Actionable Insight Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 74 101
Rank change year-on-year -4 +27 +40
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 27 11 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.69% 0.97% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.15% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 5
10th Percentile £438 £395 -
25th Percentile £469 £438 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% +53.06%
75th Percentile £587 £575 £560
90th Percentile £675 £718 £584
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.21 -
England median hourly rate £31.23 £26.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +20.12% +36.84% -69.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,350 956 1,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.38% 84.01% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 411 795
10th Percentile £187 £231 £247
25th Percentile £363 £338 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £585 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 184 359
10th Percentile £14.15 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +40.78% -3.14%
75th Percentile £60.96 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Actionable Insight relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Actionable Insight job vacancy trend in the East of England

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Actionable Insight.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in the East of England

Actionable Insight
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Actionable Insight.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Cambridgeshire +3 12 £635 +18.14% 19
Hertfordshire -10 10 £539 -36.59% 33
Bedfordshire -8 3 £500 +14.29% 17
Essex -6 1 £500 +11.11% 28
Norfolk - 1 - - 10
Actionable Insight
England

Actionable Insight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Jupyter
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) AWS
1 7 (25.93%) Power Platform
2 6 (22.22%) Azure
3 5 (18.52%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (14.81%) GCP
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.41%) Slack
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Power BI
2 6 (22.22%) Tableau
3 1 (3.70%) Cognos Framework Manager
3 1 (3.70%) Cognos Report Studio
3 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) DataStage
3 1 (3.70%) DB2
3 1 (3.70%) Metadata
3 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (3.70%) Gatling
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) JMeter
2 1 (3.70%) LoadRunner
2 1 (3.70%) MLflow
General
1 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Consultant
2 5 (18.52%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Security Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Cyber Threat Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Developer
3 2 (7.41%) Lead
3 2 (7.41%) Senior
3 2 (7.41%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Business Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Data Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) QA Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Security Consultant
4 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) NumPy
1 1 (3.70%) Pandas
1 1 (3.70%) PyTorch
1 1 (3.70%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (22.22%) Onboarding
3 4 (14.81%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 3 (11.11%) Security Posture
5 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.70%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (3.70%) Genomics
6 1 (3.70%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
2 9 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 9 (33.33%) Migration
2 9 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 9 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 8 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (29.63%) Incident Response
4 7 (25.93%) Data Visualisation
4 7 (25.93%) Decision-Making
4 7 (25.93%) Visualisation
5 5 (18.52%) Analytics
5 5 (18.52%) Case Management
5 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security
5 5 (18.52%) Data Enrichment
5 5 (18.52%) SIEM
5 5 (18.52%) SOAR
5 5 (18.52%) Task Automation
5 5 (18.52%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 5 (18.52%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) Python
1 6 (22.22%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
1 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) ACCA
2 1 (3.70%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (14.81%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (14.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (14.81%) GDPR
2 4 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (14.81%) NIST
3 2 (7.41%) QA
4 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.70%) PMO
4 1 (3.70%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Grafana
1 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
1 4 (14.81%) Prometheus
2 3 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Dynatrace
2 4 (14.81%) Google
2 4 (14.81%) Palo Alto
2 4 (14.81%) Splunk
3 2 (7.41%) Computacenter
4 1 (3.70%) Cognos
4 1 (3.70%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) IBM
4 1 (3.70%) Informatica
4 1 (3.70%) New Relic
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Planview