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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 103 116
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +35
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 21 23 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.90% 1.25% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.58% 3.38% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 3
10th Percentile £305 £316 £635
25th Percentile £400 £421 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -26.96% -17.86% +27.27%
75th Percentile £575 £639 £775
90th Percentile £703 £691 £805
Central London median daily rate £420 £519 £650
% change year-on-year -19.04% -20.19% +18.18%
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 813 681 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.80% 37.15% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 458 416
10th Percentile £368 £355 £355
25th Percentile £463 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £591
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +1.48% -1.46%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £720
90th Percentile £775 £813 £838
Central London median daily rate £563 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 5
10th Percentile £19.36 £16.96 £18.40
25th Percentile £21.75 £19.79 £22.00
Median hourly rate £28.07 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +1.85% -27.84%
75th Percentile £41.69 £65.57 -
90th Percentile £62.80 £91.00 £66.30
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £26.98 £25.79
% change year-on-year +29.75% +4.59% -26.31%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 (9.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Snowflake
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) IP Telephony
1 1 (4.76%) PSTN
1 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.76%) VLAN
1 1 (4.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Power BI
1 2 (9.52%) Tableau
2 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.76%) Data Mining
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) Power Query
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
General
1 21 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
4 2 (9.52%) Marketing
4 2 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.76%) Billing
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Law
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Analyst
2 6 (28.57%) Backend Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Business Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Data Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Business Data Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Product Owner
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Process Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Product Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Process Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Telephony Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) LDAP
1 1 (4.76%) PySpark
1 1 (4.76%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.52%) Life Science
3 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Apple iOS
1 2 (9.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) AI
2 8 (38.10%) LLM
3 6 (28.57%) Clean Code
3 6 (28.57%) Prompt Engineering
3 6 (28.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 5 (23.81%) Agile
4 5 (23.81%) Analytics
4 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (19.05%) Data Analytics
5 4 (19.05%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
5 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (19.05%) User Stories
6 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 3 (14.29%) Data Science
6 3 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 3 (14.29%) Product Backlog
6 3 (14.29%) Product Vision
6 3 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) C#
1 6 (28.57%) TypeScript
2 5 (23.81%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) R
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) CSPO
2 1 (4.76%) CCNA
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 2 (9.52%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.52%) GxP
1 2 (9.52%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Apple
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Marketo
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) SAP