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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 308 470
Rank change year-on-year -38 +162 +162
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 524 449 477
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.91% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.05% 2.23% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 289 259 300
10th Percentile £28,125 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,119 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £46,845
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +17.41% -6.31%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £65,313
90th Percentile £94,000 £90,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £42,810
% change year-on-year -12.00% +16.80% -9.87%

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 25,541 20,119 34,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.85% 40.94% 33.81%
Number of salaries quoted 16,285 9,950 21,896
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,445 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% +4.55% -14.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,619 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.24% - -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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -33 469 £50,000 -9.09% 258
UK excluding London +14 385 £44,000 -12.00% 195
Work from Home -7 133 £50,000 - 162
London -64 125 £65,000 -7.14% 105
South East -9 103 £50,000 -6.98% 56
North of England +5 94 £62,500 +31.58% 48
Midlands -6 65 £44,000 -23.48% 32
South West -36 62 £32,500 -35.00% 25
North West -9 47 £45,000 -2.70% 23
West Midlands -3 45 £44,000 +12.82% 13
Yorkshire -6 33 £90,000 +89.47% 19
East Midlands -25 20 £42,500 -46.88% 19
East of England -30 19 £40,000 -14.61% 15
Scotland +18 17 £26,150 -32.95% 15
North East -44 14 £58,500 - 6
Northern Ireland -46 14 £63,750 +27.50% 3
Wales - 11 £31,750 - 4

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 10 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.34%) Confluence
3 5 (0.95%) WordPress
4 4 (0.76%) CMS
4 4 (0.76%) SAS
5 3 (0.57%) IIS
6 2 (0.38%) Apache
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.19%) Mendix
Applications
1 52 (9.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.57%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.19%) Simulink
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.29%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.76%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.76%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.76%) JDE World
4 3 (0.57%) Shopify
5 2 (0.38%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.38%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.19%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.19%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.19%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 74 (14.12%) Azure
2 65 (12.40%) Power Platform
3 38 (7.25%) SaaS
4 34 (6.49%) AWS
4 34 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (4.01%) GCP
7 20 (3.82%) Power Automate
8 16 (3.05%) Google Analytics
8 16 (3.05%) PowerApps
9 15 (2.86%) GitHub
10 12 (2.29%) dbt
10 12 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (1.72%) Datadog
14 8 (1.53%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.34%) Google Ads
15 7 (1.34%) Snowflake
15 7 (1.34%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.67%) SAN
2 12 (2.29%) LAN
2 12 (2.29%) TCP/IP
2 12 (2.29%) VPN
2 12 (2.29%) WAN
3 10 (1.91%) Firewall
3 10 (1.91%) HTTP
4 9 (1.72%) DNS
5 8 (1.53%) SMS
6 6 (1.15%) Wireless
7 5 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.76%) FTP
8 4 (0.76%) Internet
8 4 (0.76%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.76%) NAS
8 4 (0.76%) SMTP
8 4 (0.76%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.38%) Broadband
9 2 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (11.07%) Power BI
2 30 (5.73%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.48%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.29%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.10%) Metadata
5 11 (2.10%) Tableau
6 8 (1.53%) Metabase
6 8 (1.53%) MySQL
7 7 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.34%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.34%) Power Query
7 7 (1.34%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.15%) GIS
9 4 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.57%) Big Data
10 3 (0.57%) Looker
11 2 (0.38%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.38%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (4.20%) Git
2 16 (3.05%) JIRA
3 9 (1.72%) GitLab
4 8 (1.53%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.34%) ERwin
6 6 (1.15%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.95%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.76%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.57%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.38%) Ranorex
10 2 (0.38%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.38%) Selenium
10 2 (0.38%) TestRail
11 1 (0.19%) JMeter
11 1 (0.19%) Postman
11 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 523 (99.81%) Analytical Skills
2 280 (53.44%) Social Skills
3 184 (35.11%) Finance
4 56 (10.69%) Marketing
5 37 (7.06%) Organisational Skills
6 28 (5.34%) Manufacturing
7 23 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (4.39%) Public Sector
8 21 (4.01%) Retail
9 19 (3.63%) Legal
10 16 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.48%) Electronics
11 13 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.29%) Advertising
12 12 (2.29%) Aerospace
13 11 (2.10%) Banking
13 11 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.91%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.72%) Law
16 6 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (22.14%) Analyst
2 72 (13.74%) Head of QA
3 43 (8.21%) Lead
4 37 (7.06%) Senior
5 27 (5.15%) Support Analyst
6 25 (4.77%) Business Analyst
7 24 (4.58%) Developer
8 23 (4.39%) IT Engineer
9 22 (4.20%) Data Analyst
9 22 (4.20%) IT Support
10 19 (3.63%) IT Analyst
11 16 (3.05%) Compliance Manager
11 16 (3.05%) Consultant
11 16 (3.05%) Junior
12 15 (2.86%) Junior Analyst
13 14 (2.67%) Field Engineer
13 14 (2.67%) Field Service Engineer
14 13 (2.48%) DevOps Engineer
15 11 (2.10%) IT Support Analyst
15 11 (2.10%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.82%) JSON
2 18 (3.44%) HTML
3 17 (3.24%) CSS
4 12 (2.29%) .NET
5 10 (1.91%) XML
6 8 (1.53%) OAuth
6 8 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (1.53%) SAML
7 7 (1.34%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (1.34%) FpML
7 7 (1.34%) XML Schema
8 6 (1.15%) React
9 5 (0.95%) PySpark
10 4 (0.76%) LDAP
11 3 (0.57%) AngularJS
11 3 (0.57%) Flutter
11 3 (0.57%) REST
11 3 (0.57%) RESTful
12 2 (0.38%) CSS3
12 2 (0.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.39%) Onboarding
2 19 (3.63%) Management Information System
3 17 (3.24%) Cyber Threat
4 16 (3.05%) Cloud Native
5 15 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.86%) Social Media
6 14 (2.67%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.29%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.91%) Cyber Defence
8 10 (1.91%) Smartphone
9 9 (1.72%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.53%) e-Learning
10 8 (1.53%) SCADA
10 8 (1.53%) Web Conferencing
11 6 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.95%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.87%) Windows
2 16 (3.05%) Linux
3 12 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.53%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.38%) Android
6 2 (0.38%) Debian
6 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (38.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 171 (32.63%) Analytics
3 146 (27.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 135 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
5 100 (19.08%) Actionable Insight
6 95 (18.13%) Root Cause Analysis
7 92 (17.56%) Agile
8 86 (16.41%) Customer Experience
9 85 (16.22%) Change Management
9 85 (16.22%) Service Delivery
10 84 (16.03%) Decision-Making
11 79 (15.08%) Quality Management
12 78 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
13 76 (14.50%) PRINCE2
14 72 (13.74%) Anti-Money Laundering
15 56 (10.69%) Process Improvement
16 54 (10.31%) CRM
17 45 (8.59%) ERP
18 41 (7.82%) DevOps
19 39 (7.44%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (18.13%) SQL
2 55 (10.50%) Python
3 22 (4.20%) PowerShell
4 21 (4.01%) C#
5 19 (3.63%) Java
6 17 (3.24%) Bash
7 13 (2.48%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.48%) MATLAB
8 11 (2.10%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.72%) Go
10 8 (1.53%) C++
11 7 (1.34%) PHP
11 7 (1.34%) Scala
12 6 (1.15%) C
12 6 (1.15%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (0.95%) Embedded C
14 4 (0.76%) Embedded C++
14 4 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.76%) VBA
15 2 (0.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 72 (13.74%) IRCA
2 62 (11.83%) Degree
3 34 (6.49%) Security Cleared
4 25 (4.77%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (2.67%) A+ Certification
6 14 (2.67%) CCNA
6 14 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (2.67%) MCSE
6 14 (2.67%) Network+ Certification
7 10 (1.91%) ACCA
7 10 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.53%) CIMA
8 8 (1.53%) GCIA
8 8 (1.53%) GCIH
8 8 (1.53%) GIAC
9 6 (1.15%) CREST Certified
9 6 (1.15%) GCED
9 6 (1.15%) OSCP
9 6 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (20.04%) QA
2 95 (18.13%) ISO 9001
3 89 (16.98%) GDPR
4 53 (10.11%) Data Quality
5 24 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (3.24%) ISO 14001
7 16 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 15 (2.86%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.72%) SLA
10 8 (1.53%) ARP4754
10 8 (1.53%) DO-254
11 7 (1.34%) GRC
11 7 (1.34%) ISO 19650
11 7 (1.34%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.95%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.76%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.76%) ISO 8583
13 4 (0.76%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (2.10%) Docker
2 10 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) IAG
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (3.24%) Terraform
2 14 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.72%) Grafana
4 8 (1.53%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.34%) Ansible
6 6 (1.15%) Kibana
7 4 (0.76%) QRadar
8 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.19%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 110 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.49%) Google
3 22 (4.20%) HubSpot
4 21 (4.01%) SAP
5 16 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.86%) Dell
7 12 (2.29%) Adobe
8 10 (1.91%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.91%) Splunk
9 9 (1.72%) Oracle
9 9 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.53%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.53%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.34%) Sparx
12 6 (1.15%) Carbon Black
12 6 (1.15%) Databricks
12 6 (1.15%) Marketo
12 6 (1.15%) Pardot
13 5 (0.95%) IFS
14 4 (0.76%) Hotjar