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 22 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 323 488
Rank change year-on-year -17 +165 +183
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 521 417 491
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.92% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.16% 2.17% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 280 225 314
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,725
25th Percentile £34,375 £40,000 £32,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £63,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,750 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £51,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -14.56% +21.18% -10.53%

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 24,173 19,255 36,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.56% 42.66% 33.46%
Number of salaries quoted 15,399 9,202 23,643
10th Percentile £30,290 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.12% - -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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +2 460 £50,000 -13.04% 149
UK excluding London +17 382 £44,000 -14.56% 124
Work from Home +27 124 £50,000 - 70
London -47 124 £65,000 -18.75% 47
South East -15 101 £50,000 -9.09% 40
North of England +13 93 £50,000 -16.67% 28
Midlands -2 62 £44,000 -16.19% 28
South West -24 58 £32,500 -31.58% 16
North West +13 51 £45,000 -25.00% 16
West Midlands +4 41 £44,000 +15.79% 11
Yorkshire -6 28 £90,000 +63.64% 8
Scotland +15 21 £26,150 -32.95% 1
East Midlands -17 21 £37,500 -45.52% 17
East of England -23 21 £40,000 +0.83% 10
Northern Ireland -24 14 £63,750 +27.50% 2
North East -37 14 £58,500 - 4
Wales - 12 £35,000 - 2

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 10 (1.92%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.34%) Confluence
3 5 (0.96%) WordPress
4 3 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.58%) CMS
4 3 (0.58%) IIS
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.38%) SAS
6 1 (0.19%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) Mendix
Applications
1 50 (9.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.58%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (1.73%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.77%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.77%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.77%) JDE World
4 3 (0.58%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.58%) Shopify
5 2 (0.38%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.38%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.19%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.19%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.19%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 68 (13.05%) Azure
2 62 (11.90%) Power Platform
3 41 (7.87%) SaaS
4 35 (6.72%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (5.95%) AWS
6 21 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (3.84%) Power Automate
8 17 (3.26%) GCP
9 16 (3.07%) Google Analytics
10 15 (2.88%) PowerApps
11 13 (2.50%) GitHub
12 12 (2.30%) dbt
13 10 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (1.73%) Datadog
14 9 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.54%) OpenShift
16 7 (1.34%) Tricentis Tosca
17 6 (1.15%) AWS Step Functions
17 6 (1.15%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.88%) SAN
2 14 (2.69%) LAN
2 14 (2.69%) VPN
2 14 (2.69%) WAN
3 13 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.30%) Firewall
5 10 (1.92%) HTTP
6 9 (1.73%) DNS
6 9 (1.73%) SMS
7 6 (1.15%) Wireless
8 5 (0.96%) Internet
8 5 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.77%) FTP
9 4 (0.77%) SMTP
10 3 (0.58%) Broadband
10 3 (0.58%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (0.38%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.38%) SSL
11 2 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.75%) Power BI
2 28 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (3.26%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.30%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.92%) Metadata
5 10 (1.92%) Tableau
6 8 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (1.54%) Metabase
6 8 (1.54%) MySQL
7 7 (1.34%) Power Query
7 7 (1.34%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.15%) GIS
9 5 (0.96%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.77%) Big Data
10 4 (0.77%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
12 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (4.61%) Git
2 15 (2.88%) JIRA
3 9 (1.73%) GitLab
4 8 (1.54%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.34%) ERwin
6 4 (0.77%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.77%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.58%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.58%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.38%) Ranorex
8 2 (0.38%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.38%) Selenium
8 2 (0.38%) TestRail
9 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 520 (99.81%) Analytical Skills
2 277 (53.17%) Social Skills
3 188 (36.08%) Finance
4 56 (10.75%) Marketing
5 34 (6.53%) Organisational Skills
6 28 (5.37%) Manufacturing
7 24 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (4.61%) Public Sector
8 21 (4.03%) Legal
8 21 (4.03%) Retail
9 18 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.30%) Advertising
11 12 (2.30%) Electronics
12 11 (2.11%) Banking
12 11 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.92%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.73%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.73%) Law
14 9 (1.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 121 (23.22%) Analyst
2 72 (13.82%) Head of QA
3 42 (8.06%) Senior
4 39 (7.49%) Lead
5 27 (5.18%) Business Analyst
5 27 (5.18%) IT Engineer
6 25 (4.80%) Developer
6 25 (4.80%) IT Support
6 25 (4.80%) Support Analyst
7 23 (4.41%) Data Analyst
8 20 (3.84%) IT Analyst
9 16 (3.07%) Consultant
9 16 (3.07%) Junior
10 15 (2.88%) Field Engineer
10 15 (2.88%) Field Service Engineer
10 15 (2.88%) Junior Analyst
11 14 (2.69%) Compliance Manager
11 14 (2.69%) Support Engineer
12 12 (2.30%) IT Manager
12 12 (2.30%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.84%) JSON
2 18 (3.45%) HTML
3 17 (3.26%) CSS
4 12 (2.30%) .NET
5 10 (1.92%) XML
6 8 (1.54%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (1.54%) OAuth
6 8 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (1.54%) SAML
7 7 (1.34%) FpML
7 7 (1.34%) XML Schema
8 6 (1.15%) React
8 6 (1.15%) REST
9 5 (0.96%) PySpark
9 5 (0.96%) SOAP
10 4 (0.77%) LDAP
11 3 (0.58%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.58%) Flutter
11 3 (0.58%) RESTful
11 3 (0.58%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.61%) Onboarding
2 17 (3.26%) Cyber Threat
3 16 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.88%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.88%) Management Information System
4 15 (2.88%) Social Media
5 12 (2.30%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.11%) Smartphone
7 10 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
7 10 (1.92%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.73%) Driving Licence
8 9 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.54%) e-Learning
9 8 (1.54%) Web Conferencing
10 7 (1.34%) FMCG
10 7 (1.34%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.15%) SCADA
12 5 (0.96%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.72%) Windows
2 18 (3.45%) Linux
3 10 (1.92%) Windows 10
3 10 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.77%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.58%) Unix
6 2 (0.38%) Android
6 2 (0.38%) Debian
6 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (36.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 164 (31.48%) Analytics
3 141 (27.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 133 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
5 101 (19.39%) Actionable Insight
6 95 (18.23%) Root Cause Analysis
7 88 (16.89%) Service Delivery
8 87 (16.70%) Customer Experience
9 85 (16.31%) Decision-Making
10 84 (16.12%) Change Management
11 83 (15.93%) Agile
12 79 (15.16%) Quality Management
13 76 (14.59%) PRINCE2
14 75 (14.40%) Business Intelligence
15 72 (13.82%) Anti-Money Laundering
16 56 (10.75%) Process Improvement
17 54 (10.36%) CRM
18 40 (7.68%) ERP
19 39 (7.49%) Stakeholder Management
20 38 (7.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 98 (18.81%) SQL
2 54 (10.36%) Python
3 22 (4.22%) C#
3 22 (4.22%) PowerShell
4 16 (3.07%) Java
5 15 (2.88%) Bash
6 11 (2.11%) JavaScript
6 11 (2.11%) T-SQL
7 10 (1.92%) MATLAB
8 9 (1.73%) C++
9 7 (1.34%) Go
9 7 (1.34%) PHP
10 6 (1.15%) C
10 6 (1.15%) Scala
10 6 (1.15%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (0.77%) Embedded C
11 4 (0.77%) Embedded C++
11 4 (0.77%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.77%) VBA
12 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (13.82%) IRCA
2 60 (11.52%) Degree
3 34 (6.53%) Security Cleared
4 24 (4.61%) SC Cleared
5 17 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (2.88%) A+ Certification
6 15 (2.88%) CCNA
6 15 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (2.88%) MCSE
6 15 (2.88%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.54%) ACCA
8 8 (1.54%) GCIA
8 8 (1.54%) GCIH
8 8 (1.54%) GIAC
9 6 (1.15%) CIMA
9 6 (1.15%) CREST Certified
9 6 (1.15%) GCED
9 6 (1.15%) OSCP
9 6 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (18.81%) QA
2 93 (17.85%) ISO 9001
3 88 (16.89%) GDPR
4 53 (10.17%) Data Quality
5 22 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (2.88%) ISO 14001
7 14 (2.69%) Accessibility
7 14 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 14 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 9 (1.73%) SLA
9 7 (1.34%) GRC
9 7 (1.34%) ISO 19650
9 7 (1.34%) PCI DSS
10 6 (1.15%) ARP4754
10 6 (1.15%) DO-254
11 5 (0.96%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.77%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.77%) NIST
12 4 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (2.11%) Docker
2 9 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) IAG
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (2.50%) Terraform
2 12 (2.30%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.73%) Grafana
4 8 (1.54%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.15%) Kibana
6 4 (0.77%) Ansible
6 4 (0.77%) QRadar
7 3 (0.58%) Control-M
7 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.19%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.19%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 109 (20.92%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.76%) Google
3 22 (4.22%) HubSpot
3 22 (4.22%) SAP
4 18 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 16 (3.07%) Dell
6 12 (2.30%) Adobe
7 11 (2.11%) Oracle
8 10 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.92%) Splunk
9 8 (1.54%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.54%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.34%) Sparx
11 6 (1.15%) Carbon Black
11 6 (1.15%) Databricks
11 6 (1.15%) Marketo
11 6 (1.15%) Pardot
12 5 (0.96%) IFS
13 4 (0.77%) JD Edwards