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 have cited Analytical Mindset over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 695 771
Rank change year-on-year +200 +76 -102
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 449 282 495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.29% 0.63% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 295 180 228
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,750 £30,775
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,427 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £74,500 £103,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +5.88%

All Generic Skills
UK

Analytical Mindset is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytical Mindset as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analytical Mindset.

Salary trend for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Mindset over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Top 16 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 27 April 2024. 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 +226 399 £42,500 -15.00% 202
UK excluding London +126 310 £40,000 -20.00% 126
Work from Home +124 119 £47,500 -20.83% 76
South East +100 119 £50,000 - 22
London +157 115 £65,000 +16.07% 81
North of England +34 47 £37,500 -16.67% 42
South West +31 45 £40,000 -23.81% 20
Midlands +33 44 £29,000 -42.00% 28
West Midlands +41 31 £30,000 -33.33% 14
North West +10 29 £37,500 -16.67% 26
East of England +26 25 £42,500 -34.62% 7
Scotland -51 19 £52,850 +115.71% 6
Yorkshire +96 18 £35,500 -21.11% 13
East Midlands -4 13 £29,000 -55.38% 14
Wales +4 7 £50,000 +11.11% 2
Isle of Man - 4 - - 1

Analytical Mindset
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (3.34%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 61 (13.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.11%) OrCAD
3 5 (1.11%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.22%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Shopify
2 2 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.45%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.45%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.22%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.22%) iTrent
3 1 (0.22%) JDE OneWorld
3 1 (0.22%) JDE World
3 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (14.70%) Power Platform
2 47 (10.47%) Azure
3 29 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (5.79%) AWS
5 14 (3.12%) SaaS
6 12 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.78%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (1.56%) GCP
8 7 (1.56%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.11%) Google Analytics
9 5 (1.11%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.67%) Amazon Ads
11 3 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.67%) Google Ads
11 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.67%) Serverless
11 3 (0.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.34%) Ethernet
2 11 (2.45%) RS-232
3 8 (1.78%) DNS
3 8 (1.78%) Intranet
4 6 (1.34%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (1.34%) Firewall
4 6 (1.34%) HTTP
5 4 (0.89%) LAN
5 4 (0.89%) Network Security
5 4 (0.89%) Profibus
5 4 (0.89%) SMTP
5 4 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.89%) WAN
6 3 (0.67%) SAN
7 2 (0.45%) DHCP
7 2 (0.45%) FTP
7 2 (0.45%) Internet
7 2 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.45%) Sourcefire
7 2 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (12.03%) Power BI
2 19 (4.23%) Tableau
3 9 (2.00%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.56%) Spotfire
4 7 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.89%) Big Data
5 4 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.89%) PowerPivot
5 4 (0.89%) QlikView
6 3 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.67%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.67%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.67%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.67%) Looker
7 2 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.45%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.45%) DB2
7 2 (0.45%) Redis
7 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.22%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 8 (1.78%) Git
1 8 (1.78%) JIRA
2 7 (1.56%) RStudio
3 5 (1.11%) LabVIEW
4 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) Bugzilla
5 1 (0.22%) Selenium
5 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.22%) WebDriver
General
1 449 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 240 (53.45%) Social Skills
3 93 (20.71%) Marketing
4 80 (17.82%) Retail
5 70 (15.59%) Finance
6 61 (13.59%) Advertising
7 53 (11.80%) German Language
8 49 (10.91%) Manufacturing
9 30 (6.68%) Organisational Skills
10 29 (6.46%) Electronics
11 25 (5.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 24 (5.35%) Legal
13 21 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (3.56%) Public Sector
15 14 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (2.90%) Law
17 11 (2.45%) Aerospace
18 9 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
19 8 (1.78%) Banking
20 6 (1.34%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 103 (22.94%) Analyst
2 58 (12.92%) Graduate
3 33 (7.35%) Lead
4 32 (7.13%) Senior
5 27 (6.01%) Developer
6 22 (4.90%) Data Analyst
7 19 (4.23%) Software Engineer
8 17 (3.79%) Architect
9 14 (3.12%) IT Support
9 14 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (2.67%) Data Manager
10 12 (2.67%) Data Steward
10 12 (2.67%) Product Manager
11 11 (2.45%) Applications Support
11 11 (2.45%) Support Analyst
12 10 (2.23%) Applications Support Analyst
12 10 (2.23%) Consultant
12 10 (2.23%) IT Analyst
12 10 (2.23%) Junior
12 10 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.00%) HTML
2 8 (1.78%) .NET
3 4 (0.89%) ARM Templates
3 4 (0.89%) CSS
4 3 (0.67%) Django
4 3 (0.67%) Flask
4 3 (0.67%) Guice
4 3 (0.67%) Hibernate
4 3 (0.67%) JSON
4 3 (0.67%) RESTful
4 3 (0.67%) Spring
4 3 (0.67%) Spring Boot
4 3 (0.67%) Web Services
5 2 (0.45%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (0.45%) Entity Framework
5 2 (0.45%) HTML5
5 2 (0.45%) Memcached
5 2 (0.45%) Tapestry
5 2 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.92%) Social Media
2 52 (11.58%) Photography
3 33 (7.35%) Algorithms
3 33 (7.35%) Management Information System
4 25 (5.57%) Analogue Electronics
5 22 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (4.45%) Product Ownership
7 19 (4.23%) Data Structures
7 19 (4.23%) FPGA
8 16 (3.56%) Cyber Threat
9 14 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.12%) VHDL
10 10 (2.23%) Onboarding
11 9 (2.00%) Fibre Optics
12 7 (1.56%) Biopharmaceutical
12 7 (1.56%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.56%) Driving Licence
13 6 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.11%) Robotics
15 4 (0.89%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.56%) Linux
2 15 (3.34%) Windows
3 5 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.45%) Android
5 2 (0.45%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.45%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.45%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (48.11%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 70 (15.59%) Analytics
4 68 (15.14%) Project Management
5 55 (12.25%) Agile
5 55 (12.25%) Computer Science
5 55 (12.25%) Decision-Making
5 55 (12.25%) Strategic Planning
6 54 (12.03%) Business Intelligence
7 51 (11.36%) Mathematics
8 43 (9.58%) Physics
9 42 (9.35%) ERP
10 40 (8.91%) Customer Service
11 31 (6.90%) Data Analysis
12 30 (6.68%) Collaborative Working
12 30 (6.68%) E-Commerce
13 28 (6.24%) Roadmaps
14 27 (6.01%) Cybersecurity
14 27 (6.01%) Visualisation
15 25 (5.57%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 57 (12.69%) SQL
2 49 (10.91%) Python
3 39 (8.69%) C
4 23 (5.12%) C++
4 23 (5.12%) Java
5 17 (3.79%) Fortran
6 15 (3.34%) C#
7 11 (2.45%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (1.34%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.34%) R
9 4 (0.89%) Bicep
9 4 (0.89%) Embedded C++
10 3 (0.67%) Scala
11 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.45%) RPG
11 2 (0.45%) Tcl
12 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 172 (38.31%) Degree
2 63 (14.03%) DBS Check
3 31 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 31 (6.90%) PhD
3 31 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 25 (5.57%) Master's Degree
5 19 (4.23%) Azure Certification
5 19 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.12%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.00%) CISSP
9 7 (1.56%) A+ Certification
9 7 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.34%) CCNA
10 6 (1.34%) CCNP
10 6 (1.34%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (0.89%) CEH
11 4 (0.89%) CISM
12 3 (0.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.01%) QA
2 21 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.00%) GDPR
5 4 (0.89%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 4 (0.89%) ISO 13485
5 4 (0.89%) NIST
5 4 (0.89%) SLA
6 2 (0.45%) MISRA
6 2 (0.45%) MISRA C
6 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.45%) WCAG
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (2.45%) Firmware
2 8 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.11%) Terraform
2 4 (0.89%) QRadar
3 3 (0.67%) Ansible
3 3 (0.67%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.45%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.22%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 98 (21.83%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.90%) Splunk
3 10 (2.23%) Google
4 8 (1.78%) Alteryx
4 8 (1.78%) Cisco
4 8 (1.78%) IBM
5 7 (1.56%) Meraki
6 6 (1.34%) Canon
6 6 (1.34%) ForeScout
6 6 (1.34%) McAfee
6 6 (1.34%) Rapid7
6 6 (1.34%) SAP
7 5 (1.11%) Apple
7 5 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.11%) VMware
8 4 (0.89%) Oracle
9 3 (0.67%) Cadence
9 3 (0.67%) Criteo
9 3 (0.67%) Dell
9 3 (0.67%) Facebook