Analytical Mindset Contracts in the UK excluding London

Analytical Mindset
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Mindset in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Mindset over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 296 349
Rank change year-on-year +16 +53 +109
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 63 90 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.44% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.48% 1.51% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 36 55
10th Percentile £225 £193 £105
25th Percentile £309 £375 £116
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £563 £556 £706
90th Percentile £625 £606 £838
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 43 1
10th Percentile £72.64 £11.75 -
25th Percentile £80.34 £12.63 -
Median hourly rate £80.68 £14.50 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year +456.38% -34.57% -
75th Percentile £81.35 £18.75 -
90th Percentile - £19.35 -
UK median hourly rate £80.68 £16.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +388.94% -73.60% +17.92%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,252 5,968 7,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.24% 29.14% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,571 3,583 5,124
10th Percentile £205 £208 £220
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £613
90th Percentile £661 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 726 428
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.92 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.39 £29.25 £21.88
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +33.71% +4.17%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £83.31 £70.00 £74.30
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £31.25 £22.49
% change year-on-year +2.56% +38.98% -18.24%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Analytical Mindset as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Mindset in the UK excluding London

Analytical Mindset
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Mindset in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Mindset in the UK excluding London

Analytical Mindset
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Mindset in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Mindset in the UK excluding London

Analytical Mindset
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Mindset in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Mindset in the UK excluding London

Analytical Mindset
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
East of England +37 19 £575 +43.75% 29
South East +48 11 £325 -39.53% 167
North of England +13 11 £358 -24.63% 106
North West +22 9 £358 -37.74% 81
Scotland +3 8 £450 +38.46% 16
South West +37 6 £488 -7.14% 47
Midlands 0 5 £486 -7.43% 55
West Midlands +4 3 £525 - 32
Yorkshire +6 2 £418 +131.94% 22
East Midlands +4 2 £447 - 17
Northern Ireland - 2 £556 - 5
Wales +1 1 £390 - 7
Analytical Mindset
UK

Analytical Mindset
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.17%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.59%) IBM Domino
3 1 (1.59%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (15.87%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.76%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.59%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.70%) AWS
1 8 (12.70%) Azure
2 5 (7.94%) GCP
2 5 (7.94%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.17%) GitHub
4 2 (3.17%) IBM Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) npm
4 2 (3.17%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.59%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.59%) Figma
5 1 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (26.98%) DNS
2 10 (15.87%) FTP
2 10 (15.87%) HTTP
2 10 (15.87%) Network Security
2 10 (15.87%) SMTP
2 10 (15.87%) SSL
3 7 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 7 (11.11%) VPN
4 2 (3.17%) Calico
5 1 (1.59%) Firewall
5 1 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.59%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) Power BI
2 2 (3.17%) Power Query
3 1 (1.59%) MySQL
3 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) JIRA
2 4 (6.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.76%) GitLab
4 2 (3.17%) Git
4 2 (3.17%) Maven
5 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.59%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.59%) PyCharm
5 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 47 (74.60%) Social Skills
3 13 (20.63%) Finance
4 6 (9.52%) Legal
5 5 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.35%) Banking
6 4 (6.35%) Law
6 4 (6.35%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.17%) Marketing
7 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Aviation
8 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.59%) Police
8 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (41.27%) Analyst
2 9 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 8 (12.70%) SOC Analyst
4 7 (11.11%) Service Analyst
4 7 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
5 4 (6.35%) Lead
5 4 (6.35%) Operations Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Business Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Data Manager
7 2 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (3.17%) Integration Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Product Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Security Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Senior
7 2 (3.17%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Telecoms Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.87%) LDAP
2 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.59%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.59%) CSS
3 1 (1.59%) HTML
3 1 (1.59%) JSON
3 1 (1.59%) Node.js
3 1 (1.59%) React
3 1 (1.59%) XML
3 1 (1.59%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Management Information System
2 9 (14.29%) Cyberattack
3 8 (12.70%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (11.11%) Driving Licence
5 6 (9.52%) CSOC
5 6 (9.52%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (3.17%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.17%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.59%) CMDB
7 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.59%) Derivative
7 1 (1.59%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.59%) PMI
7 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) SCADA
7 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.59%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) Windows
2 4 (6.35%) Linux
3 2 (3.17%) Android
3 2 (3.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 12 (19.05%) Agile
3 12 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (19.05%) Project Management
3 12 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (17.46%) Analytics
4 11 (17.46%) Threat Detection
5 10 (15.87%) ITIL
5 10 (15.87%) Network Packet Capture
6 9 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (14.29%) Information Security
6 9 (14.29%) ITSM
6 9 (14.29%) SIEM
7 8 (12.70%) DevOps
7 8 (12.70%) Information Management
7 8 (12.70%) Machine Learning
8 7 (11.11%) Behavioural Analytics
8 7 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.87%) Python
2 7 (11.11%) SQL
3 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.17%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.59%) Bash
4 1 (1.59%) C#
4 1 (1.59%) Java
4 1 (1.59%) Perl
4 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.70%) DV Cleared
4 6 (9.52%) Degree
5 2 (3.17%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.17%) PMP
6 1 (1.59%) CBAP
6 1 (1.59%) CISA
6 1 (1.59%) CISM
6 1 (1.59%) CISSP
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) IIBA
6 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.59%) MBA
6 1 (1.59%) PgMP
6 1 (1.59%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) SLA
2 5 (7.94%) QA
3 4 (6.35%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (3.17%) GDPR
5 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.17%) NIST
6 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.59%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Terraform
2 3 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.17%) Istio
3 2 (3.17%) SCCM
3 2 (3.17%) SCOM
4 1 (1.59%) Ansible
4 1 (1.59%) Grafana
4 1 (1.59%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (30.16%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.46%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.17%) IBM
3 2 (3.17%) SAP
3 2 (3.17%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.59%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.59%) Darktrace
4 1 (1.59%) DataCore
4 1 (1.59%) JD Edwards
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle
4 1 (1.59%) Splunk
4 1 (1.59%) Twitter