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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 262 443
Rank change year-on-year -150 +181 +76
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 476 556 373
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 1.13% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 2.74% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 292 309 206
10th Percentile £29,075 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £69,375 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,375 £87,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -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 30,669 20,297 25,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.39% 41.17% 32.20%
Number of salaries quoted 19,046 10,194 13,016
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,125 £36,925 £43,116
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%

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 20 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 20 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 -139 451 £50,000 - 492
UK excluding London -135 339 £45,000 -10.00% 205
Work from Home -56 143 £50,000 - 166
London -90 128 £65,000 - 337
South East -83 102 £49,425 -7.62% 52
North of England -58 70 £45,000 -5.26% 36
South West -67 68 £42,500 -15.00% 36
Midlands -49 63 £45,000 +5.88% 35
West Midlands -33 41 £45,000 +23.29% 22
North West -36 37 £37,500 -16.67% 25
Yorkshire -19 26 £90,000 +89.47% 9
East Midlands -52 20 £45,000 -43.75% 13
East of England -44 18 £42,879 -1.99% 19
Scotland +1 11 £26,150 - 14
North East -55 7 £57,500 - 2
Northern Ireland -79 4 £63,750 - 13
Wales -66 3 - - 4

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 (3.36%) Confluence
2 12 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.84%) Apache
3 4 (0.84%) CMS
3 4 (0.84%) SAS
3 4 (0.84%) WordPress
4 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.63%) IIS
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.42%) Luigi
5 2 (0.42%) Tornado
Applications
1 55 (11.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (6.09%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.68%) Simulink
5 7 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (1.26%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.63%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.21%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (2.52%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.47%) Shopify
3 4 (0.84%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.84%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.84%) JDE World
4 3 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.42%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.42%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.42%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.21%) iTrent
6 1 (0.21%) Magento
6 1 (0.21%) Odoo
6 1 (0.21%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.21%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 68 (14.29%) Azure
2 50 (10.50%) Power Platform
3 44 (9.24%) SaaS
4 39 (8.19%) AWS
5 31 (6.51%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (6.30%) GCP
7 25 (5.25%) Google Analytics
8 16 (3.36%) PowerApps
9 15 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.52%) Google Ads
11 10 (2.10%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (1.89%) Copilot Studio
12 9 (1.89%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.68%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (1.26%) Canva
15 6 (1.26%) dbt
15 6 (1.26%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.94%) SAN
1 14 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 12 (2.52%) HTTP
2 12 (2.52%) LAN
2 12 (2.52%) WAN
3 9 (1.89%) DNS
3 9 (1.89%) SMS
4 8 (1.68%) Firewall
4 8 (1.68%) Wireshark
5 6 (1.26%) FTP
5 6 (1.26%) Internet
5 6 (1.26%) SMTP
5 6 (1.26%) VPN
6 5 (1.05%) Unified Communications
6 5 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.84%) ATM
7 4 (0.84%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.84%) NAS
8 2 (0.42%) Broadband
8 2 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.40%) Power BI
2 18 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.94%) Tableau
4 10 (2.10%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.68%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.47%) GIS
6 7 (1.47%) Metadata
6 7 (1.47%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.26%) Looker
7 6 (1.26%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.26%) Power Query
8 5 (1.05%) Big Data
8 5 (1.05%) MySQL
9 4 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.63%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.63%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (5.04%) JIRA
2 12 (2.52%) Eclipse
3 10 (2.10%) Git
4 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.63%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.42%) Ranorex
5 2 (0.42%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.42%) Selenium
5 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.42%) TestRail
5 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.21%) ERwin
6 1 (0.21%) JMeter
6 1 (0.21%) Postman
6 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 476 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 234 (49.16%) Social Skills
3 127 (26.68%) Finance
4 73 (15.34%) Marketing
5 42 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
6 38 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (7.98%) Public Sector
7 24 (5.04%) Legal
8 23 (4.83%) Manufacturing
9 22 (4.62%) Retail
10 19 (3.99%) Electronics
11 18 (3.78%) Advertising
12 16 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (3.36%) Law
13 15 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (2.52%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.89%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.68%) Brand Awareness
16 8 (1.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 99 (20.80%) Analyst
2 42 (8.82%) Lead
3 41 (8.61%) Senior
4 27 (5.67%) Developer
5 26 (5.46%) Business Analyst
6 22 (4.62%) Data Analyst
7 20 (4.20%) Support Analyst
8 19 (3.99%) IT Engineer
9 14 (2.94%) Field Engineer
9 14 (2.94%) Field Service Engineer
9 14 (2.94%) Senior Manager
10 13 (2.73%) Compliance Manager
10 13 (2.73%) Product Owner
11 12 (2.52%) Head of QA
11 12 (2.52%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (2.31%) Architect
12 11 (2.31%) Coordinator
12 11 (2.31%) Junior
12 11 (2.31%) SOC Analyst
12 11 (2.31%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.57%) JSON
2 14 (2.94%) .NET
3 11 (2.31%) HTML
4 10 (2.10%) CSS
5 9 (1.89%) Kafka
5 9 (1.89%) RESTful
6 8 (1.68%) REST
7 6 (1.26%) LDAP
7 6 (1.26%) Spring
7 6 (1.26%) Spring Boot
7 6 (1.26%) Terraform
8 5 (1.05%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.84%) PyTorch
9 4 (0.84%) TensorFlow
9 4 (0.84%) XML
10 3 (0.63%) React
11 2 (0.42%) Flask
11 2 (0.42%) Pandas
11 2 (0.42%) Playwright
11 2 (0.42%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.72%) Onboarding
2 25 (5.25%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.99%) Cyber Threat
5 18 (3.78%) Cloud Native
6 17 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (3.15%) Driving Licence
8 15 (3.15%) Social Media
9 14 (2.94%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.73%) Cyber Defence
11 11 (2.31%) Blog
12 9 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.89%) Smartphone
12 9 (1.89%) Web Conferencing
13 8 (1.68%) Credit Risk
13 8 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.68%) SCADA
14 7 (1.47%) Educational Technology
15 6 (1.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.09%) Windows
2 15 (3.15%) Linux
3 12 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.42%) Android
5 2 (0.42%) Debian
5 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (30.25%) Continuous Improvement
2 126 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
3 124 (26.05%) Analytics
4 106 (22.27%) Agile
5 85 (17.86%) Decision-Making
6 83 (17.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 79 (16.60%) AI
8 65 (13.66%) Stakeholder Management
9 62 (13.03%) Business Intelligence
10 55 (11.55%) CRM
11 53 (11.13%) Actionable Insight
12 48 (10.08%) Roadmaps
13 46 (9.66%) Cybersecurity
14 43 (9.03%) Process Improvement
15 42 (8.82%) Validation
16 39 (8.19%) Risk Management
17 38 (7.98%) Root Cause Analysis
18 37 (7.77%) DevOps
18 37 (7.77%) Scrum
18 37 (7.77%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 99 (20.80%) SQL
2 42 (8.82%) Python
3 27 (5.67%) Java
4 22 (4.62%) C#
5 20 (4.20%) MATLAB
6 15 (3.15%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.94%) C
8 12 (2.52%) Embedded C
9 11 (2.31%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.68%) JavaScript
11 7 (1.47%) Bash
11 7 (1.47%) C++
11 7 (1.47%) Scala
12 6 (1.26%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (1.05%) Go
13 5 (1.05%) PHP
13 5 (1.05%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.84%) Embedded C++
15 3 (0.63%) COBOL
15 3 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (14.92%) Degree
2 45 (9.45%) Security Cleared
3 29 (6.09%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (2.94%) A+ Certification
5 14 (2.94%) CCNA
5 14 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (2.94%) MCSE
5 14 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
6 12 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.52%) IRCA
7 8 (1.68%) ACCA
7 8 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.26%) CIMA
8 6 (1.26%) CREST Certified
8 6 (1.26%) GCED
8 6 (1.26%) GCIA
8 6 (1.26%) GCIH
8 6 (1.26%) GIAC
8 6 (1.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (13.87%) Data Quality
2 55 (11.55%) QA
3 30 (6.30%) GDPR
3 30 (6.30%) ISO 9001
4 25 (5.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 13 (2.73%) ISO 14001
5 13 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 11 (2.31%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.68%) ARP4754
7 8 (1.68%) DO-254
8 6 (1.26%) ISO 8583
9 5 (1.05%) COBIT
9 5 (1.05%) GRC
9 5 (1.05%) ISO 19650
9 5 (1.05%) NIST
9 5 (1.05%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.05%) SLA
9 5 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (2.10%) Firmware
2 8 (1.68%) Docker
2 8 (1.68%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (1.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.21%) IAG
Systems Management
1 9 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.26%) Ansible
2 6 (1.26%) Kibana
2 6 (1.26%) QRadar
3 2 (0.42%) Argo
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.21%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.21%) Grafana
4 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.21%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 107 (22.48%) Microsoft
2 53 (11.13%) Google
3 24 (5.04%) HubSpot
4 19 (3.99%) SAP
5 15 (3.15%) Dell
6 14 (2.94%) Adobe
7 13 (2.73%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.52%) Splunk
9 11 (2.31%) CrowdStrike
10 9 (1.89%) Oracle
11 8 (1.68%) Facebook
11 8 (1.68%) Instagram
12 7 (1.47%) YouTube
13 6 (1.26%) ArcSight
13 6 (1.26%) Carbon Black
13 6 (1.26%) Marketo
13 6 (1.26%) Pardot
14 5 (1.05%) Cisco
15 4 (0.84%) EMC
15 4 (0.84%) Epicor