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 17 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 347 482
Rank change year-on-year +45 +135 +250
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 517 312 442
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.75% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 1.90% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 259 175 293
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,375 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £43,200
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +27.31% -13.60%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £88,750 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,879 £52,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -18.33% +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 24,844 16,417 34,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.86% 39.48% 36.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12,749 9,154 23,016
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +39 433 £49,425 -14.04% 244
UK excluding London +65 361 £42,879 -18.33% 170
Work from Home +51 139 £50,000 -4.76% 92
London +8 131 £65,000 -7.14% 111
North of England +4 103 £47,500 -22.45% 40
South East +14 73 £45,000 -21.74% 61
Midlands -15 58 £44,000 -16.19% 31
North West -3 56 £42,500 -34.62% 24
West Midlands +7 40 £44,500 -11.00% 22
South West -29 34 £32,500 -27.78% 13
East of England -28 29 £40,000 -23.81% 13
Yorkshire -34 28 £67,500 +38.46% 13
Scotland -15 25 £26,150 -32.95% 5
Northern Ireland -14 24 - - 2
North East - 19 £64,250 - 4
East Midlands -42 17 £30,000 -45.45% 9
Wales -14 15 £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 6 (1.16%) SharePoint
1 6 (1.16%) WordPress
2 5 (0.97%) Confluence
3 4 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.77%) CMS
3 4 (0.77%) IIS
4 3 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) Mendix
Applications
1 74 (14.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.39%) Maya
6 2 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.39%) Sketch
6 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.16%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.97%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.77%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.77%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.39%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.39%) JDE OneWorld
5 2 (0.39%) JDE World
5 2 (0.39%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.19%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 105 (20.31%) Azure
2 87 (16.83%) Power Platform
3 40 (7.74%) AWS
4 35 (6.77%) SaaS
5 31 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (5.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 25 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (4.26%) GCP
8 22 (4.26%) Power Automate
9 15 (2.90%) dbt
9 15 (2.90%) GitHub
10 11 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (1.93%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.74%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.55%) Datadog
13 8 (1.55%) Google Analytics
13 8 (1.55%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.29%) SAN
2 15 (2.90%) Firewall
3 12 (2.32%) VPN
4 11 (2.13%) WAN
5 10 (1.93%) LAN
5 10 (1.93%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.77%) Wireless
7 3 (0.58%) DNS
7 3 (0.58%) Internet
7 3 (0.58%) Network Security
8 2 (0.39%) Broadband
8 2 (0.39%) DHCP
8 2 (0.39%) FTP
8 2 (0.39%) GSM
8 2 (0.39%) HTTP
8 2 (0.39%) SMS
8 2 (0.39%) SMTP
8 2 (0.39%) VLAN
8 2 (0.39%) VoIP
8 2 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (16.25%) Power BI
2 47 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 26 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 26 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (5.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 12 (2.32%) Metabase
4 12 (2.32%) Tableau
5 10 (1.93%) Metadata
5 10 (1.93%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.35%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.97%) Big Data
9 5 (0.97%) MySQL
9 5 (0.97%) Power Query
10 4 (0.77%) Looker
10 4 (0.77%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (0.58%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 26 (5.03%) Git
2 16 (3.09%) JIRA
3 12 (2.32%) Visual Studio
4 11 (2.13%) GitLab
5 8 (1.55%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.35%) ERwin
7 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.39%) Selenium
7 2 (0.39%) TestRail
7 2 (0.39%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.19%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.19%) MLflow
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
1 516 (99.81%) Analytical Skills
2 302 (58.41%) Social Skills
3 226 (43.71%) Finance
4 46 (8.90%) Marketing
5 36 (6.96%) Legal
6 34 (6.58%) Public Sector
7 26 (5.03%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (4.26%) Manufacturing
8 22 (4.26%) Retail
9 21 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (3.09%) Banking
11 13 (2.51%) Billing
12 12 (2.32%) Financial Institution
13 11 (2.13%) Law
14 10 (1.93%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.35%) Electronics
16 7 (1.35%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 109 (21.08%) Analyst
2 72 (13.93%) Head of QA
3 33 (6.38%) IT Support
4 32 (6.19%) Senior
5 30 (5.80%) IT Engineer
6 28 (5.42%) Lead
7 25 (4.84%) Business Analyst
8 22 (4.26%) IT Analyst
9 21 (4.06%) Developer
10 20 (3.87%) Business Manager
11 19 (3.68%) Administrator
11 19 (3.68%) Systems Analyst
12 18 (3.48%) Consultant
12 18 (3.48%) Support Analyst
13 17 (3.29%) Financial Analyst
14 16 (3.09%) Data Analyst
14 16 (3.09%) Field Engineer
14 16 (3.09%) Field Service Engineer
14 16 (3.09%) Support Engineer
15 15 (2.90%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.68%) CSS
1 19 (3.68%) HTML
2 12 (2.32%) JSON
3 11 (2.13%) FIX Protocol
3 11 (2.13%) XML
4 8 (1.55%) OAuth
4 8 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
4 8 (1.55%) SAML
5 7 (1.35%) .NET
5 7 (1.35%) FpML
5 7 (1.35%) XML Schema
6 6 (1.16%) REST
6 6 (1.16%) SAP Fiori
7 5 (0.97%) PySpark
7 5 (0.97%) React
7 5 (0.97%) SOAP
8 4 (0.77%) Flutter
8 4 (0.77%) RESTful
8 4 (0.77%) Sass
8 4 (0.77%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.42%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (5.22%) Onboarding
3 20 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.48%) Social Media
5 17 (3.29%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.90%) Cloud Native
6 15 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.90%) Smartphone
7 11 (2.13%) FMCG
8 10 (1.93%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.74%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.55%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.55%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.35%) e-Learning
11 7 (1.35%) IoT
12 6 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.16%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
14 4 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.42%) Windows
2 15 (2.90%) Linux
3 11 (2.13%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.35%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.16%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.97%) Unix
7 2 (0.39%) Android
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (38.49%) Continuous Improvement
2 191 (36.94%) Problem-Solving
3 172 (33.27%) Analytics
4 119 (23.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 118 (22.82%) Actionable Insight
6 94 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
7 90 (17.41%) Agile
7 90 (17.41%) Customer Experience
8 89 (17.21%) Root Cause Analysis
9 87 (16.83%) Decision-Making
9 87 (16.83%) Service Delivery
10 84 (16.25%) PRINCE2
11 81 (15.67%) Process Improvement
12 79 (15.28%) Change Management
13 77 (14.89%) Quality Management
14 72 (13.93%) Anti-Money Laundering
15 54 (10.44%) Data Analysis
16 47 (9.09%) CI/CD
16 47 (9.09%) Visualisation
17 46 (8.90%) AI
Programming Languages
1 103 (19.92%) SQL
2 63 (12.19%) Python
3 31 (6.00%) PowerShell
4 26 (5.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 20 (3.87%) Bash
6 17 (3.29%) Java
7 15 (2.90%) C#
7 15 (2.90%) JavaScript
8 11 (2.13%) C++
9 8 (1.55%) Go
10 7 (1.35%) VBA
11 6 (1.16%) C
12 5 (0.97%) PHP
12 5 (0.97%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.77%) Bicep
13 4 (0.77%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.58%) Scala
14 3 (0.58%) VC++
15 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (13.93%) Degree
1 72 (13.93%) IRCA
2 23 (4.45%) Security Cleared
3 21 (4.06%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (3.09%) A+ Certification
4 16 (3.09%) CCNA
4 16 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (3.09%) MCSE
4 16 (3.09%) Network+ Certification
4 16 (3.09%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 15 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.32%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.93%) ACCA
8 9 (1.74%) CIMA
9 8 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.55%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.55%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.55%) PMP
10 7 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (19.34%) QA
2 85 (16.44%) ISO 9001
3 83 (16.05%) GDPR
4 38 (7.35%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.32%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (2.13%) GRC
8 10 (1.93%) SLA
9 9 (1.74%) ISO 14001
10 8 (1.55%) Accessibility
10 8 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (1.55%) NIST
11 6 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 5 (0.97%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.77%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.58%) EMIR
15 2 (0.39%) GAAP
15 2 (0.39%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 17 (3.29%) Docker
2 9 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (4.45%) Terraform
2 19 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.74%) Grafana
4 8 (1.55%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.97%) Ansible
7 4 (0.77%) Control-M
8 2 (0.39%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.39%) QRadar
9 1 (0.19%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.19%) SCCM
9 1 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 104 (20.12%) Microsoft
2 20 (3.87%) SAP
3 19 (3.68%) Dell
4 17 (3.29%) Google
5 16 (3.09%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.90%) Oracle
7 11 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.74%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.74%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.55%) Adobe
10 7 (1.35%) Databricks
10 7 (1.35%) Sparx
11 5 (0.97%) Apple
11 5 (0.97%) Informatica
12 4 (0.77%) BT
12 4 (0.77%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.77%) Hotjar
12 4 (0.77%) HubSpot
12 4 (0.77%) IFS
12 4 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud