Analytical Mindset Contract Job Trends

Analytical Mindset
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Mindset in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Mindset over the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 396 421
Rank change year-on-year +117 +25 +159
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 359 137 176
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 0.42% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.81% 1.31% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 81 106
10th Percentile £295 £225 £119
25th Percentile £371 £263 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +9.42%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £600
90th Percentile £680 £625 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £400
% change year-on-year - +12.50% +263.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 26
10th Percentile £18.25 - -
25th Percentile £24.50 £11.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £13.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +251.85% -25.00% -71.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £20.13 £24.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £21.75 £25.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £13.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +381.48% -22.86% -21.03%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,782 10,456 13,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.54% 32.06% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 6,213 8,947
10th Percentile £281 £264 £263
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% -4.36% -
75th Percentile £628 £655 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 620 324 525
10th Percentile £14.06 £18.06 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £23.30 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.21 £33.27 £41.23
Median % change year-on-year -18.21% -19.31% +38.73%
75th Percentile £61.31 £64.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £76.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.36 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -15.83% -26.97% +90.99%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Analytical Mindset job vacancy trend in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Analytical Mindset
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Mindset over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Analytical Mindset
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Mindset over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. 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
England +111 323 £475 -5.00% 198
UK excluding London +51 168 £450 - 137
London +65 158 £500 -4.76% 78
Work from Home +61 97 £425 +14.79% 103
South East +28 57 £378 -2.58% 40
Midlands -11 34 £420 - 20
North of England -36 34 £550 +120.00% 28
North West -15 23 £505 +102.00% 19
West Midlands -16 22 £466 - 15
East of England -8 19 £678 +15.32% 19
Scotland +10 13 £500 +11.11% 3
East Midlands -12 12 £375 - 5
South West -8 11 £525 +23.53% 23
Yorkshire -37 11 £563 +90.68% 8
Wales - 5 £588 - 5
North East - 1 £550 - 1

Analytical Mindset
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 21 (5.85%) Confluence
2 7 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.11%) Anypoint
3 4 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.56%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) Apache
5 1 (0.28%) Camunda
Applications
1 51 (14.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.06%) Siemens NX
4 10 (2.79%) MS Visio
5 8 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.84%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.84%) Revit
8 2 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.56%) Autodesk Smoke
8 2 (0.56%) ProjectWise
8 2 (0.56%) Sketch
8 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.28%) Notion
9 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.06%) Teamcenter
2 9 (2.51%) NetSuite
3 8 (2.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (1.11%) Shopify
5 4 (1.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.28%) Endur
6 1 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.28%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.28%) Maximo
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 50 (13.93%) Azure
2 39 (10.86%) AWS
3 38 (10.58%) Power Platform
4 15 (4.18%) GCP
5 12 (3.34%) GitHub
6 10 (2.79%) Contentsquare
6 10 (2.79%) SaaS
7 9 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.51%) Collibra
8 8 (2.23%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.39%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.11%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (1.11%) Google Analytics
10 4 (1.11%) Lucidchart
10 4 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.11%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.84%) Figma
11 3 (0.84%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.84%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.36%) DNS
2 22 (6.13%) Network Security
3 18 (5.01%) TCP/IP
4 17 (4.74%) HTTP
4 17 (4.74%) SSL
5 14 (3.90%) VLAN
6 13 (3.62%) FTP
6 13 (3.62%) SMTP
7 11 (3.06%) DHCP
8 9 (2.51%) Firewall
8 9 (2.51%) SAN
9 5 (1.39%) BGP
9 5 (1.39%) LAN
10 3 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.56%) Internet
11 2 (0.56%) MPLS
11 2 (0.56%) SMS
11 2 (0.56%) SNMP
11 2 (0.56%) TACACS
11 2 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.58%) Power BI
2 15 (4.18%) Tableau
3 8 (2.23%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 8 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.23%) Metadata
3 8 (2.23%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.67%) BigQuery
5 5 (1.39%) Big Data
5 5 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.39%) Power Query
6 4 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.84%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.84%) Data Mart
7 3 (0.84%) MSDE
7 3 (0.84%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.84%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.56%) Looker
8 2 (0.56%) Pinecone
8 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (8.91%) JIRA
2 4 (1.11%) Bitbucket
2 4 (1.11%) Git
3 3 (0.84%) IntelliJ
3 3 (0.84%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.84%) PyCharm
