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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 397 503
Rank change year-on-year +140 +106 +201
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 504 333 292
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.63% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.41% 1.70% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 270 179 231
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,875 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.46% +11.75% -
75th Percentile £66,875 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,275 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -22.73% +29.41% -10.53%

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 20,914 19,591 24,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.36% 37.22% 36.24%
Number of salaries quoted 10,484 9,078 18,034
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,886
% change year-on-year -13.64% +8.08% -7.48%

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 26 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 26 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 +150 438 £45,000 -20.62% 286
UK excluding London +118 340 £42,500 -22.73% 264
Work from Home +107 162 £48,750 -2.50% 162
London +69 143 £65,000 - 68
South East +82 95 £42,500 -26.09% 89
North of England +34 65 £42,500 -34.62% 44
Midlands +42 59 £40,000 - 38
North West +45 50 £41,250 -36.54% 20
South West +22 45 £45,000 -12.20% 35
East Midlands +3 35 £28,000 -30.00% 16
Scotland -2 29 £26,150 -62.64% 10
East of England +27 25 £60,000 +11.63% 40
West Midlands +37 23 £50,000 +41.84% 22
Northern Ireland -1 14 - - 5
Yorkshire -12 9 £50,000 -16.67% 19
Wales +14 8 £36,000 -26.69% 11
North East - 6 £38,500 - 5

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 (3.17%) Confluence
2 10 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.79%) IIS
5 3 (0.60%) CMS
5 3 (0.60%) SAS
5 3 (0.60%) WordPress
6 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 100 (19.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (2.78%) Maya
5 12 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (1.19%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.79%) PlantUML
9 2 (0.40%) Sketch
9 2 (0.40%) Stata
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 20 (3.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.99%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.99%) Shopify
4 4 (0.79%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.79%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.60%) SAP APO
5 3 (0.60%) SAP CX
5 3 (0.60%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.40%) Magento
6 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.20%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 111 (22.02%) Azure
2 107 (21.23%) Power Platform
3 31 (6.15%) AWS
4 28 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 28 (5.56%) SaaS
5 27 (5.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (2.98%) Boomi
9 14 (2.78%) Entra ID
9 14 (2.78%) GCP
9 14 (2.78%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 13 (2.58%) Google Analytics
11 12 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (1.98%) Snowflake
13 9 (1.79%) Power Automate
14 8 (1.59%) Serverless
15 7 (1.39%) Amazon S3
15 7 (1.39%) Asana
15 7 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.17%) Firewall
2 12 (2.38%) SAN
3 9 (1.79%) VPN
4 8 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.39%) WAN
6 6 (1.19%) LAN
7 4 (0.79%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.79%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.60%) Network Security
9 2 (0.40%) Broadband
9 2 (0.40%) DHCP
9 2 (0.40%) DNS
9 2 (0.40%) GSM
9 2 (0.40%) Internet
9 2 (0.40%) LTE
9 2 (0.40%) Modbus
9 2 (0.40%) VLAN
9 2 (0.40%) VoIP
10 1 (0.20%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (20.04%) Power BI
2 44 (8.73%) SQL Server
3 42 (8.33%) Tableau
4 28 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (4.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 22 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (3.17%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.19%) Metabase
8 6 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.99%) Looker
9 5 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.79%) Metadata
10 4 (0.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.40%) Big Data
12 2 (0.40%) Mixpanel
12 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
12 2 (0.40%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 27 (5.36%) JIRA
2 12 (2.38%) Git
3 6 (1.19%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.99%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.60%) Postman
6 2 (0.40%) GitLab
6 2 (0.40%) Selenium
6 2 (0.40%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.20%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.20%) MLflow
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.20%) TestRail
7 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 504 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 324 (64.29%) Social Skills
3 233 (46.23%) Finance
4 96 (19.05%) Marketing
5 59 (11.71%) Retail
6 53 (10.52%) Legal
7 40 (7.94%) Law
8 32 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
9 28 (5.56%) Public Sector
10 24 (4.76%) Manufacturing
11 20 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (2.98%) Billing
13 15 (2.98%) Games
13 15 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.98%) Banking
15 9 (1.79%) Advertising
15 9 (1.79%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.59%) Automotive
16 8 (1.59%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 111 (22.02%) Analyst
2 65 (12.90%) Lead
2 65 (12.90%) Senior
3 30 (5.95%) Architect
3 30 (5.95%) Data Analyst
4 29 (5.75%) IT Support
5 28 (5.56%) Commercial Analyst
5 28 (5.56%) Support Engineer
6 26 (5.16%) IT Engineer
7 24 (4.76%) Business Manager
8 23 (4.56%) Business Analyst
9 19 (3.77%) Developer
10 17 (3.37%) IT Support Engineer
10 17 (3.37%) Systems Analyst
11 16 (3.17%) Administrator
12 15 (2.98%) CRM Architect
13 14 (2.78%) Financial Analyst
13 14 (2.78%) IT Architect
13 14 (2.78%) Salesforce Architect
13 14 (2.78%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.18%) CSS
1 11 (2.18%) HTML
2 10 (1.98%) REST
3 6 (1.19%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (0.99%) .NET
4 5 (0.99%) SOAP
5 4 (0.79%) EDI
5 4 (0.79%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (0.79%) GraphQL
5 4 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.79%) Sass
5 4 (0.79%) ZeroMQ
6 3 (0.60%) Middleware
6 3 (0.60%) RESTful
6 3 (0.60%) Spring
6 3 (0.60%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.40%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.40%) Django
7 2 (0.40%) XML
7 2 (0.40%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 50 (9.92%) Self-Motivation
2 43 (8.53%) FMCG
2 43 (8.53%) Management Information System
3 42 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 39 (7.74%) Data Centre
5 33 (6.55%) Product Ownership
6 30 (5.95%) Cloud Native
7 21 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (3.97%) Social Media
9 14 (2.78%) Driving Licence
10 11 (2.18%) Smartphone
11 10 (1.98%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.39%) IoT
14 6 (1.19%) Security Posture
15 5 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
15 5 (0.99%) Web Conferencing
16 4 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
17 3 (0.60%) CMDB
17 3 (0.60%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.56%) Windows
2 15 (2.98%) Linux
3 7 (1.39%) Unix
3 7 (1.39%) Windows 10
4 6 (1.19%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.20%) Android
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
2 174 (34.52%) Analytics
3 163 (32.34%) Continuous Improvement
4 125 (24.80%) Business Intelligence
5 120 (23.81%) Decision-Making
6 94 (18.65%) Agile
7 88 (17.46%) ERP
8 85 (16.87%) Project Management
9 76 (15.08%) Stakeholder Management
10 74 (14.68%) CRM
11 73 (14.48%) Actionable Insight
12 71 (14.09%) AI
13 66 (13.10%) Business Strategy
14 65 (12.90%) Process Improvement
15 56 (11.11%) Visualisation
16 54 (10.71%) Data Analysis
17 52 (10.32%) Change Management
18 48 (9.52%) CI/CD
19 46 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
20 43 (8.53%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 108 (21.43%) SQL
2 56 (11.11%) Python
3 28 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 25 (4.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (2.38%) C++
6 11 (2.18%) C#
7 10 (1.98%) C
8 9 (1.79%) Java
9 8 (1.59%) Bash
9 8 (1.59%) VBA
10 7 (1.39%) JavaScript
11 4 (0.79%) R
11 4 (0.79%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.60%) Bicep
12 3 (0.60%) Go
12 3 (0.60%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.40%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.40%) Scala
13 2 (0.40%) VC++
Qualifications
1 126 (25.00%) Degree
2 27 (5.36%) Security Cleared
3 19 (3.77%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (2.58%) DBS Check
5 13 (2.58%) PMI Certification
5 13 (2.58%) PMP
6 12 (2.38%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 11 (2.18%) A+ Certification
7 11 (2.18%) CCNA
7 11 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.18%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.18%) MCSE
7 11 (2.18%) Network+ Certification
8 10 (1.98%) ACCA
9 9 (1.79%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.59%) CIMA
11 7 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.17%) QA
3 20 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.98%) GDPR
5 13 (2.58%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.98%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.59%) GRC
7 8 (1.59%) NIST
8 7 (1.39%) SLA
9 4 (0.79%) NEBOSH
10 3 (0.60%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.60%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.40%) EMIR
11 2 (0.40%) FINRA
11 2 (0.40%) GAAP
11 2 (0.40%) IFRS
11 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (2.98%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.39%) Docker
2 7 (1.39%) Hyper-V
3 6 (1.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (1.98%) Terraform
3 8 (1.59%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.79%) Control-M
5 3 (0.60%) Ansible
6 2 (0.40%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.20%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.20%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.20%) SCCM
7 1 (0.20%) SCOM
Vendors
1 119 (23.61%) Microsoft
2 50 (9.92%) SAP
3 44 (8.73%) Salesforce
4 27 (5.36%) Oracle
5 26 (5.16%) Dell
6 22 (4.37%) Google
7 18 (3.57%) Adobe
8 15 (2.98%) MuleSoft
9 11 (2.18%) Autodesk
10 6 (1.19%) Cisco
10 6 (1.19%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.99%) Apple
11 5 (0.99%) BT
11 5 (0.99%) Informatica
12 4 (0.79%) Databricks
12 4 (0.79%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.79%) Hotjar
12 4 (0.79%) YouTube
13 3 (0.60%) Screaming Frog
13 3 (0.60%) Xero