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 13 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 387 398
Rank change year-on-year +77 +11 +179
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 339 146 200
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.50% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.38% 1.47% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 94 101
10th Percentile £325 £225 £150
25th Percentile £400 £330 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £583 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +262.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 57
10th Percentile £14.10 £50.55 £11.75
25th Percentile £18.25 £67.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.50 £80.68 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.87% +361.00% -72.00%
75th Percentile £62.06 £81.01 £20.25
90th Percentile £75.88 £81.22 £25.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.25 £80.68 £16.50
% change year-on-year -53.83% +388.94% -25.54%

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 14,232 9,917 13,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.23% 33.66% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,946 6,231 8,642
10th Percentile £290 £278 £255
25th Percentile £408 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
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 670 349 871
10th Percentile £15.48 £16.95 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.27 £15.63
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +16.07% +24.53%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £83.20 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.32 £31.76 £26.00
% change year-on-year +14.36% +22.15% +18.18%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +67 306 £500 +7.24% 234
London +46 159 £500 +2.56% 94
UK excluding London -13 146 £475 +5.56% 185
Work from Home +43 105 £500 +14.68% 101
South East -14 57 £465 +10.06% 65
Midlands -41 29 £470 -3.29% 32
North of England -54 25 £485 +18.29% 47
West Midlands -42 22 £470 -10.48% 24
South West -12 14 £525 +23.53% 19
East of England -33 12 £503 -6.40% 14
North West -36 12 £453 +12.00% 34
Yorkshire -46 10 £519 +26.52% 11
Wales +1 9 £425 +8.97% 5
East Midlands -28 7 £475 +6.26% 8
Scotland +7 4 £433 -3.89% 5
North East - 4 £550 - 2

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 17 (5.01%) Confluence
2 6 (1.77%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.77%) CMS
3 2 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.59%) Apache
3 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) Camunda
4 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 48 (14.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.95%) MS Visio
4 9 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.59%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.29%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.29%) Notion
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.29%) Revit
8 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.24%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.47%) Shopify
3 4 (1.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.59%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.29%) Maximo
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.29%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 46 (13.57%) Azure
2 39 (11.50%) Power Platform
3 31 (9.14%) AWS
4 12 (3.54%) GitHub
5 11 (3.24%) GCP
6 10 (2.95%) SaaS
7 8 (2.36%) Entra ID
8 7 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.77%) Collibra
9 6 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.47%) Contentsquare
10 5 (1.47%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (1.47%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.18%) Alation
11 4 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.18%) Lucidchart
11 4 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (0.88%) Fivetran
12 3 (0.88%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.96%) SAN
2 17 (5.01%) DNS
3 16 (4.72%) Network Security
4 13 (3.83%) TCP/IP
5 11 (3.24%) Firewall
5 11 (3.24%) SSL
6 10 (2.95%) HTTP
7 8 (2.36%) BGP
7 8 (2.36%) WAN
8 7 (2.06%) LAN
8 7 (2.06%) VLAN
9 6 (1.77%) DHCP
9 6 (1.77%) FTP
9 6 (1.77%) MPLS
10 5 (1.47%) SMTP
11 4 (1.18%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.18%) SNMP
11 4 (1.18%) TACACS
12 3 (0.88%) Internet
12 3 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.50%) Power BI
2 12 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.65%) Tableau
4 7 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.77%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 6 (1.77%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.77%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.47%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.47%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.18%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (1.18%) Metadata
8 3 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.88%) Big Data
8 3 (0.88%) Data Mart
8 3 (0.88%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.59%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.59%) Looker
9 2 (0.59%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (10.03%) JIRA
2 5 (1.47%) Git
3 2 (0.59%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.59%) MLflow
3 2 (0.59%) MSBuild
3 2 (0.59%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.29%) GitLab
4 1 (0.29%) JMeter
4 1 (0.29%) JUnit
4 1 (0.29%) Locust
General
1 338 (99.71%) Analytical Skills
2 179 (52.80%) Social Skills
3 108 (31.86%) Finance
4 31 (9.14%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.96%) Marketing
6 24 (7.08%) Banking
7 17 (5.01%) Legal
8 16 (4.72%) Manufacturing
8 16 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.95%) Publishing
11 9 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.36%) Retail
13 7 (2.06%) Financial Institution
13 7 (2.06%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.77%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.47%) Back Office
15 5 (1.47%) Electronics
15 5 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (22.71%) Analyst
2 43 (12.68%) Business Analyst
3 27 (7.96%) Lead
4 23 (6.78%) Field Engineer
4 23 (6.78%) Field Service Engineer
4 23 (6.78%) IT Engineer
5 22 (6.49%) Consultant
6 18 (5.31%) Data Analyst
6 18 (5.31%) Developer
6 18 (5.31%) Support Engineer
7 17 (5.01%) Senior
8 13 (3.83%) Project Manager
9 12 (3.54%) Architect
10 11 (3.24%) Project Leader
10 11 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (2.95%) Field Support Engineer
11 10 (2.95%) IT Support
11 10 (2.95%) IT Support Engineer
12 8 (2.36%) Product Manager
13 7 (2.06%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.06%) PyTorch
2 6 (1.77%) LDAP
2 6 (1.77%) PySpark
3 5 (1.47%) JSON
3 5 (1.47%) REST
3 5 (1.47%) scikit-learn
3 5 (1.47%) TensorFlow
3 5 (1.47%) YAML
4 4 (1.18%) EDI
4 4 (1.18%) NETCONF
4 4 (1.18%) Node.js
4 4 (1.18%) OpenConfig
4 4 (1.18%) Pandas
4 4 (1.18%) RESTCONF
4 4 (1.18%) XML
4 4 (1.18%) YANG
5 3 (0.88%) Dask
5 3 (0.88%) Google JAX
5 3 (0.88%) JAX
5 3 (0.88%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.14%) Data Centre
2 21 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.42%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.42%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.06%) Derivative
7 6 (1.77%) Blog
7 6 (1.77%) NHS
8 5 (1.47%) CSOC
8 5 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.47%) Cyberattack
8 5 (1.47%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.18%) SCADA
9 4 (1.18%) Social Media
10 3 (0.88%) Contract for Difference
10 3 (0.88%) Media Streaming
10 3 (0.88%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.85%) Windows
2 18 (5.31%) Linux
3 8 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.29%) Unix
5 1 (0.29%) VMS
5 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (41.89%) Problem-Solving
2 89 (26.25%) Agile
3 86 (25.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 70 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 60 (17.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 56 (16.52%) Decision-Making
7 52 (15.34%) Business Intelligence
8 49 (14.45%) Analytics
9 39 (11.50%) Data Governance
10 37 (10.91%) Actionable Insight
11 35 (10.32%) Roadmaps
12 34 (10.03%) Validation
13 32 (9.44%) AI
13 32 (9.44%) Data Modelling
14 29 (8.55%) Change Management
14 29 (8.55%) Workshop Facilitation
15 28 (8.26%) Business Analysis
15 28 (8.26%) ITIL
15 28 (8.26%) Visualisation
16 27 (7.96%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 76 (22.42%) SQL
2 43 (12.68%) Python
3 27 (7.96%) PowerShell
4 12 (3.54%) C#
4 12 (3.54%) Java
5 8 (2.36%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.77%) Bash
6 6 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.88%) VBA
8 2 (0.59%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.59%) Bicep
8 2 (0.59%) C++
8 2 (0.59%) Go
8 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.29%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.29%) PHP
9 1 (0.29%) R
9 1 (0.29%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 55 (16.22%) Degree
2 49 (14.45%) Security Cleared
3 32 (9.44%) SC Cleared
4 28 (8.26%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (7.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (7.67%) Network+ Certification
6 24 (7.08%) CCNA
7 23 (6.78%) A+ Certification
7 23 (6.78%) MCSE
8 16 (4.72%) DV Cleared
9 14 (4.13%) Master's Degree
10 13 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (3.83%) PMI Certification
11 11 (3.24%) PMP
12 6 (1.77%) CISSP
13 5 (1.47%) CBAP
13 5 (1.47%) CSPO
14 4 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (1.18%) CISA
14 4 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.09%) Data Quality
2 31 (9.14%) GDPR
3 24 (7.08%) QA
4 16 (4.72%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (2.65%) NIST
7 8 (2.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.77%) PMO
9 5 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (1.18%) HIPAA
10 4 (1.18%) SLA
10 4 (1.18%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.88%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.88%) WCAG
12 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.59%) EMIR
12 2 (0.59%) MiFID
12 2 (0.59%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (5.01%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.65%) Docker
3 7 (2.06%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.18%) Firmware
4 4 (1.18%) NDS
4 4 (1.18%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 3 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.59%) KVM
7 1 (0.29%) RACF
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (2.95%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.36%) Ansible
3 7 (2.06%) Terraform
4 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.18%) SCCM
5 4 (1.18%) SCOM
5 4 (1.18%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.29%) Grafana
6 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.29%) Kibana
6 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.29%) Suricata
6 1 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 51 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.37%) SAP
3 23 (6.78%) Dell
4 16 (4.72%) Oracle
4 16 (4.72%) ServiceNow
5 13 (3.83%) Databricks
5 13 (3.83%) VMware
6 12 (3.54%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.06%) Adobe
7 7 (2.06%) Google
8 6 (1.77%) BMC
8 6 (1.77%) Cisco
8 6 (1.77%) Informatica
9 5 (1.47%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.47%) Murex
10 4 (1.18%) F5
10 4 (1.18%) Juniper
10 4 (1.18%) NetIQ
10 4 (1.18%) Sparx
10 4 (1.18%) Splunk
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