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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 107 118
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 +55
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 20 12 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.97% 0.67% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.88% 1.94% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 3
10th Percentile £327 £500 £630
25th Percentile £395 £538 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -31.38% +11.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £784 £738 £700
90th Percentile £1,150 - £715
Central London median daily rate £575 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.54% - -3.70%
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 694 618 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.67% 34.33% 30.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 404 495
10th Percentile £353 £375 £268
25th Percentile £450 £468 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -0.43% -6.00%
75th Percentile £676 £697 £705
90th Percentile £800 £800 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 8
10th Percentile £19.39 - £12.75
25th Percentile £23.66 - £15.94
Median hourly rate £40.50 £31.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.65% +40.91% -45.68%
75th Percentile £50.83 - £47.63
90th Percentile £66.53 - £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £30.04 £21.00
% change year-on-year -6.78% +43.02% -40.00%

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 16 March 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 (15.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (5.00%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) AWS
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) GCP
2 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.00%) Alation
3 1 (5.00%) ChatGPT
3 1 (5.00%) Collibra
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Big Data
1 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) Looker
3 1 (5.00%) Tableau
3 1 (5.00%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 20 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Back Office
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Billing
5 1 (5.00%) Front Office
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Backend Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Business IT Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Business Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Business Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Procurement Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Procurement Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Procurement Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Project Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Business Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Procurement Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Dask
1 3 (15.00%) Google JAX
1 3 (15.00%) JAX
1 3 (15.00%) LightGBM
1 3 (15.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (15.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (15.00%) TensorFlow
1 3 (15.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (15.00%) Derivative
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.00%) Market Risk
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) AI
2 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Analytics
3 5 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (20.00%) LLM
4 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (15.00%) Anomaly Detection
5 3 (15.00%) Deep Learning
5 3 (15.00%) Generative AI
5 3 (15.00%) Reinforcement Learning
5 3 (15.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 3 (15.00%) Risk Analytics
5 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) C#
2 4 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) Solvency II
3 1 (5.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Apple
2 1 (5.00%) IBM
2 1 (5.00%) Informatica
2 1 (5.00%) Marketo
2 1 (5.00%) Murex
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) SAP