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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 348 455
Rank change year-on-year +16 +107 +47
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 375 206 138
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.63% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 1.82% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 121 73
10th Percentile £250 £305 £263
25th Percentile £394 £380 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% -14.29% -0.71%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £656 £650 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 11 42
10th Percentile £14.10 £39.25 £11.75
25th Percentile £25.25 £50.00 £11.81
Median hourly rate £39.50 £70.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.57% +400.00% -37.78%
75th Percentile £55.38 £81.18 £18.75
90th Percentile £67.84 £81.35 £23.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.28 £80.68 £14.00
% change year-on-year -66.19% +476.25% -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 17,434 11,307 13,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.09% 34.60% 30.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,677 7,024 8,258
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £627 £649 £663
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 879 530 872
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.48 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.94 £18.87 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £31.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.58% -13.71% +32.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £77.62 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £31.91 £36.05
% change year-on-year +37.78% -11.49% +2.99%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +16 344 £495 +10.00% 277
UK excluding London -6 189 £475 +5.56% 164
London +2 162 £500 - 160
Work from Home -15 87 £525 +23.53% 93
South East -31 59 £533 +33.13% 41
North of England -60 43 £485 +7.67% 32
Midlands -25 33 £489 +55.57% 20
South West -11 30 £350 -33.33% 58
West Midlands -42 29 £500 +88.68% 6
North West -38 28 £494 +9.78% 16
East of England -26 14 £488 - 9
Yorkshire -54 11 £475 -9.52% 11
Wales -7 8 - -
Scotland -17 6 £127 -71.78% 4
East Midlands -13 4 £425 +18.06% 14
North East - 4 - - 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 19 (5.07%) Confluence
2 5 (1.33%) CMS
2 5 (1.33%) SAS
3 4 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.07%) OpenStack
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 32 (8.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (7.47%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.93%) 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%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.80%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.80%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.80%) iTrent
3 3 (0.80%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.53%) Actimize
4 2 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.53%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.27%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (11.73%) Azure
2 39 (10.40%) Power Platform
3 37 (9.87%) AWS
4 16 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (4.00%) SaaS
6 13 (3.47%) GCP
7 11 (2.93%) Snowflake
8 10 (2.67%) Entra ID
8 10 (2.67%) GitHub
9 6 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.33%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.07%) Collibra
11 4 (1.07%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.80%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.80%) Apigee
12 3 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.80%) OCI
12 3 (0.80%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 49 (13.07%) 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%) Network Security
8 3 (0.80%) DHCP
8 3 (0.80%) Firewall
8 3 (0.80%) Internet
8 3 (0.80%) NAS
8 3 (0.80%) OSPF
8 3 (0.80%) VPN
9 2 (0.53%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (10.40%) Power BI
2 14 (3.73%) Relational Database
3 13 (3.47%) Tableau
4 12 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.67%) Oracle Database
5 10 (2.67%) RDBMS
6 6 (1.60%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.33%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (1.33%) Power Query
8 4 (1.07%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.07%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (1.07%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 3 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.80%) Looker
9 3 (0.80%) Metadata
9 3 (0.80%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.53%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.53%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (10.13%) 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%) Appium
5 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.27%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
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%) TestRail
General
1 375 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 188 (50.13%) Social Skills
