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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 327 484
Rank change year-on-year +4 +157 +189
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 517 381 462
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.87% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.05% 2.03% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 287 207 304
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,725
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,425 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% +27.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £62,625
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.19% +23.53% -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 25,180 18,780 35,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.04% 42.93% 34.75%
Number of salaries quoted 14,416 8,856 23,112
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £38,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,001 £51,058 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.07% +2.12% -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 May 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 May 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 +16 454 £50,000 -13.04% 136
UK excluding London +52 378 £44,000 -16.19% 124
Work from Home +46 124 £50,000 -6.98% 61
London -41 123 £65,000 -14.75% 45
North of England +10 97 £53,050 -11.58% 23
South East +9 93 £49,425 -14.04% 48
Midlands +3 63 £44,000 -7.37% 20
North West +5 52 £45,000 -25.00% 12
South West -21 52 £32,500 -35.00% 16
West Midlands -4 42 £44,000 +20.55% 10
Yorkshire -14 30 £90,000 +89.47% 8
East of England -22 24 £40,000 +23.08% 13
Scotland +11 23 £26,150 -50.19% 6
East Midlands -17 20 £37,500 -34.78% 10
North East - 15 £58,500 - 3
Northern Ireland -27 14 £63,750 +27.50% 1
Wales - 12 £35,000 - 1

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 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.97%) Confluence
2 5 (0.97%) WordPress
3 4 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.58%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.58%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) CMS
5 1 (0.19%) Mendix
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 50 (9.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.58%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.19%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (1.93%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.77%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.77%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.77%) JDE World
4 3 (0.58%) Shopify
5 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.19%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.19%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 73 (14.12%) Azure
2 60 (11.61%) Power Platform
3 40 (7.74%) SaaS
4 37 (7.16%) AWS
5 31 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (4.45%) GCP
7 21 (4.06%) Power Automate
8 20 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (2.90%) GitHub
9 15 (2.90%) Google Analytics
10 12 (2.32%) dbt
10 12 (2.32%) PowerApps
11 11 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (1.74%) Datadog
13 8 (1.55%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.35%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.35%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (1.35%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.29%) Firewall
1 17 (3.29%) SAN
2 16 (3.09%) VPN
3 14 (2.71%) TCP/IP
3 14 (2.71%) WAN
4 13 (2.51%) LAN
5 9 (1.74%) DNS
6 8 (1.55%) HTTP
7 7 (1.35%) SMS
8 4 (0.77%) Broadband
8 4 (0.77%) Internet
8 4 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.77%) Wireless
9 3 (0.58%) FTP
9 3 (0.58%) SMTP
9 3 (0.58%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.39%) Network Security
10 2 (0.39%) SSL
11 1 (0.19%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (11.03%) Power BI
2 26 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (3.68%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.13%) Relational Database
4 11 (2.13%) Tableau
5 10 (1.93%) Metadata
6 9 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.55%) Metabase
8 7 (1.35%) MySQL
8 7 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.35%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.16%) GIS
9 6 (1.16%) Power Query
9 6 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.97%) Big Data
10 5 (0.97%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.77%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.58%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.58%) Looker
Development Applications
1 21 (4.06%) Git
2 11 (2.13%) JIRA
3 9 (1.74%) GitLab
4 8 (1.55%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.35%) ERwin
6 4 (0.77%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.58%) TestRail
7 3 (0.58%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 2 (0.39%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.39%) Ranorex
8 2 (0.39%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.39%) Selenium
9 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 516 (99.81%) Analytical Skills
2 278 (53.77%) Social Skills
3 187 (36.17%) Finance
4 51 (9.86%) Marketing
5 26 (5.03%) Legal
5 26 (5.03%) Public Sector
6 25 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
7 24 (4.64%) Retail
8 23 (4.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (4.45%) Manufacturing
9 19 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.32%) Electronics
10 12 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.13%) Banking
11 11 (2.13%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.93%) Advertising
