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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 309 464
Rank change year-on-year -40 +155 +145
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 534 460 433
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.94% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.06% 2.27% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 296 273 254
10th Percentile £28,125 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,449
Median % change year-on-year - +3.20% -3.10%
75th Percentile £71,563 £75,000 £67,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £44,544
% change year-on-year -10.00% +12.25% -6.22%

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 25,983 20,255 30,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.85% 41.26% 33.69%
Number of salaries quoted 16,516 10,115 19,083
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £29,440
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +3.64% -14.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -40 480 £50,000 - 186
UK excluding London +5 392 £45,000 -10.00% 124
Work from Home -10 141 £50,000 - 86
London -46 127 £65,000 -3.70% 91
South East -3 106 £50,000 -9.09% 34
North of England +3 98 £62,500 +31.58% 32
Midlands -15 64 £44,000 -21.78% 24
South West -42 64 £32,500 -35.00% 16
North West -8 46 £45,000 - 12
West Midlands -13 43 £44,000 +12.82% 7
Yorkshire -4 36 £90,000 +89.47% 14
East Midlands -28 20 £42,500 -46.88% 17
East of England -23 19 £40,000 +0.83% 10
Scotland +18 17 £26,150 -32.95% 5
North East -32 16 £57,500 - 7
Northern Ireland -54 14 £63,750 +27.50% 2
Wales - 10 £26,500 - 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 9 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.50%) Confluence
3 5 (0.94%) WordPress
4 4 (0.75%) CMS
4 4 (0.75%) SAS
5 3 (0.56%) IIS
6 2 (0.37%) Apache
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.19%) Mendix
Applications
1 53 (9.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 4 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.56%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.19%) Simulink
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (2.43%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.75%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.75%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.75%) JDE World
4 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.56%) Shopify
5 2 (0.37%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.37%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.19%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.19%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.19%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 77 (14.42%) Azure
2 65 (12.17%) Power Platform
3 38 (7.12%) SaaS
4 37 (6.93%) AWS
5 33 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (4.68%) GCP
7 24 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (3.56%) Power Automate
9 18 (3.37%) Google Analytics
9 18 (3.37%) PowerApps
10 15 (2.81%) GitHub
11 13 (2.43%) dbt
12 12 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (1.69%) Datadog
16 8 (1.50%) OpenShift
17 7 (1.31%) Google Ads
17 7 (1.31%) Snowflake
17 7 (1.31%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.62%) SAN
2 12 (2.25%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.87%) HTTP
3 10 (1.87%) LAN
3 10 (1.87%) WAN
4 9 (1.69%) DNS
4 9 (1.69%) VPN
5 8 (1.50%) Firewall
5 8 (1.50%) SMS
6 5 (0.94%) Unified Communications
6 5 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.94%) Wireless
7 4 (0.75%) ATM
7 4 (0.75%) FTP
7 4 (0.75%) Internet
7 4 (0.75%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.75%) NAS
7 4 (0.75%) SMTP
8 2 (0.37%) Broadband
8 2 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.49%) Power BI
2 28 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.25%) Metadata
3 12 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.25%) Tableau
4 11 (2.06%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.50%) BigQuery
5 8 (1.50%) MySQL
6 7 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.31%) Metabase
6 7 (1.31%) Power Query
6 7 (1.31%) RDBMS
7 6 (1.12%) GIS
8 5 (0.94%) Looker
9 4 (0.75%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.56%) Big Data
10 3 (0.56%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (0.56%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (4.12%) Git
2 17 (3.18%) JIRA
3 9 (1.69%) GitLab
4 8 (1.50%) Visual Studio
5 7 (1.31%) ERwin
6 6 (1.12%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.94%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.56%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.37%) Ranorex
10 2 (0.37%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.37%) Selenium
10 2 (0.37%) TestRail
11 1 (0.19%) JMeter
11 1 (0.19%) Postman
11 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 533 (99.81%) Analytical Skills
2 277 (51.87%) Social Skills
3 189 (35.39%) Finance
4 57 (10.67%) Marketing
5 39 (7.30%) Organisational Skills
6 26 (4.87%) Manufacturing
7 25 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (4.68%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.75%) Legal
8 20 (3.75%) Retail
9 16 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.62%) Electronics
11 12 (2.25%) Aerospace
11 12 (2.25%) Financial Institution
11 12 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (2.06%) Advertising
12 11 (2.06%) Banking
13 8 (1.50%) Law
14 6 (1.12%) German Language
Job Titles
1 119 (22.28%) Analyst
2 72 (13.48%) Head of QA
3 44 (8.24%) Lead
4 41 (7.68%) Senior
5 27 (5.06%) Support Analyst
6 26 (4.87%) Business Analyst
6 26 (4.87%) Developer
7 25 (4.68%) Data Analyst
8 19 (3.56%) IT Engineer
9 18 (3.37%) IT Analyst
10 17 (3.18%) IT Support
11 16 (3.00%) Compliance Manager
11 16 (3.00%) Consultant
12 15 (2.81%) Junior
13 14 (2.62%) Field Engineer
13 14 (2.62%) Field Service Engineer
13 14 (2.62%) Junior Analyst
14 13 (2.43%) DevOps Engineer
15 11 (2.06%) Systems Engineer
16 10 (1.87%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.75%) JSON
2 17 (3.18%) HTML
3 16 (3.00%) CSS
4 13 (2.43%) .NET
5 10 (1.87%) XML
6 8 (1.50%) OAuth
6 8 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (1.50%) SAML
7 7 (1.31%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (1.31%) FpML
7 7 (1.31%) XML Schema
8 6 (1.12%) React
9 5 (0.94%) REST
9 5 (0.94%) RESTful
10 4 (0.75%) Kafka
10 4 (0.75%) LDAP
10 4 (0.75%) Spring
10 4 (0.75%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.56%) Flutter
11 3 (0.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.31%) Onboarding
2 22 (4.12%) Management Information System
3 18 (3.37%) Cloud Native
4 17 (3.18%) Cyber Threat
5 16 (3.00%) Social Media
6 14 (2.62%) Data Centre
6 14 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.43%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.87%) Cyber Defence
8 10 (1.87%) Smartphone
9 9 (1.69%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.69%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.69%) Web Conferencing
10 8 (1.50%) e-Learning
10 8 (1.50%) SCADA
11 7 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.12%) Educational Technology
12 6 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.37%) Windows
2 16 (3.00%) Linux
3 12 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.94%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.37%) Android
6 2 (0.37%) Debian
6 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (39.89%) Continuous Improvement
2 175 (32.77%) Analytics
3 149 (27.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 135 (25.28%) Problem-Solving
5 101 (18.91%) Actionable Insight
6 100 (18.73%) Root Cause Analysis
7 99 (18.54%) Agile
8 87 (16.29%) Customer Experience
8 87 (16.29%) Decision-Making
9 85 (15.92%) Change Management
9 85 (15.92%) Service Delivery
10 79 (14.79%) Quality Management
11 78 (14.61%) Business Intelligence
12 76 (14.23%) PRINCE2
13 72 (13.48%) Anti-Money Laundering
14 57 (10.67%) Process Improvement
15 54 (10.11%) CRM
16 46 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
17 45 (8.43%) AI
17 45 (8.43%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 96 (17.98%) SQL
2 53 (9.93%) Python
3 22 (4.12%) C#
4 21 (3.93%) Java
4 21 (3.93%) PowerShell
5 17 (3.18%) Bash
6 13 (2.43%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.43%) MATLAB
7 10 (1.87%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.69%) Go
9 8 (1.50%) C++
10 7 (1.31%) PHP
10 7 (1.31%) Scala
11 6 (1.12%) C
11 6 (1.12%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (0.94%) Embedded C
12 5 (0.94%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.75%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.75%) VBA
14 3 (0.56%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 72 (13.48%) IRCA
2 61 (11.42%) Degree
3 36 (6.74%) Security Cleared
4 25 (4.68%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (2.62%) A+ Certification
6 14 (2.62%) CCNA
6 14 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (2.62%) MCSE
6 14 (2.62%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (2.06%) ACCA
8 10 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.69%) CIMA
10 8 (1.50%) GCIA
10 8 (1.50%) GCIH
10 8 (1.50%) GIAC
11 6 (1.12%) CREST Certified
11 6 (1.12%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.12%) GCED
11 6 (1.12%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (20.04%) QA
2 95 (17.79%) ISO 9001
3 88 (16.48%) GDPR
4 58 (10.86%) Data Quality
5 24 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (3.18%) ISO 14001
7 16 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 16 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 16 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 15 (2.81%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.50%) ARP4754
9 8 (1.50%) DO-254
9 8 (1.50%) SLA
10 7 (1.31%) GRC
10 7 (1.31%) ISO 19650
10 7 (1.31%) PCI DSS
11 6 (1.12%) ISO 8583
12 5 (0.94%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.75%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (2.43%) Docker
2 9 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.37%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) IAG
4 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (3.18%) Terraform
2 16 (3.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.69%) Grafana
4 8 (1.50%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.31%) Ansible
6 6 (1.12%) Kibana
7 4 (0.75%) QRadar
8 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.19%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 110 (20.60%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.93%) Google
3 23 (4.31%) HubSpot
4 20 (3.75%) SAP
5 15 (2.81%) Dell
5 15 (2.81%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.25%) Adobe
7 10 (1.87%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (1.87%) Oracle
7 10 (1.87%) Splunk
8 8 (1.50%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.50%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.50%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.31%) Sparx
10 6 (1.12%) Carbon Black
10 6 (1.12%) Databricks
10 6 (1.12%) Marketo
10 6 (1.12%) Pardot
11 5 (0.94%) IFS
12 4 (0.75%) VocaLink