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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 365 406
Rank change year-on-year +38 +41 +97
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 344 159 180
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.55% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 1.62% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 105 94
10th Percentile £250 £240 £190
25th Percentile £400 £368 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -1.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £649 £641 £632
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £418 £525
% change year-on-year +12.57% -20.48% -12.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 56
10th Percentile £14.10 £30.15 £11.75
25th Percentile £33.31 £53.38 £13.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £80.68 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.74% +388.94% -73.60%
75th Percentile £67.38 £81.18 £19.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.35 £24.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.50 £80.68 £14.50
% change year-on-year -31.21% +456.38% -34.57%

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 15,789 9,819 12,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.28% 34.15% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,745 6,239 8,371
10th Percentile £313 £290 £270
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 767 394 921
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.92 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.93 £19.98 £15.22
Median hourly rate £41.00 £32.43 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.43% -4.62% +54.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.44 £82.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £31.76 £32.12
% change year-on-year +41.69% -1.11% +49.37%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +32 315 £484 +8.28% 218
UK excluding London -3 172 £470 +12.57% 147
London -3 150 £500 +5.26% 105
Work from Home +15 81 £500 +17.65% 104
South East -1 61 £500 +53.85% 51
North of England -53 33 £467 +21.22% 27
Midlands -37 29 £473 +63.49% 29
South West -9 26 £350 -33.33% 17
West Midlands -43 24 £473 +78.30% 13
North West -22 21 £477 +23.69% 16
Wales -3 10 - - 1
East of England -37 9 £475 -19.15% 15
Yorkshire -49 8 £463 +10.78% 8
Scotland -6 6 £127 -71.78% 7
East Midlands -22 5 £463 +3.47% 16
North East - 4 - - 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 21 (6.10%) Confluence
2 5 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.16%) CMS
4 3 (0.87%) SAS
5 2 (0.58%) Apache
5 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.29%) Camunda
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 25 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.62%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.29%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (1.74%) NetSuite
1 6 (1.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 5 (1.45%) Finacle
2 5 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.87%) Shopify
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.29%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.29%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.29%) Summit
5 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (12.21%) Azure
2 36 (10.47%) AWS
3 35 (10.17%) Power Platform
4 15 (4.36%) GitHub
5 12 (3.49%) GCP
5 12 (3.49%) SaaS
6 10 (2.91%) Snowflake
7 9 (2.62%) Entra ID
7 9 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (1.74%) Collibra
10 5 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.16%) Lucidchart
12 3 (0.87%) Alation
12 3 (0.87%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.87%) Apigee
12 3 (0.87%) Fivetran
12 3 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 56 (16.28%) SAN
2 12 (3.49%) DNS
3 10 (2.91%) Network Security
3 10 (2.91%) WAN
4 7 (2.03%) SSL
5 6 (1.74%) FTP
5 6 (1.74%) HTTP
6 5 (1.45%) BGP
6 5 (1.45%) LAN
6 5 (1.45%) MPLS
6 5 (1.45%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.45%) SMTP
7 4 (1.16%) Firewall
7 4 (1.16%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.87%) DHCP
8 3 (0.87%) Internet
8 3 (0.87%) NAS
8 3 (0.87%) OSPF
8 3 (0.87%) VLAN
8 3 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (10.17%) Power BI
2 14 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.20%) Tableau
4 9 (2.62%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.45%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.45%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.45%) Power Query
6 5 (1.45%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.16%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (1.16%) Looker
7 4 (1.16%) Metadata
7 4 (1.16%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.87%) Big Data
8 3 (0.87%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.58%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (11.05%) JIRA
2 5 (1.45%) Git
3 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.58%) GitLab
4 2 (0.58%) MLflow
4 2 (0.58%) Selenium
5 1 (0.29%) Appium
5 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.29%) Gatling
5 1 (0.29%) JMeter
5 1 (0.29%) JUnit
5 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.29%) NUnit
5 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.29%) TestRail
General
1 343 (99.71%) Analytical Skills
2 161 (46.80%) Social Skills
3 101 (29.36%) Finance
4 31 (9.01%) Banking
4 31 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.40%) Legal
6 18 (5.23%) Marketing
7 17 (4.94%) Manufacturing
8 15 (4.36%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (3.49%) Telecoms
11 11 (3.20%) Back Office
11 11 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (2.91%) Front Office
13 7 (2.03%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.45%) Billing
14 5 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.16%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 82 (23.84%) Analyst
2 51 (14.83%) Field Engineer
2 51 (14.83%) Field Service Engineer
