Analytical Mindset Contracts in the Thames Valley

Analytical Mindset
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 127 140
Rank change year-on-year +31 +13 +27
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 8 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.52% 0.26% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 0.90% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £250 £520 £265
25th Percentile £269 £531 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £425 £750 £587
90th Percentile £542 £870 £649
South East median daily rate £363 £538 £700
% change year-on-year -32.56% -23.21% +11.11%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 520 779 939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.03% 29.19% 32.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 454 620
10th Percentile £300 £205 £313
25th Percentile £400 £350 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £586 £608 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £707
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 61 26
10th Percentile £13.25 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.75 £19.13
Median hourly rate £46.50 £27.50 £50.63
Median % change year-on-year +69.09% -45.68% +153.13%
75th Percentile £71.13 £59.57 £72.69
90th Percentile £88.87 £65.00 £76.72
South East median hourly rate £33.89 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -38.39% +4.76% +162.50%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Mindset in the Thames Valley

Analytical Mindset
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Mindset in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Mindset in the Thames Valley

Analytical Mindset
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Mindset in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Mindset in the Thames Valley

Analytical Mindset
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
Berkshire +29 5 £411 -43.28% 21
Oxfordshire - 2 £250 - 9
Buckinghamshire +11 1 - - 10
Analytical Mindset
South East

Analytical Mindset
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (12.50%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 8 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Police
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Operations Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) ICT Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) PMO Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Security Advisor
4 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) PMI
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (37.50%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) SOAR
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Budget Management
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Detection
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISA
1 1 (12.50%) CISM
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) PgMP
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) PMO
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
1 2 (25.00%) SCOM
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (12.50%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) Darktrace