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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 298 453
Rank change year-on-year -89 +155 +26
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 305 290 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.88% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 2.47% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 180 56
10th Percentile £185 £230 £234
25th Percentile £396 £363 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £469
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +6.13% -6.44%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £578
90th Percentile £680 £676 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £449 £450
% change year-on-year +3.57% -0.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 15
10th Percentile £25.25 £18.25 -
25th Percentile £36.00 £27.25 £11.75
Median hourly rate £47.00 £45.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +200.00% -58.62%
75th Percentile £67.84 £75.00 £21.75
90th Percentile £80.50 £81.35 £23.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -2.87% +364.29% -37.78%

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 18,572 11,753 11,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.15% 35.82% 30.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,116 7,198 7,033
10th Percentile £320 £293 £285
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -3.53% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £672
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,231 599 437
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.96 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £22.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -42.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £29.30 £57.35
% change year-on-year +30.55% -48.91% +14.70%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -85 281 £503 +8.76% 404
London -55 146 £575 +4.55% 259
UK excluding London -101 141 £465 +3.57% 182
Work from Home -55 65 £563 +32.35% 166
South East -58 36 £550 +87.23% 46
North of England -73 35 £459 -0.22% 28
South West -27 24 £375 -36.17% 34
Midlands -44 24 £525 +66.67% 31
North West -54 22 £494 +9.78% 22
West Midlands -41 20 £550 +90.31% 18
East of England -21 15 £500 -26.47% 17
Yorkshire -47 12 £190 -65.45% 6
Scotland -36 6 £127 -74.60% 12
East Midlands -20 4 £325 +1.56% 13
Wales -14 3 - - 6
North East - 1 - -

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 (5.25%) Confluence
2 5 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.31%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.31%) SAS
3 4 (1.31%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.98%) CMS
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.33%) Apache
6 1 (0.33%) Camunda
6 1 (0.33%) Mendix
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 30 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (7.87%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (4.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.95%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.33%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 10 (3.28%) Finacle
2 5 (1.64%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.64%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.98%) iTrent
3 3 (0.98%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.66%) Actimize
4 2 (0.66%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.66%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.33%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 39 (12.79%) Azure
2 33 (10.82%) Power Platform
3 32 (10.49%) AWS
4 21 (6.89%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (5.25%) SaaS
6 14 (4.59%) Entra ID
6 14 (4.59%) GCP
7 13 (4.26%) GitHub
7 13 (4.26%) Snowflake
8 10 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (1.64%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.31%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.31%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.98%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.98%) Collibra
12 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.87%) SAN
2 9 (2.95%) LAN
2 9 (2.95%) WAN
3 8 (2.62%) BGP
3 8 (2.62%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.30%) Network Security
5 6 (1.97%) Broadband
5 6 (1.97%) DNS
5 6 (1.97%) MPLS
5 6 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.64%) SSL
6 5 (1.64%) VLAN
6 5 (1.64%) VPN
7 4 (1.31%) Firewall
7 4 (1.31%) SNMP
7 4 (1.31%) TACACS
8 3 (0.98%) FTP
8 3 (0.98%) HTTP
8 3 (0.98%) OSPF
8 3 (0.98%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.49%) Power BI
2 13 (4.26%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.93%) Tableau
4 10 (3.28%) Oracle Database
4 10 (3.28%) RDBMS
5 9 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.30%) Metadata
7 4 (1.31%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (1.31%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.31%) Power Query
7 4 (1.31%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 4 (1.31%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 4 (1.31%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.98%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.98%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.98%) MySQL
9 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.66%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (11.15%) JIRA
2 4 (1.31%) Cypress.io
2 4 (1.31%) Git
2 4 (1.31%) GitLab
2 4 (1.31%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.98%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.66%) Mocha
4 2 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.66%) Selenium
5 1 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.33%) Capybara
5 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.33%) Gatling
5 1 (0.33%) JMeter
5 1 (0.33%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.33%) RSpec
General
1 305 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 174 (57.05%) Social Skills
3 99 (32.46%) Finance
4 41 (13.44%) Public Sector
5 35 (11.48%) Banking
6 24 (7.87%) Front Office
7 23 (7.54%) Local Government
8 20 (6.56%) Telecoms