3 110 (29.33%) Finance
4 40 (10.67%) Banking
5 34 (9.07%) Public Sector
6 25 (6.67%) Legal
7 22 (5.87%) Manufacturing
8 20 (5.33%) Marketing
9 19 (5.07%) Front Office
9 19 (5.07%) Telecoms
10 17 (4.53%) Back Office
11 16 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
12 15 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (2.13%) Investment Banking
15 7 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.60%) Retail
17 5 (1.33%) Billing
18 4 (1.07%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 91 (24.27%) Analyst
2 48 (12.80%) Business Analyst
3 46 (12.27%) Field Engineer
3 46 (12.27%) Field Service Engineer
3 46 (12.27%) IT Engineer
4 21 (5.60%) Data Analyst
4 21 (5.60%) Support Engineer
5 20 (5.33%) IT Support
6 19 (5.07%) Architect
6 19 (5.07%) Lead
6 19 (5.07%) Senior
7 18 (4.80%) Developer
8 17 (4.53%) Consultant
9 16 (4.27%) Field Support Engineer
9 16 (4.27%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (3.47%) Product Owner
11 12 (3.20%) Applications Support
12 11 (2.93%) Product Manager
13 10 (2.67%) Security Analyst
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%) RESTCONF
2 6 (1.60%) XML
2 6 (1.60%) YANG
3 5 (1.33%) .NET
3 5 (1.33%) Kafka
3 5 (1.33%) PySpark
4 4 (1.07%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.80%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (0.80%) JSON
5 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (0.80%) SailPoint
5 3 (0.80%) YAML
6 2 (0.53%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.53%) React
6 2 (0.53%) RESTful
6 2 (0.53%) SOAP
7 1 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (14.93%) Data Centre
2 34 (9.07%) Product Ownership
3 26 (6.93%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 10 (2.67%) Operational Technology
6 9 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.13%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.13%) SCADA
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%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.60%) Social Media
9 6 (1.60%) Web Conferencing
10 5 (1.33%) Blog
11 4 (1.07%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.00%) Windows
2 11 (2.93%) Linux
3 7 (1.87%) Unix
4 5 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.80%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.53%) AIX
6 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.53%) HPUX
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.53%) Solaris
6 2 (0.53%) SUSE
6 2 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (42.67%) Problem-Solving
2 93 (24.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 90 (24.00%) Agile
4 68 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 52 (13.87%) Analytics
6 50 (13.33%) Customer Service
7 49 (13.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 48 (12.80%) Validation
9 46 (12.27%) Break/Fix
10 44 (11.73%) AI
11 43 (11.47%) Business Intelligence
12 40 (10.67%) Migration
13 39 (10.40%) Business Analysis
14 38 (10.13%) User Stories
15 36 (9.60%) Process Improvement
15 36 (9.60%) Roadmaps
16 35 (9.33%) Data Modelling
16 35 (9.33%) Decision-Making
16 35 (9.33%) Workshop Facilitation
17 32 (8.53%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 76 (20.27%) SQL
2 43 (11.47%) 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
8 4 (1.07%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.07%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.07%) R
9 3 (0.80%) VBA
10 2 (0.53%) Bicep
10 2 (0.53%) C
10 2 (0.53%) C++
10 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.53%) ProC
11 1 (0.27%) LookML
11 1 (0.27%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 61 (16.27%) Cisco Certification
2 54 (14.40%) CCNA
3 49 (13.07%) MCSE
3 49 (13.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 48 (12.80%) Network+ Certification
5 46 (12.27%) A+ Certification
6 40 (10.67%) Security Cleared
7 31 (8.27%) Degree
8 19 (5.07%) 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 32 (8.53%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (5.33%) GDPR
4 19 (5.07%) QA
5 14 (3.73%) NIST
6 10 (2.67%) Accessibility
7 9 (2.40%) PMO
8 6 (1.60%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 6 (1.60%) GxP
8 6 (1.60%) SLA
9 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.80%) GRC
10 3 (0.80%) NCSC
11 2 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.53%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.27%) Basel III
12 1 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.27%) IFRS
12 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 14 (3.73%) 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 1 (0.27%) NFS
5 1 (0.27%) RACF
5 1 (0.27%) Squid
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 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 48 (12.80%) Microsoft
2 47 (12.53%) Dell
3 28 (7.47%) Oracle
4 22 (5.87%) SAP
5 19 (5.07%) Cisco
6 18 (4.80%) ServiceNow
7 16 (4.27%) Salesforce
8 13 (3.47%) 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%) Google
12 5 (1.33%) Nexthink
13 4 (1.07%) BMC
13 4 (1.07%) MuleSoft
13 4 (1.07%) Splunk
14 3 (0.80%) HP
14 3 (0.80%) Remedy