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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 363 429
Rank change year-on-year +33 +66 +84
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 346 161 171
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.55% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 1.61% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 104 88
10th Percentile £250 £250 £196
25th Percentile £400 £380 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% -12.20% -4.03%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £556
90th Percentile £650 £642 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £449 £525
% change year-on-year +5.91% -14.57% -15.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 53
10th Percentile £14.10 £30.15 £11.75
25th Percentile £25.63 £53.38 £13.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £80.68 £15.90
Median % change year-on-year -41.74% +407.39% -74.56%
75th Percentile £64.88 £81.18 £19.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £81.35 £23.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.28 £80.68 £14.50
% change year-on-year -43.88% +456.38% -

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 16,092 9,990 13,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.39% 34.13% 30.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 6,277 8,314
10th Percentile £313 £300 £274
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £660
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.68% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 809 424 930
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.33 £15.28
Median hourly rate £42.30 £33.03 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.08% -6.97% +59.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.24 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.42 £82.25 £71.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £32.43 £35.00
% change year-on-year +35.55% -7.34% +59.09%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +36 318 £490 +8.89% 195
UK excluding London 0 174 £475 +5.91% 154
London +2 152 £500 +2.56% 74
Work from Home -4 83 £513 +18.57% 92
South East -6 62 £500 +53.85% 44
North of England -53 34 £475 +10.14% 31
Midlands -37 31 £478 +65.22% 28
South West -5 28 £350 -33.33% 19
West Midlands -39 26 £478 +80.19% 13
North West -24 21 £494 +14.55% 21
Wales -2 10 - - 2
Yorkshire -55 9 £463 +10.78% 7
Scotland -10 6 £127 -71.78% 8
East of England -44 6 £475 -17.39% 19
East Midlands -24 5 £463 +3.47% 15
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 (6.07%) Confluence
2 5 (1.45%) SAS
3 4 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.16%) CMS
4 2 (0.58%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.29%) Camunda
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.34%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.31%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.29%) Autodesk Smoke
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Finacle
1 6 (1.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 5 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.16%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.58%) Shopify
4 2 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.29%) Summit
5 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 44 (12.72%) Azure
2 38 (10.98%) AWS
3 33 (9.54%) Power Platform
4 15 (4.34%) GitHub
5 12 (3.47%) SaaS
5 12 (3.47%) Snowflake
6 11 (3.18%) GCP
7 10 (2.89%) Entra ID
7 10 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (1.45%) Collibra
9 5 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.87%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.87%) Apigee
11 3 (0.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.87%) Fivetran
11 3 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.87%) Lucidchart
11 3 (0.87%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 55 (15.90%) SAN
2 10 (2.89%) WAN
3 9 (2.60%) DNS
4 7 (2.02%) Network Security
5 6 (1.73%) TCP/IP
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%) VLAN
7 4 (1.16%) Firewall
7 4 (1.16%) SSL
8 3 (0.87%) DHCP
8 3 (0.87%) FTP
8 3 (0.87%) HTTP
8 3 (0.87%) Internet
8 3 (0.87%) NAS
8 3 (0.87%) OSPF
8 3 (0.87%) VPN
9 2 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.54%) Power BI
2 14 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.18%) Tableau
4 10 (2.89%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.31%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.73%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.73%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.45%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.45%) Power Query
8 4 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.16%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (1.16%) Looker
8 4 (1.16%) Metadata
8 4 (1.16%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (1.16%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 3 (0.87%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.87%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.58%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (10.98%) JIRA
2 5 (1.45%) Git
3 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.87%) Selenium
4 2 (0.58%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.58%) GitLab
4 2 (0.58%) MLflow
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%) 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
1 345 (99.71%) Analytical Skills
2 162 (46.82%) Social Skills
3 101 (29.19%) Finance
4 33 (9.54%) Banking
4 33 (9.54%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.36%) Legal
6 17 (4.91%) Manufacturing
6 17 (4.91%) Marketing
7 16 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (4.05%) Telecoms
9 13 (3.76%) Back Office
9 13 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.18%) Front Office
11 6 (1.73%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.45%) Billing
13 4 (1.16%) Multimedia
13 4 (1.16%) Retail
14 3 (0.87%) Law
Job Titles
1 81 (23.41%) Analyst
2 50 (14.45%) Field Engineer
2 50 (14.45%) Field Service Engineer
2 50 (14.45%) IT Engineer
3 45 (13.01%) Business Analyst
4 21 (6.07%) Lead
4 21 (6.07%) Support Engineer
5 20 (5.78%) Data Analyst
5 20 (5.78%) IT Support
6 19 (5.49%) Developer
7 18 (5.20%) Senior
8 16 (4.62%) Field Support Engineer
8 16 (4.62%) IT Support Engineer
9 13 (3.76%) Consultant
10 12 (3.47%) Architect
11 10 (2.89%) Security Analyst
12 9 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
13 8 (2.31%) Backend Developer
13 8 (2.31%) Operations Analyst
13 8 (2.31%) Operations Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.02%) PySpark
2 6 (1.73%) REST
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%) YAML
5 3 (0.87%) LDAP
5 3 (0.87%) PyTorch
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%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.58%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.58%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 58 (16.76%) Data Centre
2 27 (7.80%) Product Ownership
3 24 (6.94%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.89%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.89%) Operational Technology
5 8 (2.31%) SCADA
5 8 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.73%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 6 (1.73%) Web Conferencing
7 5 (1.45%) Blog
7 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.45%) NHS
8 4 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.16%) Social Media
8 4 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.25%) Windows
2 15 (4.34%) Linux
3 7 (2.02%) 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 (42.77%) Problem-Solving
2 84 (24.28%) Agile
3 80 (23.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 66 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (15.32%) Customer Service
6 51 (14.74%) Analytics
6 51 (14.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 50 (14.45%) Break/Fix
8 44 (12.72%) Validation
9 38 (10.98%) AI
10 37 (10.69%) Data Modelling
10 37 (10.69%) Decision-Making
11 36 (10.40%) Business Intelligence
12 34 (9.83%) Migration
13 33 (9.54%) Business Analysis
13 33 (9.54%) Data Governance
14 32 (9.25%) Actionable Insight
15 31 (8.96%) Process Improvement
16 30 (8.67%) Workshop Facilitation
17 29 (8.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 71 (20.52%) SQL
2 38 (10.98%) Python
3 21 (6.07%) PowerShell
4 15 (4.34%) C#
5 10 (2.89%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.60%) Java
7 6 (1.73%) Bash
7 6 (1.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.16%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.16%) R
9 3 (0.87%) C++
9 3 (0.87%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.87%) VBA
10 2 (0.58%) Bicep
10 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.29%) Go
11 1 (0.29%) LookML
11 1 (0.29%) Scala
11 1 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.29%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 61 (17.63%) Cisco Certification
2 58 (16.76%) CCNA
3 53 (15.32%) MCSE
3 53 (15.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 52 (15.03%) Network+ Certification
5 50 (14.45%) A+ Certification
6 40 (11.56%) Security Cleared
7 33 (9.54%) Degree
8 24 (6.94%) SC Cleared
9 14 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (4.05%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.60%) CISSP
11 5 (1.45%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.16%) CEH
12 4 (1.16%) CISA
12 4 (1.16%) CISM
12 4 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.16%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.16%) PMP
12 4 (1.16%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.80%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.36%) QA
3 21 (6.07%) GDPR
4 20 (5.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (4.05%) NIST
6 8 (2.31%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.31%) PMO
7 6 (1.73%) SLA
8 5 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.16%) GRC
10 3 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.87%) WCAG
11 2 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 2 (0.58%) GxP
11 2 (0.58%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 16 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.02%) Hyper-V
2 7 (2.02%) 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 Desktop
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.18%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.60%) Ansible
3 8 (2.31%) Terraform
4 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.87%) Podman
6 2 (0.58%) SCCM
6 2 (0.58%) SCOM
6 2 (0.58%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.29%) Control-M
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
7 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.29%) Kibana
7 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.29%) Suricata
7 1 (0.29%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 50 (14.45%) Dell
2 39 (11.27%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.65%) Oracle
4 21 (6.07%) SAP
5 17 (4.91%) Databricks
5 17 (4.91%) Salesforce
6 15 (4.34%) Cisco
7 14 (4.05%) VMware
8 12 (3.47%) 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%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.87%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.87%) Veeam