Actionable Insight Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 66 79
Rank change year-on-year +13 +13 +40
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 11 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.84% 0.61% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 0.68% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 6
10th Percentile £420 £331 £450
25th Percentile £441 £350 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £382 £581
Median % change year-on-year +21.07% -34.25% +10.67%
75th Percentile £588 £408 £633
90th Percentile - £424 £675
Scotland median daily rate £488 £438 £581
% change year-on-year +11.43% -24.70% +10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £22.87
Scotland median hourly rate - - £22.87

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 552 591 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.31% 89.68% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 307 528
10th Percentile £225 £205 £212
25th Percentile £411 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 9
10th Percentile £16.68 £16.59 £12.95
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.47 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £71.75 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Actionable Insight job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Actionable Insight.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Actionable Insight

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in Edinburgh

Actionable Insight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Snowflake
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (18.18%) Data Mart
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (27.27%) Financial Institution
5 2 (18.18%) Banking
5 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Business Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Technical Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) Streamlit
2 1 (9.09%) XML
2 1 (9.09%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Data Analysis
2 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) User Experience
3 4 (36.36%) UX Design
3 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
4 3 (27.27%) Customer Experience
4 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (27.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (18.18%) Data Management
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) ETL Development
5 2 (18.18%) Service Design
6 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy
6 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
1 2 (18.18%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
1 2 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Kibana
1 1 (9.09%) logstash