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 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 450 471
Rank change year-on-year +156 +21 +151
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 284 112 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.29% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.42% 0.95% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 62 121
10th Percentile £232 £263 £130
25th Percentile £369 £292 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +18.64%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £700
90th Percentile £676 £693 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +100.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 19 3
10th Percentile £23.70 - £17.45
25th Percentile £33.44 £11.75 £18.88
Median hourly rate £46.25 £15.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +208.33% -33.33% -56.92%
75th Percentile £75.00 £21.75 £38.50
90th Percentile £81.72 £23.94 £47.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £14.00 £19.75
% change year-on-year +364.29% -29.11% -54.03%

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 11,715 11,730 16,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.55% 30.44% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,170 7,174 10,973
10th Percentile £300 £294 £300
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £753 £807 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 585 472 449
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.41 £16.81
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +12.36% +71.15%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £66.44
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £57.35 £48.37
% change year-on-year -47.69% +18.58% +122.06%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytical Mindset as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Mindset 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 +144 250 £461 -7.75% 440
UK excluding London +108 143 £450 -5.26% 344
London +68 120 £550 +10.00% 181
Work from Home +52 60 £414 -8.11% 232
North of England +3 40 £450 +9.09% 77
South East +40 32 £325 -27.78% 135
Midlands +2 23 £313 -43.09% 52
North West +6 21 £450 -12.20% 57
Yorkshire -1 19 £525 +98.11% 17
Scotland +8 16 £500 - 16
South West +25 15 £525 - 22
West Midlands +2 15 £265 -51.82% 28
East of England - 14 £680 - 39
East Midlands +2 8 £338 - 22
Wales +6 3 £588 - 8
Northern Ireland -4 3 £556 - 3

Analytical Mindset
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (4.58%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.87%) Confluence
3 6 (2.11%) Apache
3 6 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.76%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 32 (11.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.87%) Siemens NX
4 10 (3.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.76%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.70%) Navisworks
7 2 (0.70%) ProjectWise
7 2 (0.70%) Revit
7 2 (0.70%) Sketch
7 2 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (4.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.87%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (1.41%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (1.41%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.41%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.41%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (1.41%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.41%) SAP PS
4 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.06%) Endur
4 3 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.35%) Actimize
5 1 (0.35%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.35%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.35%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (11.97%) Azure
2 32 (11.27%) AWS
3 29 (10.21%) Power Platform
4 15 (5.28%) GCP
5 6 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.11%) Collibra
5 6 (2.11%) PowerApps
5 6 (2.11%) SaaS
6 5 (1.76%) Contentsquare
6 5 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.41%) Google Data Studio
8 3 (1.06%) Figma
8 3 (1.06%) GitHub
8 3 (1.06%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.70%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (0.70%) Asana
9 2 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.70%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (0.70%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.69%) DNS
2 12 (4.23%) Network Security
2 12 (4.23%) TCP/IP
3 11 (3.87%) HTTP
3 11 (3.87%) SSL
4 10 (3.52%) DHCP
5 9 (3.17%) FTP
5 9 (3.17%) SMTP
5 9 (3.17%) VLAN
6 7 (2.46%) Firewall
7 3 (1.06%) SAN
8 1 (0.35%) Internet
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) VoIP
8 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (9.86%) Power BI
2 18 (6.34%) Tableau
3 9 (3.17%) Big Data
3 9 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.11%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.11%) Hadoop
4 6 (2.11%) Power Query
5 5 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.76%) Metadata
5 5 (1.76%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.41%) Looker
7 3 (1.06%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.06%) MSDE
7 3 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.70%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.35%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.35%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.35%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 12 (4.23%) JIRA
2 11 (3.87%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.17%) Git
4 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.06%) GitLab
4 3 (1.06%) IntelliJ
4 3 (1.06%) PyCharm
4 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (1.06%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (0.70%) AdminStudio
5 2 (0.70%) JUnit
5 2 (0.70%) Selenium
6 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.35%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.35%) TestNG
General
1 284 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 149 (52.46%) Social Skills
3 111 (39.08%) Finance
4 35 (12.32%) Banking
5 24 (8.45%) Legal
6 22 (7.75%) Public Sector
7 19 (6.69%) Manufacturing
8 16 (5.63%) Investment Banking
9 15 (5.28%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (5.28%) Marketing
10 10 (3.52%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.52%) Telecoms
11 9 (3.17%) Financial Institution
11 9 (3.17%) Retail
12 6 (2.11%) Billing
13 5 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.76%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.41%) Law
14 4 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (33.80%) Analyst
2 30 (10.56%) Business Analyst
3 21 (7.39%) Data Analyst
4 18 (6.34%) Developer
5 16 (5.63%) Architect
6 15 (5.28%) Senior
7 13 (4.58%) Lead
7 13 (4.58%) Project Manager
8 12 (4.23%) Consultant
9 11 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (3.87%) SOC Analyst
10 10 (3.52%) IT Manager
11 9 (3.17%) Infrastructure Support
11 9 (3.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 9 (3.17%) Product Manager
11 9 (3.17%) Support Engineer
12 7 (2.46%) Integration Manager
12 7 (2.46%) Java Developer
13 6 (2.11%) SAP Consultant
13 6 (2.11%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.52%) LDAP
2 9 (3.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (2.46%) JSON
4 6 (2.11%) REST
4 6 (2.11%) Spark Streaming
5 5 (1.76%) React
5 5 (1.76%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (1.41%) .NET
6 4 (1.41%) HTML
6 4 (1.41%) Pandas
6 4 (1.41%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.06%) Swagger
7 3 (1.06%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.70%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.70%) CSS
8 2 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.70%) HTML5
8 2 (0.70%) RESTful
8 2 (0.70%) SOAP
8 2 (0.70%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.39%) Management Information System
2 15 (5.28%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.28%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.17%) Cyberattack
3 9 (3.17%) Security Operations Centre
4 8 (2.82%) CSOC
4 8 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (2.46%) Market Risk
6 6 (2.11%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.11%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.41%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.41%) Derivative
8 4 (1.41%) SCADA
8 4 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.41%) Social Media
9 3 (1.06%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.06%) Grid Computing
9 3 (1.06%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.75%) Windows
2 16 (5.63%) Linux
3 1 (0.35%) Android
3 1 (0.35%) VMS
3 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (38.73%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (27.11%) Agile
3 55 (19.37%) Analytics
4 51 (17.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 47 (16.55%) Decision-Making
6 43 (15.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (15.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 35 (12.32%) Business Intelligence
8 31 (10.92%) Actionable Insight
8 31 (10.92%) Roadmaps
9 30 (10.56%) Data Analysis
10 28 (9.86%) Risk Management
11 25 (8.80%) Artificial Intelligence
11 25 (8.80%) Visualisation
12 24 (8.45%) ITIL
12 24 (8.45%) Project Management
13 23 (8.10%) Change Management
13 23 (8.10%) CI/CD
13 23 (8.10%) Process Improvement
14 21 (7.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 49 (17.25%) SQL
2 47 (16.55%) Python
3 20 (7.04%) Java
4 17 (5.99%) PowerShell
5 11 (3.87%) C#
6 10 (3.52%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.76%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.41%) R
9 3 (1.06%) Bash
9 3 (1.06%) VBA
10 2 (0.70%) Korn
10 2 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.70%) RPG
10 2 (0.70%) VB
11 1 (0.35%) ABAP
11 1 (0.35%) Cypher
11 1 (0.35%) DAML
11 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.35%) LookML
11 1 (0.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 45 (15.85%) Degree
2 40 (14.08%) Security Cleared
3 34 (11.97%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (4.23%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (3.87%) PMI Certification
7 9 (3.17%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.17%) Server+ Certification
8 8 (2.82%) PMP
9 7 (2.46%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.46%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.41%) CBAP
11 3 (1.06%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.06%) CCNA
11 3 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.06%) CSPO
11 3 (1.06%) HNC
11 3 (1.06%) MCSE
11 3 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.04%) QA
2 17 (5.99%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.58%) GDPR
4 7 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.46%) PMO
5 6 (2.11%) NIST
5 6 (2.11%) SLA
6 5 (1.76%) IFRS
7 4 (1.41%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.41%) MiFID
7 4 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.70%) GRC
8 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.70%) ISO 19650
9 1 (0.35%) Basel III
9 1 (0.35%) EMIR
9 1 (0.35%) FIPS 140-2
9 1 (0.35%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (3.17%) Hyper-V
1 9 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.46%) Docker
3 5 (1.76%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.70%) NDS
4 2 (0.70%) NetIQ eDirectory
4 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (3.52%) Kubernetes
1 10 (3.52%) Terraform
2 9 (3.17%) Ansible
3 5 (1.76%) SCCM
4 2 (0.70%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 2 (0.70%) CSIRT
4 2 (0.70%) Grafana
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.70%) vRealize
5 1 (0.35%) Podman
5 1 (0.35%) QRadar
5 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.10%) SAP
3 16 (5.63%) Oracle
4 15 (5.28%) Google
5 12 (4.23%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.52%) Siemens
7 9 (3.17%) Salesforce
7 9 (3.17%) VMware
8 7 (2.46%) Adobe
8 7 (2.46%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.76%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.41%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.41%) Splunk
10 4 (1.41%) Workday
11 3 (1.06%) Dell
11 3 (1.06%) Hitachi
11 3 (1.06%) Optimizely
12 2 (0.70%) Databricks
12 2 (0.70%) Wrike
12 2 (0.70%) Zscaler