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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 372 469
Rank change year-on-year +79 +97 +281
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 503 277 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 0.68% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 1.75% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 259 167 274
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £43,200
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +33.10% -17.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £59,694
90th Percentile £94,000 £88,750 £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 23,435 15,863 32,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.21% 39.08% 36.35%
Number of salaries quoted 11,924 8,860 22,202
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £44,590 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £79,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 27 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 27 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 +86 417 £46,000 -23.33% 223
UK excluding London +89 336 £42,500 -22.73% 165
London +33 142 £65,000 -10.34% 94
Work from Home +68 141 £50,000 -6.98% 107
North of England +8 95 £45,000 -28.00% 40
South East +1 59 £45,000 -21.74% 59
North West -2 54 £42,500 -34.62% 26
Midlands 0 52 £42,500 -19.05% 33
South West -15 37 £32,500 -40.91% 15
West Midlands +16 34 £45,000 -10.00% 23
Scotland -15 27 £26,150 -57.31% 2
East of England -16 27 £46,250 -13.95% 13
Northern Ireland -14 24 - - 2
Yorkshire -38 22 £56,500 +13.00% 12
North East - 19 £64,250 - 2
East Midlands -43 17 £30,000 -45.45% 10
Wales -9 15 £35,000 -28.72% 5

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 5 (0.99%) Confluence
2 4 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (0.80%) CMS
2 4 (0.80%) WordPress
3 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.40%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) Mendix
Applications
1 79 (15.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (2.39%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.99%) Maya
7 2 (0.40%) Sketch
7 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.99%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.80%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.80%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.60%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.40%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.40%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.20%) Shopify
7 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 98 (19.48%) Azure
2 89 (17.69%) Power Platform
3 35 (6.96%) AWS
4 32 (6.36%) SaaS
5 29 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 20 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (3.98%) GCP
8 19 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (3.58%) Power Automate
10 15 (2.98%) GitHub
11 13 (2.58%) dbt
12 11 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (1.99%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.59%) Datadog
14 8 (1.59%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.39%) Asana
15 7 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.18%) Firewall
1 16 (3.18%) SAN
2 12 (2.39%) VPN
3 8 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.39%) WAN
5 6 (1.19%) LAN
6 4 (0.80%) Wireless
7 3 (0.60%) DNS
7 3 (0.60%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.60%) Network Security
7 3 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.60%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.40%) Broadband
8 2 (0.40%) DHCP
8 2 (0.40%) GSM
8 2 (0.40%) LTE
8 2 (0.40%) Modbus
8 2 (0.40%) SMS
8 2 (0.40%) VLAN
8 2 (0.40%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (17.30%) Power BI
2 46 (9.15%) SQL Server
3 26 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (4.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (3.38%) Tableau
7 12 (2.39%) Metabase
8 10 (1.99%) Metadata
8 10 (1.99%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.39%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.19%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.80%) Looker
13 4 (0.80%) Power Query
13 4 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
14 3 (0.60%) Big Data
14 3 (0.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (4.77%) Git
2 16 (3.18%) JIRA
3 12 (2.39%) Visual Studio
4 11 (2.19%) GitLab
5 8 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.39%) ERwin
7 2 (0.40%) Selenium
7 2 (0.40%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.20%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.20%) MLflow
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.20%) TestRail
8 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 502 (99.80%) Analytical Skills
2 297 (59.05%) Social Skills
3 229 (45.53%) Finance
4 44 (8.75%) Marketing
5 43 (8.55%) Legal
6 33 (6.56%) Public Sector
7 31 (6.16%) Retail
8 27 (5.37%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (5.17%) Manufacturing
10 24 (4.77%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
12 20 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (3.58%) Law
14 15 (2.98%) Banking
15 13 (2.58%) Billing
16 12 (2.39%) Financial Institution
17 9 (1.79%) Automotive
17 9 (1.79%) Electronics
18 8 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
18 8 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 105 (20.87%) Analyst
2 72 (14.31%) Head of QA
3 34 (6.76%) Senior
4 30 (5.96%) IT Support
5 26 (5.17%) IT Engineer
6 24 (4.77%) Lead
7 23 (4.57%) Business Manager
8 20 (3.98%) Business Analyst
8 20 (3.98%) Systems Analyst
9 19 (3.78%) Developer
9 19 (3.78%) Financial Analyst
10 18 (3.58%) Consultant
10 18 (3.58%) Data Analyst
11 17 (3.38%) Administrator
11 17 (3.38%) IT Analyst
12 16 (3.18%) Support Analyst
13 15 (2.98%) Commercial Analyst
13 15 (2.98%) Field Engineer
13 15 (2.98%) Field Service Engineer
14 13 (2.58%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.98%) CSS
1 15 (2.98%) HTML
2 11 (2.19%) FIX Protocol
3 10 (1.99%) XML
4 8 (1.59%) JSON
4 8 (1.59%) OAuth
4 8 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
4 8 (1.59%) SAML
5 7 (1.39%) FpML
5 7 (1.39%) XML Schema
6 6 (1.19%) .NET
6 6 (1.19%) SAP Fiori
7 5 (0.99%) REST
8 4 (0.80%) PySpark
8 4 (0.80%) React
8 4 (0.80%) RESTful
8 4 (0.80%) Sass
8 4 (0.80%) Spring
8 4 (0.80%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.80%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.16%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 19 (3.78%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.58%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.58%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.58%) Social Media
5 16 (3.18%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.98%) Smartphone
7 13 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (2.58%) FMCG
8 10 (1.99%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.59%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.59%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.39%) e-Learning
10 7 (1.39%) IoT
11 6 (1.19%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.19%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.80%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.37%) Windows
2 17 (3.38%) Linux
3 10 (1.99%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.39%) Unix
5 6 (1.19%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.40%) 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
1 197 (39.17%) Continuous Improvement
2 184 (36.58%) Problem-Solving
3 175 (34.79%) Analytics
4 120 (23.86%) Actionable Insight
5 118 (23.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 95 (18.89%) Business Intelligence
6 95 (18.89%) Customer Experience
7 86 (17.10%) Decision-Making
7 86 (17.10%) Root Cause Analysis
8 85 (16.90%) Service Delivery
9 84 (16.70%) Agile
9 84 (16.70%) PRINCE2
10 82 (16.30%) Process Improvement
11 80 (15.90%) Change Management
12 75 (14.91%) Quality Management
13 72 (14.31%) Anti-Money Laundering
14 55 (10.93%) Data Analysis
15 51 (10.14%) CI/CD
16 46 (9.15%) Visualisation
17 45 (8.95%) AI
Programming Languages
1 92 (18.29%) SQL
2 61 (12.13%) Python
3 31 (6.16%) PowerShell
4 26 (5.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 20 (3.98%) Bash
6 14 (2.78%) C++
6 14 (2.78%) Java
7 12 (2.39%) C#
7 12 (2.39%) JavaScript
8 9 (1.79%) C
9 7 (1.39%) Go
9 7 (1.39%) VBA
10 4 (0.80%) Bicep
10 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.60%) PHP
11 3 (0.60%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.60%) VC++
12 2 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.40%) Perl
12 2 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 73 (14.51%) Degree
2 72 (14.31%) IRCA
3 24 (4.77%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (2.98%) A+ Certification
5 15 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (2.98%) CCNA
5 15 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (2.98%) MCSE
5 15 (2.98%) Network+ Certification
5 15 (2.98%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.98%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 13 (2.58%) ACCA
7 11 (2.19%) CIMA
7 11 (2.19%) DBS Check
8 9 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.59%) PMI Certification
9 8 (1.59%) PMP
10 7 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (19.28%) QA
2 84 (16.70%) GDPR
3 83 (16.50%) ISO 9001
4 32 (6.36%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (1.99%) GRC
7 10 (1.99%) NIST
8 9 (1.79%) SLA
9 8 (1.59%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.59%) ISO 14001
10 6 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.80%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.60%) EMIR
12 3 (0.60%) NEBOSH
12 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.40%) GAAP
13 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (3.38%) Docker
2 8 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (4.37%) Terraform
2 19 (3.78%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.59%) Grafana
3 8 (1.59%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.99%) Ansible
4 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.80%) Control-M
6 2 (0.40%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.20%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.20%) SCCM
7 1 (0.20%) SCOM
Vendors
1 98 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.17%) Dell
3 20 (3.98%) SAP
4 16 (3.18%) Oracle
4 16 (3.18%) Salesforce
5 12 (2.39%) Google
6 10 (1.99%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.79%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.79%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.39%) Adobe
8 7 (1.39%) Autodesk
8 7 (1.39%) Sparx
9 5 (0.99%) Apple
9 5 (0.99%) Informatica
9 5 (0.99%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.80%) BT
10 4 (0.80%) Databricks
10 4 (0.80%) Guidewire
10 4 (0.80%) Hotjar
10 4 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud