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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 344 471
Rank change year-on-year +17 +127 +209
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 502 354 458
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.82% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.05% 1.92% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 273 192 304
10th Percentile £27,200 £31,250 £26,325
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +27.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £59,063
90th Percentile £93,500 £89,875 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,879 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -22.04% +29.41% -15.00%

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 24,533 18,403 34,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.55% 42.87% 35.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13,924 8,679 22,985
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,800 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £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 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 22 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 22 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 +23 439 £50,000 -13.04% 221
UK excluding London +67 363 £42,879 -22.04% 177
London -39 123 £65,000 -18.75% 90
Work from Home +47 120 £50,000 -16.67% 118
North of England +11 91 £62,500 +2.04% 38
South East -5 90 £47,213 -17.89% 56
Midlands -5 58 £44,000 -16.19% 24
North West +5 48 £45,000 -30.77% 22
South West -27 48 £32,500 -40.91% 21
West Midlands -1 39 £44,000 +17.33% 16
Yorkshire -19 28 £90,000 +89.47% 11
East of England -20 27 £40,000 -15.79% 17
Scotland +2 24 £26,150 -50.19% 10
East Midlands -30 18 £35,000 -37.78% 8
North East - 15 £64,250 - 6
Northern Ireland -26 13 £63,750 +27.50% 11
Wales - 12 £35,000 - 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 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.00%) Confluence
2 5 (1.00%) WordPress
3 4 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.60%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Mendix
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 48 (9.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.60%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.40%) Maya
6 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (1.99%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.80%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.80%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.80%) JDE World
4 2 (0.40%) Shopify
4 2 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.20%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.20%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.20%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 75 (14.94%) Azure
2 57 (11.35%) Power Platform
3 39 (7.77%) SaaS
4 37 (7.37%) AWS
5 29 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (4.58%) GCP
7 22 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (4.18%) Power Automate
9 15 (2.99%) GitHub
10 13 (2.59%) dbt
10 13 (2.59%) Google Analytics
11 11 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.79%) Datadog
12 9 (1.79%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.59%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.39%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (1.39%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.38%) SAN
2 16 (3.19%) Firewall
3 15 (2.99%) VPN
4 13 (2.59%) WAN
5 12 (2.39%) LAN
5 12 (2.39%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.59%) DNS
7 7 (1.39%) HTTP
8 5 (1.00%) SMS
9 4 (0.80%) Broadband
9 4 (0.80%) Internet
9 4 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.80%) Wireless
10 3 (0.60%) FTP
10 3 (0.60%) SMTP
11 2 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (0.40%) Network Security
11 2 (0.40%) SSL
11 2 (0.40%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.20%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (11.16%) Power BI
2 26 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (3.78%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.19%) Tableau
5 10 (1.99%) Metadata
5 10 (1.99%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.79%) Metabase
7 8 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.39%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.20%) MySQL
9 6 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.00%) Big Data
10 5 (1.00%) Power Query
11 4 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.80%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.80%) GIS
11 4 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (4.38%) Git
2 10 (1.99%) JIRA
3 9 (1.79%) GitLab
3 9 (1.79%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.39%) ERwin
5 6 (1.20%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.80%) Selenium
7 3 (0.60%) TestRail
7 3 (0.60%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.40%) Ranorex
8 2 (0.40%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.40%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.20%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 501 (99.80%) Analytical Skills
2 269 (53.59%) Social Skills
3 188 (37.45%) Finance
4 50 (9.96%) Marketing
5 32 (6.37%) Legal
6 31 (6.18%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.78%) Retail
8 22 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (4.18%) Manufacturing
9 21 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.39%) Banking
12 12 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.19%) Electronics
13 11 (2.19%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.99%) Advertising
14 10 (1.99%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.79%) Law
16 8 (1.59%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 113 (22.51%) Analyst
2 72 (14.34%) Head of QA
3 38 (7.57%) IT Engineer
4 35 (6.97%) Lead
5 33 (6.57%) Senior
6 30 (5.98%) IT Support
7 25 (4.98%) Business Analyst
8 22 (4.38%) Field Engineer
8 22 (4.38%) Field Service Engineer
8 22 (4.38%) IT Analyst
9 20 (3.98%) Data Analyst
10 19 (3.78%) Developer
10 19 (3.78%) Support Analyst
11 18 (3.59%) Support Engineer
12 17 (3.39%) Junior
13 16 (3.19%) Administrator
13 16 (3.19%) IT Support Engineer
13 16 (3.19%) Junior Analyst
14 14 (2.79%) Consultant
14 14 (2.79%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.19%) CSS
1 16 (3.19%) HTML
2 13 (2.59%) JSON
3 11 (2.19%) XML
4 9 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (1.59%) .NET
5 8 (1.59%) OAuth
5 8 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (1.59%) SAML
6 7 (1.39%) FpML
6 7 (1.39%) REST
6 7 (1.39%) XML Schema
7 6 (1.20%) SOAP
8 5 (1.00%) PySpark
8 5 (1.00%) React
8 5 (1.00%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.80%) Flutter
9 4 (0.80%) RESTful
10 3 (0.60%) Playwright
10 3 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.98%) Onboarding
2 22 (4.38%) Data Centre
3 18 (3.59%) Smartphone
4 16 (3.19%) Social Media
5 15 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
6 14 (2.79%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.39%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.99%) FMCG
9 9 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.79%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.79%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (1.59%) Web Conferencing
11 7 (1.39%) e-Learning
11 7 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.37%) Windows
2 16 (3.19%) Linux
3 12 (2.39%) Windows 10
4 8 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.20%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.80%) Unix
7 2 (0.40%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (35.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 156 (31.08%) Analytics
3 153 (30.48%) Problem-Solving
4 122 (24.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 96 (19.12%) Actionable Insight
6 94 (18.73%) Root Cause Analysis
7 86 (17.13%) Customer Experience
7 86 (17.13%) Service Delivery
8 81 (16.14%) Agile
9 79 (15.74%) Change Management
10 78 (15.54%) Quality Management
11 77 (15.34%) Decision-Making
12 76 (15.14%) PRINCE2
13 73 (14.54%) Business Intelligence
14 72 (14.34%) Anti-Money Laundering
15 47 (9.36%) CRM
16 46 (9.16%) Process Improvement
17 41 (8.17%) Customer Service
17 41 (8.17%) ERP
18 40 (7.97%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 90 (17.93%) SQL
2 61 (12.15%) Python
3 29 (5.78%) PowerShell
4 21 (4.18%) Java
5 19 (3.78%) C#
6 15 (2.99%) Bash
7 11 (2.19%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.99%) C++
9 9 (1.79%) Go
10 8 (1.59%) MATLAB
11 7 (1.39%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.20%) C
12 6 (1.20%) Scala
13 5 (1.00%) PHP
13 5 (1.00%) VBA
14 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.80%) Search Processing Language
14 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 72 (14.34%) IRCA
2 57 (11.35%) Degree
3 27 (5.38%) Security Cleared
4 25 (4.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (4.38%) A+ Certification
5 22 (4.38%) CCNA
5 22 (4.38%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (4.38%) MCSE
5 22 (4.38%) Network+ Certification
6 18 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (3.59%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.79%) GIAC
8 8 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.39%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.39%) GCIH
10 6 (1.20%) ACCA
10 6 (1.20%) CISSP
10 6 (1.20%) GCIA
11 5 (1.00%) CIMA
11 5 (1.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (19.52%) QA
2 88 (17.53%) ISO 9001
3 84 (16.73%) GDPR
4 45 (8.96%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.99%) ISO 14001
7 9 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (1.59%) GRC
8 8 (1.59%) SLA
9 6 (1.20%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.20%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.00%) ARP4754
10 5 (1.00%) DO-254
10 5 (1.00%) NIST
10 5 (1.00%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.80%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.60%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.60%) ITGC
System Software
1 13 (2.59%) Docker
2 8 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) IAG
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (3.19%) Kubernetes
1 16 (3.19%) Terraform
2 9 (1.79%) Grafana
3 8 (1.59%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.80%) Control-M
5 4 (0.80%) Kibana
6 3 (0.60%) Ansible
6 3 (0.60%) QRadar
7 2 (0.40%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 102 (20.32%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.98%) Dell
2 25 (4.98%) Google
3 19 (3.78%) SAP
4 17 (3.39%) HubSpot
4 17 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 14 (2.79%) Adobe
5 14 (2.79%) Oracle
6 11 (2.19%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (1.59%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.39%) Sparx
9 7 (1.39%) Splunk
10 6 (1.20%) Databricks
11 5 (1.00%) IFS
11 5 (1.00%) Informatica
11 5 (1.00%) YouTube
12 4 (0.80%) Apple
12 4 (0.80%) Epicor