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 31 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 360 477
Rank change year-on-year +60 +117 +253
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 505 283 430
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.69% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.13% 1.78% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 262 166 281
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -22.73% +29.41% -15.00%

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 23,666 15,857 32,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.96% 38.73% 36.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12,088 8,896 22,336
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,442 £44,188 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £79,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +79 419 £48,750 -18.75% 223
UK excluding London +81 338 £42,500 -22.73% 165
Work from Home +66 142 £50,000 -4.76% 107
London +17 142 £65,000 -10.34% 94
North of England 0 96 £45,000 -28.00% 40
South East +12 61 £45,000 -21.74% 59
North West 0 54 £42,500 -34.62% 26
Midlands 0 51 £42,500 -19.05% 33
South West -17 37 £38,750 -29.55% 15
West Midlands +14 34 £45,000 -10.00% 23
Scotland -20 27 £26,150 -57.31% 2
East of England -26 27 £46,250 -13.95% 13
Northern Ireland -14 24 - - 2
Yorkshire -24 23 £63,000 +26.00% 12
North East - 19 £64,250 - 2
East Midlands -43 16 £30,000 -45.45% 10
Wales -10 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 5 (0.99%) Confluence
2 4 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (0.79%) CMS
2 4 (0.79%) WordPress
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.40%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) Mendix
Applications
1 79 (15.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.59%) Maya
7 2 (0.40%) Sketch
7 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.99%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.79%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.59%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.40%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.40%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.20%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.20%) Shopify
6 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 98 (19.41%) Azure
2 87 (17.23%) Power Platform
3 35 (6.93%) AWS
4 34 (6.73%) SaaS
5 29 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (5.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 20 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (3.96%) GCP
8 19 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (3.56%) Power Automate
10 15 (2.97%) GitHub
11 13 (2.57%) dbt
12 11 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (1.98%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.58%) Datadog
14 8 (1.58%) OpenShift
15 7 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (1.39%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.17%) Firewall
1 16 (3.17%) SAN
2 12 (2.38%) VPN
3 8 (1.58%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.39%) WAN
5 6 (1.19%) LAN
6 4 (0.79%) Wireless
7 3 (0.59%) DNS
7 3 (0.59%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.59%) Network Security
7 3 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.59%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.40%) Broadband
8 2 (0.40%) DHCP
8 2 (0.40%) GSM
8 2 (0.40%) LTE
8 2 (0.40%) Modbus
8 2 (0.40%) SMS
8 2 (0.40%) VLAN
8 2 (0.40%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (16.83%) Power BI
2 46 (9.11%) SQL Server
3 26 (5.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (4.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 22 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (2.97%) Tableau
7 12 (2.38%) Metabase
8 10 (1.98%) Metadata
8 10 (1.98%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.39%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.79%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.79%) Looker
13 4 (0.79%) Power Query
13 4 (0.79%) Qlik Sense
14 3 (0.59%) Big Data
14 3 (0.59%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (4.75%) Git
2 16 (3.17%) JIRA
3 12 (2.38%) Visual Studio
4 11 (2.18%) GitLab
5 8 (1.58%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.39%) ERwin
7 2 (0.40%) Selenium
7 2 (0.40%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.20%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.20%) MLflow
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.20%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.20%) TestRail
8 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 504 (99.80%) Analytical Skills
2 296 (58.61%) Social Skills
3 227 (44.95%) Finance
4 43 (8.51%) Legal
5 42 (8.32%) Marketing
6 33 (6.53%) Public Sector
7 29 (5.74%) Retail
8 27 (5.35%) Manufacturing
9 25 (4.95%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (4.75%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
12 20 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (3.17%) Banking
13 16 (3.17%) Law
14 14 (2.77%) Billing
15 12 (2.38%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.98%) Electronics
16 10 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.78%) Automotive
18 8 (1.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 106 (20.99%) Analyst
2 72 (14.26%) Head of QA
3 32 (6.34%) Senior
4 30 (5.94%) IT Support
5 26 (5.15%) IT Engineer
