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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 295 480
Rank change year-on-year -68 +185 +132
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 542 473 371
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.95% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.01% 2.30% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 296 281 214
10th Percentile £29,250 £30,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £34,938 £37,500 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £67,813 £73,750 £68,500
90th Percentile £88,675 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -4.76%

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 26,967 20,553 27,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.03% 41.43% 33.39%
Number of salaries quoted 17,035 10,324 16,624
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -35 492 £50,000 - 247
UK excluding London -15 393 £45,000 -10.00% 145
Work from Home -8 144 £50,000 - 111
London -52 135 £62,500 -5.66% 143
South East -19 107 £50,000 -4.76% 48
North of England +2 98 £56,100 +18.11% 30
South West -42 67 £35,000 -30.00% 19
Midlands -22 64 £44,500 -19.09% 25
North West -9 46 £45,000 - 17
West Midlands -14 42 £43,250 +18.49% 13
Yorkshire -4 36 £90,000 +89.47% 9
East Midlands -21 21 £45,000 -43.75% 12
East of England -36 19 £40,000 - 9
North East -37 16 £57,500 - 5
Scotland +8 15 £26,150 -32.95% 6
Northern Ireland -64 14 £63,750 +27.50% 5
Wales - 9 - - 5

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 (1.66%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.29%) Confluence
3 5 (0.92%) WordPress
4 4 (0.74%) CMS
4 4 (0.74%) SAS
5 3 (0.55%) Apache
5 3 (0.55%) IIS
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.18%) Luigi
7 1 (0.18%) Mendix
7 1 (0.18%) Tornado
Applications
1 58 (10.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.55%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.18%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (2.21%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.74%) Infor M3
2 4 (0.74%) JDE OneWorld
2 4 (0.74%) JDE World
2 4 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.74%) Shopify
3 2 (0.37%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.37%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.18%) Odoo
4 1 (0.18%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.18%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.18%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 80 (14.76%) Azure
2 65 (11.99%) Power Platform
3 40 (7.38%) AWS
4 38 (7.01%) SaaS
5 34 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (5.17%) GCP
7 23 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (3.51%) Google Analytics
9 18 (3.32%) PowerApps
10 17 (3.14%) Power Automate
11 13 (2.40%) GitHub
12 11 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (2.03%) dbt
12 11 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.66%) Datadog
13 9 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.48%) Google Ads
14 8 (1.48%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (1.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.40%) SAN
2 12 (2.21%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.85%) HTTP
3 10 (1.85%) LAN
3 10 (1.85%) WAN
4 9 (1.66%) DNS
4 9 (1.66%) SMS
4 9 (1.66%) VPN
5 8 (1.48%) Firewall
6 5 (0.92%) Unified Communications
6 5 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.92%) Wireless
7 4 (0.74%) ATM
7 4 (0.74%) FTP
7 4 (0.74%) Internet
7 4 (0.74%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.74%) NAS
7 4 (0.74%) SMTP
8 2 (0.37%) Broadband
8 2 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (10.15%) Power BI
2 27 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.58%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.40%) Tableau
5 12 (2.21%) Metadata
6 11 (2.03%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.48%) BigQuery
7 8 (1.48%) MySQL
8 7 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.29%) GIS
8 7 (1.29%) Power Query
8 7 (1.29%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.11%) Looker
10 5 (0.92%) Metabase
10 5 (0.92%) NoSQL
11 4 (0.74%) Big Data
11 4 (0.74%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.55%) NonStop SQL
12 3 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.37%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 23 (4.24%) Git
2 16 (2.95%) JIRA
3 9 (1.66%) GitLab
4 7 (1.29%) ERwin
5 6 (1.11%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.92%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.92%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.55%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.37%) Ranorex
9 2 (0.37%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.37%) Selenium
9 2 (0.37%) TestRail
10 1 (0.18%) JMeter
10 1 (0.18%) Postman
10 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 542 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 279 (51.48%) Social Skills
3 189 (34.87%) Finance
4 62 (11.44%) Marketing
5 42 (7.75%) Organisational Skills
6 30 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (5.17%) Public Sector
8 24 (4.43%) Manufacturing
9 22 (4.06%) Retail
10 21 (3.87%) Legal
11 18 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (2.77%) Advertising
13 14 (2.58%) Electronics
13 14 (2.58%) Financial Institution
14 13 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (2.21%) Aerospace
15 12 (2.21%) Banking
16 10 (1.85%) Law
17 6 (1.11%) German Language
Job Titles
1 118 (21.77%) Analyst
2 72 (13.28%) Head of QA
3 44 (8.12%) Senior
4 43 (7.93%) Lead