12 10 (1.93%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.93%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 116 (22.44%) Analyst
2 72 (13.93%) Head of QA
3 37 (7.16%) Senior
4 35 (6.77%) Lead
5 33 (6.38%) IT Engineer
6 30 (5.80%) IT Support
7 25 (4.84%) Business Analyst
8 24 (4.64%) Developer
9 22 (4.26%) Data Analyst
10 20 (3.87%) IT Analyst
10 20 (3.87%) Support Analyst
11 18 (3.48%) Support Engineer
12 17 (3.29%) Consultant
12 17 (3.29%) Field Engineer
12 17 (3.29%) Field Service Engineer
12 17 (3.29%) Junior
13 16 (3.09%) IT Support Engineer
13 16 (3.09%) Junior Analyst
14 14 (2.71%) Administrator
15 13 (2.51%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.48%) HTML
2 17 (3.29%) CSS
3 14 (2.71%) JSON
4 11 (2.13%) XML
5 9 (1.74%) .NET
5 9 (1.74%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (1.55%) OAuth
6 8 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (1.55%) SAML
7 7 (1.35%) FpML
7 7 (1.35%) REST
7 7 (1.35%) XML Schema
8 6 (1.16%) React
8 6 (1.16%) SOAP
9 5 (0.97%) PySpark
9 5 (0.97%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.77%) EDI
10 4 (0.77%) Flutter
11 3 (0.58%) LDAP
11 3 (0.58%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.03%) Onboarding
2 17 (3.29%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.09%) Cyber Threat
3 16 (3.09%) Social Media
4 13 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.51%) Smartphone
5 12 (2.32%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.13%) Cloud Native
7 10 (1.93%) Driving Licence
7 10 (1.93%) FMCG
7 10 (1.93%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.74%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.55%) Web Conferencing
10 7 (1.35%) e-Learning
10 7 (1.35%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (1.16%) SCADA
12 5 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.97%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.77%) Windows
2 18 (3.48%) Linux
3 12 (2.32%) Windows 10
4 8 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.16%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.77%) Unix
7 2 (0.39%) Android
8 1 (0.19%) Debian
8 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (35.98%) Continuous Improvement
2 160 (30.95%) Analytics
3 148 (28.63%) Problem-Solving
4 129 (24.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 98 (18.96%) Actionable Insight
6 95 (18.38%) Root Cause Analysis
7 88 (17.02%) Service Delivery
8 86 (16.63%) Customer Experience
9 84 (16.25%) Agile
9 84 (16.25%) Decision-Making
10 82 (15.86%) Change Management
11 79 (15.28%) Quality Management
12 76 (14.70%) Business Intelligence
12 76 (14.70%) PRINCE2
13 72 (13.93%) Anti-Money Laundering
14 50 (9.67%) CRM
15 48 (9.28%) Process Improvement
16 41 (7.93%) ERP
17 40 (7.74%) AI
18 39 (7.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (18.38%) SQL
2 65 (12.57%) Python
3 29 (5.61%) PowerShell
4 21 (4.06%) C#
5 19 (3.68%) Java
6 15 (2.90%) Bash
7 12 (2.32%) JavaScript
8 11 (2.13%) C++
9 10 (1.93%) MATLAB
10 9 (1.74%) Go
11 8 (1.55%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.35%) C
12 7 (1.35%) Scala
13 6 (1.16%) PHP
14 5 (0.97%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (0.97%) VBA
15 4 (0.77%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.77%) Embedded C++
15 4 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (13.93%) IRCA
2 60 (11.61%) Degree
3 30 (5.80%) Security Cleared
4 21 (4.06%) SC Cleared
5 20 (3.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (3.29%) A+ Certification
6 17 (3.29%) CCNA
6 17 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (3.29%) MCSE
6 17 (3.29%) Network+ Certification
7 13 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.93%) GIAC
9 8 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.55%) GCIH
10 7 (1.35%) ACCA
10 7 (1.35%) DBS Check
10 7 (1.35%) GCIA
11 6 (1.16%) CISSP
11 6 (1.16%) OSCP
12 5 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (18.38%) QA
2 88 (17.02%) ISO 9001
3 85 (16.44%) GDPR
4 50 (9.67%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.93%) ISO 14001
7 9 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 9 (1.74%) SLA
8 8 (1.55%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.55%) GRC
9 6 (1.16%) ARP4754
9 6 (1.16%) DO-254
9 6 (1.16%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.97%) NIST
10 5 (0.97%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.77%) Def Stans
11 4 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.58%) ITGC
System Software
1 12 (2.32%) Docker
2 8 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) IAG
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (3.09%) Terraform
2 15 (2.90%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.74%) Grafana
4 8 (1.55%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.97%) Kibana
5 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.77%) Control-M
7 3 (0.58%) Ansible
7 3 (0.58%) QRadar
8 2 (0.39%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.19%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 105 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.42%) Google
3 21 (4.06%) SAP
4 20 (3.87%) HubSpot
5 19 (3.68%) Dell
6 17 (3.29%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.51%) Oracle
8 12 (2.32%) Adobe
9 11 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
9 11 (2.13%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.55%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.55%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.55%) Splunk
11 7 (1.35%) Sparx
12 6 (1.16%) Databricks
13 5 (0.97%) Carbon Black
13 5 (0.97%) IFS
13 5 (0.97%) Marketo
13 5 (0.97%) Pardot
13 5 (0.97%) YouTube