Actionable Insight Contract Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Actionable Insight skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 196 360
Rank change year-on-year +62 +164 +171
Contract jobs citing Actionable Insight 654 375 205
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.09% 1.29% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 1.46% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 249 128
10th Percentile £313 £318 £319
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £623
90th Percentile £675 £713 £729
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 3
10th Percentile £20.50 £20.15 £14.24
25th Percentile £25.16 £23.25 £15.84
Median hourly rate £31.23 £26.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.12% +36.84% -69.11%
75th Percentile £40.05 £44.48 £20.50
90th Percentile £46.26 £59.28 £21.10
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £28.11 £20.00
% change year-on-year +6.74% +40.53% -67.48%

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 27,756 25,643 33,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.83% 88.51% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,663 15,859 22,544
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,804 849 1,407
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%
75th Percentile £54.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Actionable Insight
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Actionable Insight job vacancy trend in England

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Actionable Insight
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Insight in England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Insight in England

Actionable Insight
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Actionable Insight
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Actionable Insight in England over the 6 months to 18 December 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 18 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
London +50 344 £510 -2.86% 169
North of England +15 98 £400 -1.78% 263
South East +22 83 £463 -7.50% 319
North West +9 49 £383 +6.25% 123
Midlands -25 47 £475 -5.00% 201
Yorkshire -10 38 £465 -2.11% 121
West Midlands -23 31 £500 - 103
East of England -4 27 £550 +10.00% 162
South West +10 25 £500 +8.70% 140
East Midlands -10 16 £440 +13.55% 83
North East +4 11 £395 +14.49% 23
Actionable Insight
UK

Actionable Insight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 21 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.83%) Confluence
4 11 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.92%) Apache
6 3 (0.46%) CMS
6 3 (0.46%) IIS
6 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.31%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.15%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 78 (11.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.38%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.46%) Oracle Smart View
6 3 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.31%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.31%) Sketch
7 2 (0.31%) SPSS
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.15%) Trello
8 1 (0.15%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 9 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.46%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle FAH
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.31%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.15%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.15%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 196 (29.97%) Power Platform
2 121 (18.50%) Azure
3 84 (12.84%) AWS
4 75 (11.47%) GCP
5 25 (3.82%) Snowflake
6 20 (3.06%) SaaS
7 17 (2.60%) Google Analytics
8 16 (2.45%) GitHub
8 16 (2.45%) Power Automate
9 15 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (2.29%) dbt
10 14 (2.14%) Serverless
11 13 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (1.99%) Google Tag Manager
12 12 (1.83%) Amazon S3
13 10 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (1.53%) PowerApps
14 9 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.68%) Firewall
2 6 (0.92%) Wireshark
3 5 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.61%) Multicast
4 4 (0.61%) Network Security
4 4 (0.61%) tcpdump
5 3 (0.46%) DNS
5 3 (0.46%) Internet
6 2 (0.31%) Intranet
6 2 (0.31%) SMS
7 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (29.66%) Power BI
2 79 (12.08%) Tableau
3 48 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (5.20%) BigQuery
5 33 (5.05%) Data Lake
6 31 (4.74%) Power Query
7 29 (4.43%) Looker
8 24 (3.67%) Big Data
9 16 (2.45%) Relational Database
9 16 (2.45%) SQL Server
10 13 (1.99%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (1.38%) Metadata
11 9 (1.38%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.07%) PowerPivot
12 7 (1.07%) Qlik Sense
13 5 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.61%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 24 (3.67%) JIRA
2 17 (2.60%) GitLab
3 13 (1.99%) Git
4 8 (1.22%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.61%) MLflow
6 3 (0.46%) Visual Website Optimizer
7 2 (0.31%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.31%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.31%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.31%) JMeter
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.31%) Postman
7 2 (0.31%) Selenium
7 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.15%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.15%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.15%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.15%) JUnit
8 1 (0.15%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
General
1 301 (46.02%) Social Skills
2 215 (32.87%) Analytical Skills
3 167 (25.54%) Finance
4 88 (13.46%) Public Sector
5 53 (8.10%) Marketing
6 44 (6.73%) Banking
7 25 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (3.52%) Retail
9 22 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (2.14%) Local Government
13 13 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (1.99%) Law
14 10 (1.53%) Legal
15 9 (1.38%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.38%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.07%) Advertising
16 7 (1.07%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 199 (30.43%) Analyst
2 88 (13.46%) Data Analyst
3 64 (9.79%) Senior
4 55 (8.41%) Consultant
5 53 (8.10%) Data Scientist
6 50 (7.65%) Business Analyst
7 38 (5.81%) Lead
8 35 (5.35%) Developer
9 30 (4.59%) User Researcher
10 27 (4.13%) Data Engineer
11 25 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
12 24 (3.67%) Architect
13 19 (2.91%) Performance Analyst
14 16 (2.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 12 (1.83%) AWS Engineer
15 12 (1.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 12 (1.83%) Oracle Consultant
15 12 (1.83%) Senior Manager
16 11 (1.68%) Data Business Analyst
17 10 (1.53%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.59%) Pandas
2 29 (4.43%) scikit-learn
3 17 (2.60%) NumPy
3 17 (2.60%) PySpark
4 15 (2.29%) TensorFlow
5 14 (2.14%) PyTorch
6 11 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
7 10 (1.53%) Kafka
8 7 (1.07%) Middleware
9 6 (0.92%) Hugging Face
10 5 (0.76%) HTML
10 5 (0.76%) Matplotlib
11 4 (0.61%) CSS
11 4 (0.61%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.61%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (0.61%) RESTful
11 4 (0.61%) Ultra Messaging
12 3 (0.46%) .NET
12 3 (0.46%) LangChain
12 3 (0.46%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.05%) Analytical Mindset
2 21 (3.21%) Algorithms
3 20 (3.06%) Cyber Threat
3 20 (3.06%) Onboarding
4 17 (2.60%) Security Posture
5 16 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
6 15 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.83%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 8 (1.22%) NHS
10 7 (1.07%) CMDB
10 7 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
12 4 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (0.61%) Life Science
12 4 (0.61%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.06%) Linux
2 8 (1.22%) Windows
3 2 (0.31%) Kali Linux
3 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.31%) Unix
4 1 (0.15%) AIX
4 1 (0.15%) Android
4 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (35.93%) Analytics
2 213 (32.57%) Business Intelligence
3 186 (28.44%) Decision-Making
4 140 (21.41%) Visualisation
5 132 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
6 117 (17.89%) Agile
7 107 (16.36%) Data Analysis
8 106 (16.21%) Data Modelling
9 97 (14.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 96 (14.68%) AI
11 93 (14.22%) Data Science
12 92 (14.07%) Stakeholder Management
13 77 (11.77%) Data Visualisation
14 73 (11.16%) Validation
15 68 (10.40%) ETL
16 67 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
16 67 (10.24%) Dashboard Development
16 67 (10.24%) Machine Learning
17 63 (9.63%) Data Governance
18 62 (9.48%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 220 (33.64%) SQL
2 179 (27.37%) Python
3 32 (4.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 26 (3.98%) R
5 14 (2.14%) Java
5 14 (2.14%) VBA
6 13 (1.99%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.68%) Bash
8 8 (1.22%) Groovy
9 7 (1.07%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.07%) Scala
9 7 (1.07%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.76%) C++
10 5 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.61%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.46%) C#
12 3 (0.46%) Go
13 2 (0.31%) Bicep
14 1 (0.15%) LookML
14 1 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 80 (12.23%) Security Cleared
2 71 (10.86%) Degree
3 61 (9.33%) SC Cleared
4 16 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (2.45%) Master's Degree
5 14 (2.14%) CISSP
6 13 (1.99%) PMI Certification
7 11 (1.68%) CISM
7 11 (1.68%) PMP
8 8 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.07%) CEH
10 5 (0.76%) Postgraduate
11 4 (0.61%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.61%) CFA
11 4 (0.61%) CIMA
11 4 (0.61%) GIAC
11 4 (0.61%) OSCP
12 3 (0.46%) CBAP
12 3 (0.46%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (14.22%) Actionable Recommendations
1 93 (14.22%) Data Quality
2 47 (7.19%) GDPR
3 32 (4.89%) QA
4 27 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (4.13%) NIST
5 25 (3.82%) Accessibility
6 15 (2.29%) PMO
7 7 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.92%) GRC
9 5 (0.76%) SLA
10 4 (0.61%) COBIT
11 3 (0.46%) NCSC
11 3 (0.46%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.31%) ITGC
12 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.31%) SOX 404
12 2 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.68%) Docker
3 4 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.46%) zsh
5 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (3.06%) Terraform
2 13 (1.99%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.83%) Grafana
4 11 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.31%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.31%) Kibana
6 2 (0.31%) RSA Archer
6 2 (0.31%) SysTrack
6 2 (0.31%) VxRail
7 1 (0.15%) Ansible
7 1 (0.15%) Nessus
7 1 (0.15%) Nmap
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 107 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 61 (9.33%) Google
3 40 (6.12%) Databricks
4 28 (4.28%) Oracle
5 26 (3.98%) SAP
6 23 (3.52%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.45%) Splunk
8 13 (1.99%) Adobe
9 10 (1.53%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.76%) Hotjar
10 5 (0.76%) Informatica
10 5 (0.76%) Optimizely
10 5 (0.76%) TIBCO
11 4 (0.61%) Ariba
11 4 (0.61%) Facebook
11 4 (0.61%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (0.61%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.61%) Sage
11 4 (0.61%) Solace