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 23 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 105 125
Rank change year-on-year +2 +20 +44
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 17 12 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.91% 0.64% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.47% 2.04% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 3
10th Percentile £320 £500 £216
25th Percentile £395 £538 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £700
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £638 £738 £745
90th Percentile £1,150 - £758
Central London median daily rate £600 £725 £700
% change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.50 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
75th Percentile £29.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 - -

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 688 588 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.71% 31.19% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 368 498
10th Percentile £353 £380 £312
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £599 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% -0.21% -
75th Percentile £688 £711 £713
90th Percentile £788 £827 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 11
10th Percentile £18.76 - -
25th Percentile £20.30 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.57%
75th Percentile £35.63 - £41.63
90th Percentile £41.83 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £25.79 £24.00
% change year-on-year +1.24% +7.46% -31.43%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Mindset relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Analytical Mindset job vacancy trend 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 23 January 2026.

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 & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) Anypoint
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (5.88%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
1 4 (23.53%) GCP
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) ChatGPT
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Big Data
1 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Looker
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (5.88%) Star Schema
3 1 (5.88%) Tableau
3 1 (5.88%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Eclipse
General
1 17 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Finance
3 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Back Office
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Front Office
5 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Business Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Insurance Systems Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Business Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Business Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Procurement Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Procurement Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Project Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
4 1 (5.88%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Dask
1 3 (17.65%) Google JAX
1 3 (17.65%) JAX
1 3 (17.65%) LightGBM
1 3 (17.65%) PyTorch
1 3 (17.65%) scikit-learn
1 3 (17.65%) TensorFlow
1 3 (17.65%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
1 3 (17.65%) Derivative
2 2 (11.76%) AS400
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.88%) iSeries
3 1 (5.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) Analytics
2 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (29.41%) Decision-Making
4 4 (23.53%) Data Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
4 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (17.65%) AI
5 3 (17.65%) Anomaly Detection
5 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Deep Learning
5 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
5 3 (17.65%) Pattern Recognition
5 3 (17.65%) Project Management
5 3 (17.65%) Reinforcement Learning
5 3 (17.65%) Risk Analytics
5 3 (17.65%) Scrum
5 3 (17.65%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Korn
3 2 (11.76%) RPG
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) CSPO
2 1 (5.88%) Postgraduate
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
1 1 (5.88%) Murex
1 1 (5.88%) SAP