44%) MISRA
7 2 (0.44%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.44%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.22%) JTAG
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (2.67%) Firmware
2 9 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.33%) QRadar
2 4 (0.89%) Terraform
3 3 (0.67%) Ansible
3 3 (0.67%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.22%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 101 (22.44%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.11%) Splunk
3 10 (2.22%) Google
4 9 (2.00%) IBM
5 8 (1.78%) Cisco
5 8 (1.78%) Meraki
6 7 (1.56%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.33%) Canon
7 6 (1.33%) ForeScout
7 6 (1.33%) McAfee
7 6 (1.33%) Rapid7
7 6 (1.33%) SAP
8 5 (1.11%) Apple
8 5 (1.11%) VMware
9 4 (0.89%) Oracle
9 4 (0.89%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.67%) Cadence
10 3 (0.67%) Criteo
10 3 (0.67%) Dell
10 3 (0.67%) Facebook