Actionable Insight Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 0.88% 1.03% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
East of England median daily rate £538 £500 £375
% change year-on-year +7.50% +33.33% +7.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Actionable Insight falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 205 158 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 90.71% 81.44% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 85 80
10th Percentile £185 £253 £281
25th Percentile £450 £425 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £616 £568 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £626
East of England median daily rate £500 £446 £500
% change year-on-year +12.11% -10.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 18 3
10th Percentile £37.90 £37.88 £53.00
25th Percentile £62.06 £51.18 £53.75
Median hourly rate £80.00 £58.45 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.87% +6.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £60.25
90th Percentile - £69.73 £61.90
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -37.13% +101.92% -3.37%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in Bedfordshire

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Actionable Insight.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
Luton -8 2 £550 - 3
Actionable Insight
East of England

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Cognos Report Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) DataStage
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Cognos Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Quality Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Assurance
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cognos
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle