Analytical Mindset Job Trends in England

Analytical Mindset
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Mindset in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Mindset over the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 383 453
Rank change year-on-year +79 +70 +241
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 397 240 371
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 0.61% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 1.57% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 232 145 240
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,063 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £63,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £77,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -14.29%

All Generic Skills
England

Analytical Mindset falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,608 15,296 26,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.43% 39.09% 35.75%
Number of salaries quoted 10,640 8,001 19,631
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,290
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +10.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +9.09% -15.38%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytical Mindset relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Analytical Mindset job vacancy trend in England

Analytical Mindset
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Analytical Mindset.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Analytical Mindset

Analytical Mindset
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Mindset in England over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Mindset in England

Analytical Mindset
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Mindset within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +39 138 £60,000 -7.69% 95
North of England -5 84 £45,000 -23.40% 43
South East +25 57 £43,750 -23.91% 65
North West +5 51 £42,500 -34.62% 31
Midlands -2 49 £40,000 -20.00% 29
South West -12 38 £43,750 -14.63% 16
East of England +18 26 £40,000 -25.58% 12
West Midlands +17 25 £47,500 +28.38% 23
East Midlands -27 23 £30,000 -45.45% 6
Yorkshire -27 19 £50,000 - 11
North East - 14 £38,500 - 1
Analytical Mindset
UK

