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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 375 437
Rank change year-on-year +54 +62 +67
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 345 163 159
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.68% 0.55% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.10% 1.58% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 104 83
10th Percentile £250 £267 £203
25th Percentile £400 £380 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -1.69%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £563
90th Percentile £655 £648 £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -12.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 47
10th Percentile £14.10 £30.15 £11.75
25th Percentile £20.19 £53.38 £12.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £80.68 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.74% +456.38% -72.51%
75th Percentile £55.56 £81.18 £18.75
90th Percentile £67.84 £81.35 £23.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.28 £80.68 £14.00
% change year-on-year -66.19% +476.25% -

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 16,432 10,285 13,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.51% 34.49% 29.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,072 6,441 8,323
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £660
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 453 948
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £19.25 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +37.16% -10.10% +58.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £61.63
90th Percentile £86.15 £81.35 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £31.29 £35.50
% change year-on-year +40.51% -11.87% +61.36%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +37 319 £488 +8.33% 164
UK excluding London -9 174 £475 +5.56% 132
London +9 152 £500 +5.26% 55
Work from Home +10 85 £525 +23.53% 72
South East -21 56 £500 +53.85% 42
North of England -45 40 £475 +3.26% 27
Midlands -33 31 £477 +52.40% 32
South West -3 29 £350 -33.33% 17
West Midlands -37 28 £477 +80.00% 12
North West -18 26 £494 +8.57% 17
Yorkshire -58 10 £463 -11.90% 6
Wales -7 9 - - 2
East of England -38 7 £588 +11.90% 11
Scotland -10 6 £127 -71.78% 1
North East - 4 - - 5
East Midlands -16 3 £463 +21.39% 20

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 (5.51%) Confluence
2 5 (1.45%) SAS
3 4 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.16%) CMS
4 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) Camunda
5 1 (0.29%) Mendix
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 27 (7.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.03%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 7 (2.03%) Finacle
2 6 (1.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.87%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.58%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.29%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.29%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.29%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.29%) Summit
6 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 43 (12.46%) Azure
2 36 (10.43%) AWS
2 36 (10.43%) Power Platform
3 14 (4.06%) GitHub
4 11 (3.19%) GCP
4 11 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (3.19%) SaaS
4 11 (3.19%) Snowflake
5 9 (2.61%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.16%) Collibra
7 4 (1.16%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (0.87%) Amazon S3
8 3 (0.87%) Apigee
8 3 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (0.87%) Fivetran
8 3 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (0.87%) Salesforce Einstein
9 2 (0.58%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 52 (15.07%) SAN
2 10 (2.90%) WAN
3 5 (1.45%) BGP
3 5 (1.45%) LAN
3 5 (1.45%) MPLS
3 5 (1.45%) SD-WAN
3 5 (1.45%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.45%) VLAN
4 4 (1.16%) DNS
4 4 (1.16%) Network Security
5 3 (0.87%) DHCP
5 3 (0.87%) Firewall
5 3 (0.87%) Internet
5 3 (0.87%) NAS
5 3 (0.87%) OSPF
6 2 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.58%) IP Telephony
6 2 (0.58%) PSTN
6 2 (0.58%) TACACS
6 2 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.43%) Power BI
2 13 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (3.77%) Tableau
3 11 (3.19%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.32%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.03%) Oracle Database
5 7 (2.03%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.45%) Power Query
7 4 (1.16%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.16%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (1.16%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 4 (1.16%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 3 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.87%) Looker
8 3 (0.87%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.87%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.58%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.58%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 35 (10.14%) JIRA
2 4 (1.16%) Git
3 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.87%) Selenium
4 2 (0.58%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.58%) GitLab
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%) Gatling
5 1 (0.29%) JMeter
5 1 (0.29%) JUnit
5 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.29%) MLflow
5 1 (0.29%) NUnit
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.29%) TestRail
General
1 345 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 168 (48.70%) Social Skills
3 97 (28.12%) Finance
4 33 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 32 (9.28%) Banking
6 24 (6.96%) Legal
7 19 (5.51%) Manufacturing
8 18 (5.22%) Marketing
9 17 (4.93%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (4.35%) Telecoms
12 14 (4.06%) Back Office
13 13 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (3.48%) Front Office
15 8 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.74%) Investment Banking
17 5 (1.45%) Billing
17 5 (1.45%) Retail
18 4 (1.16%) Multimedia
19 3 (0.87%) Law
Job Titles
1 80 (23.19%) Analyst
2 47 (13.62%) Field Engineer
2 47 (13.62%) Field Service Engineer
2 47 (13.62%) IT Engineer
3 45 (13.04%) Business Analyst
4 21 (6.09%) Data Analyst
4 21 (6.09%) Lead
5 20 (5.80%) Developer
5 20 (5.80%) IT Support
5 20 (5.80%) Support Engineer
6 17 (4.93%) Senior
7 16 (4.64%) Field Support Engineer
7 16 (4.64%) IT Support Engineer
8 13 (3.77%) Consultant
9 12 (3.48%) Architect
10 10 (2.90%) Security Analyst
11 9 (2.61%) Product Owner
11 9 (2.61%) Project Manager
12 8 (2.32%) Applications Support
12 8 (2.32%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.32%) REST
2 6 (1.74%) XML
3 5 (1.45%) .NET
3 5 (1.45%) PySpark
4 4 (1.16%) Kafka
4 4 (1.16%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.16%) YAML
5 3 (0.87%) JSON
5 3 (0.87%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.58%) NETCONF
6 2 (0.58%) OpenConfig
6 2 (0.58%) Pandas
6 2 (0.58%) React
6 2 (0.58%) RESTCONF
6 2 (0.58%) SOAP
6 2 (0.58%) YANG
7 1 (0.29%) LDAP
7 1 (0.29%) SAML
7 1 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (15.94%) Data Centre
2 29 (8.41%) Product Ownership
3 24 (6.96%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.90%) Operational Technology
5 8 (2.32%) SCADA
5 8 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 6 (1.74%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.74%) Web Conferencing
8 5 (1.45%) Blog
8 5 (1.45%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.45%) NHS
8 5 (1.45%) Social Media
9 4 (1.16%) CMDB
9 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.70%) Windows
2 12 (3.48%) Linux
3 6 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.45%) 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
1 149 (43.19%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (24.06%) Agile
2 83 (24.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 67 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 52 (15.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 50 (14.49%) Analytics
5 50 (14.49%) Customer Service
6 47 (13.62%) Break/Fix
7 45 (13.04%) Validation
8 41 (11.88%) Decision-Making
9 39 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
10 37 (10.72%) Migration
11 36 (10.43%) Data Modelling
12 35 (10.14%) AI
13 34 (9.86%) Business Analysis
13 34 (9.86%) Process Improvement
14 32 (9.28%) Data Governance
15 30 (8.70%) Workshop Facilitation
16 29 (8.41%) Actionable Insight
17 28 (8.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 71 (20.58%) SQL
2 35 (10.14%) Python
3 17 (4.93%) PowerShell
4 14 (4.06%) C#
5 9 (2.61%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.32%) Java
7 6 (1.74%) Bash
8 5 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.16%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.16%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.16%) R
10 3 (0.87%) VBA
11 2 (0.58%) Bicep
11 2 (0.58%) C++
12 1 (0.29%) C
12 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.29%) ProC
12 1 (0.29%) Scala
12 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 58 (16.81%) Cisco Certification
2 55 (15.94%) CCNA
3 50 (14.49%) MCSE
3 50 (14.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 49 (14.20%) Network+ Certification
5 47 (13.62%) A+ Certification
6 33 (9.57%) Security Cleared
7 32 (9.28%) Degree
8 18 (5.22%) SC Cleared
9 12 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (3.48%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.32%) CISSP
11 4 (1.16%) CISA
11 4 (1.16%) CISM
11 4 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.16%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.16%) SAS Certification
12 3 (0.87%) CEH
12 3 (0.87%) RHCA
12 3 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.12%) Data Quality
2 21 (6.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (5.51%) GDPR
3 19 (5.51%) QA
4 14 (4.06%) NIST
5 10 (2.90%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.32%) 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%) WCAG
11 2 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 2 (0.58%) GxP
11 2 (0.58%) NCSC
11 2 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.58%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 13 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.03%) Hyper-V
2 7 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.16%) Firmware
4 3 (0.87%) Docker
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 Desktop
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (3.48%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.61%) Ansible
3 8 (2.32%) Terraform
4 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.87%) Podman
6 2 (0.58%) SCCM
7 1 (0.29%) Control-M
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
7 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.29%) SCOM
7 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.29%) SysTrack
7 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 48 (13.91%) Dell
2 39 (11.30%) Microsoft
3 25 (7.25%) Oracle
4 22 (6.38%) SAP
5 16 (4.64%) Salesforce
6 15 (4.35%) Cisco
7 14 (4.06%) Databricks
8 13 (3.77%) ServiceNow
8 13 (3.77%) VMware
9 5 (1.45%) BT
9 5 (1.45%) Google
9 5 (1.45%) Nexthink
10 4 (1.16%) BMC
10 4 (1.16%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.87%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.87%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.87%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.87%) HP
11 3 (0.87%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.87%) Veeam