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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 294 450
Rank change year-on-year -90 +156 +20
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 325 284 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.86% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.76% 2.42% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 179 62
10th Percentile £185 £232 £263
25th Percentile £378 £369 £292
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £588
90th Percentile £677 £676 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 19
10th Percentile £25.25 £23.70 -
25th Percentile £36.00 £33.44 £11.75
Median hourly rate £47.00 £46.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +208.33% -33.33%
75th Percentile £67.84 £75.00 £21.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.72 £23.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -2.87% +364.29% -29.11%

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 18,473 11,749 11,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.95% 35.66% 30.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,074 7,189 7,185
10th Percentile £322 £298 £294
25th Percentile £425 £406 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £749 £750 £807
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,189 585 474
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.13 £14.43
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -40.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67.89 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +33.33% -47.69% +18.58%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -57 300 £503 +9.05% 513
London -42 154 £563 +2.27% 354
UK excluding London -101 153 £450 - 212
Work from Home -54 69 £575 +39.06% 185
South East -54 40 £550 +69.23% 58
North of England -66 38 £405 -10.11% 38
South West -23 27 £350 -33.33% 36
Midlands -43 26 £550 +75.72% 33
North West -45 25 £494 +9.78% 26
West Midlands -37 22 £575 +116.98% 20
East of England -29 14 £475 -30.15% 18
Yorkshire -44 12 £190 -63.81% 10
Scotland -31 7 £127 -74.60% 16
East Midlands -19 4 £375 +11.11% 13
Wales -13 3 - - 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 16 (4.92%) Confluence
2 5 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.23%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.23%) SAS
3 4 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.92%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) Camunda
5 1 (0.31%) Mendix
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 30 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (3.08%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.31%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 10 (3.08%) Finacle
2 5 (1.54%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.54%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.92%) iTrent
4 3 (0.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.62%) Actimize
5 2 (0.62%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.31%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (12.62%) Azure
2 35 (10.77%) AWS
3 33 (10.15%) Power Platform
4 22 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (5.23%) SaaS
6 14 (4.31%) Entra ID
6 14 (4.31%) GCP
6 14 (4.31%) GitHub
7 13 (4.00%) Snowflake
8 10 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.15%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (1.54%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.23%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.23%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.92%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.92%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.92%) Collibra
12 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.92%) SAN
2 9 (2.77%) LAN
2 9 (2.77%) WAN
3 8 (2.46%) BGP
3 8 (2.46%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.15%) Network Security
5 6 (1.85%) Broadband
5 6 (1.85%) DNS
5 6 (1.85%) MPLS
5 6 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.54%) SSL
6 5 (1.54%) VLAN
6 5 (1.54%) VPN
7 4 (1.23%) Firewall
7 4 (1.23%) SNMP
7 4 (1.23%) TACACS
8 3 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (0.92%) FTP
8 3 (0.92%) HTTP
8 3 (0.92%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.85%) Power BI
2 13 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.69%) Tableau
4 10 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.08%) Oracle Database
4 10 (3.08%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.85%) Metadata
6 4 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (1.23%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.23%) Power Query
6 4 (1.23%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (1.23%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 4 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.92%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.92%) MySQL
8 2 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.62%) KDB
8 2 (0.62%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (10.77%) JIRA
2 5 (1.54%) Git
3 4 (1.23%) Cypress.io
3 4 (1.23%) GitLab
3 4 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.92%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.92%) Selenium
5 2 (0.62%) Mocha
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.31%) Appium
6 1 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.31%) Capybara
6 1 (0.31%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.31%) Gatling
6 1 (0.31%) JMeter
6 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.31%) NUnit
6 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.31%) RSpec
6 1 (0.31%) TestRail
General
1 325 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 177 (54.46%) Social Skills
3 102 (31.38%) Finance
4 40 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 38 (11.69%) Banking
6 25 (7.69%) Front Office
7 22 (6.77%) Telecoms
8 21 (6.46%) Local Government
9 18 (5.54%) Manufacturing
9 18 (5.54%) Marketing
10 16 (4.92%) Back Office
10 16 (4.92%) Legal
11 13 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.77%) Retail
13 8 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (2.46%) Investment Banking
13 8 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.92%) Billing
Job Titles
1 72 (22.15%) Analyst
2 37 (11.38%) Business Analyst
3 33 (10.15%) IT Engineer
4 29 (8.92%) Senior
5 28 (8.62%) Field Engineer
5 28 (8.62%) Field Service Engineer
6 21 (6.46%) Architect
7 18 (5.54%) Data Analyst
8 16 (4.92%) Developer
8 16 (4.92%) Lead
9 15 (4.62%) IT Support
9 15 (4.62%) Support Engineer
10 14 (4.31%) Consultant
11 13 (4.00%) Applications Support
12 11 (3.38%) IT Support Engineer
13 10 (3.08%) Product Manager
13 10 (3.08%) Product Owner
13 10 (3.08%) Systems Support
14 8 (2.46%) Senior Manager
15 7 (2.15%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.69%) REST
2 10 (3.08%) Terraform
3 7 (2.15%) RESTful
4 5 (1.54%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (1.54%) JSON
4 5 (1.54%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.54%) XML
5 4 (1.23%) .NET
5 4 (1.23%) Kafka
5 4 (1.23%) LDAP
5 4 (1.23%) NETCONF
5 4 (1.23%) OpenConfig
5 4 (1.23%) RESTCONF
5 4 (1.23%) YANG
6 3 (0.92%) PySpark
6 3 (0.92%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.62%) Chai
7 2 (0.62%) Jest
7 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.62%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.38%) Data Centre
2 29 (8.92%) Product Ownership
3 24 (7.38%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.69%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.38%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 9 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.77%) Social Media
7 8 (2.46%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.46%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.15%) CMDB
8 7 (2.15%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.15%) Equities
8 7 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.15%) Life Science
8 7 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.15%) Web Conferencing
9 6 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.85%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.85%) Windows
2 13 (4.00%) Linux
3 8 (2.46%) Unix
4 6 (1.85%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.54%) Android
6 3 (0.92%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.62%) AIX
7 2 (0.62%) HPUX
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.62%) Solaris
7 2 (0.62%) SUSE
8 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (41.54%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (29.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 90 (27.69%) Agile
4 68 (20.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 65 (20.00%) AI
6 49 (15.08%) Analytics
7 46 (14.15%) Business Analysis
8 45 (13.85%) Validation
9 44 (13.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 37 (11.38%) DevOps
11 35 (10.77%) Roadmaps
12 34 (10.46%) Business Intelligence
12 34 (10.46%) Migration
12 34 (10.46%) User Stories
13 33 (10.15%) Customer Service
13 33 (10.15%) User Acceptance Testing
14 32 (9.85%) Decision-Making
15 31 (9.54%) Workshop Facilitation
16 29 (8.92%) Scrum
17 28 (8.62%) Break/Fix
Programming Languages
1 67 (20.62%) SQL
2 50 (15.38%) Python
3 11 (3.38%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.15%) Bash
4 7 (2.15%) C#
5 6 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.54%) Java
6 5 (1.54%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.23%) R
8 3 (0.92%) Go
8 3 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.62%) Bicep
9 2 (0.62%) C
9 2 (0.62%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.62%) ProC
9 2 (0.62%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.31%) C++
10 1 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (14.15%) Security Cleared
2 44 (13.54%) Cisco Certification
3 36 (11.08%) CCNA
4 34 (10.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 32 (9.85%) MCSE
6 30 (9.23%) Network+ Certification
6 30 (9.23%) SC Cleared
7 28 (8.62%) A+ Certification
8 24 (7.38%) Degree
9 15 (4.62%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.15%) CISSP
12 6 (1.85%) CCIE
13 4 (1.23%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.23%) CISM
13 4 (1.23%) JNCIE
13 4 (1.23%) RHCA
13 4 (1.23%) SAS Certification
13 4 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.92%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.31%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.23%) QA
3 16 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.38%) GDPR
5 9 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.77%) PMO
6 7 (2.15%) NIST
7 6 (1.85%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (1.54%) GxP
8 5 (1.54%) NCSC
8 5 (1.54%) SLA
9 4 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.23%) GRC
10 3 (0.92%) WCAG
11 2 (0.62%) Basel III
11 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.31%) IFRS
12 1 (0.31%) MiFID
12 1 (0.31%) PSD2
12 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.08%) Docker
3 5 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.31%) NFS
6 1 (0.31%) Squid
6 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (4.92%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.62%) Ansible
3 4 (1.23%) Podman
4 2 (0.62%) Grafana
4 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.62%) SCCM
4 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.31%) Control-M
5 1 (0.31%) IBM BigFix
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 56 (17.23%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.92%) Dell
3 24 (7.38%) Oracle
4 23 (7.08%) SAP
5 20 (6.15%) Cisco
6 16 (4.92%) ServiceNow
7 14 (4.31%) Salesforce
8 10 (3.08%) Databricks
9 7 (2.15%) Google
9 7 (2.15%) VMware
10 6 (1.85%) Juniper
10 6 (1.85%) Splunk
11 5 (1.54%) Ariba
11 5 (1.54%) BT
11 5 (1.54%) Charles River
11 5 (1.54%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.54%) MarketAxess
11 5 (1.54%) Tradeweb
12 4 (1.23%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.23%) Remedy