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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 264 452
Rank change year-on-year -145 +188 +61
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 477 551 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 1.13% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.56% 2.73% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 291 306 200
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,925
25th Percentile £33,750 £34,655 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +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 30,634 20,154 24,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.36% 41.18% 32.20%
Number of salaries quoted 18,997 10,098 12,697
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,160 £36,925 £43,750
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £110,000
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 22 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 22 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 -118 453 £50,000 - 388
UK excluding London -141 340 £45,000 -10.00% 174
Work from Home -58 143 £50,000 - 156
London -85 128 £65,000 - 257
South East -76 103 £49,425 -7.62% 45
North of England -53 71 £45,000 -5.26% 28
South West -71 68 £42,500 -15.00% 34
Midlands -45 64 £45,000 +5.88% 29
West Midlands -34 42 £45,000 +23.29% 18
North West -49 38 £37,500 -16.67% 19
Yorkshire -25 26 £90,000 +89.47% 8
East Midlands -45 20 £45,000 -43.75% 11
East of England -37 17 £42,879 -1.99% 15
Scotland -7 10 £26,150 - 12
North East -58 7 £57,500 - 1
Northern Ireland -79 4 £63,750 - 10
Wales -72 3 - - 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 16 (3.35%) Confluence
2 12 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.84%) Apache
3 4 (0.84%) SAS
3 4 (0.84%) WordPress
4 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.63%) CMS
4 3 (0.63%) IIS
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.42%) Luigi
5 2 (0.42%) Tornado
Applications
1 56 (11.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (6.08%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.89%) Simulink
5 7 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (1.26%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.63%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.21%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (2.52%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.47%) Shopify
3 4 (0.84%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.84%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.84%) JDE World
4 3 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.42%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.42%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.42%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.21%) iTrent
6 1 (0.21%) Magento
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 69 (14.47%) Azure
2 50 (10.48%) Power Platform
3 45 (9.43%) SaaS
4 40 (8.39%) AWS
5 31 (6.50%) GCP
5 31 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (5.24%) Google Analytics
7 16 (3.35%) PowerApps
8 15 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.31%) Google Ads
10 10 (2.10%) Anthropic Claude
11 9 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (1.89%) Copilot Studio
11 9 (1.89%) Entra ID
12 8 (1.68%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.26%) Canva
14 6 (1.26%) Google Sheets
14 6 (1.26%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.94%) SAN
1 14 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 12 (2.52%) HTTP
2 12 (2.52%) LAN
2 12 (2.52%) WAN
3 9 (1.89%) DNS
3 9 (1.89%) SMS
3 9 (1.89%) Wireshark
4 8 (1.68%) Firewall
5 6 (1.26%) FTP
5 6 (1.26%) Internet
5 6 (1.26%) SMTP
5 6 (1.26%) VPN
6 5 (1.05%) Unified Communications
6 5 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.84%) ATM
7 4 (0.84%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.84%) NAS
8 2 (0.42%) Broadband
8 2 (0.42%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.39%) Power BI
2 18 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.94%) Tableau
4 10 (2.10%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.68%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.47%) GIS
6 7 (1.47%) Metadata
6 7 (1.47%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.26%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.26%) Power Query
8 5 (1.05%) Big Data
8 5 (1.05%) Looker
8 5 (1.05%) MySQL
9 4 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.63%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.63%) NonStop SQL
11 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (5.03%) JIRA
2 13 (2.73%) Eclipse
3 10 (2.10%) Git
4 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.63%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.42%) Ranorex
5 2 (0.42%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.42%) Selenium
5 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.42%) TestRail
5 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.21%) ERwin
6 1 (0.21%) JMeter
6 1 (0.21%) Postman
6 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 477 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 237 (49.69%) Social Skills
3 128 (26.83%) Finance
4 74 (15.51%) Marketing
5 43 (9.01%) Organisational Skills
6 39 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (7.97%) Public Sector
8 24 (5.03%) Legal
9 22 (4.61%) Manufacturing
9 22 (4.61%) Retail
10 19 (3.98%) Advertising
10 19 (3.98%) Electronics
11 16 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (3.35%) Law
12 13 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (2.52%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.89%) Brand Awareness
14 9 (1.89%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 100 (20.96%) Analyst
2 43 (9.01%) Lead
3 41 (8.60%) Senior
4 27 (5.66%) Developer
5 26 (5.45%) Business Analyst
6 23 (4.82%) Data Analyst
7 20 (4.19%) Support Analyst
8 19 (3.98%) IT Engineer
9 14 (2.94%) Field Engineer
9 14 (2.94%) Field Service Engineer
9 14 (2.94%) Product Owner
9 14 (2.94%) Senior Manager
10 13 (2.73%) Compliance Manager
11 12 (2.52%) Head of QA
11 12 (2.52%) Junior
11 12 (2.52%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (2.31%) Architect
12 11 (2.31%) Coordinator
12 11 (2.31%) Data Engineer
12 11 (2.31%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.56%) JSON
2 14 (2.94%) .NET
3 10 (2.10%) HTML
4 9 (1.89%) CSS
4 9 (1.89%) Kafka
4 9 (1.89%) RESTful
5 8 (1.68%) REST
6 6 (1.26%) LDAP
6 6 (1.26%) Spring
6 6 (1.26%) Spring Boot
6 6 (1.26%) Terraform
7 5 (1.05%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.84%) PyTorch
8 4 (0.84%) TensorFlow
8 4 (0.84%) XML
9 3 (0.63%) React
10 2 (0.42%) Flask
10 2 (0.42%) Node.js
10 2 (0.42%) Pandas
10 2 (0.42%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.71%) Onboarding
2 25 (5.24%) Management Information System
3 23 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.98%) Cyber Threat
5 18 (3.77%) Cloud Native
6 17 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (3.35%) Social Media
8 15 (3.14%) Driving Licence
9 14 (2.94%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.73%) Cyber Defence
11 11 (2.31%) Blog
12 10 (2.10%) Web Conferencing
13 9 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.89%) Smartphone
14 8 (1.68%) Credit Risk
14 8 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.68%) SCADA
15 7 (1.47%) Educational Technology
16 6 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.08%) Windows
2 15 (3.14%) Linux
3 12 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.42%) Android
5 2 (0.42%) Debian
5 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (29.98%) Continuous Improvement
2 127 (26.62%) Problem-Solving
3 124 (26.00%) Analytics
4 107 (22.43%) Agile
5 84 (17.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 83 (17.40%) Decision-Making
7 78 (16.35%) AI
8 66 (13.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 62 (13.00%) Business Intelligence
10 56 (11.74%) CRM
11 53 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
12 48 (10.06%) Cybersecurity
12 48 (10.06%) Roadmaps
13 42 (8.81%) Process Improvement
13 42 (8.81%) Validation
14 39 (8.18%) Risk Management
15 38 (7.97%) Scrum
16 37 (7.76%) Project Management
16 37 (7.76%) Root Cause Analysis
16 37 (7.76%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 99 (20.75%) SQL
2 42 (8.81%) Python
3 28 (5.87%) Java
4 22 (4.61%) C#
5 21 (4.40%) MATLAB
6 15 (3.14%) C
6 15 (3.14%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.73%) Embedded C
8 11 (2.31%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.68%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.47%) Bash
10 7 (1.47%) C++
10 7 (1.47%) Scala
11 6 (1.26%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (1.05%) Go
12 5 (1.05%) PHP
12 5 (1.05%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.84%) Embedded C++
14 3 (0.63%) COBOL
14 3 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 72 (15.09%) Degree
2 45 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 29 (6.08%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (2.94%) A+ Certification
5 14 (2.94%) CCNA
5 14 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (2.94%) MCSE
5 14 (2.94%) Network+ Certification
6 12 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.52%) IRCA
7 8 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.47%) ACCA
9 6 (1.26%) CREST Certified
9 6 (1.26%) GCED
9 6 (1.26%) GCIA
9 6 (1.26%) GCIH
9 6 (1.26%) GIAC
9 6 (1.26%) OSCP
9 6 (1.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (13.84%) Data Quality
2 54 (11.32%) QA
3 30 (6.29%) GDPR
4 29 (6.08%) ISO 9001
5 26 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 13 (2.73%) ISO 14001
6 13 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 11 (2.31%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.68%) ARP4754
8 8 (1.68%) DO-254
9 6 (1.26%) ISO 8583
9 6 (1.26%) NIST
10 5 (1.05%) COBIT
10 5 (1.05%) GRC
10 5 (1.05%) ISO 19650
10 5 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.05%) SLA
10 5 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (2.31%) Firmware
2 9 (1.89%) Embedded Firmware
3 8 (1.68%) Docker
4 6 (1.26%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.21%) IAG
Systems Management
1 9 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.26%) Ansible
2 6 (1.26%) Kibana
2 6 (1.26%) QRadar
3 2 (0.42%) Argo
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.21%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.21%) Grafana
4 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.21%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 108 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 52 (10.90%) Google
3 25 (5.24%) HubSpot
4 19 (3.98%) SAP
5 15 (3.14%) Dell
6 14 (2.94%) Adobe
6 14 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.52%) Splunk
8 11 (2.31%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (1.89%) Oracle
10 8 (1.68%) Facebook
10 8 (1.68%) Instagram
11 7 (1.47%) YouTube
12 6 (1.26%) ArcSight
12 6 (1.26%) Carbon Black
12 6 (1.26%) Marketo
12 6 (1.26%) Pardot
13 5 (1.05%) Cisco
14 4 (0.84%) EMC
14 4 (0.84%) VocaLink