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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 388 461
Rank change year-on-year +113 +73 +255
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 510 308 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.67% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.25% 1.75% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 258 170 273
10th Percentile £29,550 £31,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £43,200
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +27.31% -17.71%
75th Percentile £67,188 £75,938 £60,000
90th Percentile £92,875 £88,875 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -22.73% +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 22,683 17,596 28,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.59% 38.49% 36.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11,516 8,608 20,435
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,086
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,445 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.92% +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 5 March 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 March 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 +112 437 £47,500 -17.39% 237
UK excluding London +110 342 £42,500 -22.73% 181
Work from Home +76 152 £47,500 -5.00% 122
London +66 144 £60,000 -7.69% 86
South East +39 87 £42,500 -22.73% 55
North of England +8 78 £45,000 -30.77% 49
Midlands +14 56 £42,000 -6.67% 31
North West +5 50 £42,500 -39.29% 28
South West +1 40 £45,000 -12.20% 17
East Midlands -17 30 £30,000 -45.45% 10
East of England +20 26 £40,000 -23.81% 21
West Midlands +12 25 £50,000 +41.84% 21
Scotland -7 24 £26,150 -62.64% 10
Northern Ireland -15 19 - - 2
Yorkshire -29 16 £70,000 +12.00% 19
Wales +1 12 £35,000 -28.72% 4
North East - 12 £38,500 - 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 8 (1.57%) Confluence
2 4 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (0.78%) IIS
2 4 (0.78%) WordPress
3 3 (0.59%) CMS
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.20%) Mendix
Applications
1 92 (18.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.76%) Maya
6 4 (0.78%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.39%) Sketch
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.98%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.78%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.59%) SAP CX
5 3 (0.59%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
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 SD
7 1 (0.20%) Shopify
7 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 106 (20.78%) Power Platform
2 105 (20.59%) Azure
3 36 (7.06%) AWS
4 35 (6.86%) SaaS
5 29 (5.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (5.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (3.73%) GCP
8 19 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (3.33%) Power Automate
10 12 (2.35%) GitHub
11 10 (1.96%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.96%) Boomi
11 10 (1.96%) dbt
12 9 (1.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 8 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.57%) Serverless
13 8 (1.57%) Snowflake
14 7 (1.37%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.53%) Firewall
2 15 (2.94%) SAN
3 10 (1.96%) VPN
4 8 (1.57%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.37%) WAN
6 6 (1.18%) LAN
7 4 (0.78%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.78%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.59%) Network Security
9 2 (0.39%) Broadband
9 2 (0.39%) DHCP
9 2 (0.39%) DNS
9 2 (0.39%) GSM
9 2 (0.39%) Internet
9 2 (0.39%) LTE
9 2 (0.39%) Modbus
9 2 (0.39%) VLAN
9 2 (0.39%) VoIP
9 2 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (20.20%) Power BI
2 47 (9.22%) SQL Server
3 27 (5.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 26 (5.10%) Tableau
5 25 (4.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 24 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (2.16%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.96%) Metabase
9 8 (1.57%) Metadata
10 6 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (0.98%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.78%) Looker
12 4 (0.78%) Qlik Sense
12 4 (0.78%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (0.59%) Power Query
13 3 (0.59%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 20 (3.92%) Git
2 18 (3.53%) JIRA
3 10 (1.96%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.37%) GitLab
4 7 (1.37%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.78%) ERwin
6 2 (0.39%) Postman
6 2 (0.39%) Selenium
6 2 (0.39%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.20%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.20%) MLflow
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.20%) TestRail
7 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 509 (99.80%) Analytical Skills
2 320 (62.75%) Social Skills
3 245 (48.04%) Finance
4 71 (13.92%) Marketing
5 49 (9.61%) Retail
6 43 (8.43%) Legal
7 32 (6.27%) Presentation Skills
8 30 (5.88%) Public Sector
9 24 (4.71%) Manufacturing
10 23 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (4.31%) Law
11 22 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (2.94%) Banking
14 13 (2.55%) Billing
15 10 (1.96%) Financial Institution
15 10 (1.96%) Games
16 9 (1.76%) Automotive
17 8 (1.57%) Front Office
17 8 (1.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (22.75%) Analyst
2 60 (11.76%) Lead
3 56 (10.98%) Senior
4 36 (7.06%) Head of QA
5 33 (6.47%) Data Analyst
6 28 (5.49%) IT Support
7 27 (5.29%) Commercial Analyst
8 25 (4.90%) IT Engineer
9 24 (4.71%) Business Manager
10 21 (4.12%) Business Analyst
10 21 (4.12%) Developer
11 18 (3.53%) Systems Analyst
12 17 (3.33%) Financial Analyst
13 16 (3.14%) Administrator
13 16 (3.14%) Architect
14 15 (2.94%) Consultant
15 14 (2.75%) Field Engineer
15 14 (2.75%) Field Service Engineer
15 14 (2.75%) Support Analyst
15 14 (2.75%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.55%) CSS
1 13 (2.55%) HTML
2 9 (1.76%) .NET
3 8 (1.57%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (1.37%) SAP Fiori
4 7 (1.37%) XML
5 6 (1.18%) REST
6 5 (0.98%) JSON
6 5 (0.98%) OAuth
6 5 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (0.98%) SAML
6 5 (0.98%) SOAP
7 4 (0.78%) EDI
7 4 (0.78%) FpML
7 4 (0.78%) PySpark
7 4 (0.78%) Sass
7 4 (0.78%) XML Schema
7 4 (0.78%) ZeroMQ
8 3 (0.59%) Blazor
8 3 (0.59%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.04%) Self-Motivation
2 38 (7.45%) FMCG
3 36 (7.06%) Data Centre
4 33 (6.47%) Management Information System
5 30 (5.88%) Onboarding
6 23 (4.51%) Cloud Native
7 22 (4.31%) Product Ownership
8 20 (3.92%) Social Media
9 16 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (2.75%) Smartphone
11 10 (1.96%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.57%) Driving Licence
12 8 (1.57%) Security Posture
13 7 (1.37%) IoT
13 7 (1.37%) Low-Code
14 6 (1.18%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
15 5 (0.98%) e-Learning
15 5 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
16 4 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.29%) Windows
2 17 (3.33%) Linux
3 8 (1.57%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.37%) Unix
5 6 (1.18%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.39%) 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
1 215 (42.16%) Problem-Solving
2 195 (38.24%) Analytics
3 187 (36.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 124 (24.31%) Business Intelligence
5 111 (21.76%) Decision-Making
6 103 (20.20%) Actionable Insight
7 85 (16.67%) Agile
8 78 (15.29%) Change Management
8 78 (15.29%) ERP
9 77 (15.10%) Process Improvement
10 76 (14.90%) Project Management
10 76 (14.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 66 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
12 65 (12.75%) AI
13 64 (12.55%) Customer Experience
14 61 (11.96%) Visualisation
15 58 (11.37%) Data Analysis
16 54 (10.59%) CRM
17 52 (10.20%) CI/CD
18 50 (9.80%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 102 (20.00%) SQL
2 62 (12.16%) Python
3 29 (5.69%) PowerShell
4 25 (4.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 16 (3.14%) Bash
6 13 (2.55%) C#
6 13 (2.55%) C++
7 11 (2.16%) Java
8 10 (1.96%) C
9 9 (1.76%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.37%) Go
10 7 (1.37%) VBA
11 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.59%) Bicep
12 3 (0.59%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.59%) VC++
13 2 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.39%) Perl
13 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 107 (20.98%) Degree
2 36 (7.06%) IRCA
3 26 (5.10%) Security Cleared
4 19 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (3.53%) SC Cleared
6 17 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.75%) A+ Certification
7 14 (2.75%) CCNA
7 14 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (2.75%) MCSE
7 14 (2.75%) Network+ Certification
8 12 (2.35%) ACCA
8 12 (2.35%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 11 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (2.16%) DBS Check
10 10 (1.96%) CIMA
11 9 (1.76%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.76%) Master's Degree
12 8 (1.57%) PMI Certification
12 8 (1.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (11.76%) QA
2 51 (10.00%) GDPR
3 40 (7.84%) ISO 9001
4 32 (6.27%) Data Quality
5 12 (2.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 12 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.96%) GRC
6 10 (1.96%) NIST
7 9 (1.76%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.18%) SLA
9 4 (0.78%) ISO 14001
9 4 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
10 3 (0.59%) EMIR
10 3 (0.59%) NEBOSH
10 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.39%) GAAP
11 2 (0.39%) IFRS
11 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (2.35%) Docker
2 8 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.20%) Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (3.53%) Terraform
2 15 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (0.98%) Grafana
4 5 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.78%) Ansible
5 4 (0.78%) Control-M
6 2 (0.39%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.20%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.20%) SCCM
7 1 (0.20%) SCOM
Vendors
1 101 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.65%) SAP
3 32 (6.27%) Salesforce
4 24 (4.71%) Dell
5 22 (4.31%) Oracle
6 13 (2.55%) Google
7 12 (2.35%) Adobe
8 10 (1.96%) Autodesk
8 10 (1.96%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.37%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.18%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.18%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.98%) Apple
11 5 (0.98%) BT
11 5 (0.98%) Informatica
11 5 (0.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.78%) Databricks
12 4 (0.78%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.78%) Hotjar
12 4 (0.78%) Sparx