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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 357 483
Rank change year-on-year +33 +126 +233
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 487 340 449
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.79% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 1.95% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 256 197 294
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 £43,200
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +27.31% -13.60%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £60,938
90th Percentile £90,550 £88,750 £74,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £40,750
% change year-on-year -19.05% +28.83% -18.50%

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 25,271 17,450 34,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.98% 40.62% 36.06%
Number of salaries quoted 13,134 9,283 22,985
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 £80,000 £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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +44 422 £46,000 -18.85% 271
UK excluding London +59 344 £42,500 -19.05% 194
London -4 123 £65,000 -13.33% 114
Work from Home +19 120 £47,500 -9.52% 166
North of England -10 92 £55,000 -12.00% 44
South East +13 83 £44,000 -23.48% 73
Midlands -7 56 £42,500 +6.25% 21
North West -16 49 £45,000 -30.77% 25
West Midlands +13 40 £44,000 +25.71% 11
South West -30 37 £32,500 -35.00% 20
East of England -23 28 £40,000 -23.81% 22
Yorkshire -33 28 £67,500 +38.46% 12
Scotland -15 23 £26,150 -50.19% 8
East Midlands -43 15 £30,000 -45.45% 10
North East - 15 £64,250 - 8
Northern Ireland -27 13 - - 1
Wales -19 12 £35,000 -28.72% 9

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 (1.44%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.23%) WordPress
3 4 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.82%) Confluence
4 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.62%) IIS
5 2 (0.41%) CMS
6 1 (0.21%) Apache
6 1 (0.21%) Mendix
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 50 (10.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (5.75%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.62%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.41%) Maya
6 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.21%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (2.05%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.82%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.82%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.82%) JDE World
3 4 (0.82%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.62%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.41%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.21%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 86 (17.66%) Azure
2 62 (12.73%) Power Platform
3 40 (8.21%) AWS
4 37 (7.60%) SaaS
5 28 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (5.13%) GCP
7 24 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (4.72%) Power Automate
9 16 (3.29%) dbt
10 15 (3.08%) GitHub
11 11 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (2.26%) Google Analytics
12 9 (1.85%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.85%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.64%) Datadog
13 8 (1.64%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.44%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (1.44%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.49%) SAN
2 16 (3.29%) Firewall
3 13 (2.67%) VPN
4 12 (2.46%) WAN
5 11 (2.26%) LAN
6 10 (2.05%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.23%) DNS
8 4 (0.82%) Broadband
8 4 (0.82%) HTTP
8 4 (0.82%) Network Security
8 4 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.82%) Wireless
9 3 (0.62%) Internet
10 2 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.41%) FTP
10 2 (0.41%) GSM
10 2 (0.41%) LTE
10 2 (0.41%) SMS
10 2 (0.41%) SMTP
10 2 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (12.53%) Power BI
2 27 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (4.52%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.46%) Metabase
4 12 (2.46%) Tableau
5 10 (2.05%) Metadata
5 10 (2.05%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.44%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.23%) MySQL
8 6 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.03%) Big Data
9 5 (1.03%) Power Query
10 4 (0.82%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.82%) Looker
10 4 (0.82%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (0.62%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.62%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 25 (5.13%) Git
2 12 (2.46%) Visual Studio
3 10 (2.05%) GitLab
3 10 (2.05%) JIRA
4 7 (1.44%) ERwin
4 7 (1.44%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.62%) TestRail
6 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.41%) Selenium
6 2 (0.41%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.21%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.21%) MLflow
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 486 (99.79%) Analytical Skills
2 277 (56.88%) Social Skills
3 198 (40.66%) Finance
4 42 (8.62%) Marketing
5 32 (6.57%) Legal
6 31 (6.37%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (4.31%) Manufacturing
9 20 (4.11%) Retail
10 19 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (3.29%) Banking
11 16 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.46%) Law
13 11 (2.26%) Financial Institution
13 11 (2.26%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.85%) Electronics
14 9 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.64%) Advertising
16 6 (1.23%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 108 (22.18%) Analyst
2 72 (14.78%) Head of QA
3 34 (6.98%) IT Support
4 33 (6.78%) IT Engineer
4 33 (6.78%) Senior
5 32 (6.57%) Lead
6 28 (5.75%) Business Analyst
7 25 (5.13%) IT Analyst
8 20 (4.11%) Support Analyst
9 18 (3.70%) Administrator
9 18 (3.70%) Developer
9 18 (3.70%) Support Engineer
10 17 (3.49%) Field Engineer
10 17 (3.49%) Field Service Engineer
10 17 (3.49%) Financial Analyst
10 17 (3.49%) Systems Analyst
11 16 (3.29%) Consultant
11 16 (3.29%) Data Analyst
11 16 (3.29%) IT Support Engineer
12 15 (3.08%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.29%) CSS
1 16 (3.29%) HTML
2 13 (2.67%) JSON
3 12 (2.46%) XML
4 10 (2.05%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (1.64%) .NET
5 8 (1.64%) OAuth
5 8 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (1.64%) SAML
6 7 (1.44%) FpML
6 7 (1.44%) XML Schema
7 6 (1.23%) REST
7 6 (1.23%) SOAP
8 5 (1.03%) PySpark
8 5 (1.03%) React
8 5 (1.03%) RESTful
8 5 (1.03%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.82%) Flutter
9 4 (0.82%) Spring
9 4 (0.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.34%) Onboarding
2 18 (3.70%) Social Media
3 17 (3.49%) Data Centre
4 16 (3.29%) Cloud Native
5 15 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.87%) Smartphone
7 11 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (2.05%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.85%) FMCG
9 9 (1.85%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.64%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.64%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.64%) Web Conferencing
11 7 (1.44%) e-Learning
11 7 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.23%) IoT
13 5 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.57%) Windows
2 16 (3.29%) Linux
3 12 (2.46%) Windows 10
4 8 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.23%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.82%) Unix
7 2 (0.41%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (36.34%) Continuous Improvement
2 162 (33.26%) Problem-Solving
3 147 (30.18%) Analytics
4 119 (24.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 92 (18.89%) Root Cause Analysis
6 90 (18.48%) Actionable Insight
7 89 (18.28%) Agile
8 88 (18.07%) Customer Experience
9 86 (17.66%) Service Delivery
10 78 (16.02%) PRINCE2
11 77 (15.81%) Change Management
11 77 (15.81%) Quality Management
12 72 (14.78%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 72 (14.78%) Business Intelligence
13 65 (13.35%) Decision-Making
14 48 (9.86%) CI/CD
15 46 (9.45%) DevOps
15 46 (9.45%) ERP
15 46 (9.45%) Process Improvement
16 39 (8.01%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 86 (17.66%) SQL
2 64 (13.14%) Python
3 30 (6.16%) PowerShell
4 20 (4.11%) Java
5 18 (3.70%) Bash
5 18 (3.70%) C#
6 12 (2.46%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.85%) C++
7 9 (1.85%) Go
8 7 (1.44%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.23%) VBA
10 5 (1.03%) PHP
11 4 (0.82%) Bicep
11 4 (0.82%) C
11 4 (0.82%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.82%) Scala
11 4 (0.82%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.62%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 72 (14.78%) IRCA
2 53 (10.88%) Degree
3 24 (4.93%) Security Cleared
4 20 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (3.49%) A+ Certification
5 17 (3.49%) CCNA
5 17 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (3.49%) MCSE
5 17 (3.49%) Network+ Certification
6 14 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.87%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.85%) ACCA
8 8 (1.64%) CIMA
8 8 (1.64%) GIAC
9 7 (1.44%) CISSP
9 7 (1.44%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.23%) GCIH
10 6 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.03%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (20.74%) QA
2 87 (17.86%) ISO 9001
3 80 (16.43%) GDPR
4 34 (6.98%) Data Quality
5 19 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (2.05%) SLA
7 9 (1.85%) GRC
7 9 (1.85%) ISO 14001
8 8 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (1.64%) NIST
9 7 (1.44%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.44%) PCI DSS
9 7 (1.44%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.82%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.62%) ARP4754
11 3 (0.62%) COBIT
11 3 (0.62%) DO-254
11 3 (0.62%) EMIR
System Software
1 16 (3.29%) Docker
2 8 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.21%) Firmware
4 1 (0.21%) IAG
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (4.31%) Terraform
2 18 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.85%) Grafana
4 8 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.82%) Ansible
6 4 (0.82%) Control-M
7 2 (0.41%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.41%) Kibana
7 2 (0.41%) QRadar
8 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 105 (21.56%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.72%) Google
3 22 (4.52%) SAP
4 20 (4.11%) Dell
5 17 (3.49%) Oracle
6 14 (2.87%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.26%) Adobe
8 10 (2.05%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (1.64%) Databricks
9 8 (1.64%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.64%) HubSpot
9 8 (1.64%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.44%) Sparx
11 5 (1.03%) Apple
11 5 (1.03%) IFS
11 5 (1.03%) Informatica
12 4 (0.82%) BT
12 4 (0.82%) Epicor
12 4 (0.82%) JD Edwards