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 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 281 457
Rank change year-on-year -124 +176 +19
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 291 302 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.91% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 2.53% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 188 61
10th Percentile £189 £230 £225
25th Percentile £406 £367 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £473
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +5.29% -3.82%
75th Percentile £613 £589 £575
90th Percentile £691 £675 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 15
10th Percentile £14.28 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £21.38 £11.75
Median hourly rate £47.00 £45.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +200.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £65.79 £75.00 £21.75
90th Percentile £82.75 £83.54 £23.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.07 £65.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -9.13% +364.29% -32.53%

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 18,907 11,932 11,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.64% 36.02% 30.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,283 7,315 6,943
10th Percentile £325 £299 £275
25th Percentile £425 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £665
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,313 623 414
10th Percentile £13.92 £14.69 £15.79
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.51 £22.70
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -42.11% +5.56%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £72.30 £75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.50 £27.21 £54.25
% change year-on-year +26.77% -49.84% +5.50%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -119 267 £500 +7.53% 645
London -70 145 £575 +4.55% 420
UK excluding London -109 127 £450 - 249
Work from Home -65 63 £525 +23.53% 238
North of England -83 34 £350 -28.93% 47
South East -77 27 £475 +61.70% 67
Midlands -45 24 £500 +57.48% 45
North West -49 22 £477 +5.89% 30
South West -20 21 £375 -28.57% 28
West Midlands -42 20 £525 +81.66% 25
East of England -35 15 £500 -17.44% 24
Yorkshire -40 11 £190 -65.84% 14
Scotland -28 6 £127 -74.60% 20
East Midlands -19 4 £325 -4.41% 20
Northern Ireland +6 2 £463 -15.91% 14
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 15 (5.15%) Confluence
2 5 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.37%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.37%) SAS
4 3 (1.03%) CMS
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.34%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) Camunda
6 1 (0.34%) Mendix
Applications
1 32 (11.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (7.90%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (5.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.41%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.34%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 9 (3.09%) Finacle
2 5 (1.72%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.72%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.03%) iTrent
3 3 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.69%) Actimize
4 2 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.34%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.34%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 39 (13.40%) Azure
2 31 (10.65%) AWS
2 31 (10.65%) Power Platform
3 21 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (5.15%) Entra ID
5 14 (4.81%) GitHub
5 14 (4.81%) SaaS
5 14 (4.81%) Snowflake
6 13 (4.47%) GCP
7 11 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.72%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.37%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.37%) Power Automate
12 3 (1.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.03%) Collibra
12 3 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.81%) SAN
2 8 (2.75%) BGP
2 8 (2.75%) LAN
2 8 (2.75%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.41%) Network Security
3 7 (2.41%) WAN
4 6 (2.06%) Broadband
4 6 (2.06%) DNS
5 5 (1.72%) MPLS
5 5 (1.72%) SSL
5 5 (1.72%) VLAN
5 5 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.37%) Firewall
6 4 (1.37%) SNMP
6 4 (1.37%) TACACS
6 4 (1.37%) VPN
7 3 (1.03%) FTP
7 3 (1.03%) HTTP
7 3 (1.03%) OSPF
7 3 (1.03%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.31%) Power BI
2 14 (4.81%) Tableau
3 11 (3.78%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.09%) Oracle Database
4 9 (3.09%) RDBMS
5 8 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.06%) Metadata
7 5 (1.72%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.37%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.37%) Power Query
8 4 (1.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (1.37%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 3 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.03%) Big Data
9 3 (1.03%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.03%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.03%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.03%) MySQL
10 2 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (12.37%) JIRA
2 4 (1.37%) Cypress.io
2 4 (1.37%) Git
2 4 (1.37%) GitLab
2 4 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.69%) Mocha
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.69%) Selenium
5 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.34%) Capybara
5 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.34%) RSpec
General
1 291 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 177 (60.82%) Social Skills
3 100 (34.36%) Finance
4 43 (14.78%) Public Sector
5 34 (11.68%) Banking
6 28 (9.62%) Local Government
7 26 (8.93%) Front Office
8 20 (6.87%) Marketing
9 19 (6.53%) Telecoms
10 15 (5.15%) Back Office
11 14 (4.81%) Manufacturing
12 12 (4.12%) Legal
12 12 (4.12%) Retail
13 10 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (1.72%) German Language
17 5 (1.72%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (20.96%) Analyst
2 30 (10.31%) Business Analyst
3 28 (9.62%) Senior
4 20 (6.87%) Architect
5 19 (6.53%) IT Engineer
6 17 (5.84%) Data Analyst
7 15 (5.15%) Consultant
8 14 (4.81%) Field Engineer
8 14 (4.81%) Field Service Engineer
9 12 (4.12%) Applications Support
9 12 (4.12%) Developer
9 12 (4.12%) Lead
9 12 (4.12%) Product Owner
10 11 (3.78%) IT Support
11 10 (3.44%) Support Engineer
12 9 (3.09%) Systems Support
13 7 (2.41%) IT Support Engineer
13 7 (2.41%) Product Manager
13 7 (2.41%) Senior Manager
14 6 (2.06%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.47%) REST
2 10 (3.44%) Terraform
3 8 (2.75%) RESTful
4 5 (1.72%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (1.72%) JSON
4 5 (1.72%) XML
5 4 (1.37%) .NET
5 4 (1.37%) Kafka
5 4 (1.37%) NETCONF
5 4 (1.37%) OpenConfig
5 4 (1.37%) RESTCONF
5 4 (1.37%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.37%) YANG
6 3 (1.03%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.03%) LDAP
6 3 (1.03%) PySpark
6 3 (1.03%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.69%) JWT
7 2 (0.69%) Nunjucks
7 2 (0.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.97%) Product Ownership
2 25 (8.59%) Onboarding
3 21 (7.22%) Data Centre
4 13 (4.47%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.78%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 9 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.09%) Social Media
8 8 (2.75%) CMDB
8 8 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (2.41%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.41%) Equities
9 7 (2.41%) Life Science
9 7 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.06%) Fixed Income
10 6 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.72%) Cyberattack
11 5 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.62%) Windows
2 10 (3.44%) Linux
3 6 (2.06%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.06%) Unix
4 5 (1.72%) Android
5 4 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.03%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.34%) AIX
7 1 (0.34%) HPUX
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Solaris
7 1 (0.34%) SUSE
7 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (40.55%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (32.65%) Agile
2 95 (32.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 68 (23.37%) AI
4 63 (21.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (17.18%) Validation
6 49 (16.84%) Business Analysis
7 48 (16.49%) Analytics
8 44 (15.12%) DevOps
9 39 (13.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 35 (12.03%) Migration
11 34 (11.68%) User Stories
12 33 (11.34%) Roadmaps
13 31 (10.65%) Business Intelligence
13 31 (10.65%) User Acceptance Testing
14 30 (10.31%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 29 (9.97%) Decision-Making
16 28 (9.62%) Scrum
16 28 (9.62%) Workshop Facilitation
17 27 (9.28%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 65 (22.34%) SQL
2 47 (16.15%) Python
3 10 (3.44%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.75%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.72%) Bash
5 5 (1.72%) C#
6 4 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.37%) Java
7 3 (1.03%) Go
7 3 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.03%) R
7 3 (1.03%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.69%) Bicep
8 2 (0.69%) C
8 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.69%) ProC
8 2 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.34%) C++
9 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 31 (10.65%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.62%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (7.90%) Degree
5 20 (6.87%) CCNA
6 18 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (5.50%) MCSE
7 16 (5.50%) Network+ Certification
8 14 (4.81%) A+ Certification
9 11 (3.78%) DV Cleared
10 9 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.06%) AWS Certification
11 6 (2.06%) CCIE
11 6 (2.06%) CISSP
12 4 (1.37%) CISM
12 4 (1.37%) JNCIE
12 4 (1.37%) SAS Certification
13 3 (1.03%) GCIA
13 3 (1.03%) GCIH
13 3 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.62%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.84%) QA
3 11 (3.78%) GDPR
4 10 (3.44%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.75%) PMO
6 6 (2.06%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 6 (2.06%) SLA
7 5 (1.72%) GxP
7 5 (1.72%) NCSC
8 4 (1.37%) NIST
8 4 (1.37%) WCAG
9 3 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (1.03%) GRC
10 2 (0.69%) Basel III
10 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.34%) IFRS
11 1 (0.34%) P3O
11 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 17 (5.84%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.44%) Docker
3 3 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.34%) Squid
5 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (5.50%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.12%) Ansible
3 2 (0.69%) Grafana
3 2 (0.69%) Podman
3 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.69%) SCCM
4 1 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (0.34%) Control-M
4 1 (0.34%) IBM BigFix
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.34%) QRadar
4 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.87%) SAP
3 19 (6.53%) Oracle
4 17 (5.84%) ServiceNow
5 16 (5.50%) Cisco
6 15 (5.15%) Dell
7 11 (3.78%) Databricks
8 9 (3.09%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.41%) Google
10 6 (2.06%) Juniper
11 5 (1.72%) Ariba
11 5 (1.72%) Charles River
11 5 (1.72%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.72%) MarketAxess
11 5 (1.72%) Remedy
11 5 (1.72%) Splunk
11 5 (1.72%) Tradeweb
12 4 (1.37%) Alteryx
12 4 (1.37%) F5
12 4 (1.37%) Zscaler