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 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 394 427
Rank change year-on-year +122 +33 +169
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 366 140 176
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.99% 0.42% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.85% 1.31% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 83 106
10th Percentile £283 £225 £107
25th Percentile £371 £263 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +6.51%
75th Percentile £594 £591 £600
90th Percentile £678 £635 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £394
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +257.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 26
10th Percentile £18.25 - -
25th Percentile £24.50 £11.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £13.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +251.85% -25.00% -71.20%
75th Percentile £75.00 £20.63 £24.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £21.75 £25.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £13.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +381.48% -22.86% -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 12,838 10,678 13,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 32.07% 31.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,047 6,367 8,986
10th Percentile £278 £265 £263
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £530 £546
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% -2.97% -0.68%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 626 327 514
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.02 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.30 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.42 £33.75 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -20.00% +29.82%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £77.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.36 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.83% -27.78% +73.08%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 +113 328 £495 -1.00% 836
UK excluding London +55 171 £450 - 757
London +68 162 £500 -4.76% 146
Work from Home +55 98 £414 +3.25% 526
South East +34 59 £381 -1.68% 212
North of England -35 35 £550 +120.00% 168
Midlands -12 33 £411 - 133
North West -14 23 £505 +102.00% 98
West Midlands -8 21 £463 - 68
East of England -7 18 £680 +15.74% 108
Scotland +16 15 £503 +11.67% 30
East Midlands -8 12 £375 - 58
Yorkshire -36 12 £563 +90.68% 61
South West 0 11 £525 +23.53% 84
Wales - 5 £588 - 21
North East - 1 £550 - 9

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 20 (5.46%) Confluence
2 7 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.37%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.09%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.55%) CMS
6 1 (0.27%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) Camunda
Applications
1 53 (14.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.01%) Siemens NX
4 10 (2.73%) MS Visio
5 8 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.82%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.82%) Revit
8 2 (0.55%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.55%) Autodesk Smoke
8 2 (0.55%) ProjectWise
8 2 (0.55%) Sketch
8 2 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.27%) Notion
9 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.01%) Teamcenter
2 9 (2.46%) NetSuite
2 9 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (1.09%) Shopify
4 4 (1.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.27%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.27%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.27%) Maximo
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.27%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 49 (13.39%) Azure
2 42 (11.48%) Power Platform
3 38 (10.38%) AWS
4 18 (4.92%) GCP
5 10 (2.73%) Contentsquare
5 10 (2.73%) GitHub
5 10 (2.73%) SaaS
6 9 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (2.46%) Collibra
7 8 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.37%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.09%) Google Analytics
9 4 (1.09%) Google Data Studio
9 4 (1.09%) Lucidchart
9 4 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.09%) PowerApps
10 3 (0.82%) Adobe Analytics
10 3 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (0.82%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.20%) DNS
2 22 (6.01%) Network Security
3 18 (4.92%) TCP/IP
4 17 (4.64%) HTTP
4 17 (4.64%) SSL
5 14 (3.83%) VLAN
6 13 (3.55%) FTP
6 13 (3.55%) SMTP
7 11 (3.01%) DHCP
8 9 (2.46%) Firewall
9 8 (2.19%) SAN
10 5 (1.37%) BGP
10 5 (1.37%) LAN
11 3 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (0.55%) Internet
12 2 (0.55%) MPLS
12 2 (0.55%) SMS
12 2 (0.55%) SNMP
12 2 (0.55%) TACACS
12 2 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (11.48%) Power BI
2 19 (5.19%) Tableau
3 10 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.46%) BigQuery
5 8 (2.19%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 8 (2.19%) Metadata
5 8 (2.19%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.64%) Big Data
7 5 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.37%) Power Query
8 4 (1.09%) Looker
9 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.82%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.82%) Electronic Patient Records
9 3 (0.82%) MSDE
9 3 (0.82%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.82%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.55%) Pinecone
10 2 (0.55%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (8.74%) JIRA
2 4 (1.09%) Bitbucket
2 4 (1.09%) Git
3 3 (0.82%) IntelliJ
3 3 (0.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.82%) PyCharm
3 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (0.82%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 2 (0.55%) MSBuild
4 2 (0.55%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.27%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.27%) JMeter
5 1 (0.27%) Locust
5 1 (0.27%) MLflow
General
1 365 (99.73%) Analytical Skills
