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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 295 497
Rank change year-on-year -71 +202 +103
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 544 471 354
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.95% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.98% 2.29% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 299 278 213
10th Percentile £29,550 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £34,875 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,188 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,630 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,500 £50,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year -11.00% +9.89% -3.70%

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 27,422 20,557 27,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.12% 41.44% 33.30%
Number of salaries quoted 17,268 10,324 16,494
10th Percentile £31,125 £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% -10.51%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,473 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.47% -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 7 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 7 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 -52 493 £50,000 - 268
UK excluding London -14 395 £44,500 -11.00% 138
Work from Home -8 145 £50,000 - 104
London -41 135 £60,000 -7.69% 165
South East -17 109 £50,000 -3.85% 41
North of England -10 96 £55,000 +18.92% 35
South West -47 69 £35,000 -30.00% 17
Midlands -19 63 £45,000 -16.28% 19
North West -13 45 £45,000 - 19
West Midlands -15 41 £42,500 +16.44% 12
Yorkshire +5 35 £80,571 +69.62% 13
East Midlands -30 21 £45,000 -43.75% 7
East of England -37 19 £40,000 +10.34% 12
Scotland +18 16 £26,150 -32.95% 6
North East -37 16 £57,500 - 4
Northern Ireland - 14 £63,750 - 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 10 (1.84%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.47%) 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 60 (11.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.10%) 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%) Shopify
3 3 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.37%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.37%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.18%) Odoo
5 1 (0.18%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.18%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 79 (14.52%) Azure
2 65 (11.95%) Power Platform
3 39 (7.17%) AWS
3 39 (7.17%) SaaS
4 34 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (4.96%) GCP
6 22 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (3.49%) Google Analytics
7 19 (3.49%) PowerApps
8 17 (3.13%) Power Automate
9 12 (2.21%) GitHub
10 11 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (2.02%) dbt
11 10 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.65%) Datadog
12 9 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.47%) Google Ads
13 8 (1.47%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (1.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.39%) SAN
2 12 (2.21%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.84%) HTTP
3 10 (1.84%) LAN
3 10 (1.84%) WAN
4 9 (1.65%) DNS
4 9 (1.65%) SMS
5 8 (1.47%) Firewall
5 8 (1.47%) VPN
6 5 (0.92%) Unified Communications
6 5 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
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
7 4 (0.74%) Wireless
8 2 (0.37%) Broadband
8 2 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (10.11%) Power BI
2 27 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.39%) Relational Database
3 13 (2.39%) Tableau
4 11 (2.02%) Metadata
4 11 (2.02%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.47%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.47%) MySQL
6 7 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.29%) GIS
6 7 (1.29%) Power Query
7 6 (1.10%) Looker
7 6 (1.10%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.92%) Metabase
8 5 (0.92%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.74%) Big Data
9 4 (0.74%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.55%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (4.23%) Git
2 17 (3.13%) JIRA
3 9 (1.65%) GitLab
4 6 (1.10%) ERwin
4 6 (1.10%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.92%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.74%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.55%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.37%) Ranorex
8 2 (0.37%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.37%) Selenium
8 2 (0.37%) TestRail
9 1 (0.18%) JMeter
9 1 (0.18%) Postman
9 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 544 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 282 (51.84%) Social Skills
3 189 (34.74%) Finance
4 62 (11.40%) Marketing
5 43 (7.90%) Organisational Skills
6 31 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (5.15%) Public Sector
8 26 (4.78%) Manufacturing
9 22 (4.04%) Legal
10 21 (3.86%) Retail
11 18 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (2.76%) Advertising
13 14 (2.57%) Electronics
13 14 (2.57%) Financial Institution
14 13 (2.39%) Banking
14 13 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (2.21%) Aerospace
