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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 351 486
Rank change year-on-year +39 +135 +223
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 524 328 443
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.78% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.08% 1.99% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 262 187 292
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,000 £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 £61,250
90th Percentile £88,490 £88,750 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,879 £53,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year -20.23% +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 25,154 16,513 34,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.51% 39.45% 36.01%
Number of salaries quoted 12,936 9,243 22,916
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 24 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 24 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 +42 442 £47,500 -17.39% 191
UK excluding London +70 373 £42,879 -20.23% 162
Work from Home +35 140 £46,750 -15.00% 89
London -5 127 £65,000 -10.34% 70
North of England +2 104 £50,000 -20.00% 39
South East +16 82 £45,000 -21.74% 58
Midlands -3 59 £44,000 -16.19% 24
North West -11 56 £45,000 -30.77% 22
West Midlands +14 41 £44,000 -2.22% 13
South West -39 36 £32,500 -35.00% 12
Yorkshire -37 29 £67,500 +38.46% 12
East of England -44 29 £40,000 -23.81% 16
Northern Ireland -14 24 - - 3
Scotland -17 24 £26,150 -50.19% 5
North East - 19 £64,250 - 6
East Midlands -54 17 £30,000 -45.45% 11
Wales -12 15 £35,000 -28.72% 7

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 6 (1.15%) SharePoint
1 6 (1.15%) WordPress
2 5 (0.95%) Confluence
3 4 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.76%) IIS
4 3 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.57%) CMS
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) Mendix
Applications
1 75 (14.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.10%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.76%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.57%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.38%) Maya
7 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.53%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.95%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.76%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.76%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.57%) Infor M3
5 3 (0.57%) JDE OneWorld
5 3 (0.57%) JDE World
6 2 (0.38%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.19%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 109 (20.80%) Azure
2 86 (16.41%) Power Platform
3 39 (7.44%) AWS
4 37 (7.06%) SaaS
5 31 (5.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (5.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 26 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (4.20%) GCP
9 22 (4.20%) Power Automate
10 16 (3.05%) dbt
11 15 (2.86%) GitHub
12 11 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (1.91%) Google Analytics
14 9 (1.72%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.72%) PowerApps
15 8 (1.53%) Datadog
15 8 (1.53%) OpenShift
16 7 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (1.34%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.05%) SAN
2 15 (2.86%) Firewall
3 12 (2.29%) VPN
3 12 (2.29%) WAN
4 11 (2.10%) LAN
5 9 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.76%) Broadband
6 4 (0.76%) DNS
6 4 (0.76%) Network Security
6 4 (0.76%) Wireless
7 3 (0.57%) HTTP
7 3 (0.57%) Internet
7 3 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.38%) FTP
8 2 (0.38%) GSM
8 2 (0.38%) LTE
8 2 (0.38%) Modbus
8 2 (0.38%) SMS
8 2 (0.38%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (16.03%) Power BI
2 47 (8.97%) SQL Server
3 27 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (5.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 26 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (2.29%) Metabase
5 12 (2.29%) Tableau
6 10 (1.91%) Metadata
6 10 (1.91%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.34%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.15%) MySQL
9 6 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.95%) Big Data
10 5 (0.95%) Power Query
11 4 (0.76%) Looker
11 4 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.57%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 25 (4.77%) Git
2 16 (3.05%) JIRA
3 12 (2.29%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.91%) GitLab
5 7 (1.34%) ERwin
5 7 (1.34%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.38%) Selenium
6 2 (0.38%) TestRail
6 2 (0.38%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.19%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.19%) MLflow
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
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
7 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 523 (99.81%) Analytical Skills
2 307 (58.59%) Social Skills
3 224 (42.75%) Finance
4 44 (8.40%) Marketing
5 33 (6.30%) Legal
6 32 (6.11%) Public Sector
7 26 (4.96%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (4.20%) Manufacturing
8 22 (4.20%) Retail
9 21 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (3.05%) Banking
12 13 (2.48%) Billing
13 12 (2.29%) Financial Institution
14 11 (2.10%) Law
15 10 (1.91%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.53%) Electronics
16 8 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (1.34%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 116 (22.14%) Analyst
2 72 (13.74%) Head of QA
3 35 (6.68%) IT Support
4 32 (6.11%) IT Engineer
4 32 (6.11%) Senior
5 30 (5.73%) Lead
6 26 (4.96%) Business Analyst
7 25 (4.77%) IT Analyst
8 21 (4.01%) Support Analyst
9 20 (3.82%) Developer
10 19 (3.63%) Administrator
10 19 (3.63%) Business Manager
10 19 (3.63%) Consultant
11 18 (3.44%) Support Engineer
11 18 (3.44%) Systems Analyst
12 17 (3.24%) Data Analyst
12 17 (3.24%) Financial Analyst
13 16 (3.05%) Field Engineer
13 16 (3.05%) Field Service Engineer
13 16 (3.05%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.63%) CSS
1 19 (3.63%) HTML
2 14 (2.67%) JSON
3 12 (2.29%) XML
4 10 (1.91%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (1.53%) OAuth
5 8 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (1.53%) SAML
6 7 (1.34%) .NET
6 7 (1.34%) FpML
6 7 (1.34%) REST
6 7 (1.34%) XML Schema
7 6 (1.15%) SAP Fiori
7 6 (1.15%) SOAP
8 5 (0.95%) PySpark
8 5 (0.95%) React
9 4 (0.76%) Flutter
9 4 (0.76%) RESTful
9 4 (0.76%) Spring
9 4 (0.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.15%) Onboarding
1 27 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (3.63%) Social Media
3 18 (3.44%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.24%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.05%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.86%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.67%) Smartphone
8 10 (1.91%) Driving Licence
8 10 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.91%) FMCG
9 9 (1.72%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.53%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.34%) e-Learning
11 7 (1.34%) IoT
12 6 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.15%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.15%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.11%) Windows
2 15 (2.86%) Linux
3 12 (2.29%) Windows 10
4 9 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.15%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.76%) Unix
7 3 (0.57%) Android
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (37.79%) Problem-Solving
2 197 (37.60%) Continuous Improvement
3 172 (32.82%) Analytics
4 120 (22.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 117 (22.33%) Actionable Insight
6 95 (18.13%) Business Intelligence
7 91 (17.37%) Root Cause Analysis
8 90 (17.18%) Customer Experience
9 88 (16.79%) Agile
10 87 (16.60%) Decision-Making
11 86 (16.41%) Service Delivery
12 85 (16.22%) PRINCE2
13 80 (15.27%) Process Improvement
14 78 (14.89%) Change Management
15 77 (14.69%) Quality Management
16 72 (13.74%) Anti-Money Laundering
17 56 (10.69%) Data Analysis
18 48 (9.16%) AI
19 47 (8.97%) CI/CD
20 46 (8.78%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 107 (20.42%) SQL
2 62 (11.83%) Python
3 31 (5.92%) PowerShell
4 26 (4.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 18 (3.44%) Bash
5 18 (3.44%) Java
6 16 (3.05%) C#
7 15 (2.86%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.91%) C++
9 8 (1.53%) Go
9 8 (1.53%) VBA
10 6 (1.15%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.95%) C
11 5 (0.95%) PHP
12 4 (0.76%) Bicep
12 4 (0.76%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.57%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.57%) Scala
13 3 (0.57%) VC++
Qualifications
1 75 (14.31%) Degree
2 72 (13.74%) IRCA
3 22 (4.20%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (3.05%) A+ Certification
5 16 (3.05%) CCNA
5 16 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.05%) MCSE
5 16 (3.05%) Network+ Certification
5 16 (3.05%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 14 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.29%) SC Cleared
8 10 (1.91%) ACCA
9 9 (1.72%) CIMA
10 8 (1.53%) CISSP
10 8 (1.53%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.53%) PMP
11 7 (1.34%) DBS Check
11 7 (1.34%) GIAC
11 7 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (19.27%) QA
2 86 (16.41%) ISO 9001
3 81 (15.46%) GDPR
4 41 (7.82%) Data Quality
5 19 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 11 (2.10%) GRC
8 10 (1.91%) SLA
9 9 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (1.72%) ISO 14001
9 9 (1.72%) NIST
10 8 (1.53%) Accessibility
11 7 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 7 (1.34%) PCI DSS
11 7 (1.34%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.76%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.57%) COBIT
13 3 (0.57%) EMIR
13 3 (0.57%) ITGC
System Software
1 16 (3.05%) Docker
2 9 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) IAG
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (4.20%) Terraform
2 18 (3.44%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.72%) Grafana
4 8 (1.53%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.95%) Ansible
7 4 (0.76%) Control-M
8 2 (0.38%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.38%) QRadar
9 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 110 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.01%) SAP
3 20 (3.82%) Google
4 19 (3.63%) Dell
5 17 (3.24%) Oracle
6 15 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.10%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.72%) Adobe
8 9 (1.72%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.53%) Databricks
9 8 (1.53%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (1.34%) Sparx
11 6 (1.15%) HubSpot
12 5 (0.95%) Apple
12 5 (0.95%) IFS
12 5 (0.95%) Informatica
13 4 (0.76%) BT
13 4 (0.76%) Hotjar
13 4 (0.76%) Splunk