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 25 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 330 464
Rank change year-on-year -4 +134 +31
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 380 230 116
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.70% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 2.03% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 135 61
10th Percentile £211 £313 £243
25th Percentile £400 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £490
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -6.12% -7.33%
75th Percentile £600 £605 £588
90th Percentile £665 £680 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.78% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 12 34
10th Percentile £14.10 £39.83 -
25th Percentile £25.25 £45.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £39.50 £67.50 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.48% +382.14% -37.78%
75th Percentile £55.75 £81.10 £21.19
90th Percentile £67.84 £81.35 £23.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.55 £75.34 £13.75
% change year-on-year -52.81% +447.91% -30.38%

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 17,666 11,332 12,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.35% 34.63% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,816 6,988 7,995
10th Percentile £316 £300 £300
25th Percentile £416 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £630 £643 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £802
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 905 547 720
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.13 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.60 £18.87 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.80 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +46.53% -27.71% -9.77%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +7 349 £500 +8.70% 162
UK excluding London -10 193 £476 +5.78% 106
London -9 164 £535 +1.90% 84
Work from Home -23 86 £540 +24.93% 74
South East -26 60 £533 +33.13% 34
North of England -72 44 £485 +7.67% 26
South West -10 32 £350 -40.43% 12
Midlands -33 32 £506 +61.23% 19
North West -46 29 £495 +10.00% 10
West Midlands -35 28 £550 +107.55% 6
East of England -23 14 £488 -18.75% 8
Yorkshire -52 13 £450 - 12
Wales -8 8 - - 2
Scotland -19 6 £127 -71.78% 5
East Midlands -13 4 £425 +18.06% 13
North East - 2 - - 5

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 17 (4.47%) Confluence
2 6 (1.58%) CMS
3 4 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.05%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.05%) SAS
4 3 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.79%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.26%) Apache
5 1 (0.26%) Camunda
5 1 (0.26%) Mendix
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 29 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 29 (7.63%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.63%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (2.63%) Finacle
2 6 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.32%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.32%) Fidessa
3 5 (1.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.79%) iTrent
4 3 (0.79%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.53%) Actimize
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.26%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.26%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (12.37%) Azure
2 38 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 37 (9.74%) AWS
4 22 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (4.21%) SaaS
6 15 (3.95%) GCP
7 14 (3.68%) Entra ID
8 13 (3.42%) Snowflake
9 11 (2.89%) GitHub
10 7 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.32%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.05%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.79%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.79%) Apigee
13 3 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (0.79%) Collibra
13 3 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.79%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (0.79%) OCI
13 3 (0.79%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 46 (12.11%) SAN
2 14 (3.68%) WAN
3 10 (2.63%) LAN
3 10 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.37%) BGP
4 9 (2.37%) MPLS
5 6 (1.58%) SNMP
5 6 (1.58%) TACACS
5 6 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.32%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.32%) VLAN
7 4 (1.05%) DNS
7 4 (1.05%) VPN
8 3 (0.79%) DHCP
8 3 (0.79%) Firewall
8 3 (0.79%) Internet
8 3 (0.79%) NAS
8 3 (0.79%) Network Security
8 3 (0.79%) OSPF
9 2 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.00%) Power BI
2 15 (3.95%) Relational Database
2 15 (3.95%) Tableau
3 11 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.63%) Oracle Database
4 10 (2.63%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.32%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.05%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.05%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (1.05%) Power Query
6 4 (1.05%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 4 (1.05%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 3 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.79%) Looker
7 3 (0.79%) Metadata
7 3 (0.79%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.53%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.53%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 39 (10.26%) JIRA
2 4 (1.05%) Git
3 3 (0.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.79%) Selenium
4 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.53%) GitLab
4 2 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.26%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.26%) Capybara
5 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.26%) Gatling
5 1 (0.26%) JMeter
5 1 (0.26%) JUnit
5 1 (0.26%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.26%) NUnit
5 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.26%) RSpec
5 1 (0.26%) TestRail
General
1 380 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 192 (50.53%) Social Skills
3 105 (27.63%) Finance
4 39 (10.26%) Banking
5 35 (9.21%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.05%) Legal
7 21 (5.53%) Manufacturing
7 21 (5.53%) Marketing
8 20 (5.26%) Front Office
9 19 (5.00%) Telecoms
10 17 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (4.21%) Back Office
12 15 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (2.11%) Investment Banking
14 8 (2.11%) Retail
15 7 (1.84%) Local Government
15 7 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (1.32%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 92 (24.21%) Analyst
2 53 (13.95%) Business Analyst
3 45 (11.84%) IT Engineer
4 43 (11.32%) Field Engineer
4 43 (11.32%) Field Service Engineer
5 23 (6.05%) Support Engineer
6 22 (5.79%) IT Support
7 21 (5.53%) Data Analyst
7 21 (5.53%) Senior
8 20 (5.26%) Lead
9 19 (5.00%) Architect
9 19 (5.00%) Developer
10 18 (4.74%) IT Support Engineer
11 17 (4.47%) Consultant
12 16 (4.21%) Field Support Engineer
13 13 (3.42%) Product Owner
14 12 (3.16%) Applications Support
14 12 (3.16%) Product Manager
15 10 (2.63%) Project Manager
15 10 (2.63%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.63%) REST
2 6 (1.58%) NETCONF
2 6 (1.58%) OpenConfig
2 6 (1.58%) PySpark
2 6 (1.58%) RESTCONF
2 6 (1.58%) YANG
3 5 (1.32%) .NET
3 5 (1.32%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (1.32%) Kafka
3 5 (1.32%) SailPoint
3 5 (1.32%) XML
4 4 (1.05%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.79%) JSON
5 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (0.79%) RESTful
6 2 (0.53%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.53%) React
6 2 (0.53%) SOAP
6 2 (0.53%) YAML
7 1 (0.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (13.95%) Data Centre
2 32 (8.42%) Product Ownership
3 26 (6.84%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.16%) Operational Technology
5 11 (2.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 10 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.37%) Cloud Native
8 8 (2.11%) CMDB
8 8 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.11%) SCADA
8 8 (2.11%) Social Media
9 7 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.84%) Life Science
9 7 (1.84%) Web Conferencing
10 6 (1.58%) Blog
10 6 (1.58%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.58%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.21%) Windows
2 12 (3.16%) Linux
3 7 (1.84%) Unix
4 6 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.05%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.53%) AIX
7 2 (0.53%) Android
7 2 (0.53%) HPUX
7 2 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.53%) Solaris
7 2 (0.53%) SUSE
7 2 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (41.58%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (25.00%) Agile
2 95 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 71 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 52 (13.68%) Analytics
5 48 (12.63%) Customer Service
6 47 (12.37%) Validation
7 46 (12.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 44 (11.58%) AI
9 43 (11.32%) Break/Fix
9 43 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
10 41 (10.79%) Business Analysis
10 41 (10.79%) User Stories
11 40 (10.53%) Migration
12 36 (9.47%) Workshop Facilitation
13 35 (9.21%) Process Improvement
13 35 (9.21%) Roadmaps
13 35 (9.21%) User Acceptance Testing
14 34 (8.95%) Data Modelling
15 33 (8.68%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 77 (20.26%) SQL
2 47 (12.37%) Python
3 15 (3.95%) PowerShell
4 12 (3.16%) C#
5 9 (2.37%) Java
6 8 (2.11%) Bash
7 7 (1.84%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.32%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.05%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.05%) R
10 3 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.53%) Bicep
11 2 (0.53%) C
11 2 (0.53%) C++
11 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.53%) ProC
11 2 (0.53%) VBA
12 1 (0.26%) Groovy
12 1 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 59 (15.53%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (13.68%) CCNA
3 47 (12.37%) MCSE
3 47 (12.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 45 (11.84%) Network+ Certification
5 43 (11.32%) A+ Certification
6 42 (11.05%) Security Cleared
7 30 (7.89%) Degree
8 20 (5.26%) SC Cleared
9 15 (3.95%) DV Cleared
10 14 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (2.11%) CISSP
12 6 (1.58%) CCIE
12 6 (1.58%) JNCIE
13 5 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
14 4 (1.05%) CISM
14 4 (1.05%) RHCA
14 4 (1.05%) SAS Certification
14 4 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.63%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (5.00%) GDPR
4 16 (4.21%) QA
5 14 (3.68%) NIST
6 12 (3.16%) Accessibility
7 9 (2.37%) PMO
8 6 (1.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 6 (1.58%) GxP
9 5 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.32%) SLA
10 4 (1.05%) GRC
11 3 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.79%) NCSC
11 3 (0.79%) WCAG
12 1 (0.26%) Basel III
12 1 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.26%) MiFID
12 1 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 19 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.58%) Hyper-V
2 6 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.32%) Docker
4 4 (1.05%) Firmware
5 3 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.26%) NFS
6 1 (0.26%) RACF
6 1 (0.26%) Squid
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.42%) Ansible
3 8 (2.11%) Terraform
4 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.05%) Podman
6 2 (0.53%) Grafana
6 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.26%) Control-M
7 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.26%) QRadar
7 1 (0.26%) SCCM
7 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 51 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 44 (11.58%) Dell
3 27 (7.11%) Oracle
4 24 (6.32%) SAP
5 20 (5.26%) Cisco
6 18 (4.74%) Salesforce
6 18 (4.74%) ServiceNow
7 14 (3.68%) Databricks
8 11 (2.89%) VMware
9 7 (1.84%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.58%) F5
10 6 (1.58%) Google
10 6 (1.58%) Juniper
11 5 (1.32%) BT
11 5 (1.32%) Charles River
11 5 (1.32%) CyberArk
11 5 (1.32%) MarketAxess
11 5 (1.32%) Nexthink
11 5 (1.32%) Tradeweb
12 4 (1.05%) Zscaler