Actionable Recommendations Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Actionable Recommendations
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Actionable Recommendations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 114 146
Rank change year-on-year -6 +32 -
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 2 11 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.12% 0.52% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.57% 3.11% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £440 £468
25th Percentile £404 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £608 £500
Median % change year-on-year -32.92% +21.50% -
75th Percentile £411 £675 £525
90th Percentile - £690 £533
Central London median daily rate £408 £608 £500
% change year-on-year -32.92% +21.50% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

Actionable Recommendations falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 350 354 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.67% 16.71% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 200 325
10th Percentile £331 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £555 £588
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% -5.49% -2.08%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £695
90th Percentile £838 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £595
% change year-on-year - -7.56% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £23.83 - -
25th Percentile £26.57 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £56.75 - -
90th Percentile £75.95 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.24 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year -2.17% - -

Actionable Recommendations
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Actionable Recommendations job vacancy trend in the City of London

Actionable Recommendations
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Actionable Recommendations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Actionable Recommendations

Actionable Recommendations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SPSS
1 1 (50.00%) Stata
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 1 (50.00%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) ANOVA
2 1 (50.00%) B2B
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Focus Group
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle