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 31 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 307 469
Rank change year-on-year -51 +162 +26
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 354 276 104
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.84% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% 2.37% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 171 59
10th Percentile £185 £250 £259
25th Percentile £384 £371 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £672 £669 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £447 £419
% change year-on-year +2.68% +6.75% -16.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 23
10th Percentile £25.25 £25.05 -
25th Percentile £35.55 £40.31 £11.75
Median hourly rate £47.00 £56.25 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.44% +301.79% -37.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £81.10 £20.63
90th Percentile £67.84 £81.35 £23.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year -2.87% +381.48% -31.65%

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 18,083 11,655 11,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.65% 35.37% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,907 7,178 7,343
10th Percentile £324 £300 £300
25th Percentile £423 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -5.68% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,081 574 545
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.13 £13.24
25th Percentile £19.03 £18.87 £19.38
Median hourly rate £38.72 £29.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -34.44% +7.54%
75th Percentile £67.89 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +46.53% -42.86% +16.67%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -40 326 £503 +11.78% 257
UK excluding London -51 171 £459 +2.68% 147
London -23 164 £550 +3.53% 158
Work from Home -28 77 £575 +39.06% 91
South East -43 53 £550 +69.23% 40
North of England -68 40 £477 +5.89% 31
South West -28 28 £350 -33.33% 38
Midlands -41 28 £550 +75.16% 22
North West -44 27 £495 +10.00% 23
West Midlands -32 25 £575 +116.98% 13
East of England -20 12 £475 -20.83% 9
Yorkshire -48 12 £190 -57.78% 8
Scotland -28 7 £127 -74.60% 6
Wales -9 6 - - 1
East Midlands -17 3 £375 +4.17% 9
North East - 1 - - 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 17 (4.80%) Confluence
2 4 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.13%) CMS
2 4 (1.13%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.13%) SAS
3 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.28%) Camunda
4 1 (0.28%) Mendix
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 29 (8.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (7.34%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (4.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (3.11%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.28%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 10 (2.82%) Finacle
2 6 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.41%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.41%) Fidessa
4 4 (1.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.85%) iTrent
6 2 (0.56%) Actimize
6 2 (0.56%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.28%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.28%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (12.99%) Azure
2 38 (10.73%) AWS
3 33 (9.32%) Power Platform
4 25 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (5.08%) SaaS
6 15 (4.24%) Entra ID
7 14 (3.95%) GitHub
8 13 (3.67%) Snowflake
9 12 (3.39%) GCP
10 10 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.13%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.13%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (0.85%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.85%) Apigee
12 3 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.85%) Collibra
12 3 (0.85%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 37 (10.45%) SAN
2 14 (3.95%) WAN
3 11 (3.11%) LAN
4 10 (2.82%) BGP
4 10 (2.82%) TCP/IP
5 9 (2.54%) MPLS
6 7 (1.98%) Firewall
6 7 (1.98%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.69%) Network Security
7 6 (1.69%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.69%) VLAN
7 6 (1.69%) VPN
8 5 (1.41%) DNS
8 5 (1.41%) SNMP
8 5 (1.41%) TACACS
9 4 (1.13%) Broadband
9 4 (1.13%) OSPF
10 3 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.85%) Internet
10 3 (0.85%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.32%) Power BI
2 15 (4.24%) Relational Database
3 13 (3.67%) Tableau
4 10 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.82%) Oracle Database
4 10 (2.82%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.41%) Metadata
6 4 (1.13%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (1.13%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.13%) Power Query
6 4 (1.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (1.13%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 4 (1.13%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.85%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.85%) MySQL
8 2 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.56%) KDB
8 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (10.73%) JIRA
2 4 (1.13%) Cypress.io
2 4 (1.13%) Git
2 4 (1.13%) GitLab
2 4 (1.13%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.85%) Selenium
4 2 (0.56%) Mocha
4 2 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.28%) Appium
5 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.28%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.28%) Capybara
5 1 (0.28%) Gatling
5 1 (0.28%) JMeter
5 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.28%) NUnit
5 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.28%) RSpec
5 1 (0.28%) TestRail
General
1 354 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 184 (51.98%) Social Skills
3 105 (29.66%) Finance
4 41 (11.58%) Banking
5 40 (11.30%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.78%) Front Office
7 23 (6.50%) Telecoms
