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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 349 487
Rank change year-on-year +47 +138 +234
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 520 330 448
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 0.78% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.06% 1.97% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 259 189 296
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +27.91% -14.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £88,880 £88,750 £74,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +31.25% -20.00%

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 25,210 16,737 34,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.47% 39.75% 36.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,995 9,246 22,960
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +47 438 £46,750 -18.70% 186
UK excluding London +65 371 £42,500 -19.05% 161
Work from Home +36 139 £45,500 -13.33% 96
London -16 126 £65,000 -11.86% 61
North of England +9 103 £52,500 -16.00% 38
South East +17 82 £45,000 -21.74% 59
Midlands -13 58 £42,500 -5.56% 26
North West -21 55 £45,000 -30.77% 22
West Midlands +1 41 £44,000 +25.71% 15
South West -37 37 £32,500 -35.00% 12
Yorkshire -34 29 £67,500 +38.46% 12
East of England -38 28 £40,000 -23.81% 16
Scotland -14 24 £26,150 -50.19% 5
Northern Ireland -15 24 - - 2
North East - 19 £64,250 - 5
East Midlands -55 16 £30,000 -45.45% 11
Wales -12 15 £35,000 -28.72% 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 6 (1.15%) SharePoint
1 6 (1.15%) WordPress
2 5 (0.96%) Confluence
3 4 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.58%) IIS
5 2 (0.38%) CMS
5 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) Mendix
Applications
1 74 (14.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.58%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.38%) Maya
7 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.73%) NetSuite
1 9 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.96%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.77%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.77%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.58%) Infor M3
4 3 (0.58%) JDE OneWorld
4 3 (0.58%) JDE World
5 2 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.19%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.19%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 110 (21.15%) Azure
2 86 (16.54%) Power Platform
3 39 (7.50%) AWS
4 38 (7.31%) SaaS
5 31 (5.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 27 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (4.23%) GCP
8 22 (4.23%) Power Automate
9 16 (3.08%) dbt
10 15 (2.88%) GitHub
11 11 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (2.12%) Google Analytics
12 9 (1.73%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.73%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.54%) Datadog
13 8 (1.54%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.35%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.08%) SAN
2 15 (2.88%) Firewall
3 12 (2.31%) VPN
3 12 (2.31%) WAN
4 11 (2.12%) LAN
5 9 (1.73%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.77%) Broadband
6 4 (0.77%) DNS
6 4 (0.77%) Network Security
6 4 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.77%) Wireless
7 3 (0.58%) HTTP
7 3 (0.58%) Internet
8 2 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.38%) FTP
8 2 (0.38%) GSM
8 2 (0.38%) LTE
8 2 (0.38%) Modbus
8 2 (0.38%) SMS
8 2 (0.38%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (16.15%) Power BI
2 46 (8.85%) SQL Server
3 27 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (5.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 26 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (2.31%) Metabase
5 12 (2.31%) Tableau
6 10 (1.92%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.73%) Metadata
8 8 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.35%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.15%) MySQL
10 6 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.96%) Big Data
11 5 (0.96%) Power Query
12 4 (0.77%) Looker
12 4 (0.77%) Qlik Sense
13 3 (0.58%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 25 (4.81%) Git
2 16 (3.08%) JIRA
3 12 (2.31%) Visual Studio
4 10 (1.92%) GitLab
5 7 (1.35%) ERwin
5 7 (1.35%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.58%) TestRail
7 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.38%) Selenium
7 2 (0.38%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.19%) MLflow
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 519 (99.81%) Analytical Skills
2 305 (58.65%) Social Skills
3 224 (43.08%) Finance
4 42 (8.08%) Marketing
5 33 (6.35%) Legal
6 31 (5.96%) Public Sector
7 27 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (4.23%) Manufacturing
9 21 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (4.04%) Retail
10 20 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
11 17 (3.27%) Banking
12 13 (2.50%) Billing
13 12 (2.31%) Financial Institution
13 12 (2.31%) Law
14 11 (2.12%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.54%) Electronics
15 8 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.35%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 115 (22.12%) Analyst
2 72 (13.85%) Head of QA
3 35 (6.73%) IT Support
4 33 (6.35%) Senior
5 32 (6.15%) IT Engineer
6 31 (5.96%) Lead
7 26 (5.00%) Business Analyst
8 25 (4.81%) IT Analyst
9 20 (3.85%) Administrator
9 20 (3.85%) Support Analyst
10 19 (3.65%) Developer
11 18 (3.46%) Business Manager
11 18 (3.46%) Consultant
11 18 (3.46%) Support Engineer
11 18 (3.46%) Systems Analyst
12 17 (3.27%) Financial Analyst
13 16 (3.08%) Data Analyst
13 16 (3.08%) Field Engineer
13 16 (3.08%) Field Service Engineer
13 16 (3.08%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.46%) CSS
1 18 (3.46%) HTML
2 14 (2.69%) JSON
3 12 (2.31%) XML
4 10 (1.92%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (1.54%) OAuth
5 8 (1.54%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (1.54%) SAML
6 7 (1.35%) .NET
6 7 (1.35%) FpML
6 7 (1.35%) REST
6 7 (1.35%) XML Schema
7 6 (1.15%) SAP Fiori
7 6 (1.15%) SOAP
8 5 (0.96%) PySpark
8 5 (0.96%) React
9 4 (0.77%) Flutter
9 4 (0.77%) RESTful
9 4 (0.77%) Spring
9 4 (0.77%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.00%) Onboarding
1 26 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (3.46%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.27%) Management Information System
3 17 (3.27%) Social Media
4 16 (3.08%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.88%) Cloud Native
6 14 (2.69%) Smartphone
7 10 (1.92%) Driving Licence
8 9 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.73%) FMCG
9 8 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.54%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.35%) e-Learning
10 7 (1.35%) IoT
10 7 (1.35%) Web Conferencing
11 6 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.15%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 31 (5.96%) Windows
2 15 (2.88%) Linux
3 12 (2.31%) Windows 10
4 8 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.15%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.77%) Unix
7 3 (0.58%) Android
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (38.08%) Continuous Improvement
1 198 (38.08%) Problem-Solving
2 170 (32.69%) Analytics
3 119 (22.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 115 (22.12%) Actionable Insight
5 95 (18.27%) Business Intelligence
6 91 (17.50%) Root Cause Analysis
7 90 (17.31%) Customer Experience
8 88 (16.92%) Decision-Making
9 86 (16.54%) Agile
9 86 (16.54%) Service Delivery
10 85 (16.35%) PRINCE2
11 79 (15.19%) Process Improvement
12 78 (15.00%) Change Management
13 77 (14.81%) Quality Management
14 72 (13.85%) Anti-Money Laundering
15 56 (10.77%) Data Analysis
16 49 (9.42%) AI
17 48 (9.23%) CI/CD
18 46 (8.85%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 107 (20.58%) SQL
2 62 (11.92%) Python
3 31 (5.96%) PowerShell
4 26 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 18 (3.46%) Bash
5 18 (3.46%) Java
6 17 (3.27%) C#
7 14 (2.69%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.92%) C++
9 8 (1.54%) Go
10 7 (1.35%) VBA
11 6 (1.15%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.96%) C
12 5 (0.96%) PHP
13 4 (0.77%) Bicep
13 4 (0.77%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.58%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.58%) Scala
14 3 (0.58%) VC++
Qualifications
1 75 (14.42%) Degree
2 72 (13.85%) IRCA
3 21 (4.04%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (3.08%) A+ Certification
5 16 (3.08%) CCNA
5 16 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.08%) MCSE
5 16 (3.08%) Network+ Certification
5 16 (3.08%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 14 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (2.31%) SC Cleared
8 10 (1.92%) ACCA
9 9 (1.73%) CIMA
10 8 (1.54%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.54%) PMP
11 7 (1.35%) CISSP
11 7 (1.35%) DBS Check
11 7 (1.35%) GIAC
11 7 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (19.62%) QA
2 86 (16.54%) ISO 9001
3 81 (15.58%) GDPR
4 43 (8.27%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (2.31%) Actionable Recommendations
7 10 (1.92%) GRC
7 10 (1.92%) SLA
8 9 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (1.73%) ISO 14001
9 8 (1.54%) NIST
10 7 (1.35%) Accessibility
10 7 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 7 (1.35%) PCI DSS
10 7 (1.35%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.58%) COBIT
12 3 (0.58%) EMIR
12 3 (0.58%) ITGC
System Software
1 16 (3.08%) Docker
2 9 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) IAG
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (4.23%) Terraform
2 18 (3.46%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.73%) Grafana
4 8 (1.54%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.96%) Ansible
7 4 (0.77%) Control-M
8 2 (0.38%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.38%) QRadar
9 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 110 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.23%) SAP
3 20 (3.85%) Google
4 19 (3.65%) Dell
5 17 (3.27%) Oracle
6 14 (2.69%) Salesforce
7 10 (1.92%) Adobe
7 10 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.54%) Databricks
8 8 (1.54%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.54%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (1.35%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.35%) Sparx
10 5 (0.96%) Apple
10 5 (0.96%) IFS
10 5 (0.96%) Informatica
11 4 (0.77%) BT
11 4 (0.77%) ConnectWise
11 4 (0.77%) Marketo