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 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 311 462
Rank change year-on-year -38 +151 +156
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 533 452 461
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.92% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.07% 2.24% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 296 266 286
10th Percentile £28,938 £31,250 £28,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,750 £46,845
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +14.74% -6.31%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £67,188
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +16.28% -9.47%

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 25,710 20,142 33,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.88% 41.08% 33.77%
Number of salaries quoted 16,406 10,000 20,929
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% +4.55% -14.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.26% - -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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -38 478 £50,000 -4.76% 139
UK excluding London +7 394 £45,000 -10.00% 99
Work from Home +12 138 £50,000 - 63
London -42 124 £65,000 -7.14% 61
South East -8 106 £50,000 -9.09% 29
North of England -8 98 £62,500 +31.58% 26
Midlands -11 65 £44,000 -23.48% 17
South West -32 64 £32,500 -35.00% 16
North West +1 48 £45,000 -5.26% 11
West Midlands +2 45 £44,000 +10.00% 5
Yorkshire -6 34 £90,000 +89.47% 10
East Midlands -17 20 £42,500 -46.88% 11
East of England -22 19 £40,000 -14.61% 8
Scotland +15 17 £26,150 -32.95% 4
North East -38 16 £57,500 - 5
Northern Ireland -49 14 £63,750 +27.50% 1
Wales - 11 £31,750 -

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 10 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.31%) Confluence
3 5 (0.94%) WordPress
4 4 (0.75%) CMS
4 4 (0.75%) SAS
5 3 (0.56%) IIS
6 2 (0.38%) Apache
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.19%) Mendix
Applications
1 53 (9.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.56%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.19%) Simulink
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (2.44%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.75%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.75%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.75%) JDE World
4 3 (0.56%) Shopify
5 2 (0.38%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.38%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.19%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.19%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.19%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 75 (14.07%) Azure
2 66 (12.38%) Power Platform
3 38 (7.13%) SaaS
4 35 (6.57%) AWS
5 33 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (4.32%) GCP
7 19 (3.56%) Power Automate
8 18 (3.38%) PowerApps
9 16 (3.00%) Google Analytics
10 15 (2.81%) GitHub
11 13 (2.44%) dbt
12 12 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (1.69%) Datadog
16 8 (1.50%) OpenShift
17 7 (1.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 7 (1.31%) Google Ads
17 7 (1.31%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.63%) SAN
2 12 (2.25%) LAN
2 12 (2.25%) TCP/IP
2 12 (2.25%) WAN
3 11 (2.06%) VPN
4 10 (1.88%) Firewall
4 10 (1.88%) HTTP
5 9 (1.69%) DNS
6 8 (1.50%) SMS
7 5 (0.94%) Unified Communications
7 5 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.94%) Wireless
8 4 (0.75%) FTP
8 4 (0.75%) Internet
8 4 (0.75%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.75%) NAS
8 4 (0.75%) SMTP
9 2 (0.38%) ATM
9 2 (0.38%) SSL
9 2 (0.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (10.69%) Power BI
2 29 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.44%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.25%) Metadata
4 12 (2.25%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.06%) Tableau
6 8 (1.50%) BigQuery
6 8 (1.50%) MySQL
7 7 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.31%) Metabase
7 7 (1.31%) Power Query
7 7 (1.31%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.13%) GIS
9 4 (0.75%) Looker
9 4 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.56%) Big Data
11 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (4.13%) Git
2 16 (3.00%) JIRA
3 9 (1.69%) GitLab
4 8 (1.50%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.31%) ERwin
6 6 (1.13%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.94%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.56%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.38%) Ranorex
10 2 (0.38%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.38%) Selenium
10 2 (0.38%) TestRail
11 1 (0.19%) JMeter
11 1 (0.19%) Postman
11 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 532 (99.81%) Analytical Skills
2 281 (52.72%) Social Skills
3 184 (34.52%) Finance
4 56 (10.51%) Marketing
5 38 (7.13%) Organisational Skills
6 28 (5.25%) Manufacturing
7 25 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (4.50%) Public Sector
9 20 (3.75%) Retail
10 19 (3.56%) Legal
11 15 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (2.44%) Electronics
12 13 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (2.25%) Aerospace
13 12 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (2.06%) Advertising
14 11 (2.06%) Banking
14 11 (2.06%) Financial Institution
15 9 (1.69%) Law
16 6 (1.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 117 (21.95%) Analyst
