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 have cited Analytical Mindset over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 702 744
Rank change year-on-year +202 +42 -66
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 450 281 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.28% 0.65% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 296 181 221
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,427 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,100 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,313 £71,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £95,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +5.88%

All Generic Skills
UK

Analytical Mindset is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,065 43,146 75,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.71% 47.68%
Number of salaries quoted 23,057 23,446 33,908
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,014 £34,513
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Analytical Mindset
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytical Mindset as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analytical Mindset.

Salary trend for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytical Mindset over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Top 16 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 10 May 2024. 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 +217 399 £42,500 -15.00% 175
UK excluding London +98 308 £42,500 -15.00% 114
South East +77 119 £47,500 +6.15% 16
Work from Home +94 118 £50,000 -13.04% 71
London +148 117 £58,750 +4.91% 70
South West +12 46 £40,000 -23.81% 17
North of England +30 45 £37,500 -16.67% 40
Midlands +7 44 £29,000 -42.00% 14
North West +3 29 £37,500 -16.67% 24
West Midlands +9 28 £35,000 -22.22% 10
East of England +32 24 £42,500 -34.62% 12
Scotland -44 20 £62,500 +155.10% 12
Yorkshire +88 16 £38,810 -13.76% 12
East Midlands -2 16 £29,000 -55.38% 4
Wales -3 6 £50,000 +11.11% 2
Isle of Man - 4 - - 2

Analytical Mindset
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.44%) Apache
4 2 (0.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) IIS
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 61 (13.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.11%) OrCAD
3 5 (1.11%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.22%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Shopify
2 2 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.44%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.44%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.22%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.22%) iTrent
3 1 (0.22%) JDE OneWorld
3 1 (0.22%) JDE World
3 1 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (15.33%) Power Platform
2 50 (11.11%) Azure
3 29 (6.44%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (5.78%) AWS
5 15 (3.33%) SaaS
6 12 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (1.78%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (1.56%) GCP
8 7 (1.56%) Power Automate
8 7 (1.56%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.11%) Google Analytics
10 4 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.67%) Amazon Ads
11 3 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.67%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.67%) Google Ads
11 3 (0.67%) Serverless
11 3 (0.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.33%) Ethernet
2 11 (2.44%) RS-232
3 9 (2.00%) DNS
4 8 (1.78%) Intranet
5 7 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (1.56%) Firewall
6 5 (1.11%) HTTP
7 4 (0.89%) Profibus
7 4 (0.89%) WAN
8 3 (0.67%) LAN
8 3 (0.67%) Network Security
8 3 (0.67%) SAN
8 3 (0.67%) SMTP
8 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.44%) Cisco IPT
9 2 (0.44%) DHCP
9 2 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.44%) VPN
10 1 (0.22%) HSRP
10 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (12.22%) Power BI
2 20 (4.44%) Tableau
3 10 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.56%) Spotfire
4 7 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (0.89%) Big Data
5 4 (0.89%) PowerPivot
5 4 (0.89%) QlikView
6 3 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.67%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.67%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.44%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.44%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.44%) DB2
7 2 (0.44%) Looker
7 2 (0.44%) Redis
7 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (1.78%) Git
1 8 (1.78%) JIRA
2 7 (1.56%) RStudio
3 5 (1.11%) LabVIEW
4 3 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) Bugzilla
5 1 (0.22%) Selenium
5 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.22%) WebDriver
General
1 450 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 242 (53.78%) Social Skills
3 95 (21.11%) Marketing
4 77 (17.11%) Retail
5 72 (16.00%) Finance
6 61 (13.56%) Advertising
7 53 (11.78%) German Language
8 52 (11.56%) Manufacturing
9 29 (6.44%) Electronics
9 29 (6.44%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (5.78%) Legal
12 20 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (3.56%) Public Sector
14 15 (3.33%) Law
15 14 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (2.44%) Aerospace
17 9 (2.00%) Banking
17 9 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
18 5 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 103 (22.89%) Analyst
2 58 (12.89%) Graduate
3 33 (7.33%) Lead
4 32 (7.11%) Senior
5 28 (6.22%) Developer
6 22 (4.89%) Data Analyst
7 18 (4.00%) Software Engineer
8 17 (3.78%) Architect
9 14 (3.11%) IT Support
9 14 (3.11%) Product Manager
10 13 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (2.67%) Data Manager
11 12 (2.67%) Data Steward
12 11 (2.44%) Applications Support
12 11 (2.44%) Support Analyst
13 10 (2.22%) Applications Support Analyst
13 10 (2.22%) Consultant
13 10 (2.22%) IT Analyst
13 10 (2.22%) Junior
13 10 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.22%) .NET
1 10 (2.22%) HTML
2 4 (0.89%) ARM Templates
2 4 (0.89%) CSS
2 4 (0.89%) JSON
3 3 (0.67%) Django
3 3 (0.67%) Flask
3 3 (0.67%) Guice
3 3 (0.67%) Hibernate
3 3 (0.67%) RESTful
3 3 (0.67%) Spring
3 3 (0.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (0.67%) Web Services
4 2 (0.44%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.44%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (0.44%) COM
4 2 (0.44%) EDI
4 2 (0.44%) Entity Framework
4 2 (0.44%) Memcached
4 2 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.89%) Social Media
2 52 (11.56%) Photography
3 33 (7.33%) Management Information System
4 31 (6.89%) Algorithms
5 23 (5.11%) Analogue Electronics
6 22 (4.89%) Product Ownership
7 21 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (4.22%) Data Structures
9 18 (4.00%) FPGA
10 15 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
11 12 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (2.67%) VHDL
12 9 (2.00%) Fibre Optics
12 9 (2.00%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.56%) Biopharmaceutical
13 7 (1.56%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.56%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.56%) Robotics
14 6 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
15 4 (0.89%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.00%) Linux
2 17 (3.78%) Windows
3 6 (1.33%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.89%) Android
6 2 (0.44%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.44%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.44%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.44%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (48.22%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 71 (15.78%) Analytics
4 69 (15.33%) Project Management
5 56 (12.44%) Agile
6 55 (12.22%) Business Intelligence
6 55 (12.22%) Strategic Planning
7 54 (12.00%) Decision-Making
8 53 (11.78%) Computer Science
9 49 (10.89%) Mathematics
10 43 (9.56%) Physics
11 41 (9.11%) ERP
12 39 (8.67%) Customer Service
13 32 (7.11%) Data Analysis
14 31 (6.89%) Roadmaps
15 29 (6.44%) Collaborative Working
15 29 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
16 28 (6.22%) E-Commerce
16 28 (6.22%) Stakeholder Management
17 26 (5.78%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 56 (12.44%) SQL
2 50 (11.11%) Python
3 38 (8.44%) C
4 24 (5.33%) Java
5 23 (5.11%) C++
6 17 (3.78%) C#
6 17 (3.78%) Fortran
7 12 (2.67%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (1.33%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.33%) R
9 4 (0.89%) Bicep
9 4 (0.89%) Embedded C++
10 3 (0.67%) Scala
11 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.44%) RPG
11 2 (0.44%) Tcl
12 1 (0.22%) Ruby
12 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 171 (38.00%) Degree
2 63 (14.00%) DBS Check
3 31 (6.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 30 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 30 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 29 (6.44%) PhD
6 22 (4.89%) Master's Degree
7 19 (4.22%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (2.67%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.00%) CISSP
11 7 (1.56%) A+ Certification
11 7 (1.56%) CCNP
11 7 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (1.33%) CCNA
12 6 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.89%) CEH
13 4 (0.89%) CISM
14 3 (0.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.00%) QA
2 21 (4.67%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.00%) GDPR
6 4 (0.89%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (0.89%) ISO 13485
6 4 (0.89%) NIST
6 4 (0.89%) SLA
7 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.44%) MISRA
7 2 (0.44%) MISRA C
7 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.44%) WCAG
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.22%) JTAG
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (2.67%) Firmware
2 9 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (1.33%) QRadar
2 4 (0.89%) Terraform
3 3 (0.67%) Ansible
3 3 (0.67%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.22%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 101 (22.44%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.11%) Splunk
3 10 (2.22%) Google
4 9 (2.00%) IBM
4 9 (2.00%) Meraki
5 8 (1.78%) Cisco
6 7 (1.56%) Alteryx
6 7 (1.56%) ForeScout
7 6 (1.33%) Canon
7 6 (1.33%) McAfee
7 6 (1.33%) Rapid7
7 6 (1.33%) SAP
8 5 (1.11%) Apple
8 5 (1.11%) VMware
9 4 (0.89%) Oracle
9 4 (0.89%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.67%) Cadence
10 3 (0.67%) Criteo
10 3 (0.67%) Dell
10 3 (0.67%) Facebook