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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 302 456
Rank change year-on-year -49 +154 +165
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 533 463 439
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.94% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.06% 2.29% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 296 274 261
10th Percentile £28,125 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,053 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +9.47% -5.00%
75th Percentile £71,563 £77,500 £67,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +16.28% -9.47%

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 25,851 20,229 31,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.81% 41.14% 33.74%
Number of salaries quoted 16,486 10,065 19,755
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,308 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +4.55% -15.06%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,445 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% - -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 July 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 July 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 -28 479 £50,000 -2.91% 197
UK excluding London -6 392 £45,000 -10.00% 120
Work from Home -1 139 £50,000 - 90
London -49 126 £65,000 -5.45% 102
South East -13 107 £50,000 -9.09% 42
North of England +8 97 £62,500 +31.58% 28
Midlands -4 64 £44,000 -21.78% 19
South West -48 64 £32,500 -35.00% 17
North West -8 47 £45,000 - 12
West Midlands +6 44 £44,000 +12.82% 5
Yorkshire -13 34 £90,000 +89.47% 11
East Midlands -27 20 £42,500 -46.88% 13
East of England -17 19 £40,000 -14.61% 8
Scotland +18 17 £26,150 -32.95% 5
North East -36 16 £57,500 - 5
Northern Ireland -53 14 £63,750 +27.50% 1
Wales - 10 £26,500 - 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 9 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.50%) Confluence
3 5 (0.94%) WordPress
4 4 (0.75%) CMS
4 4 (0.75%) SAS
5 3 (0.56%) IIS
6 2 (0.38%) Apache
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.19%) Mendix
Applications
1 54 (10.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.56%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.19%) Simulink
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (2.44%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.75%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.75%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.75%) JDE World
4 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.56%) Shopify
5 2 (0.38%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
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 76 (14.26%) Azure
2 67 (12.57%) Power Platform
3 38 (7.13%) SaaS
4 36 (6.75%) AWS
5 33 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (4.50%) GCP
7 19 (3.56%) Power Automate
8 18 (3.38%) Google Analytics
8 18 (3.38%) PowerApps
9 15 (2.81%) GitHub
10 13 (2.44%) dbt
11 12 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (1.69%) Datadog
15 8 (1.50%) OpenShift
16 7 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 7 (1.31%) Google Ads
16 7 (1.31%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.63%) SAN
2 12 (2.25%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.88%) HTTP
3 10 (1.88%) LAN
3 10 (1.88%) WAN
4 9 (1.69%) DNS
4 9 (1.69%) VPN
5 8 (1.50%) Firewall
5 8 (1.50%) SMS
6 5 (0.94%) Unified Communications
6 5 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.94%) Wireless
7 4 (0.75%) FTP
7 4 (0.75%) Internet
7 4 (0.75%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.75%) NAS
7 4 (0.75%) SMTP
8 2 (0.38%) ATM
8 2 (0.38%) SSL
8 2 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (10.88%) Power BI
2 29 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.25%) Metadata
3 12 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.25%) Tableau
4 11 (2.06%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.50%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.50%) MySQL
6 7 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.31%) Metabase
6 7 (1.31%) Power Query
6 7 (1.31%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.13%) GIS
8 5 (0.94%) Looker
9 4 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.56%) Big Data
11 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (4.13%) Git
2 17 (3.19%) JIRA
3 9 (1.69%) GitLab
4 8 (1.50%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.31%) ERwin
6 6 (1.13%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.94%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.56%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.38%) Ranorex
10 2 (0.38%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.38%) Selenium
10 2 (0.38%) TestRail
11 1 (0.19%) JMeter
11 1 (0.19%) Postman
11 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 532 (99.81%) Analytical Skills
2 279 (52.35%) Social Skills
3 187 (35.08%) Finance
4 58 (10.88%) Marketing
5 39 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
6 27 (5.07%) Manufacturing
7 25 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (4.50%) Public Sector
9 20 (3.75%) Retail
10 19 (3.56%) Legal
11 16 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (2.63%) Electronics
13 13 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (2.25%) Aerospace
14 12 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (2.06%) Advertising
15 11 (2.06%) Banking
15 11 (2.06%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.50%) Law
17 6 (1.13%) German Language
Job Titles
