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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 362 426
Rank change year-on-year +26 +64 +93
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 337 165 170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.67% 0.56% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 1.63% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 107 87
10th Percentile £250 £250 £208
25th Percentile £400 £380 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -6.37%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £646 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -15.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 53
10th Percentile £14.10 £30.15 £11.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £53.38 £13.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £80.68 £15.90
Median % change year-on-year -41.74% +407.39% -74.56%
75th Percentile £55.75 £81.18 £19.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £81.35 £23.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.28 £80.68 £14.50
% change year-on-year -66.19% +456.38% -

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 16,215 10,108 13,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 34.34% 30.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,966 6,359 8,357
10th Percentile £315 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £660
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.66% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 813 432 938
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.89 £19.97 £15.28
Median hourly rate £41.94 £33.05 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.90% -5.57% +57.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.24 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.48 £82.48 £71.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.16% -8.43% +60.00%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +32 310 £488 +8.33% 227
UK excluding London +2 168 £475 +5.56% 173
London +10 149 £500 +2.56% 85
Work from Home -7 84 £513 +16.61% 140
South East -25 58 £500 +53.85% 51
North of England -52 34 £475 +5.56% 39
Midlands -41 31 £477 +52.40% 34
South West -2 28 £350 -33.33% 20
West Midlands -38 27 £477 +80.00% 17
North West -19 21 £494 +9.78% 25
Wales -6 10 - - 3
Yorkshire -49 9 £463 +10.78% 9
Scotland -11 6 £127 -71.78% 7
East Midlands -20 4 £463 +21.39% 17
East of England -37 4 £475 -19.15% 17
North East - 4 - - 6

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 20 (5.93%) Confluence
2 5 (1.48%) SAS
3 4 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.19%) CMS
4 2 (0.59%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) Camunda
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (7.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.37%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (1.78%) Finacle
1 6 (1.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (1.19%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.59%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.30%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.30%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.30%) ResourceLink
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.30%) Shopify
5 1 (0.30%) Summit
5 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 44 (13.06%) Azure
2 37 (10.98%) AWS
3 33 (9.79%) Power Platform
4 14 (4.15%) GitHub
5 13 (3.86%) GCP
6 12 (3.56%) Snowflake
7 11 (3.26%) SaaS
8 10 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.67%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.19%) Collibra
11 4 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (0.89%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.89%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (0.89%) Fivetran
12 3 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.89%) Lucidchart
12 3 (0.89%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 55 (16.32%) SAN
2 10 (2.97%) WAN
3 6 (1.78%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.48%) BGP
4 5 (1.48%) DNS
4 5 (1.48%) LAN
4 5 (1.48%) MPLS
4 5 (1.48%) SD-WAN
4 5 (1.48%) VLAN
5 4 (1.19%) Network Security
6 3 (0.89%) DHCP
6 3 (0.89%) Firewall
6 3 (0.89%) Internet
6 3 (0.89%) NAS
6 3 (0.89%) OSPF
7 2 (0.59%) PSTN
7 2 (0.59%) SNMP
7 2 (0.59%) TACACS
7 2 (0.59%) VoIP
7 2 (0.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.79%) Power BI
2 14 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.97%) Relational Database
3 10 (2.97%) Tableau
4 8 (2.37%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.78%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.78%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.48%) BigQuery
6 5 (1.48%) Power Query
7 4 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (1.19%) Metadata
7 4 (1.19%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 4 (1.19%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 3 (0.89%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.89%) Looker
8 3 (0.89%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.59%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.59%) Big Data
9 2 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 35 (10.39%) JIRA
2 5 (1.48%) Git
3 3 (0.89%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.89%) Selenium
4 2 (0.59%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.59%) GitLab
4 2 (0.59%) MLflow
5 1 (0.30%) Appium
5 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.30%) Gatling
5 1 (0.30%) JMeter
5 1 (0.30%) JUnit
5 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.30%) NUnit
5 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.30%) TestRail
General
1 337 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 158 (46.88%) Social Skills
3 97 (28.78%) Finance
4 33 (9.79%) Banking
5 32 (9.50%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.53%) Legal
7 17 (5.04%) Manufacturing
7 17 (5.04%) Marketing
8 16 (4.75%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (4.75%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (4.15%) Telecoms
10 13 (3.86%) Back Office
10 13 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (3.26%) Front Office
12 7 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.78%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.48%) Billing
15 4 (1.19%) Multimedia
15 4 (1.19%) Retail
16 3 (0.89%) Law
Job Titles
1 79 (23.44%) Analyst
2 50 (14.84%) Field Engineer
2 50 (14.84%) Field Service Engineer
2 50 (14.84%) IT Engineer
3 46 (13.65%) Business Analyst
4 22 (6.53%) Lead
5 20 (5.93%) Data Analyst
5 20 (5.93%) Developer
5 20 (5.93%) IT Support
5 20 (5.93%) Support Engineer
6 18 (5.34%) Senior
7 16 (4.75%) Field Support Engineer
7 16 (4.75%) IT Support Engineer
8 13 (3.86%) Consultant
9 11 (3.26%) Architect
10 10 (2.97%) Security Analyst
11 9 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (2.37%) Operations Analyst
12 8 (2.37%) Operations Business Analyst
12 8 (2.37%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.08%) PySpark
1 7 (2.08%) REST
2 5 (1.48%) .NET
2 5 (1.48%) XML
3 4 (1.19%) Kafka
3 4 (1.19%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (1.19%) Pandas
3 4 (1.19%) YAML
4 3 (0.89%) JSON
5 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.59%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.59%) OpenConfig
5 2 (0.59%) PyArrow
5 2 (0.59%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.59%) React
5 2 (0.59%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.59%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.59%) scikit-learn
5 2 (0.59%) SOAP
5 2 (0.59%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 58 (17.21%) Data Centre
2 26 (7.72%) Product Ownership
3 23 (6.82%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.97%) Operational Technology
5 8 (2.37%) SCADA
5 8 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.78%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 6 (1.78%) Web Conferencing
8 5 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.48%) NHS
9 4 (1.19%) Blog
9 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.19%) Social Media
10 3 (0.89%) Digital Media
10 3 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.90%) Windows
2 13 (3.86%) Linux
3 6 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.19%) Unix
5 3 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.59%) AIX
6 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.59%) HPUX
6 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.59%) Solaris
6 2 (0.59%) SUSE
6 2 (0.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (43.92%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (24.04%) Agile
2 81 (24.04%) Stakeholder Management
3 65 (19.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 53 (15.73%) Customer Service
5 50 (14.84%) Break/Fix
5 50 (14.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 48 (14.24%) Analytics
7 44 (13.06%) Validation
8 38 (11.28%) Decision-Making
9 37 (10.98%) Data Modelling
10 36 (10.68%) Business Intelligence
11 35 (10.39%) AI
11 35 (10.39%) Migration
12 34 (10.09%) Business Analysis
13 32 (9.50%) Data Governance
14 31 (9.20%) Process Improvement
15 30 (8.90%) Workshop Facilitation
16 29 (8.61%) User Stories
17 28 (8.31%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 69 (20.47%) SQL
2 36 (10.68%) Python
3 17 (5.04%) PowerShell
4 14 (4.15%) C#
5 9 (2.67%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.37%) Java
7 6 (1.78%) Bash
7 6 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.19%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.19%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.19%) R
9 3 (0.89%) VBA
10 2 (0.59%) Bicep
10 2 (0.59%) C++
11 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.30%) LookML
11 1 (0.30%) Scala
11 1 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 61 (18.10%) Cisco Certification
2 58 (17.21%) CCNA
3 53 (15.73%) MCSE
3 53 (15.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 52 (15.43%) Network+ Certification
5 50 (14.84%) A+ Certification
6 32 (9.50%) Security Cleared
7 30 (8.90%) Degree
8 18 (5.34%) SC Cleared
9 12 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (3.26%) DV Cleared
11 8 (2.37%) CISSP
12 4 (1.19%) CISA
12 4 (1.19%) CISM
12 4 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.19%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.19%) PMP
12 4 (1.19%) SAS Certification
13 3 (0.89%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.31%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (5.64%) GDPR
3 19 (5.64%) QA
4 14 (4.15%) NIST
5 8 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.37%) PMO
6 6 (1.78%) SLA
7 4 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.89%) GRC
8 3 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.89%) WCAG
9 2 (0.59%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.59%) GxP
9 2 (0.59%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 13 (3.86%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.08%) Hyper-V
2 7 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.19%) Firmware
4 3 (0.89%) Docker
4 3 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.59%) KVM
6 1 (0.30%) NFS
6 1 (0.30%) RACF
6 1 (0.30%) Squid
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.67%) Ansible
3 8 (2.37%) Terraform
4 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.89%) Podman
6 2 (0.59%) SCCM
7 1 (0.30%) Control-M
7 1 (0.30%) Grafana
7 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.30%) SCOM
7 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.30%) SysTrack
7 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (15.13%) Dell
2 37 (10.98%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.82%) Oracle
4 20 (5.93%) SAP
5 17 (5.04%) Databricks
5 17 (5.04%) Salesforce
6 15 (4.45%) Cisco
7 13 (3.86%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.86%) VMware
8 5 (1.48%) BMC
8 5 (1.48%) BT
8 5 (1.48%) Google
8 5 (1.48%) Nexthink
9 4 (1.19%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.89%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.89%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.89%) HP
10 3 (0.89%) Remedy
10 3 (0.89%) Splunk
10 3 (0.89%) Veeam