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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 292 494
Rank change year-on-year -65 +202 +89
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 541 477 352
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.96% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.95% 2.31% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 294 284 211
10th Percentile £29,050 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £34,563 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,270 £87,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.00% +5.26% -

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 27,729 20,645 27,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.13% 41.47% 33.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,429 10,356 16,278
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -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 11 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 11 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 -55 489 £50,000 - 284
UK excluding London -18 392 £44,500 -11.00% 146
Work from Home -23 142 £50,000 - 117
London -52 135 £60,000 -7.69% 170
South East -27 107 £50,000 -3.85% 40
North of England -6 97 £50,000 +5.26% 38
South West -57 67 £35,000 -30.00% 20
Midlands -33 63 £45,000 -14.29% 25
North West -16 46 £45,000 - 24
West Midlands -18 42 £42,500 +16.44% 15
Yorkshire -4 35 £80,571 +69.62% 10
East Midlands -28 20 £45,000 -43.75% 10
East of England -40 18 £40,000 +10.34% 12
Scotland +13 17 £26,150 -32.95% 5
North East -42 16 £57,500 - 5
Northern Ireland - 14 £63,750 - 4
Wales - 9 - - 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 11 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.48%) Confluence
3 5 (0.92%) WordPress
4 4 (0.74%) Apache
4 4 (0.74%) CMS
4 4 (0.74%) SAS
5 3 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.55%) IIS
6 2 (0.37%) Luigi
6 2 (0.37%) Tornado
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 59 (10.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.55%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.37%) Simulink
8 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (2.22%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.74%) Infor M3
2 4 (0.74%) JDE OneWorld
2 4 (0.74%) JDE World
2 4 (0.74%) Shopify
3 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.37%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.37%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.18%) Odoo
5 1 (0.18%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.18%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 78 (14.42%) Azure
2 63 (11.65%) Power Platform
3 41 (7.58%) AWS
4 39 (7.21%) SaaS
5 34 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (5.36%) GCP
7 20 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (3.51%) Google Analytics
8 19 (3.51%) PowerApps
9 16 (2.96%) Power Automate
10 11 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (1.85%) dbt
11 10 (1.85%) GitHub
12 9 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.48%) Datadog
13 8 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.48%) Google Ads
14 7 (1.29%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.29%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.40%) SAN
2 12 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.85%) HTTP
3 10 (1.85%) LAN
3 10 (1.85%) WAN
4 9 (1.66%) DNS
4 9 (1.66%) SMS
5 8 (1.48%) Firewall
5 8 (1.48%) VPN
6 5 (0.92%) Unified Communications
6 5 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.74%) ATM
7 4 (0.74%) FTP
7 4 (0.74%) Internet
7 4 (0.74%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.74%) NAS
7 4 (0.74%) SMTP
7 4 (0.74%) Wireless
8 2 (0.37%) Broadband
8 2 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (9.80%) Power BI
2 26 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.59%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.40%) Tableau
5 11 (2.03%) Metadata
5 11 (2.03%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.48%) BigQuery
6 8 (1.48%) MySQL
7 7 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.29%) GIS
7 7 (1.29%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.29%) Power Query
8 6 (1.11%) Looker
8 6 (1.11%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.92%) Big Data
10 4 (0.74%) Metabase
10 4 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.74%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (0.55%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.55%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (4.07%) Git
2 17 (3.14%) JIRA
3 8 (1.48%) GitLab
4 6 (1.11%) Eclipse
4 6 (1.11%) ERwin
5 5 (0.92%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.74%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.55%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.37%) Ranorex
8 2 (0.37%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.37%) Selenium
8 2 (0.37%) TestRail
9 1 (0.18%) JMeter
9 1 (0.18%) Postman
9 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 541 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 283 (52.31%) Social Skills
3 187 (34.57%) Finance
4 62 (11.46%) Marketing
5 40 (7.39%) Organisational Skills
6 33 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (5.73%) Public Sector
8 24 (4.44%) Manufacturing
9 22 (4.07%) Legal
10 20 (3.70%) Retail
11 18 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (2.77%) Advertising
12 15 (2.77%) Electronics
12 15 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (2.59%) Financial Institution
14 13 (2.40%) Banking
15 12 (2.22%) Aerospace
15 12 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
16 11 (2.03%) Law
17 6 (1.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 113 (20.89%) Analyst
2 72 (13.31%) Head of QA
3 44 (8.13%) Senior
4 41 (7.58%) Lead
5 26 (4.81%) Business Analyst
5 26 (4.81%) Developer
6 24 (4.44%) Data Analyst
6 24 (4.44%) Support Analyst
7 18 (3.33%) IT Engineer
8 16 (2.96%) Compliance Manager
9 15 (2.77%) IT Analyst
10 14 (2.59%) IT Support
10 14 (2.59%) Junior
11 13 (2.40%) Consultant
11 13 (2.40%) Field Engineer
11 13 (2.40%) Field Service Engineer
12 12 (2.22%) Data Engineer
12 12 (2.22%) Junior Analyst
13 11 (2.03%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (2.03%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.70%) JSON
2 14 (2.59%) HTML
3 13 (2.40%) CSS
4 11 (2.03%) .NET
5 9 (1.66%) XML
6 8 (1.48%) Kafka
7 7 (1.29%) OAuth
7 7 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (1.29%) REST
7 7 (1.29%) RESTful
7 7 (1.29%) SAML
8 6 (1.11%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (1.11%) FpML
8 6 (1.11%) Spring
8 6 (1.11%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.11%) XML Schema
9 5 (0.92%) React
10 4 (0.74%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.74%) PyTorch
10 4 (0.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.81%) Onboarding
2 23 (4.25%) Management Information System
3 19 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 17 (3.14%) Cyber Threat
4 17 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (3.14%) Social Media
5 13 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.03%) Driving Licence
7 10 (1.85%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (1.66%) Blog
8 9 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.66%) Smartphone
9 8 (1.48%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.48%) SCADA
9 8 (1.48%) Web Conferencing
10 7 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.29%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.10%) Windows
2 15 (2.77%) Linux
3 12 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.74%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.37%) Android
5 2 (0.37%) Debian
5 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (39.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 180 (33.27%) Analytics
3 147 (27.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 132 (24.40%) Problem-Solving
5 108 (19.96%) Actionable Insight
6 104 (19.22%) Agile
7 98 (18.11%) Root Cause Analysis
8 91 (16.82%) Customer Experience
9 90 (16.64%) Decision-Making
10 86 (15.90%) Service Delivery
11 85 (15.71%) Change Management
12 81 (14.97%) Quality Management
13 78 (14.42%) PRINCE2
14 74 (13.68%) Anti-Money Laundering
15 72 (13.31%) Business Intelligence
16 62 (11.46%) AI
17 57 (10.54%) Stakeholder Management
18 53 (9.80%) CRM
19 51 (9.43%) Process Improvement
20 45 (8.32%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 100 (18.48%) SQL
2 50 (9.24%) Python
3 23 (4.25%) C#
3 23 (4.25%) Java
4 21 (3.88%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.59%) Bash
5 14 (2.59%) MATLAB
6 11 (2.03%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.66%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.48%) C++
9 7 (1.29%) C
9 7 (1.29%) PHP
9 7 (1.29%) Scala
10 6 (1.11%) Embedded C
10 6 (1.11%) Go
10 6 (1.11%) Search Processing Language
11 5 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.74%) Embedded C++
12 4 (0.74%) VBA
13 3 (0.55%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 72 (13.31%) IRCA
2 64 (11.83%) Degree
3 38 (7.02%) Security Cleared
4 25 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.40%) A+ Certification
6 13 (2.40%) CCNA
6 13 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (2.40%) MCSE
6 13 (2.40%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (2.03%) ACCA
7 11 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.66%) CIMA
9 7 (1.29%) GCIA
9 7 (1.29%) GCIH
9 7 (1.29%) GIAC
10 6 (1.11%) CREST Certified
10 6 (1.11%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.11%) GCED
10 6 (1.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (19.78%) QA
2 96 (17.74%) ISO 9001
3 89 (16.45%) GDPR
4 65 (12.01%) Data Quality
5 27 (4.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (3.14%) ISO 14001
7 16 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 13 (2.40%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.48%) ARP4754
9 8 (1.48%) DO-254
9 8 (1.48%) SLA
10 7 (1.29%) GRC
11 6 (1.11%) ISO 8583
11 6 (1.11%) NIST
11 6 (1.11%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.92%) COBIT
12 5 (0.92%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (2.96%) Docker
2 8 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.55%) Firmware
4 2 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.18%) IAG
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (2.96%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.40%) Terraform
3 8 (1.48%) Grafana
4 7 (1.29%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.11%) Ansible
5 6 (1.11%) Kibana
6 4 (0.74%) QRadar
7 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.37%) Argo
9 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.18%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 113 (20.89%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.13%) Google
3 23 (4.25%) HubSpot
4 18 (3.33%) SAP
5 14 (2.59%) Dell
6 13 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.22%) Adobe
8 10 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.85%) Oracle
8 10 (1.85%) Splunk
9 7 (1.29%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.29%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.29%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.11%) Carbon Black
10 6 (1.11%) Databricks
10 6 (1.11%) Marketo
10 6 (1.11%) Pardot
10 6 (1.11%) Sparx
11 5 (0.92%) IFS
12 4 (0.74%) VocaLink