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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 115 135
Rank change year-on-year -5 +20 -
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 4 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.30% 0.081%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.03% 1.94% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £289 £503 -
25th Percentile £332 £561 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £591 £475
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +24.47% -
75th Percentile £461 £662 £488
90th Percentile £490 £694 -
Central London median daily rate £408 £591 £475
% change year-on-year -31.08% +24.47% -

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 387 310 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.08% 15.36% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 168 291
10th Percentile £325 £322 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £566 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% -1.52% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £680
90th Percentile £825 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £26.51 - -
25th Percentile £26.54 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +271.79%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile £34.30 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.34 £28.75 £72.50
% change year-on-year -8.38% -60.34% +271.79%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Recommendations in the City of London

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 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (25.00%) Business Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Service Design
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow