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 28 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 374 392
Rank change year-on-year +58 +18 +168
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 349 152 197
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.52% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.38% 1.55% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 105 101
10th Percentile £325 £250 £150
25th Percentile £403 £380 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £633 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +188.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 5 60
10th Percentile £14.10 £50.55 £11.75
25th Percentile £18.25 £67.50 £13.50
Median hourly rate £37.53 £80.68 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.49% +361.00% -72.00%
75th Percentile £67.38 £81.01 £19.50
90th Percentile £82.88 £81.22 £25.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.50 £80.68 £16.20
% change year-on-year -31.21% +397.99% -26.90%

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 14,671 9,836 13,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.01% 33.85% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,209 6,303 8,577
10th Percentile £300 £292 £258
25th Percentile £410 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £772 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 689 376 884
10th Percentile £15.70 £16.95 £12.28
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.44 £15.39
Median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.05% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £69.44 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.42 £83.20 £67.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £31.76 £25.50
% change year-on-year +43.14% +24.55% +15.91%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 +41 317 £500 +11.11% 223
UK excluding London 0 160 £480 +6.67% 165
London +28 158 £500 +5.26% 94
Work from Home +38 102 £500 +15.67% 107
South East -4 62 £500 +53.85% 59
Midlands -48 32 £470 -3.29% 33
North of England -52 28 £463 +20.44% 40
West Midlands -35 25 £470 -10.48% 23
South West -9 18 £475 +5.56% 15
North West -33 16 £495 +22.52% 26
East of England -38 11 £531 -1.16% 13
Yorkshire -47 9 £450 +25.00% 12
Wales -6 8 - - 5
East Midlands -28 7 £475 +6.26% 10
Scotland +2 5 £415 -7.78% 2
North East - 4 £550 - 2

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 16 (4.58%) Confluence
2 6 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.43%) CMS
4 2 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) Camunda
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.29%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 45 (12.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.87%) MS Visio
4 9 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.57%) Autodesk Smoke
8 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.29%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.29%) Notion
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.29%) Revit
8 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.15%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.43%) Shopify
4 4 (1.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.29%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.29%) Maximo
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.29%) ResourceLink
7 1 (0.29%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.29%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 45 (12.89%) Azure
2 40 (11.46%) Power Platform
3 31 (8.88%) AWS
4 13 (3.72%) GCP
4 13 (3.72%) GitHub
5 9 (2.58%) SaaS
6 8 (2.29%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.72%) Collibra
8 6 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.43%) Contentsquare
9 5 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (1.43%) Lucidchart
9 5 (1.43%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.15%) Alation
10 4 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.86%) Fivetran
11 3 (0.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 32 (9.17%) SAN
2 16 (4.58%) Network Security
3 14 (4.01%) DNS
4 9 (2.58%) Firewall
4 9 (2.58%) SSL
5 8 (2.29%) BGP
5 8 (2.29%) HTTP
5 8 (2.29%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.29%) WAN
6 7 (2.01%) LAN
7 6 (1.72%) FTP
7 6 (1.72%) MPLS
8 5 (1.43%) SMTP
9 4 (1.15%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.15%) SNMP
9 4 (1.15%) TACACS
9 4 (1.15%) VLAN
10 3 (0.86%) Internet
10 3 (0.86%) NAS
10 3 (0.86%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (11.46%) Power BI
2 12 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.29%) Tableau
4 6 (1.72%) BigQuery
4 6 (1.72%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 6 (1.72%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.15%) Big Data
6 4 (1.15%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.15%) Metadata
7 3 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.86%) Data Mart
7 3 (0.86%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.86%) Looker
7 3 (0.86%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.86%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.57%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (9.17%) JIRA
2 5 (1.43%) Git
3 2 (0.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.57%) MLflow
3 2 (0.57%) MSBuild
3 2 (0.57%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.29%) Appium
4 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.29%) GitLab
4 1 (0.29%) JMeter
4 1 (0.29%) JUnit
4 1 (0.29%) Locust
4 1 (0.29%) NUnit
4 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.29%) Selenium
4 1 (0.29%) TestRail
General
1 348 (99.71%) Analytical Skills
2 181 (51.86%) Social Skills
3 105 (30.09%) Finance
4 31 (8.88%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.74%) Marketing
6 25 (7.16%) Banking
7 19 (5.44%) Legal
8 17 (4.87%) Manufacturing
8 17 (4.87%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.58%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.29%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.29%) Publishing
12 8 (2.29%) Retail
13 6 (1.72%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.43%) Back Office
14 5 (1.43%) Electronics
14 5 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 80 (22.92%) Analyst
2 45 (12.89%) Business Analyst
3 29 (8.31%) Lead
4 27 (7.74%) Field Engineer
4 27 (7.74%) Field Service Engineer
4 27 (7.74%) IT Engineer
5 21 (6.02%) Consultant
5 21 (6.02%) Developer
6 18 (5.16%) Data Analyst
6 18 (5.16%) Senior
7 17 (4.87%) Support Engineer
8 13 (3.72%) Project Manager
9 12 (3.44%) Architect
10 11 (3.15%) Field Support Engineer
10 11 (3.15%) IT Support
10 11 (3.15%) IT Support Engineer
10 11 (3.15%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (2.58%) Project Leader
12 8 (2.29%) Operations Analyst
12 8 (2.29%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.01%) PyTorch
2 6 (1.72%) .NET
2 6 (1.72%) LDAP
2 6 (1.72%) PySpark
3 5 (1.43%) REST
3 5 (1.43%) scikit-learn
3 5 (1.43%) TensorFlow
3 5 (1.43%) YAML
4 4 (1.15%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.15%) NETCONF
4 4 (1.15%) Node.js
4 4 (1.15%) OpenConfig
4 4 (1.15%) Pandas
4 4 (1.15%) RESTCONF
4 4 (1.15%) XML
4 4 (1.15%) YANG
5 3 (0.86%) EDI
5 3 (0.86%) JSON
5 3 (0.86%) Kafka
5 3 (0.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.03%) Data Centre
2 22 (6.30%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.30%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.01%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.01%) Derivative
8 6 (1.72%) Blog
8 6 (1.72%) NHS
8 6 (1.72%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.43%) CSOC
9 5 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.43%) Cyberattack
9 5 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.43%) SCADA
9 5 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.15%) Social Media
11 3 (0.86%) Media Streaming
11 3 (0.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.74%) Windows
2 14 (4.01%) Linux
3 10 (2.87%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.57%) Unix
6 1 (0.29%) VMS
6 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (40.97%) Problem-Solving
2 90 (25.79%) Agile
3 86 (24.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 74 (21.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 61 (17.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 55 (15.76%) Decision-Making
7 54 (15.47%) Business Intelligence
8 53 (15.19%) Analytics
9 38 (10.89%) AI
9 38 (10.89%) Data Governance
10 35 (10.03%) Actionable Insight
10 35 (10.03%) Validation
11 34 (9.74%) Data Modelling
12 33 (9.46%) Roadmaps
13 31 (8.88%) Change Management
13 31 (8.88%) Process Improvement
14 30 (8.60%) Business Analysis
14 30 (8.60%) Customer Service
14 30 (8.60%) Visualisation
15 28 (8.02%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 75 (21.49%) SQL
2 45 (12.89%) Python
3 28 (8.02%) PowerShell
4 16 (4.58%) C#
5 12 (3.44%) Java
6 9 (2.58%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.01%) Bash
8 5 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.15%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.15%) C++
9 4 (1.15%) VBA
10 3 (0.86%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.57%) Bicep
11 2 (0.57%) Go
11 2 (0.57%) R
12 1 (0.29%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.29%) LookML
12 1 (0.29%) SOQL
12 1 (0.29%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 50 (14.33%) Security Cleared
2 49 (14.04%) Degree
3 33 (9.46%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (8.88%) SC Cleared
5 29 (8.31%) CCNA
6 28 (8.02%) MCSE
6 28 (8.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (7.74%) A+ Certification
7 27 (7.74%) Network+ Certification
8 19 (5.44%) DV Cleared
9 15 (4.30%) Master's Degree
10 13 (3.72%) PMI Certification
11 12 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (2.87%) PMP
13 6 (1.72%) CISSP
14 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (1.15%) CCIE
14 4 (1.15%) CISA
14 4 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (1.15%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.17%) Data Quality
2 30 (8.60%) GDPR
3 22 (6.30%) QA
4 14 (4.01%) Accessibility
5 13 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.87%) NIST
7 6 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.43%) PMO
9 4 (1.15%) SLA
9 4 (1.15%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.86%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.86%) WCAG
11 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.57%) EMIR
11 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.57%) MiFID
11 2 (0.57%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (4.87%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.29%) Docker
3 5 (1.43%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.15%) Firmware
5 3 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.57%) KVM
6 2 (0.57%) NDS
6 2 (0.57%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 1 (0.29%) NFS
7 1 (0.29%) RACF
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (2.58%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.29%) Ansible
2 8 (2.29%) Terraform
3 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.15%) SCCM
4 4 (1.15%) SCOM
4 4 (1.15%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.29%) Kibana
5 1 (0.29%) Podman
5 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.29%) Suricata
5 1 (0.29%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 46 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.74%) Dell
2 27 (7.74%) SAP
3 15 (4.30%) Salesforce
4 14 (4.01%) Oracle
5 13 (3.72%) Databricks
5 13 (3.72%) ServiceNow
5 13 (3.72%) VMware
6 7 (2.01%) Cisco
7 6 (1.72%) BMC
7 6 (1.72%) Google
8 5 (1.43%) Adobe
8 5 (1.43%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.43%) Informatica
8 5 (1.43%) Murex
8 5 (1.43%) Nexthink
8 5 (1.43%) Splunk
9 4 (1.15%) F5
9 4 (1.15%) Juniper
9 4 (1.15%) Red Hat
242 Analytical Mindset jobs Nationwide