Analytical Mindset Contract Job Trends in the South West

Analytical Mindset
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Mindset in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Mindset over the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 132 146
Rank change year-on-year +28 +14 +32
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 14 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.72% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.20% 0.99% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 6
10th Percentile £455 - £282
25th Percentile £499 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.75%
75th Percentile £772 - £591
90th Percentile £875 - £631
England median daily rate £463 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -2.63% -9.52% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
England median hourly rate £46.25 £13.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year +242.59% -62.76% -30.60%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 635 708 897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.53% 27.92% 27.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 388 652
10th Percentile £225 £213 £289
25th Percentile £363 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £670
90th Percentile £715 £700 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 97 49
10th Percentile £6.00 £21.43 £17.92
25th Percentile £15.51 £66.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £19.62 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.98% -10.26% +37.18%
75th Percentile £39.00 £72.50 £83.40
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £83.65
England median hourly rate £30.00 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -47.69% +25.00% +78.45%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Analytical Mindset as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Mindset in the South West

Analytical Mindset
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Analytical Mindset
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Mindset in the South West over the 6 months to 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Mindset in the South West

Analytical Mindset
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Analytical Mindset
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
Wiltshire - 4 £500 - 1
Bristol -3 2 £850 - 8
Somerset - 2 £650 - 1
Devon - 2 £525 - 5
Dorset - 2 - -
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 6
Analytical Mindset
England

Analytical Mindset
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
1 1 (7.14%) Neo4j
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) TigerGraph
General
1 14 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (85.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 3 (21.43%) Legal
5 2 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Integration Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Integration Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Business Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Business Transformation Manager
3 1 (7.14%) CRM Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Senior IT Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior IT Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
3 1 (7.14%) SCADA
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Business Transformation
1 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) CRM
2 3 (21.43%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 3 (21.43%) Due Diligence
2 3 (21.43%) Post-Merger Integration
3 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (14.29%) Change Management
3 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 2 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 2 (14.29%) Resource Management
3 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (14.29%) Storyboarding
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Cypher
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) NIST
2 2 (14.29%) GDPR
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.14%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Workday