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 2 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 354 474
Rank change year-on-year +44 +120 +231
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 501 331 451
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.78% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.98% 1.94% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 260 194 295
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +27.91% -14.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £60,625
90th Percentile £88,990 £88,750 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +31.25% -20.00%

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 25,337 17,054 34,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.14% 40.35% 36.08%
Number of salaries quoted 13,151 9,242 23,023
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 2 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 2 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 +31 428 £46,750 -15.67% 278
UK excluding London +47 354 £42,500 -19.05% 197
London -12 126 £65,000 -13.33% 118
Work from Home +26 120 £50,000 -4.76% 141
North of England -11 92 £55,000 -12.00% 45
South East +30 85 £44,000 -23.48% 75
Midlands -4 56 £42,500 +6.25% 22
North West -10 49 £45,000 -30.77% 26
West Midlands +4 39 £44,000 +25.71% 12
South West -32 37 £32,500 -35.00% 20
East of England -24 28 £40,000 -23.81% 21
Yorkshire -38 28 £67,500 +38.46% 12
Scotland -22 23 £26,150 -50.19% 9
Northern Ireland -22 20 - - 2
East Midlands -40 16 £30,000 -45.45% 10
North East - 15 £64,250 - 8
Wales -15 13 £35,000 -28.72% 7

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 7 (1.40%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.20%) WordPress
3 4 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.80%) Confluence
4 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.60%) IIS
5 2 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Apache
6 1 (0.20%) Mendix
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 52 (10.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.60%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.40%) Maya
7 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.80%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.80%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.60%) Infor M3
4 3 (0.60%) JDE OneWorld
4 3 (0.60%) JDE World
4 3 (0.60%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.20%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 86 (17.17%) Azure
2 62 (12.38%) Power Platform
3 40 (7.98%) AWS
4 38 (7.58%) SaaS
5 28 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (4.99%) GCP
7 24 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (4.59%) Power Automate
9 16 (3.19%) dbt
10 15 (2.99%) GitHub
11 12 (2.40%) Google Analytics
12 11 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.80%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.80%) PowerApps
14 8 (1.60%) Datadog
14 8 (1.60%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.40%) Asana
15 7 (1.40%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.39%) SAN
2 16 (3.19%) Firewall
3 13 (2.59%) VPN
4 12 (2.40%) WAN
5 11 (2.20%) LAN
6 10 (2.00%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.20%) DNS
8 4 (0.80%) Broadband
8 4 (0.80%) HTTP
8 4 (0.80%) Network Security
8 4 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.80%) Wireless
9 3 (0.60%) Internet
10 2 (0.40%) FTP
10 2 (0.40%) GSM
10 2 (0.40%) LTE
10 2 (0.40%) Modbus
10 2 (0.40%) SMS
10 2 (0.40%) SMTP
10 2 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (12.18%) Power BI
2 27 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (4.39%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.40%) Metabase
4 12 (2.40%) Tableau
5 10 (2.00%) Metadata
5 10 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.40%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.20%) MySQL
8 6 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.00%) Big Data
9 5 (1.00%) Power Query
10 4 (0.80%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.80%) Looker
10 4 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (0.60%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 25 (4.99%) Git
2 17 (3.39%) JIRA
3 12 (2.40%) Visual Studio
4 10 (2.00%) GitLab
5 7 (1.40%) ERwin
5 7 (1.40%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.60%) TestRail
7 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.40%) Selenium
7 2 (0.40%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.20%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.20%) MLflow
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 500 (99.80%) Analytical Skills
2 282 (56.29%) Social Skills
3 201 (40.12%) Finance
4 43 (8.58%) Marketing
5 32 (6.39%) Legal
5 32 (6.39%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (4.39%) Manufacturing
6 22 (4.39%) Retail
7 20 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (3.39%) Banking
10 15 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.40%) Financial Institution
11 12 (2.40%) Law
12 11 (2.20%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.80%) Electronics
13 9 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.60%) Advertising
15 6 (1.20%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 109 (21.76%) Analyst
2 72 (14.37%) Head of QA
3 34 (6.79%) IT Support
3 34 (6.79%) Senior
4 33 (6.59%) IT Engineer
5 32 (6.39%) Lead
6 29 (5.79%) Business Analyst
7 25 (4.99%) IT Analyst
8 20 (3.99%) Support Analyst
9 19 (3.79%) Administrator
9 19 (3.79%) Developer
10 18 (3.59%) Support Engineer
11 17 (3.39%) Consultant
11 17 (3.39%) Data Analyst
11 17 (3.39%) Field Engineer
11 17 (3.39%) Field Service Engineer
11 17 (3.39%) Financial Analyst
11 17 (3.39%) Systems Analyst
12 16 (3.19%) IT Support Engineer
13 15 (2.99%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.39%) CSS
1 17 (3.39%) HTML
2 13 (2.59%) JSON
3 12 (2.40%) XML
4 10 (2.00%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (1.60%) .NET
5 8 (1.60%) OAuth
5 8 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (1.60%) SAML
6 7 (1.40%) FpML
6 7 (1.40%) XML Schema
7 6 (1.20%) REST
7 6 (1.20%) SOAP
8 5 (1.00%) PySpark
8 5 (1.00%) React
8 5 (1.00%) RESTful
8 5 (1.00%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.80%) Flutter
9 4 (0.80%) Spring
9 4 (0.80%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.39%) Onboarding
2 18 (3.59%) Social Media
3 17 (3.39%) Data Centre
3 17 (3.39%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.19%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.79%) Smartphone
6 11 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.80%) Driving Licence
7 9 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.80%) FMCG
8 8 (1.60%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.60%) Security Posture
8 8 (1.60%) Web Conferencing
9 7 (1.40%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.20%) IoT
11 5 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.39%) Windows
2 17 (3.39%) Linux
3 12 (2.40%) Windows 10
4 8 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.20%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.80%) Unix
7 2 (0.40%) Android
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (37.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 168 (33.53%) Problem-Solving
3 149 (29.74%) Analytics
4 121 (24.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 92 (18.36%) Root Cause Analysis
6 91 (18.16%) Actionable Insight
7 89 (17.76%) Agile
7 89 (17.76%) Customer Experience
8 86 (17.17%) Service Delivery
9 85 (16.97%) PRINCE2
10 78 (15.57%) Change Management
11 77 (15.37%) Quality Management
12 72 (14.37%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 72 (14.37%) Business Intelligence
13 64 (12.77%) Decision-Making
14 54 (10.78%) Process Improvement
15 48 (9.58%) CI/CD
16 46 (9.18%) DevOps
16 46 (9.18%) ERP
17 41 (8.18%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (16.97%) SQL
2 65 (12.97%) Python
3 31 (6.19%) PowerShell
4 20 (3.99%) Java
5 18 (3.59%) Bash
5 18 (3.59%) C#
6 13 (2.59%) JavaScript
7 10 (2.00%) C++
8 9 (1.80%) Go
9 7 (1.40%) VBA
10 6 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.00%) C
11 5 (1.00%) PHP
12 4 (0.80%) Bicep
12 4 (0.80%) Scala
12 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.60%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (14.37%) IRCA
2 61 (12.18%) Degree
3 24 (4.79%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (3.39%) A+ Certification
5 17 (3.39%) CCNA
5 17 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (3.39%) MCSE
5 17 (3.39%) Network+ Certification
6 14 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.79%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.80%) ACCA
8 8 (1.60%) CIMA
8 8 (1.60%) GIAC
8 8 (1.60%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.60%) PMP
9 7 (1.40%) CISSP
9 7 (1.40%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (20.16%) QA
2 87 (17.37%) ISO 9001
3 80 (15.97%) GDPR
4 34 (6.79%) Data Quality
5 19 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (2.00%) SLA
7 9 (1.80%) GRC
7 9 (1.80%) ISO 14001
8 8 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (1.60%) NIST
9 7 (1.40%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.40%) PCI DSS
9 7 (1.40%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.80%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.60%) ARP4754
11 3 (0.60%) DO-254
11 3 (0.60%) EMIR
11 3 (0.60%) ITGC
System Software
1 16 (3.19%) Docker
2 8 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) IAG
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (4.39%) Terraform
2 18 (3.59%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.80%) Grafana
4 8 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.00%) Ansible
7 4 (0.80%) Control-M
8 2 (0.40%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.40%) Kibana
8 2 (0.40%) QRadar
9 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 114 (22.75%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.79%) Google
3 21 (4.19%) SAP
4 20 (3.99%) Dell
5 17 (3.39%) Oracle
6 14 (2.79%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.20%) Adobe
8 10 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.60%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (1.60%) Databricks
9 8 (1.60%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.60%) HubSpot
9 8 (1.60%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.40%) Sparx
11 5 (1.00%) Apple
11 5 (1.00%) Informatica
12 4 (0.80%) BT
12 4 (0.80%) IFS
12 4 (0.80%) Marketo
12 4 (0.80%) Splunk