3 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (0.84%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 2 (0.56%) MSBuild
4 2 (0.56%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.28%) JMeter
5 1 (0.28%) Locust
5 1 (0.28%) MLflow
General
1 358 (99.72%) Analytical Skills
2 183 (50.97%) Social Skills
3 124 (34.54%) Finance
4 32 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 31 (8.64%) Banking
6 25 (6.96%) Legal
6 25 (6.96%) Manufacturing
7 24 (6.69%) Marketing
8 16 (4.46%) Investment Banking
9 12 (3.34%) Financial Institution
10 11 (3.06%) Aerospace
11 10 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.79%) Publishing
11 10 (2.79%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.51%) Retail
13 7 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.95%) Electronics
14 6 (1.67%) Military
15 5 (1.39%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 94 (26.18%) Analyst
2 36 (10.03%) Business Analyst
3 26 (7.24%) Lead
4 21 (5.85%) Architect
5 19 (5.29%) Senior
6 18 (5.01%) Consultant
6 18 (5.01%) Data Analyst
7 16 (4.46%) Developer
8 14 (3.90%) SOC Analyst
8 14 (3.90%) Support Engineer
9 13 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.34%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.06%) Infrastructure Support
11 11 (3.06%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 11 (3.06%) Product Manager
11 11 (3.06%) Project Leader
12 8 (2.23%) Field Engineer
12 8 (2.23%) Field Service Engineer
12 8 (2.23%) Product Owner
12 8 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.18%) LDAP
2 9 (2.51%) JSON
3 7 (1.95%) TensorFlow
4 6 (1.67%) PyTorch
4 6 (1.67%) REST
4 6 (1.67%) scikit-learn
5 5 (1.39%) HTML
6 4 (1.11%) .NET
6 4 (1.11%) EDI
6 4 (1.11%) Node.js
6 4 (1.11%) Pandas
7 3 (0.84%) Dask
7 3 (0.84%) Google JAX
7 3 (0.84%) JAX
7 3 (0.84%) LightGBM
7 3 (0.84%) Middleware
7 3 (0.84%) PySpark
7 3 (0.84%) React
7 3 (0.84%) XGBoost
8 2 (0.56%) Faiss
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.08%) Management Information System
2 19 (5.29%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.62%) CSOC
3 13 (3.62%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (3.62%) Cyberattack
3 13 (3.62%) Data Centre
3 13 (3.62%) Security Operations Centre
4 12 (3.34%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.95%) Derivative
7 6 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.67%) NHS
8 5 (1.39%) PMI
9 4 (1.11%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.11%) SCADA
9 4 (1.11%) Social Media
10 3 (0.84%) Contract for Difference
10 3 (0.84%) FMCG
10 3 (0.84%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 37 (10.31%) Windows
2 27 (7.52%) Linux
3 8 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.56%) VMS
6 1 (0.28%) Unix
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (37.88%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (27.30%) Agile
3 87 (24.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 68 (18.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 65 (18.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 62 (17.27%) Analytics
7 60 (16.71%) Decision-Making
8 52 (14.48%) Business Intelligence
9 45 (12.53%) Roadmaps
10 37 (10.31%) AI
10 37 (10.31%) Visualisation
11 35 (9.75%) Data Governance
12 32 (8.91%) Actionable Insight
12 32 (8.91%) Risk Management
13 31 (8.64%) ITIL
14 29 (8.08%) Change Management
14 29 (8.08%) User Experience
15 27 (7.52%) Machine Learning
15 27 (7.52%) Scrum
16 26 (7.24%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 79 (22.01%) SQL
2 57 (15.88%) Python
3 33 (9.19%) PowerShell
4 14 (3.90%) C#
4 14 (3.90%) Java
5 9 (2.51%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.67%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.39%) Bash
7 5 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.11%) R
9 3 (0.84%) Korn
10 2 (0.56%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.56%) C++
10 2 (0.56%) Go
10 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.56%) RPG
10 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.56%) VBA
11 1 (0.28%) Cypher
11 1 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 66 (18.38%) Security Cleared
2 57 (15.88%) Degree
3 52 (14.48%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.57%) DV Cleared
4 20 (5.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (5.01%) Network+ Certification
6 16 (4.46%) PMI Certification
7 14 (3.90%) Master's Degree
8 12 (3.34%) PMP
9 11 (3.06%) Azure Certification
9 11 (3.06%) Server+ Certification
10 10 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (2.23%) CSPO
13 7 (1.95%) A+ Certification
13 7 (1.95%) CCNA
13 7 (1.95%) MCSE
14 6 (1.67%) CBAP
15 5 (1.39%) CISSP
16 3 (0.84%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.03%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.80%) QA
3 24 (6.69%) GDPR
4 12 (3.34%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.67%) SLA
7 5 (1.39%) NIST
7 5 (1.39%) PMO
8 4 (1.11%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.11%) MiFID
9 3 (0.84%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.84%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.56%) EMIR
10 2 (0.56%) GRC
10 2 (0.56%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.56%) WCAG
11 1 (0.28%) COSHH
11 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 13 (3.62%) Hyper-V
1 13 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.79%) Docker
4 4 (1.11%) NDS
4 4 (1.11%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 3 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.56%) KVM
6 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.06%) Ansible
3 9 (2.51%) Terraform
4 6 (1.67%) SCCM
5 4 (1.11%) SCOM
5 4 (1.11%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.56%) vRealize
7 1 (0.28%) Kibana
7 1 (0.28%) Suricata
Vendors
1 61 (16.99%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.08%) SAP
3 17 (4.74%) VMware
4 15 (4.18%) Google
4 15 (4.18%) ServiceNow
5 13 (3.62%) Adobe
6 12 (3.34%) Oracle
7 10 (2.79%) Siemens
8 9 (2.51%) Databricks
9 8 (2.23%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.95%) Dell
11 6 (1.67%) Alteryx
12 5 (1.39%) Splunk
13 4 (1.11%) CyberArk
13 4 (1.11%) Informatica
13 4 (1.11%) MuleSoft
13 4 (1.11%) Murex
13 4 (1.11%) NetIQ
13 4 (1.11%) Sparx
14 3 (0.84%) Autodesk
214 Analytical Mindset jobs Nationwide