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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 354 484
Rank change year-on-year +43 +130 +222
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 524 325 448
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.77% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.07% 1.92% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 261 189 295
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +27.91% -14.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £74,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,689 £52,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -18.69% +31.25% -20.00%

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 25,325 16,897 34,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.28% 39.93% 36.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13,080 9,221 22,904
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +47 442 £46,750 -18.70% 226
UK excluding London +67 374 £42,689 -18.69% 189
Work from Home +38 140 £46,000 -12.38% 108
London -3 127 £65,000 -11.86% 80
North of England +5 104 £52,500 -16.00% 47
South East +14 83 £45,000 -21.74% 66
Midlands -6 58 £42,500 -5.56% 28
North West -11 55 £45,000 -30.77% 29
West Midlands +7 41 £44,000 +25.71% 14
South West -32 37 £32,500 -35.00% 19
Yorkshire -35 30 £67,500 +38.46% 11
East of England -29 29 £40,000 -23.81% 15
Scotland -12 24 £26,150 -50.19% 10
Northern Ireland -16 24 - - 2
North East - 19 £64,250 - 8
East Midlands -41 16 £30,000 -45.45% 14
Wales -15 15 £35,000 -28.72% 7

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 7 (1.34%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.15%) WordPress
3 5 (0.95%) Confluence
4 4 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.57%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.57%) IIS
6 2 (0.38%) CMS
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.19%) Apache
7 1 (0.19%) Mendix
Applications
1 75 (14.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (5.53%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.76%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.57%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.38%) Maya
7 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.72%) NetSuite
1 9 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.95%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.76%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.76%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.57%) Infor M3
4 3 (0.57%) JDE OneWorld
4 3 (0.57%) JDE World
5 2 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 111 (21.18%) Azure
2 87 (16.60%) Power Platform
3 39 (7.44%) AWS
4 38 (7.25%) SaaS
5 31 (5.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 29 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (5.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 24 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (4.39%) Power Automate
10 22 (4.20%) GCP
11 16 (3.05%) dbt
12 15 (2.86%) GitHub
13 11 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.10%) Google Analytics
14 10 (1.91%) PowerApps
15 9 (1.72%) Amazon S3
16 8 (1.53%) Datadog
16 8 (1.53%) OpenShift
17 7 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 7 (1.34%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.05%) Firewall
1 16 (3.05%) SAN
2 13 (2.48%) VPN
3 12 (2.29%) WAN
4 11 (2.10%) LAN
5 10 (1.91%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.15%) DNS
7 4 (0.76%) Broadband
7 4 (0.76%) HTTP
7 4 (0.76%) Network Security
7 4 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.76%) Wireless
8 3 (0.57%) Internet
9 2 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.38%) FTP
9 2 (0.38%) GSM
9 2 (0.38%) LTE
9 2 (0.38%) SMS
9 2 (0.38%) SMTP
9 2 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (16.22%) Power BI
2 46 (8.78%) SQL Server
3 27 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (5.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 26 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (2.29%) Metabase
6 11 (2.10%) Tableau
7 10 (1.91%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.72%) Metadata
9 8 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.34%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.15%) MySQL
11 6 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.95%) Big Data
12 5 (0.95%) Power Query
13 4 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
14 3 (0.57%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.57%) Looker
Development Applications
1 25 (4.77%) Git
2 16 (3.05%) JIRA
3 12 (2.29%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.91%) GitLab
5 7 (1.34%) ERwin
5 7 (1.34%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.57%) TestRail
7 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.38%) Selenium
7 2 (0.38%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.19%) MLflow
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 523 (99.81%) Analytical Skills
2 308 (58.78%) Social Skills
3 226 (43.13%) Finance
4 42 (8.02%) Marketing
5 33 (6.30%) Legal
6 32 (6.11%) Public Sector
7 27 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (4.39%) Manufacturing
9 22 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (4.20%) Retail
10 21 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (3.24%) Banking
13 13 (2.48%) Billing
14 12 (2.29%) Financial Institution
14 12 (2.29%) Law
15 11 (2.10%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.53%) Electronics
16 8 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.34%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 119 (22.71%) Analyst
2 72 (13.74%) Head of QA
3 35 (6.68%) IT Support
4 33 (6.30%) Senior
5 32 (6.11%) IT Engineer
6 31 (5.92%) Lead
7 28 (5.34%) Business Analyst
8 25 (4.77%) IT Analyst
9 20 (3.82%) Administrator
9 20 (3.82%) Support Analyst
10 19 (3.63%) Developer
11 18 (3.44%) Business Manager
11 18 (3.44%) Consultant
11 18 (3.44%) Support Engineer
11 18 (3.44%) Systems Analyst
12 17 (3.24%) Financial Analyst
13 16 (3.05%) Data Analyst
13 16 (3.05%) Field Engineer
13 16 (3.05%) Field Service Engineer
13 16 (3.05%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.44%) CSS
1 18 (3.44%) HTML
2 14 (2.67%) JSON
3 12 (2.29%) XML
4 10 (1.91%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (1.53%) OAuth
5 8 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (1.53%) SAML
6 7 (1.34%) .NET
6 7 (1.34%) FpML
6 7 (1.34%) REST
6 7 (1.34%) XML Schema
7 6 (1.15%) SAP Fiori
7 6 (1.15%) SOAP
8 5 (0.95%) PySpark
8 5 (0.95%) React
9 4 (0.76%) Flutter
9 4 (0.76%) RESTful
9 4 (0.76%) Spring
9 4 (0.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.15%) Onboarding
2 26 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (3.44%) Management Information System
3 18 (3.44%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.24%) Social Media
5 16 (3.05%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.86%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.67%) Smartphone
8 11 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
9 10 (1.91%) Driving Licence
10 9 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.72%) FMCG
11 8 (1.53%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.53%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.34%) e-Learning
12 7 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.34%) IoT
12 7 (1.34%) Web Conferencing
13 6 (1.15%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.30%) Windows
2 17 (3.24%) Linux
3 12 (2.29%) Windows 10
4 8 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.15%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.76%) Unix
7 3 (0.57%) Android
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (38.17%) Continuous Improvement
2 198 (37.79%) Problem-Solving
3 171 (32.63%) Analytics
4 121 (23.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 114 (21.76%) Actionable Insight
6 95 (18.13%) Business Intelligence
7 92 (17.56%) Root Cause Analysis
8 90 (17.18%) Customer Experience
9 88 (16.79%) Decision-Making
10 87 (16.60%) Agile
10 87 (16.60%) Service Delivery
11 85 (16.22%) PRINCE2
12 79 (15.08%) Process Improvement
13 78 (14.89%) Change Management
14 77 (14.69%) Quality Management
15 72 (13.74%) Anti-Money Laundering
16 56 (10.69%) Data Analysis
17 49 (9.35%) AI
18 48 (9.16%) CI/CD
19 47 (8.97%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 107 (20.42%) SQL
2 63 (12.02%) Python
3 32 (6.11%) PowerShell
4 27 (5.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 18 (3.44%) Bash
5 18 (3.44%) C#
5 18 (3.44%) Java
6 14 (2.67%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.91%) C++
8 9 (1.72%) Go
9 7 (1.34%) VBA
10 6 (1.15%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.95%) C
11 5 (0.95%) PHP
12 4 (0.76%) Bicep
12 4 (0.76%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.57%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.57%) Scala
13 3 (0.57%) VC++
Qualifications
1 76 (14.50%) Degree
2 72 (13.74%) IRCA
3 23 (4.39%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (3.05%) A+ Certification
5 16 (3.05%) CCNA
5 16 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.05%) MCSE
5 16 (3.05%) Network+ Certification
5 16 (3.05%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 14 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.67%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.72%) ACCA
8 8 (1.53%) CIMA
8 8 (1.53%) GIAC
8 8 (1.53%) PMI Certification
8 8 (1.53%) PMP
9 7 (1.34%) CISSP
9 7 (1.34%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (19.47%) QA
2 87 (16.60%) ISO 9001
3 81 (15.46%) GDPR
4 43 (8.21%) Data Quality
5 19 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (1.91%) GRC
7 10 (1.91%) SLA
8 9 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (1.72%) ISO 14001
9 8 (1.53%) NIST
10 7 (1.34%) Accessibility
10 7 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 7 (1.34%) PCI DSS
10 7 (1.34%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.76%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.57%) COBIT
12 3 (0.57%) EMIR
12 3 (0.57%) ITGC
System Software
1 16 (3.05%) Docker
2 9 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) IAG
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (4.20%) Terraform
2 18 (3.44%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.72%) Grafana
4 8 (1.53%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.95%) Ansible
7 4 (0.76%) Control-M
8 2 (0.38%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.38%) Kibana
8 2 (0.38%) QRadar
9 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 114 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.20%) SAP
3 20 (3.82%) Google
4 19 (3.63%) Dell
5 17 (3.24%) Oracle
6 14 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.91%) Adobe
7 10 (1.91%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (1.53%) Databricks
8 8 (1.53%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.53%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.34%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.34%) Sparx
10 5 (0.95%) Apple
10 5 (0.95%) IFS
10 5 (0.95%) Informatica
11 4 (0.76%) BT
11 4 (0.76%) Marketo
11 4 (0.76%) Splunk