Analytical Mindset Contracts

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 411 532
Rank change year-on-year +39 +121 +169
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 149 191 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.44% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.50% 1.44% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 99 113
10th Percentile £250 £184 £105
25th Percentile £380 £404 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -1.69% +6.80%
75th Percentile £603 £575 £700
90th Percentile £638 £639 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -14.29% -2.33% +53.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 61 5
10th Percentile £53.38 £11.75 £30.50
25th Percentile £70.71 £13.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £80.68 £17.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +361.00% -72.00% +17.92%
75th Percentile £81.27 £19.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.35 £25.25 £64.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.68 £15.90 £22.16
% change year-on-year +407.39% -28.25% -

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 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Mindset.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Mindset over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Mindset.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Mindset over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Top 16 Contract 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 30 April 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 +32 130 £475 -9.52% 465
London +24 76 £500 -4.76% 270
UK excluding London +22 60 £450 -14.29% 214
Work from Home +35 31 £440 -16.29% 236
East of England +46 19 £575 +43.75% 14
North of England +19 11 £358 -24.63% 58
South East +44 10 £325 -39.53% 54
North West +14 9 £358 -37.74% 45
South West +37 6 £488 -7.14% 39
Scotland 0 6 £450 +38.46% 10
Midlands +5 5 £486 -7.43% 35
West Midlands +2 3 £525 - 23
Yorkshire +5 2 £418 +131.94% 10
East Midlands +5 2 £447 - 11
Northern Ireland - 2 £556 - 1
Wales +2 1 £390 - 4

