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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 306 459
Rank change year-on-year -26 +153 +34
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 386 259 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.78% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.14% 2.23% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 154 63
10th Percentile £185 £313 £247
25th Percentile £400 £400 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% -11.67% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £671 £673 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 25
10th Percentile £19.10 £28.35 -
25th Percentile £35.00 £45.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% +381.48% -40.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £81.01 £19.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £81.35 £23.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.07 £75.34 £13.50
% change year-on-year -21.60% +458.06% -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 18,041 11,637 11,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.60% 35.17% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,940 7,151 7,543
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
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 1,012 570 601
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.13 £12.38
25th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £18.35
Median hourly rate £43.50 £29.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.46% -34.44% +10.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.62 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +46.53% -35.04% +12.63%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -24 356 £500 +8.70% 161
UK excluding London -36 190 £475 +5.56% 120
London -14 175 £525 - 70
Work from Home -31 85 £529 +22.33% 64
South East -33 62 £533 +36.54% 38
North of England -72 43 £459 +2.00% 27
South West -31 32 £350 -33.33% 14
Midlands -33 30 £531 +57.41% 23
North West -35 30 £495 +9.89% 19
West Midlands -34 27 £563 +112.26% 16
East of England -29 12 £475 -20.83% 9
Yorkshire -47 12 £275 -38.89% 6
Wales -7 8 - - 3
Scotland -18 6 £127 -74.60% 6
East Midlands -21 3 £375 - 6
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 18 (4.66%) Confluence
2 5 (1.30%) CMS
3 4 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.04%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.04%) SAS
4 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.26%) Camunda
5 1 (0.26%) Mendix
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 31 (8.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (4.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (3.11%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.26%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 10 (2.59%) Finacle
2 6 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.30%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.30%) Fidessa
4 4 (1.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.78%) iTrent
6 2 (0.52%) Actimize
6 2 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.26%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.26%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 48 (12.44%) Azure
2 36 (9.33%) AWS
2 36 (9.33%) Power Platform
3 25 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (4.92%) Entra ID
5 18 (4.66%) SaaS
6 13 (3.37%) GCP
6 13 (3.37%) GitHub
6 13 (3.37%) Snowflake
7 8 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.30%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (1.04%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (0.78%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.78%) Apigee
10 3 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (0.78%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 44 (11.40%) SAN
2 14 (3.63%) WAN
3 11 (2.85%) LAN
3 11 (2.85%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.59%) BGP
5 9 (2.33%) MPLS
6 7 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.55%) DNS
7 6 (1.55%) Firewall
7 6 (1.55%) SNMP
7 6 (1.55%) TACACS
7 6 (1.55%) VPN
8 5 (1.30%) Network Security
8 5 (1.30%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.30%) VLAN
9 4 (1.04%) Broadband
10 3 (0.78%) DHCP
10 3 (0.78%) Internet
10 3 (0.78%) OSPF
10 3 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.33%) Power BI
2 15 (3.89%) Relational Database
3 14 (3.63%) Tableau
4 10 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.59%) Oracle Database
4 10 (2.59%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
5 5 (1.30%) Metadata
5 5 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.30%) Power Query
6 4 (1.04%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.04%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (1.04%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 3 (0.78%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.78%) MySQL
7 3 (0.78%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.52%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.52%) KDB
8 2 (0.52%) Looker
Development Applications
1 39 (10.10%) JIRA
2 4 (1.04%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.78%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.78%) Git
3 3 (0.78%) GitLab
3 3 (0.78%) Selenium
4 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.26%) Appium
5 1 (0.26%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.26%) Capybara
5 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.26%) Gatling
5 1 (0.26%) JMeter
5 1 (0.26%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.26%) Mocha
5 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.26%) RSpec
5 1 (0.26%) TestRail
General
1 386 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 197 (51.04%) Social Skills
3 109 (28.24%) Finance
4 42 (10.88%) Banking
4 42 (10.88%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.96%) Front Office
6 22 (5.70%) Legal
6 22 (5.70%) Manufacturing
6 22 (5.70%) Telecoms
7 21 (5.44%) Marketing
8 16 (4.15%) Back Office
9 15 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (3.89%) Local Government
10 14 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.33%) Retail
12 8 (2.07%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.30%) Billing
Job Titles
1 84 (21.76%) Analyst
2 48 (12.44%) Business Analyst
3 45 (11.66%) IT Engineer
4 41 (10.62%) Field Engineer
4 41 (10.62%) Field Service Engineer
5 28 (7.25%) Senior
6 25 (6.48%) Support Engineer
7 23 (5.96%) Architect
7 23 (5.96%) IT Support
8 20 (5.18%) Developer
9 19 (4.92%) IT Support Engineer
9 19 (4.92%) Lead
10 18 (4.66%) Consultant
11 17 (4.40%) Data Analyst
12 15 (3.89%) Field Support Engineer
13 13 (3.37%) Applications Support
14 12 (3.11%) Product Owner
15 11 (2.85%) Product Manager
16 10 (2.59%) Security Analyst
16 10 (2.59%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.85%) REST
2 6 (1.55%) NETCONF
2 6 (1.55%) OpenConfig
2 6 (1.55%) RESTCONF
2 6 (1.55%) YANG
3 5 (1.30%) .NET
3 5 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (1.30%) Kafka
3 5 (1.30%) RESTful
3 5 (1.30%) SailPoint
3 5 (1.30%) XML
4 4 (1.04%) JSON
4 4 (1.04%) PySpark
5 3 (0.78%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.78%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (0.78%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.52%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.52%) OAuth
6 2 (0.52%) React
Miscellaneous
1 52 (13.47%) Data Centre
2 31 (8.03%) Product Ownership
3 27 (6.99%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.37%) Operational Technology
5 11 (2.85%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.85%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 9 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.33%) SCADA
6 9 (2.33%) Social Media
7 8 (2.07%) Life Science
8 7 (1.81%) CMDB
8 7 (1.81%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.81%) Equities
8 7 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.81%) Web Conferencing
9 6 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 39 (10.10%) Windows
2 15 (3.89%) Linux
3 8 (2.07%) Unix
4 7 (1.81%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.81%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.30%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.04%) Android
7 3 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.52%) AIX
8 2 (0.52%) HPUX
8 2 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.52%) Solaris
8 2 (0.52%) SUSE
8 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (40.93%) Problem-Solving
2 99 (25.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 96 (24.87%) Agile
4 72 (18.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 58 (15.03%) AI
6 52 (13.47%) Analytics
7 51 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 49 (12.69%) Business Analysis
8 49 (12.69%) Validation
9 46 (11.92%) Customer Service
10 41 (10.62%) Break/Fix
11 40 (10.36%) Migration
12 39 (10.10%) Business Intelligence
12 39 (10.10%) User Stories
12 39 (10.10%) Workshop Facilitation
13 37 (9.59%) Process Improvement
14 35 (9.07%) DevOps
15 34 (8.81%) Decision-Making
16 33 (8.55%) Roadmaps
16 33 (8.55%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (18.65%) SQL
2 52 (13.47%) Python
3 16 (4.15%) PowerShell
4 12 (3.11%) C#
5 9 (2.33%) Bash
5 9 (2.33%) Java
6 8 (2.07%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.55%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (1.04%) R
10 3 (0.78%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.78%) Bicep
10 3 (0.78%) C++
11 2 (0.52%) C
11 2 (0.52%) Go
11 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.52%) ProC
11 2 (0.52%) Search Processing Language
11 2 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (15.28%) Cisco Certification
2 50 (12.95%) CCNA
3 48 (12.44%) Security Cleared
4 47 (12.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 45 (11.66%) MCSE
6 43 (11.14%) Network+ Certification
7 41 (10.62%) A+ Certification
8 31 (8.03%) Degree
9 26 (6.74%) SC Cleared
10 14 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (3.63%) DV Cleared
11 9 (2.33%) CISSP
12 7 (1.81%) CCIE
13 6 (1.55%) JNCIE
14 5 (1.30%) CISM
14 5 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (1.04%) AWS Certification
15 4 (1.04%) Master's Degree
15 4 (1.04%) RHCA
15 4 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (4.66%) QA
4 16 (4.15%) GDPR
5 14 (3.63%) NIST
6 12 (3.11%) Accessibility
7 9 (2.33%) PMO
8 7 (1.81%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 6 (1.55%) GxP
10 5 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.30%) NCSC
10 5 (1.30%) SLA
11 4 (1.04%) GRC
11 4 (1.04%) WCAG
12 3 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.26%) IFRS
14 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (5.96%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.81%) Docker
2 7 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.55%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.04%) Firmware
5 3 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.26%) NFS
7 1 (0.26%) RACF
7 1 (0.26%) Squid
7 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (4.15%) Ansible
1 16 (4.15%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.59%) Terraform
3 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.04%) Podman
5 3 (0.78%) Grafana
5 3 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.52%) SCCM
6 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.26%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.26%) Control-M
7 1 (0.26%) IBM BigFix
7 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.26%) QRadar
7 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 63 (16.32%) Microsoft
2 42 (10.88%) Dell
3 26 (6.74%) Oracle
4 24 (6.22%) SAP
5 22 (5.70%) Cisco
6 18 (4.66%) ServiceNow
7 15 (3.89%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.85%) Databricks
8 11 (2.85%) VMware
9 8 (2.07%) Juniper
10 7 (1.81%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.55%) F5
11 6 (1.55%) Google
11 6 (1.55%) Splunk
12 5 (1.30%) BT
12 5 (1.30%) Charles River
12 5 (1.30%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.30%) MarketAxess
12 5 (1.30%) Nexthink
12 5 (1.30%) Tradeweb