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 3 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 395 482
Rank change year-on-year +139 +87 +207
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 520 338 229
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.88% 0.62% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.52% 1.67% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 296 174 173
10th Percentile £28,750 £34,575 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,125 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +11.11%

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 20,622 20,200 19,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.83% 36.90% 37.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10,338 9,577 14,258
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,640
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £54,219 £54,650
% change year-on-year -13.78% -0.79% -0.64%

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 3 January 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 3 January 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 +151 457 £50,000 -9.09% 357
UK excluding London +164 359 £45,000 -18.18% 270
Work from Home +132 188 £50,000 - 186
London +84 139 £60,000 - 115
South East +75 91 £45,000 -12.62% 76
North of England +49 69 £42,500 -32.00% 56
South West +52 68 £47,500 -24.00% 37
Midlands +41 58 £40,000 - 45
North West +56 54 £42,500 -34.62% 30
East Midlands +4 34 £26,375 -34.06% 17
Scotland +3 27 £26,150 -62.64% 9
East of England +36 26 £60,000 +14.29% 40
West Midlands +38 23 £52,500 +5.00% 26
Northern Ireland - 14 - - 3
Yorkshire -7 9 £55,000 -8.33% 23
Wales +5 6 £41,250 -15.99% 8
North East - 6 £38,500 - 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 16 (3.08%) Confluence
2 12 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.77%) CMS
4 4 (0.77%) IIS
4 4 (0.77%) SAS
5 3 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.58%) WordPress
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 110 (21.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (2.69%) Maya
5 12 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (1.73%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.77%) PlantUML
7 4 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.58%) Stata
9 2 (0.38%) Sketch
10 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 20 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.35%) Shopify
4 5 (0.96%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.77%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.77%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.77%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.58%) SAP APO
6 3 (0.58%) SAP CX
6 3 (0.58%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.38%) Magento
7 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.19%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 108 (20.77%) Azure
2 104 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 30 (5.77%) SaaS
4 29 (5.58%) AWS
5 27 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 27 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 24 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (3.27%) Entra ID
9 15 (2.88%) Boomi
9 15 (2.88%) Google Analytics
10 14 (2.69%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 13 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (2.50%) GCP
12 10 (1.92%) Snowflake
13 8 (1.54%) Serverless
14 7 (1.35%) Asana
14 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (1.35%) Power Automate
15 6 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.23%) Network Security
2 17 (3.27%) Firewall
3 11 (2.12%) SAN
4 7 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.77%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.77%) VPN
5 4 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.77%) Wireshark
6 3 (0.58%) WAN
7 2 (0.38%) DHCP
7 2 (0.38%) DNS
7 2 (0.38%) GSM
7 2 (0.38%) LAN
7 2 (0.38%) LTE
7 2 (0.38%) VLAN
7 2 (0.38%) VoIP
8 1 (0.19%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.19%) Intranet
8 1 (0.19%) NAS
8 1 (0.19%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (18.85%) Power BI
2 44 (8.46%) Tableau
3 40 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 27 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (4.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 16 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.96%) Looker
7 5 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.77%) Metabase
8 4 (0.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.58%) Metadata
10 2 (0.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.38%) Big Data
10 2 (0.38%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.38%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 26 (5.00%) JIRA
2 11 (2.12%) Git
3 6 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.77%) Postman
4 4 (0.77%) Selenium
4 4 (0.77%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.58%) WebDriver
6 2 (0.38%) GitLab
7 1 (0.19%) Appium
7 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.19%) JMeter
7 1 (0.19%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.19%) MLflow
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 520 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 323 (62.12%) Social Skills
3 243 (46.73%) Finance
4 121 (23.27%) Marketing
5 58 (11.15%) Retail
6 54 (10.38%) Legal
7 45 (8.65%) Public Sector
8 42 (8.08%) Manufacturing
9 41 (7.88%) Law
10 31 (5.96%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (4.81%) Electronics
12 23 (4.42%) Telecoms
13 18 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
