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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 279 471
Rank change year-on-year -113 +192 +84
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 492 514 357
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 1.03% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.73% 2.51% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 284 307 209
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £34,688 £34,770 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,375 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +8.70%

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 28,520 20,471 26,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.92% 41.07% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 17,904 10,379 14,733
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.77% -6.36%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -72 459 £50,000 - 520
UK excluding London -81 358 £45,000 -10.00% 225
Work from Home -41 139 £50,000 - 193
London -79 125 £65,000 -5.45% 361
South East -34 106 £49,425 -6.75% 52
North of England -29 82 £45,000 - 47
South West -61 69 £42,500 -15.00% 48
Midlands -36 59 £45,000 +5.88% 32
North West -24 41 £37,500 -14.29% 34
West Midlands -14 40 £42,500 +16.44% 18
Yorkshire -24 30 £80,571 +69.62% 11
East Midlands -38 17 £55,000 -31.25% 14
East of England -35 16 £42,879 -1.99% 19
Scotland -10 13 £26,150 - 14
North East -46 11 £57,500 - 3
Northern Ireland -77 8 £63,750 - 9
Wales -64 5 - - 5

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 16 (3.25%) Confluence
2 12 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.81%) Apache
3 4 (0.81%) CMS
3 4 (0.81%) SAS
3 4 (0.81%) WordPress
4 3 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.61%) IIS
4 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.41%) Luigi
5 2 (0.41%) Tornado
Applications
1 50 (10.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (6.30%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.02%) Simulink
6 4 (0.81%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.61%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (2.44%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.42%) Shopify
3 4 (0.81%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.81%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.81%) JDE World
4 3 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.41%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.41%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.20%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.20%) Odoo
6 1 (0.20%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.20%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 72 (14.63%) Azure
2 51 (10.37%) Power Platform
3 42 (8.54%) SaaS
4 40 (8.13%) AWS
5 34 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (6.10%) GCP
7 23 (4.67%) Google Analytics
8 17 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (3.25%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.03%) Anthropic Claude
10 10 (2.03%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (1.83%) Copilot Studio
11 9 (1.83%) Entra ID
11 9 (1.83%) Google Ads
12 8 (1.63%) dbt
13 7 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.22%) Canva
15 5 (1.02%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.64%) TCP/IP
2 11 (2.24%) HTTP
2 11 (2.24%) LAN
2 11 (2.24%) SAN
2 11 (2.24%) WAN
3 10 (2.03%) SMS
4 9 (1.83%) DNS
5 8 (1.63%) Firewall
5 8 (1.63%) VPN
6 5 (1.02%) FTP
6 5 (1.02%) Internet
6 5 (1.02%) SMTP
6 5 (1.02%) Unified Communications
6 5 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.02%) Wireshark
7 4 (0.81%) ATM
7 4 (0.81%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.81%) NAS
7 4 (0.81%) Wireless
8 2 (0.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.33%) Power BI
2 19 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.44%) Tableau
4 11 (2.24%) Relational Database
4 11 (2.24%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.63%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.63%) Metadata
5 8 (1.63%) MySQL
6 7 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.42%) GIS
6 7 (1.42%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.22%) Looker
8 5 (1.02%) Big Data
8 5 (1.02%) Power Query
9 4 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.61%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.61%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (0.61%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (5.08%) JIRA
2 16 (3.25%) Git
3 9 (1.83%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.81%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.81%) GitLab
4 4 (0.81%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.61%) ERwin
5 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.61%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.41%) Ranorex
6 2 (0.41%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.41%) Selenium
6 2 (0.41%) TestRail
7 1 (0.20%) JMeter
7 1 (0.20%) Postman
7 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
General
1 492 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 243 (49.39%) Social Skills
3 147 (29.88%) Finance
4 64 (13.01%) Marketing
5 38 (7.72%) Organisational Skills
6 36 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (6.30%) Public Sector
8 23 (4.67%) Manufacturing
9 19 (3.86%) Legal
10 18 (3.66%) Electronics
11 17 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (3.46%) Retail
12 16 (3.25%) Advertising
13 13 (2.64%) Law
14 11 (2.24%) Financial Institution
15 10 (2.03%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (1.63%) Local Government
18 7 (1.42%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 100 (20.33%) Analyst
2 39 (7.93%) Lead
3 38 (7.72%) Senior
4 36 (7.32%) Head of QA
5 27 (5.49%) Developer
6 25 (5.08%) Business Analyst
7 22 (4.47%) Support Analyst
8 20 (4.07%) Data Analyst
9 16 (3.25%) Compliance Manager
9 16 (3.25%) IT Engineer
10 13 (2.64%) Product Owner
11 12 (2.44%) Data Engineer
11 12 (2.44%) IT Support
11 12 (2.44%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (2.24%) Architect
12 11 (2.24%) Field Engineer
12 11 (2.24%) Field Service Engineer
12 11 (2.24%) IT Analyst
12 11 (2.24%) Senior Manager
12 11 (2.24%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.86%) JSON
2 14 (2.85%) .NET
2 14 (2.85%) HTML
3 13 (2.64%) CSS
4 9 (1.83%) Kafka
4 9 (1.83%) RESTful
4 9 (1.83%) Terraform
5 8 (1.63%) REST
6 6 (1.22%) Spring
6 6 (1.22%) Spring Boot
6 6 (1.22%) XML
7 5 (1.02%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.02%) LDAP
8 4 (0.81%) OAuth
8 4 (0.81%) PyTorch
8 4 (0.81%) React
8 4 (0.81%) SAML
8 4 (0.81%) TensorFlow
9 3 (0.61%) FpML
9 3 (0.61%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.89%) Onboarding
2 24 (4.88%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.47%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.66%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.66%) Cyber Threat
5 17 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (3.05%) Social Media
8 12 (2.44%) Driving Licence
9 11 (2.24%) Cyber Defence
9 11 (2.24%) Data Centre
10 10 (2.03%) Blog
11 9 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.63%) Credit Risk
12 8 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.63%) SCADA
12 8 (1.63%) Web Conferencing
13 7 (1.42%) Educational Technology
14 6 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.30%) Windows
2 14 (2.85%) Linux
3 12 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.81%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.41%) Android
5 2 (0.41%) Debian
5 2 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (34.35%) Continuous Improvement
2 142 (28.86%) Analytics
3 121 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
4 109 (22.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 106 (21.54%) Agile
6 84 (17.07%) Decision-Making
7 73 (14.84%) Actionable Insight
8 67 (13.62%) AI
9 63 (12.80%) Root Cause Analysis
10 62 (12.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 59 (11.99%) Business Intelligence
12 56 (11.38%) Customer Experience
13 51 (10.37%) CRM
14 49 (9.96%) Service Delivery
15 48 (9.76%) Change Management
16 46 (9.35%) Roadmaps
17 45 (9.15%) Quality Management
18 43 (8.74%) Process Improvement
19 41 (8.33%) PRINCE2
19 41 (8.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (20.12%) SQL
2 43 (8.74%) Python
3 26 (5.28%) Java
4 23 (4.67%) C#
5 18 (3.66%) PowerShell
6 17 (3.46%) MATLAB
7 11 (2.24%) C
7 11 (2.24%) JavaScript
7 11 (2.24%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.03%) Bash
9 9 (1.83%) Embedded C
10 8 (1.63%) C++
11 7 (1.42%) PHP
11 7 (1.42%) Scala
12 6 (1.22%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (1.02%) Go
13 5 (1.02%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.81%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.61%) COBOL
15 3 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (13.01%) Degree
2 41 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 36 (7.32%) IRCA
4 26 (5.28%) SC Cleared
5 13 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.24%) A+ Certification
6 11 (2.24%) CCNA
6 11 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.24%) MCSE
6 11 (2.24%) Network+ Certification
7 9 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.63%) ACCA
9 7 (1.42%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.22%) CIMA
10 6 (1.22%) CREST Certified
10 6 (1.22%) GCED
10 6 (1.22%) GCIA
10 6 (1.22%) GCIH
10 6 (1.22%) GIAC
10 6 (1.22%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (16.06%) QA
2 63 (12.80%) Data Quality
3 59 (11.99%) ISO 9001
4 52 (10.57%) GDPR
5 29 (5.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 16 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 16 (3.25%) ISO 14001
6 16 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 10 (2.03%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.63%) ARP4754
8 8 (1.63%) DO-254
9 6 (1.22%) COBIT
9 6 (1.22%) ISO 8583
9 6 (1.22%) NIST
9 6 (1.22%) SLA
10 5 (1.02%) GRC
10 5 (1.02%) ISO 19650
10 5 (1.02%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (2.44%) Docker
2 8 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.42%) Firmware
4 5 (1.02%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) IAG
Systems Management
1 12 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.22%) Ansible
2 6 (1.22%) Kibana
3 5 (1.02%) QRadar
4 4 (0.81%) Grafana
5 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.41%) Argo
6 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 108 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 50 (10.16%) Google
3 23 (4.67%) HubSpot
4 18 (3.66%) SAP
5 14 (2.85%) Adobe
6 13 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.44%) Dell
8 11 (2.24%) Splunk
9 10 (2.03%) CrowdStrike
10 9 (1.83%) Oracle
11 6 (1.22%) Carbon Black
11 6 (1.22%) Databricks
11 6 (1.22%) Facebook
11 6 (1.22%) Instagram
11 6 (1.22%) Marketo
11 6 (1.22%) Pardot
11 6 (1.22%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.02%) ArcSight
12 5 (1.02%) Cisco
12 5 (1.02%) IFS