5 26 (5.15%) Lead
6 23 (4.55%) Business Manager
7 21 (4.16%) Business Analyst
8 20 (3.96%) Systems Analyst
9 19 (3.76%) Data Analyst
9 19 (3.76%) Developer
9 19 (3.76%) Financial Analyst
10 18 (3.56%) Consultant
11 17 (3.37%) Administrator
11 17 (3.37%) IT Analyst
12 16 (3.17%) Support Analyst
13 15 (2.97%) Commercial Analyst
13 15 (2.97%) Field Engineer
13 15 (2.97%) Field Service Engineer
14 13 (2.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.97%) CSS
1 15 (2.97%) HTML
2 11 (2.18%) FIX Protocol
3 10 (1.98%) XML
4 8 (1.58%) JSON
4 8 (1.58%) OAuth
4 8 (1.58%) RabbitMQ
4 8 (1.58%) SAML
5 7 (1.39%) FpML
5 7 (1.39%) XML Schema
6 6 (1.19%) .NET
6 6 (1.19%) SAP Fiori
7 5 (0.99%) React
7 5 (0.99%) REST
8 4 (0.79%) PySpark
8 4 (0.79%) RESTful
8 4 (0.79%) Sass
8 4 (0.79%) Spring
8 4 (0.79%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.79%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.13%) Self-Motivation
2 27 (5.35%) Onboarding
3 18 (3.56%) Management Information System
3 18 (3.56%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.56%) Social Media
4 16 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.97%) Smartphone
6 12 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.38%) FMCG
7 10 (1.98%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.58%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.58%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.39%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.39%) IoT
10 6 (1.19%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.19%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.79%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.35%) Windows
2 17 (3.37%) Linux
3 10 (1.98%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.39%) Unix
5 6 (1.19%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.20%) Android
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (39.41%) Continuous Improvement
2 181 (35.84%) Problem-Solving
3 172 (34.06%) Analytics
4 121 (23.96%) Actionable Insight
5 117 (23.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 93 (18.42%) Customer Experience
7 92 (18.22%) Business Intelligence
8 87 (17.23%) Decision-Making
8 87 (17.23%) Root Cause Analysis
9 86 (17.03%) Service Delivery
10 85 (16.83%) Agile
11 84 (16.63%) PRINCE2
12 83 (16.44%) Process Improvement
13 79 (15.64%) Change Management
14 76 (15.05%) Quality Management
15 72 (14.26%) Anti-Money Laundering
16 55 (10.89%) Data Analysis
17 50 (9.90%) CI/CD
18 48 (9.50%) AI
19 46 (9.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 92 (18.22%) SQL
2 62 (12.28%) Python
3 31 (6.14%) PowerShell
4 26 (5.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 20 (3.96%) Bash
6 15 (2.97%) Java
7 14 (2.77%) C++
8 13 (2.57%) C#
9 12 (2.38%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.78%) C
11 8 (1.58%) Go
12 7 (1.39%) VBA
13 4 (0.79%) Bicep
13 4 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.59%) PHP
14 3 (0.59%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.59%) VC++
15 2 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.40%) Perl
15 2 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (14.26%) IRCA
2 70 (13.86%) Degree
3 24 (4.75%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (3.17%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 15 (2.97%) A+ Certification
6 15 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.97%) CCNA
6 15 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (2.97%) MCSE
6 15 (2.97%) Network+ Certification
6 15 (2.97%) SC Cleared
7 13 (2.57%) ACCA
8 11 (2.18%) CIMA
8 11 (2.18%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.78%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.58%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.58%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.58%) PMP
11 7 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (19.60%) QA
2 84 (16.63%) GDPR
2 84 (16.63%) ISO 9001
3 32 (6.34%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (1.98%) GRC
6 10 (1.98%) NIST
7 9 (1.78%) SLA
8 8 (1.58%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.58%) ISO 14001
9 6 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.59%) EMIR
11 3 (0.59%) NEBOSH
11 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.40%) GAAP
12 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (3.37%) Docker
2 8 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (4.36%) Terraform
2 19 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.58%) Grafana
3 8 (1.58%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.99%) Ansible
4 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.79%) Control-M
6 2 (0.40%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.20%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.20%) SCCM
7 1 (0.20%) SCOM
Vendors
1 96 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.76%) Dell
3 17 (3.37%) SAP
4 14 (2.77%) Oracle
5 13 (2.57%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.38%) Google
7 10 (1.98%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.78%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.78%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.39%) Autodesk
9 7 (1.39%) Sparx
10 5 (0.99%) Adobe
10 5 (0.99%) Apple
10 5 (0.99%) Informatica
11 4 (0.79%) BT
11 4 (0.79%) Databricks
11 4 (0.79%) Guidewire
11 4 (0.79%) Hotjar
11 4 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.59%) MuleSoft