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 5 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 402 503
Rank change year-on-year +152 +101 +189
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 514 333 228
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.87% 0.61% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.50% 1.66% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 291 168 173
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,525 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,125 £42,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £89,125 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +11.11%

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 20,536 20,060 19,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 36.98% 37.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10,287 9,461 14,329
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £54,063 £54,500
% change year-on-year -13.06% -0.80% -0.91%

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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +171 451 £50,000 -9.09% 362
UK excluding London +156 354 £45,000 -18.18% 277
Work from Home +118 184 £50,000 - 187
London +73 138 £58,500 -2.50% 112
South East +72 91 £45,000 -12.62% 75
North of England +45 67 £42,500 -32.00% 59
South West +49 65 £47,500 -13.64% 36
Midlands +45 58 £40,000 - 51
North West +39 52 £42,500 -34.62% 33
East Midlands +9 34 £26,375 -34.06% 21
Scotland -1 27 £26,150 -62.64% 9
East of England +39 26 £60,000 +14.29% 40
West Midlands +32 23 £52,500 +20.69% 28
Northern Ireland - 14 - - 3
Yorkshire -11 9 £55,000 -8.33% 23
Wales +9 6 £41,250 -15.99% 8
North East - 6 £38,500 - 3

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 16 (3.11%) Confluence
2 11 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.78%) CMS
4 4 (0.78%) IIS
4 4 (0.78%) SAS
5 3 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.58%) WordPress
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 109 (21.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (4.86%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (4.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (2.72%) Maya
5 12 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (1.75%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.78%) PlantUML
7 4 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.58%) Stata
9 2 (0.39%) Sketch
10 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 20 (3.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.36%) Shopify
4 5 (0.97%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.78%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.78%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.58%) SAP APO
6 3 (0.58%) SAP CX
6 3 (0.58%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.39%) Magento
7 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 108 (21.01%) Azure
2 103 (20.04%) Power Platform
3 30 (5.84%) SaaS
4 29 (5.64%) AWS
5 27 (5.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 27 (5.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (3.11%) Entra ID
9 15 (2.92%) Boomi
9 15 (2.92%) Google Analytics
10 14 (2.72%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 13 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (2.53%) GCP
12 10 (1.95%) Snowflake
13 8 (1.56%) Serverless
14 7 (1.36%) Asana
14 7 (1.36%) Power Automate
15 6 (1.17%) Amazon S3
15 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.89%) Network Security
2 17 (3.31%) Firewall
3 11 (2.14%) SAN
4 7 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.78%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.78%) VPN
5 4 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.78%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.58%) WAN
7 2 (0.39%) DHCP
7 2 (0.39%) DNS
7 2 (0.39%) GSM
7 2 (0.39%) LAN
7 2 (0.39%) LTE
7 2 (0.39%) VLAN
7 2 (0.39%) VoIP
8 1 (0.19%) Internet
8 1 (0.19%) Intranet
8 1 (0.19%) RFID
8 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (18.87%) Power BI
2 44 (8.56%) Tableau
3 40 (7.78%) SQL Server
4 27 (5.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (4.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (3.11%) Data Lake
6 16 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.97%) Looker
7 5 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.78%) Metabase
8 4 (0.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.58%) Metadata
10 2 (0.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.39%) Big Data
10 2 (0.39%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.39%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 26 (5.06%) JIRA
2 11 (2.14%) Git
3 6 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.78%) Postman
4 4 (0.78%) Selenium
4 4 (0.78%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.58%) WebDriver
6 2 (0.39%) GitLab
7 1 (0.19%) Appium
7 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.19%) JMeter
7 1 (0.19%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.19%) MLflow
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 514 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 321 (62.45%) Social Skills
3 240 (46.69%) Finance
4 118 (22.96%) Marketing
5 58 (11.28%) Retail
6 54 (10.51%) Legal
7 43 (8.37%) Public Sector
8 41 (7.98%) Law
9 40 (7.78%) Manufacturing
10 31 (6.03%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (4.47%) Electronics
12 21 (4.09%) Telecoms
13 18 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
14 17 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (3.11%) Games
16 15 (2.92%) Billing
17 14 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (1.95%) Banking
19 9 (1.75%) French Language
