Actionable Insight Contracts in Cheshire

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Actionable Insight skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Actionable Insight over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 57 61
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 12 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.67% 0.20% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 0.24% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £300 - -
25th Percentile £362 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £475
75th Percentile £542 - £488
90th Percentile £637 - -
North West median daily rate £455 £400 £504
% change year-on-year +13.75% -20.60% -28.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in Cheshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Actionable Insight in Cheshire

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in Cheshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Actionable Insight in Cheshire

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Chester - 4 - - 1
Knutsford - 4 £362 - 1
Macclesfield +15 1 £500 -
Actionable Insight
North West

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) SAP CO
1 4 (33.33%) SAP FI
1 4 (33.33%) SAP FI/CO
1 4 (33.33%) SAP HR
1 4 (33.33%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (8.33%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) DB2
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) SAP Developer
2 4 (33.33%) SAP HR Developer
3 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
4 1 (8.33%) Database Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Cloud Security
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Performance Metrics
2 5 (41.67%) Process Improvement
2 5 (41.67%) Resource Allocation
3 4 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Acquisition
3 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (33.33%) High Availability
3 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Use Case
4 2 (16.67%) Workflow
5 1 (8.33%) Business Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Economics
5 1 (8.33%) Validation
5 1 (8.33%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) ABAP
3 2 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) R
4 1 (8.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CBAP
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (8.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Google
1 4 (33.33%) SAP
1 4 (33.33%) Workday
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) Cloudera
2 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
2 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Imperva
2 1 (8.33%) Infoblox
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk