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 28 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 379 410
Rank change year-on-year +73 +31 +127
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 351 151 191
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.51% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.32% 1.52% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 102 99
10th Percentile £304 £250 £184
25th Percentile £400 £380 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -1.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £668 £638 £639
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £449 £525
% change year-on-year +5.91% -14.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 6 61
10th Percentile £14.10 £53.38 £11.75
25th Percentile £35.00 £70.71 £13.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £80.68 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.74% +361.00% -72.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £81.27 £19.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.35 £25.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.32 £80.68 £15.90
% change year-on-year -26.47% +407.39% -28.25%

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 15,145 9,962 13,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.24% 33.94% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,438 6,371 8,443
10th Percentile £306 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 724 395 906
10th Percentile £16.03 £16.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% +13.04% +27.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £82.40 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £31.76 £27.50
% change year-on-year +49.69% +15.49% +25.00%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +62 320 £498 +6.42% 224
UK excluding London +10 172 £475 +5.91% 188
London +11 153 £500 - 78
Work from Home +40 99 £500 +13.77% 110
South East -5 69 £500 +53.85% 65
Midlands -39 32 £470 -3.29% 28
West Midlands -37 26 £470 -10.48% 14
North of England -61 26 £450 +17.19% 47
South West -20 22 £410 -15.90% 20
North West -26 16 £452 +26.26% 28
Wales -1 11 - - 7
East of England -40 10 £575 - 14
Yorkshire -57 7 £450 +9.76% 11
Scotland -2 6 £398 -11.67% 10
East Midlands -32 6 £450 +0.67% 14
North East - 3 - - 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 19 (5.41%) Confluence
2 5 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.14%) CMS
4 2 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.28%) Camunda
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 38 (10.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.42%) MS Visio
4 11 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.57%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.13%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.42%) Shopify
4 3 (0.85%) Finacle
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.28%) Maximo
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.28%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.28%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.28%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 39 (11.11%) Azure
2 35 (9.97%) Power Platform
3 30 (8.55%) AWS
4 14 (3.99%) GitHub
4 14 (3.99%) SaaS
5 11 (3.13%) GCP
6 10 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (2.28%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (1.42%) Collibra
8 5 (1.42%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (1.42%) Lucidchart
9 4 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.14%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.85%) Alation
10 3 (0.85%) ChatGPT
10 3 (0.85%) Contentsquare
10 3 (0.85%) Fivetran
10 3 (0.85%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 46 (13.11%) SAN
2 14 (3.99%) DNS
3 12 (3.42%) Network Security
4 10 (2.85%) WAN
5 7 (1.99%) MPLS
5 7 (1.99%) SSL
6 6 (1.71%) FTP
6 6 (1.71%) HTTP
6 6 (1.71%) LAN
6 6 (1.71%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.42%) BGP
7 5 (1.42%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.42%) SMTP
8 4 (1.14%) Firewall
8 4 (1.14%) Internet
8 4 (1.14%) SNMP
8 4 (1.14%) TACACS
9 3 (0.85%) DHCP
9 3 (0.85%) NAS
9 3 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.97%) Power BI
2 16 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.28%) Data Lake
3 8 (2.28%) Relational Database
3 8 (2.28%) Tableau
4 6 (1.71%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 5 (1.42%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.14%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.14%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.14%) Looker
6 4 (1.14%) Metadata
6 4 (1.14%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.85%) Big Data
7 3 (0.85%) Data Mart
7 3 (0.85%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.85%) Power Query
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 34 (9.69%) JIRA
2 4 (1.14%) Git
3 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.57%) MLflow
3 2 (0.57%) Selenium
3 2 (0.57%) 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
1 350 (99.72%) Analytical Skills
2 171 (48.72%) Social Skills
3 107 (30.48%) Finance
4 33 (9.40%) Banking
4 33 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.12%) Marketing
6 19 (5.41%) Legal
7 17 (4.84%) Manufacturing
8 16 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (4.56%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (3.70%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.56%) Back Office
11 8 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.28%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.99%) Front Office
13 5 (1.42%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.42%) Retail
14 4 (1.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 78 (22.22%) Analyst
2 48 (13.68%) Business Analyst
3 41 (11.68%) Field Engineer
3 41 (11.68%) Field Service Engineer
3 41 (11.68%) IT Engineer
4 23 (6.55%) Lead
5 22 (6.27%) Developer
6 20 (5.70%) Support Engineer
7 17 (4.84%) Consultant
7 17 (4.84%) Senior
8 15 (4.27%) Data Analyst
9 14 (3.99%) Field Support Engineer
9 14 (3.99%) IT Support
9 14 (3.99%) IT Support Engineer
10 11 (3.13%) Project Manager
11 10 (2.85%) Operations Analyst
11 10 (2.85%) Operations Business Analyst
11 10 (2.85%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (2.56%) Architect
13 8 (2.28%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.71%) LDAP
1 6 (1.71%) PySpark
1 6 (1.71%) PyTorch
2 5 (1.42%) YAML
3 4 (1.14%) .NET
3 4 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (1.14%) NETCONF
3 4 (1.14%) Node.js
3 4 (1.14%) OpenConfig
3 4 (1.14%) Pandas
3 4 (1.14%) REST
3 4 (1.14%) RESTCONF
3 4 (1.14%) scikit-learn
3 4 (1.14%) TensorFlow
3 4 (1.14%) XML
3 4 (1.14%) YANG
4 3 (0.85%) EDI
4 3 (0.85%) Kafka
4 3 (0.85%) Middleware
5 2 (0.57%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 51 (14.53%) Data Centre
2 19 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.27%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.56%) Operational Technology
4 9 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.99%) SCADA
6 7 (1.99%) Web Conferencing
7 6 (1.71%) Blog
7 6 (1.71%) Derivative
7 6 (1.71%) NHS
8 5 (1.42%) CSOC
8 5 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.42%) Cyberattack
8 5 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.42%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.14%) Social Media
9 4 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.55%) Windows
2 14 (3.99%) Linux
3 9 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.85%) Unix
5 2 (0.57%) AIX
5 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.57%) HPUX
5 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (0.57%) Solaris
5 2 (0.57%) SUSE
5 2 (0.57%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (40.46%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (23.36%) Agile
3 75 (21.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 64 (18.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 55 (15.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 53 (15.10%) Decision-Making
7 51 (14.53%) Analytics
8 45 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
8 45 (12.82%) Customer Service
9 41 (11.68%) Break/Fix
10 40 (11.40%) Data Modelling
11 37 (10.54%) AI
12 35 (9.97%) Data Governance
12 35 (9.97%) Process Improvement
13 34 (9.69%) Actionable Insight
13 34 (9.69%) Business Analysis
13 34 (9.69%) Validation
14 31 (8.83%) Change Management
14 31 (8.83%) Roadmaps
14 31 (8.83%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 64 (18.23%) SQL
2 41 (11.68%) Python
3 23 (6.55%) PowerShell
4 14 (3.99%) C#
5 11 (3.13%) TypeScript
6 10 (2.85%) Java
7 7 (1.99%) Bash
7 7 (1.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.14%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.14%) C++
9 3 (0.85%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.85%) VBA
10 2 (0.57%) Bicep
10 2 (0.57%) Go
10 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.57%) R
11 1 (0.28%) LookML
11 1 (0.28%) Scala
11 1 (0.28%) SOQL
11 1 (0.28%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 49 (13.96%) Cisco Certification
2 46 (13.11%) Security Cleared
3 45 (12.82%) CCNA
4 44 (12.54%) MCSE
4 44 (12.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 42 (11.97%) Degree
6 41 (11.68%) A+ Certification
6 41 (11.68%) Network+ Certification
7 28 (7.98%) SC Cleared
8 19 (5.41%) DV Cleared
9 13 (3.70%) Master's Degree
10 12 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (2.85%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.99%) PMP
13 6 (1.71%) CISSP
14 5 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (1.14%) CBAP
15 4 (1.14%) CEH
15 4 (1.14%) CISA
15 4 (1.14%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 27 (7.69%) GDPR
2 21 (5.98%) QA
3 18 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.13%) NIST
5 9 (2.56%) PMO
6 8 (2.28%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.14%) SLA
9 3 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.85%) GRC
9 3 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.85%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.85%) WCAG
10 2 (0.57%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.28%) COBIT
11 1 (0.28%) MiFID
11 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 17 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.99%) Hyper-V
2 7 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.42%) Docker
4 4 (1.14%) Firmware
5 3 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.57%) KVM
6 2 (0.57%) 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 (3.42%) Ansible
2 9 (2.56%) Terraform
3 7 (1.99%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.14%) SCCM
5 4 (1.14%) SCOM
5 4 (1.14%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.85%) Podman
7 1 (0.28%) Grafana
7 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.28%) Kibana
7 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.28%) Suricata
7 1 (0.28%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 45 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 41 (11.68%) Dell
3 28 (7.98%) SAP
4 20 (5.70%) Salesforce
5 19 (5.41%) Oracle
6 16 (4.56%) VMware
7 13 (3.70%) Cisco
8 12 (3.42%) Databricks
9 9 (2.56%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.71%) BMC
10 6 (1.71%) Google
11 5 (1.42%) Adobe
11 5 (1.42%) BT
11 5 (1.42%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.42%) Murex
11 5 (1.42%) Nexthink
12 4 (1.14%) F5
12 4 (1.14%) Informatica
12 4 (1.14%) Juniper
13 3 (0.85%) Red Hat