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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 387 405
Rank change year-on-year +74 +18 +171
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 329 140 196
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.47% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.36% 1.40% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 86 102
10th Percentile £323 £225 £150
25th Percentile £400 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -1.58% -3.06%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £547
90th Percentile £675 £631 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +211.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 54
10th Percentile £14.10 £44.90 £11.83
25th Percentile £18.25 £53.38 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £70.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +300.00% -72.00%
75th Percentile £63.38 £76.76 £20.25
90th Percentile £76.75 £79.31 £25.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.50 £75.34 £17.50
% change year-on-year -26.33% +330.50% -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 13,937 9,968 13,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.41% 33.38% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,783 6,129 8,678
10th Percentile £285 £275 £256
25th Percentile £406 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 655 331 843
10th Percentile £15.40 £18.13 £12.86
25th Percentile £18.85 £22.72 £16.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +7.76% +34.13%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.20 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.50 £31.76 £31.13
% change year-on-year +5.48% +2.04% +41.48%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +65 296 £500 +5.26% 264
London +46 156 £500 - 84
UK excluding London -1 139 £480 +6.67% 213
Work from Home +36 102 £475 +18.60% 121
South East +4 50 £465 +6.59% 67
Midlands -32 28 £470 -3.29% 32
North of England -48 26 £550 +27.91% 56
West Midlands -34 20 £470 -10.48% 20
East of England -27 13 £675 +35.00% 23
South West -6 12 £525 +23.53% 23
Yorkshire -50 12 £563 +37.20% 21
North West -40 11 £410 -8.89% 29
East Midlands -24 8 £450 +0.67% 11
Wales - 8 £588 - 7
Scotland +13 5 £433 -3.89% 10
North East - 4 £550 - 6

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 18 (5.47%) Confluence
2 6 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.52%) CMS
4 2 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.61%) Apache
4 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.30%) Camunda
5 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 47 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.34%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.74%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.61%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.61%) Sketch
7 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.30%) Navisworks
7 1 (0.30%) Notion
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.30%) Revit
7 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.34%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.52%) Shopify
3 4 (1.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.61%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.30%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.30%) Maximo
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.30%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.30%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.59%) Azure
2 37 (11.25%) Power Platform
3 33 (10.03%) AWS
4 12 (3.65%) GCP
5 11 (3.34%) GitHub
6 10 (3.04%) SaaS
7 7 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.13%) Contentsquare
8 6 (1.82%) Collibra
8 6 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (1.82%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.82%) Snowflake
9 5 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (1.22%) Alation
10 4 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.22%) Lucidchart
10 4 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.91%) Figma
11 3 (0.91%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.08%) SAN
2 17 (5.17%) DNS
3 13 (3.95%) Network Security
3 13 (3.95%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.04%) SSL
5 9 (2.74%) HTTP
6 8 (2.43%) Firewall
6 8 (2.43%) VLAN
7 6 (1.82%) BGP
7 6 (1.82%) DHCP
7 6 (1.82%) FTP
8 5 (1.52%) LAN
8 5 (1.52%) SMTP
9 3 (0.91%) MPLS
9 3 (0.91%) SNMP
9 3 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.91%) TACACS
9 3 (0.91%) WAN
10 2 (0.61%) SMS
11 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.25%) Power BI
2 12 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.74%) Tableau
4 8 (2.43%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.82%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 6 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.82%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.52%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.22%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (1.22%) Metadata
9 3 (0.91%) Big Data
9 3 (0.91%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.91%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.61%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (9.73%) JIRA
2 5 (1.52%) Git
3 2 (0.61%) MLflow
3 2 (0.61%) MSBuild
3 2 (0.61%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.30%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.30%) JMeter
4 1 (0.30%) JUnit
4 1 (0.30%) Locust
General
1 328 (99.70%) Analytical Skills
2 174 (52.89%) Social Skills
3 108 (32.83%) Finance
4 28 (8.51%) Marketing
5 26 (7.90%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.69%) Banking
7 15 (4.56%) Legal
7 15 (4.56%) Manufacturing
8 14 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.04%) Publishing
10 9 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.74%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.74%) Retail
11 7 (2.13%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.13%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.52%) Back Office
12 5 (1.52%) Electronics
12 5 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (22.49%) Analyst
2 40 (12.16%) Business Analyst
3 28 (8.51%) Lead
4 19 (5.78%) Consultant
4 19 (5.78%) Data Analyst
5 18 (5.47%) Field Engineer
5 18 (5.47%) Field Service Engineer
6 17 (5.17%) IT Engineer
6 17 (5.17%) Support Engineer
7 16 (4.86%) Developer
7 16 (4.86%) Senior
8 12 (3.65%) Architect
9 11 (3.34%) Project Leader
9 11 (3.34%) Project Manager
10 10 (3.04%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (2.43%) Field Support Engineer
11 8 (2.43%) IT Support
11 8 (2.43%) IT Support Engineer
11 8 (2.43%) Product Manager
12 7 (2.13%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.43%) JSON
2 7 (2.13%) PyTorch
3 6 (1.82%) LDAP
3 6 (1.82%) PySpark
4 5 (1.52%) REST
4 5 (1.52%) scikit-learn
4 5 (1.52%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.52%) YAML
5 4 (1.22%) EDI
5 4 (1.22%) Node.js
5 4 (1.22%) Pandas
5 4 (1.22%) XML
6 3 (0.91%) .NET
6 3 (0.91%) Dask
6 3 (0.91%) LightGBM
6 3 (0.91%) Middleware
6 3 (0.91%) NETCONF
6 3 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.91%) XGBoost
6 3 (0.91%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.60%) Data Centre
2 19 (5.78%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.95%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.13%) Derivative
6 7 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.82%) NHS
8 5 (1.52%) Blog
8 5 (1.52%) CSOC
8 5 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.52%) Cyberattack
8 5 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
8 5 (1.52%) Social Media
9 4 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.22%) Operational Technology
10 3 (0.91%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.91%) Digital Media
10 3 (0.91%) PMI
10 3 (0.91%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.81%) Windows
2 19 (5.78%) Linux
3 8 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.61%) VMS
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.30%) Unix
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (41.34%) Problem-Solving
2 90 (27.36%) Agile
3 85 (25.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 69 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
5 61 (18.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 57 (17.33%) Decision-Making
7 52 (15.81%) Analytics
8 49 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
9 36 (10.94%) Actionable Insight
9 36 (10.94%) Data Governance
10 35 (10.64%) Roadmaps
11 30 (9.12%) AI
12 29 (8.81%) Change Management
12 29 (8.81%) Data Modelling
12 29 (8.81%) User Experience
12 29 (8.81%) Validation
13 27 (8.21%) Risk Management
13 27 (8.21%) Visualisation
13 27 (8.21%) Workshop Facilitation
14 26 (7.90%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 79 (24.01%) SQL
2 42 (12.77%) Python
3 27 (8.21%) PowerShell
4 12 (3.65%) Java
5 11 (3.34%) C#
6 6 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (1.82%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.52%) Bash
8 3 (0.91%) VBA
9 2 (0.61%) C++
9 2 (0.61%) Go
9 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.30%) ABAP
10 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.30%) Korn
10 1 (0.30%) PHP
10 1 (0.30%) SOQL
10 1 (0.30%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 55 (16.72%) Degree
2 47 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 34 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 23 (6.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (6.99%) Network+ Certification
5 22 (6.69%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (5.78%) CCNA
7 18 (5.47%) A+ Certification
7 18 (5.47%) MCSE
8 16 (4.86%) DV Cleared
9 14 (4.26%) Master's Degree
10 13 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (3.34%) PMI Certification
12 9 (2.74%) PMP
13 6 (1.82%) CISSP
14 5 (1.52%) Azure Certification
14 5 (1.52%) CBAP
14 5 (1.52%) CSPO
14 5 (1.52%) Server+ Certification
15 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.85%) Data Quality
2 31 (9.42%) GDPR
3 24 (7.29%) QA
4 14 (4.26%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.13%) NIST
7 6 (1.82%) PMO
8 4 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (1.22%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.22%) SLA
8 4 (1.22%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.91%) WCAG
10 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.61%) EMIR
10 2 (0.61%) MiFID
10 2 (0.61%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.74%) Docker
3 8 (2.43%) Hyper-V
3 8 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.22%) Firmware
4 4 (1.22%) NDS
4 4 (1.22%) NetIQ eDirectory
4 4 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.61%) KVM
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (3.34%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.13%) Ansible
3 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (1.52%) Terraform
4 4 (1.22%) SCCM
4 4 (1.22%) SCOM
4 4 (1.22%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.30%) Kibana
5 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.30%) Suricata
5 1 (0.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 53 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.38%) SAP
3 18 (5.47%) Dell
4 16 (4.86%) Oracle
4 16 (4.86%) ServiceNow
5 14 (4.26%) VMware
6 13 (3.95%) Databricks
6 13 (3.95%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.04%) Adobe
8 8 (2.43%) Google
9 6 (1.82%) BMC
9 6 (1.82%) Informatica
10 5 (1.52%) Murex
11 4 (1.22%) Cisco
11 4 (1.22%) NetIQ
11 4 (1.22%) Nexthink
11 4 (1.22%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.22%) Sparx
11 4 (1.22%) Splunk
12 3 (0.91%) Zuora
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