1 119 (22.33%) Analyst
2 72 (13.51%) Head of QA
3 44 (8.26%) Lead
4 41 (7.69%) Senior
5 26 (4.88%) Business Analyst
5 26 (4.88%) Developer
5 26 (4.88%) Support Analyst
6 25 (4.69%) Data Analyst
7 20 (3.75%) IT Engineer
8 18 (3.38%) IT Analyst
8 18 (3.38%) IT Support
9 16 (3.00%) Compliance Manager
9 16 (3.00%) Consultant
10 15 (2.81%) Junior
11 14 (2.63%) Field Engineer
11 14 (2.63%) Field Service Engineer
11 14 (2.63%) Junior Analyst
12 13 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.88%) IT Support Analyst
13 10 (1.88%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.75%) JSON
2 17 (3.19%) HTML
3 16 (3.00%) CSS
4 13 (2.44%) .NET
5 10 (1.88%) XML
6 8 (1.50%) OAuth
6 8 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (1.50%) SAML
7 7 (1.31%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (1.31%) FpML
7 7 (1.31%) XML Schema
8 6 (1.13%) React
9 4 (0.75%) LDAP
9 4 (0.75%) PySpark
9 4 (0.75%) REST
9 4 (0.75%) RESTful
10 3 (0.56%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.56%) Kafka
10 3 (0.56%) Spring
10 3 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.32%) Onboarding
2 22 (4.13%) Management Information System
3 17 (3.19%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.19%) Cyber Threat
4 16 (3.00%) Social Media
5 15 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.63%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.25%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.88%) Cyber Defence
8 10 (1.88%) Smartphone
9 9 (1.69%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.69%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.69%) Web Conferencing
10 8 (1.50%) e-Learning
10 8 (1.50%) SCADA
11 6 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.13%) Educational Technology
11 6 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.38%) Windows
2 16 (3.00%) Linux
3 12 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.94%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.38%) Android
6 2 (0.38%) Debian
6 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (39.21%) Continuous Improvement
2 177 (33.21%) Analytics
3 149 (27.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 136 (25.52%) Problem-Solving
5 102 (19.14%) Actionable Insight
6 97 (18.20%) Root Cause Analysis
7 96 (18.01%) Agile
8 88 (16.51%) Customer Experience
8 88 (16.51%) Decision-Making
9 85 (15.95%) Change Management
9 85 (15.95%) Service Delivery
10 79 (14.82%) Business Intelligence
10 79 (14.82%) Quality Management
11 76 (14.26%) PRINCE2
12 72 (13.51%) Anti-Money Laundering
13 57 (10.69%) Process Improvement
14 55 (10.32%) CRM
15 45 (8.44%) AI
15 45 (8.44%) ERP
15 45 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (18.01%) SQL
2 54 (10.13%) Python
3 22 (4.13%) C#
4 21 (3.94%) PowerShell
5 20 (3.75%) Java
6 17 (3.19%) Bash
7 13 (2.44%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.44%) MATLAB
8 10 (1.88%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.69%) Go
10 7 (1.31%) C++
10 7 (1.31%) PHP
10 7 (1.31%) Scala
11 6 (1.13%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.94%) C
12 5 (0.94%) Embedded C
12 5 (0.94%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.75%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.75%) VBA
14 2 (0.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 72 (13.51%) IRCA
2 64 (12.01%) Degree
3 36 (6.75%) Security Cleared
4 25 (4.69%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (2.63%) A+ Certification
6 14 (2.63%) CCNA
6 14 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (2.63%) MCSE
6 14 (2.63%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (2.06%) ACCA
8 10 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.69%) CIMA
10 8 (1.50%) GCIA
10 8 (1.50%) GCIH
10 8 (1.50%) GIAC
11 6 (1.13%) CREST Certified
11 6 (1.13%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.13%) GCED
11 6 (1.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (20.08%) QA
2 95 (17.82%) ISO 9001
3 88 (16.51%) GDPR
4 58 (10.88%) Data Quality
5 24 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (3.19%) ISO 14001
7 16 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 15 (2.81%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.50%) ARP4754
9 8 (1.50%) DO-254
9 8 (1.50%) SLA
10 7 (1.31%) GRC
10 7 (1.31%) ISO 19650
10 7 (1.31%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.94%) ISO 8583
11 5 (0.94%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.75%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (2.25%) Docker
2 9 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) IAG
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (3.19%) Terraform
2 15 (2.81%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.69%) Grafana
4 8 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.31%) Ansible
6 6 (1.13%) Kibana
7 4 (0.75%) QRadar
8 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.19%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 110 (20.64%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.75%) Google
3 23 (4.32%) HubSpot
4 21 (3.94%) SAP
5 15 (2.81%) Dell
5 15 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.25%) Adobe
7 10 (1.88%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (1.88%) Oracle
7 10 (1.88%) Splunk
8 8 (1.50%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.50%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.50%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.31%) Sparx
10 6 (1.13%) Carbon Black
10 6 (1.13%) Databricks
10 6 (1.13%) Marketo
10 6 (1.13%) Pardot
11 5 (0.94%) IFS
12 4 (0.75%) ConnectWise