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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 360 487
Rank change year-on-year +18 +127 +209
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 496 357 457
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.81% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.03% 1.90% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 267 199 304
10th Percentile £28,000 £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 £66,875 £77,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £89,000 £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 24,421 18,779 34,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.47% 42.58% 35.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13,812 9,156 23,028
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £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 £110,750 £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 20 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 20 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 +31 434 £49,425 -14.04% 190
UK excluding London +60 361 £42,879 -22.04% 159
Work from Home +51 119 £50,000 -6.98% 86
London -24 118 £65,000 -18.75% 70
North of England +9 91 £62,500 +4.17% 31
South East +21 90 £47,213 -17.89% 60
Midlands 0 58 £44,000 -12.00% 21
North West +10 48 £45,000 -28.00% 19
South West -33 47 £32,500 -35.00% 17
West Midlands -7 39 £44,000 +17.33% 13
Yorkshire -22 28 £90,000 +84.62% 6
East of England -23 28 £40,000 -20.00% 16
Scotland +7 23 £26,150 -50.19% 10
East Midlands -25 18 £35,000 -36.36% 8
North East - 15 £64,250 - 7
Northern Ireland -27 12 - - 3
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 8 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.01%) Confluence
2 5 (1.01%) WordPress
3 4 (0.81%) 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 (9.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (5.44%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.60%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.40%) Maya
6 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (2.02%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.81%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.81%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.81%) JDE World
4 2 (0.40%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.40%) Shopify
4 2 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.20%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.20%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 77 (15.52%) Azure
2 58 (11.69%) Power Platform
3 38 (7.66%) SaaS
4 36 (7.26%) AWS
5 28 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (4.84%) GCP
7 22 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (4.44%) Power Automate
8 15 (3.02%) GitHub
9 14 (2.82%) dbt
10 13 (2.62%) Google Analytics
11 11 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.81%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.61%) Datadog
13 8 (1.61%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.41%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.41%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (1.41%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.03%) SAN
2 15 (3.02%) Firewall
3 14 (2.82%) VPN
4 13 (2.62%) WAN
5 12 (2.42%) LAN
6 11 (2.22%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.41%) DNS
8 6 (1.21%) HTTP
9 5 (1.01%) SMS
10 4 (0.81%) Broadband
10 4 (0.81%) Internet
10 4 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.81%) Wireless
11 3 (0.60%) FTP
11 3 (0.60%) SMTP
12 2 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (0.40%) Network Security
12 2 (0.40%) SSL
12 2 (0.40%) Unified Communications
13 1 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (11.49%) Power BI
2 27 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (4.03%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.22%) Tableau
5 10 (2.02%) Metabase
5 10 (2.02%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.81%) Metadata
7 8 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.41%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.21%) MySQL
9 6 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.01%) Big Data
10 5 (1.01%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.01%) Power Query
11 4 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.81%) GIS
11 4 (0.81%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (4.44%) Git
2 10 (2.02%) JIRA
2 10 (2.02%) Visual Studio
3 9 (1.81%) GitLab
4 7 (1.41%) ERwin
5 6 (1.21%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.81%) Selenium
7 3 (0.60%) TestRail
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%) Visual Website Optimizer
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
1 495 (99.80%) Analytical Skills
2 268 (54.03%) Social Skills
3 189 (38.10%) Finance
4 49 (9.88%) Marketing
5 31 (6.25%) Legal
6 28 (5.65%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.84%) Retail
8 21 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (4.23%) Manufacturing
8 21 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
9 19 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.42%) Banking
11 12 (2.42%) Electronics
11 12 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (2.22%) Telecoms
13 10 (2.02%) Advertising
13 10 (2.02%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.61%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 110 (22.18%) Analyst
2 72 (14.52%) Head of QA
3 36 (7.26%) IT Engineer
4 35 (7.06%) Lead
5 32 (6.45%) Senior
6 31 (6.25%) IT Support
7 25 (5.04%) Business Analyst
8 23 (4.64%) IT Analyst
9 20 (4.03%) Developer
9 20 (4.03%) Field Engineer
9 20 (4.03%) Field Service Engineer
9 20 (4.03%) Support Analyst
10 18 (3.63%) Data Analyst
10 18 (3.63%) Support Engineer
11 17 (3.43%) Junior
12 16 (3.23%) Administrator
12 16 (3.23%) IT Support Engineer
12 16 (3.23%) Junior Analyst
13 15 (3.02%) Consultant
13 15 (3.02%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.23%) CSS
1 16 (3.23%) HTML
2 13 (2.62%) JSON
3 11 (2.22%) XML
4 9 (1.81%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (1.61%) .NET
5 8 (1.61%) OAuth
5 8 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (1.61%) SAML
6 7 (1.41%) FpML
6 7 (1.41%) XML Schema
7 6 (1.21%) REST
7 6 (1.21%) SOAP
8 5 (1.01%) PySpark
8 5 (1.01%) React
8 5 (1.01%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.81%) Flutter
9 4 (0.81%) RESTful
10 3 (0.60%) Playwright
10 3 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (5.04%) Onboarding
2 20 (4.03%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.23%) Smartphone
3 16 (3.23%) Social Media
4 14 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (2.62%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.42%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.02%) FMCG
8 9 (1.81%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.81%) Driving Licence
8 9 (1.81%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.61%) Web Conferencing
10 7 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
10 7 (1.41%) e-Learning
10 7 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
12 5 (1.01%) IoT
12 5 (1.01%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.25%) Windows
2 15 (3.02%) Linux
3 12 (2.42%) Windows 10
4 8 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.21%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.81%) Unix
7 2 (0.40%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (35.48%) Continuous Improvement
2 154 (31.05%) Analytics
3 153 (30.85%) Problem-Solving
4 121 (24.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 95 (19.15%) Actionable Insight
6 92 (18.55%) Root Cause Analysis
7 86 (17.34%) Customer Experience
7 86 (17.34%) Service Delivery
8 82 (16.53%) Agile
9 79 (15.93%) Change Management
10 78 (15.73%) Quality Management
11 76 (15.32%) PRINCE2
12 75 (15.12%) Decision-Making
13 74 (14.92%) Business Intelligence
14 72 (14.52%) Anti-Money Laundering
15 47 (9.48%) CRM
16 45 (9.07%) Process Improvement
17 42 (8.47%) ERP
18 40 (8.06%) CI/CD
19 39 (7.86%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 91 (18.35%) SQL
2 62 (12.50%) Python
3 29 (5.85%) PowerShell
4 21 (4.23%) Java
5 19 (3.83%) C#
6 15 (3.02%) Bash
7 11 (2.22%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.02%) C++
9 9 (1.81%) Go
10 8 (1.61%) MATLAB
11 7 (1.41%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.21%) C
12 6 (1.21%) Scala
13 5 (1.01%) PHP
13 5 (1.01%) VBA
14 4 (0.81%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.81%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.60%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.60%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 72 (14.52%) IRCA
2 54 (10.89%) Degree
3 25 (5.04%) Security Cleared
4 23 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (4.03%) A+ Certification
5 20 (4.03%) CCNA
5 20 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (4.03%) MCSE
5 20 (4.03%) Network+ Certification
6 16 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (3.23%) SC Cleared
7 8 (1.61%) GIAC
8 7 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.41%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.21%) ACCA
9 6 (1.21%) CISSP
9 6 (1.21%) GCIH
10 5 (1.01%) CIMA
10 5 (1.01%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.01%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (19.96%) QA
2 88 (17.74%) ISO 9001
3 84 (16.94%) GDPR
4 46 (9.27%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (2.02%) ISO 14001
7 9 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (1.61%) GRC
8 8 (1.61%) SLA
9 6 (1.21%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.21%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.01%) ARP4754
10 5 (1.01%) DO-254
10 5 (1.01%) NIST
10 5 (1.01%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.60%) COBIT
12 3 (0.60%) Def Stans
System Software
1 13 (2.62%) Docker
2 8 (1.61%) 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 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 16 (3.23%) Terraform
2 9 (1.81%) Grafana
3 8 (1.61%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.81%) Control-M
6 3 (0.60%) Ansible
6 3 (0.60%) Kibana
6 3 (0.60%) QRadar
7 2 (0.40%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 101 (20.36%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.04%) Google
3 23 (4.64%) Dell
4 20 (4.03%) SAP
5 17 (3.43%) HubSpot
5 17 (3.43%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.82%) Oracle
7 13 (2.62%) Adobe
8 10 (2.02%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
10 8 (1.61%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.61%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.41%) Sparx
12 6 (1.21%) Databricks
12 6 (1.21%) Splunk
13 5 (1.01%) IFS
13 5 (1.01%) Informatica
13 5 (1.01%) YouTube
14 4 (0.81%) ConnectWise
14 4 (0.81%) Marketo