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 5 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 271 431
Rank change year-on-year -158 +160 +63
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 444 550 363
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 1.11% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 2.70% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 280 321 188
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,688 £34,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,425 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.37% -9.52% +11.70%

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 31,418 20,334 23,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.60% 40.95% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 19,323 10,203 11,964
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,613 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,865 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.25% -14.29% -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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -137 424 £49,425 -1.15% 553
UK excluding London -155 311 £44,000 -7.37% 265
Work from Home -73 135 £45,000 -10.00% 258
London -93 125 £65,000 - 335
South East -83 96 £49,425 -7.62% 75
South West -80 64 £42,500 -15.00% 33
North of England -45 62 £45,000 - 46
Midlands -57 59 £45,000 +15.38% 41
North West -43 36 £37,500 -1.96% 31
West Midlands -28 34 £43,750 +25.00% 23
East Midlands -56 23 £42,500 -46.88% 18
Yorkshire -28 21 £90,000 +89.47% 12
East of England -34 18 £42,879 -1.99% 22
Scotland -11 9 £26,150 - 28
North East -58 5 £52,500 - 4
Wales -64 2 - - 14
Northern Ireland -81 2 £63,750 - 11

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 15 (3.38%) Confluence
2 11 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.90%) SAS
3 4 (0.90%) WordPress
4 3 (0.68%) Apache
4 3 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.68%) CMS
4 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.45%) IIS
5 2 (0.45%) Luigi
5 2 (0.45%) Tornado
Applications
1 52 (11.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (6.08%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.03%) Simulink
5 7 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (1.13%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.90%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.45%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.23%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.70%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.58%) Shopify
3 4 (0.90%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.90%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.90%) JDE World
4 3 (0.68%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.45%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.45%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.23%) iTrent
6 1 (0.23%) Magento
6 1 (0.23%) Odoo
6 1 (0.23%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.23%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 65 (14.64%) Azure
2 47 (10.59%) Power Platform
3 43 (9.68%) SaaS
4 38 (8.56%) AWS
5 31 (6.98%) GCP
6 29 (6.53%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (5.63%) Google Analytics
8 15 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (3.15%) PowerApps
10 12 (2.70%) Google Ads
11 10 (2.25%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (2.03%) Copilot Studio
12 9 (2.03%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (1.58%) Meta Ads
14 6 (1.35%) Canva
14 6 (1.35%) Google Sheets
14 6 (1.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.15%) SAN
2 13 (2.93%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.48%) HTTP
3 11 (2.48%) LAN
3 11 (2.48%) WAN
4 9 (2.03%) SMS
4 9 (2.03%) Wireshark
5 8 (1.80%) DNS
6 7 (1.58%) Firewall
7 6 (1.35%) VPN
8 5 (1.13%) FTP
8 5 (1.13%) Internet
8 5 (1.13%) SMTP
8 5 (1.13%) Unified Communications
8 5 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.90%) ATM
9 4 (0.90%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.90%) NAS
10 2 (0.45%) Broadband
10 2 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.56%) Power BI
2 17 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (3.15%) Tableau
4 11 (2.48%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.80%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.58%) GIS
7 6 (1.35%) Metadata
7 6 (1.35%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.35%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.13%) Looker
8 5 (1.13%) Power Query
8 5 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (0.90%) MySQL
10 3 (0.68%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.45%) Big Data
11 2 (0.45%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.45%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.45%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 24 (5.41%) JIRA
2 13 (2.93%) Eclipse
3 9 (2.03%) Git
4 3 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.68%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.68%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (0.45%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.45%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.45%) Ranorex
5 2 (0.45%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.45%) Selenium
5 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.23%) JMeter
6 1 (0.23%) Postman
6 1 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 444 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 225 (50.68%) Social Skills
3 110 (24.77%) Finance
4 75 (16.89%) Marketing
5 43 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
6 37 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 35 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (5.63%) Legal
