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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 350 438
Rank change year-on-year +23 +88 +88
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 368 189 150
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.61% 0.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.17% 1.76% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 114 81
10th Percentile £250 £267 £243
25th Percentile £400 £380 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% -14.29% -1.41%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £656 £648 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 44
10th Percentile £14.10 £30.15 £11.75
25th Percentile £25.25 £53.38 £12.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £80.68 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.74% +456.38% -35.56%
75th Percentile £55.75 £81.18 £18.94
90th Percentile £67.84 £81.35 £23.88
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 16,922 10,721 13,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.88% 34.62% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,336 6,685 8,332
10th Percentile £313 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £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 863 495 926
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.53 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.94 £18.95 £15.39
Median hourly rate £42.30 £31.08 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +36.10% -12.82% +58.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.17 £62.00
90th Percentile £86.98 £78.73 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +46.53% -15.49% +57.78%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +28 338 £500 +11.11% 242
UK excluding London -21 183 £475 +5.56% 160
London +2 162 £500 +5.26% 105
Work from Home -10 87 £525 +19.45% 107
South East -15 58 £533 +33.13% 48
North of England -57 41 £485 +6.48% 35
Midlands -24 33 £489 +55.57% 32
West Midlands -33 30 £489 +84.34% 9
South West -13 29 £350 -33.33% 26
North West -34 27 £495 +9.89% 18
East of England -23 11 £500 +48.15% 12
Yorkshire -47 10 £463 -11.90% 13
Wales -5 9 - - 1
Scotland -11 6 £127 -71.78% 4
North East - 4 - - 4
East Midlands -18 3 £463 +28.47% 23

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 18 (4.89%) Confluence
2 5 (1.36%) CMS
2 5 (1.36%) SAS
3 4 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.27%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) Camunda
6 1 (0.27%) Mendix
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 29 (7.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (6.79%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.45%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (2.72%) Finacle
2 6 (1.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.09%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.82%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.82%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.82%) iTrent
5 2 (0.54%) Actimize
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.27%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.27%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.27%) Shopify
6 1 (0.27%) Summit
6 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 44 (11.96%) Azure
2 38 (10.33%) Power Platform
3 37 (10.05%) AWS
4 15 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (4.08%) SaaS
5 12 (3.26%) GCP
6 10 (2.72%) GitHub
6 10 (2.72%) Snowflake
7 9 (2.45%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.09%) Collibra
9 4 (1.09%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.82%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.82%) Apigee
10 3 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.82%) Fivetran
10 3 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (0.82%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.82%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 51 (13.86%) SAN
2 12 (3.26%) WAN
3 8 (2.17%) LAN
3 8 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.90%) BGP
4 7 (1.90%) MPLS
5 5 (1.36%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.36%) VLAN
6 4 (1.09%) DNS
6 4 (1.09%) Network Security
6 4 (1.09%) SNMP
6 4 (1.09%) TACACS
6 4 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.82%) DHCP
7 3 (0.82%) Firewall
7 3 (0.82%) Internet
7 3 (0.82%) NAS
7 3 (0.82%) OSPF
8 2 (0.54%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.54%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.33%) Power BI
2 14 (3.80%) Relational Database
3 13 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (3.26%) Tableau
5 10 (2.72%) Oracle Database
5 10 (2.72%) RDBMS
6 7 (1.90%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.36%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (1.36%) Power Query
8 4 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.09%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (1.09%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 3 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.82%) Looker
9 3 (0.82%) Metadata
9 3 (0.82%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.82%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.54%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 37 (10.05%) JIRA
2 4 (1.09%) Git
3 3 (0.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.82%) Selenium
4 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.54%) GitLab
4 2 (0.54%) 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%) 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%) MLflow
5 1 (0.27%) NUnit
5 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.27%) TestRail
General
1 368 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 185 (50.27%) Social Skills
3 107 (29.08%) Finance
4 39 (10.60%) Banking
5 34 (9.24%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.52%) Legal
7 22 (5.98%) Manufacturing
8 20 (5.43%) Marketing
9 19 (5.16%) Front Office
10 17 (4.62%) Back Office
10 17 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (4.62%) Telecoms
11 12 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.90%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.63%) Retail
14 5 (1.36%) Billing
15 4 (1.09%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 87 (23.64%) Analyst
2 48 (13.04%) Business Analyst
3 47 (12.77%) Field Engineer
3 47 (12.77%) Field Service Engineer
3 47 (12.77%) IT Engineer
4 21 (5.71%) Data Analyst
4 21 (5.71%) Support Engineer
5 20 (5.43%) IT Support
5 20 (5.43%) Lead
6 18 (4.89%) Developer
6 18 (4.89%) Senior
7 17 (4.62%) Architect
8 16 (4.35%) Field Support Engineer
8 16 (4.35%) IT Support Engineer
9 15 (4.08%) Consultant
10 12 (3.26%) Applications Support
10 12 (3.26%) Product Owner
11 10 (2.72%) Project Manager
11 10 (2.72%) Security Analyst
11 10 (2.72%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.45%) REST
2 7 (1.90%) XML
3 6 (1.63%) .NET
3 6 (1.63%) PySpark
4 5 (1.36%) Kafka
5 4 (1.09%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (1.09%) NETCONF
5 4 (1.09%) OpenConfig
5 4 (1.09%) RESTCONF
5 4 (1.09%) YAML
5 4 (1.09%) YANG
6 3 (0.82%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (0.82%) JSON
6 3 (0.82%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.54%) Pandas
7 2 (0.54%) React
7 2 (0.54%) RESTful
7 2 (0.54%) SOAP
8 1 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (15.22%) Data Centre
2 31 (8.42%) Product Ownership
3 26 (7.07%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 10 (2.72%) Operational Technology
6 9 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.17%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.17%) SCADA
8 7 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.63%) CMDB
9 6 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.63%) Life Science
9 6 (1.63%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.63%) Social Media
9 6 (1.63%) Web Conferencing
10 5 (1.36%) Blog
11 4 (1.09%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.42%) Windows
2 12 (3.26%) Linux
3 7 (1.90%) Unix
4 5 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.54%) AIX
6 2 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.54%) HPUX
6 2 (0.54%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.54%) Solaris
6 2 (0.54%) SUSE
6 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 93 (25.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 87 (23.64%) Agile
4 68 (18.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 51 (13.86%) Analytics
5 51 (13.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 50 (13.59%) Customer Service
7 49 (13.32%) Validation
8 47 (12.77%) Break/Fix
9 41 (11.14%) AI
9 41 (11.14%) Business Intelligence
10 39 (10.60%) Migration
11 38 (10.33%) Business Analysis
11 38 (10.33%) Decision-Making
12 37 (10.05%) Data Modelling
13 36 (9.78%) Process Improvement
14 33 (8.97%) Data Governance
14 33 (8.97%) User Stories
14 33 (8.97%) Workshop Facilitation
15 31 (8.42%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 76 (20.65%) SQL
2 39 (10.60%) Python
3 15 (4.08%) PowerShell
4 12 (3.26%) C#
5 9 (2.45%) Java
6 7 (1.90%) Bash
6 7 (1.90%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.09%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.09%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.09%) R
9 3 (0.82%) VBA
10 2 (0.54%) Bicep
10 2 (0.54%) C
10 2 (0.54%) C++
10 2 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.54%) ProC
11 1 (0.27%) Groovy
11 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (16.30%) Cisco Certification
2 55 (14.95%) CCNA
3 50 (13.59%) MCSE
3 50 (13.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 49 (13.32%) Network+ Certification
5 47 (12.77%) A+ Certification
6 38 (10.33%) Security Cleared
7 30 (8.15%) Degree
8 18 (4.89%) SC Cleared
9 13 (3.53%) DV Cleared
10 12 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (2.17%) CISSP
12 4 (1.09%) CCIE
12 4 (1.09%) CISA
12 4 (1.09%) CISM
12 4 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.09%) JNCIE
12 4 (1.09%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.82%) CEH
13 3 (0.82%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.42%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.98%) GDPR
2 22 (5.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (5.43%) QA
4 14 (3.80%) NIST
5 10 (2.72%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.45%) PMO
7 6 (1.63%) SLA
8 5 (1.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (1.36%) GxP
9 4 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.82%) GRC
10 3 (0.82%) NCSC
11 2 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.54%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.27%) IFRS
12 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (3.26%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.63%) Hyper-V
2 6 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.09%) Firmware
4 3 (0.82%) Docker
5 2 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.27%) KVM
6 1 (0.27%) NFS
6 1 (0.27%) RACF
6 1 (0.27%) Squid
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.99%) Ansible
3 7 (1.90%) Terraform
4 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.82%) Podman
6 2 (0.54%) Grafana
6 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.27%) Control-M
7 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.27%) SCCM
7 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.27%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 48 (13.04%) Dell
2 44 (11.96%) Microsoft
3 29 (7.88%) Oracle
4 23 (6.25%) SAP
5 17 (4.62%) Cisco
5 17 (4.62%) ServiceNow
6 16 (4.35%) Salesforce
7 14 (3.80%) Databricks
8 11 (2.99%) VMware
9 5 (1.36%) BT
9 5 (1.36%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.36%) Google
9 5 (1.36%) Nexthink
10 4 (1.09%) BMC
10 4 (1.09%) F5
10 4 (1.09%) Juniper
10 4 (1.09%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.82%) Charles River
11 3 (0.82%) HP
11 3 (0.82%) Red Hat