Analytical Mindset Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Analytical Mindset
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Mindset in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Mindset over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 121 144
Rank change year-on-year +25 +23 +48
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 26 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.48% 0.29% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.93% 0.96% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 7
10th Percentile £320 £685 £318
25th Percentile £403 £700 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +36.36% -19.41%
75th Percentile £625 £800 £603
90th Percentile £681 £815 £670
Central London median daily rate £550 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -19.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.50 - -
Median hourly rate £17.00 - -
75th Percentile £17.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £17.00 - -

All Generic Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 662 622 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.64% 30.06% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 382 654
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £453 £482 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £695 £723 £738
90th Percentile £808 £838 £838
Central London median daily rate £585 £589 £600
% change year-on-year -0.59% -1.92% +3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 9
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £16.92
25th Percentile £19.79 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -22.86% -28.57%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £42.32
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £56.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £31.25
% change year-on-year +2.56% -17.47% -36.22%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Analytical Mindset as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Mindset in the City of London

Analytical Mindset
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Analytical Mindset.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Analytical Mindset

Analytical Mindset
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Mindset in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Mindset in the City of London

Analytical Mindset
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Analytical Mindset.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Analytical Mindset

Analytical Mindset
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 5 (19.23%) Apache
1 5 (19.23%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.69%) Confluence
2 2 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.85%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.85%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) AWS
1 3 (11.54%) Azure
1 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) Collibra
3 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.85%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
3 1 (3.85%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Big Data
1 5 (19.23%) Hadoop
2 2 (7.69%) Power BI
2 2 (7.69%) Tableau
3 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (3.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Git
1 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.85%) GitLab
General
1 26 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (69.23%) Finance
3 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.85%) Billing
6 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Legal
6 1 (3.85%) Marketing
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Analyst
2 7 (26.92%) Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Java Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Apache Spark Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Business Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) Business Systems Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Insurance Systems Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) IT Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Tester
7 1 (3.85%) Business Change Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Change Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Business Change Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Scientist
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Workforce Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (3.85%) NumPy
2 1 (3.85%) RESTful
2 1 (3.85%) scikit-learn
2 1 (3.85%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (3.85%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Distributed Computing
1 5 (19.23%) Market Risk
2 2 (7.69%) AS400
3 1 (3.85%) Blockchain
3 1 (3.85%) CMDB
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) DataPower
3 1 (3.85%) Equities
3 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.85%) iSeries
3 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Online Banking
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (38.46%) Analytics
3 7 (26.92%) Agile
3 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
3 7 (26.92%) Regulatory Compliance
3 7 (26.92%) Risk Management
4 6 (23.08%) Mathematics
5 5 (19.23%) Batch Processing
5 5 (19.23%) Code Quality
5 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (19.23%) Greeks
5 5 (19.23%) Memory Management
5 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (19.23%) Risk Analytics
5 5 (19.23%) Stress Testing
6 4 (15.38%) Data Analytics
6 4 (15.38%) Scrum
6 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (11.54%) CRM
7 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Python
2 7 (26.92%) SQL
3 6 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (7.69%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) Korn
4 2 (7.69%) RPG
5 1 (3.85%) ABAP
5 1 (3.85%) DAML
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) CSPO
3 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) EMIR
2 1 (3.85%) EU AI Act
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) MiFID
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (3.85%) Alteryx
2 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow