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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 290 483
Rank change year-on-year -92 +193 +77
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 493 518 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 1.03% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.73% 2.51% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 284 308 208
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £33,986 £34,885 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,425 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,813 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +8.70%

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 28,448 20,597 26,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.87% 41.10% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17,862 10,449 14,742
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.77% -6.36%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -90 458 £49,425 -1.15% 252
UK excluding London -98 359 £45,000 -10.00% 144
Work from Home -51 140 £50,000 - 90
London -74 124 £65,000 -7.14% 156
South East -29 106 £49,425 -6.75% 40
North of England -47 83 £45,000 - 30
South West -61 67 £42,500 -15.00% 37
Midlands -29 60 £45,000 +5.88% 21
North West -19 41 £37,500 -14.29% 22
West Midlands -14 40 £42,500 +16.44% 12
Yorkshire -15 31 £90,000 +89.47% 7
East Midlands -35 18 £50,000 -37.50% 9
East of England -26 16 £42,879 +7.20% 9
Scotland -12 14 £26,150 - 6
North East -50 11 £57,500 - 1
Northern Ireland -76 8 £63,750 - 1
Wales -63 5 - - 1

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 12 (2.43%) Confluence
1 12 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.81%) Apache
2 4 (0.81%) CMS
2 4 (0.81%) SAS
2 4 (0.81%) WordPress
3 3 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.61%) IIS
3 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.41%) Luigi
4 2 (0.41%) Tornado
Applications
1 52 (10.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (6.29%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.01%) Simulink
6 4 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.61%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (2.43%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.42%) Shopify
3 4 (0.81%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.81%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.81%) JDE World
4 3 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.41%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.41%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.20%) Odoo
6 1 (0.20%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.20%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 72 (14.60%) Azure
2 53 (10.75%) Power Platform
3 40 (8.11%) AWS
4 38 (7.71%) SaaS
5 36 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (6.09%) GCP
7 23 (4.67%) Google Analytics
8 17 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (3.25%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.03%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (1.83%) Entra ID
11 9 (1.83%) Google Ads
12 8 (1.62%) dbt
13 7 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.22%) Anthropic Claude
14 6 (1.22%) Canva
15 5 (1.01%) Bloomreach
15 5 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.64%) TCP/IP
2 12 (2.43%) SAN
3 11 (2.23%) HTTP
3 11 (2.23%) LAN
3 11 (2.23%) WAN
4 10 (2.03%) SMS
5 9 (1.83%) DNS
6 8 (1.62%) Firewall
6 8 (1.62%) VPN
7 5 (1.01%) FTP
7 5 (1.01%) Internet
7 5 (1.01%) SMTP
7 5 (1.01%) Unified Communications
7 5 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.01%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.81%) ATM
8 4 (0.81%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.81%) NAS
8 4 (0.81%) Wireless
9 2 (0.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.72%) Power BI
2 19 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.43%) Tableau
4 11 (2.23%) Relational Database
4 11 (2.23%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.62%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.62%) Metadata
5 8 (1.62%) MySQL
6 7 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.42%) GIS
6 7 (1.42%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.22%) Looker
8 5 (1.01%) Big Data
8 5 (1.01%) Power Query
9 4 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.61%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.61%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (0.61%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (4.26%) JIRA
2 16 (3.25%) Git
3 9 (1.83%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.81%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.81%) GitLab
4 4 (0.81%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.61%) ERwin
5 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.61%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.41%) Ranorex
6 2 (0.41%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.41%) Selenium
6 2 (0.41%) TestRail
7 1 (0.20%) JMeter
7 1 (0.20%) Postman
7 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 493 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 245 (49.70%) Social Skills
3 144 (29.21%) Finance
4 64 (12.98%) Marketing
5 40 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
6 38 (7.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (6.49%) Public Sector
8 23 (4.67%) Manufacturing
9 20 (4.06%) Legal
10 18 (3.65%) Electronics
11 17 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (3.45%) Retail
12 16 (3.25%) Advertising
13 13 (2.64%) Law
14 11 (2.23%) Financial Institution
15 10 (2.03%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (1.62%) Local Government
18 7 (1.42%) Banking
Job Titles
1 102 (20.69%) Analyst
2 40 (8.11%) Lead
3 39 (7.91%) Senior
4 36 (7.30%) Head of QA
5 27 (5.48%) Developer
6 25 (5.07%) Business Analyst
7 22 (4.46%) Support Analyst
8 20 (4.06%) Data Analyst
9 17 (3.45%) IT Engineer
10 16 (3.25%) Compliance Manager
11 13 (2.64%) IT Analyst
12 12 (2.43%) Data Engineer
12 12 (2.43%) Field Engineer
12 12 (2.43%) Field Service Engineer
12 12 (2.43%) IT Support
12 12 (2.43%) Systems Engineer
13 11 (2.23%) Architect
13 11 (2.23%) Senior Manager
13 11 (2.23%) Vendor Manager
14 10 (2.03%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.85%) JSON
2 14 (2.84%) .NET
2 14 (2.84%) HTML
3 13 (2.64%) CSS
4 9 (1.83%) Kafka
4 9 (1.83%) RESTful
4 9 (1.83%) Terraform
5 8 (1.62%) REST
6 6 (1.22%) Spring
6 6 (1.22%) Spring Boot
6 6 (1.22%) XML
7 5 (1.01%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.01%) LDAP
7 5 (1.01%) React
8 4 (0.81%) OAuth
8 4 (0.81%) PyTorch
8 4 (0.81%) SAML
8 4 (0.81%) TensorFlow
9 3 (0.61%) FpML
9 3 (0.61%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 26 (5.27%) Management Information System
3 18 (3.65%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.65%) Cyber Threat
3 18 (3.65%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.25%) Social Media
6 12 (2.43%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.43%) Driving Licence
6 12 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.23%) Cyber Defence
8 10 (2.03%) Blog
9 9 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.62%) Credit Risk
10 8 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.62%) SCADA
10 8 (1.62%) Web Conferencing
11 7 (1.42%) Educational Technology
11 7 (1.42%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.29%) Windows
2 14 (2.84%) Linux
3 12 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.81%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.41%) Android
5 2 (0.41%) Debian
5 2 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (34.28%) Continuous Improvement
2 138 (27.99%) Analytics
3 122 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
4 110 (22.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 103 (20.89%) Agile
6 86 (17.44%) Decision-Making
7 73 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
8 64 (12.98%) AI
9 63 (12.78%) Root Cause Analysis
10 61 (12.37%) Business Intelligence
11 58 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 56 (11.36%) Customer Experience
13 51 (10.34%) CRM
14 49 (9.94%) Service Delivery
15 48 (9.74%) Change Management
16 46 (9.33%) Roadmaps
17 45 (9.13%) Quality Management
18 44 (8.92%) Process Improvement
19 41 (8.32%) PRINCE2
19 41 (8.32%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (19.27%) SQL
2 44 (8.92%) Python
3 27 (5.48%) Java
4 24 (4.87%) C#
5 18 (3.65%) PowerShell
6 17 (3.45%) MATLAB
7 11 (2.23%) C
7 11 (2.23%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.23%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.03%) Bash
9 9 (1.83%) Embedded C
10 8 (1.62%) C++
11 7 (1.42%) PHP
11 7 (1.42%) Scala
12 6 (1.22%) Go
12 6 (1.22%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (1.01%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.81%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.61%) COBOL
15 3 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (12.98%) Degree
2 41 (8.32%) Security Cleared
3 36 (7.30%) IRCA
4 26 (5.27%) SC Cleared
5 14 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (2.43%) A+ Certification
6 12 (2.43%) CCNA
6 12 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.43%) MCSE
6 12 (2.43%) Network+ Certification
7 10 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.62%) ACCA
9 7 (1.42%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.22%) CREST Certified
10 6 (1.22%) GCED
10 6 (1.22%) GCIA
10 6 (1.22%) GCIH
10 6 (1.22%) GIAC
10 6 (1.22%) OSCP
10 6 (1.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (15.42%) QA
2 63 (12.78%) Data Quality
3 59 (11.97%) ISO 9001
4 52 (10.55%) GDPR
5 29 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 16 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 16 (3.25%) ISO 14001
6 16 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 10 (2.03%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.62%) ARP4754
8 8 (1.62%) DO-254
8 8 (1.62%) SLA
9 6 (1.22%) COBIT
9 6 (1.22%) ISO 8583
9 6 (1.22%) NIST
10 5 (1.01%) GRC
10 5 (1.01%) ISO 19650
10 5 (1.01%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.01%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (2.43%) Docker
2 8 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.42%) Firmware
4 5 (1.01%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) IAG
Systems Management
1 12 (2.43%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.22%) Ansible
2 6 (1.22%) Kibana
3 5 (1.01%) QRadar
4 4 (0.81%) Grafana
5 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.41%) Argo
6 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 110 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 50 (10.14%) Google
3 23 (4.67%) HubSpot
4 18 (3.65%) SAP
5 14 (2.84%) Adobe
6 13 (2.64%) Dell
6 13 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.23%) Splunk
8 10 (2.03%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (1.83%) Oracle
10 6 (1.22%) Carbon Black
10 6 (1.22%) Databricks
10 6 (1.22%) Facebook
10 6 (1.22%) Instagram
10 6 (1.22%) Marketo
10 6 (1.22%) Pardot
10 6 (1.22%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.01%) ArcSight
11 5 (1.01%) Cisco
11 5 (1.01%) IFS