2 72 (13.51%) Head of QA
3 44 (8.26%) Lead
4 40 (7.50%) Senior
5 26 (4.88%) Developer
5 26 (4.88%) Support Analyst
6 25 (4.69%) Business Analyst
7 24 (4.50%) Data Analyst
8 22 (4.13%) IT Engineer
9 20 (3.75%) IT Support
10 18 (3.38%) IT Analyst
11 16 (3.00%) Compliance Manager
11 16 (3.00%) Consultant
12 15 (2.81%) Junior
13 14 (2.63%) Field Engineer
13 14 (2.63%) Field Service Engineer
13 14 (2.63%) Junior Analyst
14 13 (2.44%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (1.88%) IT Support Analyst
15 10 (1.88%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.75%) JSON
2 18 (3.38%) HTML
3 17 (3.19%) CSS
4 13 (2.44%) .NET
5 10 (1.88%) XML
6 8 (1.50%) OAuth
6 8 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (1.50%) SAML
7 7 (1.31%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (1.31%) FpML
7 7 (1.31%) XML Schema
8 6 (1.13%) React
9 4 (0.75%) LDAP
9 4 (0.75%) PySpark
9 4 (0.75%) REST
9 4 (0.75%) RESTful
10 3 (0.56%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.56%) Kafka
10 3 (0.56%) Spring
10 3 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.13%) Onboarding
2 21 (3.94%) Management Information System
3 17 (3.19%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.19%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.81%) Social Media
5 14 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.88%) Cyber Defence
7 10 (1.88%) Smartphone
8 9 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.69%) Driving Licence
8 9 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.50%) e-Learning
9 8 (1.50%) SCADA
9 8 (1.50%) Web Conferencing
10 6 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.94%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.75%) Windows
2 16 (3.00%) Linux
3 12 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.31%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.38%) Android
6 2 (0.38%) Debian
6 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (38.84%) Continuous Improvement
2 172 (32.27%) Analytics
3 149 (27.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 137 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
5 100 (18.76%) Actionable Insight
6 96 (18.01%) Root Cause Analysis
7 95 (17.82%) Agile
8 87 (16.32%) Decision-Making
9 86 (16.14%) Customer Experience
10 85 (15.95%) Change Management
10 85 (15.95%) Service Delivery
11 79 (14.82%) Business Intelligence
11 79 (14.82%) Quality Management
12 76 (14.26%) PRINCE2
13 72 (13.51%) Anti-Money Laundering
14 57 (10.69%) Process Improvement
15 55 (10.32%) CRM
16 45 (8.44%) ERP
17 42 (7.88%) DevOps
17 42 (7.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (18.20%) SQL
2 54 (10.13%) Python
3 23 (4.32%) PowerShell
4 22 (4.13%) C#
5 20 (3.75%) Java
6 17 (3.19%) Bash
7 13 (2.44%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.44%) MATLAB
8 11 (2.06%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.69%) Go
10 8 (1.50%) C++
11 7 (1.31%) PHP
11 7 (1.31%) Scala
12 6 (1.13%) C
12 6 (1.13%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (0.94%) Embedded C
13 5 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.75%) Embedded C++
14 4 (0.75%) VBA
15 2 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 72 (13.51%) IRCA
2 64 (12.01%) Degree
3 36 (6.75%) Security Cleared
4 25 (4.69%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (2.63%) A+ Certification
6 14 (2.63%) CCNA
6 14 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (2.63%) MCSE
6 14 (2.63%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (2.06%) ACCA
8 10 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.69%) CIMA
10 8 (1.50%) GCIA
10 8 (1.50%) GCIH
10 8 (1.50%) GIAC
11 6 (1.13%) CREST Certified
11 6 (1.13%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.13%) GCED
11 6 (1.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (19.89%) QA
2 95 (17.82%) ISO 9001
3 89 (16.70%) GDPR
4 55 (10.32%) Data Quality
5 24 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (3.19%) ISO 14001
7 16 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 15 (2.81%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.50%) ARP4754
9 8 (1.50%) DO-254
9 8 (1.50%) SLA
10 7 (1.31%) GRC
10 7 (1.31%) ISO 19650
10 7 (1.31%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.94%) ISO 8583
11 5 (0.94%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.75%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (2.25%) Docker
2 9 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) IAG
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (3.19%) Terraform
2 15 (2.81%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.69%) Grafana
4 8 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.31%) Ansible
6 6 (1.13%) Kibana
7 4 (0.75%) QRadar
8 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.19%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 110 (20.64%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.38%) Google
3 22 (4.13%) HubSpot
4 21 (3.94%) SAP
5 17 (3.19%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.81%) Dell
7 12 (2.25%) Adobe
8 10 (1.88%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.88%) Oracle
8 10 (1.88%) Splunk
9 8 (1.50%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.50%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.50%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.31%) Sparx
11 6 (1.13%) Carbon Black
11 6 (1.13%) Databricks
11 6 (1.13%) Marketo
11 6 (1.13%) Pardot
12 5 (0.94%) IFS
13 4 (0.75%) ConnectWise