Actionable Insight Contracts in England

Actionable Insights (or Actionable Intelligence, Actionable Recommendations)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Actionable Insight skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Actionable Insight over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 285 522
Rank change year-on-year +121 +237 -30
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 406 281 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.67% 0.76% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 0.87% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 180 90
10th Percentile £300 £325 £280
25th Percentile £363 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £514 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +0.83% -5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £636
90th Percentile £700 £701 £740
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 3
10th Percentile £16.89 £24.93 £78.50
25th Percentile £22.76 £30.63 £80.00
Median hourly rate £28.29 £46.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.84% -45.59% +61.90%
75th Percentile £32.48 £50.00 £88.75
90th Percentile £47.38 £51.50 £89.50
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £42.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year -31.60% -50.00% +61.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Actionable Insight as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Insight in England

Actionable Insight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in England.

Daily rate trend for Actionable Insight in England

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in England

Actionable Insight
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Actionable Insight in England.

Hourly rate trend for Actionable Insight in England

Actionable Insight
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Actionable Insight in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Actionable Insight in England

Actionable Insight
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +106 240 £500 - 853
South East +53 49 £500 -1.23% 238
North of England +27 45 £413 - 154
North West +24 27 £455 +13.75% 90
Midlands +6 22 £388 -34.60% 87
East of England +39 15 £475 -13.64% 63
West Midlands -7 14 £388 -36.99% 59
Yorkshire +7 13 £425 -8.36% 54
South West +45 10 £450 -18.18% 71
East Midlands +15 8 £409 +9.07% 23
North East +3 5 £200 -60.98% 12
Actionable Insight
UK

Actionable Insight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.45%) Confluence
3 11 (2.71%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.97%) SAS
4 8 (1.97%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.74%) Apache
6 3 (0.74%) R Markdown
6 3 (0.74%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.49%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.25%) CMS
8 1 (0.25%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.25%) IIS
8 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (8.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.46%) Oracle Smart View
3 9 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.97%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.99%) Trello
7 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.25%) Sketch
7 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.72%) Endur
2 5 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.99%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (0.99%) Oracle Cash Management
3 4 (0.99%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.99%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.99%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.99%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (0.99%) SAP HR
3 4 (0.99%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.74%) Sprinklr
4 3 (0.74%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.25%) Actimize
5 1 (0.25%) Magento
5 1 (0.25%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.25%) SessionCam
5 1 (0.25%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 104 (25.62%) Power Platform
2 61 (15.02%) Azure
3 56 (13.79%) AWS
4 34 (8.37%) GCP
5 23 (5.67%) Snowflake
6 14 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (3.45%) OCI
7 13 (3.20%) GitHub
8 12 (2.96%) dbt
9 11 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (2.71%) SaaS
10 10 (2.46%) Google Analytics
11 9 (2.22%) Adobe Analytics
12 6 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.23%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.23%) Google Sheets
13 5 (1.23%) Miro
13 5 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.48%) Firewall
1 6 (1.48%) Network Security
2 3 (0.74%) Wireless
3 2 (0.49%) MQTT
4 1 (0.25%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (0.25%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.25%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) Modbus
4 1 (0.25%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (24.88%) Power BI
2 75 (18.47%) Tableau
3 48 (11.82%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (4.93%) Oracle Reports
5 17 (4.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 16 (3.94%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.96%) Data Mining
7 12 (2.96%) Looker
8 11 (2.71%) Oracle ODI
8 11 (2.71%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.46%) Big Data
9 10 (2.46%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.22%) Data Lake
10 9 (2.22%) Metadata
10 9 (2.22%) MySQL
10 9 (2.22%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (1.97%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.72%) MS Access
13 6 (1.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 24 (5.91%) JIRA
2 9 (2.22%) Git
2 9 (2.22%) GitLab
3 6 (1.48%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (1.23%) ERwin
5 4 (0.99%) QARun
5 4 (0.99%) Terragrunt
5 4 (0.99%) WinRunner
6 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.49%) MagicDraw
7 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.25%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.25%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.25%) JMeter
7 1 (0.25%) JUnit
7 1 (0.25%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.25%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.25%) MLflow
7 1 (0.25%) Pa11y
7 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 203 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 158 (38.92%) Analytical Skills
3 111 (27.34%) Finance
4 51 (12.56%) Marketing
5 45 (11.08%) Public Sector
6 35 (8.62%) Retail
7 30 (7.39%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (6.16%) Banking
9 22 (5.42%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.96%) Local Government
11 11 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.46%) Investment Banking
13 9 (2.22%) Billing
13 9 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.97%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.72%) Electronics
15 7 (1.72%) Retail Banking
16 5 (1.23%) Advertising
16 5 (1.23%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 118 (29.06%) Analyst
2 53 (13.05%) Data Analyst
3 45 (11.08%) Business Analyst
4 43 (10.59%) Senior
5 37 (9.11%) Developer
6 35 (8.62%) Consultant
7 29 (7.14%) Architect
8 28 (6.90%) Data Engineer
9 23 (5.67%) Data Scientist
10 15 (3.69%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.45%) Lead
12 9 (2.22%) Data Consultant
12 9 (2.22%) IT Manager
12 9 (2.22%) Report Writer
12 9 (2.22%) User Experience Researcher
13 8 (1.97%) Data Architect
13 8 (1.97%) Operations Manager
13 8 (1.97%) User Researcher
14 7 (1.72%) IT Operations Manager
14 7 (1.72%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.93%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (3.20%) TensorFlow
3 8 (1.97%) HTML
3 8 (1.97%) PyTorch
4 7 (1.72%) Web Services
5 6 (1.48%) CSS
5 6 (1.48%) XML
6 5 (1.23%) .NET
6 5 (1.23%) Kafka
6 5 (1.23%) RESTful
7 4 (0.99%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.99%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.99%) Entity Framework
7 4 (0.99%) Middleware
7 4 (0.99%) Node.js
8 3 (0.74%) FHIR
8 3 (0.74%) Pandas
8 3 (0.74%) PySpark
8 3 (0.74%) Shiny
8 3 (0.74%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (3.94%) Algorithms
2 13 (3.20%) Data Structures
3 11 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.46%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (1.97%) Social Media
6 7 (1.72%) Digital Media
7 6 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.48%) Life Science
7 6 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.48%) NHS
8 5 (1.23%) Equities
8 5 (1.23%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.23%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.99%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.99%) Derivative
9 4 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.99%) LIMS
9 4 (0.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.46%) Windows
2 4 (0.99%) Linux
2 4 (0.99%) Unix
3 3 (0.74%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.25%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (37.19%) Analytics
2 140 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
3 128 (31.53%) Business Intelligence
4 115 (28.33%) Data Analysis
5 113 (27.83%) Visualisation
6 106 (26.11%) Decision-Making
7 87 (21.43%) Data Modelling
8 84 (20.69%) Agile
9 78 (19.21%) Data Visualisation
10 68 (16.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 56 (13.79%) Data Governance
12 49 (12.07%) Data Science
13 48 (11.82%) Machine Learning
14 45 (11.08%) Data Pipeline
15 44 (10.84%) Artificial Intelligence
16 43 (10.59%) Project Management
17 41 (10.10%) ETL
18 38 (9.36%) Data-Driven Decision Making
19 37 (9.11%) Validation
20 36 (8.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 153 (37.68%) SQL
2 103 (25.37%) Python
3 27 (6.65%) R
4 12 (2.96%) PL/SQL
5 9 (2.22%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (1.48%) Java
7 6 (1.48%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.23%) ABAP
8 5 (1.23%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (0.74%) Go
10 2 (0.49%) Bash
10 2 (0.49%) C++
10 2 (0.49%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.49%) VBA
11 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.25%) C
11 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.25%) PHP
11 1 (0.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 60 (14.78%) Security Cleared
2 57 (14.04%) Degree
3 45 (11.08%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.97%) CBAP
6 8 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.72%) CISSP
8 5 (1.23%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 3 (0.74%) CFA
10 3 (0.74%) CISA
10 3 (0.74%) CISM
10 3 (0.74%) CSPO
11 2 (0.49%) GIAC
11 2 (0.49%) IIBA
11 2 (0.49%) MBA
11 2 (0.49%) PhD
11 2 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (13.30%) Actionable Recommendations
2 45 (11.08%) Data Quality
3 27 (6.65%) GDPR
4 24 (5.91%) QA
5 20 (4.93%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (2.22%) NIST
8 6 (1.48%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.48%) WCAG
9 4 (0.99%) GxP
9 4 (0.99%) PMO
10 3 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.74%) NCSC
10 3 (0.74%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.49%) GRC
11 2 (0.49%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.25%) Basel III
12 1 (0.25%) HL7
12 1 (0.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 5 (1.23%) Docker
2 3 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (2.46%) Terraform
2 3 (0.74%) Ansible
2 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.49%) Grafana
3 2 (0.49%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.25%) CSIRT
4 1 (0.25%) Nessus
4 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 42 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 41 (10.10%) Google
3 30 (7.39%) Oracle
4 27 (6.65%) SAP
5 20 (4.93%) Splunk
6 15 (3.69%) Databricks
7 12 (2.96%) Adobe
7 12 (2.96%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.97%) Palantir
8 8 (1.97%) Workday
9 7 (1.72%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.23%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.23%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.99%) Citrix
11 4 (0.99%) Facebook
11 4 (0.99%) Foundry
11 4 (0.99%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.74%) IBM
12 3 (0.74%) NEC