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 8 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 380 403
Rank change year-on-year +75 +23 +104
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 356 150 186
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.52% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.33% 1.52% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 103 97
10th Percentile £250 £250 £194
25th Percentile £400 £380 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £460 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -12.38% -
75th Percentile £588 £605 £575
90th Percentile £650 £643 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +4.44% -14.29% -8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 6 57
10th Percentile £14.10 £53.38 £11.75
25th Percentile £33.31 £70.71 £13.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £80.68 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.74% +388.94% -73.60%
75th Percentile £67.38 £81.27 £18.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.35 £24.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.50 £80.68 £14.50
% change year-on-year -31.21% +456.38% -34.57%

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 15,287 9,893 13,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.21% 33.99% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,524 6,312 8,441
10th Percentile £308 £300 £266
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.55% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 721 394 904
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.01 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £31.13
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +4.42% +38.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £87.50 £83.20 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.76 £28.50
% change year-on-year +57.43% +11.44% +29.55%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +55 325 £494 +4.00% 234
UK excluding London +15 180 £470 +4.44% 174
London +19 154 £500 - 96
Work from Home +34 96 £500 +13.77% 112
South East -8 69 £500 +53.85% 66
Midlands -41 33 £460 -5.35% 18
North of England -44 29 £463 +29.19% 38
West Midlands -33 26 £470 -10.48% 10
South West -18 25 £350 -28.21% 19
North West -30 18 £452 +26.26% 24
Wales +1 11 - - 7
East of England -40 9 £475 -17.39% 20
Scotland -6 8 £236 -47.56% 7
Yorkshire -42 8 £463 +10.78% 7
East Midlands -23 7 £450 +0.67% 8
North East - 3 - - 8

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 (5.34%) Confluence
2 5 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.12%) CMS
4 2 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.56%) Apache
5 1 (0.28%) Camunda
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 37 (10.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.37%) MS Visio
4 11 (3.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.56%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.81%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.12%) Finacle
3 4 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.12%) Shopify
4 3 (0.84%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.56%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.28%) Summit
6 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 39 (10.96%) Azure
2 36 (10.11%) Power Platform
3 31 (8.71%) AWS
4 14 (3.93%) GitHub
5 13 (3.65%) SaaS
6 11 (3.09%) GCP
7 10 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (2.25%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (1.40%) Collibra
9 5 (1.40%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (1.40%) Lucidchart
9 5 (1.40%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.84%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.84%) Apigee
11 3 (0.84%) Datadog
11 3 (0.84%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 56 (15.73%) SAN
2 14 (3.93%) DNS
3 12 (3.37%) Network Security
4 10 (2.81%) WAN
5 7 (1.97%) MPLS
5 7 (1.97%) SSL
6 6 (1.69%) FTP
6 6 (1.69%) HTTP
6 6 (1.69%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.40%) BGP
7 5 (1.40%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.40%) SMTP
8 4 (1.12%) Firewall
8 4 (1.12%) LAN
8 4 (1.12%) SNMP
8 4 (1.12%) TACACS
9 3 (0.84%) DHCP
9 3 (0.84%) Internet
9 3 (0.84%) NAS
9 3 (0.84%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.11%) Power BI
2 16 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.53%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.25%) Data Lake
4 8 (2.25%) Tableau
5 5 (1.40%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 5 (1.40%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.40%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.12%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.12%) Looker
6 4 (1.12%) Metadata
6 4 (1.12%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.84%) Big Data
7 3 (0.84%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.84%) Power Query
8 2 (0.56%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (10.67%) JIRA
2 4 (1.12%) Git
3 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.56%) MLflow
3 2 (0.56%) Selenium
3 2 (0.56%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.28%) Appium
4 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.28%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.28%) Gatling
4 1 (0.28%) GitLab
4 1 (0.28%) JMeter
4 1 (0.28%) JUnit
4 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.28%) TestRail
General
1 355 (99.72%) Analytical Skills
2 171 (48.03%) Social Skills
3 109 (30.62%) Finance
4 33 (9.27%) Banking
5 31 (8.71%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.62%) Legal
6 20 (5.62%) Marketing
7 16 (4.49%) Manufacturing
7 16 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.09%) Back Office
9 11 (3.09%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.25%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.97%) Front Office
12 6 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.12%) Law
13 4 (1.12%) Multimedia
