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 3 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 327 450
Rank change year-on-year -2 +123 +60
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 384 242 112
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.73% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.16% 2.10% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 143 63
10th Percentile £185 £314 £263
25th Percentile £400 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.99% -11.43% -0.71%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £588
90th Percentile £667 £679 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 12 29
10th Percentile £14.10 £26.55 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £45.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £39.50 £67.50 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.48% +382.14% -37.78%
75th Percentile £55.75 £81.10 £19.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £81.35 £23.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.28 £75.34 £13.75
% change year-on-year -39.90% +447.91% -30.38%

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 17,766 11,525 11,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.43% 34.81% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,811 7,109 7,681
10th Percentile £320 £302 £300
25th Percentile £420 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £640 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 969 552 619
10th Percentile £15.72 £15.13 £12.30
25th Percentile £19.64 £18.87 £18.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £29.50 £44.74
Median % change year-on-year +49.02% -34.06% +19.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £65.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -33.33% +1.12%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -13 352 £500 +8.11% 243
UK excluding London -26 192 £475 +5.56% 148
London -4 168 £530 +0.95% 135
Work from Home -13 85 £545 +22.96% 107
South East -25 61 £533 +33.13% 46
North of England -68 43 £475 +5.56% 33
South West -19 32 £350 -33.33% 17
Midlands -28 31 £513 +63.22% 28
North West -46 30 £495 +9.89% 18
West Midlands -41 28 £550 +107.55% 14
East of England -20 14 £488 -18.75% 9
Yorkshire -50 12 £450 - 11
Wales -7 8 - - 5
Scotland -11 6 £127 -74.60% 7
East Midlands -15 3 £375 +4.17% 14
North East - 1 - - 5

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 16 (4.17%) Confluence
2 7 (1.82%) CMS
3 4 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.04%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.04%) SAS
4 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.26%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) Camunda
6 1 (0.26%) Mendix
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 30 (7.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 30 (7.81%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.60%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (2.60%) Finacle
2 6 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.30%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.30%) Fidessa
3 5 (1.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.78%) iTrent
6 2 (0.52%) Actimize
6 2 (0.52%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.26%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.26%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.26%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 48 (12.50%) Azure
2 38 (9.90%) AWS
3 37 (9.64%) Power Platform
4 24 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 16 (4.17%) SaaS
6 15 (3.91%) GCP
7 14 (3.65%) Snowflake
8 12 (3.13%) GitHub
9 8 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.30%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.04%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.78%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.78%) Apigee
12 3 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.78%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
12 3 (0.78%) OCI
12 3 (0.78%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 45 (11.72%) SAN
2 14 (3.65%) WAN
3 10 (2.60%) LAN
3 10 (2.60%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.34%) BGP
4 9 (2.34%) MPLS
5 6 (1.56%) SNMP
5 6 (1.56%) TACACS
5 6 (1.56%) VPN
5 6 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.30%) DNS
6 5 (1.30%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.30%) VLAN
7 4 (1.04%) Firewall
8 3 (0.78%) Broadband
8 3 (0.78%) DHCP
8 3 (0.78%) Internet
8 3 (0.78%) NAS
8 3 (0.78%) Network Security
8 3 (0.78%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.64%) Power BI
2 15 (3.91%) Relational Database
2 15 (3.91%) Tableau
3 10 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.60%) Oracle Database
3 10 (2.60%) RDBMS
4 5 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
4 5 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.04%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.04%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.04%) Power Query
5 4 (1.04%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 4 (1.04%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 3 (0.78%) Looker
6 3 (0.78%) Metadata
6 3 (0.78%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.52%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.52%) MySQL
7 2 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 38 (9.90%) JIRA
2 4 (1.04%) Git
2 4 (1.04%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.78%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.78%) GitLab
3 3 (0.78%) Selenium
4 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.26%) Appium
5 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.26%) Capybara
5 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.26%) Gatling
5 1 (0.26%) JMeter
5 1 (0.26%) JUnit
5 1 (0.26%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.26%) Mocha
5 1 (0.26%) NUnit
5 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.26%) RSpec
General
1 384 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 195 (50.78%) Social Skills
3 104 (27.08%) Finance
4 40 (10.42%) Banking
5 37 (9.64%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.25%) Marketing
7 23 (5.99%) Legal
8 21 (5.47%) Front Office
8 21 (5.47%) Manufacturing
9 19 (4.95%) Telecoms
10 17 (4.43%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (4.17%) Back Office
12 15 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.60%) Local Government
14 9 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (2.08%) Investment Banking
15 8 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (2.08%) Retail
16 7 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (1.56%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 89 (23.18%) Analyst
2 51 (13.28%) Business Analyst
3 45 (11.72%) IT Engineer
4 42 (10.94%) Field Engineer
4 42 (10.94%) Field Service Engineer
5 24 (6.25%) Senior
5 24 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 23 (5.99%) IT Support
7 21 (5.47%) Architect
8 20 (5.21%) Developer
8 20 (5.21%) Lead
9 19 (4.95%) IT Support Engineer
10 18 (4.69%) Data Analyst
11 17 (4.43%) Consultant
12 16 (4.17%) Field Support Engineer
13 13 (3.39%) Product Owner
14 12 (3.13%) Applications Support
15 11 (2.86%) Product Manager
16 10 (2.60%) Security Analyst
16 10 (2.60%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.60%) REST
2 6 (1.56%) NETCONF
2 6 (1.56%) OpenConfig
2 6 (1.56%) RESTCONF
2 6 (1.56%) YANG
3 5 (1.30%) .NET
3 5 (1.30%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (1.30%) PySpark
3 5 (1.30%) SailPoint
4 4 (1.04%) Kafka
4 4 (1.04%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.04%) RESTful
4 4 (1.04%) XML
5 3 (0.78%) JSON
5 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.52%) OAuth
6 2 (0.52%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.52%) React
6 2 (0.52%) SOAP
7 1 (0.26%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 52 (13.54%) Data Centre
2 31 (8.07%) Product Ownership
3 27 (7.03%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.13%) Operational Technology
5 11 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 10 (2.60%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.60%) Social Media
7 8 (2.08%) CMDB
7 8 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.08%) SCADA
7 8 (2.08%) Web Conferencing
8 7 (1.82%) Blog
8 7 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.82%) Life Science
9 6 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.90%) Windows
2 13 (3.39%) Linux
3 7 (1.82%) Unix
3 7 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.30%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.30%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.78%) Android
5 3 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.52%) AIX
6 2 (0.52%) HPUX
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.52%) Solaris
6 2 (0.52%) SUSE
6 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (41.15%) Problem-Solving
2 96 (25.00%) Agile
3 95 (24.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 73 (19.01%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (13.54%) Analytics
6 50 (13.02%) AI
7 49 (12.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 47 (12.24%) Customer Service
9 45 (11.72%) Business Analysis
9 45 (11.72%) Validation
10 42 (10.94%) Break/Fix
10 42 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
11 40 (10.42%) User Stories
12 39 (10.16%) Migration
13 38 (9.90%) Process Improvement
14 37 (9.64%) Workshop Facilitation
15 34 (8.85%) Decision-Making
15 34 (8.85%) User Acceptance Testing
16 33 (8.59%) ITIL
17 32 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 75 (19.53%) SQL
2 47 (12.24%) Python
3 16 (4.17%) PowerShell
4 12 (3.13%) C#
5 9 (2.34%) Java
6 8 (2.08%) Bash
6 8 (2.08%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.56%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.04%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.04%) R
10 3 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.52%) Bicep
11 2 (0.52%) C
11 2 (0.52%) C++
11 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.52%) ProC
11 2 (0.52%) VBA
12 1 (0.26%) Groovy
12 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (15.10%) Cisco Certification
2 51 (13.28%) CCNA
3 46 (11.98%) MCSE
3 46 (11.98%) Microsoft Certification
3 46 (11.98%) Security Cleared
4 44 (11.46%) Network+ Certification
5 42 (10.94%) A+ Certification
6 29 (7.55%) Degree
7 23 (5.99%) SC Cleared
8 15 (3.91%) DV Cleared
9 14 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (2.08%) CISSP
11 6 (1.56%) CCIE
11 6 (1.56%) JNCIE
12 5 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.04%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.04%) CISM
13 4 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.04%) RHCA
13 4 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.81%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (4.43%) GDPR
3 17 (4.43%) QA
4 14 (3.65%) NIST
5 12 (3.13%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.60%) PMO
7 6 (1.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 6 (1.56%) GxP
7 6 (1.56%) SLA
8 5 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.04%) GRC
9 4 (1.04%) NCSC
10 3 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.78%) WCAG
11 1 (0.26%) Basel III
11 1 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.26%) MiFID
11 1 (0.26%) P3O
System Software
1 22 (5.73%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.82%) Docker
3 6 (1.56%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.04%) Firmware
5 3 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.26%) NFS
6 1 (0.26%) RACF
6 1 (0.26%) Squid
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.39%) Ansible
3 8 (2.08%) Terraform
4 7 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.04%) Podman
6 2 (0.52%) Grafana
6 2 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.52%) SCCM
7 1 (0.26%) Control-M
7 1 (0.26%) IBM BigFix
7 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.26%) QRadar
7 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 57 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 43 (11.20%) Dell
3 27 (7.03%) Oracle
4 25 (6.51%) SAP
5 20 (5.21%) Cisco
6 19 (4.95%) ServiceNow
7 17 (4.43%) Salesforce
8 13 (3.39%) Databricks
9 11 (2.86%) VMware
10 7 (1.82%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.56%) F5
11 6 (1.56%) Google
11 6 (1.56%) Juniper
12 5 (1.30%) BT
12 5 (1.30%) Charles River
12 5 (1.30%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.30%) MarketAxess
12 5 (1.30%) Nexthink
12 5 (1.30%) Tradeweb
13 4 (1.04%) Remedy