Analytical Mindset
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 5 (1.26%) Confluence
2 4 (1.01%) WordPress
3 3 (0.76%) CMS
3 3 (0.76%) IIS
3 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.25%) Mendix
Applications
1 67 (16.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.76%) Maya
5 5 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.50%) Sketch
7 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.01%) SAP CO
2 4 (1.01%) SAP FI
2 4 (1.01%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (0.76%) SAP CX
3 3 (0.76%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.50%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.25%) Shopify
5 1 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 80 (20.15%) Azure
2 76 (19.14%) Power Platform
3 25 (6.30%) AWS
3 25 (6.30%) SaaS
4 19 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (4.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (4.28%) Power Automate
7 16 (4.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (4.03%) GCP
7 16 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (3.53%) GitHub
9 11 (2.77%) dbt
10 10 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.02%) Boomi
11 8 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.76%) Datadog
12 7 (1.76%) Google Analytics
12 7 (1.76%) OpenShift
12 7 (1.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 6 (1.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.03%) Firewall
2 10 (2.52%) VPN
3 9 (2.27%) SAN
4 8 (2.02%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.76%) WAN
6 6 (1.51%) LAN
7 4 (1.01%) Ethernet
7 4 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (1.01%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.76%) Network Security
9 2 (0.50%) DHCP
9 2 (0.50%) DNS
9 2 (0.50%) GSM
9 2 (0.50%) LTE
9 2 (0.50%) SMS
9 2 (0.50%) VLAN
9 2 (0.50%) VoIP
9 2 (0.50%) Wireless
10 1 (0.25%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (18.64%) Power BI
2 32 (8.06%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.29%) Tableau
4 20 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 15 (3.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (2.77%) Metabase
8 9 (2.27%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.27%) Metadata
9 6 (1.51%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.26%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.01%) Looker
11 4 (1.01%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.76%) Power Query
13 2 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.50%) Big Data
13 2 (0.50%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.50%) Mixpanel
13 2 (0.50%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 15 (3.78%) Git
2 11 (2.77%) Visual Studio
3 9 (2.27%) JIRA
4 7 (1.76%) GitLab
5 5 (1.26%) ERwin
5 5 (1.26%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.50%) Selenium
6 2 (0.50%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.25%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.25%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.25%) MLflow
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.25%) Postman
7 1 (0.25%) TestRail
7 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 396 (99.75%) Analytical Skills
2 230 (57.93%) Social Skills
3 163 (41.06%) Finance
4 46 (11.59%) Marketing
5 36 (9.07%) Retail
6 33 (8.31%) Legal
7 23 (5.79%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (5.54%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (5.29%) Manufacturing
9 21 (5.29%) Public Sector
10 20 (5.04%) Law
11 19 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (3.78%) Banking
13 13 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (2.52%) Financial Institution
15 9 (2.27%) Automotive
16 8 (2.02%) Electronics
16 8 (2.02%) Games
16 8 (2.02%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 90 (22.67%) Analyst
2 31 (7.81%) Senior
3 29 (7.30%) Lead
4 28 (7.05%) Head of QA
4 28 (7.05%) IT Support
5 19 (4.79%) Data Analyst
6 18 (4.53%) Business Analyst
6 18 (4.53%) Business Manager
6 18 (4.53%) IT Engineer
6 18 (4.53%) Systems Analyst
7 17 (4.28%) Administrator
7 17 (4.28%) Developer
8 16 (4.03%) Financial Analyst
9 15 (3.78%) IT Analyst
9 15 (3.78%) Support Analyst
10 14 (3.53%) Consultant
11 13 (3.27%) Architect
12 12 (3.02%) IT Administrator
13 11 (2.77%) IT Support Engineer
13 11 (2.77%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.02%) CSS
1 12 (3.02%) HTML
2 9 (2.27%) FIX Protocol
3 8 (2.02%) XML
4 7 (1.76%) .NET
4 7 (1.76%) OAuth
4 7 (1.76%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (1.76%) SAML
5 6 (1.51%) JSON
5 6 (1.51%) SAP Fiori
6 5 (1.26%) FpML
6 5 (1.26%) XML Schema
7 4 (1.01%) PySpark
7 4 (1.01%) Sass
7 4 (1.01%) ZeroMQ
8 3 (0.76%) EDI
8 3 (0.76%) Flutter
8 3 (0.76%) React
8 3 (0.76%) XSLT
9 2 (0.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.81%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (6.30%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.28%) FMCG
3 17 (4.28%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.28%) Social Media
4 16 (4.03%) Cloud Native
4 16 (4.03%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.52%) Algorithms
7 9 (2.27%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.02%) Smartphone
9 7 (1.76%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.76%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.51%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.51%) e-Learning
10 6 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.51%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.26%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (1.26%) IoT
12 4 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.05%) Windows
2 13 (3.27%) Linux
3 8 (2.02%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.51%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.76%) Unix
6 2 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.25%) Android
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (38.04%) Problem-Solving
2 125 (31.49%) Continuous Improvement
3 121 (30.48%) Analytics
4 87 (21.91%) Business Intelligence
5 73 (18.39%) Decision-Making
6 68 (17.13%) Agile
6 68 (17.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 66 (16.62%) Actionable Insight
8 60 (15.11%) Process Improvement
9 51 (12.85%) Customer Experience
10 48 (12.09%) ERP
11 45 (11.34%) Data Analysis
12 43 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 41 (10.33%) CI/CD
14 40 (10.08%) Change Management
15 39 (9.82%) CRM
16 38 (9.57%) AI
17 37 (9.32%) Service Delivery
17 37 (9.32%) Visualisation
18 36 (9.07%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 77 (19.40%) SQL
2 57 (14.36%) Python
3 30 (7.56%) PowerShell
4 16 (4.03%) Bash
5 15 (3.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 13 (3.27%) C#
7 12 (3.02%) C++
8 9 (2.27%) Java
8 9 (2.27%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.02%) C
10 7 (1.76%) Go
10 7 (1.76%) VBA
11 3 (0.76%) Bicep
11 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.76%) VC++
12 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.50%) Perl
12 2 (0.50%) Scala
13 1 (0.25%) Elm
13 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (16.12%) Degree
2 28 (7.05%) IRCA
3 17 (4.28%) Security Cleared
4 15 (3.78%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.77%) ACCA
6 11 (2.77%) DBS Check
7 9 (2.27%) CIMA
7 9 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 8 (2.02%) A+ Certification
8 8 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.02%) CCNA
8 8 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.02%) CISSP
8 8 (2.02%) MCSE
8 8 (2.02%) Network+ Certification
9 7 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.76%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (13.10%) QA
2 41 (10.33%) GDPR
3 36 (9.07%) ISO 9001
4 21 (5.29%) Data Quality
5 14 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.77%) NIST
7 10 (2.52%) GRC
8 7 (1.76%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (1.51%) ISO 14001
10 5 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.26%) SLA
11 4 (1.01%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.76%) EMIR
12 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.76%) NEBOSH
12 3 (0.76%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.50%) GAAP
13 2 (0.50%) IFRS
System Software
1 10 (2.52%) Docker
2 6 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (4.53%) Terraform
2 12 (3.02%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.76%) Grafana
3 7 (1.76%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.01%) Ansible
4 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.50%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.25%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.25%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.25%) SCCM
6 1 (0.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 84 (21.16%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.55%) SAP
3 22 (5.54%) Salesforce
4 15 (3.78%) Dell
4 15 (3.78%) Oracle
5 12 (3.02%) Google
6 9 (2.27%) Adobe
7 8 (2.02%) Autodesk
7 8 (2.02%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.02%) MuleSoft
7 8 (2.02%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.51%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.26%) Sparx
10 4 (1.01%) Apple
10 4 (1.01%) BT
10 4 (1.01%) Guidewire
10 4 (1.01%) Hotjar
10 4 (1.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.76%) Databricks
11 3 (0.76%) Zoho