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 have cited Analytical Mindset over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 516 701
Rank change year-on-year +125 +185 -154
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 192 184 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.31% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.45% 0.92% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 114 110
10th Percentile £185 £105 £203
25th Percentile £400 £361 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +5.75% -1.48%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £661
90th Percentile £638 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £503 £350
% change year-on-year +4.48% +43.57% -20.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 5 2
10th Percentile £11.75 £30.50 £37.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £17.50 £62.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.00% +17.92% +51.43%
75th Percentile £19.50 £63.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £25.25 £64.05 £68.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.90 £22.16 -
% change year-on-year -28.25% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Analytical Mindset is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,235 19,964 29,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.39% 33.29% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,730 20,414
10th Percentile £263 £306 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £650
90th Percentile £788 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 910 654 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.89
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.75 £16.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% -16.72% +2.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £49.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -16.67%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +118 163 £525 - 201
UK excluding London +67 93 £525 +4.48% 126
London +111 87 £525 -15.87% 81
Work from Home +111 46 £525 -1.69% 77
Midlands +32 24 £525 -34.38% 28
North of England +22 20 £475 +331.82% 41
West Midlands +31 17 £525 -34.38% 14
Scotland +36 15 £325 +195.45% 6
South West +32 14 £525 - 20
Yorkshire +27 12 £180 +63.27% 13
South East +9 10 £525 -25.00% 22
East Midlands +26 7 - - 14
East of England +15 6 £400 +263.64% 7
North West +8 6 £575 +81.10% 25
Wales +19 4 - - 3
North East +21 2 - - 3

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 8 (4.17%) Confluence
2 3 (1.56%) Appian
2 3 (1.56%) ArcGIS
3 2 (1.04%) SAS
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (9.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.56%) MicroStation
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.52%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.52%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 9 (4.69%) Azure
2 9 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (4.17%) GCP
4 7 (3.65%) AWS
5 5 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.04%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.04%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.52%) Datadog
8 1 (0.52%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.21%) VPN
1 10 (5.21%) Wireless
2 7 (3.65%) SAN
3 5 (2.60%) SNA
4 3 (1.56%) Skype
5 2 (1.04%) Firewall
5 2 (1.04%) Network Security
6 1 (0.52%) IMAP
6 1 (0.52%) Intranet
6 1 (0.52%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.29%) Power BI
2 8 (4.17%) Metadata
3 7 (3.65%) BigQuery
3 7 (3.65%) Tableau
4 6 (3.13%) Big Data
4 6 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.08%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.56%) GIS
6 3 (1.56%) QGIS
6 3 (1.56%) Spatial Data
7 2 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.04%) DocumentDB
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.04%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.52%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.52%) Looker
8 1 (0.52%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.52%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (6.77%) JIRA
2 2 (1.04%) Appium
2 2 (1.04%) Git
2 2 (1.04%) UI Automator
2 2 (1.04%) XCUITest
3 1 (0.52%) Gradle
3 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.52%) Maven
General
1 192 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 73 (38.02%) Social Skills
3 41 (21.35%) Finance
4 25 (13.02%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.29%) Legal
6 12 (6.25%) Banking
7 11 (5.73%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (5.21%) Financial Institution
8 10 (5.21%) Marketing
9 9 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (4.69%) Telecoms
10 7 (3.65%) Manufacturing
11 6 (3.13%) Military
12 5 (2.60%) Electronics
12 5 (2.60%) Law
12 5 (2.60%) Police
13 4 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (2.08%) Retail
14 3 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 47 (24.48%) Analyst
2 47 (24.48%) Field Engineer
2 47 (24.48%) Field Service Engineer
3 15 (7.81%) Business Analyst
3 15 (7.81%) Project Manager
4 11 (5.73%) Service Analyst
5 10 (5.21%) Data Analyst
5 10 (5.21%) Service Desk Analyst
6 8 (4.17%) Data Scientist
7 7 (3.65%) Delivery Manager
7 7 (3.65%) Lead
8 6 (3.13%) AML Project Manager
8 6 (3.13%) Consultant
9 5 (2.60%) Administrator
9 5 (2.60%) Compliance Analyst
9 5 (2.60%) Data Administrator
9 5 (2.60%) Data Compliance Analyst
9 5 (2.60%) Deskside Engineer
9 5 (2.60%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.13%) Pandas
2 5 (2.60%) scikit-learn
2 5 (2.60%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.04%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.52%) ADO
4 1 (0.52%) Flask
4 1 (0.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.21%) Hedge funds
1 10 (5.21%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 7 (3.65%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.56%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.56%) Lidar
5 3 (1.56%) NHS
6 2 (1.04%) Animation
6 2 (1.04%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.04%) FMCG
6 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.04%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.73%) Windows
1 11 (5.73%) Windows 10
2 9 (4.69%) Windows 7
3 3 (1.56%) Android
3 3 (1.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (64.58%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (35.94%) Customer Service
3 51 (26.56%) Break/Fix
4 37 (19.27%) Project Management
5 28 (14.58%) Data Analysis
6 27 (14.06%) Agile
7 25 (13.02%) Decision-Making
8 20 (10.42%) Incident Management
9 19 (9.90%) Collaborative Working
10 17 (8.85%) Actionable Insight
10 17 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (8.85%) Data Modelling
11 15 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (7.29%) ITIL
12 14 (7.29%) Process Improvement
12 14 (7.29%) Workflow
13 13 (6.77%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (6.25%) Analytics
14 12 (6.25%) Business Analysis
14 12 (6.25%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 22 (11.46%) SQL
2 12 (6.25%) Python
3 4 (2.08%) R
4 2 (1.04%) Java
4 2 (1.04%) Kotlin
4 2 (1.04%) Swift
5 1 (0.52%) C++
5 1 (0.52%) Scala
5 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (12.50%) Degree
2 16 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.73%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.69%) PMI Certification
4 9 (4.69%) PMP
5 8 (4.17%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.65%) A+ Certification
6 7 (3.65%) CCNA
6 7 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.65%) MCSE
6 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.65%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (3.13%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.04%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.04%) CASP
9 2 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.04%) GCED
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.73%) SLA
2 10 (5.21%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.21%) GDPR
3 8 (4.17%) QA
4 5 (2.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.56%) PMO
6 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.04%) EMIR
6 2 (1.04%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.52%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (0.52%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (13.54%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.81%) ServiceNow
3 10 (5.21%) SAP
4 7 (3.65%) Dell
5 6 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.60%) Splunk
7 4 (2.08%) Oracle
8 3 (1.56%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.56%) Citrix
8 3 (1.56%) ESRI
8 3 (1.56%) Google
8 3 (1.56%) Marketo
8 3 (1.56%) Pardot
9 2 (1.04%) LogRhythm
9 2 (1.04%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.04%) TippingPoint
9 2 (1.04%) Trend Micro
9 2 (1.04%) Workday
10 1 (0.52%) Avaya
10 1 (0.52%) Yardi