Actionable Insight Contract Job Trends in Central London

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 99 128
Rank change year-on-year +29 +29 +59
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 61 34 17
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.07% 1.46% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 1.58% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 25 9
10th Percentile £279 £399 £364
25th Percentile £374 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £560 £514
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +8.95% +3.32%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £800
90th Percentile £738 £703 £808
London median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,806 2,147 2,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.85% 92.07% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,266 1,344 1,757
10th Percentile £343 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
London median daily rate £530 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 16
10th Percentile £19.94 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £36.00 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £51.25 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Actionable Insight relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Actionable Insight job vacancy trend in Central London

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in Central London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in Central London

Actionable Insight
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Actionable Insight.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
City of London +27 58 £500 -4.76% 15
Kensington and Chelsea +1 1 £450 -
West End of London - 1 - - 3
Actionable Insight
London

Actionable Insight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (1.64%) Confluence
1 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (19.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.64%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.70%) Power Platform
2 8 (13.11%) Azure
3 6 (9.84%) GCP
4 4 (6.56%) Azure Machine Learning
5 3 (4.92%) AWS
5 3 (4.92%) Cloud Functions
5 3 (4.92%) SaaS
6 2 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.28%) GitHub
6 2 (3.28%) Miro
7 1 (1.64%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.64%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.64%) Figma
7 1 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.64%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) DNS
2 1 (1.64%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (37.70%) Power BI
2 7 (11.48%) Tableau
3 4 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.92%) BigQuery
4 3 (4.92%) Mixpanel
4 3 (4.92%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.28%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.28%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (3.28%) Power Query
5 2 (3.28%) Spatial Data
5 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.64%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.64%) Looker
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.64%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 3 (4.92%) JIRA
1 3 (4.92%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 1 (1.64%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (1.64%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.64%) Jaeger
2 1 (1.64%) Metasploit
2 1 (1.64%) MLflow
General
1 27 (44.26%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (39.34%) Social Skills
3 18 (29.51%) Finance
4 9 (14.75%) Banking
4 9 (14.75%) Public Sector
5 8 (13.11%) Marketing
6 3 (4.92%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Retail
7 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) French Language
7 1 (1.64%) Games
7 1 (1.64%) German Language
7 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Legal
7 1 (1.64%) Local Government
7 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (31.15%) Analyst
2 11 (18.03%) Data Analyst
3 9 (14.75%) Data Scientist
4 8 (13.11%) Senior
5 3 (4.92%) Consultant
5 3 (4.92%) Conversion Specialist
5 3 (4.92%) Data Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Security Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (4.92%) Senior Data Scientist
6 2 (3.28%) Architect
6 2 (3.28%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.28%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.28%) Developer
6 2 (3.28%) Monitoring Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Transformation Analyst
6 2 (3.28%) User Experience Researcher
7 1 (1.64%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) scikit-learn
2 3 (4.92%) CSS
2 3 (4.92%) HTML
2 3 (4.92%) NumPy
2 3 (4.92%) Pandas
3 2 (3.28%) PyTorch
3 2 (3.28%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.64%) .NET
4 1 (1.64%) ADO
4 1 (1.64%) Kafka
4 1 (1.64%) Loki
4 1 (1.64%) Matplotlib
4 1 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.64%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.20%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (6.56%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.56%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.64%) Clustering
5 1 (1.64%) CMDB
5 1 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.64%) Media Streaming
5 1 (1.64%) NHS
5 1 (1.64%) Online Games
5 1 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.28%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (42.62%) Analytics
2 23 (37.70%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (29.51%) Visualisation
4 16 (26.23%) Data Analysis
5 15 (24.59%) Decision-Making
6 13 (21.31%) Data Modelling
7 12 (19.67%) AI
7 12 (19.67%) Data Governance
7 12 (19.67%) Roadmaps
8 11 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (16.39%) Data Science
9 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (16.39%) Storytelling
10 9 (14.75%) Machine Learning
11 8 (13.11%) Agile
11 8 (13.11%) Data Visualisation
12 7 (11.48%) ETL
12 7 (11.48%) Generative AI
12 7 (11.48%) User Experience
13 6 (9.84%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 18 (29.51%) SQL
2 17 (27.87%) Python
3 5 (8.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.28%) Go
5 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.64%) Bash
6 1 (1.64%) Java
6 1 (1.64%) Perl
6 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.64%) R
6 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.84%) Degree
3 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.64%) ACCA
4 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.64%) CEH
4 1 (1.64%) CFA
4 1 (1.64%) CIMA
4 1 (1.64%) CISM
4 1 (1.64%) CISSP
4 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.64%) IIBA
4 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.31%) Data Quality
2 7 (11.48%) GDPR
3 3 (4.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (3.28%) NIST
4 2 (3.28%) SLA
5 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.64%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) Grafana
1 2 (3.28%) Terraform
2 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Nessus
2 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.11%) Google
3 4 (6.56%) Hotjar
3 4 (6.56%) Splunk
4 3 (4.92%) Amplitude
4 3 (4.92%) Optimizely
4 3 (4.92%) Oracle
5 2 (3.28%) Adobe
5 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.64%) Databricks
6 1 (1.64%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.64%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.64%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.64%) Marketo
6 1 (1.64%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.64%) Progress
6 1 (1.64%) Qualtrics
6 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.64%) Tenable