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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 98 117
Rank change year-on-year -10 +19 +53
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 24 21 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.09% 1.20% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.37% 3.51% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 4
10th Percentile £345 £460 £633
25th Percentile £415 £489 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £606 £675
Median % change year-on-year -30.72% -10.19% -
75th Percentile £638 £728 £725
90th Percentile £981 £738 -
Central London median daily rate £420 £538 £650
% change year-on-year -21.86% -17.31% -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 713 598 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 32.31% 34.27% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 384 473
10th Percentile £365 £363 £265
25th Percentile £463 £472 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
75th Percentile £688 £695 £700
90th Percentile £800 £775 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 9
10th Percentile £18.92 £37.90 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.82 £48.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.07 £65.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.05% +244.74% -58.70%
75th Percentile £41.94 £82.75 £27.50
90th Percentile £63.13 £93.10 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £30.04 £19.00
% change year-on-year -6.78% +58.08% -45.71%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (4.17%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) AWS
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
1 2 (8.33%) GCP
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.17%) Alation
2 1 (4.17%) ChatGPT
2 1 (4.17%) Collibra
2 1 (4.17%) GitHub
2 1 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Big Data
1 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Looker
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau
2 1 (4.17%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 24 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Marketing
5 1 (4.17%) Back Office
5 1 (4.17%) Billing
5 1 (4.17%) Front Office
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Law
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Analyst
2 7 (29.17%) Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Backend Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Product Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Business Data Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Business IT Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Data Governance Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Insight Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) IT Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Procurement Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.17%) Project Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Process Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Dask
1 2 (8.33%) Google JAX
1 2 (8.33%) JAX
1 2 (8.33%) LightGBM
1 2 (8.33%) PyTorch
1 2 (8.33%) scikit-learn
1 2 (8.33%) TensorFlow
1 2 (8.33%) XGBoost
2 1 (4.17%) LDAP
2 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.33%) Derivative
3 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.17%) Market Risk
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
1 2 (8.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) AI
2 7 (29.17%) Agile
2 7 (29.17%) Clean Code
2 7 (29.17%) LLM
2 7 (29.17%) Prompt Engineering
2 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 5 (20.83%) Analytics
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) Change Management
5 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 3 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (12.50%) Business Strategy
6 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 3 (12.50%) Generative AI
6 3 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) C#
1 7 (29.17%) TypeScript
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) Solvency II
3 1 (4.17%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Apple
2 1 (4.17%) IBM
2 1 (4.17%) Informatica
2 1 (4.17%) Marketo
2 1 (4.17%) Murex
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) SAP