Analytical Mindset Contracts in Berkshire

Analytical Mindset
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Mindset in contract job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Mindset over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 106 115
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 +16
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 5 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.42% 0.24% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.12% 0.83% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £348 £580 £211
25th Percentile £381 £625 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £725 £475
Median % change year-on-year -37.93% +52.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £850 £588
90th Percentile £605 £910 £655
South East median daily rate £390 £394 £700
% change year-on-year -0.95% -43.75% +11.11%

All Generic Skills
Berkshire

Analytical Mindset falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 446 480 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 37.17% 28.24% 33.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 255 387
10th Percentile £313 £224 £300
25th Percentile £400 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £555 £515
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +7.77% +3.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £634
90th Percentile £650 £688 £715
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.19% +2.24% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 27 21
10th Percentile £32.05 £11.89 £18.50
25th Percentile £51.00 £19.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £41.50 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +50.60% -35.83% +5.16%
75th Percentile £87.50 £60.28 £73.59
90th Percentile £88.87 £69.88 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -42.37% +14.70% +118.91%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Mindset in Berkshire

Analytical Mindset
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Mindset in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Mindset in Berkshire

Analytical Mindset
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Mindset in Berkshire over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Mindset in Berkshire

Analytical Mindset
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Mindset within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 17 August 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +24 2 £400 - 2
Slough - 1 £650 - 1
Wokingham - 1 £500 -
Analytical Mindset
South East

Analytical Mindset
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) PMO Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Security Advisor
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) PMI
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) SOAR
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (20.00%) Optimization Problems
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) CISA
2 1 (20.00%) CISM
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) PgMP
2 1 (20.00%) PhD
2 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (20.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow