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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 344 475
Rank change year-on-year +13 +131 +198
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 502 354 453
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.83% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.03% 1.94% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 274 187 300
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,713 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% +27.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £79,375 £61,250
90th Percentile £93,375 £90,000 £73,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +29.41% -15.00%

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 24,752 18,243 34,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.67% 42.87% 35.22%
Number of salaries quoted 14,121 8,553 23,055
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.10% +3.20% -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 26 May 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 May 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 +23 440 £50,000 -13.04% 278
UK excluding London +61 362 £44,000 -20.00% 187
London -29 124 £65,000 -18.75% 127
Work from Home +36 121 £50,000 -16.67% 136
North of England +12 91 £62,500 +2.04% 42
South East +16 90 £49,425 -14.04% 57
Midlands -4 59 £44,000 -16.19% 30
South West -30 49 £32,500 -40.91% 22
North West +2 48 £45,000 -30.77% 26
West Midlands -19 39 £44,000 +17.33% 15
Yorkshire -25 28 £90,000 +89.47% 12
East of England -27 25 £40,000 +23.08% 20
Scotland +5 23 £26,150 -50.19% 10
East Midlands -22 19 £37,500 -34.78% 15
North East - 15 £64,250 - 4
Northern Ireland -29 13 £63,750 +27.50% 5
Wales - 12 £35,000 - 4

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 9 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.00%) Confluence
2 5 (1.00%) WordPress
3 4 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.60%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Mendix
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 47 (9.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.60%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (1.99%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.80%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.80%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.80%) JDE World
4 3 (0.60%) Shopify
5 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.20%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 74 (14.74%) Azure
2 56 (11.16%) Power Platform
3 39 (7.77%) SaaS
4 37 (7.37%) AWS
5 29 (5.78%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (4.58%) GCP
7 21 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (4.18%) Power Automate
8 15 (2.99%) GitHub
9 13 (2.59%) dbt
9 13 (2.59%) Google Analytics
10 11 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (1.79%) Datadog
11 9 (1.79%) PowerApps
12 8 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (1.59%) OpenShift
13 7 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (1.39%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.39%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (1.39%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.39%) SAN
2 16 (3.19%) Firewall
3 15 (2.99%) VPN
4 14 (2.79%) WAN
5 13 (2.59%) LAN
5 13 (2.59%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.59%) DNS
7 7 (1.39%) HTTP
8 5 (1.00%) SMS
9 4 (0.80%) Broadband
9 4 (0.80%) Internet
9 4 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.80%) Wireless
10 3 (0.60%) FTP
10 3 (0.60%) SMTP
10 3 (0.60%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (0.40%) Network Security
11 2 (0.40%) SSL
12 1 (0.20%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (10.96%) Power BI
2 26 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (3.78%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.19%) Tableau
5 10 (1.99%) Metadata
5 10 (1.99%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.79%) Metabase
7 8 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.39%) MySQL
8 7 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.39%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.00%) Big Data
10 5 (1.00%) GIS
10 5 (1.00%) Power Query
11 4 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.80%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.60%) Looker
Development Applications
1 21 (4.18%) Git
2 11 (2.19%) JIRA
3 9 (1.79%) GitLab
3 9 (1.79%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.39%) ERwin
5 5 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.60%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.60%) Selenium
6 3 (0.60%) TestRail
6 3 (0.60%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 2 (0.40%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.40%) Ranorex
7 2 (0.40%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.20%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.20%) WebDriver
General
1 501 (99.80%) Analytical Skills
2 269 (53.59%) Social Skills
3 186 (37.05%) Finance
4 50 (9.96%) Marketing
5 27 (5.38%) Legal
6 26 (5.18%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.78%) Retail
8 22 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (4.38%) Manufacturing
8 22 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
9 20 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.39%) Electronics
10 12 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.19%) Banking
11 11 (2.19%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.99%) Advertising
12 10 (1.99%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.99%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 113 (22.51%) Analyst
2 72 (14.34%) Head of QA
3 34 (6.77%) Lead
3 34 (6.77%) Senior
4 33 (6.57%) IT Engineer
5 30 (5.98%) IT Support
6 25 (4.98%) Business Analyst
7 22 (4.38%) IT Analyst
8 20 (3.98%) Data Analyst
8 20 (3.98%) Developer
9 19 (3.78%) Support Analyst
10 18 (3.59%) Support Engineer
11 17 (3.39%) Field Engineer
11 17 (3.39%) Field Service Engineer
11 17 (3.39%) Junior
12 16 (3.19%) Consultant
12 16 (3.19%) IT Support Engineer
12 16 (3.19%) Junior Analyst
13 14 (2.79%) Administrator
13 14 (2.79%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.39%) CSS
1 17 (3.39%) HTML
2 13 (2.59%) JSON
3 11 (2.19%) XML
4 9 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (1.59%) .NET
5 8 (1.59%) OAuth
5 8 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (1.59%) SAML
6 7 (1.39%) FpML
6 7 (1.39%) REST
6 7 (1.39%) XML Schema
7 6 (1.20%) React
7 6 (1.20%) SOAP
8 5 (1.00%) PySpark
8 5 (1.00%) SAP Fiori
9 4 (0.80%) Flutter
9 4 (0.80%) RESTful
10 3 (0.60%) Playwright
10 3 (0.60%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.98%) Onboarding
2 17 (3.39%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.19%) Social Media
4 15 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (2.59%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.59%) Smartphone
6 12 (2.39%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.99%) FMCG
8 9 (1.79%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.79%) Driving Licence
8 9 (1.79%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
9 8 (1.59%) Web Conferencing
10 7 (1.39%) e-Learning
10 7 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.39%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (1.20%) SCADA
12 5 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.37%) Windows
2 17 (3.39%) Linux
3 12 (2.39%) Windows 10
4 8 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.20%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.80%) Unix
7 2 (0.40%) Android
8 1 (0.20%) Debian
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (35.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 157 (31.27%) Analytics
3 146 (29.08%) Problem-Solving
4 123 (24.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 96 (19.12%) Actionable Insight
6 94 (18.73%) Root Cause Analysis
7 86 (17.13%) Customer Experience
8 85 (16.93%) Service Delivery
9 84 (16.73%) Agile
10 80 (15.94%) Change Management
10 80 (15.94%) Decision-Making
11 79 (15.74%) Quality Management
12 76 (15.14%) PRINCE2
13 73 (14.54%) Business Intelligence
14 72 (14.34%) Anti-Money Laundering
15 47 (9.36%) CRM
16 44 (8.76%) Process Improvement
17 41 (8.17%) ERP
18 39 (7.77%) AI
18 39 (7.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (18.33%) SQL
2 64 (12.75%) Python
3 29 (5.78%) PowerShell
4 20 (3.98%) C#
4 20 (3.98%) Java
5 15 (2.99%) Bash
6 11 (2.19%) C++
6 11 (2.19%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.99%) MATLAB
8 9 (1.79%) Go
9 7 (1.39%) C
9 7 (1.39%) T-SQL
10 6 (1.20%) PHP
10 6 (1.20%) Scala
11 5 (1.00%) VBA
12 4 (0.80%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.80%) Embedded C++
12 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.80%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (14.34%) IRCA
2 58 (11.55%) Degree
3 28 (5.58%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (3.78%) SC Cleared
6 17 (3.39%) A+ Certification
6 17 (3.39%) CCNA
6 17 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (3.39%) MCSE
6 17 (3.39%) Network+ Certification
7 13 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.79%) GIAC
9 8 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.39%) ACCA
10 7 (1.39%) DBS Check
10 7 (1.39%) GCIH
11 6 (1.20%) CISSP
11 6 (1.20%) GCIA
12 5 (1.00%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (19.52%) QA
2 88 (17.53%) ISO 9001
3 85 (16.93%) GDPR
4 47 (9.36%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.99%) ISO 14001
7 9 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (1.59%) GRC
8 8 (1.59%) SLA
9 7 (1.39%) Accessibility
10 6 (1.20%) ARP4754
10 6 (1.20%) DO-254
10 6 (1.20%) PCI DSS
11 5 (1.00%) NIST
11 5 (1.00%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.80%) Def Stans
12 4 (0.80%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.60%) COBIT
System Software
1 13 (2.59%) Docker
2 8 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) IAG
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (3.19%) Kubernetes
1 16 (3.19%) Terraform
2 9 (1.79%) Grafana
3 8 (1.59%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.80%) Control-M
5 4 (0.80%) Kibana
6 3 (0.60%) Ansible
6 3 (0.60%) QRadar
7 2 (0.40%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.20%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 101 (20.12%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.18%) Google
3 19 (3.78%) HubSpot
3 19 (3.78%) SAP
4 18 (3.59%) Dell
5 16 (3.19%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.39%) Adobe
6 12 (2.39%) Oracle
7 11 (2.19%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (1.59%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.59%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.39%) Sparx
10 7 (1.39%) Splunk
11 6 (1.20%) Databricks
12 5 (1.00%) IFS
12 5 (1.00%) Informatica
12 5 (1.00%) YouTube
13 4 (0.80%) Apple
13 4 (0.80%) Epicor