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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 383 404
Rank change year-on-year +72 +21 +167
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 335 145 194
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.48% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.35% 1.42% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 91 99
10th Percentile £324 £225 £150
25th Percentile £400 £313 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -3.16% -2.31%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £625 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +172.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 54
10th Percentile £14.10 £44.90 £11.83
25th Percentile £18.25 £53.38 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.43% +300.00% -72.00%
75th Percentile £62.06 £76.76 £20.25
90th Percentile £75.88 £79.31 £25.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.25 £75.34 £17.50
% change year-on-year -50.56% +330.50% -21.03%

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 14,229 10,198 13,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.36% 33.45% 30.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,945 6,290 8,635
10th Percentile £285 £275 £256
25th Percentile £406 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £527
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% -4.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £768 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 670 342 836
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.14 £12.86
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.55 £16.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +8.05% +33.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.13 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.50 £31.76 £30.00
% change year-on-year +5.48% +5.87% +36.36%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +58 302 £500 +5.26% 229
London +47 160 £500 - 85
UK excluding London -5 141 £480 +6.67% 182
Work from Home +48 103 £500 +21.14% 110
South East -10 51 £465 +6.59% 62
Midlands -33 28 £470 -3.29% 30
North of England -52 26 £550 +27.91% 47
West Midlands -33 20 £470 -10.48% 21
South West -14 13 £525 +23.53% 19
East of England -28 13 £675 +25.58% 19
Yorkshire -48 12 £563 +37.20% 17
North West -27 11 £410 -8.89% 27
Wales +7 8 £588 +50.64% 3
East Midlands -17 8 £450 +0.67% 9
Scotland +12 5 £433 -3.89% 8
North East - 4 £550 - 3

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 (5.07%) Confluence
2 6 (1.79%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.79%) CMS
3 2 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.60%) Apache
3 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.30%) Camunda
4 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 48 (14.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.99%) MS Visio
4 9 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.60%) Autodesk Smoke
6 2 (0.60%) Sketch
7 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.30%) Navisworks
7 1 (0.30%) Notion
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.30%) Revit
7 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.28%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.49%) Shopify
3 4 (1.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.30%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.30%) Maximo
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.30%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.30%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 49 (14.63%) Azure
2 38 (11.34%) Power Platform
3 34 (10.15%) AWS
4 12 (3.58%) GCP
4 12 (3.58%) GitHub
5 11 (3.28%) SaaS
6 7 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.79%) Collibra
7 6 (1.79%) Contentsquare
7 6 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.79%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.79%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.49%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.19%) Alation
9 4 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.19%) Lucidchart
10 3 (0.90%) Azure AKS
10 3 (0.90%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.97%) SAN
2 17 (5.07%) DNS
3 14 (4.18%) Network Security
3 14 (4.18%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.99%) SSL
5 9 (2.69%) Firewall
5 9 (2.69%) HTTP
6 8 (2.39%) VLAN
7 7 (2.09%) BGP
8 6 (1.79%) DHCP
8 6 (1.79%) FTP
9 5 (1.49%) LAN
9 5 (1.49%) SMTP
9 5 (1.49%) WAN
10 4 (1.19%) MPLS
10 4 (1.19%) SNMP
10 4 (1.19%) TACACS
11 3 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (0.60%) SMS
13 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.34%) Power BI
2 12 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.99%) Tableau
4 8 (2.39%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.09%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.79%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 6 (1.79%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.49%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (1.19%) Metadata
9 3 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.90%) Big Data
9 3 (0.90%) Data Mart
9 3 (0.90%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.60%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (9.55%) JIRA
2 5 (1.49%) Git
3 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.60%) MLflow
3 2 (0.60%) MSBuild
3 2 (0.60%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.30%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.30%) GitLab
4 1 (0.30%) JMeter
4 1 (0.30%) JUnit
4 1 (0.30%) Locust
General
1 334 (99.70%) Analytical Skills
2 179 (53.43%) Social Skills
3 111 (33.13%) Finance
4 29 (8.66%) Marketing
5 27 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 25 (7.46%) Banking
7 15 (4.48%) Legal
7 15 (4.48%) Manufacturing
7 15 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.99%) Publishing
9 9 (2.69%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.69%) Retail
10 7 (2.09%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.09%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.49%) Back Office
11 5 (1.49%) Electronics
11 5 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.19%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 76 (22.69%) Analyst
2 41 (12.24%) Business Analyst
3 28 (8.36%) Lead
4 19 (5.67%) Consultant
4 19 (5.67%) Data Analyst
5 18 (5.37%) Field Engineer
5 18 (5.37%) Field Service Engineer
6 17 (5.07%) IT Engineer
6 17 (5.07%) Senior
6 17 (5.07%) Support Engineer
7 16 (4.78%) Developer
8 12 (3.58%) Architect
9 11 (3.28%) Project Leader
9 11 (3.28%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.28%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (2.69%) Product Manager
11 8 (2.39%) Field Support Engineer
11 8 (2.39%) IT Support
11 8 (2.39%) IT Support Engineer
12 7 (2.09%) Service Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.39%) JSON
2 7 (2.09%) PyTorch
3 6 (1.79%) LDAP
3 6 (1.79%) PySpark
4 5 (1.49%) REST
4 5 (1.49%) scikit-learn
4 5 (1.49%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.49%) YAML
5 4 (1.19%) EDI
5 4 (1.19%) NETCONF
5 4 (1.19%) Node.js
5 4 (1.19%) OpenConfig
5 4 (1.19%) Pandas
5 4 (1.19%) RESTCONF
5 4 (1.19%) XML
5 4 (1.19%) YANG
6 3 (0.90%) .NET
6 3 (0.90%) Google JAX
6 3 (0.90%) Middleware
6 3 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.76%) Data Centre
2 20 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.18%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.09%) Derivative
8 6 (1.79%) Blog
8 6 (1.79%) NHS
8 6 (1.79%) Social Media
9 5 (1.49%) CSOC
9 5 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.49%) Cyberattack
9 5 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.19%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.90%) Contract for Difference
11 3 (0.90%) Digital Media
11 3 (0.90%) PMI
11 3 (0.90%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.96%) Windows
2 19 (5.67%) Linux
3 8 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.60%) VMS
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.30%) Unix
6 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (41.49%) Problem-Solving
2 91 (27.16%) Agile
3 86 (25.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 69 (20.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 60 (17.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 57 (17.01%) Decision-Making
7 52 (15.52%) Analytics
8 51 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
9 38 (11.34%) Actionable Insight
9 38 (11.34%) Data Governance
10 35 (10.45%) Roadmaps
11 30 (8.96%) AI
11 30 (8.96%) Data Modelling
11 30 (8.96%) Validation
12 29 (8.66%) Change Management
13 28 (8.36%) User Experience
14 27 (8.06%) Data Analysis
14 27 (8.06%) ITIL
14 27 (8.06%) Risk Management
14 27 (8.06%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 79 (23.58%) SQL
2 44 (13.13%) Python
3 28 (8.36%) PowerShell
4 12 (3.58%) Java
5 11 (3.28%) C#
6 6 (1.79%) Bash
6 6 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (1.79%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (0.90%) VBA
8 2 (0.60%) C++
8 2 (0.60%) Go
8 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.30%) ABAP
9 1 (0.30%) Bicep
9 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.30%) Korn
9 1 (0.30%) PHP
9 1 (0.30%) SOQL
9 1 (0.30%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 55 (16.42%) Degree
2 48 (14.33%) Security Cleared
3 34 (10.15%) SC Cleared
4 23 (6.87%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (6.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (6.87%) Network+ Certification
5 19 (5.67%) CCNA
6 18 (5.37%) A+ Certification
6 18 (5.37%) MCSE
7 16 (4.78%) DV Cleared
8 14 (4.18%) Master's Degree
9 13 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (3.28%) PMI Certification
11 9 (2.69%) PMP
12 6 (1.79%) CISSP
13 5 (1.49%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.49%) CBAP
13 5 (1.49%) CSPO
13 5 (1.49%) Server+ Certification
14 4 (1.19%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 31 (9.25%) GDPR
3 24 (7.16%) QA
4 14 (4.18%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.09%) NIST
7 6 (1.79%) PMO
8 5 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (1.19%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.19%) SLA
9 4 (1.19%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.90%) WCAG
11 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.60%) EMIR
11 2 (0.60%) MiFID
11 2 (0.60%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.69%) Docker
3 8 (2.39%) Hyper-V
3 8 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.19%) Firmware
4 4 (1.19%) NDS
4 4 (1.19%) NetIQ eDirectory
4 4 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.60%) KVM
7 1 (0.30%) RACF
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.30%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.39%) Ansible
3 6 (1.79%) Terraform
4 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.19%) SCCM
5 4 (1.19%) SCOM
5 4 (1.19%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.30%) Grafana
6 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.30%) Kibana
6 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.30%) Suricata
6 1 (0.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 56 (16.72%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.27%) SAP
3 18 (5.37%) Dell
4 17 (5.07%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.78%) Oracle
6 14 (4.18%) VMware
7 13 (3.88%) Databricks
7 13 (3.88%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.99%) Adobe
9 8 (2.39%) Google
10 6 (1.79%) BMC
10 6 (1.79%) Informatica
11 5 (1.49%) Cisco
11 5 (1.49%) Murex
12 4 (1.19%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.19%) Juniper
12 4 (1.19%) NetIQ
12 4 (1.19%) Nexthink
12 4 (1.19%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.19%) Sparx
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