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 14 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 362 485
Rank change year-on-year +46 +123 +234
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 509 302 431
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.73% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 1.88% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 254 171 283
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £43,200
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +27.31% -13.60%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £93,375 £88,750 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £53,750 £40,001
% change year-on-year -20.93% +34.37% -20.00%

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 24,523 16,057 33,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.92% 38.98% 36.25%
Number of salaries quoted 12,581 9,095 22,792
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,795 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,445 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% -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 14 April 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 14 April 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 +51 425 £48,463 -15.72% 233
UK excluding London +62 352 £42,500 -20.93% 161
Work from Home +60 137 £50,000 -4.76% 96
London -2 132 £65,000 -8.77% 106
North of England +7 102 £45,000 -26.53% 40
South East +7 70 £45,000 -21.74% 61
North West -8 57 £42,500 -34.62% 23
Midlands -5 55 £44,000 -16.19% 30
West Midlands +13 39 £45,000 -10.00% 21
South West -31 34 £32,500 -40.91% 13
East of England -31 27 £40,000 -25.58% 11
Yorkshire -39 26 £65,250 +33.85% 15
Scotland -7 25 £26,150 -32.95% 2
Northern Ireland -21 24 - - 2
North East - 19 £64,250 - 2
Wales -12 15 £35,000 -28.72% 4
East Midlands -50 15 £30,000 -45.45% 9

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 5 (0.98%) Confluence
1 5 (0.98%) SharePoint
1 5 (0.98%) WordPress
2 4 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (0.79%) CMS
2 4 (0.79%) IIS
3 3 (0.59%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.20%) Apache
4 1 (0.20%) Mendix
Applications
1 76 (14.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.98%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.39%) Maya
6 2 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.39%) Sketch
6 2 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.98%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.79%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.79%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.39%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.20%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.20%) JDE OneWorld
5 1 (0.20%) JDE World
5 1 (0.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 103 (20.24%) Azure
2 87 (17.09%) Power Platform
3 39 (7.66%) AWS
4 33 (6.48%) SaaS
5 30 (5.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (5.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 22 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (4.13%) GCP
8 21 (4.13%) Power Automate
9 15 (2.95%) GitHub
10 14 (2.75%) dbt
11 11 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (1.96%) Amazon S3
13 8 (1.57%) Datadog
13 8 (1.57%) OpenShift
13 8 (1.57%) PowerApps
14 7 (1.38%) Asana
14 7 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (1.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.34%) SAN
2 15 (2.95%) Firewall
3 12 (2.36%) VPN
4 9 (1.77%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.57%) WAN
6 7 (1.38%) LAN
7 4 (0.79%) Wireless
8 3 (0.59%) DNS
8 3 (0.59%) Network Security
9 2 (0.39%) Broadband
9 2 (0.39%) DHCP
9 2 (0.39%) GSM
9 2 (0.39%) Internet
9 2 (0.39%) LTE
9 2 (0.39%) Modbus
9 2 (0.39%) SMS
9 2 (0.39%) VLAN
9 2 (0.39%) VoIP
9 2 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (16.50%) Power BI
2 47 (9.23%) SQL Server
3 26 (5.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 26 (5.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 24 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.36%) Metabase
5 12 (2.36%) Tableau
6 10 (1.96%) Metadata
6 10 (1.96%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.38%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.98%) Big Data
10 5 (0.98%) MySQL
10 5 (0.98%) Power Query
11 4 (0.79%) Looker
11 4 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.59%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 26 (5.11%) Git
2 16 (3.14%) JIRA
3 12 (2.36%) Visual Studio
4 11 (2.16%) GitLab
5 8 (1.57%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.38%) ERwin
7 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.39%) Selenium
7 2 (0.39%) TestRail
7 2 (0.39%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.20%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.20%) MLflow
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 508 (99.80%) Analytical Skills
2 293 (57.56%) Social Skills
3 226 (44.40%) Finance
4 44 (8.64%) Marketing
5 36 (7.07%) Legal
6 33 (6.48%) Public Sector
7 25 (4.91%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (4.52%) Retail
9 22 (4.32%) Manufacturing
9 22 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (4.13%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (3.34%) Banking
12 13 (2.55%) Billing
13 12 (2.36%) Financial Institution
14 11 (2.16%) Law
15 9 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.77%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.57%) Automotive
16 8 (1.57%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 109 (21.41%) Analyst
2 72 (14.15%) Head of QA
3 32 (6.29%) Senior
4 31 (6.09%) IT Support
5 30 (5.89%) IT Engineer
6 26 (5.11%) Lead
7 24 (4.72%) Business Analyst
8 22 (4.32%) IT Analyst
9 21 (4.13%) Business Manager
9 21 (4.13%) Developer
10 20 (3.93%) Systems Analyst
11 19 (3.73%) Administrator
12 18 (3.54%) Consultant
12 18 (3.54%) Data Analyst
12 18 (3.54%) Support Analyst
13 17 (3.34%) Financial Analyst
14 16 (3.14%) Field Engineer
14 16 (3.14%) Field Service Engineer
14 16 (3.14%) Support Engineer
15 15 (2.95%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.73%) CSS
1 19 (3.73%) HTML
2 12 (2.36%) JSON
3 11 (2.16%) FIX Protocol
3 11 (2.16%) XML
4 8 (1.57%) OAuth
4 8 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
4 8 (1.57%) SAML
5 7 (1.38%) .NET
5 7 (1.38%) FpML
5 7 (1.38%) XML Schema
6 6 (1.18%) REST
6 6 (1.18%) SAP Fiori
7 5 (0.98%) PySpark
7 5 (0.98%) React
7 5 (0.98%) SOAP
8 4 (0.79%) Flutter
8 4 (0.79%) Spring
8 4 (0.79%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.79%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (4.91%) Onboarding
3 18 (3.54%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.34%) Data Centre
4 17 (3.34%) Social Media
5 15 (2.95%) Cloud Native
5 15 (2.95%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.95%) Smartphone
6 11 (2.16%) FMCG
7 10 (1.96%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.57%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.57%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.38%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.38%) IoT
10 6 (1.18%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.18%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.11%) Windows
2 15 (2.95%) Linux
3 11 (2.16%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.18%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.98%) Unix
5 5 (0.98%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.39%) Android
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (38.51%) Continuous Improvement
2 188 (36.94%) Problem-Solving
3 170 (33.40%) Analytics
4 119 (23.38%) Actionable Insight
5 117 (22.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 93 (18.27%) Business Intelligence
7 89 (17.49%) Customer Experience
8 88 (17.29%) Root Cause Analysis
9 86 (16.90%) Agile
9 86 (16.90%) Service Delivery
10 85 (16.70%) Decision-Making
11 84 (16.50%) PRINCE2
12 82 (16.11%) Process Improvement
13 79 (15.52%) Change Management
14 77 (15.13%) Quality Management
15 72 (14.15%) Anti-Money Laundering
16 56 (11.00%) Data Analysis
17 48 (9.43%) Visualisation
18 47 (9.23%) AI
19 46 (9.04%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 100 (19.65%) SQL
2 62 (12.18%) Python
3 31 (6.09%) PowerShell
4 26 (5.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 20 (3.93%) Bash
6 16 (3.14%) Java
7 15 (2.95%) C#
7 15 (2.95%) JavaScript
8 12 (2.36%) C++
9 8 (1.57%) Go
9 8 (1.57%) VBA
10 7 (1.38%) C
11 5 (0.98%) PHP
12 4 (0.79%) Bicep
12 4 (0.79%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.79%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.59%) VC++
14 2 (0.39%) Perl
14 2 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (14.15%) IRCA
2 69 (13.56%) Degree
3 23 (4.52%) Security Cleared
4 21 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (3.14%) A+ Certification
5 16 (3.14%) CCNA
5 16 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.14%) MCSE
5 16 (3.14%) Network+ Certification
5 16 (3.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 15 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.55%) SC Cleared
8 10 (1.96%) ACCA
9 9 (1.77%) CIMA
10 8 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.57%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.57%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.57%) PMP
11 7 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (19.65%) QA
2 85 (16.70%) ISO 9001
3 83 (16.31%) GDPR
4 38 (7.47%) Data Quality
5 17 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (2.16%) GRC
8 10 (1.96%) NIST
8 10 (1.96%) SLA
9 9 (1.77%) ISO 14001
10 8 (1.57%) Accessibility
10 8 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 5 (0.98%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.79%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.59%) EMIR
15 2 (0.39%) GAAP
15 2 (0.39%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 17 (3.34%) Docker
2 9 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (4.52%) Terraform
2 19 (3.73%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.77%) Grafana
4 8 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.98%) Ansible
7 4 (0.79%) Control-M
8 2 (0.39%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.20%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.20%) QRadar
9 1 (0.20%) SCCM
9 1 (0.20%) SCOM
Vendors
1 98 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.73%) Dell
3 18 (3.54%) SAP
4 16 (3.14%) Salesforce
5 14 (2.75%) Google
5 14 (2.75%) Oracle
6 11 (2.16%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.77%) Dynatrace
7 9 (1.77%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.38%) Adobe
8 7 (1.38%) Sparx
9 6 (1.18%) Databricks
10 5 (0.98%) Apple
10 5 (0.98%) Informatica
11 4 (0.79%) BT
11 4 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.79%) Guidewire
11 4 (0.79%) Hotjar
11 4 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.59%) HubSpot