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 9 (6.04%) Confluence
2 8 (5.37%) Apache
2 8 (5.37%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.68%) nginx
3 4 (2.68%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.34%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.34%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.67%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.67%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (10.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (3.36%) Trello
4 4 (2.68%) Adobe XD
4 4 (2.68%) Sketch
5 3 (2.01%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.67%) Actimize
2 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.67%) Maximo
2 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.67%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.67%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.67%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.67%) SessionCam
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.44%) AWS
2 19 (12.75%) Azure
3 13 (8.72%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.37%) GCP
5 6 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.36%) Figma
6 5 (3.36%) SaaS
7 4 (2.68%) GitHub
8 3 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.01%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.34%) Asana
9 2 (1.34%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.34%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.34%) IBM Cloud
9 2 (1.34%) npm
9 2 (1.34%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.34%) Serverless
9 2 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.41%) DNS
2 10 (6.71%) FTP
2 10 (6.71%) HTTP
2 10 (6.71%) Network Security
2 10 (6.71%) SMTP
2 10 (6.71%) SSL
3 7 (4.70%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.70%) VPN
4 2 (1.34%) Calico
4 2 (1.34%) Firewall
5 1 (0.67%) ATM
5 1 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.05%) Power BI
2 8 (5.37%) Big Data
2 8 (5.37%) Hadoop
3 7 (4.70%) Tableau
4 4 (2.68%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.01%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.01%) Power Query
6 2 (1.34%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.34%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.67%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.67%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.67%) Metadata
7 1 (0.67%) MySQL
7 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.67%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 12 (8.05%) JIRA
2 11 (7.38%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.71%) Git
4 7 (4.70%) GitLab
5 3 (2.01%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.01%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.34%) Maven
7 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.67%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.67%) JUnit
7 1 (0.67%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.67%) Selenium
7 1 (0.67%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 149 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 102 (68.46%) Social Skills
3 55 (36.91%) Finance
4 19 (12.75%) Banking
5 5 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.36%) Law
5 5 (3.36%) Legal
5 5 (3.36%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.36%) Retail
6 4 (2.68%) Marketing
7 3 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.01%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.34%) Billing
8 2 (1.34%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.34%) Front Office
8 2 (1.34%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (28.86%) Analyst
2 22 (14.77%) Senior
3 18 (12.08%) Lead
4 16 (10.74%) Developer
5 11 (7.38%) Project Manager
6 9 (6.04%) Business Analyst
6 9 (6.04%) Java Developer
7 8 (5.37%) Apache Spark Developer
7 8 (5.37%) SOC Analyst
8 7 (4.70%) Business Manager
8 7 (4.70%) Service Analyst
8 7 (4.70%) Service Desk Analyst
9 6 (4.03%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.36%) Architect
10 5 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
10 5 (3.36%) IT Manager
10 5 (3.36%) Operations Analyst
10 5 (3.36%) Senior Developer
11 4 (2.68%) Consultant
11 4 (2.68%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.71%) LDAP
2 8 (5.37%) Spark Streaming
3 5 (3.36%) CSS
3 5 (3.36%) HTML
3 5 (3.36%) React
4 4 (2.68%) Node.js
4 4 (2.68%) REST
5 3 (2.01%) Jest
5 3 (2.01%) Playwright
6 2 (1.34%) .NET
6 2 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.34%) JSON
6 2 (1.34%) Matplotlib
6 2 (1.34%) NumPy
6 2 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.34%) Pandas
7 1 (0.67%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.67%) Middleware
7 1 (0.67%) XML
7 1 (0.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.38%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.04%) Cyberattack
3 8 (5.37%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (5.37%) Distributed Computing
3 8 (5.37%) Market Risk
4 7 (4.70%) Driving Licence
5 6 (4.03%) CSOC
5 6 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.03%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.01%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.34%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.34%) DataPower
7 2 (1.34%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.34%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.34%) PMI
7 2 (1.34%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.34%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.04%) Windows
2 5 (3.36%) Linux
3 2 (1.34%) Android
3 2 (1.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (57.72%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (22.15%) Agile
2 33 (22.15%) Decision-Making
2 33 (22.15%) Project Management
2 33 (22.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 29 (19.46%) Analytics
4 25 (16.78%) Risk Management
5 20 (13.42%) CI/CD
6 18 (12.08%) ITIL
7 17 (11.41%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (11.41%) Data Analysis
7 17 (11.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (10.74%) Artificial Intelligence
8 16 (10.74%) Visualisation
9 15 (10.07%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (10.07%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 15 (10.07%) DevOps
10 14 (9.40%) Data Visualisation
10 14 (9.40%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 26 (17.45%) Python
2 16 (10.74%) Java
2 16 (10.74%) SQL
3 10 (6.71%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.68%) C#
5 3 (2.01%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.34%) Bash
6 2 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.34%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.34%) VBA
7 1 (0.67%) ABAP
7 1 (0.67%) C
7 1 (0.67%) C++
7 1 (0.67%) DAML
7 1 (0.67%) Perl
7 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (15.44%) Degree
2 21 (14.09%) Security Cleared
3 20 (13.42%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.37%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.37%) PMI Certification
5 7 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.70%) PMP
6 3 (2.01%) CISSP
6 3 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.34%) CISM
8 1 (0.67%) ACCA
8 1 (0.67%) CIMA
8 1 (0.67%) CISA
8 1 (0.67%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.67%) MBA
8 1 (0.67%) PgMP
8 1 (0.67%) PhD
8 1 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.67%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.04%) QA
1 9 (6.04%) SLA
2 8 (5.37%) Accessibility
2 8 (5.37%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.36%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (3.36%) GDPR
4 4 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.01%) NIST
6 2 (1.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.67%) EMIR
7 1 (0.67%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.67%) MiFID
7 1 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (6.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.70%) Kubernetes
1 7 (4.70%) Terraform
2 3 (2.01%) Ansible
2 3 (2.01%) SCCM
3 2 (1.34%) Grafana
3 2 (1.34%) Istio
3 2 (1.34%) SCOM
4 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (20.13%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.38%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.37%) SAP
4 7 (4.70%) Oracle
5 4 (2.68%) Adobe
5 4 (2.68%) Google
6 2 (1.34%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.34%) IBM
6 2 (1.34%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.34%) Splunk
7 1 (0.67%) Ariba
7 1 (0.67%) Cisco
7 1 (0.67%) DataCore
7 1 (0.67%) InterSystems
7 1 (0.67%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.67%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.67%) Pega
7 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.67%) Twitter
7 1 (0.67%) Workday