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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 283 463
Rank change year-on-year -132 +180 +24
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 301 301 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.91% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.59% 2.53% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 187 55
10th Percentile £185 £230 £232
25th Percentile £406 £363 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £609 £591 £581
90th Percentile £685 £675 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 14 15
10th Percentile £20.13 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £35.25 £25.88 £11.75
Median hourly rate £47.00 £46.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +208.33% -58.62%
75th Percentile £66.82 £75.00 £21.75
90th Percentile £79.38 £83.91 £23.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -2.87% +364.29% -37.78%

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 18,903 11,915 11,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.46% 35.95% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,285 7,301 6,991
10th Percentile £320 £300 £275
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £531
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -1.98% -3.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £670
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,292 611 426
10th Percentile £14.04 £14.78 £15.42
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.82 £22.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% -43.72% +10.56%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.35 £72.50 £75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £29.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +29.31% -49.43% +13.09%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -107 278 £516 +11.46% 600
London -55 148 £575 +4.55% 365
UK excluding London -132 135 £459 +2.00% 281
Work from Home -71 63 £525 +23.53% 274
North of England -80 35 £459 +0.88% 45
South East -67 31 £475 +49.61% 82
Midlands -51 25 £500 +57.48% 44
South West -29 23 £400 -23.81% 37
North West -49 22 £494 +9.78% 29
West Midlands -36 21 £525 +81.66% 23
East of England -24 15 £500 -26.47% 28
Yorkshire -45 12 £190 -64.65% 13
Scotland -34 6 £127 -74.60% 28
East Midlands -23 4 £325 -4.41% 21
Wales -13 2 - - 12
North East - 1 - - 3

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 16 (5.32%) Confluence
2 5 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.33%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.33%) SAS
3 4 (1.33%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.00%) CMS
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) Apache
6 1 (0.33%) Camunda
6 1 (0.33%) Mendix
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 33 (10.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (7.97%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (5.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.66%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.33%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 10 (3.32%) Finacle
2 5 (1.66%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.66%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.66%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.00%) iTrent
3 3 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.66%) Actimize
4 2 (0.66%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.66%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.33%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (13.62%) Azure
2 34 (11.30%) AWS
3 32 (10.63%) Power Platform
4 21 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (5.32%) GitHub
5 16 (5.32%) SaaS
6 14 (4.65%) Entra ID
6 14 (4.65%) GCP
6 14 (4.65%) Snowflake
7 11 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.66%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (1.33%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.33%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (1.00%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.00%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.64%) SAN
2 9 (2.99%) LAN
3 8 (2.66%) BGP
3 8 (2.66%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.66%) WAN
4 7 (2.33%) Network Security
5 6 (1.99%) Broadband
5 6 (1.99%) DNS
5 6 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.66%) MPLS
6 5 (1.66%) SSL
6 5 (1.66%) VLAN
6 5 (1.66%) VPN
7 4 (1.33%) Firewall
7 4 (1.33%) SNMP
7 4 (1.33%) TACACS
8 3 (1.00%) FTP
8 3 (1.00%) HTTP
8 3 (1.00%) OSPF
8 3 (1.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.30%) Power BI
2 13 (4.32%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.99%) Tableau
4 10 (3.32%) Oracle Database
4 10 (3.32%) RDBMS
5 8 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.33%) Metadata
7 5 (1.66%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.33%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (1.33%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.33%) Power Query
8 4 (1.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (1.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 3 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.00%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.00%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.00%) MySQL
10 2 (0.66%) KDB
10 2 (0.66%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (11.63%) JIRA
2 4 (1.33%) Cypress.io
2 4 (1.33%) Git
2 4 (1.33%) GitLab
2 4 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.66%) Mocha
4 2 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.66%) Selenium
5 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.33%) Capybara
5 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.33%) Gatling
5 1 (0.33%) JMeter
5 1 (0.33%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.33%) RSpec
General
1 301 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 176 (58.47%) Social Skills
3 101 (33.55%) Finance
4 44 (14.62%) Public Sector
5 37 (12.29%) Banking
6 26 (8.64%) Front Office
6 26 (8.64%) Local Government
7 20 (6.64%) Marketing
8 19 (6.31%) Telecoms
9 16 (5.32%) Back Office
10 15 (4.98%) Manufacturing
11 14 (4.65%) Legal
12 11 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (3.65%) Retail
13 9 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (2.66%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.99%) Investment Banking
17 5 (1.66%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (20.60%) Analyst
2 31 (10.30%) Business Analyst
3 27 (8.97%) Senior
4 25 (8.31%) IT Engineer
5 21 (6.98%) Architect
6 20 (6.64%) Field Engineer
6 20 (6.64%) Field Service Engineer
7 17 (5.65%) Data Analyst
8 15 (4.98%) Consultant
9 13 (4.32%) Applications Support
9 13 (4.32%) Developer
9 13 (4.32%) IT Support
10 12 (3.99%) Lead
10 12 (3.99%) Support Engineer
11 10 (3.32%) Product Owner
11 10 (3.32%) Systems Support
12 9 (2.99%) IT Support Engineer
13 8 (2.66%) Product Manager
14 7 (2.33%) Marketing Manager
14 7 (2.33%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.32%) REST
2 11 (3.65%) Terraform
3 8 (2.66%) RESTful
4 5 (1.66%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (1.66%) JSON
4 5 (1.66%) XML
5 4 (1.33%) .NET
5 4 (1.33%) Kafka
5 4 (1.33%) NETCONF
5 4 (1.33%) OpenConfig
5 4 (1.33%) RESTCONF
5 4 (1.33%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.33%) YANG
6 3 (1.00%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.00%) LDAP
6 3 (1.00%) PySpark
6 3 (1.00%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.66%) JWT
7 2 (0.66%) Node.js
7 2 (0.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.30%) Data Centre
2 27 (8.97%) Product Ownership
3 25 (8.31%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.65%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.65%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 9 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.99%) Social Media
7 8 (2.66%) CMDB
7 8 (2.66%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (2.33%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.33%) Equities
8 7 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.33%) Life Science
8 7 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.33%) Web Conferencing
9 6 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.99%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.99%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.66%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.97%) Windows
2 12 (3.99%) Linux
3 7 (2.33%) Unix
4 6 (1.99%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.66%) Android
5 5 (1.66%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.00%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.66%) AIX
7 2 (0.66%) HPUX
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.66%) Solaris
7 2 (0.66%) SUSE
8 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (40.53%) Problem-Solving
2 93 (30.90%) Agile
3 92 (30.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 65 (21.59%) AI
5 62 (20.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (16.28%) Analytics
7 48 (15.95%) Business Analysis
8 46 (15.28%) Validation
9 43 (14.29%) DevOps
10 40 (13.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 33 (10.96%) Migration
11 33 (10.96%) User Stories
12 32 (10.63%) Business Intelligence
13 31 (10.30%) Roadmaps
13 31 (10.30%) User Acceptance Testing
14 30 (9.97%) Decision-Making
15 28 (9.30%) Scrum
15 28 (9.30%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 28 (9.30%) Workshop Facilitation
16 27 (8.97%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 66 (21.93%) SQL
2 47 (15.61%) Python
3 10 (3.32%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.66%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.99%) Bash
6 5 (1.66%) C#
6 5 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.66%) Java
7 3 (1.00%) Go
7 3 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.00%) R
7 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.66%) Bicep
8 2 (0.66%) C
8 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.66%) ProC
8 2 (0.66%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.33%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 45 (14.95%) Security Cleared
2 35 (11.63%) Cisco Certification
3 31 (10.30%) SC Cleared
4 27 (8.97%) CCNA
5 25 (8.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (7.64%) Degree
6 23 (7.64%) MCSE
7 22 (7.31%) Network+ Certification
8 20 (6.64%) A+ Certification
9 12 (3.99%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.33%) CISSP
12 6 (1.99%) AWS Certification
12 6 (1.99%) CCIE
13 4 (1.33%) CISM
13 4 (1.33%) JNCIE
13 4 (1.33%) SAS Certification
14 3 (1.00%) GCIH
14 3 (1.00%) RHCA
14 3 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.97%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.65%) QA
3 13 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.65%) GDPR
5 10 (3.32%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.99%) PMO
7 6 (1.99%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 6 (1.99%) SLA
8 5 (1.66%) GxP
8 5 (1.66%) NCSC
8 5 (1.66%) NIST
9 4 (1.33%) GRC
9 4 (1.33%) WCAG
10 3 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.66%) Basel III
11 2 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.33%) GAMP
12 1 (0.33%) MiFID
12 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (5.32%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.65%) Docker
3 4 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.33%) Squid
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (5.65%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.65%) Ansible
3 3 (1.00%) Podman
4 2 (0.66%) Grafana
4 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.66%) SCCM
4 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.33%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.33%) Control-M
5 1 (0.33%) IBM BigFix
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 61 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.31%) Oracle
3 21 (6.98%) Dell
3 21 (6.98%) SAP
4 19 (6.31%) Cisco
5 17 (5.65%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.65%) Databricks
6 11 (3.65%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.66%) Google
8 6 (1.99%) Juniper
9 5 (1.66%) Ariba
9 5 (1.66%) BT
9 5 (1.66%) Charles River
9 5 (1.66%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.66%) MarketAxess
9 5 (1.66%) Remedy
9 5 (1.66%) Splunk
9 5 (1.66%) Tradeweb
10 4 (1.33%) Alteryx
10 4 (1.33%) Zscaler