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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 346 481
Rank change year-on-year +14 +135 +198
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 501 353 452
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.82% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.03% 1.93% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 272 189 300
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,713 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% +27.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £67,813 £78,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £93,625 £90,000 £73,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +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 24,670 18,333 34,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.60% 42.77% 35.31%
Number of salaries quoted 14,049 8,627 23,039
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £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 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -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 25 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 25 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 +35 439 £50,000 -13.04% 276
UK excluding London +51 360 £44,000 -20.00% 188
London -30 125 £65,000 -18.75% 125
Work from Home +53 121 £50,000 -16.67% 140
North of England +12 91 £62,500 +2.04% 42
South East +10 88 £49,425 -14.04% 57
Midlands -1 59 £44,000 -16.19% 31
South West -25 49 £32,500 -40.91% 22
North West +8 48 £45,000 -30.77% 26
West Midlands -5 39 £44,000 +17.33% 16
Yorkshire -23 28 £90,000 +89.47% 12
East of England -18 25 £40,000 +23.08% 20
Scotland +5 23 £26,150 -50.19% 10
East Midlands -16 19 £37,500 -34.78% 15
North East - 15 £64,250 - 5
Northern Ireland -28 13 £63,750 +27.50% 5
Wales - 12 £35,000 - 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 9 (1.80%) 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 46 (9.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.00%) 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 (2.00%) 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 3 (0.60%) Shopify
5 2 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.20%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.20%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 75 (14.97%) Azure
2 57 (11.38%) Power Platform
3 39 (7.78%) SaaS
4 37 (7.39%) AWS
5 29 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (4.59%) GCP
7 22 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (4.19%) Power Automate
9 15 (2.99%) GitHub
10 13 (2.59%) dbt
10 13 (2.59%) Google Analytics
11 11 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.80%) Datadog
12 9 (1.80%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.60%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.40%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.40%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (1.40%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.39%) SAN
2 16 (3.19%) Firewall
3 15 (2.99%) VPN
4 13 (2.59%) WAN
5 12 (2.40%) LAN
5 12 (2.40%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.60%) DNS
7 7 (1.40%) 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
10 3 (0.60%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (0.40%) Network Security
11 2 (0.40%) SSL
12 1 (0.20%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (11.18%) Power BI
2 26 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (3.79%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.20%) Tableau
5 10 (2.00%) Metadata
5 10 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.80%) Metabase
7 8 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.40%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.20%) MySQL
9 6 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.00%) Big Data
10 5 (1.00%) GIS
10 5 (1.00%) Power Query
11 4 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.80%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.60%) Looker
Development Applications
1 22 (4.39%) Git
2 10 (2.00%) JIRA
3 9 (1.80%) GitLab
3 9 (1.80%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.40%) 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%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 500 (99.80%) Analytical Skills
2 268 (53.49%) Social Skills
3 187 (37.33%) Finance
4 52 (10.38%) Marketing
5 27 (5.39%) Legal
6 26 (5.19%) Public Sector
6 26 (5.19%) Retail
7 22 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (4.19%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.40%) Banking
10 12 (2.40%) Electronics
10 12 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.20%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.00%) Advertising
12 10 (2.00%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.80%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.80%) Law
Job Titles
1 113 (22.55%) Analyst
2 72 (14.37%) Head of QA
3 36 (7.19%) Lead
4 33 (6.59%) IT Engineer
4 33 (6.59%) Senior
5 30 (5.99%) IT Support
6 25 (4.99%) Business Analyst
7 22 (4.39%) IT Analyst
8 20 (3.99%) Data Analyst
9 19 (3.79%) Developer
9 19 (3.79%) Support Analyst
10 18 (3.59%) Support Engineer
11 17 (3.39%) Field Engineer
11 17 (3.39%) Field Service Engineer
11 17 (3.39%) Junior
12 16 (3.19%) IT Support Engineer
12 16 (3.19%) Junior Analyst
13 14 (2.79%) Administrator
13 14 (2.79%) Consultant
13 14 (2.79%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.39%) CSS
1 17 (3.39%) HTML
2 13 (2.59%) JSON
3 11 (2.20%) XML
4 9 (1.80%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (1.60%) .NET
5 8 (1.60%) OAuth
5 8 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (1.60%) SAML
6 7 (1.40%) FpML
6 7 (1.40%) REST
6 7 (1.40%) 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%) Spring
10 3 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.99%) Onboarding
2 17 (3.39%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.19%) Social Media
4 15 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
5 14 (2.79%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.59%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.59%) Smartphone
7 12 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.00%) FMCG
9 9 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.80%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.80%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.60%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (1.60%) Web Conferencing
11 7 (1.40%) e-Learning
11 7 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
12 6 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.20%) SCADA
13 5 (1.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.39%) Windows
2 16 (3.19%) Linux
3 12 (2.40%) Windows 10
4 8 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.20%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.80%) Unix
7 2 (0.40%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (35.73%) Continuous Improvement
2 158 (31.54%) Analytics
3 149 (29.74%) Problem-Solving
4 123 (24.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 96 (19.16%) Actionable Insight
6 94 (18.76%) Root Cause Analysis
7 88 (17.56%) Customer Experience
8 85 (16.97%) Service Delivery
9 82 (16.37%) Agile
10 79 (15.77%) Change Management
10 79 (15.77%) Decision-Making
11 78 (15.57%) Quality Management
12 76 (15.17%) PRINCE2
13 74 (14.77%) Business Intelligence
14 72 (14.37%) Anti-Money Laundering
15 49 (9.78%) CRM
16 44 (8.78%) Process Improvement
17 42 (8.38%) ERP
18 40 (7.98%) CI/CD
18 40 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (18.16%) SQL
2 62 (12.38%) Python
3 29 (5.79%) PowerShell
4 21 (4.19%) Java
5 20 (3.99%) C#
6 15 (2.99%) Bash
7 11 (2.20%) C++
7 11 (2.20%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.00%) MATLAB
9 9 (1.80%) Go
10 7 (1.40%) C
10 7 (1.40%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.20%) Scala
12 5 (1.00%) PHP
12 5 (1.00%) VBA
13 4 (0.80%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.80%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.80%) Search Processing Language
13 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (14.37%) IRCA
2 58 (11.58%) Degree
3 28 (5.59%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (3.79%) SC Cleared
6 17 (3.39%) A+ Certification
6 17 (3.39%) CCNA
6 17 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (3.39%) MCSE
6 17 (3.39%) Network+ Certification
7 13 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.80%) GIAC
9 8 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.40%) DBS Check
10 7 (1.40%) GCIH
11 6 (1.20%) ACCA
11 6 (1.20%) CISSP
11 6 (1.20%) GCIA
12 5 (1.00%) CIMA
12 5 (1.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (19.56%) QA
2 88 (17.56%) ISO 9001
3 85 (16.97%) GDPR
4 46 (9.18%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.00%) ISO 14001
7 9 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (1.60%) GRC
8 8 (1.60%) SLA
9 6 (1.20%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.20%) ARP4754
9 6 (1.20%) DO-254
9 6 (1.20%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.00%) NIST
10 5 (1.00%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.80%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.80%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.60%) COBIT
System Software
1 13 (2.59%) Docker
2 8 (1.60%) 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 (1.80%) Grafana
3 8 (1.60%) 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 (20.36%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.19%) Google
3 20 (3.99%) Dell
4 19 (3.79%) HubSpot
4 19 (3.79%) SAP
5 18 (3.59%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.79%) Adobe
6 14 (2.79%) Oracle
7 11 (2.20%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (1.60%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.60%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.40%) Sparx
10 7 (1.40%) Splunk
11 6 (1.20%) Databricks
12 5 (1.00%) IFS
12 5 (1.00%) Informatica
12 5 (1.00%) YouTube
13 4 (0.80%) Apple
13 4 (0.80%) Epicor