2 189 (51.64%) Social Skills
3 128 (34.97%) Finance
4 33 (9.02%) Banking
5 32 (8.74%) Public Sector
6 25 (6.83%) Legal
6 25 (6.83%) Manufacturing
6 25 (6.83%) Marketing
7 17 (4.64%) Investment Banking
8 12 (3.28%) Financial Institution
8 12 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (3.01%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.73%) Publishing
10 10 (2.73%) Retail
10 10 (2.73%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.91%) Electronics
13 6 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.64%) Military
13 6 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (27.87%) Analyst
2 37 (10.11%) Business Analyst
3 24 (6.56%) Data Analyst
3 24 (6.56%) Lead
4 21 (5.74%) Architect
5 19 (5.19%) Senior
6 18 (4.92%) Consultant
7 15 (4.10%) Developer
8 14 (3.83%) SOC Analyst
8 14 (3.83%) Support Engineer
9 13 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.28%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.01%) Infrastructure Support
11 11 (3.01%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 11 (3.01%) Product Manager
11 11 (3.01%) Project Leader
12 9 (2.46%) Product Owner
13 8 (2.19%) Field Engineer
13 8 (2.19%) Field Service Engineer
13 8 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.10%) LDAP
2 9 (2.46%) JSON
3 8 (2.19%) TensorFlow
4 7 (1.91%) scikit-learn
5 6 (1.64%) PyTorch
5 6 (1.64%) REST
6 5 (1.37%) HTML
6 5 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (1.37%) Pandas
7 4 (1.09%) EDI
7 4 (1.09%) Node.js
8 3 (0.82%) .NET
8 3 (0.82%) Dask
8 3 (0.82%) Google JAX
8 3 (0.82%) JAX
8 3 (0.82%) LightGBM
8 3 (0.82%) Middleware
8 3 (0.82%) PySpark
8 3 (0.82%) React
8 3 (0.82%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.92%) Management Information System
2 19 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.55%) CSOC
3 13 (3.55%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (3.55%) Cyberattack
3 13 (3.55%) Security Operations Centre
4 12 (3.28%) Data Centre
4 12 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.19%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.91%) Derivative
7 5 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.37%) NHS
7 5 (1.37%) PMI
8 4 (1.09%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.09%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.09%) SCADA
8 4 (1.09%) Social Media
9 3 (0.82%) Contract for Difference
9 3 (0.82%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.84%) Windows
2 26 (7.10%) Linux
3 8 (2.19%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.55%) VMS
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (38.52%) Problem-Solving
2 101 (27.60%) Agile
3 87 (23.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 66 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 63 (17.21%) Analytics
5 63 (17.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 62 (16.94%) Decision-Making
7 56 (15.30%) Business Intelligence
8 44 (12.02%) Roadmaps
9 39 (10.66%) Visualisation
10 38 (10.38%) Actionable Insight
11 37 (10.11%) AI
12 36 (9.84%) Data Governance
13 32 (8.74%) Data Analysis
13 32 (8.74%) ITIL
13 32 (8.74%) Risk Management
14 30 (8.20%) Machine Learning
14 30 (8.20%) Scrum
15 28 (7.65%) Data Modelling
15 28 (7.65%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 84 (22.95%) SQL
2 61 (16.67%) Python
3 32 (8.74%) PowerShell
4 14 (3.83%) Java
5 13 (3.55%) C#
6 8 (2.19%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.64%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.37%) Bash
8 5 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.09%) R
10 3 (0.82%) Korn
11 2 (0.55%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.55%) C++
11 2 (0.55%) Go
11 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.55%) RPG
11 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.55%) VBA
12 1 (0.27%) ABAP
12 1 (0.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (18.31%) Security Cleared
2 58 (15.85%) Degree
3 53 (14.48%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.46%) DV Cleared
4 20 (5.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (4.92%) Network+ Certification
6 16 (4.37%) PMI Certification
7 15 (4.10%) Master's Degree
8 12 (3.28%) PMP
9 11 (3.01%) Azure Certification
9 11 (3.01%) Server+ Certification
10 10 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (2.19%) CSPO
13 7 (1.91%) A+ Certification
13 7 (1.91%) CCNA
13 7 (1.91%) MCSE
14 6 (1.64%) CBAP
15 5 (1.37%) CISSP
16 3 (0.82%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (10.66%) Data Quality
2 29 (7.92%) QA
3 26 (7.10%) GDPR
4 12 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.64%) SLA
7 5 (1.37%) NIST
7 5 (1.37%) PMO
8 4 (1.09%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.09%) MiFID
9 3 (0.82%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.55%) EMIR
10 2 (0.55%) GRC
10 2 (0.55%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.27%) COSHH
11 1 (0.27%) FIPS 140-2
11 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 13 (3.55%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.28%) Hyper-V
2 12 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.73%) Docker
4 4 (1.09%) NDS
4 4 (1.09%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 3 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.27%) KVM
6 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (3.55%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.73%) Ansible
3 8 (2.19%) Terraform
4 6 (1.64%) SCCM
5 4 (1.09%) SCOM
5 4 (1.09%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.55%) vRealize
7 1 (0.27%) Kibana
7 1 (0.27%) Suricata
Vendors
1 60 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.20%) SAP
3 18 (4.92%) Google
4 16 (4.37%) ServiceNow
4 16 (4.37%) VMware
5 14 (3.83%) Oracle
6 13 (3.55%) Adobe
7 10 (2.73%) Siemens
8 9 (2.46%) Databricks
9 8 (2.19%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.91%) Dell
11 6 (1.64%) Alteryx
12 5 (1.37%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.37%) Splunk
13 4 (1.09%) BMC
13 4 (1.09%) CyberArk
13 4 (1.09%) Informatica
13 4 (1.09%) Murex
13 4 (1.09%) NetIQ
13 4 (1.09%) Sparx
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