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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 368 410
Rank change year-on-year +37 +42 +101
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 344 157 178
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.70% 0.54% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.16% 1.59% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 103 92
10th Percentile £250 £236 £201
25th Percentile £400 £374 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -1.69%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £643 £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £418 £525
% change year-on-year +12.57% -20.48% -12.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 57
10th Percentile £14.10 £30.15 £11.75
25th Percentile £33.31 £53.38 £13.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £80.68 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.74% +388.94% -73.60%
75th Percentile £67.38 £81.18 £19.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.35 £24.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.50 £80.68 £14.50
% change year-on-year -31.21% +456.38% -34.57%

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 15,890 9,851 12,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.33% 34.12% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,818 6,250 8,341
10th Percentile £313 £295 £270
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 768 394 925
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.92 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.96 £20.09 £15.22
Median hourly rate £41.46 £32.43 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +27.84% -5.20% +55.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.65 £82.21 £70.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £31.76 £32.12
% change year-on-year +41.69% -1.11% +48.20%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +35 315 £488 +9.17% 215
UK excluding London +4 173 £470 +12.57% 147
London +9 149 £500 +5.26% 102
Work from Home -15 81 £506 +19.12% 101
South East -14 61 £500 +53.85% 51
North of England -57 33 £467 +21.22% 28
Midlands -38 30 £475 +64.36% 27
South West -14 26 £350 -33.33% 18
West Midlands -50 25 £475 +79.25% 12
North West -35 21 £477 +23.69% 16
Wales -3 10 - - 1
East of England -40 9 £475 -19.15% 15
Yorkshire -59 8 £463 +10.78% 9
Scotland -4 6 £127 -71.78% 7
East Midlands -19 5 £463 +3.47% 15
North East - 4 - - 3

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 21 (6.10%) Confluence
2 5 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.16%) CMS
3 4 (1.16%) SAS
4 3 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.58%) Apache
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.29%) Camunda
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 25 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.62%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.29%) Autodesk Smoke
7 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (1.74%) NetSuite
1 6 (1.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 5 (1.45%) Finacle
2 5 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.87%) Shopify
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.29%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.29%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.29%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.29%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.29%) Summit
5 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 42 (12.21%) Azure
2 37 (10.76%) AWS
3 34 (9.88%) Power Platform
4 15 (4.36%) GitHub
5 12 (3.49%) GCP
5 12 (3.49%) SaaS
6 11 (3.20%) Snowflake
7 9 (2.62%) Entra ID
7 9 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (1.74%) Collibra
9 5 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.16%) Lucidchart
11 3 (0.87%) Alation
11 3 (0.87%) Amazon S3
11 3 (0.87%) Apigee
11 3 (0.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.87%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 56 (16.28%) SAN
2 12 (3.49%) DNS
3 10 (2.91%) Network Security
3 10 (2.91%) WAN
4 7 (2.03%) SSL
5 6 (1.74%) FTP
5 6 (1.74%) HTTP
6 5 (1.45%) BGP
6 5 (1.45%) LAN
6 5 (1.45%) MPLS
6 5 (1.45%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.45%) SMTP
7 4 (1.16%) Firewall
7 4 (1.16%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.87%) DHCP
8 3 (0.87%) Internet
8 3 (0.87%) NAS
8 3 (0.87%) OSPF
8 3 (0.87%) VLAN
8 3 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.88%) Power BI
2 14 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.20%) Tableau
4 9 (2.62%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.45%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.45%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.45%) Power Query
6 5 (1.45%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.16%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (1.16%) Looker
7 4 (1.16%) Metadata
7 4 (1.16%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.87%) Big Data
8 3 (0.87%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.87%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 3 (0.87%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.58%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (11.05%) JIRA
2 5 (1.45%) Git
3 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.58%) GitLab
4 2 (0.58%) MLflow
4 2 (0.58%) Selenium
5 1 (0.29%) Appium
5 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.29%) Gatling
5 1 (0.29%) JMeter
5 1 (0.29%) JUnit
5 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.29%) NUnit
5 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.29%) TestRail
General
1 343 (99.71%) Analytical Skills
2 160 (46.51%) Social Skills
3 100 (29.07%) Finance
4 32 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 31 (9.01%) Banking
6 22 (6.40%) Legal
7 18 (5.23%) Marketing
8 17 (4.94%) Manufacturing
9 15 (4.36%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (3.49%) Telecoms
12 11 (3.20%) Back Office
13 10 (2.91%) Front Office
14 7 (2.03%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.45%) Billing
15 5 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.16%) Multimedia
17 3 (0.87%) Law