16 11 (2.02%) Law
17 6 (1.10%) German Language
Job Titles
1 118 (21.69%) Analyst
2 72 (13.24%) Head of QA
3 45 (8.27%) Senior
4 42 (7.72%) Lead
5 28 (5.15%) Business Analyst
6 26 (4.78%) Developer
7 25 (4.60%) Data Analyst
7 25 (4.60%) Support Analyst
8 18 (3.31%) IT Engineer
9 16 (2.94%) Compliance Manager
9 16 (2.94%) IT Analyst
10 15 (2.76%) IT Support
10 15 (2.76%) Junior
11 13 (2.39%) Consultant
11 13 (2.39%) Field Engineer
11 13 (2.39%) Field Service Engineer
11 13 (2.39%) Junior Analyst
12 12 (2.21%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (2.02%) Data Engineer
13 11 (2.02%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.68%) JSON
2 14 (2.57%) HTML
3 13 (2.39%) CSS
4 12 (2.21%) .NET
5 9 (1.65%) XML
6 8 (1.47%) OAuth
6 8 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (1.47%) SAML
7 6 (1.10%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (1.10%) FpML
7 6 (1.10%) Kafka
7 6 (1.10%) REST
7 6 (1.10%) RESTful
7 6 (1.10%) XML Schema
8 5 (0.92%) React
8 5 (0.92%) Spring
8 5 (0.92%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.74%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.74%) LDAP
10 3 (0.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.60%) Management Information System
1 25 (4.60%) Onboarding
2 17 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
2 17 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (3.13%) Social Media
3 13 (2.39%) Data Centre
3 13 (2.39%) Product Ownership
4 11 (2.02%) Driving Licence
5 10 (1.84%) Cyber Defence
6 9 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (1.65%) Smartphone
7 8 (1.47%) Blog
7 8 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.47%) SCADA
7 8 (1.47%) Web Conferencing
8 7 (1.29%) Educational Technology
8 7 (1.29%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.07%) Windows
2 15 (2.76%) Linux
3 12 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.74%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.37%) Android
5 2 (0.37%) Debian
5 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (40.26%) Continuous Improvement
2 180 (33.09%) Analytics
3 148 (27.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 132 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
5 107 (19.67%) Actionable Insight
6 103 (18.93%) Agile
7 98 (18.01%) Root Cause Analysis
8 91 (16.73%) Customer Experience
9 90 (16.54%) Decision-Making
10 86 (15.81%) Service Delivery
11 85 (15.63%) Change Management
12 81 (14.89%) Quality Management
13 78 (14.34%) PRINCE2
14 75 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
15 74 (13.60%) Anti-Money Laundering
16 59 (10.85%) AI
17 56 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
18 54 (9.93%) Process Improvement
19 53 (9.74%) CRM
20 45 (8.27%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 100 (18.38%) SQL
2 51 (9.38%) Python
3 23 (4.23%) C#
4 22 (4.04%) PowerShell
5 21 (3.86%) Java
6 16 (2.94%) Bash
7 13 (2.39%) MATLAB
8 11 (2.02%) JavaScript
9 9 (1.65%) T-SQL
10 8 (1.47%) C++
11 7 (1.29%) PHP
11 7 (1.29%) Scala
12 6 (1.10%) C
12 6 (1.10%) Go
12 6 (1.10%) 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 (13.24%) IRCA
2 62 (11.40%) Degree
3 38 (6.99%) Security Cleared
4 25 (4.60%) SC Cleared
5 15 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.39%) A+ Certification
6 13 (2.39%) CCNA
6 13 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (2.39%) MCSE
6 13 (2.39%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (2.02%) ACCA
8 10 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.65%) CIMA
10 7 (1.29%) GCIA
10 7 (1.29%) GCIH
10 7 (1.29%) GIAC
11 6 (1.10%) CREST Certified
11 6 (1.10%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.10%) GCED
11 6 (1.10%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (20.04%) QA
2 96 (17.65%) ISO 9001
3 88 (16.18%) GDPR
4 64 (11.76%) Data Quality
5 26 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (3.13%) ISO 14001
7 16 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 15 (2.76%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.47%) ARP4754
9 8 (1.47%) DO-254
9 8 (1.47%) SLA
10 7 (1.29%) GRC
10 7 (1.29%) ISO 19650
11 6 (1.10%) ISO 8583
11 6 (1.10%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.92%) COBIT
12 5 (0.92%) NIST
12 5 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (2.76%) Docker
2 8 (1.47%) 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 15 (2.76%) Kubernetes
1 15 (2.76%) Terraform
2 9 (1.65%) Grafana
3 8 (1.47%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.29%) Ansible
5 6 (1.10%) Kibana
6 4 (0.74%) QRadar
7 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.18%) Argo
8 1 (0.18%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 114 (20.96%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.72%) Google
3 23 (4.23%) HubSpot
4 18 (3.31%) SAP
5 14 (2.57%) Dell
6 13 (2.39%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.21%) Adobe
8 10 (1.84%) CrowdStrike
8 10 (1.84%) Oracle
8 10 (1.84%) Splunk
9 8 (1.47%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.47%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.29%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.10%) Carbon Black
11 6 (1.10%) Databricks
11 6 (1.10%) Marketo
11 6 (1.10%) Pardot
11 6 (1.10%) Sparx
12 5 (0.92%) IFS
13 4 (0.74%) VocaLink