13 4 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (21.91%) Analyst
2 51 (14.33%) Field Engineer
2 51 (14.33%) Field Service Engineer
2 51 (14.33%) IT Engineer
3 46 (12.92%) Business Analyst
4 23 (6.46%) Support Engineer
5 21 (5.90%) Lead
6 20 (5.62%) Developer
7 18 (5.06%) IT Support
8 17 (4.78%) Senior
9 16 (4.49%) Field Support Engineer
9 16 (4.49%) IT Support Engineer
10 15 (4.21%) Consultant
10 15 (4.21%) Data Analyst
11 11 (3.09%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (2.81%) Operations Analyst
12 10 (2.81%) Operations Business Analyst
13 9 (2.53%) Architect
13 9 (2.53%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.97%) PySpark
2 6 (1.69%) LDAP
2 6 (1.69%) PyTorch
3 5 (1.40%) YAML
4 4 (1.12%) .NET
4 4 (1.12%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.12%) NETCONF
4 4 (1.12%) OpenConfig
4 4 (1.12%) Pandas
4 4 (1.12%) RESTCONF
4 4 (1.12%) scikit-learn
4 4 (1.12%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.12%) XML
4 4 (1.12%) YANG
5 3 (0.84%) EDI
5 3 (0.84%) Kafka
5 3 (0.84%) Middleware
5 3 (0.84%) REST
6 2 (0.56%) HTML
6 2 (0.56%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 61 (17.13%) Data Centre
2 18 (5.06%) Onboarding
2 18 (5.06%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.93%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.53%) Operational Technology
4 9 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.25%) SCADA
6 7 (1.97%) Web Conferencing
7 6 (1.69%) Blog
7 6 (1.69%) Derivative
7 6 (1.69%) NHS
8 5 (1.40%) CSOC
8 5 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.40%) Cyberattack
8 5 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.40%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.12%) Social Media
9 4 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.99%) Windows
2 16 (4.49%) Linux
3 9 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.12%) Unix
5 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.56%) AIX
6 2 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.56%) HPUX
6 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.56%) Solaris
6 2 (0.56%) SUSE
6 2 (0.56%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (42.70%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (23.31%) Agile
3 73 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 63 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 55 (15.45%) Customer Service
6 53 (14.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 51 (14.33%) Break/Fix
8 49 (13.76%) Decision-Making
9 48 (13.48%) Analytics
10 43 (12.08%) Business Intelligence
11 38 (10.67%) Data Modelling
12 36 (10.11%) AI
12 36 (10.11%) Validation
13 35 (9.83%) Data Governance
14 34 (9.55%) Actionable Insight
14 34 (9.55%) Business Analysis
15 32 (8.99%) Process Improvement
16 31 (8.71%) Change Management
16 31 (8.71%) Roadmaps
16 31 (8.71%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 68 (19.10%) SQL
2 42 (11.80%) Python
3 24 (6.74%) PowerShell
4 14 (3.93%) C#
5 11 (3.09%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.53%) Java
7 7 (1.97%) Bash
7 7 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.12%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.12%) C++
9 3 (0.84%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.84%) VBA
10 2 (0.56%) Bicep
10 2 (0.56%) Go
10 2 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.56%) R
11 1 (0.28%) LookML
11 1 (0.28%) Scala
11 1 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.28%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 59 (16.57%) Cisco Certification
2 55 (15.45%) CCNA
3 54 (15.17%) MCSE
3 54 (15.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 51 (14.33%) A+ Certification
4 51 (14.33%) Network+ Certification
5 45 (12.64%) Security Cleared
6 40 (11.24%) Degree
7 27 (7.58%) SC Cleared
8 17 (4.78%) DV Cleared
9 11 (3.09%) Master's Degree
10 10 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.53%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.97%) PMP
13 6 (1.69%) CISSP
14 4 (1.12%) CCIE
14 4 (1.12%) CEH
14 4 (1.12%) CISA
14 4 (1.12%) ISTQB
14 4 (1.12%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.58%) Data Quality
2 25 (7.02%) GDPR
3 22 (6.18%) QA
4 19 (5.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (3.09%) NIST
6 9 (2.53%) PMO
7 8 (2.25%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.12%) SLA
10 3 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.84%) GRC
10 3 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.84%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.84%) WCAG
11 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.28%) COBIT
12 1 (0.28%) MiFID
12 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 17 (4.78%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.97%) Hyper-V
2 7 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.40%) Docker
4 4 (1.12%) Firmware
5 3 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.56%) KVM
6 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.28%) NFS
7 1 (0.28%) RACF
7 1 (0.28%) Squid
7 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (3.37%) Ansible
2 9 (2.53%) Terraform
3 6 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.12%) SCCM
4 4 (1.12%) SCOM
4 4 (1.12%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.84%) Podman
6 1 (0.28%) Control-M
6 1 (0.28%) Grafana
6 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.28%) Kibana
6 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.28%) Suricata
6 1 (0.28%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 51 (14.33%) Dell
2 44 (12.36%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.74%) SAP
4 21 (5.90%) Oracle
5 20 (5.62%) Salesforce
6 16 (4.49%) VMware
7 13 (3.65%) Cisco
8 12 (3.37%) Databricks
9 8 (2.25%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.69%) BMC
10 6 (1.69%) Google
11 5 (1.40%) BT
11 5 (1.40%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.40%) Nexthink
12 4 (1.12%) F5
12 4 (1.12%) Juniper
12 4 (1.12%) Murex
12 4 (1.12%) Splunk
13 3 (0.84%) Adobe
13 3 (0.84%) HP