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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 289 435
Rank change year-on-year -112 +146 +39
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 291 298 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.90% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.53% 2.51% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 187 62
10th Percentile £189 £230 £227
25th Percentile £405 £366 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £468
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +5.88% -1.58%
75th Percentile £613 £591 £575
90th Percentile £691 £671 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +15.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 14
10th Percentile £14.28 £18.25 £11.75
25th Percentile £25.25 £21.38 £11.81
Median hourly rate £47.00 £45.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +164.71% -24.44%
75th Percentile £65.79 £75.00 £21.75
90th Percentile £82.75 £83.54 £23.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.07 £65.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -9.13% +364.29% -32.53%

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 19,056 11,857 11,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 36.01% 30.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,378 7,277 6,831
10th Percentile £323 £293 £281
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -2.36% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £668
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.75% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,332 623 402
10th Percentile £13.92 £14.33 £15.95
25th Percentile £17.55 £18.50 £22.70
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% -40.45% +2.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +28.95% -49.05% +3.90%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -117 267 £500 +7.53% 290
London -61 145 £575 +4.55% 198
UK excluding London -109 127 £450 - 99
Work from Home -65 63 £525 +23.53% 115
North of England -66 34 £350 -23.91% 15
South East -75 27 £475 +61.70% 27
Midlands -46 24 £500 +57.48% 20
North West -48 22 £477 +5.89% 10
South West -23 21 £375 -28.57% 15
West Midlands -46 20 £525 +81.66% 12
East of England -25 15 £500 -17.44% 8
Yorkshire -44 11 £190 -66.22% 5
Scotland -35 6 £127 -74.60% 10
East Midlands -17 4 £325 -4.41% 8
Northern Ireland +4 2 £463 -15.91% 5
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 15 (5.15%) Confluence
2 5 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.37%) CMS
3 4 (1.37%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.37%) SAS
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Camunda
5 1 (0.34%) Mendix
Applications
1 32 (11.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (7.56%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (5.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.41%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.34%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 8 (2.75%) Finacle
2 5 (1.72%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.72%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (1.03%) iTrent
3 3 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.69%) Actimize
4 2 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.34%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.34%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 40 (13.75%) Azure
2 32 (11.00%) AWS
3 31 (10.65%) Power Platform
4 21 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (5.15%) Entra ID
5 15 (5.15%) GitHub
5 15 (5.15%) Snowflake
6 14 (4.81%) SaaS
7 13 (4.47%) GCP
8 11 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.72%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.37%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.37%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.37%) Serverless
13 3 (1.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 3 (1.03%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.81%) SAN
2 8 (2.75%) BGP
2 8 (2.75%) LAN
2 8 (2.75%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.41%) Network Security
3 7 (2.41%) WAN
4 6 (2.06%) Broadband
4 6 (2.06%) DNS
5 5 (1.72%) MPLS
5 5 (1.72%) SSL
5 5 (1.72%) VLAN
5 5 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.37%) Firewall
6 4 (1.37%) SNMP
6 4 (1.37%) TACACS
6 4 (1.37%) VPN
7 3 (1.03%) FTP
7 3 (1.03%) HTTP
7 3 (1.03%) OSPF
7 3 (1.03%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.31%) Power BI
2 14 (4.81%) Tableau
3 10 (3.44%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.75%) Oracle Database
4 8 (2.75%) RDBMS
5 6 (2.06%) Metadata
6 5 (1.72%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.37%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.37%) Power Query
7 4 (1.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 4 (1.37%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 3 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.03%) Big Data
8 3 (1.03%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.03%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.03%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.03%) MySQL
9 2 (0.69%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 37 (12.71%) JIRA
2 4 (1.37%) Cypress.io
2 4 (1.37%) Git
2 4 (1.37%) GitLab
2 4 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.69%) Mocha
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.69%) Selenium
5 1 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.34%) Capybara
5 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.34%) RSpec
General
1 291 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 178 (61.17%) Social Skills
3 100 (34.36%) Finance
4 43 (14.78%) Public Sector
5 33 (11.34%) Banking
6 28 (9.62%) Local Government
7 25 (8.59%) Front Office
8 20 (6.87%) Marketing
9 19 (6.53%) Telecoms
10 14 (4.81%) Back Office
10 14 (4.81%) Manufacturing
11 12 (4.12%) Legal
