Actionable Insight Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 83 107 172
Rank change year-on-year +24 +65 +6
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 36 20 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.05% 0.91% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 1.01% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 5
10th Percentile £318 £340 £329
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -15.56%
75th Percentile £550 £800 £488
90th Percentile £593 - £525
Central London median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Actionable Insight as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in the City of London

Actionable Insight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Actionable Insight in the City of London

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the City of London

Actionable Insight
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Actionable Insight in the City of London

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) IIS
3 1 (2.78%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (38.89%) Power Platform
2 8 (22.22%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) Azure
4 3 (8.33%) Snowflake
5 2 (5.56%) dbt
5 2 (5.56%) GCP
5 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.78%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (2.78%) Alation
6 1 (2.78%) Apigee
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub
6 1 (2.78%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.78%) Google Sheets
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (38.89%) Tableau
2 12 (33.33%) Power BI
3 7 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (11.11%) Data Mining
4 4 (11.11%) MySQL
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (8.33%) BigQuery
5 3 (8.33%) Oracle Database
5 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.56%) Hadoop
6 2 (5.56%) Looker
6 2 (5.56%) Metadata
6 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (2.78%) Data Vault
7 1 (2.78%) MS Access
7 1 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) Git
3 2 (5.56%) GitLab
4 1 (2.78%) JMeter
4 1 (2.78%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.78%) Terragrunt
4 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (52.78%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 8 (22.22%) Finance
4 6 (16.67%) Banking
5 5 (13.89%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
6 4 (11.11%) Marketing
6 4 (11.11%) Police
6 4 (11.11%) Retail
7 2 (5.56%) Financial Institution
7 2 (5.56%) Front Office
7 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Advertising
8 1 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.78%) Electronics
8 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) Business Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) Data Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Data Scientist
3 4 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
4 3 (8.33%) SharePoint Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Tableau Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Database Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Front Office Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Senior User Experience Researcher
5 2 (5.56%) User Experience Researcher
6 1 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Data Manager
6 1 (2.78%) Python Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Report Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) SPFx
1 3 (8.33%) TensorFlow
2 2 (5.56%) Kafka
2 2 (5.56%) Pandas
2 2 (5.56%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.78%) CSS
3 1 (2.78%) FHIR
3 1 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (2.78%) HTML
3 1 (2.78%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.78%) PySpark
3 1 (2.78%) Swagger
3 1 (2.78%) Visualforce
3 1 (2.78%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.56%) Equities
2 2 (5.56%) Fixed Income
2 2 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.56%) Multi-touch
3 1 (2.78%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.78%) NHS
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Visualisation
2 15 (41.67%) Analytics
3 14 (38.89%) Data Visualisation
4 13 (36.11%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (33.33%) Agile
5 12 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 11 (30.56%) Data Science
7 9 (25.00%) Data Analysis
8 7 (19.44%) Data Integration
8 7 (19.44%) Data Modelling
9 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (16.67%) Data Management
9 6 (16.67%) ETL
9 6 (16.67%) Machine Learning
10 5 (13.89%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (13.89%) Data Analytics
10 5 (13.89%) Data Governance
10 5 (13.89%) High Availability
10 5 (13.89%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) Python
1 18 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (5.56%) R
3 1 (2.78%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.78%) Java
3 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Degree
2 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.56%) CFA
4 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.56%) MBA
4 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.78%) CBAP
5 1 (2.78%) PhD
5 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Actionable Recommendations
1 5 (13.89%) GDPR
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.78%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.78%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
1 5 (13.89%) Oracle
2 3 (8.33%) Ab Initio
2 3 (8.33%) Google
3 2 (5.56%) Databricks
3 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) Adobe
4 1 (2.78%) Cegedim Rx
4 1 (2.78%) HP
4 1 (2.78%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow