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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 439 472
Rank change year-on-year +212 +33 +139
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 592 349 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.11% 0.51% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.10% 1.53% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 342 176 183
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,125 £41,732 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,519 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +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 19,113 22,828 20,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.97% 33.21% 38.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,680 11,247 14,942
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 23 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 23 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 +222 529 £50,000 -9.09% 451
UK excluding London +204 408 £45,000 -18.18% 242
Work from Home +147 213 £50,000 - 245
London +102 159 £65,000 - 245
South East +119 121 £45,000 -12.62% 91
Midlands +98 75 £42,500 +6.25% 36
South West +77 74 £50,000 -28.57% 15
North of England +61 73 £42,500 -22.73% 48
North West +70 57 £40,375 -26.59% 33
East Midlands +55 47 £80,000 +100.00% 16
West Midlands +68 28 £42,500 -11.63% 20
Scotland +14 24 £26,150 -59.77% 11
East of England +39 22 £60,000 +11.63% 27
Northern Ireland - 14 - - 11
Yorkshire +12 11 £47,500 -20.83% 11
Wales +15 5 £47,500 -3.27% 7
North East - 5 - - 4

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 (3.04%) Confluence
2 17 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.35%) CMS
4 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.68%) IIS
5 4 (0.68%) SAS
6 3 (0.51%) WordPress
7 2 (0.34%) 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
1 118 (19.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (4.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (2.03%) Maya
6 9 (1.52%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.68%) PlantUML
8 3 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.51%) Stata
9 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (3.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (2.03%) Shopify
2 12 (2.03%) Sprinklr
3 6 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.84%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.68%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.68%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.68%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.51%) SAP APO
6 3 (0.51%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.34%) Magento
7 2 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.34%) SAP CX
8 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.17%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.17%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 127 (21.45%) Azure
2 121 (20.44%) Power Platform
3 32 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
3 32 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (4.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 27 (4.56%) SaaS
6 24 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (3.72%) AWS
7 22 (3.72%) Google Analytics
8 20 (3.38%) Entra ID
9 17 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (2.20%) Boomi
11 12 (2.03%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 10 (1.69%) Snowflake
13 9 (1.52%) Google Ads
14 8 (1.35%) PowerApps
15 7 (1.18%) Asana
15 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
16 6 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (1.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.56%) Network Security
2 17 (2.87%) Firewall
3 5 (0.84%) SAN
4 4 (0.68%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.68%) LAN
4 4 (0.68%) WAN
4 4 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (0.68%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.34%) GSM
6 2 (0.34%) LTE
6 2 (0.34%) Skype
6 2 (0.34%) VoIP
7 1 (0.17%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.17%) FTP
7 1 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.17%) Modbus
7 1 (0.17%) NAS
7 1 (0.17%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (18.58%) Power BI
2 45 (7.60%) Tableau
3 43 (7.26%) SQL Server
4 30 (5.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 29 (4.90%) Data Lake
6 26 (4.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.18%) Metadata
9 6 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (0.68%) Looker
10 4 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.51%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (0.51%) Metabase
11 3 (0.51%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.34%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.34%) MySQL
12 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 30 (5.07%) JIRA
2 7 (1.18%) Git
3 4 (0.68%) Postman
4 3 (0.51%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.34%) Bazaar
5 2 (0.34%) GitLab
5 2 (0.34%) Selenium
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
1 592 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 360 (60.81%) Social Skills
3 264 (44.59%) Finance
4 143 (24.16%) Marketing
5 71 (11.99%) Retail
6 59 (9.97%) Law
7 51 (8.61%) Manufacturing
8 46 (7.77%) Legal
9 45 (7.60%) Public Sector
10 34 (5.74%) Presentation Skills
11 31 (5.24%) Electronics
12 29 (4.90%) Telecoms
13 22 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
15 17 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (2.53%) Advertising
16 15 (2.53%) Banking
16 15 (2.53%) Billing
16 15 (2.53%) Games
17 13 (2.20%) French Language
Job Titles
1 135 (22.80%) Analyst
2 85 (14.36%) Senior
3 69 (11.66%) Lead
4 46 (7.77%) Consultant
5 39 (6.59%) Data Analyst
6 29 (4.90%) Business Analyst
7 28 (4.73%) Architect
7 28 (4.73%) Commercial Analyst
8 27 (4.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 27 (4.56%) Security Consultant
9 25 (4.22%) Support Engineer
10 22 (3.72%) Business Manager
11 19 (3.21%) Technical Engineer
11 19 (3.21%) Technical Support
11 19 (3.21%) Technical Support Engineer
12 15 (2.53%) Developer
12 15 (2.53%) Systems Analyst
13 14 (2.36%) Graduate
13 14 (2.36%) Insight Analyst
13 14 (2.36%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.22%) HTML
2 23 (3.89%) CSS
3 8 (1.35%) REST
4 6 (1.01%) .NET
5 4 (0.68%) GraphQL
5 4 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.51%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.51%) EDI
6 3 (0.51%) Middleware
6 3 (0.51%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (0.51%) SOAP
6 3 (0.51%) XML
7 2 (0.34%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.34%) JSON
7 2 (0.34%) Sass
7 2 (0.34%) ZeroMQ
8 1 (0.17%) Django
8 1 (0.17%) RESTful
8 1 (0.17%) SAP PI
8 1 (0.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.61%) Onboarding
1 51 (8.61%) Self-Motivation
2 45 (7.60%) Management Information System
3 39 (6.59%) FMCG
4 33 (5.57%) Data Centre
5 31 (5.24%) Product Ownership
6 29 (4.90%) Cloud Native
7 23 (3.89%) Social Media
8 19 (3.21%) Driving Licence
9 18 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.20%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.69%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.01%) Credit Risk
12 6 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.01%) IoT
12 6 (1.01%) Web Conferencing
13 5 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
13 5 (0.84%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.68%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.87%) Windows
2 7 (1.18%) Linux
3 3 (0.51%) Unix
3 3 (0.51%) 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
1 261 (44.09%) Problem-Solving
2 223 (37.67%) Analytics
3 164 (27.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 157 (26.52%) Business Intelligence
5 134 (22.64%) Decision-Making
6 117 (19.76%) Agile
7 108 (18.24%) Project Management
8 101 (17.06%) CRM
9 98 (16.55%) Actionable Insight
10 91 (15.37%) ERP
11 82 (13.85%) AI
12 75 (12.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 71 (11.99%) Process Improvement
14 66 (11.15%) Cybersecurity
15 65 (10.98%) Business Strategy
16 62 (10.47%) Visualisation
17 55 (9.29%) Change Management
18 54 (9.12%) Mentoring
18 54 (9.12%) Roadmaps
19 51 (8.61%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 125 (21.11%) SQL
2 45 (7.60%) Python
3 25 (4.22%) JavaScript
4 24 (4.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 22 (3.72%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.36%) C#
7 8 (1.35%) C++
7 8 (1.35%) VBA
8 7 (1.18%) C
9 6 (1.01%) Bash
9 6 (1.01%) R
9 6 (1.01%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.51%) Bicep
10 3 (0.51%) Java
10 3 (0.51%) MATLAB
10 3 (0.51%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.17%) Go
12 1 (0.17%) Scala
12 1 (0.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 148 (25.00%) Degree
2 48 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 31 (5.24%) CISSP
4 27 (4.56%) CEH
5 25 (4.22%) CompTIA Security+
6 20 (3.38%) Master's Degree
7 19 (3.21%) SC Cleared
8 13 (2.20%) ACCA
8 13 (2.20%) PMI Certification
8 13 (2.20%) PMP
9 12 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (2.03%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 11 (1.86%) CIMA
11 10 (1.69%) DBS Check
12 9 (1.52%) CISM
12 9 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (1.35%) A+ Certification
13 8 (1.35%) DV Cleared
13 8 (1.35%) MBA
14 7 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (5.74%) NIST
3 28 (4.73%) Data Quality
4 26 (4.39%) PCI DSS
5 23 (3.89%) QA
6 18 (3.04%) GDPR
7 13 (2.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 12 (2.03%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.35%) GRC
10 6 (1.01%) SLA
11 5 (0.84%) PMO
12 4 (0.68%) ISO 14001
12 4 (0.68%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.68%) NEBOSH
13 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 2 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.03%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.84%) Firmware
4 4 (0.68%) Docker
5 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (1.18%) Terraform
3 3 (0.51%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.34%) Ansible
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%) Kibana
5 1 (0.17%) SCCM
5 1 (0.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 135 (22.80%) Microsoft
2 70 (11.82%) SAP
3 47 (7.94%) Salesforce
4 37 (6.25%) Google
5 29 (4.90%) Adobe
6 20 (3.38%) Oracle
7 17 (2.87%) Dell
8 13 (2.20%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.86%) Autodesk
10 8 (1.35%) Databricks
10 8 (1.35%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.18%) Hotjar
12 6 (1.01%) Cisco
12 6 (1.01%) Workday
13 5 (0.84%) Facebook
14 4 (0.68%) Ahrefs
14 4 (0.68%) Guidewire
14 4 (0.68%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.68%) Screaming Frog
14 4 (0.68%) TikTok