9 18 (5.90%) Marketing
10 17 (5.57%) Manufacturing
11 16 (5.25%) Back Office
12 15 (4.92%) Legal
13 11 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (3.28%) Retail
15 9 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.97%) Investment Banking
18 3 (0.98%) Billing
Job Titles
1 66 (21.64%) Analyst
2 35 (11.48%) Business Analyst
3 29 (9.51%) IT Engineer
4 26 (8.52%) Senior
5 24 (7.87%) Field Engineer
5 24 (7.87%) Field Service Engineer
6 21 (6.89%) Architect
7 18 (5.90%) Data Analyst
8 14 (4.59%) IT Support
9 13 (4.26%) Applications Support
9 13 (4.26%) Consultant
9 13 (4.26%) Developer
9 13 (4.26%) Lead
9 13 (4.26%) Support Engineer
10 10 (3.28%) IT Support Engineer
10 10 (3.28%) Product Owner
10 10 (3.28%) Systems Support
11 8 (2.62%) Product Manager
12 7 (2.30%) Marketing Manager
12 7 (2.30%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.26%) REST
2 9 (2.95%) Terraform
3 7 (2.30%) RESTful
4 5 (1.64%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (1.64%) JSON
4 5 (1.64%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.64%) XML
5 4 (1.31%) Kafka
5 4 (1.31%) LDAP
5 4 (1.31%) NETCONF
5 4 (1.31%) OpenConfig
5 4 (1.31%) RESTCONF
5 4 (1.31%) YANG
6 3 (0.98%) .NET
6 3 (0.98%) PySpark
6 3 (0.98%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.66%) Jest
7 2 (0.66%) JWT
7 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.66%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.49%) Data Centre
2 27 (8.85%) Product Ownership
3 24 (7.87%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 9 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.95%) Social Media
7 8 (2.62%) CMDB
7 8 (2.62%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.62%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.30%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.30%) Equities
8 7 (2.30%) Life Science
8 7 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.30%) Web Conferencing
9 6 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.97%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.64%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.84%) Windows
2 12 (3.93%) Linux
3 7 (2.30%) Unix
4 6 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.64%) Android
5 5 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.98%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.66%) AIX
7 2 (0.66%) HPUX
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.66%) Solaris
7 2 (0.66%) SUSE
8 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (41.31%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (30.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 87 (28.52%) Agile
4 62 (20.33%) AI
4 62 (20.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 48 (15.74%) Analytics
6 46 (15.08%) Business Analysis
7 45 (14.75%) Validation
8 42 (13.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 39 (12.79%) DevOps
10 34 (11.15%) Migration
11 33 (10.82%) Business Intelligence
11 33 (10.82%) User Stories
12 32 (10.49%) Roadmaps
12 32 (10.49%) User Acceptance Testing
13 30 (9.84%) Customer Service
13 30 (9.84%) Decision-Making
14 29 (9.51%) Workshop Facilitation
15 28 (9.18%) Scrum
16 27 (8.85%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 65 (21.31%) SQL
2 45 (14.75%) Python
3 10 (3.28%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.30%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.97%) Bash
6 5 (1.64%) C#
6 5 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.64%) Java
7 4 (1.31%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.98%) Go
8 3 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (0.98%) R
9 2 (0.66%) Bicep
9 2 (0.66%) C
9 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.66%) ProC
9 2 (0.66%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.33%) Groovy
10 1 (0.33%) Ruby
10 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (14.43%) Security Cleared
2 39 (12.79%) Cisco Certification
3 31 (10.16%) CCNA
4 29 (9.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 29 (9.51%) SC Cleared
5 27 (8.85%) MCSE
6 26 (8.52%) Network+ Certification
7 24 (7.87%) A+ Certification
8 23 (7.54%) Degree
9 13 (4.26%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.30%) CISSP
12 6 (1.97%) CCIE
13 4 (1.31%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.31%) CISM
13 4 (1.31%) JNCIE
13 4 (1.31%) SAS Certification
14 3 (0.98%) GCIA
14 3 (0.98%) GCIH
14 3 (0.98%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.85%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.25%) QA
3 15 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.93%) GDPR
5 10 (3.28%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.95%) PMO
7 7 (2.30%) NIST
8 6 (1.97%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 6 (1.97%) SLA
9 5 (1.64%) GxP
9 5 (1.64%) NCSC
10 4 (1.31%) GRC
11 3 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.98%) WCAG
12 2 (0.66%) Basel III
12 2 (0.66%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.33%) IFRS
13 1 (0.33%) MiFID
13 1 (0.33%) P3O
13 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.95%) Docker
3 4 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.98%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.33%) Squid
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (4.92%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.59%) Ansible
3 3 (0.98%) Podman
4 2 (0.66%) Grafana
4 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.66%) SCCM
4 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.33%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.33%) Control-M
5 1 (0.33%) IBM BigFix
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 58 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.20%) Dell
3 23 (7.54%) Oracle
4 22 (7.21%) SAP
5 19 (6.23%) Cisco
6 17 (5.57%) ServiceNow
7 11 (3.61%) Salesforce
8 10 (3.28%) Databricks
9 8 (2.62%) Google
10 6 (1.97%) Juniper
11 5 (1.64%) Ariba
11 5 (1.64%) BT
11 5 (1.64%) Charles River
11 5 (1.64%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.64%) MarketAxess
11 5 (1.64%) Remedy
11 5 (1.64%) Splunk
11 5 (1.64%) Tradeweb
11 5 (1.64%) VMware
12 4 (1.31%) Fortinet