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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 714 764
Rank change year-on-year +210 +50 -96
Permanent jobs citing Analytical Mindset 450 282 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.29% 0.64% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 294 182 227
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,750 £29,600
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,427 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,200 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,938 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £74,625 £94,875 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,750 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.50% +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 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
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 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £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 3 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 3 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 +210 399 £42,500 -15.00% 180
UK excluding London +124 312 £40,750 -18.50% 115
Work from Home +125 119 £47,500 -20.83% 75
South East +79 119 £50,000 +3.09% 19
London +145 113 £65,000 +18.18% 73
North of England +34 47 £37,500 -16.67% 38
South West +11 46 £40,000 -23.81% 18
Midlands +40 45 £29,000 -42.00% 21
West Midlands +30 29 £32,500 -14.75% 13
North West +6 29 £37,500 -16.67% 19
East of England +29 25 £42,500 -34.62% 9
Scotland -51 19 £52,850 +115.71% 7
Yorkshire +81 18 £35,500 -21.11% 14
East Midlands +8 16 £29,000 -55.38% 8
Wales -2 7 £50,000 +11.11% 3
Isle of Man - 4 - - 1

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%) Confluence
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 62 (13.78%) 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 48 (10.67%) 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%) Google Ads
11 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.67%) Serverless
11 3 (0.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.33%) Ethernet
2 11 (2.44%) RS-232
3 8 (1.78%) DNS
3 8 (1.78%) Intranet
4 7 (1.56%) Firewall
5 6 (1.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (1.33%) HTTP
6 5 (1.11%) WAN
7 4 (0.89%) LAN
7 4 (0.89%) Network Security
7 4 (0.89%) Profibus
7 4 (0.89%) SMTP
7 4 (0.89%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.67%) SAN
8 3 (0.67%) VPN
9 2 (0.44%) DHCP
9 2 (0.44%) FTP
9 2 (0.44%) Internet
9 2 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.44%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (12.22%) Power BI
2 20 (4.44%) Tableau
3 9 (2.00%) 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%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.89%) PowerPivot
5 4 (0.89%) QlikView
6 3 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.67%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.67%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.67%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.67%) Looker
7 2 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.44%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.44%) DB2
7 2 (0.44%) Redis
7 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.22%) MS Access
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
2 241 (53.56%) Social Skills
3 95 (21.11%) Marketing
4 78 (17.33%) Retail
5 72 (16.00%) Finance
6 61 (13.56%) Advertising
7 53 (11.78%) German Language
8 51 (11.33%) Manufacturing
9 30 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (6.22%) Electronics
10 28 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (5.33%) 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%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (1.78%) Banking
19 5 (1.11%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 103 (22.89%) Analyst
2 58 (12.89%) Graduate
3 33 (7.33%) Lead
3 33 (7.33%) Senior
4 27 (6.00%) Developer
5 22 (4.89%) Data Analyst
6 18 (4.00%) Software Engineer
7 17 (3.78%) Architect
8 14 (3.11%) IT Support
8 14 (3.11%) Product Manager
9 13 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (2.67%) Data Manager
10 12 (2.67%) Data Steward
11 11 (2.44%) Applications Support
11 11 (2.44%) Support Analyst
12 10 (2.22%) Applications Support Analyst
12 10 (2.22%) Consultant
12 10 (2.22%) IT Analyst
12 10 (2.22%) Junior
12 10 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.00%) HTML
2 8 (1.78%) .NET
3 4 (0.89%) ARM Templates
3 4 (0.89%) CSS
4 3 (0.67%) Django
4 3 (0.67%) Flask
4 3 (0.67%) Guice
4 3 (0.67%) Hibernate
4 3 (0.67%) JSON
4 3 (0.67%) RESTful
4 3 (0.67%) Spring
4 3 (0.67%) Spring Boot
4 3 (0.67%) Web Services
5 2 (0.44%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.44%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (0.44%) Entity Framework
5 2 (0.44%) HTML5
5 2 (0.44%) Memcached
5 2 (0.44%) Tapestry
5 2 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (12.89%) Social Media
2 52 (11.56%) Photography
3 33 (7.33%) Management Information System
4 32 (7.11%) Algorithms
5 24 (5.33%) 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 16 (3.56%) Cyber Threat
11 13 (2.89%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (2.89%) VHDL
12 10 (2.22%) Onboarding
13 9 (2.00%) Fibre Optics
14 7 (1.56%) Biopharmaceutical
14 7 (1.56%) Data Centre
14 7 (1.56%) Driving Licence
14 7 (1.56%) Robotics
15 6 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
16 4 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.56%) Linux
2 14 (3.11%) Windows
3 5 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.44%) Android
5 2 (0.44%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.44%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.44%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.44%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (48.67%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 72 (16.00%) Analytics
4 70 (15.56%) Project Management
5 56 (12.44%) Agile
5 56 (12.44%) Business Intelligence
6 55 (12.22%) Decision-Making
6 55 (12.22%) Strategic Planning
7 54 (12.00%) Computer Science
8 50 (11.11%) Mathematics
9 44 (9.78%) Physics
10 41 (9.11%) ERP
11 39 (8.67%) Customer Service
12 32 (7.11%) Data Analysis
13 31 (6.89%) Roadmaps
14 30 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
15 28 (6.22%) E-Commerce
16 27 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
16 27 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
17 26 (5.78%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 57 (12.67%) SQL
2 49 (10.89%) Python
3 38 (8.44%) C
4 23 (5.11%) Java
5 22 (4.89%) C++
6 17 (3.78%) Fortran
7 15 (3.33%) C#
8 11 (2.44%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (1.33%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.33%) R
10 4 (0.89%) Bicep
10 4 (0.89%) Embedded C++
11 3 (0.67%) Scala
12 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.44%) RPG
12 2 (0.44%) Tcl
13 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%) PhD
4 30 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 30 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 22 (4.89%) Master's Degree
6 19 (4.22%) Azure Certification
6 19 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.89%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (2.00%) CISSP
10 7 (1.56%) A+ Certification
10 7 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (1.33%) CCNA
11 6 (1.33%) CCNP
11 6 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (0.89%) CEH
12 4 (0.89%) CISM
13 3 (0.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.00%) QA
2 22 (4.89%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.00%) GDPR
5 4 (0.89%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 4 (0.89%) ISO 13485
5 4 (0.89%) NIST
5 4 (0.89%) SLA
6 2 (0.44%) MISRA
6 2 (0.44%) MISRA C
6 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.44%) WCAG
7 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (2.44%) Firmware
2 8 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.11%) Terraform
2 4 (0.89%) QRadar
3 3 (0.67%) Ansible
3 3 (0.67%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.22%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.22%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 101 (22.44%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.89%) Splunk
3 10 (2.22%) Google
4 9 (2.00%) Cisco
5 8 (1.78%) Alteryx
5 8 (1.78%) IBM
5 8 (1.78%) Meraki
6 6 (1.33%) Canon
6 6 (1.33%) ForeScout
6 6 (1.33%) McAfee
6 6 (1.33%) Rapid7
6 6 (1.33%) SAP
7 5 (1.11%) Apple
7 5 (1.11%) VMware
8 4 (0.89%) Oracle
8 4 (0.89%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.67%) Cadence
9 3 (0.67%) Dell
9 3 (0.67%) Facebook
9 3 (0.67%) IFS