Analytical Mindset Job Trends in the South East

Analytical Mindset
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Mindset in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Mindset over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 226 269
Rank change year-on-year +24 +43 +73
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 88 44 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.61% 0.57% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.62% 1.52% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 48 23 75
10th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £27,800
25th Percentile £37,188 £45,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.61% +21.05% +6.15%
75th Percentile £53,909 £59,375 £56,250
90th Percentile £86,625 £69,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £49,425 £57,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -14.04% +35.29% -15.00%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,354 2,893 5,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.35% 37.44% 34.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,085 1,445 3,753
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £49,139
Median % change year-on-year - +6.84% -11.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Analytical Mindset job vacancy trend in the South East

Analytical Mindset
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Analytical Mindset.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Analytical Mindset

Analytical Mindset
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Mindset in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Mindset in the South East

Analytical Mindset
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Mindset within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Thames Valley +11 27 £49,425 -14.04% 23
Hampshire -12 20 £42,500 -8.11% 8
Kent -15 19 £44,000 -2.22% 4
Berkshire +3 13 £49,425 +4.05% 11
West Sussex -12 12 £50,000 -21.57%
Surrey -10 8 £66,250 +47.22% 6
Oxfordshire +8 7 £50,000 - 5
Buckinghamshire -13 7 £40,000 -30.43% 7
East Sussex -17 1 £55,000 -
Middlesex - 1 £37,500 - 3
Analytical Mindset
England

Analytical Mindset
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.27%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (9.09%) NetSuite
2 4 (4.55%) Infor M3
2 4 (4.55%) JDE OneWorld
2 4 (4.55%) JDE World
3 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.14%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.14%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.14%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (18.18%) Azure
2 8 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (9.09%) Datadog
2 8 (9.09%) GitHub
2 8 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
2 8 (9.09%) OpenShift
2 8 (9.09%) SaaS
3 4 (4.55%) Google Analytics
3 4 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.41%) AWS
4 3 (3.41%) MailChimp
5 2 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.14%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.14%) Collibra
6 1 (1.14%) GCP
6 1 (1.14%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.82%) Firewall
1 6 (6.82%) VPN
2 5 (5.68%) DNS
2 5 (5.68%) HTTP
2 5 (5.68%) LAN
2 5 (5.68%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.68%) WAN
3 4 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (3.41%) SAN
5 2 (2.27%) FTP
5 2 (2.27%) GSM
5 2 (2.27%) Internet
5 2 (2.27%) LTE
5 2 (2.27%) SMTP
5 2 (2.27%) SSL
6 1 (1.14%) Broadband
6 1 (1.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.55%) Power BI
2 3 (3.41%) GIS
3 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.27%) SAP BW
3 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.14%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.14%) Looker
4 1 (1.14%) Metadata
4 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.14%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Git
2 8 (9.09%) GitLab
3 3 (3.41%) JIRA
4 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle APEX
General
1 88 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (39.77%) Social Skills
3 17 (19.32%) Finance
4 8 (9.09%) Electronics
4 8 (9.09%) Marketing
5 7 (7.95%) Telecoms
6 6 (6.82%) Legal
6 6 (6.82%) Manufacturing
7 5 (5.68%) Aerospace
7 5 (5.68%) Retail
8 3 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.27%) Automotive
10 1 (1.14%) Billing
10 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (31.82%) Analyst
2 10 (11.36%) Business Analyst
3 9 (10.23%) Compliance Manager
4 8 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) IT Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) SOC Analyst
5 6 (6.82%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) IT Manager
6 5 (5.68%) Support Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Administrator
7 4 (4.55%) Applications Support
7 4 (4.55%) Applications Support Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) ERP Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) ERP Support
7 4 (4.55%) Sales Administrator
8 3 (3.41%) Business IT Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) IT Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.09%) OAuth
1 8 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (9.09%) SAML
2 3 (3.41%) JSON
3 2 (2.27%) LDAP
3 2 (2.27%) Middleware
3 2 (2.27%) REST
3 2 (2.27%) SOAP
3 2 (2.27%) XML
4 1 (1.14%) CSS
4 1 (1.14%) DOM
4 1 (1.14%) HTML
4 1 (1.14%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.95%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (5.68%) Cyber Defence
3 5 (5.68%) Driving Licence
3 5 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.55%) SCADA
5 3 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.41%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (3.41%) FMCG
5 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.41%) Smartphone
5 3 (3.41%) Social Media
5 3 (3.41%) Web Conferencing
6 2 (2.27%) AS400
6 2 (2.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (2.27%) IoT
6 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.14%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.09%) Windows
2 5 (5.68%) Linux
3 3 (3.41%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (23.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (18.18%) CRM
4 15 (17.05%) Logistics
5 14 (15.91%) ERP
6 12 (13.64%) Internal Audit
6 12 (13.64%) Project Delivery
6 12 (13.64%) Risk Management
7 11 (12.50%) Analytics
7 11 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (12.50%) Validation
8 10 (11.36%) Project Management
9 9 (10.23%) Agile
9 9 (10.23%) Data Security
9 9 (10.23%) Regulatory Compliance
10 8 (9.09%) CI/CD
10 8 (9.09%) Containerisation
10 8 (9.09%) Customer Service
10 8 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (9.09%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.77%) PowerShell
1 13 (14.77%) SQL
2 8 (9.09%) Bash
3 7 (7.95%) Python
4 6 (6.82%) MATLAB
5 4 (4.55%) C#
5 4 (4.55%) PL/SQL
5 4 (4.55%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.41%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (2.27%) C
7 2 (2.27%) C++
7 2 (2.27%) Embedded C
7 2 (2.27%) Embedded C++
7 2 (2.27%) Go
7 2 (2.27%) Java
8 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (14.77%) Degree
2 9 (10.23%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) A+ Certification
4 3 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.41%) CCNA
4 3 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.41%) CREST Certified
4 3 (3.41%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.41%) GCED
4 3 (3.41%) GCIA
4 3 (3.41%) GCIH
4 3 (3.41%) GIAC
4 3 (3.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (3.41%) MCSE
4 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.41%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (3.41%) OSCP
4 3 (3.41%) SANS
5 2 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 11 (12.50%) ISO 9001
3 9 (10.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (10.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 9 (10.23%) ISO 14001
3 9 (10.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 4 (4.55%) ARP4754
4 4 (4.55%) DO-254
4 4 (4.55%) QA
5 2 (2.27%) COBIT
5 2 (2.27%) Def Stans
5 2 (2.27%) ISO 22301
5 2 (2.27%) ITGC
5 2 (2.27%) NIST
5 2 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.14%) GDPR
6 1 (1.14%) PMO
6 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (9.09%) Grafana
1 8 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 8 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 8 (9.09%) Terraform
2 3 (3.41%) Kibana
3 2 (2.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (12.50%) SAP
2 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 8 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.68%) Google
4 5 (5.68%) Oracle
4 5 (5.68%) Splunk
5 4 (4.55%) ConnectWise
5 4 (4.55%) Epicor
5 4 (4.55%) HubSpot
5 4 (4.55%) IFS
5 4 (4.55%) Infor
5 4 (4.55%) JD Edwards
5 4 (4.55%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.41%) Carbon Black
6 3 (3.41%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (3.41%) Dell
6 3 (3.41%) YouTube
7 2 (2.27%) BT
7 2 (2.27%) EMC