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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 374 413
Rank change year-on-year +69 +39 +115
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 363 152 188
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.76% 0.52% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.38% 1.53% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 104 98
10th Percentile £251 £250 £196
25th Percentile £400 £377 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £455 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.37% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £588 £603 £584
90th Percentile £650 £642 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +4.44% -14.29% -8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 6 59
10th Percentile £14.10 £53.38 £11.75
25th Percentile £33.31 £70.71 £13.38
Median hourly rate £47.00 £80.68 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.74% +388.94% -73.60%
75th Percentile £67.38 £81.27 £19.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.35 £24.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.50 £80.68 £15.00
% change year-on-year -31.21% +437.83% -32.31%

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 15,270 9,967 13,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.07% 34.00% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,501 6,373 8,439
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 £798
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 725 402 905
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.06 £15.17
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +7.76% +34.13%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £86.90 £83.13 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £31.76 £28.25
% change year-on-year +57.43% +12.42% +28.41%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +59 331 £494 +5.67% 256
UK excluding London +10 183 £470 +4.44% 194
London +30 157 £500 - 107
Work from Home +29 99 £500 +13.77% 124
South East +8 70 £500 +53.85% 73
Midlands -41 34 £460 -5.35% 19
North of England -42 29 £463 +29.19% 46
West Midlands -32 27 £470 -10.48% 12
South West -15 25 £350 -28.21% 19
North West -33 18 £452 +26.26% 30
Wales -5 11 - - 9
East of England -43 10 £575 - 20
Scotland +1 8 £236 -47.56% 7
Yorkshire -51 8 £463 +10.78% 9
East Midlands -24 7 £450 +0.67% 7
North East - 3 - - 8

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 20 (5.51%) Confluence
2 5 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.10%) CMS
4 2 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.55%) Apache
5 1 (0.28%) Camunda
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 39 (10.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.31%) MS Visio
4 11 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.55%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.03%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (1.38%) Shopify
4 4 (1.10%) Finacle
4 4 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.83%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.55%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.28%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.28%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.28%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.28%) Summit
7 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 39 (10.74%) Azure
2 36 (9.92%) Power Platform
3 31 (8.54%) AWS
4 14 (3.86%) GitHub
5 13 (3.58%) SaaS
6 11 (3.03%) GCP
7 10 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (2.20%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (1.38%) Collibra
9 5 (1.38%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (1.38%) Lucidchart
9 5 (1.38%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.83%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.83%) Apigee
11 3 (0.83%) Datadog
11 3 (0.83%) Fivetran
11 3 (0.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 56 (15.43%) SAN
2 14 (3.86%) DNS
3 12 (3.31%) Network Security
4 10 (2.75%) WAN
5 7 (1.93%) MPLS
5 7 (1.93%) SSL
6 6 (1.65%) FTP
6 6 (1.65%) HTTP
6 6 (1.65%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.38%) BGP
7 5 (1.38%) LAN
7 5 (1.38%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.38%) SMTP
8 4 (1.10%) Firewall
8 4 (1.10%) SNMP
8 4 (1.10%) TACACS
9 3 (0.83%) DHCP
9 3 (0.83%) Internet
9 3 (0.83%) NAS
9 3 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.92%) Power BI
2 16 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.48%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.20%) Data Lake
4 8 (2.20%) Tableau
5 6 (1.65%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 5 (1.38%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.38%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.10%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.10%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (1.10%) Looker
7 4 (1.10%) Metadata
7 4 (1.10%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.83%) Big Data
8 3 (0.83%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.83%) Power Query
9 2 (0.55%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 39 (10.74%) JIRA
2 4 (1.10%) Git
3 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.55%) MLflow
3 2 (0.55%) Selenium
3 2 (0.55%) 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
1 362 (99.72%) Analytical Skills
2 176 (48.48%) Social Skills
3 113 (31.13%) Finance
4 34 (9.37%) Banking
5 32 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.34%) Marketing
7 21 (5.79%) Legal
8 17 (4.68%) Manufacturing
9 16 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (3.31%) Telecoms
11 11 (3.03%) Back Office
12 8 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.20%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.93%) Front Office
14 6 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.38%) Retail
16 4 (1.10%) Billing
16 4 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (1.10%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 79 (21.76%) Analyst
2 51 (14.05%) Field Engineer
2 51 (14.05%) Field Service Engineer
2 51 (14.05%) IT Engineer
3 47 (12.95%) Business Analyst
4 23 (6.34%) Support Engineer
5 21 (5.79%) Lead
6 20 (5.51%) Developer
7 18 (4.96%) IT Support
8 17 (4.68%) Senior
9 16 (4.41%) Consultant
9 16 (4.41%) Field Support Engineer
9 16 (4.41%) IT Support Engineer
10 15 (4.13%) Data Analyst
11 11 (3.03%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (2.75%) Operations Analyst
12 10 (2.75%) Operations Business Analyst
13 9 (2.48%) Architect
13 9 (2.48%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.93%) PySpark
2 6 (1.65%) LDAP
2 6 (1.65%) PyTorch
3 5 (1.38%) YAML
4 4 (1.10%) .NET
4 4 (1.10%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.10%) NETCONF
4 4 (1.10%) OpenConfig
4 4 (1.10%) Pandas
4 4 (1.10%) REST
4 4 (1.10%) RESTCONF
4 4 (1.10%) scikit-learn
4 4 (1.10%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.10%) XML
4 4 (1.10%) YANG
5 3 (0.83%) EDI
5 3 (0.83%) Kafka
5 3 (0.83%) Middleware
5 3 (0.83%) Node.js
6 2 (0.55%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 61 (16.80%) Data Centre
2 19 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 18 (4.96%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.13%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.48%) Operational Technology
5 9 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.20%) SCADA
7 7 (1.93%) Web Conferencing
8 6 (1.65%) Blog
8 6 (1.65%) Derivative
8 6 (1.65%) NHS
9 5 (1.38%) CSOC
9 5 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.38%) Cyberattack
9 5 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.38%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.82%) Windows
2 16 (4.41%) Linux
3 9 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.10%) Unix
5 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.55%) AIX
6 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.55%) HPUX
6 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.55%) Solaris
6 2 (0.55%) SUSE
6 2 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (23.42%) Agile
3 77 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 63 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 55 (15.15%) Customer Service
6 54 (14.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 51 (14.05%) Break/Fix
8 50 (13.77%) Analytics
8 50 (13.77%) Decision-Making
9 45 (12.40%) Business Intelligence
10 39 (10.74%) Data Modelling
11 37 (10.19%) AI
12 36 (9.92%) Data Governance
12 36 (9.92%) Validation
13 34 (9.37%) Actionable Insight
13 34 (9.37%) Business Analysis
14 33 (9.09%) Process Improvement
15 32 (8.82%) Roadmaps
15 32 (8.82%) Workshop Facilitation
16 31 (8.54%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (19.01%) SQL
2 43 (11.85%) Python
3 24 (6.61%) PowerShell
4 14 (3.86%) C#
5 11 (3.03%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.48%) Java
7 7 (1.93%) Bash
7 7 (1.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.10%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.10%) C++
8 4 (1.10%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.83%) VBA
10 2 (0.55%) Bicep
10 2 (0.55%) Go
10 2 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.55%) R
11 1 (0.28%) LookML
11 1 (0.28%) Scala
11 1 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.28%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 59 (16.25%) Cisco Certification
2 55 (15.15%) CCNA
3 54 (14.88%) MCSE
3 54 (14.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 51 (14.05%) A+ Certification
4 51 (14.05%) Network+ Certification
5 46 (12.67%) Security Cleared
6 42 (11.57%) Degree
7 28 (7.71%) SC Cleared
8 18 (4.96%) DV Cleared
9 12 (3.31%) Master's Degree
10 11 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.48%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.93%) PMP
13 6 (1.65%) CISSP
14 4 (1.10%) CCIE
14 4 (1.10%) CEH
14 4 (1.10%) CISA
14 4 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (1.10%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.71%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.16%) GDPR
3 23 (6.34%) QA
4 19 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (3.03%) NIST
6 9 (2.48%) PMO
7 8 (2.20%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.10%) SLA
10 3 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.83%) GRC
10 3 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.83%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.83%) WCAG
11 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.28%) COBIT
12 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 17 (4.68%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.93%) Hyper-V
2 7 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.38%) Docker
4 4 (1.10%) Firmware
5 3 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.55%) KVM
6 2 (0.55%) 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 (3.31%) Ansible
2 9 (2.48%) Terraform
3 6 (1.65%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.10%) SCCM
4 4 (1.10%) SCOM
4 4 (1.10%) vCenter Server
5 3 (0.83%) Podman
6 1 (0.28%) Control-M
6 1 (0.28%) Grafana
6 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.28%) Kibana
6 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.28%) Suricata
6 1 (0.28%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 51 (14.05%) Dell
2 45 (12.40%) Microsoft
3 26 (7.16%) SAP
4 21 (5.79%) Oracle
4 21 (5.79%) Salesforce
5 16 (4.41%) VMware
6 13 (3.58%) Cisco
7 12 (3.31%) Databricks
8 8 (2.20%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.65%) BMC
9 6 (1.65%) Google
10 5 (1.38%) Adobe
10 5 (1.38%) BT
10 5 (1.38%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.38%) Nexthink
11 4 (1.10%) F5
11 4 (1.10%) Juniper
11 4 (1.10%) Murex
11 4 (1.10%) Splunk
12 3 (0.83%) Red Hat