17 3 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 82 (23.84%) Analyst
2 51 (14.83%) Field Engineer
2 51 (14.83%) Field Service Engineer
2 51 (14.83%) IT Engineer
3 43 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 23 (6.69%) Support Engineer
5 21 (6.10%) Lead
6 20 (5.81%) Data Analyst
6 20 (5.81%) IT Support
7 18 (5.23%) Developer
7 18 (5.23%) Senior
8 16 (4.65%) Field Support Engineer
8 16 (4.65%) IT Support Engineer
9 12 (3.49%) Consultant
10 11 (3.20%) Architect
11 10 (2.91%) Security Analyst
11 10 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (2.62%) Operations Analyst
12 9 (2.62%) Operations Business Analyst
13 8 (2.33%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.03%) PySpark
1 7 (2.03%) REST
2 6 (1.74%) LDAP
3 5 (1.45%) .NET
3 5 (1.45%) XML
4 4 (1.16%) Kafka
4 4 (1.16%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.16%) Pandas
4 4 (1.16%) PyTorch
4 4 (1.16%) YAML
5 3 (0.87%) scikit-learn
6 2 (0.58%) JSON
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.58%) NETCONF
6 2 (0.58%) OpenConfig
6 2 (0.58%) PyArrow
6 2 (0.58%) React
6 2 (0.58%) RESTCONF
6 2 (0.58%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.58%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 59 (17.15%) Data Centre
2 26 (7.56%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.81%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.78%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.62%) Operational Technology
6 8 (2.33%) SCADA
7 7 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.74%) Web Conferencing
9 5 (1.45%) Blog
9 5 (1.45%) CSOC
9 5 (1.45%) Cyberattack
9 5 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.45%) NHS
9 5 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (1.16%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.16%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.01%) Windows
2 15 (4.36%) Linux
3 7 (2.03%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.16%) Unix
5 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.58%) AIX
6 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.58%) HPUX
6 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.58%) Solaris
6 2 (0.58%) SUSE
6 2 (0.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (43.02%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (23.55%) Agile
3 74 (21.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 67 (19.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (15.70%) Analytics
5 54 (15.70%) Customer Service
6 51 (14.83%) Break/Fix
7 49 (14.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 41 (11.92%) AI
8 41 (11.92%) Validation
9 38 (11.05%) Business Intelligence
9 38 (11.05%) Decision-Making
10 36 (10.47%) Data Modelling
11 33 (9.59%) Data Governance
12 32 (9.30%) Business Analysis
12 32 (9.30%) Process Improvement
13 31 (9.01%) Actionable Insight
13 31 (9.01%) Roadmaps
14 30 (8.72%) Migration
14 30 (8.72%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 70 (20.35%) SQL
2 41 (11.92%) Python
3 23 (6.69%) PowerShell
4 14 (4.07%) C#
5 10 (2.91%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.62%) Java
7 6 (1.74%) Bash
7 6 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.16%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.16%) R
9 3 (0.87%) C++
9 3 (0.87%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.87%) VBA
10 2 (0.58%) Bicep
10 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.29%) Go
11 1 (0.29%) LookML
11 1 (0.29%) Scala
11 1 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.29%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 59 (17.15%) Cisco Certification
2 57 (16.57%) CCNA
3 54 (15.70%) MCSE
3 54 (15.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 51 (14.83%) A+ Certification
4 51 (14.83%) Network+ Certification
5 42 (12.21%) Security Cleared
6 34 (9.88%) Degree
7 26 (7.56%) SC Cleared
8 16 (4.65%) DV Cleared
9 12 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (2.33%) CISSP
11 7 (2.03%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.74%) PMI Certification
13 5 (1.45%) PMP
14 4 (1.16%) CEH
14 4 (1.16%) CISA
14 4 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (1.16%) CSPO
15 3 (0.87%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.85%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.40%) GDPR
3 21 (6.10%) QA
4 20 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (4.07%) NIST
6 8 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.33%) PMO
7 6 (1.74%) SLA
8 5 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.87%) GRC
10 3 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.87%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.87%) WCAG
11 2 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 2 (0.58%) GxP
12 1 (0.29%) COBIT
12 1 (0.29%) MiFID
12 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (4.36%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.03%) Hyper-V
2 7 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.16%) Docker
3 4 (1.16%) Firmware
4 3 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.58%) KVM
6 1 (0.29%) NFS
6 1 (0.29%) RACF
6 1 (0.29%) Squid
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.62%) Ansible
3 8 (2.33%) Terraform
4 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.87%) Podman
6 2 (0.58%) SCCM
6 2 (0.58%) SCOM
6 2 (0.58%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.29%) Control-M
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
7 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.29%) Kibana
7 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.29%) Suricata
7 1 (0.29%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 51 (14.83%) Dell
2 36 (10.47%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.10%) Oracle
3 21 (6.10%) SAP
4 18 (5.23%) Salesforce
5 16 (4.65%) Databricks
6 14 (4.07%) VMware
7 13 (3.78%) Cisco
8 10 (2.91%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.45%) BT
9 5 (1.45%) Google
9 5 (1.45%) Nexthink
10 4 (1.16%) BMC
10 4 (1.16%) Splunk
11 3 (0.87%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.87%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.87%) HP
11 3 (0.87%) Informatica
11 3 (0.87%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.87%) Veeam