Actionable Recommendations Contracts in England

Actionable Recommendations
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Actionable Recommendations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Actionable Recommendations 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 431 485 641
Rank change year-on-year +54 +156 +106
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 54 57 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.15% 0.024%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.40% 1.08% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 41 10
10th Percentile £300 £284 £238
25th Percentile £400 £325 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £513 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.07% -8.89% -2.17%
75th Percentile £597 £634 £638
90th Percentile £675 £800 £802
UK median daily rate £460 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -5.64% -11.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £25.44 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,865 5,295 6,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.87% 14.24% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,481 3,378 4,585
10th Percentile £270 £300 £276
25th Percentile £400 £408 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -
75th Percentile £635 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 347 206
10th Percentile £17.78 £10.95 £13.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £13.09 £19.50
Median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.11 £67.38 £79.88
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Actionable Recommendations in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Actionable Recommendations in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Recommendations in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Actionable Recommendations in England

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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 Recommendations 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 +44 29 £472 -11.44% 101
South East - 7 £500 - 21
Midlands +9 5 £447 -30.36% 9
North of England +10 4 £350 - 9
Yorkshire +10 3 £300 -25.00% 6
West Midlands -1 3 £460 -28.33% 7
South West - 3 £625 - 12
East Midlands - 2 £374 - 2
North West +8 1 £400 +14.29% 2
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UK

Actionable Recommendations
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 5 (9.26%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) IBM Domino
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.85%) SAS
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) MS Visio
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Actimize
1 1 (1.85%) SessionCam
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.41%) Azure
1 4 (7.41%) Power Platform
2 3 (5.56%) AWS
2 3 (5.56%) GCP
2 3 (5.56%) Google Sheets
3 2 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
3 2 (3.70%) Google Analytics
4 1 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.85%) GitHub
4 1 (1.85%) IaaS
4 1 (1.85%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.85%) PaaS
4 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) Wireless
2 2 (3.70%) Network Security
3 1 (1.85%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (1.85%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.85%) Firewall
3 1 (1.85%) Internet
3 1 (1.85%) Modbus
3 1 (1.85%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) Tableau
2 3 (5.56%) BigQuery
2 3 (5.56%) Power BI
3 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.70%) Looker
3 2 (3.70%) MySQL
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.85%) Big Data
4 1 (1.85%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) JIRA
2 2 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (1.85%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.85%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.85%) Pa11y
General
1 30 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 19 (35.19%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (24.07%) Finance
4 8 (14.81%) Public Sector
5 6 (11.11%) Marketing
5 6 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (7.41%) Telecoms
7 3 (5.56%) Banking
7 3 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.56%) Retail
8 2 (3.70%) Local Government
9 1 (1.85%) Advertising
9 1 (1.85%) Electronics
9 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.85%) Legal
9 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.85%) Military
9 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) Analyst
2 9 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 7 (12.96%) Consultant
4 5 (9.26%) Business Analyst
4 5 (9.26%) Senior
5 4 (7.41%) User Researcher
6 3 (5.56%) SEO Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Database Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) HR Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Lead
7 2 (3.70%) Senior User Experience Researcher
7 2 (3.70%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.70%) Tester
7 2 (3.70%) User Experience Researcher
8 1 (1.85%) IT Project Manager
8 1 (1.85%) Power Platform Developer
8 1 (1.85%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
8 1 (1.85%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (1.85%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) CSS
1 2 (3.70%) HTML
2 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.85%) Next.js
2 1 (1.85%) Node.js
2 1 (1.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (5.56%) NHS
3 2 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.70%) Digital Media
3 2 (3.70%) Life Science
3 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.70%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.70%) SCADA
3 2 (3.70%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.70%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.85%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (1.85%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.85%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.85%) IoT
4 1 (1.85%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Kali Linux
1 1 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 17 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (22.22%) Agile
4 11 (20.37%) Analytics
5 10 (18.52%) Data Analysis
5 10 (18.52%) Visualisation
6 9 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
6 9 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 8 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (12.96%) Business Analysis
8 7 (12.96%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (12.96%) GAP Analysis
9 6 (11.11%) Data Science
9 6 (11.11%) Incident Response
9 6 (11.11%) Roadmaps
9 6 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (9.26%) Cloud Security
10 5 (9.26%) Quantitative Research
10 5 (9.26%) User Research
10 5 (9.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.37%) SQL
2 8 (14.81%) Python
3 3 (5.56%) R
4 2 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (18.52%) Degree
2 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.41%) CBAP
4 4 (7.41%) CISSP
5 3 (5.56%) CISA
6 2 (3.70%) CISM
6 2 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.85%) CCA
7 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.85%) GCIA
7 1 (1.85%) GCIH
7 1 (1.85%) GIAC
7 1 (1.85%) IIBA
7 1 (1.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.85%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (9.26%) GDPR
2 5 (9.26%) NIST
3 4 (7.41%) Accessibility
4 3 (5.56%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.70%) GRC
5 2 (3.70%) NCSC
5 2 (3.70%) SOC 2
5 2 (3.70%) WCAG
6 1 (1.85%) COPPA
6 1 (1.85%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.85%) PMO
6 1 (1.85%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Ansible
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (3.70%) Terraform
2 1 (1.85%) CSIRT
2 1 (1.85%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Google
2 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle
4 1 (1.85%) Ahrefs
4 1 (1.85%) Cegedim Rx
4 1 (1.85%) Ceridian
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco
4 1 (1.85%) Glassbox
4 1 (1.85%) Meraki
4 1 (1.85%) SAP
4 1 (1.85%) Screaming Frog
4 1 (1.85%) Splunk