5 27 (4.98%) Business Analyst
6 26 (4.80%) Developer
7 25 (4.61%) Data Analyst
7 25 (4.61%) Support Analyst
8 18 (3.32%) IT Engineer
9 16 (2.95%) Compliance Manager
9 16 (2.95%) IT Analyst
10 15 (2.77%) Consultant
10 15 (2.77%) IT Support
10 15 (2.77%) Junior
11 13 (2.40%) Field Engineer
11 13 (2.40%) Field Service Engineer
11 13 (2.40%) Junior Analyst
12 12 (2.21%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (2.03%) Data Engineer
13 11 (2.03%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.87%) JSON
2 15 (2.77%) HTML
3 14 (2.58%) CSS
4 12 (2.21%) .NET
5 10 (1.85%) XML
6 8 (1.48%) OAuth
6 8 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (1.48%) SAML
7 7 (1.29%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (1.29%) FpML
7 7 (1.29%) XML Schema
8 6 (1.11%) Kafka
8 6 (1.11%) REST
8 6 (1.11%) RESTful
9 5 (0.92%) React
9 5 (0.92%) Spring
9 5 (0.92%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.74%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.74%) LDAP
11 3 (0.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.61%) Management Information System
2 24 (4.43%) Onboarding
3 18 (3.32%) Cloud Native
4 17 (3.14%) Cyber Threat
5 16 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.95%) Social Media
6 13 (2.40%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.03%) Driving Licence
9 10 (1.85%) Cyber Defence
10 9 (1.66%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.66%) Smartphone
11 8 (1.48%) e-Learning
11 8 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.48%) SCADA
11 8 (1.48%) Web Conferencing
12 7 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.29%) Educational Technology
12 7 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.27%) Windows
2 15 (2.77%) Linux
3 12 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.92%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.37%) Android
6 2 (0.37%) Debian
6 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (39.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 180 (33.21%) Analytics
3 149 (27.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 131 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
5 107 (19.74%) Actionable Insight
6 103 (19.00%) Agile
7 98 (18.08%) Root Cause Analysis
8 90 (16.61%) Customer Experience
8 90 (16.61%) Decision-Making
9 85 (15.68%) Change Management
9 85 (15.68%) Service Delivery
10 79 (14.58%) Quality Management
11 77 (14.21%) PRINCE2
12 76 (14.02%) Business Intelligence
13 73 (13.47%) Anti-Money Laundering
14 55 (10.15%) Process Improvement
15 54 (9.96%) AI
15 54 (9.96%) CRM
16 52 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
17 46 (8.49%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 102 (18.82%) SQL
2 54 (9.96%) Python
3 23 (4.24%) C#
4 22 (4.06%) PowerShell
5 21 (3.87%) Java
6 16 (2.95%) Bash
7 13 (2.40%) MATLAB
8 12 (2.21%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.85%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.48%) C++
11 7 (1.29%) Go
11 7 (1.29%) PHP
11 7 (1.29%) Scala
12 6 (1.11%) C
12 6 (1.11%) Search Processing Language
13 5 (0.92%) Embedded C
13 5 (0.92%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.74%) Embedded C++
14 4 (0.74%) VBA
15 3 (0.55%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 72 (13.28%) IRCA
2 61 (11.25%) Degree
3 38 (7.01%) Security Cleared
4 25 (4.61%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.40%) A+ Certification
6 13 (2.40%) CCNA
6 13 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (2.40%) MCSE
6 13 (2.40%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (2.03%) ACCA
8 10 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.66%) CIMA
10 7 (1.29%) GCIA
10 7 (1.29%) GCIH
10 7 (1.29%) GIAC
11 6 (1.11%) CREST Certified
11 6 (1.11%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.11%) GCED
11 6 (1.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (19.74%) QA
2 95 (17.53%) ISO 9001
3 88 (16.24%) GDPR
4 63 (11.62%) Data Quality
5 26 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (3.14%) ISO 14001
7 16 (2.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (2.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 15 (2.77%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.66%) SLA
10 8 (1.48%) ARP4754
10 8 (1.48%) DO-254
11 7 (1.29%) GRC
11 7 (1.29%) ISO 19650
12 6 (1.11%) ISO 8583
12 6 (1.11%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.92%) COBIT
13 5 (0.92%) NIST
13 5 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (2.77%) Docker
2 9 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.37%) Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) IAG
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (2.95%) Kubernetes
1 16 (2.95%) Terraform
2 9 (1.66%) Grafana
3 8 (1.48%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.29%) Ansible
5 6 (1.11%) Kibana
6 4 (0.74%) QRadar
7 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.18%) Argo
8 1 (0.18%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 112 (20.66%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.75%) Google
3 23 (4.24%) HubSpot
4 19 (3.51%) SAP
5 14 (2.58%) Dell
5 14 (2.58%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.21%) Adobe
7 10 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (1.85%) Oracle
7 10 (1.85%) Splunk
8 8 (1.48%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.48%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.48%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.29%) Sparx
10 6 (1.11%) Carbon Black
10 6 (1.11%) Databricks
10 6 (1.11%) Marketo
10 6 (1.11%) Pardot
11 5 (0.92%) IFS
12 4 (0.74%) VocaLink