20 8 (1.56%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 104 (20.23%) Analyst
2 67 (13.04%) Lead
3 62 (12.06%) Senior
4 33 (6.42%) Data Analyst
5 30 (5.84%) Architect
6 28 (5.45%) Commercial Analyst
6 28 (5.45%) Consultant
7 24 (4.67%) Support Engineer
8 23 (4.47%) Business Manager
9 20 (3.89%) Business Analyst
9 20 (3.89%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 20 (3.89%) IT Support
9 20 (3.89%) Security Consultant
10 18 (3.50%) IT Engineer
11 17 (3.31%) Administrator
11 17 (3.31%) Developer
12 16 (3.11%) IT Administrator
13 15 (2.92%) CRM Architect
13 15 (2.92%) Systems Analyst
13 15 (2.92%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.95%) CSS
1 10 (1.95%) HTML
1 10 (1.95%) REST
2 5 (0.97%) .NET
2 5 (0.97%) EDI
2 5 (0.97%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (0.97%) SOAP
3 4 (0.78%) GraphQL
3 4 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (0.58%) Middleware
4 3 (0.58%) Sass
4 3 (0.58%) ZeroMQ
5 2 (0.39%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.39%) Django
5 2 (0.39%) RESTful
5 2 (0.39%) Spring
5 2 (0.39%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.39%) XML
5 2 (0.39%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.14%) Self-Motivation
2 45 (8.75%) Onboarding
3 43 (8.37%) Management Information System
4 42 (8.17%) FMCG
5 39 (7.59%) Data Centre
6 32 (6.23%) Product Ownership
7 29 (5.64%) Cloud Native
8 21 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (4.09%) Social Media
9 14 (2.72%) Driving Licence
10 10 (1.95%) Smartphone
11 9 (1.75%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.36%) IoT
13 6 (1.17%) Credit Risk
13 6 (1.17%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
14 5 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.97%) Web Conferencing
15 4 (0.78%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.50%) Windows
2 13 (2.53%) Linux
3 6 (1.17%) Unix
4 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.39%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Android
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (45.33%) Problem-Solving
2 176 (34.24%) Analytics
3 166 (32.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 139 (27.04%) Business Intelligence
5 119 (23.15%) Decision-Making
6 94 (18.29%) Agile
7 87 (16.93%) ERP
8 86 (16.73%) Project Management
9 78 (15.18%) CRM
10 75 (14.59%) AI
11 74 (14.40%) Actionable Insight
12 73 (14.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 67 (13.04%) Process Improvement
14 66 (12.84%) Business Strategy
14 66 (12.84%) Cybersecurity
15 57 (11.09%) Visualisation
16 54 (10.51%) Data Analysis
17 52 (10.12%) Change Management
18 47 (9.14%) CI/CD
19 44 (8.56%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (19.65%) SQL
2 56 (10.89%) Python
3 28 (5.45%) PowerShell
4 25 (4.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 11 (2.14%) C#
6 10 (1.95%) C++
7 9 (1.75%) Bash
7 9 (1.75%) Java
7 9 (1.75%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.75%) VBA
8 8 (1.56%) C
9 6 (1.17%) R
10 4 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.58%) Bicep
11 3 (0.58%) Go
11 3 (0.58%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.58%) Perl
11 3 (0.58%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.39%) VC++
Qualifications
1 129 (25.10%) Degree
2 41 (7.98%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.47%) CISSP
4 19 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
4 19 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.50%) CEH
6 15 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.53%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.53%) PMI Certification
7 13 (2.53%) PMP
8 12 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (2.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 11 (2.14%) ACCA
9 11 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.95%) A+ Certification
10 10 (1.95%) CCNA
10 10 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.95%) DBS Check
10 10 (1.95%) MCSE
10 10 (1.95%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (5.25%) NIST
3 25 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 25 (4.86%) QA
4 18 (3.50%) PCI DSS
5 15 (2.92%) GDPR
6 13 (2.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (1.95%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.75%) GRC
9 6 (1.17%) SLA
10 4 (0.78%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.78%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.78%) NEBOSH
11 3 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.39%) EMIR
12 2 (0.39%) FINRA
12 2 (0.39%) GAAP
12 2 (0.39%) IFRS
12 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 13 (2.53%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.36%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.17%) Docker
3 6 (1.17%) Firmware
4 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (1.95%) Terraform
3 7 (1.36%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.58%) Ansible
4 3 (0.58%) Control-M
5 2 (0.39%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.19%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.19%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.19%) Kibana
6 1 (0.19%) SCCM
6 1 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 122 (23.74%) Microsoft
2 65 (12.65%) SAP
3 45 (8.75%) Salesforce
4 26 (5.06%) Oracle
5 25 (4.86%) Dell
6 23 (4.47%) Google
7 18 (3.50%) Adobe
8 15 (2.92%) MuleSoft
9 11 (2.14%) Autodesk
10 7 (1.36%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.17%) Cisco
12 5 (0.97%) Workday
13 4 (0.78%) Apple
13 4 (0.78%) Databricks
13 4 (0.78%) Guidewire
13 4 (0.78%) Hotjar
14 3 (0.58%) Hootsuite
14 3 (0.58%) Informatica
14 3 (0.58%) Xero
14 3 (0.58%) Zoho