14 17 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (3.08%) Games
16 15 (2.88%) Billing
17 14 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (1.92%) Banking
19 9 (1.73%) French Language
20 8 (1.54%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 105 (20.19%) Analyst
2 67 (12.88%) Lead
3 63 (12.12%) Senior
4 34 (6.54%) Data Analyst
5 30 (5.77%) Architect
5 30 (5.77%) Consultant
6 28 (5.38%) Commercial Analyst
7 25 (4.81%) Support Engineer
8 23 (4.42%) Business Manager
9 22 (4.23%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 22 (4.23%) Security Consultant
10 20 (3.85%) Business Analyst
10 20 (3.85%) IT Support
11 18 (3.46%) IT Engineer
12 17 (3.27%) Administrator
12 17 (3.27%) Developer
13 16 (3.08%) IT Administrator
14 15 (2.88%) Systems Analyst
14 15 (2.88%) Technical Engineer
14 15 (2.88%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.92%) CSS
1 10 (1.92%) HTML
1 10 (1.92%) REST
2 5 (0.96%) .NET
2 5 (0.96%) EDI
2 5 (0.96%) SAP Fiori
2 5 (0.96%) SOAP
3 4 (0.77%) GraphQL
3 4 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (0.58%) Middleware
4 3 (0.58%) Sass
4 3 (0.58%) ZeroMQ
5 2 (0.38%) Blazor
5 2 (0.38%) Django
5 2 (0.38%) FastAPI
5 2 (0.38%) Playwright
5 2 (0.38%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.38%) XML
5 2 (0.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.04%) Onboarding
1 47 (9.04%) Self-Motivation
2 43 (8.27%) Management Information System
3 42 (8.08%) FMCG
4 39 (7.50%) Data Centre
5 32 (6.15%) Product Ownership
6 29 (5.58%) Cloud Native
7 21 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (4.04%) Social Media
8 14 (2.69%) Driving Licence
9 10 (1.92%) Smartphone
10 9 (1.73%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.35%) IoT
12 6 (1.15%) Credit Risk
12 6 (1.15%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
13 5 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.96%) Web Conferencing
14 4 (0.77%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.46%) Windows
2 13 (2.50%) Linux
3 6 (1.15%) Unix
4 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.38%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.19%) Android
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (44.81%) Problem-Solving
2 177 (34.04%) Analytics
3 167 (32.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 141 (27.12%) Business Intelligence
5 120 (23.08%) Decision-Making
6 95 (18.27%) Agile
7 87 (16.73%) ERP
8 86 (16.54%) Project Management
9 78 (15.00%) CRM
10 77 (14.81%) AI
11 75 (14.42%) Actionable Insight
12 73 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 68 (13.08%) Cybersecurity
14 67 (12.88%) Process Improvement
15 66 (12.69%) Business Strategy
16 58 (11.15%) Visualisation
17 54 (10.38%) Data Analysis
18 52 (10.00%) Change Management
19 47 (9.04%) CI/CD
20 46 (8.85%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (19.42%) SQL
2 56 (10.77%) Python
3 29 (5.58%) PowerShell
4 25 (4.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 11 (2.12%) C#
6 10 (1.92%) C++
7 9 (1.73%) Bash
7 9 (1.73%) Java
7 9 (1.73%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.73%) VBA
8 8 (1.54%) C
9 6 (1.15%) R
10 4 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.58%) Bicep
11 3 (0.58%) Go
11 3 (0.58%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.58%) Perl
11 3 (0.58%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.38%) VC++
Qualifications
1 131 (25.19%) Degree
2 43 (8.27%) Security Cleared
3 25 (4.81%) CISSP
4 21 (4.04%) CompTIA Security+
5 20 (3.85%) CEH
6 19 (3.65%) SC Cleared
7 15 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (2.69%) Master's Degree
9 13 (2.50%) PMI Certification
9 13 (2.50%) PMP
10 12 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (2.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 11 (2.12%) ACCA
11 11 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (1.92%) A+ Certification
12 10 (1.92%) CCNA
12 10 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.92%) DBS Check
12 10 (1.92%) MCSE
12 10 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (5.58%) NIST
3 25 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 25 (4.81%) QA
4 20 (3.85%) PCI DSS
5 15 (2.88%) GDPR
6 13 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.73%) GRC
9 6 (1.15%) SLA
10 4 (0.77%) ISO 14001
10 4 (0.77%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.77%) NEBOSH
11 3 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.38%) EMIR
12 2 (0.38%) FINRA
12 2 (0.38%) GAAP
12 2 (0.38%) IFRS
12 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.35%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.15%) Docker
3 6 (1.15%) Firmware
4 2 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (1.92%) Terraform
3 7 (1.35%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.58%) Ansible
4 3 (0.58%) Control-M
5 2 (0.38%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.19%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.19%) Computer Incident Response Team
6 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.19%) Kibana
6 1 (0.19%) SCCM
6 1 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 124 (23.85%) Microsoft
2 67 (12.88%) SAP
3 45 (8.65%) Salesforce
4 26 (5.00%) Oracle
5 25 (4.81%) Dell
6 24 (4.62%) Google
7 18 (3.46%) Adobe
8 15 (2.88%) MuleSoft
9 11 (2.12%) Autodesk
10 8 (1.54%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.15%) Cisco
11 6 (1.15%) Workday
12 4 (0.77%) Apple
12 4 (0.77%) Databricks
12 4 (0.77%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.77%) Hotjar
13 3 (0.58%) Hootsuite
13 3 (0.58%) Xero
13 3 (0.58%) YouTube
13 3 (0.58%) Zoho