8 20 (5.65%) Legal
8 20 (5.65%) Manufacturing
9 19 (5.37%) Marketing
10 17 (4.80%) Local Government
11 16 (4.52%) Back Office
11 16 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.54%) Retail
14 8 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (2.26%) Investment Banking
14 8 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 77 (21.75%) Analyst
2 43 (12.15%) Business Analyst
3 39 (11.02%) IT Engineer
4 34 (9.60%) Field Engineer
4 34 (9.60%) Field Service Engineer
5 28 (7.91%) Senior
6 23 (6.50%) Architect
7 19 (5.37%) Developer
8 18 (5.08%) Data Analyst
8 18 (5.08%) Support Engineer
9 17 (4.80%) IT Support
9 17 (4.80%) Lead
10 16 (4.52%) Consultant
11 13 (3.67%) Applications Support
11 13 (3.67%) IT Support Engineer
12 11 (3.11%) Product Manager
12 11 (3.11%) Product Owner
13 10 (2.82%) Systems Support
14 9 (2.54%) Project Manager
15 8 (2.26%) Field Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.39%) REST
2 11 (3.11%) Terraform
3 7 (1.98%) RESTful
4 6 (1.69%) .NET
5 5 (1.41%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (1.41%) JSON
5 5 (1.41%) Kafka
5 5 (1.41%) NETCONF
5 5 (1.41%) OpenConfig
5 5 (1.41%) RESTCONF
5 5 (1.41%) SailPoint
5 5 (1.41%) XML
5 5 (1.41%) YANG
6 3 (0.85%) 802.1X
6 3 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (0.85%) OAuth
6 3 (0.85%) PySpark
6 3 (0.85%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.56%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 45 (12.71%) Data Centre
2 31 (8.76%) Product Ownership
3 23 (6.50%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.11%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 10 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.82%) Operational Technology
6 9 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.26%) Life Science
7 8 (2.26%) Social Media
8 7 (1.98%) CMDB
8 7 (1.98%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.98%) Equities
8 7 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.98%) Web Conferencing
9 6 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.69%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.89%) Windows
2 14 (3.95%) Linux
3 8 (2.26%) Unix
4 7 (1.98%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.41%) Android
7 4 (1.13%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.56%) AIX
8 2 (0.56%) HPUX
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.56%) Solaris
8 2 (0.56%) SUSE
8 2 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (41.24%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (27.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 95 (26.84%) Agile
4 70 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 58 (16.38%) AI
6 49 (13.84%) Analytics
7 47 (13.28%) Business Analysis
7 47 (13.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 47 (13.28%) Validation
8 39 (11.02%) Customer Service
8 39 (11.02%) Migration
9 38 (10.73%) User Stories
10 37 (10.45%) DevOps
11 36 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
12 35 (9.89%) Roadmaps
13 34 (9.60%) Break/Fix
13 34 (9.60%) Workshop Facilitation
14 33 (9.32%) User Acceptance Testing
15 32 (9.04%) Scrum
16 31 (8.76%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 69 (19.49%) SQL
2 50 (14.12%) Python
3 12 (3.39%) PowerShell
4 11 (3.11%) C#
5 8 (2.26%) Bash
5 8 (2.26%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.98%) Java
6 7 (1.98%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (1.13%) R
8 3 (0.85%) Apex Code
8 3 (0.85%) Bicep
8 3 (0.85%) C++
9 2 (0.56%) C
9 2 (0.56%) Go
9 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.56%) ProC
9 2 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 51 (14.41%) Cisco Certification
2 47 (13.28%) Security Cleared
3 42 (11.86%) CCNA
4 40 (11.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 38 (10.73%) MCSE
6 36 (10.17%) Network+ Certification
7 34 (9.60%) A+ Certification
8 26 (7.34%) Degree
9 25 (7.06%) SC Cleared
10 14 (3.95%) DV Cleared
11 9 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.98%) CCIE
12 7 (1.98%) CISSP
13 5 (1.41%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.41%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.13%) CISM
14 4 (1.13%) RHCA
14 4 (1.13%) SAS Certification
14 4 (1.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.85%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.63%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (4.80%) QA
4 15 (4.24%) GDPR
5 10 (2.82%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.82%) NIST
6 9 (2.54%) PMO
7 7 (1.98%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 6 (1.69%) GxP
9 5 (1.41%) SLA
10 4 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.13%) GRC
10 4 (1.13%) NCSC
11 3 (0.85%) WCAG
12 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.56%) Basel III
12 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.28%) P3O
13 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (5.37%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.54%) Docker
3 6 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.28%) NFS
6 1 (0.28%) RACF
6 1 (0.28%) Squid
6 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (4.52%) Ansible
2 15 (4.24%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.13%) Podman
4 3 (0.85%) Grafana
4 3 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.56%) SCCM
5 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.28%) Control-M
6 1 (0.28%) IBM BigFix
6 1 (0.28%) QRadar
6 1 (0.28%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 55 (15.54%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.89%) Dell
3 26 (7.34%) Oracle
4 24 (6.78%) SAP
5 22 (6.21%) Cisco
6 18 (5.08%) ServiceNow
7 15 (4.24%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.54%) Databricks
8 9 (2.54%) VMware
9 7 (1.98%) Juniper
10 6 (1.69%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.69%) Splunk
11 5 (1.41%) BT
11 5 (1.41%) Charles River
11 5 (1.41%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.41%) F5
11 5 (1.41%) Google
11 5 (1.41%) MarketAxess
11 5 (1.41%) Tradeweb
12 4 (1.13%) Remedy