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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 116 120
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +47
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 3 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.35% 0.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.70% 1.96% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £329 £481
25th Percentile £463 - £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £638
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -37.25% +21.43%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £706
90th Percentile - - £763
Central London median daily rate £475 £400 £638
% change year-on-year +18.75% -37.25% +21.43%

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 426 306 365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.97% 18.02% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 210 263
10th Percentile £350 £393 £363
25th Percentile £433 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +3.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £650
90th Percentile £750 £811 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -8.30% +4.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £19.23 - £16.78
25th Percentile £22.24 - £17.96
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +6.77% -
75th Percentile £52.25 - £22.65
90th Percentile £66.95 - £23.46
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £22.50 £23.40
% change year-on-year +16.04% -3.85% -6.40%

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Google Workspace
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
1 2 (66.67%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Information Assurance
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) JSP 440
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce