Analytical Mindset Contract Job Trends in the South East

Analytical Mindset
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Mindset in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Mindset over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 157 176
Rank change year-on-year +25 +19 +58
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 57 13 28
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.30% 0.35% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.33% 1.10% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 6 16
10th Percentile £219 £219 £102
25th Percentile £238 £242 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £388 £375
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% +3.33% -16.90%
75th Percentile £500 £494 £463
90th Percentile £625 £500 £594
England median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% -0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.90
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £34.75
90th Percentile - - £43.90
England median hourly rate £50.75 £16.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year +212.31% -12.16% -69.92%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,317 1,185 1,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.12% 31.83% 31.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 694 976
10th Percentile £204 £245 £205
25th Percentile £363 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £610
90th Percentile £675 £700 £697
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 47 93
10th Percentile £12.50 £19.13 £19.06
25th Percentile £15.94 £24.97 £24.34
Median hourly rate £23.50 £35.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.86% -33.33% +56.72%
75th Percentile £68.18 £58.13 £63.29
90th Percentile £82.50 £71.51 £77.31
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.25%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Mindset relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Analytical Mindset job vacancy trend in the South East

Analytical Mindset
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Analytical Mindset.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Analytical Mindset

Analytical Mindset
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Mindset in the South East over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Mindset in the South East

Analytical Mindset
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Analytical Mindset.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Analytical Mindset

Analytical Mindset
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. 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
Thames Valley +6 27 £318 -36.50% 6
Berkshire +6 19 £250 -50.00% 2
Hampshire -2 16 £483 +48.46% 6
Buckinghamshire - 8 £391 - 3
Surrey - 4 £375 - 6
West Sussex - 4 £165 - 1
Kent +2 1 - - 1
Home Counties - 1 £550 -
Analytical Mindset
England

Analytical Mindset
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.51%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.75%) Primavera
3 1 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.81%) Azure
2 12 (21.05%) AWS
3 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.51%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (3.51%) Collibra
4 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.75%) GCP
5 1 (1.75%) GitHub
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (26.32%) DNS
2 14 (24.56%) TCP/IP
3 11 (19.30%) DHCP
3 11 (19.30%) VLAN
4 3 (5.26%) Network Security
5 2 (3.51%) BGP
5 2 (3.51%) MPLS
5 2 (3.51%) SNMP
5 2 (3.51%) TACACS
5 2 (3.51%) WAN
6 1 (1.75%) LAN
6 1 (1.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 3 (5.26%) Power BI
3 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.75%) Metadata
4 1 (1.75%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Git
1 1 (1.75%) JIRA
General
1 56 (98.25%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (45.61%) Social Skills
3 15 (26.32%) Finance
4 5 (8.77%) Legal
5 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Local Government
7 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (19.30%) Infrastructure Support
2 11 (19.30%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 11 (19.30%) Support Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Analyst
3 5 (8.77%) Finance Manager
4 4 (7.02%) Contracts Manager
4 4 (7.02%) IT Manager
5 3 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Developer
5 3 (5.26%) Product Manager
6 2 (3.51%) Administrator
6 2 (3.51%) Data Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Field Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Field Service Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Governance Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Informatica Developer
6 2 (3.51%) Project Manager
6 2 (3.51%) Security Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.51%) NETCONF
1 2 (3.51%) OpenConfig
1 2 (3.51%) RESTCONF
1 2 (3.51%) YANG
2 1 (1.75%) .NET
2 1 (1.75%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.75%) Blazor
2 1 (1.75%) CSS
2 1 (1.75%) HTML
2 1 (1.75%) RESTful
2 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.02%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.51%) PMI
5 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.75%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.75%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.75%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.07%) Windows
2 14 (24.56%) Linux
3 3 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (54.39%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (35.09%) ITIL
3 12 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (21.05%) Service Management
4 11 (19.30%) Budgeting
4 11 (19.30%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 11 (19.30%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (19.30%) Preventative Maintenance
4 11 (19.30%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 10 (17.54%) Agile
6 8 (14.04%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (12.28%) Cost Control
8 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (10.53%) Decision-Making
8 6 (10.53%) Roadmaps
9 5 (8.77%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (8.77%) Collaborative Culture
9 5 (8.77%) Data Management
9 5 (8.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.79%) Python
2 7 (12.28%) PowerShell
2 7 (12.28%) SQL
3 3 (5.26%) C#
4 2 (3.51%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.75%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 20 (35.09%) Security Cleared
2 15 (26.32%) Degree
3 14 (24.56%) SC Cleared
4 12 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (21.05%) Network+ Certification
5 11 (19.30%) Azure Certification
5 11 (19.30%) Server+ Certification
6 6 (10.53%) Master's Degree
6 6 (10.53%) PMI Certification
7 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (7.02%) DV Cleared
7 4 (7.02%) PMP
8 3 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (3.51%) CCIE
9 2 (3.51%) JNCIE
10 1 (1.75%) A+ Certification
10 1 (1.75%) CCNA
10 1 (1.75%) CEH
10 1 (1.75%) CISSP
10 1 (1.75%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) SLA
3 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.51%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (3.51%) GDPR
4 2 (3.51%) PMO
5 1 (1.75%) COSHH
5 1 (1.75%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.75%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (19.30%) Hyper-V
1 11 (19.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) SCCM
1 3 (5.26%) SCOM
1 3 (5.26%) vCenter Server
2 2 (3.51%) Ansible
3 1 (1.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 28 (49.12%) Microsoft
2 14 (24.56%) VMware
3 8 (14.04%) SAP
4 3 (5.26%) BMC
5 2 (3.51%) Cisco
5 2 (3.51%) F5
5 2 (3.51%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.51%) Informatica
5 2 (3.51%) Juniper
5 2 (3.51%) Splunk
6 1 (1.75%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.75%) Dell
6 1 (1.75%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.75%) FireEye
6 1 (1.75%) Remedy
6 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.75%) Sparx
6 1 (1.75%) Tanium