Actionable Insight Contracts in England

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Actionable Insight skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Actionable Insight over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 516 497
Rank change year-on-year +225 -19 -54
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 273 136 309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.74% 0.28% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.31% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 92 208
10th Percentile £325 £280 £363
25th Percentile £413 £363 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% +2.56%
75th Percentile £585 £650 £650
90th Percentile £705 £740 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 10
10th Percentile £25.45 £78.50 £24.20
25th Percentile £32.00 £80.00 £35.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £85.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% +93.18% +62.96%
75th Percentile - £88.75 £59.00
90th Percentile £59.75 £89.50 £67.37
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £85.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -41.18% +93.18% +25.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Actionable Insight is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,802 44,352 63,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 31,133 45,414
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,738
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Actionable Insight as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in England

Actionable Insight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in England.

Daily rate trend for Actionable Insight in England

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in England

Actionable Insight
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in England.

Hourly rate trend for Actionable Insight in England

Actionable Insight
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Actionable Insight in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Actionable Insight in England

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Actionable Insight within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +138 136 £500 +5.26% 261
South East +52 41 £533 -11.25% 46
Midlands +63 37 £584 +21.67% 39
North of England +39 36 £413 -23.61% 54
West Midlands +48 34 £600 +25.00% 22
North West +30 20 £400 -24.88% 38
Yorkshire +25 13 £464 -14.91% 13
South West +20 10 £550 -38.89% 22
East of England +12 6 £550 +15.79% 21
East Midlands +24 3 £375 - 17
North East - 2 £513 - 3
Actionable Insight
UK

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (2.20%) Confluence
2 4 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.10%) SAS
4 2 (0.73%) Apache
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.73%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) EPiServer
Applications
1 30 (10.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.37%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.37%) InVision
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) Sketch
4 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.37%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.37%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.37%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.37%) Shopify
2 1 (0.37%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 74 (27.11%) Power Platform
2 29 (10.62%) Azure
3 24 (8.79%) Snowflake
4 15 (5.49%) AWS
5 13 (4.76%) GCP
5 13 (4.76%) Google Analytics
6 5 (1.83%) SaaS
7 4 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.47%) Google Tag Manager
7 4 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.47%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.10%) dbt
8 3 (1.10%) GitHub
8 3 (1.10%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.10%) Slack
8 3 (1.10%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.69%) Network Security
2 15 (5.49%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (3.30%) Wireless
4 1 (0.37%) DNS
4 1 (0.37%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) Intranet
4 1 (0.37%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (27.11%) Power BI
2 59 (21.61%) Tableau
3 28 (10.26%) Big Data
4 17 (6.23%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (5.13%) Data Mining
6 9 (3.30%) BigQuery
6 9 (3.30%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.93%) Metadata
8 7 (2.56%) PostHog
9 6 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.83%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (1.83%) Looker
10 5 (1.83%) Power Query
11 4 (1.47%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.47%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.10%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (1.10%) GIS
12 3 (1.10%) Qlik Sense
13 2 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (4.76%) JIRA
2 6 (2.20%) Git
3 3 (1.10%) Visual Website Optimizer
4 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 160 (58.61%) Analytical Skills
2 118 (43.22%) Social Skills
3 59 (21.61%) Finance
4 35 (12.82%) Marketing
5 23 (8.42%) Legal
6 19 (6.96%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (6.96%) Public Sector
7 16 (5.86%) Retail
8 11 (4.03%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.30%) Banking
9 9 (3.30%) Military
10 6 (2.20%) Advertising
11 5 (1.83%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.10%) Digital Healthcare
13 3 (1.10%) German Language
13 3 (1.10%) Police
13 3 (1.10%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (41.39%) Analyst
2 49 (17.95%) Data Analyst
3 28 (10.26%) Lead
4 23 (8.42%) Senior
5 21 (7.69%) Business Analyst
6 15 (5.49%) Data Scientist
6 15 (5.49%) Developer
6 15 (5.49%) User Researcher
7 13 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
8 12 (4.40%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.03%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 11 (4.03%) Consultant
10 10 (3.66%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
11 9 (3.30%) SQL Analyst
12 8 (2.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 8 (2.93%) SQL Data Analyst
13 6 (2.20%) Digital Analyst
13 6 (2.20%) Lead Data Analyst
13 6 (2.20%) Power BI Developer
14 5 (1.83%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.49%) Apache NiFi
2 8 (2.93%) Pandas
3 5 (1.83%) scikit-learn
3 5 (1.83%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.47%) PySpark
5 3 (1.10%) ADO
5 3 (1.10%) CSS
5 3 (1.10%) Flask
5 3 (1.10%) HTML
6 2 (0.73%) CSS3
6 2 (0.73%) PostGIS
6 2 (0.73%) RESTful
6 2 (0.73%) SOAP
7 1 (0.37%) JSON
7 1 (0.37%) Middleware
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.89%) Management Information System
2 19 (6.96%) Cyber Defence
3 17 (6.23%) Distributed Applications
4 16 (5.86%) Credit Risk
5 15 (5.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 14 (5.13%) Cyber Threat
7 11 (4.03%) Algorithms
8 10 (3.66%) Product Ownership
9 9 (3.30%) Data Structures
9 9 (3.30%) NHS
9 9 (3.30%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.83%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.83%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.10%) Educational Technology
13 2 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.73%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.86%) Windows
2 14 (5.13%) Linux
2 14 (5.13%) Unix
3 13 (4.76%) Android
3 13 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (47.99%) Analytics
2 95 (34.80%) Decision-Making
3 87 (31.87%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (30.04%) Business Intelligence
5 78 (28.57%) Visualisation
6 77 (28.21%) Data Analysis
7 53 (19.41%) Data Visualisation
8 52 (19.05%) Data Modelling
9 48 (17.58%) Agile
10 46 (16.85%) Data Science
11 32 (11.72%) Computer Science
12 31 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
12 31 (11.36%) Dashboard Development
12 31 (11.36%) Data Pipeline
13 30 (10.99%) Data Management
13 30 (10.99%) Project Management
14 27 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (9.52%) ETL
16 24 (8.79%) Data Analytics
16 24 (8.79%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 72 (26.37%) SQL
2 54 (19.78%) Python
3 14 (5.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (4.03%) R
5 2 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.73%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.73%) Scala
5 2 (0.73%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (0.73%) VBA
6 1 (0.37%) Java
6 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 65 (23.81%) Degree
2 31 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.06%) DV Cleared
4 19 (6.96%) Master's Degree
5 15 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.66%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.20%) CISSP
8 5 (1.83%) PhD
9 4 (1.47%) Postgraduate
10 3 (1.10%) CBAP
10 3 (1.10%) CISM
11 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.73%) CEH
11 2 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.73%) PMP
11 2 (0.73%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.37%) CCSK
12 1 (0.37%) CSPO
12 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (20.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 34 (12.45%) Data Quality
3 11 (4.03%) QA
4 10 (3.66%) GDPR
5 5 (1.83%) PMO
6 3 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.10%) SLA
7 2 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.73%) NIST
8 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.37%) GRC
8 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Vendors
1 32 (11.72%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.16%) Alteryx
3 23 (8.42%) Google
4 12 (4.40%) Red Hat
5 9 (3.30%) Databricks
6 7 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.83%) Marketo
7 5 (1.83%) SAP
7 5 (1.83%) Splunk
8 4 (1.47%) Oracle
9 3 (1.10%) Adobe
9 3 (1.10%) Pardot
10 2 (0.73%) Anaplan
10 2 (0.73%) Brio
10 2 (0.73%) ESRI
10 2 (0.73%) Informatica
10 2 (0.73%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.73%) Qualys
11 1 (0.37%) Ariba
11 1 (0.37%) Cisco