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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 304 464
Rank change year-on-year -45 +160 +23
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 355 266 105
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.66% 0.81% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.97% 2.30% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 159 60
10th Percentile £185 £313 £261
25th Percentile £391 £393 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £672 £676 £697
UK excluding London median daily rate £459 £450 £419
% change year-on-year +2.00% +7.46% -14.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 24
10th Percentile £25.25 £25.60 -
25th Percentile £35.55 £43.75 £11.75
Median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% +372.73% -38.89%
75th Percentile £63.75 £81.01 £20.06
90th Percentile £67.84 £81.35 £23.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £67.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year -6.47% +400.00% -31.65%

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 18,031 11,571 11,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.58% 35.33% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,896 7,111 7,439
10th Percentile £322 £300 £300
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,062 576 568
10th Percentile £14.68 £15.13 £12.30
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.87 £18.46
Median hourly rate £40.98 £30.00 £44.52
Median % change year-on-year +36.60% -32.61% +1.66%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.50 £68.98
90th Percentile £83.98 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year +46.53% -38.46% +6.39%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -28 326 £500 +8.40% 132
UK excluding London -57 172 £459 +2.00% 97
London -29 163 £550 +3.53% 66
Work from Home -35 76 £575 +30.83% 56
South East -24 53 £550 +46.67% 12
North of England -69 40 £477 +5.89% 27
South West -28 29 £350 -33.33% 33
Midlands -44 28 £550 +74.60% 14
North West -42 27 £495 +10.00% 20
West Midlands -37 25 £575 +116.98% 9
East of England -26 12 £475 -20.83% 4
Yorkshire -53 12 £190 -57.78% 8
Scotland -24 7 £127 -74.60% 4
Wales -9 6 - - 2
East Midlands -18 3 £375 +2.04% 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 17 (4.79%) Confluence
2 4 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.13%) CMS
2 4 (1.13%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.13%) SAS
3 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.28%) Camunda
4 1 (0.28%) Mendix
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 29 (8.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (7.32%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (3.10%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.28%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 10 (2.82%) Finacle
2 6 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.41%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.41%) Fidessa
4 4 (1.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.85%) iTrent
6 2 (0.56%) Actimize
6 2 (0.56%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.28%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.28%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 46 (12.96%) Azure
2 38 (10.70%) AWS
3 34 (9.58%) Power Platform
4 25 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (5.07%) SaaS
6 15 (4.23%) Entra ID
7 13 (3.66%) GitHub
7 13 (3.66%) Snowflake
8 12 (3.38%) GCP
9 10 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.13%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.13%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (0.85%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.85%) Apigee
11 3 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.85%) Salesforce Einstein
12 2 (0.56%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 38 (10.70%) SAN
2 14 (3.94%) WAN
3 11 (3.10%) LAN
4 10 (2.82%) BGP
4 10 (2.82%) TCP/IP
5 9 (2.54%) MPLS
6 7 (1.97%) Firewall
6 7 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.69%) Network Security
7 6 (1.69%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.69%) VLAN
7 6 (1.69%) VPN
8 5 (1.41%) DNS
8 5 (1.41%) SNMP
8 5 (1.41%) TACACS
9 4 (1.13%) Broadband
9 4 (1.13%) OSPF
10 3 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.85%) Internet
10 3 (0.85%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.58%) Power BI
2 15 (4.23%) Relational Database
3 14 (3.94%) Tableau
4 10 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.82%) Oracle Database
4 10 (2.82%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.41%) Metadata
6 4 (1.13%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (1.13%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.13%) Power Query
6 4 (1.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (1.13%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 4 (1.13%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.85%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.85%) MySQL
8 2 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.56%) KDB
8 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (10.70%) JIRA
2 4 (1.13%) Cypress.io
2 4 (1.13%) Git
2 4 (1.13%) GitLab
2 4 (1.13%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
3 3 (0.85%) Selenium
4 2 (0.56%) Mocha
4 2 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.28%) Appium
5 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.28%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.28%) Capybara
5 1 (0.28%) Gatling
5 1 (0.28%) JMeter
5 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.28%) NUnit
5 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.28%) RSpec
5 1 (0.28%) TestRail
General
1 355 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 182 (51.27%) Social Skills
3 104 (29.30%) Finance
4 41 (11.55%) Banking
5 40 (11.27%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.76%) Front Office
7 23 (6.48%) Telecoms
8 20 (5.63%) Legal
8 20 (5.63%) Manufacturing
9 19 (5.35%) Marketing
10 16 (4.51%) Back Office
10 16 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
10 16 (4.51%) Local Government
11 12 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.54%) Retail
13 8 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (2.25%) Investment Banking
13 8 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 76 (21.41%) Analyst
2 43 (12.11%) Business Analyst
3 40 (11.27%) IT Engineer
4 35 (9.86%) Field Engineer
4 35 (9.86%) Field Service Engineer
5 28 (7.89%) Senior
6 23 (6.48%) Architect
7 20 (5.63%) Developer
8 19 (5.35%) Support Engineer
9 18 (5.07%) IT Support
10 17 (4.79%) Consultant
10 17 (4.79%) Data Analyst
10 17 (4.79%) Lead
11 14 (3.94%) IT Support Engineer
12 13 (3.66%) Applications Support
13 11 (3.10%) Product Manager
13 11 (3.10%) Product Owner
14 10 (2.82%) Systems Support
15 9 (2.54%) Field Support Engineer
15 9 (2.54%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.38%) REST
2 10 (2.82%) Terraform
3 7 (1.97%) RESTful
4 6 (1.69%) .NET
5 5 (1.41%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (1.41%) JSON
5 5 (1.41%) Kafka
5 5 (1.41%) NETCONF
5 5 (1.41%) OpenConfig
5 5 (1.41%) RESTCONF
5 5 (1.41%) SailPoint
5 5 (1.41%) XML
5 5 (1.41%) YANG
6 4 (1.13%) PySpark
7 3 (0.85%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (0.85%) OAuth
7 3 (0.85%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.96%) Data Centre
2 31 (8.73%) Product Ownership
3 23 (6.48%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.10%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 10 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.82%) Operational Technology
6 9 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.25%) Life Science
7 8 (2.25%) Social Media
8 7 (1.97%) CMDB
8 7 (1.97%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.97%) Equities
8 7 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.97%) Web Conferencing
9 6 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.86%) Windows
2 14 (3.94%) Linux
3 8 (2.25%) Unix
4 7 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.69%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.41%) Android
7 4 (1.13%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.56%) AIX
8 2 (0.56%) HPUX
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.56%) Solaris
8 2 (0.56%) SUSE
8 2 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (41.13%) Problem-Solving
2 97 (27.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 94 (26.48%) Agile
4 70 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 58 (16.34%) AI
6 49 (13.80%) Analytics
7 46 (12.96%) Business Analysis
7 46 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 46 (12.96%) Validation
8 40 (11.27%) Customer Service
9 39 (10.99%) Migration
10 38 (10.70%) User Stories
11 37 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
12 36 (10.14%) DevOps
13 35 (9.86%) Break/Fix
13 35 (9.86%) Roadmaps
14 34 (9.58%) Workshop Facilitation
15 33 (9.30%) User Acceptance Testing
16 32 (9.01%) Scrum
17 31 (8.73%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 70 (19.72%) SQL
2 50 (14.08%) Python
3 12 (3.38%) C#
3 12 (3.38%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.25%) Bash
4 8 (2.25%) TypeScript
5 7 (1.97%) Java
5 7 (1.97%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.13%) R
7 3 (0.85%) Apex Code
7 3 (0.85%) Bicep
7 3 (0.85%) C++
8 2 (0.56%) C
8 2 (0.56%) Go
8 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.56%) ProC
8 2 (0.56%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (14.65%) Cisco Certification
2 47 (13.24%) Security Cleared
3 43 (12.11%) CCNA
4 41 (11.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 39 (10.99%) MCSE
6 37 (10.42%) Network+ Certification
7 35 (9.86%) A+ Certification
8 25 (7.04%) Degree
8 25 (7.04%) SC Cleared
9 14 (3.94%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.97%) CCIE
11 7 (1.97%) CISSP
12 5 (1.41%) JNCIE
13 4 (1.13%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.13%) CISM
13 4 (1.13%) RHCA
13 4 (1.13%) SAS Certification
13 4 (1.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 3 (0.85%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (4.79%) QA
4 14 (3.94%) GDPR
5 10 (2.82%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.82%) NIST
6 9 (2.54%) PMO
7 7 (1.97%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 6 (1.69%) GxP
9 5 (1.41%) SLA
10 4 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (1.13%) GRC
10 4 (1.13%) NCSC
11 3 (0.85%) WCAG
12 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.56%) Basel III
13 1 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.28%) IFRS
13 1 (0.28%) P3O
13 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (5.35%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.25%) Docker
3 6 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.41%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.28%) NFS
6 1 (0.28%) RACF
6 1 (0.28%) Squid
6 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (4.51%) Ansible
2 14 (3.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.13%) Podman
4 3 (0.85%) Grafana
4 3 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.56%) SCCM
5 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.28%) Control-M
6 1 (0.28%) IBM BigFix
6 1 (0.28%) QRadar
6 1 (0.28%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 55 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.14%) Dell
3 26 (7.32%) Oracle
4 24 (6.76%) SAP
5 22 (6.20%) Cisco
6 18 (5.07%) ServiceNow
7 15 (4.23%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.82%) Databricks
9 9 (2.54%) VMware
10 7 (1.97%) Juniper
11 6 (1.69%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.69%) Splunk
12 5 (1.41%) BT
12 5 (1.41%) Charles River
12 5 (1.41%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.41%) F5
12 5 (1.41%) Google
12 5 (1.41%) MarketAxess
12 5 (1.41%) Tradeweb
13 4 (1.13%) Remedy