11 12 (4.12%) Retail
12 10 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.72%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.72%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (20.96%) Analyst
2 30 (10.31%) Business Analyst
3 28 (9.62%) Senior
4 20 (6.87%) Architect
5 19 (6.53%) IT Engineer
6 17 (5.84%) Data Analyst
7 15 (5.15%) Consultant
8 14 (4.81%) Field Engineer
8 14 (4.81%) Field Service Engineer
9 12 (4.12%) Lead
9 12 (4.12%) Product Owner
10 11 (3.78%) Applications Support
10 11 (3.78%) Developer
10 11 (3.78%) IT Support
11 10 (3.44%) Support Engineer
12 8 (2.75%) Systems Support
13 7 (2.41%) IT Support Engineer
13 7 (2.41%) Product Manager
13 7 (2.41%) Senior Manager
14 6 (2.06%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.47%) REST
2 11 (3.78%) Terraform
3 8 (2.75%) RESTful
4 5 (1.72%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (1.72%) JSON
4 5 (1.72%) XML
5 4 (1.37%) .NET
5 4 (1.37%) Kafka
5 4 (1.37%) NETCONF
5 4 (1.37%) OpenConfig
5 4 (1.37%) RESTCONF
5 4 (1.37%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.37%) YANG
6 3 (1.03%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.03%) LDAP
6 3 (1.03%) PySpark
6 3 (1.03%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.69%) JWT
7 2 (0.69%) Node.js
7 2 (0.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.97%) Product Ownership
2 25 (8.59%) Onboarding
3 21 (7.22%) Data Centre
4 13 (4.47%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.78%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (3.09%) Social Media
6 9 (3.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 8 (2.75%) CMDB
7 8 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (2.41%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.41%) Equities
8 7 (2.41%) Life Science
8 7 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.06%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.72%) Cyberattack
10 5 (1.72%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.28%) Windows
2 10 (3.44%) Linux
3 6 (2.06%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.06%) Unix
4 5 (1.72%) Android
5 4 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.03%) macOS
7 1 (0.34%) AIX
7 1 (0.34%) HPUX
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Solaris
7 1 (0.34%) SUSE
7 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (40.55%) Problem-Solving
2 96 (32.99%) Agile
3 95 (32.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 68 (23.37%) AI
5 64 (21.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 51 (17.53%) Validation
7 49 (16.84%) Business Analysis
8 48 (16.49%) Analytics
9 45 (15.46%) DevOps
10 39 (13.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 35 (12.03%) Migration
12 34 (11.68%) User Stories
13 33 (11.34%) Roadmaps
14 31 (10.65%) Business Intelligence
15 30 (10.31%) User Acceptance Testing
15 30 (10.31%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 29 (9.97%) Decision-Making
17 28 (9.62%) Scrum
17 28 (9.62%) Workshop Facilitation
18 27 (9.28%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 64 (21.99%) SQL
2 48 (16.49%) Python
3 10 (3.44%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.75%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.72%) Bash
6 4 (1.37%) C#
6 4 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.37%) Java
7 3 (1.03%) Go
7 3 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.03%) R
8 2 (0.69%) Bicep
8 2 (0.69%) C
8 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.69%) ProC
8 2 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (0.69%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
9 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 45 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 31 (10.65%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.62%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (7.90%) Degree
5 20 (6.87%) CCNA
6 18 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (5.50%) MCSE
7 16 (5.50%) Network+ Certification
8 14 (4.81%) A+ Certification
9 11 (3.78%) DV Cleared
10 9 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.41%) AWS Certification
12 6 (2.06%) CCIE
12 6 (2.06%) CISSP
13 4 (1.37%) CISM
13 4 (1.37%) JNCIE
13 4 (1.37%) SAS Certification
14 3 (1.03%) CCNP
14 3 (1.03%) GCIA
14 3 (1.03%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.62%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.84%) QA
3 11 (3.78%) GDPR
4 10 (3.44%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.75%) PMO
6 6 (2.06%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 6 (2.06%) SLA
7 5 (1.72%) GxP
7 5 (1.72%) NCSC
8 4 (1.37%) NIST
8 4 (1.37%) WCAG
9 3 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (1.03%) GRC
10 2 (0.69%) Basel III
10 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.34%) GAMP
11 1 (0.34%) GMP
11 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 17 (5.84%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.78%) Docker
3 3 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.34%) Squid
5 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (5.84%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.12%) Ansible
3 2 (0.69%) Grafana
3 2 (0.69%) Podman
3 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.69%) SCCM
4 1 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (0.34%) Control-M
4 1 (0.34%) IBM BigFix
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.34%) QRadar
4 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.87%) SAP
3 18 (6.19%) Oracle
4 17 (5.84%) ServiceNow
5 16 (5.50%) Cisco
6 15 (5.15%) Dell
7 12 (4.12%) Databricks
8 9 (3.09%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.41%) Google
10 6 (2.06%) Juniper
11 5 (1.72%) Ariba
11 5 (1.72%) Charles River
11 5 (1.72%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.72%) MarketAxess
11 5 (1.72%) Remedy
11 5 (1.72%) Splunk
11 5 (1.72%) Tradeweb
12 4 (1.37%) Alteryx
12 4 (1.37%) F5
12 4 (1.37%) Zscaler