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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 266 460
Rank change year-on-year -140 +194 +88
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 484 563 367
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 1.13% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% 2.76% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 289 310 212
10th Percentile £28,700 £29,000 £29,325
25th Percentile £33,750 £34,655 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,425 £50,000 £52,097
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% -4.02% +4.19%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £71,563
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £89,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +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 29,619 20,428 25,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.09% 41.12% 32.28%
Number of salaries quoted 18,609 10,249 13,475
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,925 £42,608
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 £82,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £108,750
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 11 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 11 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 -121 453 £49,425 -1.15% 324
UK excluding London -116 348 £44,000 -12.00% 165
Work from Home -53 139 £50,000 - 143
London -80 126 £65,000 - 209
South East -72 102 £49,425 -4.95% 49
North of England -21 78 £45,000 -5.26% 34
South West -70 68 £42,500 -15.00% 25
Midlands -46 62 £45,000 +5.88% 26
West Midlands -18 41 £42,500 +11.84% 14
North West -31 41 £37,500 -16.67% 20
Yorkshire -25 28 £90,000 +89.47% 13
East Midlands -47 19 £45,000 -43.75% 12
East of England -45 15 £42,879 -1.99% 14
Scotland -4 13 £26,150 - 12
North East -48 9 £57,500 - 2
Northern Ireland -72 6 £63,750 - 6
Wales -65 4 - - 3

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 (3.10%) Confluence
2 12 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.83%) Apache
3 4 (0.83%) CMS
3 4 (0.83%) SAS
3 4 (0.83%) WordPress
4 3 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.62%) IIS
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.41%) Luigi
5 2 (0.41%) Tornado
Applications
1 52 (10.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.45%) Simulink
5 5 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.83%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.62%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.21%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (2.48%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.45%) Shopify
3 4 (0.83%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.83%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.83%) JDE World
4 3 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.41%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.41%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
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 70 (14.46%) Azure
2 50 (10.33%) Power Platform
3 43 (8.88%) SaaS
4 40 (8.26%) AWS
5 34 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (6.40%) GCP
7 25 (5.17%) Google Analytics
8 16 (3.31%) PowerApps
9 15 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.27%) Google Ads
11 10 (2.07%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (1.86%) Copilot Studio
12 9 (1.86%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.86%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.45%) dbt
13 7 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.24%) Canva
15 5 (1.03%) Bloomreach
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.69%) SAN
1 13 (2.69%) TCP/IP
2 11 (2.27%) HTTP
2 11 (2.27%) LAN
2 11 (2.27%) WAN
3 10 (2.07%) SMS
4 9 (1.86%) DNS
5 8 (1.65%) Firewall
5 8 (1.65%) VPN
6 7 (1.45%) Wireshark
7 5 (1.03%) FTP
7 5 (1.03%) Internet
7 5 (1.03%) SMTP
7 5 (1.03%) Unified Communications
7 5 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.83%) ATM
8 4 (0.83%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.83%) NAS
8 4 (0.83%) Wireless
9 2 (0.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.26%) Power BI
2 18 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.48%) Tableau
4 10 (2.07%) Relational Database
4 10 (2.07%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.65%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.65%) MySQL
6 7 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.45%) GIS
6 7 (1.45%) Metadata
6 7 (1.45%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.24%) Looker
8 5 (1.03%) Big Data
8 5 (1.03%) Power Query
9 3 (0.62%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.62%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.41%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 23 (4.75%) JIRA
2 14 (2.89%) Git
3 11 (2.27%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.83%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.83%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.62%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.41%) ERwin
6 2 (0.41%) GitLab
6 2 (0.41%) Ranorex
6 2 (0.41%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.41%) Selenium
6 2 (0.41%) TestRail
6 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.21%) JMeter
7 1 (0.21%) Postman
7 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 484 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 238 (49.17%) Social Skills
3 135 (27.89%) Finance
4 66 (13.64%) Marketing
5 40 (8.26%) Organisational Skills
6 37 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (7.23%) Public Sector
8 24 (4.96%) Manufacturing
9 22 (4.55%) Legal
10 20 (4.13%) Retail
11 19 (3.93%) Electronics
12 16 (3.31%) Advertising
12 16 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (2.89%) Law
14 11 (2.27%) Aerospace
15 10 (2.07%) Financial Institution
16 9 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (1.65%) Local Government
18 7 (1.45%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 98 (20.25%) Analyst
2 41 (8.47%) Lead
3 38 (7.85%) Senior
4 28 (5.79%) Developer
5 24 (4.96%) Business Analyst
5 24 (4.96%) Head of QA
6 21 (4.34%) Support Analyst
7 20 (4.13%) Data Analyst
8 18 (3.72%) IT Engineer
9 13 (2.69%) Compliance Manager
9 13 (2.69%) Field Engineer
9 13 (2.69%) Field Service Engineer
9 13 (2.69%) Product Owner
10 12 (2.48%) Junior
10 12 (2.48%) Systems Engineer
11 11 (2.27%) Architect
11 11 (2.27%) Coordinator
11 11 (2.27%) IT Support
11 11 (2.27%) Senior Manager
11 11 (2.27%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.72%) JSON
2 14 (2.89%) .NET
2 14 (2.89%) HTML
3 13 (2.69%) CSS
4 10 (2.07%) RESTful
5 9 (1.86%) Kafka
6 8 (1.65%) REST
7 7 (1.45%) Spring
7 7 (1.45%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.45%) Terraform
8 5 (1.03%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.03%) LDAP
8 5 (1.03%) XML
9 4 (0.83%) PyTorch
9 4 (0.83%) React
9 4 (0.83%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.41%) Flask
10 2 (0.41%) Node.js
10 2 (0.41%) Pandas
10 2 (0.41%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.20%) Onboarding
2 24 (4.96%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.93%) Cloud Native
5 18 (3.72%) Cyber Threat
5 18 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.89%) Driving Licence
7 14 (2.89%) Social Media
8 13 (2.69%) Data Centre
9 12 (2.48%) Cyber Defence
10 11 (2.27%) Blog
11 9 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.65%) Credit Risk
12 8 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.65%) SCADA
12 8 (1.65%) Smartphone
12 8 (1.65%) Web Conferencing
13 7 (1.45%) Educational Technology
13 7 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.40%) Windows
2 15 (3.10%) Linux
3 12 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.83%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.41%) Android
5 2 (0.41%) Debian
5 2 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (33.06%) Continuous Improvement
2 134 (27.69%) Analytics
3 125 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (22.11%) Agile
5 96 (19.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 85 (17.56%) Decision-Making
7 72 (14.88%) AI
8 63 (13.02%) Actionable Insight
9 62 (12.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 58 (11.98%) Business Intelligence
11 52 (10.74%) CRM
12 50 (10.33%) Root Cause Analysis
13 45 (9.30%) Roadmaps
14 44 (9.09%) Customer Experience
15 43 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
16 42 (8.68%) Validation
17 41 (8.47%) Process Improvement
18 39 (8.06%) DevOps
19 38 (7.85%) Risk Management
19 38 (7.85%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 99 (20.45%) SQL
2 43 (8.88%) Python
3 28 (5.79%) Java
4 22 (4.55%) C#
5 19 (3.93%) MATLAB
6 16 (3.31%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.69%) C
8 11 (2.27%) Embedded C
8 11 (2.27%) JavaScript
8 11 (2.27%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.65%) Bash
10 7 (1.45%) C++
10 7 (1.45%) PHP
10 7 (1.45%) Scala
11 6 (1.24%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (1.03%) Go
12 5 (1.03%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.83%) Embedded C++
14 3 (0.62%) COBOL
14 3 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 68 (14.05%) Degree
2 43 (8.88%) Security Cleared
3 27 (5.58%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.96%) IRCA
5 15 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.69%) A+ Certification
6 13 (2.69%) CCNA
6 13 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (2.69%) MCSE
6 13 (2.69%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.65%) ACCA
9 7 (1.45%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.24%) CIMA
10 6 (1.24%) CISA
10 6 (1.24%) CREST Certified
10 6 (1.24%) GCIA
10 6 (1.24%) GCIH
10 6 (1.24%) GIAC
10 6 (1.24%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (13.84%) QA
2 64 (13.22%) Data Quality
3 43 (8.88%) ISO 9001
4 41 (8.47%) GDPR
5 26 (5.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 13 (2.69%) ISO 14001
6 13 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 11 (2.27%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.65%) ARP4754
8 8 (1.65%) DO-254
9 7 (1.45%) SLA
10 6 (1.24%) COBIT
10 6 (1.24%) ISO 8583
10 6 (1.24%) NIST
11 5 (1.03%) GRC
11 5 (1.03%) ISO 19650
11 5 (1.03%) PCI DSS
11 5 (1.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (2.07%) Docker
2 9 (1.86%) Firmware
3 8 (1.65%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.45%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.21%) IAG
Systems Management
1 11 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.24%) Ansible
2 6 (1.24%) Kibana
3 5 (1.03%) QRadar
4 2 (0.41%) Argo
4 2 (0.41%) Grafana
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.21%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.21%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 108 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 52 (10.74%) Google
3 23 (4.75%) HubSpot
4 19 (3.93%) SAP
5 14 (2.89%) Adobe
5 14 (2.89%) Dell
6 13 (2.69%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.27%) Splunk
8 10 (2.07%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (1.86%) Oracle
10 7 (1.45%) Facebook
10 7 (1.45%) Instagram
11 6 (1.24%) Carbon Black
11 6 (1.24%) Marketo
11 6 (1.24%) Pardot
11 6 (1.24%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.24%) YouTube
12 5 (1.03%) ArcSight
12 5 (1.03%) Databricks
12 5 (1.03%) IFS