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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 260 459
Rank change year-on-year -144 +199 +62
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 477 559 358
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 1.14% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.61% 2.77% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 283 309 207
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £33,848 £34,540 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,425 £50,000 £51,693
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% -3.28% +3.39%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £71,875
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%

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 29,683 20,216 24,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.06% 41.14% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 18,536 10,087 13,167
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,010 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.68% -10.46% -4.55%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -130 449 £49,713 -0.58% 622
UK excluding London -115 340 £45,000 -10.00% 250
Work from Home -61 138 £50,000 - 235
London -66 128 £65,000 - 429
South East -71 101 £49,425 -7.18% 65
North of England -38 75 £45,000 -5.26% 53
South West -76 66 £42,500 -15.00% 41
Midlands -48 62 £45,000 +5.88% 41
West Midlands -24 42 £42,500 +16.44% 21
North West -30 39 £37,500 -16.67% 36
Yorkshire -24 27 £90,000 +89.47% 14
East Midlands -44 18 £50,000 -37.50% 20
East of England -42 15 £42,879 -1.99% 18
Scotland -10 11 £26,150 - 20
North East -53 9 £57,500 - 4
Northern Ireland -73 6 £63,750 - 12
Wales -69 4 - - 5

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 15 (3.14%) Confluence
2 12 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.84%) Apache
3 4 (0.84%) CMS
3 4 (0.84%) SAS
3 4 (0.84%) WordPress
4 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.63%) IIS
4 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.42%) Luigi
5 2 (0.42%) Tornado
Applications
1 51 (10.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (6.50%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.68%) Simulink
5 5 (1.05%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 4 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.63%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.21%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (2.52%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.47%) Shopify
3 4 (0.84%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.84%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (0.84%) JDE World
4 3 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.42%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.42%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.21%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.21%) Odoo
6 1 (0.21%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.21%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 69 (14.47%) Azure
2 49 (10.27%) Power Platform
3 43 (9.01%) SaaS
4 39 (8.18%) AWS
5 33 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (6.29%) GCP
7 24 (5.03%) Google Analytics
8 16 (3.35%) PowerApps
9 15 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.31%) Google Ads
11 10 (2.10%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (1.89%) Copilot Studio
12 9 (1.89%) Entra ID
12 9 (1.89%) Power Automate
13 7 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.47%) dbt
13 7 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.26%) Canva
15 5 (1.05%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 12 (2.52%) HTTP
2 12 (2.52%) LAN
2 12 (2.52%) SAN
2 12 (2.52%) WAN
3 9 (1.89%) DNS
3 9 (1.89%) SMS
4 8 (1.68%) Firewall
4 8 (1.68%) VPN
4 8 (1.68%) Wireshark
5 6 (1.26%) FTP
5 6 (1.26%) Internet
5 6 (1.26%) SMTP
6 5 (1.05%) Unified Communications
6 5 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.84%) ATM
7 4 (0.84%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.84%) NAS
7 4 (0.84%) Wireless
8 2 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.18%) Power BI
2 18 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (2.52%) Tableau
4 10 (2.10%) Relational Database
4 10 (2.10%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.68%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (1.47%) GIS
6 7 (1.47%) Metadata
6 7 (1.47%) MySQL
7 6 (1.26%) Looker
7 6 (1.26%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.05%) Big Data
8 5 (1.05%) Power Query
9 3 (0.63%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.63%) NonStop SQL
9 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (4.82%) JIRA
2 14 (2.94%) Git
3 12 (2.52%) Eclipse
4 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.63%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.42%) ERwin
5 2 (0.42%) Ranorex
5 2 (0.42%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.42%) Selenium
5 2 (0.42%) TestRail
5 2 (0.42%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.21%) GitLab
6 1 (0.21%) JMeter
6 1 (0.21%) Postman
6 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 477 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 237 (49.69%) Social Skills
3 136 (28.51%) Finance
4 65 (13.63%) Marketing
5 39 (8.18%) Organisational Skills
6 36 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (7.13%) Public Sector
8 22 (4.61%) Manufacturing
9 21 (4.40%) Legal
9 21 (4.40%) Retail
10 19 (3.98%) Electronics
11 16 (3.35%) Advertising
11 16 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (2.94%) Law
14 12 (2.52%) Aerospace
