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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 294 494
Rank change year-on-year -68 +200 +92
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 544 483 350
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.97% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% 2.34% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 296 289 209
10th Percentile £28,125 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £33,986 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,713 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,050 £87,500 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +5.26% -

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 27,731 20,655 27,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.15% 41.48% 33.09%
Number of salaries quoted 17,411 10,361 16,265
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% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
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 12 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 12 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 -58 491 £50,000 - 481
UK excluding London -28 395 £44,000 -12.00% 193
Work from Home -12 143 £50,000 - 187
London -63 135 £60,000 -9.43% 325
South East -23 107 £50,000 -3.85% 46
North of England -12 97 £50,000 +8.11% 54
South West -48 69 £35,000 -30.00% 28
Midlands -6 63 £45,000 -14.29% 32
North West -23 46 £45,000 - 35
West Midlands -4 42 £42,500 +21.43% 19
Yorkshire +1 35 £80,571 +69.62% 14
East Midlands -24 20 £45,000 -43.75% 13
Scotland +16 18 £26,150 - 8
East of England -42 18 £40,000 +10.34% 16
North East -40 16 £57,500 - 6
Northern Ireland - 14 £63,750 - 6
Wales - 9 - - 6

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 11 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.47%) Confluence
3 5 (0.92%) WordPress
4 4 (0.74%) Apache
4 4 (0.74%) CMS
4 4 (0.74%) SAS
5 3 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.55%) IIS
6 2 (0.37%) Luigi
6 2 (0.37%) Tornado
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 58 (10.66%) 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 2 (0.37%) Simulink
8 1 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
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 62 (11.40%) Power Platform
3 42 (7.72%) AWS
4 39 (7.17%) SaaS
5 34 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (5.51%) GCP
7 20 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (3.49%) Google Analytics
8 19 (3.49%) PowerApps
9 16 (2.94%) Power Automate
10 11 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (1.84%) dbt
11 10 (1.84%) GitHub
12 9 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.47%) Datadog
13 8 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (1.47%) Google Ads
14 7 (1.29%) Entra ID
14 7 (1.29%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.76%) 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 52 (9.56%) Power BI
2 26 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (2.57%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.39%) Tableau
5 11 (2.02%) Metadata
5 11 (2.02%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.47%) BigQuery
6 8 (1.47%) MySQL
7 7 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.29%) GIS
7 7 (1.29%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.29%) Power Query
8 6 (1.10%) Looker
8 6 (1.10%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.92%) Big Data
10 4 (0.74%) Metabase
10 4 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.74%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (0.55%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.55%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (4.04%) Git
2 17 (3.13%) JIRA
3 8 (1.47%) GitLab
4 6 (1.10%) Eclipse
4 6 (1.10%) ERwin
5 5 (0.92%) Visual Studio
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
2 283 (52.02%) Social Skills
3 187 (34.38%) Finance
4 62 (11.40%) Marketing
5 40 (7.35%) Organisational Skills
6 34 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.41%) Manufacturing
8 23 (4.23%) Legal
9 20 (3.68%) Retail
10 19 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (2.76%) Advertising
11 15 (2.76%) Electronics
11 15 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (2.57%) Financial Institution
13 13 (2.39%) Banking
14 12 (2.21%) Aerospace
15 11 (2.02%) Law
15 11 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 113 (20.77%) Analyst
2 72 (13.24%) Head of QA
3 44 (8.09%) Senior
4 41 (7.54%) Lead
5 27 (4.96%) Business Analyst
6 26 (4.78%) Developer
7 24 (4.41%) Support Analyst
8 23 (4.23%) Data Analyst
9 20 (3.68%) IT Engineer
10 16 (2.94%) Compliance Manager
11 15 (2.76%) Field Engineer
11 15 (2.76%) Field Service Engineer
11 15 (2.76%) IT Analyst
12 14 (2.57%) IT Support
12 14 (2.57%) Junior
13 13 (2.39%) Consultant
14 12 (2.21%) Data Engineer
14 12 (2.21%) Junior Analyst
15 11 (2.02%) DevOps Engineer
15 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 11 (2.02%) .NET
5 9 (1.65%) XML
6 8 (1.47%) Kafka
7 7 (1.29%) OAuth
7 7 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (1.29%) REST
7 7 (1.29%) RESTful
7 7 (1.29%) SAML
8 6 (1.10%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (1.10%) FpML
8 6 (1.10%) Spring
8 6 (1.10%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.10%) XML Schema
9 5 (0.92%) React
10 4 (0.74%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.74%) PyTorch
10 4 (0.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.78%) Onboarding
2 24 (4.41%) Management Information System
3 19 (3.49%) Cloud Native
4 17 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
4 17 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (3.13%) Social Media
5 15 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.39%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.21%) Driving Licence
8 10 (1.84%) Cyber Defence
8 10 (1.84%) Smartphone
9 9 (1.65%) Blog
9 9 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.47%) SCADA
10 8 (1.47%) Web Conferencing
11 7 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.29%) Educational Technology
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
1 214 (39.34%) Continuous Improvement
2 179 (32.90%) Analytics
3 147 (27.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 134 (24.63%) Problem-Solving
5 109 (20.04%) Actionable Insight
6 106 (19.49%) 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 79 (14.52%) PRINCE2
14 74 (13.60%) Anti-Money Laundering
15 71 (13.05%) Business Intelligence
16 63 (11.58%) AI
17 59 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
18 53 (9.74%) CRM
19 51 (9.38%) Process Improvement
20 45 (8.27%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 100 (18.38%) SQL
2 50 (9.19%) Python
3 23 (4.23%) C#
3 23 (4.23%) Java
4 21 (3.86%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.57%) Bash
5 14 (2.57%) MATLAB
6 11 (2.02%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.65%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.47%) C++
9 7 (1.29%) C
9 7 (1.29%) PHP
9 7 (1.29%) Scala
10 6 (1.10%) Embedded C
10 6 (1.10%) Go
10 6 (1.10%) Search Processing Language
11 5 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.74%) Embedded C++
12 4 (0.74%) VBA
13 3 (0.55%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 72 (13.24%) IRCA
2 64 (11.76%) Degree
3 40 (7.35%) Security Cleared
4 26 (4.78%) SC Cleared
5 17 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (2.76%) A+ Certification
6 15 (2.76%) CCNA
6 15 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (2.76%) MCSE
6 15 (2.76%) Network+ Certification
7 13 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.02%) ACCA
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
1 107 (19.67%) QA
2 96 (17.65%) ISO 9001
3 89 (16.36%) GDPR
4 65 (11.95%) Data Quality
5 29 (5.33%) 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 13 (2.39%) 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%) NIST
11 6 (1.10%) COBIT
11 6 (1.10%) ISO 8583
11 6 (1.10%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.92%) ISO 19650
12 5 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (2.94%) Docker
2 8 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.55%) Firmware
4 2 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.18%) IAG
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.39%) Terraform
3 8 (1.47%) Grafana
4 7 (1.29%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.10%) Ansible
5 6 (1.10%) Kibana
6 4 (0.74%) QRadar
7 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.37%) Argo
9 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.18%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 113 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 45 (8.27%) Google
3 23 (4.23%) HubSpot
4 18 (3.31%) SAP
5 16 (2.94%) 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 7 (1.29%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.29%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.29%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.10%) Carbon Black
10 6 (1.10%) Databricks
10 6 (1.10%) Marketo
10 6 (1.10%) Pardot
10 6 (1.10%) Sparx
11 5 (0.92%) IFS
12 4 (0.74%) VocaLink