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 10 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 364 420
Rank change year-on-year +34 +56 +88
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 335 163 171
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.55% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.09% 1.62% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 105 88
10th Percentile £250 £250 £196
25th Percentile £400 £380 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.20% -4.03%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £556
90th Percentile £650 £648 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -15.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 53
10th Percentile £14.10 £30.15 £11.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £53.38 £13.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £80.68 £15.90
Median % change year-on-year -41.74% +407.39% -74.56%
75th Percentile £55.75 £81.18 £19.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £81.35 £23.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.28 £80.68 £14.50
% change year-on-year -66.19% +456.38% -

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 16,033 10,071 13,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 34.29% 30.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,853 6,340 8,370
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £660
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 799 430 937
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.55 £20.09 £15.39
Median hourly rate £41.94 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.09% -5.71% +56.70%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.68 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.42 £82.25 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.41% -9.26% +59.09%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +29 308 £490 +8.89% 208
UK excluding London -1 168 £475 +5.56% 161
London -1 148 £500 +2.56% 78
Work from Home +4 82 £513 +18.57% 128
South East -21 59 £500 +53.85% 46
North of England -55 34 £475 +5.56% 33
Midlands -42 30 £478 +52.56% 30
South West -1 28 £350 -33.33% 19
West Midlands -33 26 £478 +80.19% 14
North West -26 21 £494 +9.78% 21
Wales -4 10 - - 2
Yorkshire -52 9 £463 +10.78% 8
Scotland -13 6 £127 -71.78% 8
East Midlands -25 4 £463 +21.39% 16
East of England -39 4 £475 -19.15% 20
North East - 4 - - 4

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 21 (6.27%) Confluence
2 5 (1.49%) SAS
3 4 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.19%) CMS
4 2 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) Camunda
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 23 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.39%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (1.79%) Finacle
1 6 (1.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 5 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.19%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.30%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.30%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.30%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.30%) Summit
5 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 43 (12.84%) Azure
2 36 (10.75%) AWS
3 33 (9.85%) Power Platform
4 15 (4.48%) GitHub
5 12 (3.58%) SaaS
5 12 (3.58%) Snowflake
6 11 (3.28%) GCP
7 10 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.69%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.49%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.19%) Collibra
12 3 (0.90%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.90%) Apigee
12 3 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.90%) Fivetran
12 3 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.90%) Lucidchart
12 3 (0.90%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 55 (16.42%) SAN
2 10 (2.99%) WAN
3 6 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.49%) BGP
4 5 (1.49%) DNS
4 5 (1.49%) LAN
4 5 (1.49%) MPLS
4 5 (1.49%) SD-WAN
4 5 (1.49%) VLAN
5 4 (1.19%) Network Security
6 3 (0.90%) DHCP
6 3 (0.90%) Firewall
6 3 (0.90%) Internet
6 3 (0.90%) NAS
6 3 (0.90%) OSPF
7 2 (0.60%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.60%) PSTN
7 2 (0.60%) SNMP
7 2 (0.60%) VoIP
7 2 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.85%) Power BI
2 14 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.28%) Tableau
4 10 (2.99%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.39%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.79%) Oracle Database
6 6 (1.79%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.49%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.49%) Power Query
8 4 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (1.19%) Looker
8 4 (1.19%) Metadata
8 4 (1.19%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (1.19%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 3 (0.90%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.90%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.60%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.60%) Big Data
10 2 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (11.04%) JIRA
2 5 (1.49%) Git
3 3 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.90%) Selenium
4 2 (0.60%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.60%) GitLab
4 2 (0.60%) MLflow
5 1 (0.30%) Appium
5 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.30%) Gatling
5 1 (0.30%) JMeter
5 1 (0.30%) JUnit
5 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.30%) NUnit
5 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.30%) TestRail
General
1 334 (99.70%) Analytical Skills
2 155 (46.27%) Social Skills
3 99 (29.55%) Finance
4 33 (9.85%) Banking
5 32 (9.55%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.57%) Legal
7 17 (5.07%) Manufacturing
7 17 (5.07%) Marketing
8 16 (4.78%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (4.18%) Telecoms
10 13 (3.88%) Back Office
10 13 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.28%) Front Office
12 6 (1.79%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.49%) Billing
14 4 (1.19%) Multimedia
14 4 (1.19%) Retail
15 3 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 78 (23.28%) Analyst
2 50 (14.93%) Field Engineer
2 50 (14.93%) Field Service Engineer
2 50 (14.93%) IT Engineer
3 45 (13.43%) Business Analyst
4 21 (6.27%) Lead
5 20 (5.97%) IT Support
5 20 (5.97%) Support Engineer
6 19 (5.67%) Data Analyst
6 19 (5.67%) Developer
7 18 (5.37%) Senior
8 16 (4.78%) Field Support Engineer
8 16 (4.78%) IT Support Engineer
9 13 (3.88%) Consultant
10 11 (3.28%) Architect
11 10 (2.99%) Security Analyst
12 9 (2.69%) Senior Analyst
13 8 (2.39%) Operations Analyst
13 8 (2.39%) Operations Business Analyst
13 8 (2.39%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.09%) PySpark
2 6 (1.79%) REST
3 5 (1.49%) .NET
3 5 (1.49%) XML
4 4 (1.19%) Kafka
4 4 (1.19%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.19%) Pandas
4 4 (1.19%) YAML
5 3 (0.90%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.60%) JSON
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.60%) NETCONF
6 2 (0.60%) OpenConfig
6 2 (0.60%) PyArrow
6 2 (0.60%) React
6 2 (0.60%) RESTCONF
6 2 (0.60%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.60%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.60%) YANG
7 1 (0.30%) Faiss
Miscellaneous
1 58 (17.31%) Data Centre
2 27 (8.06%) Product Ownership
3 23 (6.87%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.99%) Operational Technology
5 8 (2.39%) SCADA
5 8 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.79%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 6 (1.79%) Web Conferencing
7 5 (1.49%) Blog
7 5 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.49%) NHS
8 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.19%) Social Media
9 3 (0.90%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.90%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.25%) Windows
2 14 (4.18%) Linux
3 6 (1.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.19%) Unix
5 3 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.60%) AIX
6 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.60%) HPUX
6 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.60%) Solaris
6 2 (0.60%) SUSE
6 2 (0.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (42.99%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (24.48%) Agile
3 79 (23.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 62 (18.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (15.82%) Customer Service
6 51 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 50 (14.93%) Break/Fix
8 48 (14.33%) Analytics
9 44 (13.13%) Validation
10 37 (11.04%) Data Modelling
10 37 (11.04%) Decision-Making
11 36 (10.75%) Business Intelligence
12 35 (10.45%) AI
13 34 (10.15%) Migration
14 33 (9.85%) Business Analysis
15 31 (9.25%) Data Governance
15 31 (9.25%) Process Improvement
16 30 (8.96%) Actionable Insight
16 30 (8.96%) Workshop Facilitation
17 29 (8.66%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 70 (20.90%) SQL
2 35 (10.45%) Python
3 17 (5.07%) PowerShell
4 15 (4.48%) C#
5 10 (2.99%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.69%) Java
7 6 (1.79%) Bash
7 6 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.19%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.19%) R
9 3 (0.90%) C++
9 3 (0.90%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.90%) VBA
10 2 (0.60%) Bicep
11 1 (0.30%) Go
11 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.30%) LookML
11 1 (0.30%) Scala
11 1 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 61 (18.21%) Cisco Certification
2 58 (17.31%) CCNA
3 53 (15.82%) MCSE
3 53 (15.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 52 (15.52%) Network+ Certification
5 50 (14.93%) A+ Certification
6 33 (9.85%) Security Cleared
7 32 (9.55%) Degree
8 18 (5.37%) SC Cleared
9 14 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (3.28%) DV Cleared
11 8 (2.39%) CISSP
12 4 (1.19%) CISA
12 4 (1.19%) CISM
12 4 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.19%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.19%) PMP
12 4 (1.19%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.90%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.27%) QA
3 20 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (5.67%) GDPR
5 14 (4.18%) NIST
6 8 (2.39%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.39%) PMO
7 6 (1.79%) SLA
8 4 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.90%) GRC
9 3 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.90%) WCAG
10 2 (0.60%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.60%) GxP
10 2 (0.60%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 13 (3.88%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.09%) Hyper-V
2 7 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.19%) Docker
3 4 (1.19%) Firmware
4 3 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.60%) KVM
6 1 (0.30%) NFS
6 1 (0.30%) RACF
6 1 (0.30%) Squid
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.69%) Ansible
3 8 (2.39%) Terraform
4 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.90%) Podman
6 1 (0.30%) Control-M
6 1 (0.30%) Grafana
6 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.30%) SCCM
6 1 (0.30%) SCOM
6 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.30%) SysTrack
6 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 50 (14.93%) Dell
2 36 (10.75%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.87%) Oracle
4 21 (6.27%) SAP
5 17 (5.07%) Databricks
5 17 (5.07%) Salesforce
6 15 (4.48%) Cisco
7 13 (3.88%) VMware
8 12 (3.58%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.49%) BT
9 5 (1.49%) Nexthink
10 4 (1.19%) BMC
10 4 (1.19%) Google
11 3 (0.90%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.90%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.90%) HP
11 3 (0.90%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.90%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.90%) Splunk
11 3 (0.90%) Veeam