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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 291 487
Rank change year-on-year -73 +196 +88
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 548 490 344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.98% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% 2.37% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 296 295 211
10th Percentile £28,125 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £33,986 £35,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,713 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,125 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,500 £50,000 £50,000
% 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 27,933 20,678 27,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.08% 41.21% 32.83%
Number of salaries quoted 17,515 10,431 15,927
10th Percentile £31,083 £28,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,500 £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 17 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 17 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 -47 496 £50,000 - 215
UK excluding London -34 400 £44,500 -11.00% 148
Work from Home -34 143 £50,000 - 92
London -64 135 £60,000 -11.11% 100
South East -34 108 £50,000 -3.85% 42
North of England -10 100 £45,000 -2.70% 37
South West -59 71 £35,500 -29.00% 16
Midlands -15 63 £45,000 -5.26% 30
North West -16 49 £41,250 -8.33% 27
West Midlands +1 43 £42,500 +21.43% 21
Yorkshire -2 35 £80,571 +69.62% 8
East Midlands -28 19 £45,000 -43.75% 8
Scotland +2 18 £26,150 - 8
East of England -30 17 £41,439 +14.32% 12
North East -47 16 £57,500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 14 £63,750 - 2
Wales - 9 - - 3

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 (2.19%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.82%) Confluence
3 5 (0.91%) WordPress
4 4 (0.73%) Apache
4 4 (0.73%) CMS
4 4 (0.73%) SAS
5 3 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.55%) IIS
6 2 (0.36%) Luigi
6 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.36%) Tornado
Applications
1 57 (10.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.09%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.55%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.55%) Simulink
6 3 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (2.19%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.91%) Shopify
3 4 (0.73%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.73%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.73%) JDE World
4 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.36%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.36%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.36%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.18%) Odoo
6 1 (0.18%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.18%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.18%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 78 (14.23%) Azure
2 61 (11.13%) Power Platform
3 41 (7.48%) AWS
3 41 (7.48%) SaaS
4 35 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (5.47%) GCP
6 21 (3.83%) Google Analytics
7 20 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (3.47%) PowerApps
9 16 (2.92%) Power Automate
10 11 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (1.82%) dbt
12 9 (1.64%) GitHub
12 9 (1.64%) Google Ads
13 8 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.46%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (1.28%) Datadog
14 7 (1.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.74%) SAN
2 13 (2.37%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.01%) HTTP
3 11 (2.01%) LAN
3 11 (2.01%) WAN
4 9 (1.64%) DNS
4 9 (1.64%) SMS
5 8 (1.46%) Firewall
5 8 (1.46%) VPN
6 5 (0.91%) FTP
6 5 (0.91%) Internet
6 5 (0.91%) SMTP
6 5 (0.91%) Unified Communications
6 5 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.73%) ATM
7 4 (0.73%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.73%) NAS
7 4 (0.73%) Wireless
8 3 (0.55%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (9.31%) Power BI
2 26 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.37%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.19%) Tableau
5 11 (2.01%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.82%) Metadata
7 8 (1.46%) BigQuery
7 8 (1.46%) MySQL
8 7 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.28%) GIS
8 7 (1.28%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.28%) Power Query
9 6 (1.09%) Looker
10 5 (0.91%) Big Data
10 5 (0.91%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.73%) Metabase
11 4 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.73%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.55%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.55%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (3.83%) Git
2 19 (3.47%) JIRA
3 7 (1.28%) Eclipse
3 7 (1.28%) GitLab
4 5 (0.91%) ERwin
4 5 (0.91%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.73%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.73%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.55%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 2 (0.36%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.36%) Ranorex
7 2 (0.36%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.36%) Selenium
7 2 (0.36%) TestRail
8 1 (0.18%) JMeter
8 1 (0.18%) Postman
8 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 548 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 285 (52.01%) Social Skills
3 189 (34.49%) Finance
4 64 (11.68%) Marketing
5 40 (7.30%) Organisational Skills
6 35 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (6.20%) Public Sector
8 26 (4.74%) Manufacturing
9 24 (4.38%) Legal
10 20 (3.65%) Retail
11 19 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (2.92%) Advertising
12 16 (2.92%) Electronics
12 16 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (2.37%) Financial Institution
14 12 (2.19%) Banking
15 11 (2.01%) Aerospace
15 11 (2.01%) Law
16 10 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (1.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 111 (20.26%) Analyst
2 72 (13.14%) Head of QA
3 43 (7.85%) Senior
4 42 (7.66%) Lead
5 27 (4.93%) Developer
6 26 (4.74%) Business Analyst
7 24 (4.38%) Support Analyst
8 22 (4.01%) Data Analyst
9 20 (3.65%) IT Engineer
10 16 (2.92%) Compliance Manager
11 15 (2.74%) Field Engineer
11 15 (2.74%) Field Service Engineer
11 15 (2.74%) IT Analyst
12 14 (2.55%) IT Support
13 12 (2.19%) Consultant
13 12 (2.19%) Data Engineer
13 12 (2.19%) Junior
14 11 (2.01%) Senior Manager
14 11 (2.01%) Systems Engineer
14 11 (2.01%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.65%) JSON
2 14 (2.55%) HTML
3 13 (2.37%) CSS
4 12 (2.19%) .NET
5 8 (1.46%) Kafka
5 8 (1.46%) XML
6 7 (1.28%) OAuth
6 7 (1.28%) REST
6 7 (1.28%) RESTful
6 7 (1.28%) SAML
7 6 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.09%) Spring
7 6 (1.09%) Spring Boot
8 5 (0.91%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.91%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (0.91%) FpML
8 5 (0.91%) LDAP
8 5 (0.91%) React
8 5 (0.91%) XML Schema
9 4 (0.73%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.11%) Onboarding
2 25 (4.56%) Management Information System
3 19 (3.47%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.28%) Cyber Threat
4 18 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.28%) Social Media
5 15 (2.74%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.74%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.19%) Driving Licence
7 11 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
8 10 (1.82%) Blog
8 10 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.82%) Smartphone
9 9 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.46%) SCADA
10 8 (1.46%) Web Conferencing
11 7 (1.28%) Credit Risk
11 7 (1.28%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.84%) Windows
2 15 (2.74%) Linux
3 12 (2.19%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.73%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.36%) Android
5 2 (0.36%) Debian
5 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (39.42%) Continuous Improvement
2 181 (33.03%) Analytics
3 147 (26.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 134 (24.45%) Problem-Solving
5 110 (20.07%) Actionable Insight
6 105 (19.16%) Agile
7 98 (17.88%) Root Cause Analysis
8 92 (16.79%) Customer Experience
9 91 (16.61%) Decision-Making
10 86 (15.69%) Service Delivery
11 85 (15.51%) Change Management
12 81 (14.78%) Quality Management
13 79 (14.42%) PRINCE2
14 74 (13.50%) Anti-Money Laundering
15 70 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
16 68 (12.41%) AI
17 62 (11.31%) Stakeholder Management
18 52 (9.49%) CRM
19 50 (9.12%) Process Improvement
20 47 (8.58%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 101 (18.43%) SQL
2 49 (8.94%) Python
3 24 (4.38%) C#
3 24 (4.38%) Java
4 21 (3.83%) PowerShell
5 15 (2.74%) MATLAB
6 14 (2.55%) Bash
7 11 (2.01%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.82%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.46%) C
9 8 (1.46%) C++
10 7 (1.28%) Embedded C
10 7 (1.28%) PHP
10 7 (1.28%) Scala
11 6 (1.09%) Go
11 6 (1.09%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.73%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.73%) VBA
14 3 (0.55%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 72 (13.14%) IRCA
2 66 (12.04%) Degree
3 41 (7.48%) Security Cleared
4 26 (4.74%) SC Cleared
5 17 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (2.74%) A+ Certification
6 15 (2.74%) CCNA
6 15 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (2.74%) MCSE
6 15 (2.74%) Network+ Certification
7 13 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.01%) ACCA
9 9 (1.64%) CIMA
10 7 (1.28%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.28%) GCIA
10 7 (1.28%) GCIH
10 7 (1.28%) GIAC
11 6 (1.09%) CREST Certified
11 6 (1.09%) GCED
11 6 (1.09%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (20.26%) QA
2 96 (17.52%) ISO 9001
3 89 (16.24%) GDPR
4 65 (11.86%) Data Quality
5 29 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (3.10%) ISO 14001
7 16 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 13 (2.37%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.46%) ARP4754
9 8 (1.46%) DO-254
9 8 (1.46%) SLA
10 7 (1.28%) GRC
10 7 (1.28%) NIST
11 6 (1.09%) COBIT
11 6 (1.09%) ISO 8583
11 6 (1.09%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.91%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.91%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (2.74%) Docker
2 8 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.73%) Firmware
4 3 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.18%) IAG
Systems Management
1 15 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.19%) Terraform
3 7 (1.28%) Grafana
4 6 (1.09%) Ansible
4 6 (1.09%) Kibana
4 6 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.91%) QRadar
6 2 (0.36%) Argo
6 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.18%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.18%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 116 (21.17%) Microsoft
2 47 (8.58%) Google
3 23 (4.20%) HubSpot
4 18 (3.28%) SAP
5 16 (2.92%) Dell
6 13 (2.37%) Adobe
6 13 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.01%) Splunk
8 10 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.82%) Oracle
9 7 (1.28%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.09%) Carbon Black
10 6 (1.09%) Databricks
10 6 (1.09%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.09%) Marketo
10 6 (1.09%) Pardot
10 6 (1.09%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.91%) ArcSight
11 5 (0.91%) Cisco
11 5 (0.91%) Facebook