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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 285 488
Rank change year-on-year -85 +203 +83
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 529 505 344
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.01% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.88% 2.45% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 293 304 211
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £39,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £51,693
Median % change year-on-year - -3.28% +3.39%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.38%

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 28,154 20,580 27,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.99% 41.20% 32.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,672 10,397 15,660
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,738
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,000 £103,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,001
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -65 482 £50,000 - 178
UK excluding London -56 388 £45,000 -10.00% 140
Work from Home -35 144 £50,000 - 81
London -57 129 £65,000 -7.14% 83
South East -16 110 £50,000 -2.91% 39
North of England -10 94 £45,000 - 34
South West -61 69 £36,000 -28.00% 34
Midlands -24 62 £45,000 -5.26% 18
North West -14 47 £41,250 -5.71% 22
West Midlands -14 42 £42,500 +21.43% 11
Yorkshire -17 33 £90,000 +89.47% 10
East Midlands -38 18 £50,000 -37.50% 7
Scotland +2 17 £26,150 - 5
East of England -33 16 £42,879 +18.29% 7
North East -43 14 £57,500 - 3
Northern Ireland -70 12 £63,750 - 2
Wales - 8 - - 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 12 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.08%) Confluence
3 5 (0.95%) WordPress
4 4 (0.76%) Apache
4 4 (0.76%) CMS
4 4 (0.76%) SAS
5 3 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.57%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.57%) IIS
6 2 (0.38%) Luigi
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.38%) Tornado
Applications
1 54 (10.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (6.05%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.76%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.57%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.57%) Simulink
6 3 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (2.27%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.32%) Shopify
3 4 (0.76%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.76%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.76%) JDE World
4 3 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.38%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.38%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.19%) Odoo
6 1 (0.19%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.19%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 76 (14.37%) Azure
2 55 (10.40%) Power Platform
3 42 (7.94%) AWS
4 39 (7.37%) SaaS
5 36 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (5.86%) GCP
7 23 (4.35%) Google Analytics
8 20 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (3.02%) PowerApps
10 12 (2.27%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (1.70%) dbt
11 9 (1.70%) Google Ads
12 8 (1.51%) Entra ID
12 8 (1.51%) GitHub
12 8 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.32%) Datadog
13 7 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.65%) SAN
2 13 (2.46%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.08%) HTTP
3 11 (2.08%) LAN
3 11 (2.08%) WAN
4 10 (1.89%) SMS
5 9 (1.70%) DNS
6 8 (1.51%) Firewall
6 8 (1.51%) VPN
7 5 (0.95%) FTP
7 5 (0.95%) Internet
7 5 (0.95%) SMTP
7 5 (0.95%) Unified Communications
7 5 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.76%) ATM
8 4 (0.76%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.76%) NAS
8 4 (0.76%) Wireless
9 3 (0.57%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.51%) Power BI
2 20 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.27%) Relational Database
4 11 (2.08%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.08%) Tableau
5 9 (1.70%) Metadata
6 8 (1.51%) BigQuery
6 8 (1.51%) MySQL
7 7 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.32%) GIS
7 7 (1.32%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.13%) Looker
9 5 (0.95%) Big Data
9 5 (0.95%) Power Query
10 4 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.76%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.57%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.57%) Metabase
11 3 (0.57%) NonStop SQL
11 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (3.97%) Git
2 20 (3.78%) JIRA
3 7 (1.32%) Eclipse
3 7 (1.32%) GitLab
4 4 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.76%) ERwin
4 4 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.76%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.57%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.38%) Ranorex
6 2 (0.38%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.38%) Selenium
6 2 (0.38%) TestRail
7 1 (0.19%) JMeter
7 1 (0.19%) Postman
7 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 529 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 271 (51.23%) Social Skills
3 174 (32.89%) Finance
4 64 (12.10%) Marketing
5 40 (7.56%) Organisational Skills
6 37 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (6.43%) Public Sector
8 25 (4.73%) Manufacturing
9 23 (4.35%) Legal
10 20 (3.78%) Retail
11 18 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (3.21%) Advertising
12 17 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (3.02%) Electronics
14 12 (2.27%) Financial Institution
14 12 (2.27%) Law
15 11 (2.08%) Banking
16 10 (1.89%) Aerospace
17 9 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (1.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 106 (20.04%) Analyst
2 60 (11.34%) Head of QA
3 43 (8.13%) Senior
4 41 (7.75%) Lead
5 26 (4.91%) Developer
6 25 (4.73%) Business Analyst
7 23 (4.35%) Support Analyst
8 21 (3.97%) Data Analyst
9 19 (3.59%) IT Engineer
10 16 (3.02%) Compliance Manager
11 14 (2.65%) Field Engineer
11 14 (2.65%) Field Service Engineer
11 14 (2.65%) IT Analyst
12 13 (2.46%) IT Support
13 12 (2.27%) Data Engineer
13 12 (2.27%) Systems Engineer
14 11 (2.08%) Architect
14 11 (2.08%) Consultant
14 11 (2.08%) Senior Manager
14 11 (2.08%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.59%) JSON
2 14 (2.65%) HTML
3 13 (2.46%) .NET
3 13 (2.46%) CSS
4 12 (2.27%) Terraform
5 8 (1.51%) Kafka
5 8 (1.51%) RESTful
5 8 (1.51%) XML
6 7 (1.32%) OAuth
6 7 (1.32%) REST
6 7 (1.32%) SAML
7 6 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.13%) Spring
7 6 (1.13%) Spring Boot
8 5 (0.95%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.95%) LDAP
8 5 (0.95%) React
9 4 (0.76%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (0.76%) FpML
9 4 (0.76%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.29%) Onboarding
2 26 (4.91%) Management Information System
3 20 (3.78%) Cloud Native
4 18 (3.40%) Cyber Threat
4 18 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.40%) Social Media
5 16 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.65%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.27%) Driving Licence
8 11 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
8 11 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.89%) Blog
10 9 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.70%) Smartphone
11 8 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.51%) SCADA
11 8 (1.51%) Web Conferencing
12 7 (1.32%) Credit Risk
12 7 (1.32%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.05%) Windows
2 15 (2.84%) Linux
3 12 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.76%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.38%) Android
5 2 (0.38%) Debian
5 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (37.81%) Continuous Improvement
2 164 (31.00%) Analytics
3 135 (25.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 128 (24.20%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (19.47%) Agile
6 97 (18.34%) Actionable Insight
7 88 (16.64%) Decision-Making
8 87 (16.45%) Root Cause Analysis
9 81 (15.31%) Customer Experience
10 74 (13.99%) Service Delivery
11 73 (13.80%) Change Management
12 69 (13.04%) Quality Management
13 65 (12.29%) AI
13 65 (12.29%) PRINCE2
14 64 (12.10%) Business Intelligence
15 62 (11.72%) Anti-Money Laundering
16 58 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
17 51 (9.64%) CRM
18 49 (9.26%) Process Improvement
19 46 (8.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 95 (17.96%) SQL
2 49 (9.26%) Python
3 25 (4.73%) Java
4 24 (4.54%) C#
5 21 (3.97%) PowerShell
6 15 (2.84%) MATLAB
7 14 (2.65%) Bash
8 11 (2.08%) JavaScript
8 11 (2.08%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.70%) C
9 9 (1.70%) C++
10 7 (1.32%) Embedded C
10 7 (1.32%) PHP
10 7 (1.32%) Scala
11 6 (1.13%) Go
11 6 (1.13%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.76%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.76%) VBA
14 3 (0.57%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 65 (12.29%) Degree
2 60 (11.34%) IRCA
3 41 (7.75%) Security Cleared
4 26 (4.91%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (2.65%) A+ Certification
6 14 (2.65%) CCNA
6 14 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (2.65%) MCSE
6 14 (2.65%) Network+ Certification
7 12 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.89%) ACCA
9 8 (1.51%) CIMA
10 7 (1.32%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.32%) GCIA
10 7 (1.32%) GCIH
10 7 (1.32%) GIAC
11 6 (1.13%) CISA
11 6 (1.13%) CISSP
11 6 (1.13%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (18.71%) QA
2 84 (15.88%) ISO 9001
3 77 (14.56%) GDPR
4 63 (11.91%) Data Quality
5 29 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (3.21%) ISO 14001
7 16 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 11 (2.08%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.51%) ARP4754
9 8 (1.51%) DO-254
9 8 (1.51%) SLA
10 7 (1.32%) NIST
11 6 (1.13%) COBIT
11 6 (1.13%) ISO 8583
11 6 (1.13%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.95%) GRC
12 5 (0.95%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.95%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (2.84%) Docker
2 8 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.95%) Firmware
4 3 (0.57%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.19%) IAG
Systems Management
1 15 (2.84%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.32%) Grafana
3 6 (1.13%) Ansible
3 6 (1.13%) Kibana
3 6 (1.13%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.95%) QRadar
5 2 (0.38%) Argo
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.19%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.19%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 112 (21.17%) Microsoft
2 50 (9.45%) Google
3 23 (4.35%) HubSpot
4 17 (3.21%) SAP
5 15 (2.84%) Dell
6 14 (2.65%) Adobe
7 13 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.08%) Splunk
9 10 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
9 10 (1.89%) Oracle
10 7 (1.32%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.13%) Carbon Black
11 6 (1.13%) Databricks
11 6 (1.13%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.13%) Facebook
11 6 (1.13%) Instagram
11 6 (1.13%) Marketo
11 6 (1.13%) Pardot
11 6 (1.13%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.95%) Cisco