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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 338 444
Rank change year-on-year +6 +106 +80
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 375 223 127
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.68% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.14% 1.98% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 130 65
10th Percentile £228 £313 £251
25th Percentile £393 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% -8.00% -6.24%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £663 £682 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 38
10th Percentile £14.10 £39.83 -
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 £55.38 £81.10 £19.31
90th Percentile £67.84 £81.35 £23.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.28 £75.34 £14.00
% change year-on-year -63.80% +438.13% -29.11%

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 17,495 11,285 12,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.19% 34.63% 30.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,701 6,971 8,109
10th Percentile £318 £300 £300
25th Percentile £417 £406 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £666
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 886 539 761
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.29 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.89 £18.87 £15.92
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -22.08% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% -12.70%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +29 344 £500 +8.70% 190
UK excluding London -28 189 £475 +5.56% 117
London -2 162 £525 - 93
Work from Home -18 84 £533 +23.19% 87
South East -27 59 £541 +35.31% 37
North of England -64 43 £494 +9.78% 29
South West -17 31 £350 -40.43% 19
Midlands -28 31 £500 +59.24% 18
North West -39 29 £495 +10.00% 13
West Midlands -35 27 £513 +93.40% 4
East of England -27 14 £488 -18.75% 8
Yorkshire -54 12 £463 -11.90% 11
Wales -8 8 - - 2
Scotland -19 6 £127 -71.78% 5
East Midlands -11 4 £425 +18.06% 13
North East - 2 - - 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 17 (4.53%) Confluence
2 6 (1.60%) CMS
3 4 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.07%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.07%) SAS
4 3 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.27%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) Camunda
6 1 (0.27%) Mendix
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 29 (7.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (7.47%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (2.67%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (2.67%) Finacle
2 6 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.33%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.33%) Fidessa
3 5 (1.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.80%) iTrent
4 3 (0.80%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.53%) Actimize
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.27%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (12.27%) Azure
2 38 (10.13%) AWS
2 38 (10.13%) Power Platform
3 19 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (4.27%) SaaS
5 14 (3.73%) GCP
6 12 (3.20%) Entra ID
6 12 (3.20%) Snowflake
7 10 (2.67%) GitHub
8 7 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.33%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.07%) Collibra
10 4 (1.07%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.80%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.80%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (0.80%) OCI
11 3 (0.80%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 47 (12.53%) SAN
2 14 (3.73%) WAN
3 10 (2.67%) LAN
3 10 (2.67%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.40%) BGP
4 9 (2.40%) MPLS
5 6 (1.60%) SNMP
5 6 (1.60%) TACACS
5 6 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.33%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.33%) VLAN
7 4 (1.07%) DNS
7 4 (1.07%) VPN
8 3 (0.80%) DHCP
8 3 (0.80%) Firewall
8 3 (0.80%) Internet
8 3 (0.80%) NAS
8 3 (0.80%) Network Security
8 3 (0.80%) OSPF
9 2 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.13%) Power BI
2 15 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 14 (3.73%) Tableau
4 11 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.67%) Oracle Database
5 10 (2.67%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.33%) Power Query
7 4 (1.07%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.07%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (1.07%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 4 (1.07%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 3 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.80%) Looker
8 3 (0.80%) Metadata
8 3 (0.80%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.53%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.53%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 39 (10.40%) JIRA
2 4 (1.07%) Git
3 3 (0.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.80%) Selenium
4 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.53%) GitLab
4 2 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.27%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.27%) Capybara
5 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.27%) Gatling
5 1 (0.27%) JMeter
5 1 (0.27%) JUnit
5 1 (0.27%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.27%) NUnit
5 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.27%) RSpec
5 1 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 375 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 189 (50.40%) Social Skills
3 104 (27.73%) Finance
4 39 (10.40%) Banking
5 35 (9.33%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.13%) Legal
7 21 (5.60%) Manufacturing
8 20 (5.33%) Front Office
8 20 (5.33%) Marketing
9 19 (5.07%) Telecoms
10 16 (4.27%) Back Office
10 16 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (2.13%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.87%) Retail
15 6 (1.60%) Local Government
15 6 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.33%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 90 (24.00%) Analyst
2 51 (13.60%) Business Analyst
3 45 (12.00%) IT Engineer
4 44 (11.73%) Field Engineer
4 44 (11.73%) Field Service Engineer
5 22 (5.87%) Support Engineer
6 21 (5.60%) IT Support
7 20 (5.33%) Data Analyst
7 20 (5.33%) Lead
7 20 (5.33%) Senior
8 19 (5.07%) Architect
8 19 (5.07%) Developer
9 17 (4.53%) Consultant
9 17 (4.53%) IT Support Engineer
10 16 (4.27%) Field Support Engineer
11 13 (3.47%) Product Owner
12 12 (3.20%) Applications Support
12 12 (3.20%) Product Manager
13 10 (2.67%) Project Manager
13 10 (2.67%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.67%) REST
2 6 (1.60%) NETCONF
2 6 (1.60%) OpenConfig
2 6 (1.60%) PySpark
2 6 (1.60%) RESTCONF
2 6 (1.60%) YANG
3 5 (1.33%) .NET
3 5 (1.33%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (1.33%) Kafka
3 5 (1.33%) XML
4 4 (1.07%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.07%) SailPoint
5 3 (0.80%) JSON
5 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (0.80%) RESTful
6 2 (0.53%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.53%) React
6 2 (0.53%) SOAP
6 2 (0.53%) YAML
7 1 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (14.40%) Data Centre
2 32 (8.53%) Product Ownership
3 25 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.93%) Operational Technology
4 11 (2.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 10 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.40%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.13%) SCADA
7 8 (2.13%) Social Media
8 7 (1.87%) CMDB
8 7 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.87%) Life Science
9 6 (1.60%) Blog
9 6 (1.60%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.60%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.80%) Windows
2 11 (2.93%) Linux
3 7 (1.87%) Unix
4 5 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.07%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.53%) AIX
7 2 (0.53%) HPUX
7 2 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.53%) Solaris
7 2 (0.53%) SUSE
7 2 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (41.87%) Problem-Solving
2 93 (24.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 92 (24.53%) Agile
4 69 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (14.13%) Analytics
6 49 (13.07%) Customer Service
7 48 (12.80%) Validation
8 46 (12.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 44 (11.73%) AI
9 44 (11.73%) Break/Fix
10 43 (11.47%) Business Intelligence
11 40 (10.67%) Migration
12 39 (10.40%) Business Analysis
12 39 (10.40%) User Stories
13 36 (9.60%) Decision-Making
14 35 (9.33%) Roadmaps
14 35 (9.33%) Workshop Facilitation
15 34 (9.07%) Data Modelling
16 33 (8.80%) Process Improvement
16 33 (8.80%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 77 (20.53%) SQL
2 45 (12.00%) Python
3 14 (3.73%) PowerShell
4 12 (3.20%) C#
5 9 (2.40%) Java
6 7 (1.87%) Bash
6 7 (1.87%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (1.33%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.07%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.07%) R
9 3 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.53%) Bicep
10 2 (0.53%) C
10 2 (0.53%) C++
10 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.53%) ProC
10 2 (0.53%) VBA
11 1 (0.27%) Groovy
11 1 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 59 (15.73%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (13.87%) CCNA
3 47 (12.53%) MCSE
3 47 (12.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 46 (12.27%) Network+ Certification
5 44 (11.73%) A+ Certification
6 39 (10.40%) Security Cleared
7 31 (8.27%) Degree
8 18 (4.80%) SC Cleared
9 14 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (3.47%) DV Cleared
11 8 (2.13%) CISSP
12 6 (1.60%) CCIE
12 6 (1.60%) JNCIE
13 5 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.33%) Master's Degree
14 4 (1.07%) CISM
14 4 (1.07%) SAS Certification
15 3 (0.80%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.27%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (5.33%) GDPR
4 16 (4.27%) QA
5 14 (3.73%) NIST
6 12 (3.20%) Accessibility
7 8 (2.13%) PMO
8 6 (1.60%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 6 (1.60%) GxP
9 5 (1.33%) SLA
10 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.80%) GRC
11 3 (0.80%) NCSC
11 3 (0.80%) WCAG
12 2 (0.53%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.27%) Basel III
13 1 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.27%) MiFID
System Software
1 17 (4.53%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.33%) Hyper-V
2 5 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.07%) Firmware
4 3 (0.80%) Docker
5 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.27%) NFS
6 1 (0.27%) RACF
6 1 (0.27%) Squid
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.20%) Ansible
3 7 (1.87%) Terraform
4 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.80%) Podman
6 2 (0.53%) Grafana
6 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.27%) Control-M
7 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.27%) QRadar
7 1 (0.27%) SCCM
7 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.27%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 49 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 45 (12.00%) Dell
3 27 (7.20%) Oracle
4 23 (6.13%) SAP
5 19 (5.07%) Cisco
6 17 (4.53%) ServiceNow
7 16 (4.27%) Salesforce
8 14 (3.73%) Databricks
9 10 (2.67%) VMware
10 7 (1.87%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.60%) F5
11 6 (1.60%) Juniper
12 5 (1.33%) BT
12 5 (1.33%) Charles River
12 5 (1.33%) Google
12 5 (1.33%) MarketAxess
12 5 (1.33%) Nexthink
12 5 (1.33%) Tradeweb
13 4 (1.07%) CyberArk
13 4 (1.07%) MuleSoft