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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 361 425
Rank change year-on-year +26 +64 +69
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 337 165 164
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.56% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.07% 1.62% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 105 86
10th Percentile £247 £250 £206
25th Percentile £400 £380 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.20% -4.03%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £648 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -15.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 49
10th Percentile £14.10 £30.15 £11.75
25th Percentile £20.19 £53.38 £12.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £80.68 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.74% +437.83% -71.56%
75th Percentile £55.56 £81.18 £18.75
90th Percentile £67.84 £81.35 £23.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.28 £80.68 £14.25
% change year-on-year -66.19% +466.14% -

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 16,282 10,178 13,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.45% 34.37% 29.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,996 6,392 8,304
10th Percentile £316 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 822 439 940
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.92 £20.45 £15.35
Median hourly rate £41.93 £33.05 £35.58
Median % change year-on-year +26.87% -7.10% +58.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £61.35
90th Percentile £85.40 £82.13 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £32.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +33.98% -6.26% +59.09%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +42 311 £484 +7.50% 231
UK excluding London -26 170 £475 +5.56% 170
London +6 149 £500 +5.26% 94
Work from Home 0 82 £525 +23.53% 98
South East -13 58 £500 +53.85% 50
North of England -57 36 £475 +4.40% 37
Midlands -33 31 £477 +52.40% 37
South West -7 28 £350 -33.33% 20
West Midlands -41 27 £477 +80.00% 16
North West -28 22 £494 +9.78% 23
Wales -6 10 - - 2
Yorkshire -50 10 £463 -11.90% 8
Scotland -18 6 £127 -71.78% 6
East Midlands -20 4 £463 +21.39% 21
East of England -44 4 £475 -20.83% 16
North East - 4 - - 7

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 (5.64%) Confluence
2 5 (1.48%) SAS
3 4 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.19%) CMS
4 3 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) Camunda
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 25 (7.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.08%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 7 (2.08%) Finacle
2 6 (1.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.89%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.59%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.30%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.30%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.30%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.30%) Shopify
6 1 (0.30%) Summit
6 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (12.46%) Azure
2 35 (10.39%) AWS
3 34 (10.09%) Power Platform
4 14 (4.15%) GitHub
5 11 (3.26%) GCP
5 11 (3.26%) Snowflake
6 10 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.97%) SaaS
7 9 (2.67%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.19%) Collibra
9 4 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (0.89%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.89%) Apigee
10 3 (0.89%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.89%) Fivetran
10 3 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (0.89%) Salesforce Einstein
11 2 (0.59%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 55 (16.32%) SAN
2 10 (2.97%) WAN
3 6 (1.78%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.48%) BGP
4 5 (1.48%) DNS
4 5 (1.48%) LAN
4 5 (1.48%) MPLS
4 5 (1.48%) SD-WAN
4 5 (1.48%) VLAN
5 4 (1.19%) Network Security
6 3 (0.89%) DHCP
6 3 (0.89%) Firewall
6 3 (0.89%) Internet
6 3 (0.89%) NAS
6 3 (0.89%) OSPF
7 2 (0.59%) IP Telephony
7 2 (0.59%) SSL
7 2 (0.59%) TACACS
7 2 (0.59%) VPN
7 2 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (10.09%) Power BI
2 13 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.26%) Relational Database
3 11 (3.26%) Tableau
4 8 (2.37%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.08%) Oracle Database
5 7 (2.08%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.48%) Power Query
7 4 (1.19%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (1.19%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 4 (1.19%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 3 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.89%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.89%) Looker
8 3 (0.89%) Metadata
8 3 (0.89%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.59%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.59%) Big Data
9 2 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (10.09%) JIRA
2 4 (1.19%) Git
3 3 (0.89%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.89%) Selenium
4 2 (0.59%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.59%) GitLab
4 2 (0.59%) MLflow
5 1 (0.30%) Appium
5 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.30%) Gatling
5 1 (0.30%) JMeter
5 1 (0.30%) JUnit
5 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.30%) NUnit
5 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.30%) TestRail
General
1 337 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 161 (47.77%) Social Skills
3 96 (28.49%) Finance
4 33 (9.79%) Banking
5 31 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.53%) Legal
7 18 (5.34%) Manufacturing
8 17 (5.04%) Marketing
9 16 (4.75%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (4.75%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (4.15%) Back Office
10 14 (4.15%) Telecoms
11 13 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (3.56%) Front Office
13 7 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.78%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.48%) Billing
16 4 (1.19%) Multimedia
17 3 (0.89%) Law
17 3 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 80 (23.74%) Analyst
2 50 (14.84%) Field Engineer
2 50 (14.84%) Field Service Engineer
2 50 (14.84%) IT Engineer
3 45 (13.35%) Business Analyst
4 22 (6.53%) Lead
5 21 (6.23%) Data Analyst
6 20 (5.93%) Developer
6 20 (5.93%) IT Support
6 20 (5.93%) Support Engineer
7 16 (4.75%) Field Support Engineer
7 16 (4.75%) IT Support Engineer
7 16 (4.75%) Senior
8 13 (3.86%) Consultant
9 10 (2.97%) Architect
9 10 (2.97%) Security Analyst
10 8 (2.37%) Applications Support
10 8 (2.37%) Backend Developer
10 8 (2.37%) Project Manager
10 8 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.08%) REST
2 6 (1.78%) PySpark
3 5 (1.48%) .NET
3 5 (1.48%) XML
4 4 (1.19%) Kafka
4 4 (1.19%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.19%) YAML
5 3 (0.89%) JSON
5 3 (0.89%) Pandas
5 3 (0.89%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.59%) NETCONF
6 2 (0.59%) OpenConfig
6 2 (0.59%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.59%) React
6 2 (0.59%) RESTCONF
6 2 (0.59%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.59%) SOAP
6 2 (0.59%) YANG
7 1 (0.30%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 58 (17.21%) Data Centre
2 26 (7.72%) Product Ownership
3 23 (6.82%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.97%) Operational Technology
5 8 (2.37%) SCADA
5 8 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 6 (1.78%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.78%) Web Conferencing
8 5 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.48%) NHS
9 4 (1.19%) Blog
9 4 (1.19%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.19%) Social Media
10 3 (0.89%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.20%) Windows
2 13 (3.86%) Linux
3 6 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.19%) Unix
5 3 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.59%) AIX
6 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.59%) HPUX
6 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.59%) Solaris
6 2 (0.59%) SUSE
6 2 (0.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (43.62%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (24.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 78 (23.15%) Agile
4 65 (19.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (15.73%) Customer Service
6 50 (14.84%) Break/Fix
7 49 (14.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 47 (13.95%) Analytics
9 44 (13.06%) Validation
10 39 (11.57%) Decision-Making
11 36 (10.68%) Business Intelligence
11 36 (10.68%) Data Modelling
11 36 (10.68%) Migration
12 35 (10.39%) AI
13 34 (10.09%) Business Analysis
14 32 (9.50%) Process Improvement
15 31 (9.20%) Data Governance
16 29 (8.61%) Workshop Facilitation
17 28 (8.31%) Actionable Insight
17 28 (8.31%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 68 (20.18%) SQL
2 35 (10.39%) Python
3 17 (5.04%) PowerShell
4 14 (4.15%) C#
5 9 (2.67%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.37%) Java
7 6 (1.78%) Bash
8 5 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.19%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.19%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.19%) R
10 3 (0.89%) VBA
11 2 (0.59%) Bicep
11 2 (0.59%) C++
12 1 (0.30%) Groovy
12 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.30%) LookML
12 1 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 61 (18.10%) Cisco Certification
2 58 (17.21%) CCNA
3 53 (15.73%) MCSE
3 53 (15.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 52 (15.43%) Network+ Certification
5 50 (14.84%) A+ Certification
6 32 (9.50%) Security Cleared
7 30 (8.90%) Degree
8 18 (5.34%) SC Cleared
9 12 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (3.26%) DV Cleared
11 8 (2.37%) CISSP
12 4 (1.19%) CISA
12 4 (1.19%) CISM
12 4 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.19%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.89%) CEH
13 3 (0.89%) RHCA
13 3 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.31%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.93%) GDPR
2 20 (5.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (5.64%) QA
4 14 (4.15%) NIST
5 8 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.37%) PMO
6 6 (1.78%) SLA
7 4 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.89%) GRC
8 3 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.89%) WCAG
9 2 (0.59%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.59%) GxP
9 2 (0.59%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (3.86%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.08%) Hyper-V
2 7 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.19%) Firmware
4 3 (0.89%) Docker
4 3 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.59%) KVM
6 1 (0.30%) NFS
6 1 (0.30%) RACF
6 1 (0.30%) Squid
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.67%) Ansible
3 8 (2.37%) Terraform
4 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.89%) Podman
6 2 (0.59%) SCCM
7 1 (0.30%) Control-M
7 1 (0.30%) Grafana
7 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.30%) SCOM
7 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.30%) SysTrack
7 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (15.13%) Dell
2 38 (11.28%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.82%) Oracle
4 20 (5.93%) SAP
5 16 (4.75%) Salesforce
6 15 (4.45%) Cisco
6 15 (4.45%) Databricks
7 14 (4.15%) ServiceNow
8 13 (3.86%) VMware
9 5 (1.48%) BMC
9 5 (1.48%) BT
9 5 (1.48%) Google
9 5 (1.48%) Nexthink
10 4 (1.19%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.89%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.89%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.89%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.89%) HP
11 3 (0.89%) Splunk
11 3 (0.89%) Veeam