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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 265 456
Rank change year-on-year -139 +191 +58
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 475 554 372
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 1.13% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 2.74% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 291 307 205
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £34,770 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £89,000
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 30,603 20,226 24,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.35% 41.18% 32.20%
Number of salaries quoted 18,958 10,152 12,957
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,925 £43,116
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 £105,000 £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 21 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 21 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 -119 450 £50,000 - 605
UK excluding London -131 338 £45,000 -10.00% 233
Work from Home -60 143 £50,000 - 268
London -90 128 £65,000 - 424
South East -90 102 £49,425 -7.62% 64
North of England -55 70 £45,000 -5.26% 42
South West -65 67 £42,500 -15.00% 39
Midlands -53 64 £45,000 +5.88% 37
West Midlands -33 42 £45,000 +23.29% 20
North West -44 37 £37,500 -16.67% 26
Yorkshire -19 26 £90,000 +89.47% 14
East Midlands -49 20 £45,000 -43.75% 17
East of England -47 17 £42,879 -1.99% 23
Scotland +2 11 £26,150 - 17
North East -53 7 £57,500 - 2
Northern Ireland -79 4 £63,750 - 10
Wales -69 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 (3.37%) Confluence
2 12 (2.53%) 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 55 (11.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (3.16%) 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 (2.53%) 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 68 (14.32%) Azure
2 50 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 44 (9.26%) SaaS
4 39 (8.21%) AWS
5 31 (6.53%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (6.32%) GCP
7 25 (5.26%) Google Analytics
8 16 (3.37%) PowerApps
9 15 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.32%) Google Ads
11 10 (2.11%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (1.89%) Copilot Studio
12 9 (1.89%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.68%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (1.26%) Canva
15 6 (1.26%) dbt
15 6 (1.26%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.95%) SAN
1 14 (2.95%) TCP/IP
2 12 (2.53%) HTTP
2 12 (2.53%) LAN
2 12 (2.53%) 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%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.42%) Power BI
2 18 (3.79%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.95%) Tableau
4 10 (2.11%) 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%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (5.05%) JIRA
2 13 (2.74%) Eclipse
3 10 (2.11%) 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
1 475 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 235 (49.47%) Social Skills
3 127 (26.74%) Finance
4 73 (15.37%) Marketing
5 42 (8.84%) Organisational Skills
6 38 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (8.00%) Public Sector
7 24 (5.05%) Legal
8 22 (4.63%) Manufacturing
8 22 (4.63%) Retail
9 19 (4.00%) Electronics
10 18 (3.79%) Advertising
11 16 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (3.37%) Law
12 14 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (2.53%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.89%) Financial Institution
14 9 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.68%) Brand Awareness
15 8 (1.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 99 (20.84%) Analyst
2 43 (9.05%) Lead
3 41 (8.63%) Senior
4 27 (5.68%) Developer
5 26 (5.47%) Business Analyst
6 22 (4.63%) Data Analyst
7 20 (4.21%) Support Analyst
8 19 (4.00%) IT Engineer
9 14 (2.95%) Field Engineer
9 14 (2.95%) Field Service Engineer
9 14 (2.95%) Senior Manager
10 13 (2.74%) Compliance Manager
10 13 (2.74%) Product Owner
11 12 (2.53%) Head of QA
11 12 (2.53%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (2.32%) Architect
12 11 (2.32%) Coordinator
12 11 (2.32%) Junior
12 11 (2.32%) SOC Analyst
12 11 (2.32%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.58%) JSON
2 14 (2.95%) .NET
3 10 (2.11%) 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%) Pandas
10 2 (0.42%) Playwright
10 2 (0.42%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.74%) Onboarding
2 25 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.63%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
5 18 (3.79%) Cloud Native
6 17 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (3.16%) Driving Licence
8 15 (3.16%) Social Media
9 14 (2.95%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.74%) Cyber Defence
11 11 (2.32%) Blog
12 9 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.89%) Smartphone
12 9 (1.89%) Web Conferencing
13 8 (1.68%) Credit Risk
13 8 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.68%) SCADA
14 7 (1.47%) Educational Technology
15 6 (1.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.11%) Windows
2 15 (3.16%) Linux
3 12 (2.53%) 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 (30.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 127 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
3 123 (25.89%) Analytics
4 107 (22.53%) Agile
5 83 (17.47%) Decision-Making
5 83 (17.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 78 (16.42%) AI
7 65 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 62 (13.05%) Business Intelligence
9 55 (11.58%) CRM
10 53 (11.16%) Actionable Insight
11 47 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
11 47 (9.89%) Roadmaps
12 42 (8.84%) Process Improvement
12 42 (8.84%) Validation
13 39 (8.21%) Risk Management
14 38 (8.00%) Scrum
15 37 (7.79%) Project Management
15 37 (7.79%) Root Cause Analysis
15 37 (7.79%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 99 (20.84%) SQL
2 42 (8.84%) Python
3 28 (5.89%) Java
4 22 (4.63%) C#
5 21 (4.42%) MATLAB
6 15 (3.16%) C
6 15 (3.16%) PowerShell
7 13 (2.74%) Embedded C
8 11 (2.32%) 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 (15.16%) Degree
2 45 (9.47%) Security Cleared
3 29 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (2.95%) A+ Certification
5 14 (2.95%) CCNA
5 14 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (2.95%) MCSE
5 14 (2.95%) Network+ Certification
6 12 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.53%) IRCA
7 8 (1.68%) ACCA
7 8 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.26%) CIMA
8 6 (1.26%) CREST Certified
8 6 (1.26%) GCED
8 6 (1.26%) GCIA
8 6 (1.26%) GCIH
8 6 (1.26%) GIAC
8 6 (1.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 54 (11.37%) QA
3 30 (6.32%) GDPR
4 29 (6.11%) ISO 9001
5 25 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 13 (2.74%) ISO 14001
6 13 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 11 (2.32%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.68%) ARP4754
8 8 (1.68%) DO-254
9 6 (1.26%) ISO 8583
10 5 (1.05%) COBIT
10 5 (1.05%) GRC
10 5 (1.05%) ISO 19650
10 5 (1.05%) NIST
10 5 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.05%) SLA
10 5 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (2.32%) 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
1 107 (22.53%) Microsoft
2 52 (10.95%) Google
3 24 (5.05%) HubSpot
4 19 (4.00%) SAP
5 15 (3.16%) Dell
6 14 (2.95%) Adobe
7 13 (2.74%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.53%) Splunk
9 11 (2.32%) CrowdStrike
10 9 (1.89%) Oracle
11 8 (1.68%) Facebook
11 8 (1.68%) Instagram
12 7 (1.47%) YouTube
13 6 (1.26%) ArcSight
13 6 (1.26%) Carbon Black
13 6 (1.26%) Marketo
13 6 (1.26%) Pardot
14 5 (1.05%) Cisco
15 4 (0.84%) EMC
15 4 (0.84%) Epicor