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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 122 149
Rank change year-on-year +14 +27 +32
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 22 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.17% 0.34% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.23% 1.08% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 7
10th Percentile £315 £633 £486
25th Percentile £403 £644 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £588
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +14.89% +10.85%
75th Percentile £644 £750 £647
90th Percentile £694 £795 £719
Central London median daily rate £500 £650 £588
% change year-on-year -23.08% +10.64% +10.85%
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 682 650 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.14% 31.58% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 421 741
10th Percentile £349 £350 £313
25th Percentile £457 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £620
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -7.26% +6.44%
75th Percentile £700 £710 £750
90th Percentile £810 £838 £850
Central London median daily rate £585 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +1.74% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 8
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £23.36
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.00 £32.81
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -27.84% -25.91%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £56.94
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £73.25
Central London median hourly rate £28.29 £25.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.36% -27.43% -30.69%

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 2 August 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 (22.73%) Apache
1 5 (22.73%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.55%) Anypoint
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.55%) Maximo
2 1 (4.55%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) Collibra
3 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.55%) PowerApps
3 1 (4.55%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Big Data
1 5 (22.73%) Hadoop
2 2 (9.09%) Power BI
2 2 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 22 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (77.27%) Finance
3 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Billing
5 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Apache Spark Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Business Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) IT Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Data Scientist
6 1 (4.55%) Platform Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) Power Platform Specialist
6 1 (4.55%) Product Owner
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Business Change Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Scientist
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Support Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Tester
6 1 (4.55%) Workforce Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (4.55%) NumPy
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
2 1 (4.55%) Smart Contracts
2 1 (4.55%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Distributed Computing
1 5 (22.73%) Market Risk
2 1 (4.55%) Blockchain
2 1 (4.55%) CMDB
2 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) DataPower
2 1 (4.55%) Equities
2 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Online Banking
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (31.82%) Analytics
2 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
2 7 (31.82%) Regulatory Compliance
2 7 (31.82%) Risk Management
3 6 (27.27%) Mathematics
4 5 (22.73%) Batch Processing
4 5 (22.73%) Code Quality
4 5 (22.73%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (22.73%) Greeks
4 5 (22.73%) Memory Management
4 5 (22.73%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (22.73%) Risk Analytics
4 5 (22.73%) Stress Testing
5 4 (18.18%) Agile
6 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (13.64%) CRM
6 3 (13.64%) Scrum
6 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) ABAP
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) DAML
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) CSPO
2 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) EMIR
2 1 (4.55%) EU AI Act
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) MiFID
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) Alteryx
3 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow