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 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 436 474
Rank change year-on-year +165 +38 +147
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 354 125 148
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 0.34% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.75% 1.10% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 70 94
10th Percentile £272 £225 £103
25th Percentile £371 £263 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £444
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% +8.73% -1.39%
75th Percentile £594 £584 £611
90th Percentile £679 £677 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £388
% change year-on-year - +16.13% +252.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 13
10th Percentile - - £16.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £11.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £19.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +94.81% +4.05% -64.58%
75th Percentile £61.50 £21.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £23.94 £45.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year +307.41% -25.00% -58.11%

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 12,853 11,387 14,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.66% 31.24% 31.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,978 6,697 9,742
10th Percentile £275 £285 £270
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £635 £663 £668
90th Percentile £738 £788 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 665 380 496
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.75 £16.89
25th Percentile £18.25 £22.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -20.90% +26.43%
75th Percentile £56.25 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.16 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.11 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -16.60% -29.62% +58.15%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 29 November 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 +143 316 £500 +5.26% 214
UK excluding London +94 172 £450 - 189
London +96 152 £525 - 89
Work from Home +72 98 £425 +25.00% 104
South East +40 50 £350 -9.68% 85
North of England -10 46 £550 +27.91% 29
Midlands -2 31 £378 - 27
North West -10 25 £460 -0.54% 21
Yorkshire -11 21 £563 +90.68% 6
West Midlands - 19 £420 - 18
Scotland - 17 £475 - 8
East of England -1 16 £675 +42.11% 19
South West +12 13 £525 +23.53% 18
East Midlands -1 12 £360 - 9
Wales - 4 £588 - 3
North East - 1 £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 15 (4.24%) Confluence
2 10 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.41%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.56%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.28%) Camunda
Applications
1 48 (13.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.11%) Siemens NX
4 9 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.54%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.85%) Navisworks
6 3 (0.85%) Revit
7 2 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.56%) ProjectWise
7 2 (0.56%) Sketch
7 2 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.28%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.28%) Notion
8 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.11%) Teamcenter
2 9 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.41%) NetSuite
5 4 (1.13%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (1.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.85%) Endur
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.56%) Shopify
8 1 (0.28%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.28%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.28%) Maximo
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.28%) Primavera
8 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 47 (13.28%) Azure
2 40 (11.30%) Power Platform
3 36 (10.17%) AWS
4 16 (4.52%) GCP
5 11 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (3.11%) SaaS
6 9 (2.54%) Contentsquare
7 8 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.69%) Collibra
9 6 (1.69%) GitHub
9 6 (1.69%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.13%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.13%) Google Data Studio
11 3 (0.85%) Adobe Analytics
11 3 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.85%) Google Analytics
11 3 (0.85%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.21%) DNS
2 18 (5.08%) TCP/IP
3 16 (4.52%) Network Security
4 14 (3.95%) VLAN
5 12 (3.39%) DHCP
5 12 (3.39%) HTTP
5 12 (3.39%) SSL
6 9 (2.54%) Firewall
7 8 (2.26%) FTP
7 8 (2.26%) SMTP
8 6 (1.69%) LAN
9 5 (1.41%) BGP
10 3 (0.85%) SAN
10 3 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.56%) Internet
11 2 (0.56%) MPLS
11 2 (0.56%) SMS
11 2 (0.56%) SNMP
11 2 (0.56%) TACACS
11 2 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.02%) Power BI
2 17 (4.80%) Tableau
3 11 (3.11%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.26%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.69%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 6 (1.69%) Metadata
6 6 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.41%) Big Data
7 5 (1.41%) Power Query
8 3 (0.85%) Data Mart
8 3 (0.85%) Looker
8 3 (0.85%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.85%) MSDE
8 3 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.56%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.56%) MySQL
9 2 (0.56%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (6.78%) JIRA
2 4 (1.13%) Bitbucket
2 4 (1.13%) Git
2 4 (1.13%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.85%) IntelliJ
3 3 (0.85%) PyCharm
3 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (0.85%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 2 (0.56%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.56%) MSBuild
4 2 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.28%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.28%) JMeter
5 1 (0.28%) Locust
5 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 354 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 184 (51.98%) Social Skills
3 123 (34.75%) Finance
4 34 (9.60%) Banking
5 32 (9.04%) Public Sector
6 29 (8.19%) Marketing
7 24 (6.78%) Legal
7 24 (6.78%) Manufacturing
8 18 (5.08%) Investment Banking
9 14 (3.95%) Telecoms
10 13 (3.67%) Financial Institution
10 13 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (3.39%) Retail
12 10 (2.82%) Aerospace
12 10 (2.82%) Publishing
13 7 (1.98%) Back Office
13 7 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.98%) Electronics
13 7 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 106 (29.94%) Analyst
2 41 (11.58%) Business Analyst
3 23 (6.50%) Data Analyst
4 21 (5.93%) Architect
4 21 (5.93%) Lead
5 19 (5.37%) Consultant
6 18 (5.08%) Project Manager
7 16 (4.52%) Senior
8 15 (4.24%) Developer
9 13 (3.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (3.11%) Infrastructure Support
10 11 (3.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 11 (3.11%) Project Leader
10 11 (3.11%) Support Engineer
11 10 (2.82%) Product Manager
11 10 (2.82%) SOC Analyst
12 9 (2.54%) IT Manager
13 8 (2.26%) Product Owner
14 7 (1.98%) Service Support Manager
14 7 (1.98%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.11%) JSON
2 10 (2.82%) LDAP
3 7 (1.98%) REST
4 6 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (1.69%) scikit-learn
4 6 (1.69%) TensorFlow
5 5 (1.41%) .NET
5 5 (1.41%) React
6 4 (1.13%) HTML
6 4 (1.13%) Pandas
7 3 (0.85%) Node.js
7 3 (0.85%) PyTorch
7 3 (0.85%) Swagger
7 3 (0.85%) XGBoost
8 2 (0.56%) Dask
8 2 (0.56%) NETCONF
8 2 (0.56%) OpenConfig
8 2 (0.56%) RESTCONF
8 2 (0.56%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.21%) Management Information System
2 17 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.95%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.26%) CSOC
4 8 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (2.26%) Cyberattack
4 8 (2.26%) Security Operations Centre
4 8 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (1.98%) Algorithms
5 7 (1.98%) Data Centre
5 7 (1.98%) Derivative
6 6 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.41%) PMI
8 4 (1.13%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.13%) SCADA
8 4 (1.13%) Social Media
9 3 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 33 (9.32%) Windows
2 23 (6.50%) Linux
3 6 (1.69%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.56%) VMS
6 1 (0.28%) Android
6 1 (0.28%) Unix
6 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (39.27%) Problem-Solving
2 101 (28.53%) Agile
3 86 (24.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 63 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 62 (17.51%) Decision-Making
6 61 (17.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 60 (16.95%) Analytics
8 52 (14.69%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (11.02%) Roadmaps
10 37 (10.45%) Visualisation
11 34 (9.60%) Data Analysis
12 33 (9.32%) Risk Management
13 32 (9.04%) Actionable Insight
13 32 (9.04%) ITIL
14 31 (8.76%) AI
15 30 (8.47%) Change Management
15 30 (8.47%) Data Governance
16 29 (8.19%) Scrum
17 28 (7.91%) Project Management
18 27 (7.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 80 (22.60%) SQL
2 54 (15.25%) Python
3 26 (7.34%) PowerShell
4 17 (4.80%) Java
5 15 (4.24%) C#
6 8 (2.26%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.69%) Bash
7 6 (1.69%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.13%) R
9 3 (0.85%) Korn
9 3 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.85%) VBA
10 2 (0.56%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.56%) RPG
10 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.28%) Cypher
11 1 (0.28%) Go
11 1 (0.28%) Scala
11 1 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 59 (16.67%) Degree
2 56 (15.82%) Security Cleared
3 45 (12.71%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (4.24%) PMI Certification
6 14 (3.95%) Network+ Certification
7 13 (3.67%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.11%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.11%) Master's Degree
8 11 (3.11%) PMP
8 11 (3.11%) Server+ Certification
9 10 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.69%) CBAP
11 5 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.41%) CSPO
12 4 (1.13%) CISSP
13 3 (0.85%) A+ Certification
13 3 (0.85%) CCNA
13 3 (0.85%) CIMA
13 3 (0.85%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.17%) Data Quality
2 25 (7.06%) QA
3 22 (6.21%) GDPR
4 12 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.69%) NIST
5 6 (1.69%) PMO
5 6 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.69%) SLA
6 4 (1.13%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.13%) MiFID
7 3 (0.85%) ISO 19650
7 3 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.56%) EMIR
8 2 (0.56%) GRC
8 2 (0.56%) IFRS
9 1 (0.28%) COSHH
9 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.28%) FIPS 140-2
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 11 (3.11%) Docker
1 11 (3.11%) Hyper-V
1 11 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.13%) NDS
3 4 (1.13%) NetIQ eDirectory
4 3 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 15 (4.24%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.11%) Ansible
3 9 (2.54%) Terraform
4 6 (1.69%) SCCM
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.56%) SCOM
5 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.56%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.56%) vRealize
6 1 (0.28%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.28%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 61 (17.23%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.91%) SAP
3 17 (4.80%) Google
3 17 (4.80%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.95%) Oracle
5 13 (3.67%) VMware
6 12 (3.39%) Adobe
7 10 (2.82%) Siemens
8 7 (1.98%) Alteryx
8 7 (1.98%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.41%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.41%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.13%) Cisco
10 4 (1.13%) Databricks
10 4 (1.13%) Murex
10 4 (1.13%) NetIQ
10 4 (1.13%) Sparx
10 4 (1.13%) Splunk
11 3 (0.85%) BMC
11 3 (0.85%) Dell
241 Analytical Mindset jobs Nationwide