Analytical Mindset Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 118 160
Rank change year-on-year +21 +42 +28
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 18 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.00% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.84% 1.04% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 7
10th Percentile £430 £635 £465
25th Percentile £517 £650 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.07% +27.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £619
90th Percentile £678 £785 £658
Central London median daily rate £538 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -17.31% +18.18% +3.77%
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 633 670 1,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.23% 31.38% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 441 785
10th Percentile £351 £285 £350
25th Percentile £475 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £711 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £838 £863
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £617
% change year-on-year +4.35% -6.81% +7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £12.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £20.77 £14.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -55.98% +12.37%
75th Percentile £71.37 £27.00 £87.16
90th Percentile £92.13 £36.30 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.40 £39.83
% change year-on-year +24.23% -41.25% -14.34%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Mindset in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Mindset in the City of London

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Mindset in the City of London

Analytical Mindset
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Mindset in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Mindset in the City of London

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 (27.78%) Apache
1 5 (27.78%) Apache Spark
2 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.56%) Maximo
1 1 (5.56%) SAP CRM
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Big Data
1 5 (27.78%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Git
1 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 18 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (83.33%) Finance
3 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (22.22%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Billing
5 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
1 6 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Apache Spark Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Lead
4 3 (16.67%) Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Business Change Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Business Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Change Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Cost Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) CRM Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Performance Manager
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) SAP CRM Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Business Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (5.56%) NumPy
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
2 1 (5.56%) scikit-learn
2 1 (5.56%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (5.56%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Distributed Computing
1 5 (27.78%) Market Risk
2 1 (5.56%) Blockchain
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) DataPower
2 1 (5.56%) Equities
2 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Online Banking
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 7 (38.89%) Risk Management
3 6 (33.33%) Analytics
3 6 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 6 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 5 (27.78%) Batch Processing
4 5 (27.78%) Code Quality
4 5 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (27.78%) Greeks
4 5 (27.78%) Memory Management
4 5 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (27.78%) Risk Analytics
4 5 (27.78%) Stress Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) CRM
6 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 2 (11.11%) Resource Management
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) ABAP
4 1 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) DAML
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) EMIR
1 1 (5.56%) EU AI Act
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) MiFID
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) SAP