9 23 (5.18%) Retail
10 22 (4.95%) Manufacturing
11 19 (4.28%) Advertising
12 18 (4.05%) Electronics
13 16 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
13 16 (3.60%) Law
14 11 (2.48%) Aerospace
14 11 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (2.03%) Brand Awareness
16 8 (1.80%) Local Government
16 8 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 92 (20.72%) Analyst
2 41 (9.23%) Senior
3 37 (8.33%) Lead
4 27 (6.08%) Developer
5 21 (4.73%) Business Analyst
6 20 (4.50%) Data Analyst
7 19 (4.28%) Support Analyst
8 18 (4.05%) IT Engineer
9 15 (3.38%) Senior Manager
10 14 (3.15%) Field Engineer
10 14 (3.15%) Field Service Engineer
10 14 (3.15%) Product Owner
11 13 (2.93%) Coordinator
12 12 (2.70%) Systems Engineer
13 11 (2.48%) Junior
13 11 (2.48%) Marketing Manager
14 10 (2.25%) Applications Engineer
14 10 (2.25%) Compliance Manager
14 10 (2.25%) SOC Analyst
14 10 (2.25%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.15%) JSON
2 13 (2.93%) .NET
3 9 (2.03%) RESTful
4 8 (1.80%) HTML
4 8 (1.80%) Kafka
4 8 (1.80%) REST
5 7 (1.58%) CSS
6 6 (1.35%) Spring
6 6 (1.35%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.13%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.13%) LDAP
7 5 (1.13%) Terraform
8 4 (0.90%) PyTorch
8 4 (0.90%) TensorFlow
9 3 (0.68%) XML
10 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.45%) Django
10 2 (0.45%) EDI
10 2 (0.45%) Middleware
10 2 (0.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.76%) Onboarding
2 27 (6.08%) Management Information System
3 23 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.05%) Cloud Native
4 18 (4.05%) Cyber Threat
4 18 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.38%) Cyber Defence
5 15 (3.38%) Driving Licence
5 15 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.38%) Social Media
6 14 (3.15%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.48%) Blog
8 10 (2.25%) Smartphone
8 10 (2.25%) Web Conferencing
9 9 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.80%) Credit Risk
10 8 (1.80%) SCADA
11 6 (1.35%) Educational Technology
11 6 (1.35%) Video Editing
12 5 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.31%) Windows
2 15 (3.38%) Linux
3 11 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.45%) Android
5 2 (0.45%) Debian
5 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (29.05%) Continuous Improvement
2 126 (28.38%) Problem-Solving
3 109 (24.55%) Analytics
4 103 (23.20%) Agile
5 77 (17.34%) AI
5 77 (17.34%) Decision-Making
6 65 (14.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 62 (13.96%) Business Intelligence
8 61 (13.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 54 (12.16%) CRM
10 50 (11.26%) Cybersecurity
11 44 (9.91%) Roadmaps
12 40 (9.01%) Process Improvement
13 39 (8.78%) Actionable Insight
13 39 (8.78%) Validation
14 37 (8.33%) DevOps
14 37 (8.33%) Scrum
15 36 (8.11%) Risk Management
16 35 (7.88%) User Stories
17 34 (7.66%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 94 (21.17%) SQL
2 40 (9.01%) Python
3 27 (6.08%) Java
4 21 (4.73%) MATLAB
5 19 (4.28%) C#
6 15 (3.38%) C
7 14 (3.15%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.93%) Embedded C
9 11 (2.48%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.58%) Scala
11 6 (1.35%) Bash
11 6 (1.35%) C++
11 6 (1.35%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.35%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (1.13%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.90%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.90%) Go
13 4 (0.90%) PHP
14 3 (0.68%) COBOL
15 2 (0.45%) RPG
Qualifications
1 72 (16.22%) Degree
2 43 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 28 (6.31%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (3.15%) A+ Certification
5 14 (3.15%) CCNA
5 14 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (3.15%) MCSE
5 14 (3.15%) Network+ Certification
6 13 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.58%) ACCA
7 7 (1.58%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.35%) CREST Certified
8 6 (1.35%) GCED
8 6 (1.35%) GCIA
8 6 (1.35%) GCIH
8 6 (1.35%) GIAC
8 6 (1.35%) OSCP
8 6 (1.35%) SANS
9 5 (1.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (14.19%) Data Quality
2 38 (8.56%) QA
3 23 (5.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (4.28%) GDPR
5 13 (2.93%) ISO 9001
6 10 (2.25%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (2.25%) ISO 14001
6 10 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 8 (1.80%) ARP4754
7 8 (1.80%) DO-254
8 7 (1.58%) SLA
9 6 (1.35%) ISO 8583
9 6 (1.35%) NIST
10 5 (1.13%) COBIT
10 5 (1.13%) GRC
10 5 (1.13%) ISO 19650
10 5 (1.13%) ISO 22301
10 5 (1.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (2.48%) Firmware
2 9 (2.03%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (1.80%) Docker
4 6 (1.35%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.23%) IAG
Systems Management
1 9 (2.03%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.35%) Kibana
3 5 (1.13%) Ansible
3 5 (1.13%) QRadar
4 2 (0.45%) Argo
4 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.23%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.23%) Grafana
5 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.23%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 101 (22.75%) Microsoft
2 52 (11.71%) Google
3 25 (5.63%) HubSpot
4 20 (4.50%) SAP
5 15 (3.38%) Dell
6 12 (2.70%) Adobe
6 12 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.48%) CrowdStrike
7 11 (2.48%) Splunk
8 9 (2.03%) Facebook
8 9 (2.03%) Instagram
8 9 (2.03%) Oracle
9 8 (1.80%) YouTube
10 6 (1.35%) Carbon Black
10 6 (1.35%) Marketo
10 6 (1.35%) Pardot
11 5 (1.13%) ArcSight
11 5 (1.13%) Cisco
12 4 (0.90%) EMC
12 4 (0.90%) Infor