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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 431 479
Rank change year-on-year +159 +48 +135
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 345 120 150
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 0.33% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.71% 1.06% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 66 98
10th Percentile £252 £225 £104
25th Percentile £371 £263 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £456 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -3.95% +7.34%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £638
90th Percentile £678 £656 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £400
% change year-on-year - +12.50% +126.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.25 £11.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.84% +4.05% -64.58%
75th Percentile £57.00 £22.30 £24.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £23.94 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £14.00 £18.25
% change year-on-year +292.86% -23.29% -57.52%

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 12,719 11,332 14,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.82% 30.93% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,864 6,685 10,103
10th Percentile £278 £285 £275
25th Percentile £406 £409 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £657 £667
90th Percentile £750 £786 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 683 363 501
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.08 £16.85
25th Percentile £17.89 £22.50 £20.85
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -14.45% +48.59%
75th Percentile £51.13 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.16 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -35.10% -16.09% +84.72%

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 15 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 15 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Top 17 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 15 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 +138 307 £500 +11.11% 453
UK excluding London +88 167 £450 - 229
London +74 146 £525 +23.53% 265
Work from Home +62 85 £425 +54.55% 244
North of England -7 47 £550 +34.15% 46
South East +37 46 £325 -27.78% 88
Midlands - 31 £325 - 36
North West -4 25 £460 -0.54% 37
Yorkshire -14 22 £563 +60.71% 7
West Midlands - 21 £325 - 18
Scotland +12 16 £500 - 9
East of England -5 16 £675 +35.00% 23
South West +5 12 £588 +11.90% 15
East Midlands - 10 £340 - 18
Wales - 3 £588 - 7
Northern Ireland -6 1 - - 10
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 14 (4.06%) Confluence
1 14 (4.06%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.45%) Anypoint
3 2 (0.58%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.58%) CMS
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.29%) Camunda
Applications
1 47 (13.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (3.19%) Siemens NX
5 7 (2.03%) MS Visio
6 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.87%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.87%) Revit
8 2 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.58%) ProjectWise
8 2 (0.58%) Sketch
8 2 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.29%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.29%) Notion
Business Applications
1 12 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.19%) Teamcenter
3 6 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.45%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (1.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.87%) Endur
6 3 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.87%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.87%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.87%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.87%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.87%) SAP PS
7 2 (0.58%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.29%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.29%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.29%) Shopify
8 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (13.33%) Azure
2 40 (11.59%) Power Platform
3 37 (10.72%) AWS
4 18 (5.22%) GCP
5 11 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (2.90%) SaaS
7 9 (2.61%) Contentsquare
8 7 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.74%) Collibra
9 6 (1.74%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.45%) GitHub
11 4 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.16%) Google Data Studio
12 3 (0.87%) Adobe Analytics
12 3 (0.87%) Azure AKS
12 3 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.87%) Google Analytics
12 3 (0.87%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.09%) DNS
2 17 (4.93%) Network Security
2 17 (4.93%) TCP/IP
3 14 (4.06%) VLAN
4 12 (3.48%) DHCP
4 12 (3.48%) HTTP
4 12 (3.48%) SSL
5 11 (3.19%) Firewall
6 8 (2.32%) FTP
6 8 (2.32%) SMTP
7 5 (1.45%) LAN
8 4 (1.16%) BGP
9 3 (0.87%) SAN
9 3 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.58%) Internet
10 2 (0.58%) SMS
11 1 (0.29%) MPLS
11 1 (0.29%) TACACS
11 1 (0.29%) VoIP
11 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.30%) Power BI
2 20 (5.80%) Tableau
3 11 (3.19%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.32%) BigQuery
5 7 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.74%) Metadata
7 5 (1.45%) Big Data
7 5 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.45%) Power Query
8 4 (1.16%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 3 (0.87%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.87%) Looker
9 3 (0.87%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.87%) MSDE
9 3 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.58%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.58%) MySQL
10 2 (0.58%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.58%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.29%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 20 (5.80%) JIRA
2 4 (1.16%) Git
2 4 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.87%) IntelliJ
3 3 (0.87%) PyCharm
3 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio
3 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (0.87%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 2 (0.58%) AdminStudio
4 2 (0.58%) MSBuild
4 2 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.29%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.29%) JMeter
5 1 (0.29%) JUnit
5 1 (0.29%) Locust
5 1 (0.29%) Selenium
5 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.29%) TestNG
General
1 345 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 180 (52.17%) Social Skills
3 117 (33.91%) Finance
4 30 (8.70%) Banking
4 30 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.83%) Marketing
6 25 (7.25%) Legal
6 25 (7.25%) Manufacturing
7 17 (4.93%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.06%) Telecoms
9 13 (3.77%) Financial Institution
9 13 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (3.48%) Retail
11 10 (2.90%) Aerospace
11 10 (2.90%) Publishing
12 7 (2.03%) Electronics
12 7 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.74%) Military
13 6 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (31.01%) Analyst
2 38 (11.01%) Business Analyst
3 24 (6.96%) Data Analyst
4 22 (6.38%) Lead
5 20 (5.80%) Architect
5 20 (5.80%) Consultant
6 16 (4.64%) Developer
6 16 (4.64%) Project Manager
7 15 (4.35%) Senior
8 13 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (3.19%) Infrastructure Support
9 11 (3.19%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 11 (3.19%) Support Engineer
10 10 (2.90%) Product Manager
10 10 (2.90%) Project Leader
10 10 (2.90%) SOC Analyst
11 8 (2.32%) IT Manager
11 8 (2.32%) Product Owner
12 7 (2.03%) Service Support Manager
12 7 (2.03%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.19%) JSON
2 10 (2.90%) LDAP
3 6 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (1.74%) REST
3 6 (1.74%) scikit-learn
4 5 (1.45%) .NET
4 5 (1.45%) React
4 5 (1.45%) TensorFlow
5 4 (1.16%) Pandas
5 4 (1.16%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (0.87%) HTML
6 3 (0.87%) Swagger
6 3 (0.87%) XGBoost
7 2 (0.58%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.58%) HTML5
7 2 (0.58%) LightGBM
7 2 (0.58%) Node.js
7 2 (0.58%) NumPy
7 2 (0.58%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.58%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.09%) Management Information System
2 20 (5.80%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.61%) Security Operations Centre
5 8 (2.32%) CSOC
5 8 (2.32%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (2.32%) Cyberattack
5 8 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.03%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.03%) Derivative
7 6 (1.74%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.74%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.45%) PMI
9 4 (1.16%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.16%) SCADA
9 4 (1.16%) Social Media
10 3 (0.87%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.87%) FMCG
10 3 (0.87%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.99%) Windows
2 22 (6.38%) Linux
3 5 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.29%) Android
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
1 132 (38.26%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (26.67%) Agile
3 81 (23.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 69 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 62 (17.97%) Analytics
5 62 (17.97%) Decision-Making
6 59 (17.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 52 (15.07%) Business Intelligence
8 39 (11.30%) Actionable Insight
8 39 (11.30%) Roadmaps
9 38 (11.01%) Visualisation
10 35 (10.14%) Data Analysis
11 30 (8.70%) Data Governance
11 30 (8.70%) Risk Management
12 29 (8.41%) AI
12 29 (8.41%) ITIL
12 29 (8.41%) Scrum
13 26 (7.54%) Process Improvement
13 26 (7.54%) Project Management
13 26 (7.54%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 76 (22.03%) SQL
2 50 (14.49%) Python
3 25 (7.25%) PowerShell
4 15 (4.35%) Java
5 14 (4.06%) C#
6 8 (2.32%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.45%) Bash
7 5 (1.45%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.16%) VBA
9 3 (0.87%) Korn
9 3 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (0.87%) R
10 2 (0.58%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.58%) RPG
10 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.58%) VB
11 1 (0.29%) ABAP
11 1 (0.29%) Scala
11 1 (0.29%) X++
Qualifications
1 56 (16.23%) Degree
2 54 (15.65%) Security Cleared
3 45 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.06%) Network+ Certification
5 14 (4.06%) PMI Certification
6 12 (3.48%) DV Cleared
7 11 (3.19%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.19%) Server+ Certification
8 10 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.90%) PMP
9 9 (2.61%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.45%) CBAP
10 5 (1.45%) CISSP
11 4 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.16%) CSPO
12 3 (0.87%) A+ Certification
12 3 (0.87%) ACCA
12 3 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.87%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.72%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.67%) QA
3 22 (6.38%) GDPR
4 13 (3.77%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.03%) NIST
5 7 (2.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.74%) PMO
6 6 (1.74%) SLA
7 5 (1.45%) MiFID
8 4 (1.16%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.16%) IFRS
9 3 (0.87%) ISO 19650
10 2 (0.58%) EMIR
10 2 (0.58%) GRC
10 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.29%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (3.19%) Hyper-V
1 11 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (2.90%) Docker
3 7 (2.03%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.16%) NDS
4 4 (1.16%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 3 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.61%) Ansible
2 9 (2.61%) Terraform
3 5 (1.45%) SCCM
4 2 (0.58%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (0.58%) CSIRT
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.58%) vRealize
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) QRadar
5 1 (0.29%) SCOM
5 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 59 (17.10%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.12%) SAP
3 18 (5.22%) Google
4 17 (4.93%) ServiceNow
5 13 (3.77%) Oracle
6 12 (3.48%) Adobe
6 12 (3.48%) VMware
7 10 (2.90%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.90%) Siemens
8 7 (2.03%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.45%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.45%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.45%) Splunk
10 4 (1.16%) NetIQ
10 4 (1.16%) Sparx
11 3 (0.87%) Autodesk
11 3 (0.87%) Dell
11 3 (0.87%) Murex
11 3 (0.87%) OpenText
11 3 (0.87%) Red Hat
506 Analytical Mindset jobs Nationwide