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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 399 400
Rank change year-on-year +87 +1 +183
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 326 130 192
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.42% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.38% 1.27% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 81 99
10th Percentile £297 £225 £150
25th Percentile £371 £270 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% +2.78% -6.74%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £625 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +2.78% +12.50% +185.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 52
10th Percentile £17.42 - £13.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £39.25 £15.31
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +131.43% -72.00%
75th Percentile £63.38 £41.75 £20.44
90th Percentile £76.75 - £25.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.50 - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -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 13,699 10,221 13,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.65% 33.18% 30.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,632 6,183 8,642
10th Percentile £275 £264 £258
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £765 £752
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 663 313 823
10th Percentile £15.37 £18.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.59 £16.67
Median hourly rate £31.00 £34.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +4.62% +44.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £58.73
90th Percentile £76.20 £82.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.05 £32.50 £34.61
% change year-on-year -7.53% -6.08% +57.30%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 +82 291 £475 +0.26% 230
London +36 153 £500 - 100
UK excluding London +28 139 £463 +2.78% 164
Work from Home +47 102 £425 +6.12% 110
South East +8 51 £392 -7.22% 55
Midlands -39 30 £460 -12.38% 28
North of England -64 24 £550 +27.91% 45
West Midlands -40 21 £470 -10.48% 18
East of England -23 13 £675 +35.00% 16
Yorkshire -45 12 £563 +37.20% 14
South West -12 9 £525 +23.53% 13
East Midlands -17 9 £385 - 10
North West -33 9 £480 +6.67% 28
Scotland +11 8 £415 -7.78% 6
Wales - 7 £588 - 2
North East - 4 £550 - 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 19 (5.83%) Confluence
2 6 (1.84%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.23%) CMS
4 2 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.61%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) Camunda
5 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 50 (15.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.76%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.92%) Navisworks
4 3 (0.92%) Revit
5 2 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.61%) Autodesk Smoke
5 2 (0.61%) ProjectWise
5 2 (0.61%) Sketch
5 2 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.31%) Notion
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.37%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.53%) Shopify
3 4 (1.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.92%) 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 (0.31%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.31%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.31%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.31%) Maximo
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.31%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.31%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 50 (15.34%) Azure
2 38 (11.66%) AWS
3 36 (11.04%) Power Platform
4 11 (3.37%) GCP
4 11 (3.37%) GitHub
5 10 (3.07%) SaaS
6 9 (2.76%) Contentsquare
7 8 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.84%) Collibra
9 6 (1.84%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.53%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (1.23%) Alation
11 4 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.23%) Lucidchart
12 3 (0.92%) Adobe Analytics
12 3 (0.92%) Google Tag Manager
12 3 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.75%) DNS
2 18 (5.52%) TCP/IP
3 17 (5.21%) SAN
4 14 (4.29%) Network Security
4 14 (4.29%) VLAN
5 11 (3.37%) DHCP
6 9 (2.76%) Firewall
6 9 (2.76%) HTTP
6 9 (2.76%) SSL
7 5 (1.53%) BGP
7 5 (1.53%) FTP
7 5 (1.53%) LAN
7 5 (1.53%) SMTP
8 3 (0.92%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.61%) MPLS
9 2 (0.61%) SMS
9 2 (0.61%) SNMP
9 2 (0.61%) TACACS
9 2 (0.61%) WAN
10 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.04%) Power BI
2 12 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.76%) Tableau
4 8 (2.45%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 8 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.84%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.84%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.53%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.23%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (1.23%) Metadata
8 3 (0.92%) Big Data
8 3 (0.92%) Data Mart
8 3 (0.92%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.61%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.61%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.61%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (9.82%) JIRA
2 6 (1.84%) Git
3 2 (0.61%) MLflow
3 2 (0.61%) MSBuild
3 2 (0.61%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.61%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.31%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.31%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.31%) JMeter
4 1 (0.31%) JUnit
4 1 (0.31%) Locust
General
1 325 (99.69%) Analytical Skills
2 166 (50.92%) Social Skills
3 109 (33.44%) Finance
4 26 (7.98%) Marketing
5 25 (7.67%) Banking
5 25 (7.67%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (4.29%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.99%) Legal
9 11 (3.37%) Financial Institution
10 10 (3.07%) Publishing
11 9 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (2.76%) Retail
12 8 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.45%) Investment Banking
13 7 (2.15%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.53%) Back Office
14 5 (1.53%) Electronics
14 5 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (23.31%) Analyst
2 37 (11.35%) Business Analyst
3 27 (8.28%) Lead
4 19 (5.83%) Data Analyst
5 18 (5.52%) Consultant
5 18 (5.52%) Support Engineer
6 16 (4.91%) Senior
7 15 (4.60%) Field Engineer
7 15 (4.60%) Field Service Engineer
8 14 (4.29%) Developer
9 13 (3.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (3.99%) IT Engineer
10 12 (3.68%) Architect
11 11 (3.37%) Infrastructure Support
11 11 (3.37%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 11 (3.37%) Project Leader
11 11 (3.37%) Project Manager
12 9 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
13 8 (2.45%) Product Manager
14 7 (2.15%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.45%) JSON
2 7 (2.15%) PyTorch
3 6 (1.84%) LDAP
3 6 (1.84%) REST
4 5 (1.53%) PySpark
4 5 (1.53%) scikit-learn
4 5 (1.53%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.23%) EDI
5 4 (1.23%) Node.js
5 4 (1.23%) Pandas
5 4 (1.23%) XML
5 4 (1.23%) YAML
6 3 (0.92%) .NET
6 3 (0.92%) Dask
6 3 (0.92%) Google JAX
6 3 (0.92%) JAX
6 3 (0.92%) LightGBM
6 3 (0.92%) Middleware
6 3 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.92%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.44%) Data Centre
2 18 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.60%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.76%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.15%) Derivative
6 6 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.84%) NHS
6 6 (1.84%) Social Media
7 5 (1.53%) CSOC
7 5 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.53%) Cyberattack
7 5 (1.53%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (1.23%) Blog
8 4 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.23%) PMI
9 3 (0.92%) Contract for Difference
9 3 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.92%) FMCG
9 3 (0.92%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.51%) Windows
2 24 (7.36%) Linux
3 8 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.61%) VMS
6 1 (0.31%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (41.72%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (28.83%) Agile
3 85 (26.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 67 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 65 (19.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 58 (17.79%) Decision-Making
7 52 (15.95%) Analytics
8 48 (14.72%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (11.96%) Roadmaps
10 38 (11.66%) Data Governance
11 36 (11.04%) Actionable Insight
12 30 (9.20%) Change Management
12 30 (9.20%) Risk Management
12 30 (9.20%) Validation
12 30 (9.20%) Visualisation
13 29 (8.90%) AI
14 28 (8.59%) ITIL
15 27 (8.28%) Data Modelling
15 27 (8.28%) User Experience
16 25 (7.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (24.54%) SQL
2 39 (11.96%) Python
3 25 (7.67%) PowerShell
4 11 (3.37%) Java
5 10 (3.07%) C#
6 6 (1.84%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.53%) Bash
7 5 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.92%) Korn
9 2 (0.61%) C++
9 2 (0.61%) Go
9 2 (0.61%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.61%) RPG
9 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.61%) VBA
10 1 (0.31%) Bicep
10 1 (0.31%) PHP
10 1 (0.31%) SOQL
10 1 (0.31%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 53 (16.26%) Degree
2 48 (14.72%) Security Cleared
3 36 (11.04%) SC Cleared
4 26 (7.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 26 (7.98%) Network+ Certification
5 17 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (4.60%) A+ Certification
6 15 (4.60%) CCNA
6 15 (4.60%) DV Cleared
6 15 (4.60%) Master's Degree
6 15 (4.60%) MCSE
7 12 (3.68%) PMI Certification
8 11 (3.37%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.37%) Server+ Certification
9 9 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.76%) PMP
10 6 (1.84%) CBAP
11 5 (1.53%) CSPO
12 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.66%) Data Quality
2 29 (8.90%) GDPR
3 26 (7.98%) QA
4 13 (3.99%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (2.15%) PMO
7 4 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.23%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.23%) NIST
7 4 (1.23%) SLA
7 4 (1.23%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.92%) ISO 19650
8 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.92%) MiFID
8 3 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.92%) WCAG
9 2 (0.61%) EMIR
10 1 (0.31%) COSHH
10 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 13 (3.99%) Hyper-V
1 13 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.76%) Docker
4 4 (1.23%) NDS
4 4 (1.23%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.61%) KVM
6 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.15%) Ansible
3 6 (1.84%) Terraform
4 4 (1.23%) SCCM
4 4 (1.23%) SCOM
4 4 (1.23%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.61%) vRealize
6 1 (0.31%) Kibana
6 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.31%) Suricata
Vendors
1 52 (15.95%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.67%) SAP
3 18 (5.52%) VMware
4 17 (5.21%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.91%) Oracle
6 15 (4.60%) Dell
7 13 (3.99%) Adobe
7 13 (3.99%) Salesforce
8 11 (3.37%) Databricks
9 8 (2.45%) Google
10 6 (1.84%) BMC
10 6 (1.84%) Informatica
11 5 (1.53%) Murex
12 4 (1.23%) NetIQ
12 4 (1.23%) Sparx
12 4 (1.23%) Splunk
13 3 (0.92%) Amplitude
13 3 (0.92%) CyberArk
13 3 (0.92%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.92%) Zuora
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