15 10 (2.10%) Financial Institution
16 9 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
17 8 (1.68%) Local Government
18 7 (1.47%) Brand Awareness
Job Titles
1 98 (20.55%) Analyst
2 42 (8.81%) Lead
3 37 (7.76%) Senior
4 28 (5.87%) Developer
5 25 (5.24%) Business Analyst
6 24 (5.03%) Head of QA
7 21 (4.40%) Support Analyst
8 20 (4.19%) Data Analyst
9 17 (3.56%) IT Engineer
10 13 (2.73%) Compliance Manager
10 13 (2.73%) Product Owner
11 12 (2.52%) Field Engineer
11 12 (2.52%) Field Service Engineer
11 12 (2.52%) Junior
11 12 (2.52%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (2.31%) Architect
12 11 (2.31%) Coordinator
12 11 (2.31%) IT Support
12 11 (2.31%) Senior Manager
12 11 (2.31%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.77%) JSON
2 14 (2.94%) .NET
3 13 (2.73%) HTML
4 12 (2.52%) CSS
5 9 (1.89%) Kafka
5 9 (1.89%) RESTful
6 8 (1.68%) REST
7 7 (1.47%) Terraform
8 6 (1.26%) LDAP
8 6 (1.26%) Spring
8 6 (1.26%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.05%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.05%) XML
10 4 (0.84%) PyTorch
10 4 (0.84%) TensorFlow
11 3 (0.63%) React
12 2 (0.42%) Flask
12 2 (0.42%) Pandas
12 2 (0.42%) Playwright
12 2 (0.42%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.29%) Onboarding
2 23 (4.82%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.61%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.98%) Cyber Threat
5 18 (3.77%) Cloud Native
5 18 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (2.94%) Driving Licence
7 14 (2.94%) Social Media
8 13 (2.73%) Cyber Defence
9 12 (2.52%) Data Centre
10 11 (2.31%) Blog
11 9 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.68%) Credit Risk
12 8 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.68%) SCADA
12 8 (1.68%) Web Conferencing
13 7 (1.47%) Educational Technology
13 7 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.47%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 31 (6.50%) Windows
2 15 (3.14%) Linux
3 12 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.84%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (0.42%) Android
5 2 (0.42%) Debian
5 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 132 (27.67%) Analytics
3 123 (25.79%) Problem-Solving
4 106 (22.22%) Agile
5 95 (19.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 83 (17.40%) Decision-Making
7 74 (15.51%) AI
8 63 (13.21%) Actionable Insight
9 60 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 58 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
11 51 (10.69%) CRM
12 49 (10.27%) Root Cause Analysis
13 45 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
13 45 (9.43%) Roadmaps
14 44 (9.22%) Customer Experience
15 42 (8.81%) Validation
16 40 (8.39%) Process Improvement
17 38 (7.97%) Change Management
17 38 (7.97%) DevOps
17 38 (7.97%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 98 (20.55%) SQL
2 43 (9.01%) Python
3 28 (5.87%) Java
4 22 (4.61%) C#
5 20 (4.19%) MATLAB
6 16 (3.35%) PowerShell
7 14 (2.94%) C
8 12 (2.52%) Embedded C
9 11 (2.31%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.10%) JavaScript
11 8 (1.68%) Bash
12 7 (1.47%) C++
12 7 (1.47%) PHP
12 7 (1.47%) Scala
13 6 (1.26%) Search Processing Language
14 5 (1.05%) Go
14 5 (1.05%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.84%) Embedded C++
16 3 (0.63%) COBOL
16 3 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 69 (14.47%) Degree
2 44 (9.22%) Security Cleared
3 28 (5.87%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.03%) IRCA
5 14 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (2.52%) A+ Certification
6 12 (2.52%) CCNA
6 12 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (2.52%) MCSE
6 12 (2.52%) Network+ Certification
7 10 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.68%) ACCA
8 8 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.26%) CIMA
9 6 (1.26%) CREST Certified
9 6 (1.26%) GCED
9 6 (1.26%) GCIA
9 6 (1.26%) GCIH
9 6 (1.26%) GIAC
9 6 (1.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (13.84%) QA
2 64 (13.42%) Data Quality
3 42 (8.81%) ISO 9001
4 41 (8.60%) GDPR
5 25 (5.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 13 (2.73%) ISO 14001
6 13 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 11 (2.31%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.68%) ARP4754
8 8 (1.68%) DO-254
9 6 (1.26%) ISO 8583
9 6 (1.26%) SLA
10 5 (1.05%) COBIT
10 5 (1.05%) GRC
10 5 (1.05%) ISO 19650
10 5 (1.05%) NIST
10 5 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 5 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (2.10%) Firmware
2 9 (1.89%) Docker
3 8 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.68%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.21%) IAG
Systems Management
1 10 (2.10%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.26%) Ansible
2 6 (1.26%) Kibana
2 6 (1.26%) QRadar
3 2 (0.42%) Argo
3 2 (0.42%) Grafana
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.21%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.21%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 107 (22.43%) Microsoft
2 51 (10.69%) Google
3 23 (4.82%) HubSpot
4 19 (3.98%) SAP
5 14 (2.94%) Adobe
6 13 (2.73%) Dell
7 12 (2.52%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.52%) Splunk
8 10 (2.10%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (1.89%) Oracle
10 7 (1.47%) Facebook
10 7 (1.47%) Instagram
11 6 (1.26%) ArcSight
11 6 (1.26%) Carbon Black
11 6 (1.26%) Marketo
11 6 (1.26%) Pardot
11 6 (1.26%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.26%) YouTube
12 5 (1.05%) Cisco
12 5 (1.05%) Databricks