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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 391 452
Rank change year-on-year +110 +61 +250
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 492 322 394
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.66% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.22% 1.75% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 256 170 274
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £55,438 £44,100
Median % change year-on-year -17.93% +25.71% -16.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,938 £63,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,125 £78,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +29.41% -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 22,164 18,421 27,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.14% 38.04% 36.35%
Number of salaries quoted 11,219 8,716 19,883
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.28% -15.12%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +10.00% -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 22 February 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 February 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 +126 429 £47,500 -17.39% 172
UK excluding London +94 328 £44,000 -20.00% 145
Work from Home +92 158 £50,000 - 81
London +78 143 £60,000 -4.00% 67
South East +59 93 £42,500 -22.73% 58
North of England +6 68 £45,000 -33.33% 31
Midlands +21 55 £44,000 +10.00% 22
North West +9 46 £42,500 -43.33% 17
South West -2 37 £45,000 -12.20% 13
East Midlands -10 32 £30,000 -25.00% 7
East of England +29 27 £52,500 - 14
Scotland +1 23 £36,000 -48.57% 6
West Midlands +22 22 £52,500 +48.94% 15
Northern Ireland -12 15 - - 1
Yorkshire -25 14 £50,000 -20.00% 11
Wales +4 10 £35,000 -28.72% 3
North East - 8 £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 11 (2.24%) Confluence
2 4 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (0.81%) IIS
3 3 (0.61%) CMS
3 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.61%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.61%) WordPress
4 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.20%) Mendix
Applications
1 90 (18.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (2.24%) Maya
6 4 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.41%) Sketch
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (2.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.22%) SAP FI
4 5 (1.02%) SAP CO
4 5 (1.02%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.61%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.61%) SAP CX
5 3 (0.61%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.41%) Shopify
6 2 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.20%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 110 (22.36%) Azure
2 106 (21.54%) Power Platform
3 34 (6.91%) AWS
4 33 (6.71%) SaaS
5 30 (6.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (5.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (3.66%) GCP
8 18 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (3.05%) Power Automate
10 12 (2.44%) Boomi
11 11 (2.24%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 10 (2.03%) Snowflake
13 9 (1.83%) dbt
13 9 (1.83%) GitHub
13 9 (1.83%) Google Analytics
14 8 (1.63%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.63%) Serverless
15 7 (1.42%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.86%) Firewall
2 12 (2.44%) SAN
3 10 (2.03%) VPN
4 8 (1.63%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.42%) WAN
6 6 (1.22%) LAN
7 4 (0.81%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.81%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.61%) Network Security
9 2 (0.41%) Broadband
9 2 (0.41%) DHCP
9 2 (0.41%) DNS
9 2 (0.41%) GSM
9 2 (0.41%) Internet
9 2 (0.41%) LTE
9 2 (0.41%) Modbus
9 2 (0.41%) VLAN
9 2 (0.41%) VoIP
9 2 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (20.93%) Power BI
2 47 (9.55%) SQL Server
3 31 (6.30%) Tableau
4 28 (5.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 26 (5.28%) Data Warehouse
6 25 (5.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (2.64%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.83%) Metabase
9 7 (1.42%) Metadata
10 6 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.81%) Looker
12 4 (0.81%) Qlik Sense
12 4 (0.81%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.61%) Power Query
13 3 (0.61%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.61%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 21 (4.27%) JIRA
2 15 (3.05%) Git
3 9 (1.83%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.81%) GitLab
6 3 (0.61%) ERwin
6 3 (0.61%) Postman
7 2 (0.41%) Selenium
7 2 (0.41%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.20%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.20%) MLflow
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.20%) TestRail
8 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 491 (99.80%) Analytical Skills
2 309 (62.80%) Social Skills
3 227 (46.14%) Finance
4 81 (16.46%) Marketing
5 51 (10.37%) Retail
6 44 (8.94%) Legal
7 34 (6.91%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (5.89%) Law
9 27 (5.49%) Public Sector
10 23 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (4.67%) Manufacturing
11 20 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (2.85%) Billing
14 12 (2.44%) Games
15 10 (2.03%) Banking
16 9 (1.83%) Advertising
16 9 (1.83%) Automotive
16 9 (1.83%) Financial Institution
17 8 (1.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 114 (23.17%) Analyst
2 66 (13.41%) Lead
3 60 (12.20%) Senior
4 32 (6.50%) Data Analyst
5 28 (5.69%) IT Support
6 27 (5.49%) Commercial Analyst
7 24 (4.88%) Business Manager
8 23 (4.67%) Architect
8 23 (4.67%) Business Analyst
8 23 (4.67%) IT Engineer
9 22 (4.47%) Developer
10 18 (3.66%) Systems Analyst
11 16 (3.25%) Administrator
11 16 (3.25%) Financial Analyst
11 16 (3.25%) Support Engineer
12 14 (2.85%) Consultant
13 13 (2.64%) Insight Analyst
13 13 (2.64%) Insight Manager
13 13 (2.64%) IT Support Engineer
13 13 (2.64%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.85%) CSS
1 14 (2.85%) HTML
2 9 (1.83%) .NET
3 8 (1.63%) SAP Fiori
4 7 (1.42%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (1.22%) REST
6 5 (1.02%) SOAP
6 5 (1.02%) XML
7 4 (0.81%) EDI
7 4 (0.81%) JSON
7 4 (0.81%) PySpark
7 4 (0.81%) Sass
7 4 (0.81%) ZeroMQ
8 3 (0.61%) Blazor
8 3 (0.61%) FpML
8 3 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (0.61%) RESTful
8 3 (0.61%) Spring
8 3 (0.61%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.61%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 40 (8.13%) FMCG
3 39 (7.93%) Data Centre
4 35 (7.11%) Management Information System
5 33 (6.71%) Onboarding
6 25 (5.08%) Product Ownership
7 24 (4.88%) Cloud Native
8 20 (4.07%) Social Media
9 18 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (2.24%) Smartphone
11 10 (2.03%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.83%) Driving Licence
12 9 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.63%) IoT
14 7 (1.42%) Low-Code
14 7 (1.42%) Security Posture
15 6 (1.22%) Web Conferencing
16 5 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
16 5 (1.02%) Data Structures
17 4 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.28%) Windows
2 16 (3.25%) Linux
3 8 (1.63%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.42%) Unix
5 6 (1.22%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.20%) Android
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (44.11%) Problem-Solving
2 183 (37.20%) Analytics
3 173 (35.16%) Continuous Improvement
4 125 (25.41%) Business Intelligence
5 112 (22.76%) Decision-Making
6 90 (18.29%) Agile
7 87 (17.68%) ERP
8 82 (16.67%) Project Management
9 81 (16.46%) Actionable Insight
10 73 (14.84%) Stakeholder Management
11 71 (14.43%) Process Improvement
12 66 (13.41%) AI
13 61 (12.40%) Change Management
13 61 (12.40%) CRM
14 60 (12.20%) Visualisation
15 59 (11.99%) Business Strategy
16 57 (11.59%) Data Analysis
17 54 (10.98%) CI/CD
18 53 (10.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 44 (8.94%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 106 (21.54%) SQL
2 58 (11.79%) Python
3 26 (5.28%) PowerShell
4 25 (5.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (2.44%) Bash
5 12 (2.44%) C#
5 12 (2.44%) C++
6 10 (2.03%) C
6 10 (2.03%) Java
6 10 (2.03%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.22%) Go
7 6 (1.22%) VBA
8 4 (0.81%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.61%) Bicep
9 3 (0.61%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.41%) Perl
10 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.41%) Scala
10 2 (0.41%) VC++
Qualifications
1 110 (22.36%) Degree
2 26 (5.28%) Security Cleared
3 18 (3.66%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.44%) IRCA
6 12 (2.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 11 (2.24%) A+ Certification
7 11 (2.24%) CCNA
7 11 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.24%) DBS Check
7 11 (2.24%) MCSE
7 11 (2.24%) Network+ Certification
8 10 (2.03%) ACCA
9 9 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.83%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.63%) CIMA
10 8 (1.63%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.32%) QA
2 31 (6.30%) Data Quality
3 26 (5.28%) GDPR
4 15 (3.05%) ISO 9001
5 14 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (2.03%) Accessibility
7 10 (2.03%) GRC
8 9 (1.83%) NIST
9 4 (0.81%) SLA
9 4 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
10 3 (0.61%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.61%) NEBOSH
11 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.41%) EMIR
11 2 (0.41%) GAAP
11 2 (0.41%) IFRS
11 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (2.03%) Active Directory
2 9 (1.83%) Docker
3 5 (1.02%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.41%) Firmware
4 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (3.05%) Terraform
2 12 (2.44%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.81%) Ansible
4 4 (0.81%) Control-M
5 2 (0.41%) CSIRT
5 2 (0.41%) Grafana
5 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.20%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.20%) SCCM
6 1 (0.20%) SCOM
Vendors
1 106 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.94%) SAP
3 36 (7.32%) Salesforce
4 23 (4.67%) Dell
4 23 (4.67%) Oracle
5 17 (3.46%) Google
6 15 (3.05%) Adobe
7 12 (2.44%) MuleSoft
8 10 (2.03%) Autodesk
9 6 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.02%) Apple
10 5 (1.02%) BT
10 5 (1.02%) Informatica
10 5 (1.02%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.81%) Databricks
11 4 (0.81%) Guidewire
11 4 (0.81%) Hotjar
11 4 (0.81%) YouTube
12 3 (0.61%) Sparx
12 3 (0.61%) TikTok