2 51 (14.83%) IT Engineer
3 43 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 23 (6.69%) Support Engineer
5 21 (6.10%) Lead
6 20 (5.81%) Data Analyst
6 20 (5.81%) IT Support
7 19 (5.52%) Developer
8 18 (5.23%) Senior
9 16 (4.65%) Field Support Engineer
9 16 (4.65%) IT Support Engineer
10 12 (3.49%) Consultant
11 10 (2.91%) Architect
11 10 (2.91%) Security Analyst
11 10 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (2.62%) Operations Analyst
12 9 (2.62%) Operations Business Analyst
13 8 (2.33%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.03%) PySpark
1 7 (2.03%) REST
2 6 (1.74%) LDAP
3 5 (1.45%) .NET
3 5 (1.45%) XML
4 4 (1.16%) Kafka
4 4 (1.16%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.16%) Pandas
4 4 (1.16%) PyTorch
4 4 (1.16%) YAML
5 3 (0.87%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.58%) JSON
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.58%) NETCONF
6 2 (0.58%) OpenConfig
6 2 (0.58%) PyArrow
6 2 (0.58%) React
6 2 (0.58%) RESTCONF
6 2 (0.58%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.58%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 59 (17.15%) Data Centre
2 26 (7.56%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.81%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.78%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.62%) Operational Technology
6 8 (2.33%) SCADA
7 7 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.74%) Web Conferencing
9 5 (1.45%) Blog
9 5 (1.45%) CSOC
9 5 (1.45%) Cyberattack
9 5 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.45%) NHS
9 5 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.01%) Windows
2 15 (4.36%) Linux
3 7 (2.03%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.16%) Unix
5 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.58%) AIX
6 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.58%) HPUX
6 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.58%) Solaris
6 2 (0.58%) SUSE
6 2 (0.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (43.02%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (23.55%) Agile
3 73 (21.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 67 (19.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (15.70%) Customer Service
6 53 (15.41%) Analytics
7 51 (14.83%) Break/Fix
8 49 (14.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 40 (11.63%) AI
9 40 (11.63%) Validation
10 39 (11.34%) Business Intelligence
10 39 (11.34%) Decision-Making
11 37 (10.76%) Data Modelling
12 33 (9.59%) Data Governance
13 32 (9.30%) Business Analysis
13 32 (9.30%) Process Improvement
14 31 (9.01%) Actionable Insight
14 31 (9.01%) Roadmaps
15 30 (8.72%) Workshop Facilitation
16 29 (8.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 71 (20.64%) SQL
2 41 (11.92%) Python
3 23 (6.69%) PowerShell
4 14 (4.07%) C#
5 10 (2.91%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.62%) Java
7 7 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (1.74%) Bash
9 4 (1.16%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.16%) R
10 3 (0.87%) C++
10 3 (0.87%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.87%) VBA
11 2 (0.58%) Bicep
11 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.29%) Go
12 1 (0.29%) LookML
12 1 (0.29%) Scala
12 1 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.29%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 59 (17.15%) Cisco Certification
2 57 (16.57%) CCNA
3 54 (15.70%) MCSE
3 54 (15.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 51 (14.83%) A+ Certification
4 51 (14.83%) Network+ Certification
5 41 (11.92%) Security Cleared
6 33 (9.59%) Degree
7 25 (7.27%) SC Cleared
8 16 (4.65%) DV Cleared
9 11 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (2.33%) CISSP
11 7 (2.03%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.74%) PMI Certification
13 5 (1.45%) PMP
14 4 (1.16%) CEH
14 4 (1.16%) CISA
14 4 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (1.16%) CSPO
15 3 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.14%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.40%) GDPR
3 21 (6.10%) QA
4 20 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (4.07%) NIST
6 8 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.33%) PMO
7 6 (1.74%) SLA
8 5 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.87%) GRC
10 3 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.87%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.87%) WCAG
11 2 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 2 (0.58%) GxP
12 1 (0.29%) COBIT
12 1 (0.29%) MiFID
12 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (4.36%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.03%) Hyper-V
2 7 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.16%) Docker
3 4 (1.16%) Firmware
4 3 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.58%) KVM
6 1 (0.29%) NFS
6 1 (0.29%) RACF
6 1 (0.29%) Squid
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (2.62%) Ansible
1 9 (2.62%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.33%) Terraform
3 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.87%) Podman
5 2 (0.58%) SCCM
5 2 (0.58%) SCOM
5 2 (0.58%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.29%) Control-M
6 1 (0.29%) Grafana
6 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.29%) Kibana
6 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.29%) Suricata
6 1 (0.29%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 51 (14.83%) Dell
2 36 (10.47%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.10%) Oracle
3 21 (6.10%) SAP
4 18 (5.23%) Salesforce
5 16 (4.65%) Databricks
6 14 (4.07%) VMware
7 13 (3.78%) Cisco
8 10 (2.91%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.45%) BT
9 5 (1.45%) Google
9 5 (1.45%) Nexthink
10 4 (1.16%) BMC
10 4 (1.16%) Splunk
11 3 (0.87%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.87%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.87%) HP
11 3 (0.87%) Informatica
11 3 (0.87%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.87%) Veeam