Analytical Mindset Job Trends

Analytical Mindset
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Mindset in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Mindset over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 327 488
Rank change year-on-year -2 +161 +197
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 515 371 461
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.87% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.05% 2.01% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 283 201 304
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,425 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% +27.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £68,125 £77,500 £61,563
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.19% +23.53% -15.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 25,081 18,415 34,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.92% 42.95% 34.95%
Number of salaries quoted 14,333 8,655 23,064
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,001 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -9.09%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Analytical Mindset job vacancy trend in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Analytical Mindset.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Analytical Mindset

Analytical Mindset
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Mindset over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Mindset within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England +9 452 £50,000 -13.04% 220
UK excluding London +54 374 £44,000 -16.19% 149
London -31 124 £65,000 -17.46% 105
Work from Home +49 123 £50,000 -9.09% 104
North of England +2 96 £56,100 -6.50% 28
South East -7 93 £49,425 -14.04% 52
Midlands +10 63 £44,000 -7.37% 29
North West +4 51 £45,000 -25.00% 16
South West -26 50 £32,500 -35.00% 17
West Midlands -6 42 £44,000 +15.79% 13
Yorkshire -28 30 £90,000 +89.47% 9
East of England -24 24 £40,000 +23.08% 15
Scotland +4 23 £26,150 -50.19% 7
East Midlands -23 20 £37,500 -34.78% 16
North East - 15 £58,500 - 3
Northern Ireland -28 13 £63,750 +27.50% 4
Wales - 12 £35,000 - 1

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 9 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.97%) Confluence
2 5 (0.97%) WordPress
3 4 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.58%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) CMS
5 1 (0.19%) Mendix
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 50 (9.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.58%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (1.94%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.78%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.78%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.78%) JDE World
4 3 (0.58%) Shopify
5 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.19%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.19%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 75 (14.56%) Azure
2 59 (11.46%) Power Platform
3 40 (7.77%) SaaS
4 38 (7.38%) AWS
5 30 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (4.66%) GCP
7 22 (4.27%) Power Automate
8 20 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (2.91%) GitHub
10 14 (2.72%) Google Analytics
11 13 (2.52%) dbt
12 11 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (1.94%) PowerApps
14 9 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (1.75%) Datadog
15 8 (1.55%) OpenShift
16 7 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (1.36%) Amazon S3
16 7 (1.36%) AWS Step Functions
16 7 (1.36%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.30%) Firewall
1 17 (3.30%) SAN
2 16 (3.11%) VPN
3 14 (2.72%) TCP/IP
3 14 (2.72%) WAN
4 13 (2.52%) LAN
5 9 (1.75%) DNS
6 8 (1.55%) HTTP
7 6 (1.17%) SMS
8 4 (0.78%) Broadband
8 4 (0.78%) Internet
8 4 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.78%) Wireless
9 3 (0.58%) FTP
9 3 (0.58%) SMTP
9 3 (0.58%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.39%) Network Security
10 2 (0.39%) SSL
11 1 (0.19%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (11.26%) Power BI
2 27 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (3.88%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.14%) Relational Database
4 11 (2.14%) Tableau
5 10 (1.94%) Metadata
6 9 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (1.75%) Metabase
7 7 (1.36%) MySQL
7 7 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.36%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.17%) GIS
8 6 (1.17%) Power Query
8 6 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.97%) Big Data
9 5 (0.97%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.78%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (0.58%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.58%) Looker
Development Applications
1 21 (4.08%) Git
2 11 (2.14%) JIRA
3 9 (1.75%) GitLab
3 9 (1.75%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.36%) ERwin
5 4 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.58%) TestRail
6 3 (0.58%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 2 (0.39%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.39%) Ranorex
7 2 (0.39%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.39%) Selenium
8 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 514 (99.81%) Analytical Skills
2 276 (53.59%) Social Skills
3 189 (36.70%) Finance
4 51 (9.90%) Marketing
5 26 (5.05%) Legal
5 26 (5.05%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.66%) Retail
7 23 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (4.47%) Manufacturing
7 23 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.33%) Electronics
9 12 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.14%) Banking
10 11 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.94%) Advertising
11 10 (1.94%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.94%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 115 (22.33%) Analyst
2 72 (13.98%) Head of QA
3 36 (6.99%) Senior
4 35 (6.80%) Lead
5 33 (6.41%) IT Engineer
6 31 (6.02%) IT Support
7 25 (4.85%) Business Analyst
8 24 (4.66%) Developer
9 22 (4.27%) Data Analyst
10 21 (4.08%) IT Analyst
11 19 (3.69%) Support Analyst
12 18 (3.50%) Support Engineer
13 17 (3.30%) Consultant
13 17 (3.30%) Field Engineer
13 17 (3.30%) Field Service Engineer
13 17 (3.30%) Junior
14 16 (3.11%) IT Support Engineer
14 16 (3.11%) Junior Analyst
15 14 (2.72%) Administrator
15 14 (2.72%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.50%) HTML
2 17 (3.30%) CSS
3 14 (2.72%) JSON
4 11 (2.14%) XML
5 9 (1.75%) .NET
5 9 (1.75%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (1.55%) OAuth
6 8 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (1.55%) SAML
7 7 (1.36%) FpML
7 7 (1.36%) REST
7 7 (1.36%) XML Schema
8 6 (1.17%) React
8 6 (1.17%) SOAP
9 5 (0.97%) PySpark
9 5 (0.97%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.78%) EDI
10 4 (0.78%) Flutter
10 4 (0.78%) RESTful
11 3 (0.58%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.05%) Onboarding
2 17 (3.30%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.11%) Cyber Threat
3 16 (3.11%) Social Media
4 13 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.52%) Smartphone
5 12 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.94%) Driving Licence
6 10 (1.94%) FMCG
6 10 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
7 9 (1.75%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.55%) Web Conferencing
9 7 (1.36%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.36%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (1.17%) SCADA
11 5 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.97%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.80%) Windows
2 18 (3.50%) Linux
3 12 (2.33%) Windows 10
4 8 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.17%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.78%) Unix
7 2 (0.39%) Android
8 1 (0.19%) Debian
8 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (35.92%) Continuous Improvement
2 159 (30.87%) Analytics
3 149 (28.93%) Problem-Solving
4 126 (24.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 98 (19.03%) Actionable Insight
6 95 (18.45%) Root Cause Analysis
7 88 (17.09%) Service Delivery
8 86 (16.70%) Customer Experience
9 85 (16.50%) Agile
10 83 (16.12%) Decision-Making
11 82 (15.92%) Change Management
12 79 (15.34%) Quality Management
13 77 (14.95%) Business Intelligence
14 76 (14.76%) PRINCE2
15 72 (13.98%) Anti-Money Laundering
16 49 (9.51%) CRM
17 45 (8.74%) Process Improvement
18 42 (8.16%) ERP
19 40 (7.77%) AI
20 39 (7.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (18.64%) SQL
2 65 (12.62%) Python
3 29 (5.63%) PowerShell
4 21 (4.08%) C#
5 20 (3.88%) Java
6 15 (2.91%) Bash
7 12 (2.33%) JavaScript
8 11 (2.14%) C++
9 10 (1.94%) MATLAB
10 9 (1.75%) Go
11 8 (1.55%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.36%) C
12 7 (1.36%) Scala
13 6 (1.17%) PHP
14 5 (0.97%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (0.97%) VBA
15 4 (0.78%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.78%) Embedded C++
15 4 (0.78%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (13.98%) IRCA
2 60 (11.65%) Degree
3 30 (5.83%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (3.88%) SC Cleared
5 17 (3.30%) A+ Certification
5 17 (3.30%) CCNA
5 17 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (3.30%) MCSE
5 17 (3.30%) Network+ Certification
6 13 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.94%) GIAC
8 8 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.55%) GCIH
9 7 (1.36%) ACCA
9 7 (1.36%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.36%) GCIA
10 6 (1.17%) CISSP
10 6 (1.17%) OSCP
11 5 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (18.45%) QA
2 88 (17.09%) ISO 9001
3 85 (16.50%) GDPR
4 50 (9.71%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.94%) ISO 14001
7 9 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 9 (1.75%) SLA
8 8 (1.55%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.55%) GRC
9 6 (1.17%) ARP4754
9 6 (1.17%) DO-254
9 6 (1.17%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.97%) NIST
10 5 (0.97%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.78%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.58%) ITGC
System Software
1 13 (2.52%) Docker
2 8 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) IAG
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (3.11%) Kubernetes
1 16 (3.11%) Terraform
2 9 (1.75%) Grafana
3 8 (1.55%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.97%) Kibana
4 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.78%) Control-M
6 3 (0.58%) Ansible
6 3 (0.58%) QRadar
7 2 (0.39%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.19%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 103 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.24%) Google
3 21 (4.08%) SAP
4 20 (3.88%) HubSpot
5 19 (3.69%) Dell
6 17 (3.30%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.52%) Oracle
8 12 (2.33%) Adobe
9 11 (2.14%) CrowdStrike
9 11 (2.14%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.55%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.55%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.55%) Splunk
11 7 (1.36%) Sparx
12 6 (1.17%) Databricks
13 5 (0.97%) Carbon Black
13 5 (0.97%) IFS
13 5 (0.97%) Marketo
13 5 (0.97%) Pardot
13 5 (0.97%) YouTube