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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 296 459
Rank change year-on-year -85 +163 +27
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 322 279 106
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.85% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.72% 2.39% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 175 58
10th Percentile £185 £231 £257
25th Percentile £402 £369 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £485
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +2.06% -7.62%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £584
90th Percentile £680 £678 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 10 18
10th Percentile £25.25 £23.70 -
25th Percentile £36.00 £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 18,677 11,681 11,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.05% 35.73% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,192 7,140 7,001
10th Percentile £322 £294 £294
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -4.26% -2.18%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £806
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,219 589 449
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.87 £22.40
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.33 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.86% -41.34% +12.36%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.53 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +28.42% -47.69% +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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -62 298 £516 +11.46% 463
London -45 153 £550 - 301
UK excluding London -101 151 £465 +3.22% 213
Work from Home -57 68 £575 +35.29% 189
South East -57 38 £550 +69.23% 52
North of England -79 38 £405 -11.10% 35
Midlands -46 27 £500 +59.24% 38
South West -26 26 £375 -28.57% 34
North West -46 24 £494 +9.78% 23
West Midlands -34 22 £550 +90.31% 23
East of England -28 15 £500 -26.47% 18
Yorkshire -50 13 £190 -64.65% 11
Scotland -31 6 £127 -74.60% 15
East Midlands -22 5 £375 +11.11% 15
Wales -12 3 - - 8
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 (4.97%) Confluence
2 5 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.24%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.24%) SAS
3 4 (1.24%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.93%) CMS
5 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.31%) Apache
6 1 (0.31%) Camunda
6 1 (0.31%) Mendix
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 31 (9.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (7.45%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (4.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (3.11%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.31%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 10 (3.11%) Finacle
2 5 (1.55%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.55%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.55%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.93%) iTrent
4 3 (0.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.62%) Actimize
5 2 (0.62%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.62%) 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 (12.73%) Azure
2 35 (10.87%) AWS
2 35 (10.87%) Power Platform
3 22 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (5.28%) SaaS
5 16 (4.97%) GCP
6 14 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 14 (4.35%) GitHub
7 13 (4.04%) Snowflake
8 10 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (1.55%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.24%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.24%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.93%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.93%) Collibra
12 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.07%) SAN
2 9 (2.80%) LAN
2 9 (2.80%) WAN
3 8 (2.48%) BGP
3 8 (2.48%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.17%) Network Security
5 6 (1.86%) Broadband
5 6 (1.86%) DNS
5 6 (1.86%) MPLS
5 6 (1.86%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.55%) SSL
6 5 (1.55%) VLAN
6 5 (1.55%) VPN
7 4 (1.24%) Firewall
7 4 (1.24%) SNMP
7 4 (1.24%) TACACS
8 3 (0.93%) FTP
8 3 (0.93%) HTTP
8 3 (0.93%) OSPF
8 3 (0.93%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (10.56%) Power BI
2 13 (4.04%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.73%) Tableau
4 10 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (3.11%) Oracle Database
4 10 (3.11%) RDBMS
5 7 (2.17%) Metadata
6 4 (1.24%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.24%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.24%) Power Query
6 4 (1.24%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (1.24%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 4 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 3 (0.93%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.93%) Looker
7 3 (0.93%) MySQL
8 2 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.62%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (10.56%) JIRA
2 5 (1.55%) Git
3 4 (1.24%) Cypress.io
3 4 (1.24%) GitLab
3 4 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.93%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.62%) Mocha
5 2 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.62%) 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
1 322 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 182 (56.52%) Social Skills
3 104 (32.30%) Finance
4 42 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 38 (11.80%) Banking
6 25 (7.76%) Front Office
7 23 (7.14%) Local Government
8 22 (6.83%) Telecoms
9 18 (5.59%) Marketing
10 17 (5.28%) Manufacturing
11 16 (4.97%) Back Office
11 16 (4.97%) Legal
12 13 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.80%) Retail
14 8 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (2.48%) Investment Banking
14 8 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.93%) French Language
Job Titles
1 72 (22.36%) Analyst
2 37 (11.49%) Business Analyst
3 30 (9.32%) IT Engineer
4 29 (9.01%) Senior
5 25 (7.76%) Field Engineer
5 25 (7.76%) Field Service Engineer
6 21 (6.52%) Architect
7 18 (5.59%) Data Analyst
8 15 (4.66%) Developer
8 15 (4.66%) IT Support
8 15 (4.66%) Lead
9 14 (4.35%) Consultant
9 14 (4.35%) Support Engineer
10 13 (4.04%) Applications Support
11 11 (3.42%) IT Support Engineer
12 10 (3.11%) Product Manager
12 10 (3.11%) Product Owner
12 10 (3.11%) Systems Support
13 8 (2.48%) Senior Manager
14 7 (2.17%) Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.04%) REST
2 10 (3.11%) Terraform
3 7 (2.17%) RESTful
4 5 (1.55%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (1.55%) JSON
4 5 (1.55%) SailPoint
4 5 (1.55%) XML
5 4 (1.24%) Kafka
5 4 (1.24%) LDAP
5 4 (1.24%) NETCONF
5 4 (1.24%) OpenConfig
5 4 (1.24%) RESTCONF
5 4 (1.24%) YANG
6 3 (0.93%) .NET
6 3 (0.93%) PySpark
6 3 (0.93%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.62%) Chai
7 2 (0.62%) Jest
7 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.62%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.56%) Data Centre
2 28 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 24 (7.45%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.04%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.42%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 10 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.80%) Social Media
8 8 (2.48%) CMDB
8 8 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (2.48%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.48%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.17%) Equities
9 7 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.17%) Life Science
9 7 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.17%) Web Conferencing
10 6 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.86%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.94%) Windows
2 13 (4.04%) Linux
3 8 (2.48%) Unix
4 6 (1.86%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.55%) Android
6 3 (0.93%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.62%) AIX
7 2 (0.62%) HPUX
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.62%) Solaris
7 2 (0.62%) SUSE
8 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (41.30%) Problem-Solving
2 96 (29.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 91 (28.26%) Agile
4 68 (21.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 65 (20.19%) AI
6 50 (15.53%) Analytics
7 48 (14.91%) Business Analysis
8 46 (14.29%) Validation
9 45 (13.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 39 (12.11%) DevOps
11 36 (11.18%) Business Intelligence
12 35 (10.87%) Roadmaps
12 35 (10.87%) User Stories
13 34 (10.56%) Migration
14 32 (9.94%) Decision-Making
14 32 (9.94%) User Acceptance Testing
15 31 (9.63%) Customer Service
15 31 (9.63%) Workshop Facilitation
16 29 (9.01%) Scrum
17 27 (8.39%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 68 (21.12%) SQL
2 50 (15.53%) Python
3 11 (3.42%) PowerShell
4 7 (2.17%) Bash
4 7 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.55%) C#
5 5 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.55%) Java
6 4 (1.24%) R
6 4 (1.24%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.93%) Go
7 3 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.62%) Bicep
8 2 (0.62%) C
8 2 (0.62%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.62%) ProC
8 2 (0.62%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.31%) Groovy
9 1 (0.31%) Ruby
9 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 41 (12.73%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (10.25%) CCNA
4 31 (9.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (9.32%) SC Cleared
6 29 (9.01%) MCSE
7 27 (8.39%) Network+ Certification
8 25 (7.76%) A+ Certification
9 24 (7.45%) Degree
10 15 (4.66%) DV Cleared
11 9 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.17%) CISSP
13 6 (1.86%) CCIE
14 4 (1.24%) AWS Certification
14 4 (1.24%) CISM
14 4 (1.24%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.24%) RHCA
14 4 (1.24%) SAS Certification
14 4 (1.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.39%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (4.97%) QA
3 11 (3.42%) GDPR
4 10 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.80%) PMO
6 7 (2.17%) NIST
7 6 (1.86%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 6 (1.86%) SLA
8 5 (1.55%) GxP
8 5 (1.55%) NCSC
9 4 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.24%) GRC
10 3 (0.93%) WCAG
11 2 (0.62%) Basel III
11 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.31%) IFRS
12 1 (0.31%) MiFID
12 1 (0.31%) PSD2
12 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (4.97%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.11%) Docker
3 5 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.24%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.31%) NFS
6 1 (0.31%) Squid
6 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (4.97%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.66%) Ansible
3 4 (1.24%) Podman
4 2 (0.62%) Grafana
4 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.62%) SCCM
4 2 (0.62%) 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 (18.01%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.07%) Dell
3 24 (7.45%) SAP
4 23 (7.14%) Oracle
5 20 (6.21%) Cisco
6 17 (5.28%) ServiceNow
7 13 (4.04%) Salesforce
8 10 (3.11%) Databricks
9 9 (2.80%) Google
10 7 (2.17%) VMware
11 6 (1.86%) Juniper
11 6 (1.86%) Splunk
12 5 (1.55%) Ariba
12 5 (1.55%) BT
12 5 (1.55%) Charles River
12 5 (1.55%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.55%) MarketAxess
12 5 (1.55%) Remedy
12 5 (1.55%) Tradeweb
13 4 (1.24%) F5