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 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 443 496
Rank change year-on-year +211 +53 +130
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 601 333 239
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.13% 0.50% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.10% 1.50% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 348 161 178
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,375 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.07% +7.89%
75th Percentile £67,581 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £56,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +18.42% +5.56%

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 19,376 22,133 19,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.51% 32.94% 38.57%
Number of salaries quoted 10,739 10,682 14,883
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,770 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £101,500 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 +226 538 £50,000 -16.67% 458
UK excluding London +199 415 £45,000 -20.00% 227
Work from Home +140 216 £50,000 -9.09% 214
London +88 161 £61,250 -9.26% 271
South East +117 129 £45,000 -12.62% 87
Midlands +108 76 £47,980 +11.34% 31
South West +77 74 £50,000 -33.33% 15
North of England +69 73 £42,500 -22.73% 46
North West +59 57 £40,375 -26.59% 34
East Midlands +53 47 £80,000 +100.00% 13
West Midlands +60 29 £42,500 -7.99% 18
Scotland -2 24 £26,150 -59.77% 10
East of England +34 20 £62,500 +16.28% 26
Northern Ireland - 14 - - 11
Yorkshire +6 11 £47,500 -24.00% 9
Wales +12 5 £47,500 -3.27% 4
North East - 5 - - 3

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 18 (3.00%) Confluence
2 17 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.33%) CMS
4 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.67%) IIS
5 4 (0.67%) SAS
6 3 (0.50%) WordPress
7 2 (0.33%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.17%) Drupal
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 121 (20.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.16%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (2.00%) Maya
6 9 (1.50%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.67%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.50%) Stata
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (3.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (2.00%) Shopify
2 12 (2.00%) Sprinklr
3 5 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.67%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.67%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.67%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.50%) SAP APO
5 3 (0.50%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.33%) Magento
6 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.33%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Primavera
7 1 (0.17%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 130 (21.63%) Azure
2 122 (20.30%) Power Platform
3 32 (5.32%) Azure Data Factory
3 32 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (4.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 27 (4.49%) SaaS
6 24 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (3.83%) Google Analytics
8 22 (3.66%) AWS
9 20 (3.33%) Entra ID
10 17 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (2.16%) Boomi
12 12 (2.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 9 (1.50%) Google Ads
13 9 (1.50%) Snowflake
14 8 (1.33%) PowerApps
15 7 (1.16%) Asana
15 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
16 6 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (1.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.49%) Network Security
2 17 (2.83%) Firewall
3 5 (0.83%) LAN
3 5 (0.83%) SAN
3 5 (0.83%) WAN
4 4 (0.67%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (0.67%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.33%) Skype
6 2 (0.33%) VoIP
7 1 (0.17%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.17%) LoRaWAN
7 1 (0.17%) LTE
7 1 (0.17%) Modbus
7 1 (0.17%) NAS
7 1 (0.17%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.17%) VLAN
7 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (18.47%) Power BI
2 45 (7.49%) Tableau
3 42 (6.99%) SQL Server
4 35 (5.82%) Data Lake
5 30 (4.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 26 (4.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.16%) Metadata
9 6 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.67%) Looker
10 4 (0.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.50%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.50%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.33%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.33%) Metabase
12 2 (0.33%) MySQL
12 2 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 30 (4.99%) JIRA
2 7 (1.16%) Git
3 4 (0.67%) Postman
4 3 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.33%) Bazaar
5 2 (0.33%) GitLab
5 2 (0.33%) Selenium
5 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.17%) Appium
6 1 (0.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.17%) JMeter
6 1 (0.17%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.17%) MLflow
6 1 (0.17%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 601 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 368 (61.23%) Social Skills
3 263 (43.76%) Finance
4 145 (24.13%) Marketing
5 71 (11.81%) Retail
6 65 (10.82%) Law
7 51 (8.49%) Manufacturing
8 45 (7.49%) Legal
8 45 (7.49%) Public Sector
9 35 (5.82%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (4.99%) Electronics
11 29 (4.83%) Telecoms
12 28 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (2.50%) Advertising
15 15 (2.50%) Banking
15 15 (2.50%) Billing
15 15 (2.50%) Games
16 13 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 139 (23.13%) Analyst
2 91 (15.14%) Senior
3 69 (11.48%) Lead
4 45 (7.49%) Consultant
5 39 (6.49%) Data Analyst
6 29 (4.83%) Business Analyst
7 28 (4.66%) Architect
7 28 (4.66%) Commercial Analyst
8 27 (4.49%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 27 (4.49%) Security Consultant
9 25 (4.16%) Support Engineer
10 22 (3.66%) Business Manager
11 19 (3.16%) Technical Engineer
11 19 (3.16%) Technical Support
11 19 (3.16%) Technical Support Engineer
12 16 (2.66%) Insight Analyst
13 14 (2.33%) Developer
13 14 (2.33%) Graduate
13 14 (2.33%) Support Analyst
13 14 (2.33%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.33%) HTML
2 24 (3.99%) CSS
3 8 (1.33%) REST
4 6 (1.00%) .NET
5 4 (0.67%) GraphQL
5 4 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.50%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.50%) EDI
6 3 (0.50%) Middleware
6 3 (0.50%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (0.50%) SOAP
6 3 (0.50%) XML
7 2 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.33%) JSON
7 2 (0.33%) Sass
7 2 (0.33%) ZeroMQ
8 1 (0.17%) Flask
8 1 (0.17%) Kafka
8 1 (0.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.65%) Self-Motivation
2 51 (8.49%) Onboarding
3 45 (7.49%) Management Information System
4 39 (6.49%) FMCG
5 33 (5.49%) Data Centre
6 30 (4.99%) Product Ownership
7 29 (4.83%) Cloud Native
8 23 (3.83%) Social Media
9 19 (3.16%) Driving Licence
10 18 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
11 13 (2.16%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.83%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.00%) Credit Risk
14 6 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
15 5 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
15 5 (0.83%) IoT
15 5 (0.83%) Security Posture
16 4 (0.67%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.00%) Windows
2 7 (1.16%) Linux
3 3 (0.50%) Unix
3 3 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.17%) Android
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (44.26%) Problem-Solving
2 230 (38.27%) Analytics
3 163 (27.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 158 (26.29%) Business Intelligence
5 137 (22.80%) Decision-Making
6 121 (20.13%) Agile
7 108 (17.97%) Project Management
8 106 (17.64%) Actionable Insight
9 101 (16.81%) CRM
10 91 (15.14%) ERP
11 82 (13.64%) AI
12 75 (12.48%) Stakeholder Management
13 71 (11.81%) Process Improvement
14 66 (10.98%) Cybersecurity
15 65 (10.82%) Business Strategy
16 63 (10.48%) Visualisation
17 60 (9.98%) Roadmaps
18 55 (9.15%) Change Management
19 54 (8.99%) Mentoring
20 50 (8.32%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 126 (20.97%) SQL
2 45 (7.49%) Python
3 25 (4.16%) JavaScript
4 24 (3.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 22 (3.66%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.33%) C#
7 8 (1.33%) C++
7 8 (1.33%) VBA
8 7 (1.16%) Bash
8 7 (1.16%) C
9 6 (1.00%) R
9 6 (1.00%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.50%) Bicep
10 3 (0.50%) Java
10 3 (0.50%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.50%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.33%) Perl
12 1 (0.17%) Go
12 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 148 (24.63%) Degree
2 49 (8.15%) Security Cleared
3 31 (5.16%) CISSP
4 27 (4.49%) CEH
5 25 (4.16%) CompTIA Security+
6 20 (3.33%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.33%) SC Cleared
7 13 (2.16%) ACCA
7 13 (2.16%) PMI Certification
7 13 (2.16%) PMP
8 12 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (2.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 11 (1.83%) CIMA
10 10 (1.66%) DBS Check
11 9 (1.50%) A+ Certification
11 9 (1.50%) CISM
11 9 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.33%) DV Cleared
12 8 (1.33%) MBA
13 7 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (5.82%) NIST
3 27 (4.49%) Data Quality
4 26 (4.33%) PCI DSS
5 22 (3.66%) QA
6 18 (3.00%) GDPR
7 13 (2.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (2.00%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.33%) GRC
10 6 (1.00%) SLA
11 5 (0.83%) PMO
12 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.67%) ISO 14001
12 4 (0.67%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.67%) NEBOSH
13 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.33%) FINRA
13 2 (0.33%) GAAP
13 2 (0.33%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.83%) Firmware
4 4 (0.67%) Docker
5 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (1.16%) Terraform
3 3 (0.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.33%) Ansible
4 2 (0.33%) Kibana
5 1 (0.17%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.17%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 1 (0.17%) SCCM
5 1 (0.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 135 (22.46%) Microsoft
2 69 (11.48%) SAP
3 47 (7.82%) Salesforce
4 39 (6.49%) Google
5 29 (4.83%) Adobe
6 20 (3.33%) Oracle
7 18 (3.00%) Dell
8 13 (2.16%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.83%) Autodesk
10 8 (1.33%) Databricks
10 8 (1.33%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.16%) Hotjar
12 6 (1.00%) Cisco
12 6 (1.00%) Facebook
12 6 (1.00%) Workday
13 5 (0.83%) Ahrefs
13 5 (0.83%) Screaming Frog
14 4 (0.67%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.67%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.67%) TikTok