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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 364 406
Rank change year-on-year +54 +42 +101
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 348 153 179
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.53% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.30% 1.56% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 104 92
10th Percentile £247 £250 £187
25th Percentile £400 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £575 £603 £575
90th Percentile £646 £638 £636
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +4.44% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 6 56
10th Percentile £14.10 £53.38 £11.75
25th Percentile £33.31 £70.71 £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 £81.27 £18.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.35 £24.50
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 15,124 9,813 12,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.04% 33.86% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,403 6,263 8,356
10th Percentile £313 £300 £269
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -0.62% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 719 386 900
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.85 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.81 £15.17
Median hourly rate £42.71 £31.91 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +33.85% +2.10% +38.98%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £87.60 £83.31 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £30.00 £29.25
% change year-on-year +58.47% +2.56% +33.71%

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 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 13 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 13 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 +47 318 £475 +1.60% 224
UK excluding London +12 173 £470 +4.44% 164
London +11 153 £500 - 88
Work from Home +12 88 £506 +17.12% 106
South East -1 63 £500 +53.85% 63
North of England -54 31 £459 +28.21% 39
Midlands -29 30 £470 -3.29% 20
South West -12 25 £350 -28.21% 17
West Midlands -37 23 £470 -10.48% 12
North West -24 20 £459 +28.21% 25
Wales -1 11 - - 5
East of England -39 9 £475 -17.39% 15
East Midlands -23 7 £450 +0.67% 8
Yorkshire -47 7 £463 +10.78% 7
Scotland +3 6 £127 -71.78% 6
North East - 4 - - 8

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 19 (5.46%) Confluence
2 4 (1.15%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.15%) CMS
3 2 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 33 (9.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.87%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.29%) Autodesk Smoke
5 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.59%) NetSuite
2 7 (2.01%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.15%) Finacle
3 4 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.15%) Shopify
4 3 (0.86%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.29%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.29%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.29%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.29%) Summit
6 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 37 (10.63%) Azure
2 35 (10.06%) Power Platform
3 30 (8.62%) AWS
4 14 (4.02%) GitHub
5 13 (3.74%) SaaS
6 10 (2.87%) GCP
7 9 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (2.30%) Entra ID
9 7 (2.01%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.72%) Collibra
11 5 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.44%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (1.44%) Lucidchart
12 3 (0.86%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.86%) Apigee
12 3 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.86%) Datadog
12 3 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 56 (16.09%) SAN
2 13 (3.74%) DNS
3 10 (2.87%) Network Security
4 9 (2.59%) WAN
5 7 (2.01%) SSL
6 6 (1.72%) FTP
6 6 (1.72%) HTTP
6 6 (1.72%) MPLS
7 5 (1.44%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.44%) SMTP
7 5 (1.44%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.15%) BGP
8 4 (1.15%) Firewall
8 4 (1.15%) LAN
9 3 (0.86%) DHCP
9 3 (0.86%) Internet
9 3 (0.86%) NAS
9 3 (0.86%) SNMP
9 3 (0.86%) TACACS
9 3 (0.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (10.06%) Power BI
2 15 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.87%) Tableau
4 8 (2.30%) Data Lake
4 8 (2.30%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.15%) BigQuery
5 4 (1.15%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 4 (1.15%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (1.15%) Looker
5 4 (1.15%) Metadata
5 4 (1.15%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.15%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.15%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.86%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.86%) Power Query
7 2 (0.57%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.57%) Pinecone
7 2 (0.57%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 37 (10.63%) JIRA
2 4 (1.15%) Git
3 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.57%) MLflow
3 2 (0.57%) Selenium
3 2 (0.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.29%) Appium
4 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.29%) Gatling
4 1 (0.29%) GitLab
4 1 (0.29%) JMeter
4 1 (0.29%) JUnit
4 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.29%) NUnit
4 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.29%) TestRail
General
1 347 (99.71%) Analytical Skills
2 164 (47.13%) Social Skills
3 106 (30.46%) Finance
4 31 (8.91%) Banking
4 31 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.03%) Legal
6 19 (5.46%) Marketing
7 16 (4.60%) Manufacturing
8 15 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.16%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.87%) Back Office
12 8 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.30%) Investment Banking
13 7 (2.01%) Front Office
14 5 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.15%) Law
15 4 (1.15%) Multimedia
15 4 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 82 (23.56%) Analyst
2 51 (14.66%) Field Engineer
2 51 (14.66%) Field Service Engineer
2 51 (14.66%) IT Engineer
3 46 (13.22%) Business Analyst
4 23 (6.61%) Support Engineer
5 21 (6.03%) Lead
6 19 (5.46%) IT Support
7 18 (5.17%) Data Analyst
7 18 (5.17%) Developer
7 18 (5.17%) Senior
8 16 (4.60%) Field Support Engineer
8 16 (4.60%) IT Support Engineer
9 13 (3.74%) Consultant
10 12 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (2.87%) Operations Analyst
11 10 (2.87%) Operations Business Analyst
11 10 (2.87%) Project Manager
12 9 (2.59%) Security Analyst
13 8 (2.30%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.01%) PySpark
2 6 (1.72%) LDAP
3 5 (1.44%) PyTorch
3 5 (1.44%) REST
3 5 (1.44%) YAML
4 4 (1.15%) .NET
4 4 (1.15%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.15%) Pandas
4 4 (1.15%) XML
5 3 (0.86%) EDI
5 3 (0.86%) Kafka
5 3 (0.86%) Middleware
5 3 (0.86%) NETCONF
5 3 (0.86%) OpenConfig
5 3 (0.86%) RESTCONF
5 3 (0.86%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.86%) TensorFlow
5 3 (0.86%) YANG
6 2 (0.57%) Node.js
6 2 (0.57%) PyArrow
Miscellaneous
1 60 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 18 (5.17%) Onboarding
2 18 (5.17%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.02%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.59%) Operational Technology
5 8 (2.30%) SCADA
6 7 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.01%) Web Conferencing
7 6 (1.72%) Blog
7 6 (1.72%) NHS
8 5 (1.44%) CSOC
8 5 (1.44%) Cyberattack
8 5 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.15%) Social Media
9 4 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.91%) Windows
2 16 (4.60%) Linux
3 8 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.15%) Unix
5 3 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.57%) AIX
6 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.57%) HPUX
6 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.57%) Solaris
6 2 (0.57%) SUSE
6 2 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (42.82%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (22.99%) Agile
3 72 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 61 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 55 (15.80%) Customer Service
6 51 (14.66%) Break/Fix
7 50 (14.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 47 (13.51%) Analytics
9 43 (12.36%) Decision-Making
10 40 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
11 39 (11.21%) Data Modelling
12 38 (10.92%) AI
13 36 (10.34%) Validation
14 33 (9.48%) Business Analysis
14 33 (9.48%) Data Governance
15 32 (9.20%) Actionable Insight
15 32 (9.20%) Process Improvement
16 31 (8.91%) Workshop Facilitation
17 30 (8.62%) Roadmaps
18 29 (8.33%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (19.25%) SQL
2 42 (12.07%) Python
3 23 (6.61%) PowerShell
4 14 (4.02%) C#
5 11 (3.16%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.59%) Java
7 7 (2.01%) Bash
7 7 (2.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.15%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.15%) C++
8 4 (1.15%) R
9 3 (0.86%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.86%) VBA
10 2 (0.57%) Bicep
10 2 (0.57%) Go
10 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.29%) PHP
11 1 (0.29%) Scala
11 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.29%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 58 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 55 (15.80%) CCNA
3 54 (15.52%) MCSE
3 54 (15.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 51 (14.66%) A+ Certification
4 51 (14.66%) Network+ Certification
5 40 (11.49%) Security Cleared
6 36 (10.34%) Degree
7 23 (6.61%) SC Cleared
8 16 (4.60%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.87%) Master's Degree
10 7 (2.01%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.72%) CISSP
11 6 (1.72%) PMP
12 4 (1.15%) CBAP
12 4 (1.15%) CEH
12 4 (1.15%) CISA
12 4 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.15%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.47%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.61%) GDPR
3 19 (5.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (5.46%) QA
4 13 (3.74%) NIST
5 9 (2.59%) PMO
6 8 (2.30%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.72%) SLA
8 5 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.86%) GRC
10 3 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.86%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.86%) WCAG
11 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.29%) COBIT
12 1 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.01%) Hyper-V
2 7 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.44%) Docker
4 4 (1.15%) Firmware
5 3 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.57%) KVM
6 2 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.29%) NFS
7 1 (0.29%) RACF
7 1 (0.29%) Squid
7 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (3.16%) Ansible
2 8 (2.30%) Terraform
3 6 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.86%) Podman
4 3 (0.86%) SCCM
4 3 (0.86%) SCOM
4 3 (0.86%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.29%) Control-M
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.29%) Kibana
5 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.29%) Suricata
5 1 (0.29%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 51 (14.66%) Dell
2 41 (11.78%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.61%) SAP
4 21 (6.03%) Oracle
5 19 (5.46%) Salesforce
6 15 (4.31%) VMware
7 14 (4.02%) Databricks
8 12 (3.45%) Cisco
9 10 (2.87%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.44%) BT
10 5 (1.44%) Google
10 5 (1.44%) Nexthink
11 4 (1.15%) BMC
11 4 (1.15%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.15%) Splunk
12 3 (0.86%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.86%) F5
12 3 (0.86%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.86%) Veeam
12 3 (0.86%) Zuora