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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 303 459
Rank change year-on-year -85 +156 +27
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 319 280 107
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.86% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.73% 2.40% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 175 59
10th Percentile £185 £231 £259
25th Percentile £400 £369 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £480
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +3.13% -8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £581
90th Percentile £680 £678 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.70% -9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 18
10th Percentile £25.25 £23.70 -
25th Percentile £36.50 £33.44 £11.75
Median hourly rate £47.00 £46.25 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +218.97% -35.56%
75th Percentile £67.84 £75.00 £21.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.72 £23.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -2.87% +364.29% -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 18,412 11,661 11,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.88% 35.71% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,041 7,132 7,141
10th Percentile £320 £295 £294
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £807
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,193 587 467
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.46
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £21.53
Median hourly rate £38.25 £29.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.66% -41.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.05 £73.30 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +33.33% -47.69% +17.04%

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 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 21 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 21 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 -75 295 £525 +13.51% 573
London -49 153 £550 - 398
UK excluding London -99 148 £459 +2.00% 224
Work from Home -55 68 £575 +35.29% 188
South East -57 38 £550 +69.23% 61
North of England -69 37 £405 -11.10% 39
Midlands -44 26 £514 +63.54% 38
South West -29 25 £375 -28.57% 39
North West -46 24 £494 +9.78% 27
West Midlands -41 21 £600 +107.61% 21
East of England -26 15 £500 -26.47% 23
Yorkshire -45 12 £190 -64.65% 11
Scotland -37 6 £127 -74.60% 15
East Midlands -17 5 £375 +11.11% 17
Wales -12 3 - - 4
North East - 1 - - 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 (5.02%) Confluence
2 5 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.25%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.25%) SAS
3 4 (1.25%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.94%) CMS
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) Camunda
5 1 (0.31%) Mendix
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 31 (9.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (7.52%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (4.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (3.13%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.31%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 10 (3.13%) Finacle
2 5 (1.57%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.57%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.94%) iTrent
4 3 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.63%) Actimize
5 2 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.31%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.31%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 41 (12.85%) Azure
2 35 (10.97%) AWS
3 34 (10.66%) Power Platform
4 22 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (5.33%) SaaS
6 15 (4.70%) GCP
7 14 (4.39%) Entra ID
7 14 (4.39%) GitHub
8 13 (4.08%) Snowflake
9 10 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.19%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (1.57%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.25%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.25%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.94%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (0.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (0.94%) Collibra
13 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.15%) SAN
2 9 (2.82%) LAN
2 9 (2.82%) WAN
3 8 (2.51%) BGP
3 8 (2.51%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.19%) Network Security
5 6 (1.88%) Broadband
5 6 (1.88%) DNS
5 6 (1.88%) MPLS
5 6 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.57%) SSL
6 5 (1.57%) VLAN
6 5 (1.57%) VPN
7 4 (1.25%) Firewall
7 4 (1.25%) SNMP
7 4 (1.25%) TACACS
8 3 (0.94%) FTP
8 3 (0.94%) HTTP
8 3 (0.94%) OSPF
8 3 (0.94%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.34%) Power BI
2 13 (4.08%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.76%) Tableau
4 10 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.13%) Oracle Database
4 10 (3.13%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.88%) Metadata
6 4 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (1.25%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.25%) Power Query
6 4 (1.25%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (1.25%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 4 (1.25%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.94%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.94%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.94%) Looker
7 3 (0.94%) MySQL
8 2 (0.63%) Big Data
8 2 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 34 (10.66%) JIRA
2 5 (1.57%) Git
3 4 (1.25%) Cypress.io
3 4 (1.25%) GitLab
3 4 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.94%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.63%) Mocha
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.63%) Selenium
6 1 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.31%) Capybara
6 1 (0.31%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.31%) Gatling
6 1 (0.31%) JMeter
6 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.31%) RSpec
General
1 319 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 178 (55.80%) Social Skills
3 103 (32.29%) Finance
4 40 (12.54%) Public Sector
5 38 (11.91%) Banking
6 25 (7.84%) Front Office
7 22 (6.90%) Telecoms
8 21 (6.58%) Local Government
9 18 (5.64%) Marketing
10 17 (5.33%) Manufacturing
11 16 (5.02%) Back Office
11 16 (5.02%) Legal
12 13 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.82%) Retail
14 8 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (2.51%) Investment Banking
14 8 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.94%) Billing
Job Titles
1 71 (22.26%) Analyst
2 37 (11.60%) Business Analyst
3 30 (9.40%) IT Engineer
4 29 (9.09%) Senior
5 25 (7.84%) Field Engineer
5 25 (7.84%) Field Service Engineer
6 21 (6.58%) Architect
7 18 (5.64%) Data Analyst
8 16 (5.02%) Developer
9 15 (4.70%) IT Support
9 15 (4.70%) Lead
10 14 (4.39%) Consultant
10 14 (4.39%) Support Engineer
11 13 (4.08%) Applications Support
12 11 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
13 10 (3.13%) Product Manager
13 10 (3.13%) Product Owner
13 10 (3.13%) Systems Support
14 8 (2.51%) Senior Manager
15 7 (2.19%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.08%) REST
2 10 (3.13%) Terraform
3 7 (2.19%) RESTful
4 5 (1.57%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (1.57%) JSON
4 5 (1.57%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.57%) XML
5 4 (1.25%) Kafka
5 4 (1.25%) LDAP
5 4 (1.25%) NETCONF
5 4 (1.25%) OpenConfig
5 4 (1.25%) RESTCONF
5 4 (1.25%) YANG
6 3 (0.94%) .NET
6 3 (0.94%) PySpark
6 3 (0.94%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.63%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.63%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.63%) Jest
7 2 (0.63%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.66%) Data Centre
2 28 (8.78%) Product Ownership
3 24 (7.52%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.76%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 9 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.82%) Social Media
7 8 (2.51%) CMDB
7 8 (2.51%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.51%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.19%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.19%) Equities
8 7 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.19%) Life Science
8 7 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.19%) Web Conferencing
9 6 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.88%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.03%) Windows
2 13 (4.08%) Linux
3 8 (2.51%) Unix
4 6 (1.88%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.57%) Android
6 3 (0.94%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.63%) AIX
7 2 (0.63%) HPUX
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.63%) Solaris
7 2 (0.63%) SUSE
8 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (29.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 88 (27.59%) Agile
4 68 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 63 (19.75%) AI
6 49 (15.36%) Analytics
7 46 (14.42%) Business Analysis
7 46 (14.42%) Validation
8 44 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 37 (11.60%) DevOps
10 35 (10.97%) Business Intelligence
10 35 (10.97%) Roadmaps
11 34 (10.66%) Migration
11 34 (10.66%) User Stories
12 32 (10.03%) User Acceptance Testing
13 31 (9.72%) Customer Service
13 31 (9.72%) Decision-Making
13 31 (9.72%) Workshop Facilitation
14 29 (9.09%) Scrum
15 27 (8.46%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 67 (21.00%) SQL
2 50 (15.67%) Python
3 11 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.19%) Bash
4 7 (2.19%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.88%) C#
6 5 (1.57%) Java
6 5 (1.57%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.25%) R
8 3 (0.94%) Go
8 3 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.63%) Bicep
9 2 (0.63%) C
9 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.63%) ProC
9 2 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.31%) C++
10 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 46 (14.42%) Security Cleared
2 41 (12.85%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (10.34%) CCNA
4 31 (9.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (9.40%) SC Cleared
6 29 (9.09%) MCSE
7 27 (8.46%) Network+ Certification
8 25 (7.84%) A+ Certification
9 24 (7.52%) Degree
10 15 (4.70%) DV Cleared
11 9 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.19%) CISSP
13 6 (1.88%) CCIE
14 4 (1.25%) AWS Certification
14 4 (1.25%) CISM
14 4 (1.25%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.25%) RHCA
14 4 (1.25%) SAS Certification
14 4 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.15%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (5.02%) QA
3 11 (3.45%) GDPR
4 9 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.82%) PMO
5 7 (2.19%) NIST
6 6 (1.88%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 6 (1.88%) SLA
7 5 (1.57%) GxP
7 5 (1.57%) NCSC
8 4 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.25%) GRC
9 3 (0.94%) WCAG
10 2 (0.63%) Basel III
10 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.31%) IFRS
11 1 (0.31%) P3O
11 1 (0.31%) PSD2
System Software
1 16 (5.02%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.13%) Docker
3 5 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.31%) NFS
6 1 (0.31%) Squid
6 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (5.02%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.70%) Ansible
3 4 (1.25%) Podman
4 2 (0.63%) Grafana
4 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.63%) SCCM
4 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.31%) Control-M
5 1 (0.31%) IBM BigFix
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 58 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.15%) Dell
3 24 (7.52%) SAP
4 23 (7.21%) Oracle
5 20 (6.27%) Cisco
6 17 (5.33%) ServiceNow
7 13 (4.08%) Salesforce
8 10 (3.13%) Databricks
9 8 (2.51%) Google
10 7 (2.19%) VMware
11 6 (1.88%) Juniper
11 6 (1.88%) Splunk
12 5 (1.57%) Ariba
12 5 (1.57%) BT
12 5 (1.57%) Charles River
12 5 (1.57%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.57%) MarketAxess
12 5 (1.57%) Remedy
12 5 (1.57%) Tradeweb
13 4 (1.25%) F5