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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 402 402
Rank change year-on-year +94 0 +191
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 320 133 200
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.43% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.38% 1.30% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 83 106
10th Percentile £297 £225 £150
25th Percentile £371 £266 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -2.63% -1.55%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £584
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £450 £444
% change year-on-year +3.06% +1.41% +216.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 52
10th Percentile - - £13.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £39.25 £15.31
Median hourly rate £34.75 £40.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.20% +131.43% -72.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £41.75 £20.44
90th Percentile £77.63 - £25.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.25 - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -21.03%

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 13,440 10,198 13,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.64% 33.00% 30.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,486 6,131 8,866
10th Percentile £271 £264 £258
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £769 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -4.52% -0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 656 311 824
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.60 £16.54
Median hourly rate £30.05 £34.50 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% +7.43% +42.83%
75th Percentile £63.43 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.25 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £34.21
% change year-on-year -7.69% -5.00% +56.50%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 15 February 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 +60 285 £500 +5.54% 183
London +62 151 £500 - 56
UK excluding London +4 135 £464 +3.06% 151
Work from Home +56 101 £425 +6.12% 96
South East +5 50 £392 -7.22% 51
Midlands -27 30 £460 -12.38% 26
North of England -58 22 £550 +34.15% 36
West Midlands -26 21 £470 -10.48% 15
East of England -20 13 £675 +35.00% 11
Yorkshire -55 11 £563 +90.68% 15
Scotland +9 9 £415 -7.78% 7
East Midlands -18 9 £385 - 11
South West -19 8 £525 +23.53% 18
North West -38 8 £480 +6.67% 20
Wales - 6 £588 - 3
North East - 4 £550 - 1

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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 6 (1.88%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.94%) CMS
4 2 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.63%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.31%) Camunda
5 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 50 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.81%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.94%) Navisworks
4 3 (0.94%) Revit
5 2 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.63%) Autodesk Smoke
5 2 (0.63%) ProjectWise
5 2 (0.63%) Sketch
5 2 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.31%) Notion
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.44%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.56%) Shopify
3 4 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.31%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.31%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.31%) Maximo
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.31%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.31%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.31%) Summit
6 1 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 50 (15.63%) Azure
2 38 (11.88%) AWS
3 36 (11.25%) Power Platform
4 12 (3.75%) GCP
5 10 (3.13%) GitHub
5 10 (3.13%) SaaS
6 9 (2.81%) Contentsquare
7 8 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.88%) Collibra
9 6 (1.88%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.25%) Alation
10 4 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (1.25%) Lucidchart
11 3 (0.94%) Adobe Analytics
11 3 (0.94%) Google Analytics
11 3 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.88%) DNS
2 18 (5.63%) TCP/IP
3 14 (4.38%) Network Security
3 14 (4.38%) SAN
3 14 (4.38%) VLAN
4 11 (3.44%) DHCP
5 9 (2.81%) Firewall
5 9 (2.81%) HTTP
5 9 (2.81%) SSL
6 5 (1.56%) BGP
6 5 (1.56%) FTP
6 5 (1.56%) LAN
6 5 (1.56%) SMTP
7 3 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.63%) MPLS
8 2 (0.63%) SMS
8 2 (0.63%) SNMP
8 2 (0.63%) TACACS
8 2 (0.63%) WAN
9 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.25%) Power BI
2 12 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.81%) Tableau
4 8 (2.50%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 8 (2.50%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.88%) BigQuery
5 6 (1.88%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.88%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.25%) Big Data
6 4 (1.25%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.25%) Metadata
7 3 (0.94%) Data Mart
7 3 (0.94%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.63%) Looker
8 2 (0.63%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.63%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (10.00%) JIRA
2 6 (1.88%) Git
3 2 (0.63%) MLflow
3 2 (0.63%) MSBuild
3 2 (0.63%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (0.63%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.31%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.31%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.31%) JMeter
4 1 (0.31%) Locust
General
1 319 (99.69%) Analytical Skills
2 166 (51.88%) Social Skills
3 109 (34.06%) Finance
4 25 (7.81%) Banking
4 25 (7.81%) Marketing
4 25 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.38%) Manufacturing
6 13 (4.06%) Legal
6 13 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (3.75%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.13%) Publishing
9 9 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.81%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.81%) Retail
10 8 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.19%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.56%) Back Office
12 5 (1.56%) Electronics
12 5 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.25%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 76 (23.75%) Analyst
2 38 (11.88%) Business Analyst
3 26 (8.13%) Lead
4 19 (5.94%) Data Analyst
5 18 (5.63%) Consultant
6 16 (5.00%) Senior
7 15 (4.69%) Support Engineer
8 13 (4.06%) Developer
8 13 (4.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (3.75%) Field Engineer
9 12 (3.75%) Field Service Engineer
10 11 (3.44%) Architect
10 11 (3.44%) Infrastructure Support
10 11 (3.44%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 11 (3.44%) Project Leader
10 11 (3.44%) Project Manager
11 10 (3.13%) IT Engineer
12 9 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
13 8 (2.50%) Product Manager
14 7 (2.19%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.50%) JSON
2 7 (2.19%) PyTorch
3 6 (1.88%) LDAP
3 6 (1.88%) REST
3 6 (1.88%) scikit-learn
3 6 (1.88%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.56%) Pandas
4 5 (1.56%) PySpark
5 4 (1.25%) EDI
5 4 (1.25%) Node.js
5 4 (1.25%) XML
5 4 (1.25%) YAML
6 3 (0.94%) .NET
6 3 (0.94%) Dask
6 3 (0.94%) Google JAX
6 3 (0.94%) JAX
6 3 (0.94%) LightGBM
6 3 (0.94%) Middleware
6 3 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.94%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.94%) Product Ownership
2 18 (5.63%) Data Centre
3 15 (4.69%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.81%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.19%) Derivative
6 6 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.56%) CSOC
7 5 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.56%) Cyberattack
7 5 (1.56%) NHS
7 5 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (1.56%) Social Media
8 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.25%) PMI
9 3 (0.94%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.94%) IoT
9 3 (0.94%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 31 (9.69%) Windows
2 24 (7.50%) Linux
3 8 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.63%) VMS
6 1 (0.31%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (41.56%) Problem-Solving
2 94 (29.38%) Agile
3 87 (27.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 67 (20.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 64 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 58 (18.13%) Decision-Making
7 52 (16.25%) Analytics
8 48 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
9 40 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 38 (11.88%) Data Governance
11 35 (10.94%) Actionable Insight
12 30 (9.38%) Change Management
12 30 (9.38%) Risk Management
12 30 (9.38%) Visualisation
13 29 (9.06%) AI
14 28 (8.75%) Data Modelling
14 28 (8.75%) ITIL
14 28 (8.75%) Validation
15 27 (8.44%) User Experience
16 26 (8.13%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 80 (25.00%) SQL
2 40 (12.50%) Python
3 25 (7.81%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.13%) Java
5 9 (2.81%) C#
6 5 (1.56%) Bash
6 5 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.56%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.94%) Korn
8 2 (0.63%) C++
8 2 (0.63%) Go
8 2 (0.63%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.63%) RPG
8 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.63%) VBA
9 1 (0.31%) ABAP
9 1 (0.31%) PHP
9 1 (0.31%) SOQL
9 1 (0.31%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 54 (16.88%) Degree
2 48 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 36 (11.25%) SC Cleared
4 23 (7.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (7.19%) Network+ Certification
5 15 (4.69%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.69%) Master's Degree
6 14 (4.38%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (3.75%) A+ Certification
7 12 (3.75%) CCNA
7 12 (3.75%) MCSE
7 12 (3.75%) PMI Certification
8 11 (3.44%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.44%) Server+ Certification
9 9 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.81%) PMP
10 6 (1.88%) CBAP
10 6 (1.88%) CSPO
11 4 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.56%) Data Quality
2 29 (9.06%) GDPR
3 26 (8.13%) QA
4 12 (3.75%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.88%) PMO
7 4 (1.25%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.25%) MiFID
7 4 (1.25%) NIST
7 4 (1.25%) SLA
7 4 (1.25%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.94%) ISO 19650
8 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.63%) EMIR
9 2 (0.63%) WCAG
10 1 (0.31%) COBIT
10 1 (0.31%) COSHH
System Software
1 13 (4.06%) Hyper-V
1 13 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.81%) Docker
4 4 (1.25%) NDS
4 4 (1.25%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 3 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.63%) KVM
6 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (2.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.19%) Ansible
3 6 (1.88%) Terraform
4 4 (1.25%) SCCM
4 4 (1.25%) SCOM
4 4 (1.25%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.63%) vRealize
6 1 (0.31%) Kibana
6 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.31%) Suricata
Vendors
1 52 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.13%) SAP
3 18 (5.63%) VMware
4 17 (5.31%) ServiceNow
5 16 (5.00%) Oracle
6 13 (4.06%) Adobe
6 13 (4.06%) Salesforce
7 12 (3.75%) Dell
8 11 (3.44%) Databricks
9 9 (2.81%) Google
10 6 (1.88%) BMC
10 6 (1.88%) Informatica
11 5 (1.56%) Murex
12 4 (1.25%) NetIQ
12 4 (1.25%) Sparx
12 4 (1.25%) Splunk
13 3 (0.94%) Amplitude
13 3 (0.94%) CyberArk
13 3 (0.94%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.94%) Zuora
206 Analytical Mindset jobs Nationwide