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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 105 121
Rank change year-on-year -9 +16 +38
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 22 18 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.92% 1.05% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.92% 3.06% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 4
10th Percentile £295 £430 £633
25th Percentile £383 £475 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £556 £675
Median % change year-on-year -24.49% -17.59% +17.39%
75th Percentile £581 £620 £725
90th Percentile £655 £661 -
Central London median daily rate £420 £500 £650
% change year-on-year -16.00% -23.08% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
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 754 588 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.44% 34.43% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 374 441
10th Percentile £368 £363 £285
25th Percentile £463 £475 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £693 £711 £700
90th Percentile £790 £813 £838
Central London median daily rate £563 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -2.17% +1.77% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 6
10th Percentile £19.25 £18.70 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.08 £22.00 £13.56
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +55.00% -61.17%
75th Percentile £51.36 £88.75 £26.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £95.50 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £23.00
% change year-on-year +35.09% +20.70% -38.53%

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 12 June 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
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. 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
London Bridge - 1 £550 -
Analytical Mindset
Central London

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 2 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (4.55%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Snowflake
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) Alation
3 1 (4.55%) Collibra
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) IP Telephony
1 1 (4.55%) PSTN
1 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.55%) VLAN
1 1 (4.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Tableau
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 22 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Back Office
5 1 (4.55%) Billing
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Front Office
5 1 (4.55%) Law
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Analyst
2 7 (31.82%) Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Backend Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Business Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Data Analyst
5 3 (13.64%) Business Data Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) Product Manager
6 2 (9.09%) Product Owner
7 1 (4.55%) Data Governance Specialist
7 1 (4.55%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Marketo Specialist
7 1 (4.55%) Process Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Senior
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Process Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Telephony Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) LDAP
1 1 (4.55%) PySpark
1 1 (4.55%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.55%) Life Science
2 1 (4.55%) Market Risk
2 1 (4.55%) NHS
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
1 2 (9.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) AI
2 9 (40.91%) LLM
3 7 (31.82%) Agile
3 7 (31.82%) Clean Code
3 7 (31.82%) Prompt Engineering
3 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (27.27%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 5 (22.73%) Analytics
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) Roadmaps
6 4 (18.18%) Data Analytics
6 4 (18.18%) Product Roadmap
6 4 (18.18%) User Stories
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Generative AI
7 3 (13.64%) Product Backlog
7 3 (13.64%) Product Vision
7 3 (13.64%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (13.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) C#
1 7 (31.82%) TypeScript
2 3 (13.64%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) CCNA
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.55%) CSPO
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.55%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (4.55%) GDPR
3 1 (4.55%) GxP
3 1 (4.55%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) Solvency II
3 1 (4.55%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) Apple
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco
3 1 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) Informatica
3 1 (4.55%) Marketo
3 1 (4.55%) Murex
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) SAP