Analytical Mindset Contracts

Analytical Mindset
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Mindset in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Mindset over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 405 505 704
Rank change year-on-year +100 +199 -131
Contract jobs citing Analytical Mindset 177 190 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.33% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.37% 1.00% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 123 107
10th Percentile £187 £105 £239
25th Percentile £406 £355 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £700
90th Percentile £636 £838 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £315
% change year-on-year -2.33% +70.63% -26.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 5 2
10th Percentile £11.75 £30.50 £37.75
25th Percentile £13.25 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £16.50 £62.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.60% +17.92% +51.43%
75th Percentile £19.13 £63.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £24.65 £64.05 £68.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.50 £22.16 -
% change year-on-year -34.57% - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,902 19,052 29,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.33% 33.27% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,318 13,115 20,490
10th Percentile £267 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 626 721
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -10.83%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Mindset over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Mindset over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Mindset in the UK

Analytical Mindset
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Mindset within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +101 148 £525 - 190
UK excluding London +35 87 £525 -2.33% 115
London +88 77 £525 -16.00% 77
Work from Home +99 45 £488 -7.14% 80
Midlands +18 24 £525 +5.00% 13
North of England +22 17 £550 +400.00% 42
West Midlands +19 17 £525 -20.75% 8
Scotland +43 14 £325 +195.45% 5
South West +19 14 £525 - 19
Yorkshire +24 10 £180 +63.27% 15
South East -2 10 £538 -23.21% 21
East Midlands +19 7 - - 5
North West +4 6 £575 +81.10% 22
Wales +22 4 - - 1
East of England +12 4 £400 +263.64% 14
North East +12 1 - - 5

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 8 (4.52%) Confluence
2 3 (1.69%) Appian
2 3 (1.69%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.56%) SAS
3 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (10.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (9.04%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.69%) MicroStation
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.56%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.56%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.56%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.56%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 16 (9.04%) Power Platform
2 9 (5.08%) Azure
3 8 (4.52%) GCP
3 8 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.95%) AWS
5 5 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.13%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.13%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.56%) Datadog
8 1 (0.56%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.08%) SAN
2 8 (4.52%) VPN
2 8 (4.52%) Wireless
3 3 (1.69%) Skype
4 2 (1.13%) Firewall
4 2 (1.13%) Network Security
4 2 (1.13%) SNA
5 1 (0.56%) IMAP
5 1 (0.56%) Intranet
5 1 (0.56%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.91%) Power BI
2 8 (4.52%) Metadata
3 7 (3.95%) BigQuery
3 7 (3.95%) Tableau
4 6 (3.39%) Big Data
4 6 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.69%) GIS
6 3 (1.69%) QGIS
6 3 (1.69%) Spatial Data
7 2 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.13%) DocumentDB
7 2 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.13%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.56%) Looker
8 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.56%) Power Query
8 1 (0.56%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (6.78%) JIRA
2 2 (1.13%) Appium
2 2 (1.13%) Git
2 2 (1.13%) UI Automator
2 2 (1.13%) XCUITest
3 1 (0.56%) Gradle
3 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.56%) Maven
General
1 177 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 71 (40.11%) Social Skills
3 36 (20.34%) Finance
4 27 (15.25%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.47%) Legal
6 10 (5.65%) Banking
6 10 (5.65%) Marketing
7 9 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (5.08%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.52%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.82%) Electronics
9 5 (2.82%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.26%) Law
10 4 (2.26%) Police
10 4 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.26%) Retail
11 2 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.13%) Military
12 1 (0.56%) Billing
Job Titles
1 42 (23.73%) IT Engineer
2 41 (23.16%) Analyst
2 41 (23.16%) Field Engineer
2 41 (23.16%) Field Service Engineer
3 12 (6.78%) Project Manager
4 11 (6.21%) Business Analyst
5 9 (5.08%) Data Analyst
5 9 (5.08%) Service Analyst
6 8 (4.52%) Service Desk Analyst
7 7 (3.95%) Consultant
7 7 (3.95%) Data Scientist
7 7 (3.95%) Lead
8 6 (3.39%) AML Project Manager
9 5 (2.82%) Administrator
9 5 (2.82%) Compliance Analyst
9 5 (2.82%) Data Administrator
9 5 (2.82%) Data Compliance Analyst
9 5 (2.82%) Deskside Engineer
9 5 (2.82%) Support Engineer
10 4 (2.26%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.39%) Pandas
2 5 (2.82%) scikit-learn
2 5 (2.82%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.13%) Regular Expression
3 2 (1.13%) REST
4 1 (0.56%) ADO
4 1 (0.56%) Flask
4 1 (0.56%) JSON
4 1 (0.56%) SAP TM
4 1 (0.56%) SOAP
4 1 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.08%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.52%) Hedge funds
2 8 (4.52%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.95%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.69%) Lidar
6 2 (1.13%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.13%) FMCG
6 2 (1.13%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.13%) NHS
6 2 (1.13%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.13%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.56%) Animation
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.08%) Windows
1 9 (5.08%) Windows 10
2 7 (3.95%) Windows 7
3 3 (1.69%) Android
3 3 (1.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (62.71%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (35.03%) Customer Service
3 45 (25.42%) Break/Fix
4 32 (18.08%) Project Management
5 22 (12.43%) Agile
5 22 (12.43%) Data Analysis
6 20 (11.30%) Collaborative Working
7 19 (10.73%) Decision-Making
8 18 (10.17%) Incident Management
9 17 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (9.60%) Data Modelling
10 15 (8.47%) Actionable Insight
11 14 (7.91%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (7.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (7.91%) Workflow
12 12 (6.78%) Analytics
12 12 (6.78%) Data Security
12 12 (6.78%) ITIL
12 12 (6.78%) Process Improvement
13 11 (6.21%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 21 (11.86%) SQL
2 11 (6.21%) Python
3 3 (1.69%) R
4 2 (1.13%) Java
4 2 (1.13%) Kotlin
4 2 (1.13%) Swift
5 1 (0.56%) C++
5 1 (0.56%) Scala
5 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (14.12%) Degree
2 11 (6.21%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.08%) A+ Certification
3 9 (5.08%) CCNA
3 9 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (5.08%) MCSE
3 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (5.08%) Network+ Certification
4 7 (3.95%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.39%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.82%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.82%) PMP
7 4 (2.26%) SAP Certification
8 3 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.13%) CASP
9 2 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.13%) GCED
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.78%) GDPR
2 11 (6.21%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.08%) SLA
4 8 (4.52%) QA
5 5 (2.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.69%) PMO
7 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.13%) EMIR
7 2 (1.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.56%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (0.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.34%) ServiceNow
3 12 (6.78%) SAP
4 9 (5.08%) Dell
5 6 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.82%) Splunk
7 3 (1.69%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.69%) Citrix
7 3 (1.69%) ESRI
7 3 (1.69%) Google
7 3 (1.69%) Marketo
7 3 (1.69%) Oracle
7 3 (1.69%) Pardot
7 3 (1.69%) Workday
8 2 (1.13%) LogRhythm
8 2 (1.13%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.13%) TippingPoint
8 2 (1.13%) Trend Micro
9 1 (0.56%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.56%) Yardi