Actionable Recommendations Contract Job Trends in England

Actionable Recommendations
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Actionable Recommendations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 412 476
Rank change year-on-year -64 +64 +152
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 106 57 57
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.55% 1.47% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 38 40
10th Percentile £300 £300 £283
25th Percentile £400 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £455 £514
Median % change year-on-year +3.30% -11.52% -10.57%
75th Percentile £538 £597 £635
90th Percentile £608 £679 £805
UK median daily rate £466 £455 £513
% change year-on-year +2.47% -11.22% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.30
25th Percentile £33.98 - £23.88
Median hourly rate £46.24 - £28.00
75th Percentile £60.30 - £36.63
90th Percentile £60.40 - £40.90
UK median hourly rate £46.24 - £28.00

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 6,822 3,883 5,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.59% 15.99% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,435 2,505 3,287
10th Percentile £350 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £610 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 160 349
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.58 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.44 £13.18
Median hourly rate £33.98 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +55.56% -40.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.09 £45.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £80.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.07 £34.50 £21.06
% change year-on-year +4.55% +63.84% -39.84%

Actionable Recommendations
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Actionable Recommendations job vacancy trend in England

Actionable Recommendations
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Actionable Recommendations
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Recommendations in England

Actionable Recommendations
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Actionable Recommendations
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Actionable Recommendations in England

Actionable Recommendations
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 20 May 2026. 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 -29 60 £475 +0.64% 47
North of England -58 13 £500 +17.65% 14
Midlands -60 10 £425 -4.92% 5
South East -60 10 £380 -24.00% 24
Yorkshire -52 9 £500 +66.67% 3
West Midlands -48 7 £481 +4.62% 4
East Midlands -28 3 £400 +7.10% 1
South West -38 2 £525 -16.00% 2
North West -41 2 - - 10
East of England - 2 £460 - 1
North East - 2 £376 - 1
Actionable Recommendations
UK

Actionable Recommendations
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 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.94%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.94%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.55%) Power Platform
2 7 (6.60%) Azure
3 6 (5.66%) Google Workspace
3 6 (5.66%) SaaS
3 6 (5.66%) Slack
4 4 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.83%) Figma
5 3 (2.83%) GitHub
5 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (2.83%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.89%) AWS
6 2 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.89%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (1.89%) Collibra
6 2 (1.89%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.89%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.94%) GCP
7 1 (0.94%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.55%) Network Security
2 6 (5.66%) Firewall
3 3 (2.83%) NGFW
4 1 (0.94%) BGP
4 1 (0.94%) DHCP
4 1 (0.94%) DNS
4 1 (0.94%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.94%) MPLS
4 1 (0.94%) OSPF
4 1 (0.94%) SMS
4 1 (0.94%) SSL
4 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.43%) Tableau
2 7 (6.60%) Power BI
3 2 (1.89%) Big Data
3 2 (1.89%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.94%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.94%) Looker
4 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.94%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.94%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) JIRA
2 2 (1.89%) Git
2 2 (1.89%) JMeter
2 2 (1.89%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.94%) Gatling
3 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.94%) MLflow
General
1 53 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 44 (41.51%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (18.87%) Public Sector
4 13 (12.26%) Finance
5 7 (6.60%) Marketing
6 6 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.77%) Legal
8 4 (3.77%) Local Government
8 4 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.83%) Aviation
9 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.83%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.83%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.83%) Military
10 2 (1.89%) Automotive
10 2 (1.89%) Banking
10 2 (1.89%) Retail
10 2 (1.89%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 32 (30.19%) Analyst
2 17 (16.04%) Senior
3 16 (15.09%) Consultant
4 15 (14.15%) User Researcher
5 7 (6.60%) Business Analyst
6 6 (5.66%) Data Scientist
6 6 (5.66%) Operations Analyst
7 5 (4.72%) Data Analyst
7 5 (4.72%) Senior User Researcher
7 5 (4.72%) User Experience Researcher
8 4 (3.77%) Architect
8 4 (3.77%) Incident Analyst
8 4 (3.77%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.77%) Operational Support Analyst
8 4 (3.77%) Operations Support Analyst
8 4 (3.77%) Salesforce Analyst
8 4 (3.77%) Salesforce Support
9 3 (2.83%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 3 (2.83%) Product Designer
9 3 (2.83%) Senior Product Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.77%) REST
2 3 (2.83%) PyTorch
2 3 (2.83%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.89%) Middleware
4 1 (0.94%) CSS
4 1 (0.94%) Django
4 1 (0.94%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.94%) GeoJSON
4 1 (0.94%) HTML
4 1 (0.94%) LDAP
4 1 (0.94%) OAuth
4 1 (0.94%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.94%) OpenID
4 1 (0.94%) SAML
4 1 (0.94%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.43%) Security Posture
2 6 (5.66%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.72%) AI Agents
3 5 (4.72%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.83%) NHS
5 3 (2.83%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.89%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.89%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.94%) CESG
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.94%) FMCG
7 1 (0.94%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.94%) Life Science
7 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) PropTech
7 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.94%) Linux
1 1 (0.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 32 (30.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (23.58%) Agile
4 24 (22.64%) User Research
5 23 (21.70%) AI
5 23 (21.70%) Decision-Making
5 23 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (19.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 20 (18.87%) Analytics
8 18 (16.98%) User Experience
9 17 (16.04%) Root Cause Analysis
10 15 (14.15%) Qualitative Research
10 15 (14.15%) Roadmaps
10 15 (14.15%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (13.21%) Risk Management
11 14 (13.21%) Usability Testing
12 11 (10.38%) Service Design
12 11 (10.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 10 (9.43%) Data Analysis
13 10 (9.43%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.21%) Python
2 13 (12.26%) SQL
3 6 (5.66%) R
4 3 (2.83%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.94%) C#
5 1 (0.94%) Groovy
5 1 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.94%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.55%) Degree
4 4 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.89%) CISSP
5 2 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.89%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.89%) GIAC
5 2 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.89%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.89%) PMP
6 1 (0.94%) CCA
6 1 (0.94%) CCIE
6 1 (0.94%) CCNP
6 1 (0.94%) CEH
6 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.94%) CISM
6 1 (0.94%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.94%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.60%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.66%) GDPR
3 6 (5.66%) GRC
3 6 (5.66%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.66%) QA
4 5 (4.72%) Accessibility
4 5 (4.72%) NIST
5 3 (2.83%) NCSC
5 3 (2.83%) PMO
5 3 (2.83%) WCAG
6 1 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.94%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.94%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.94%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.94%) RMADS
6 1 (0.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (0.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.83%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.89%) Grafana
2 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.94%) Ansible
3 1 (0.94%) Kibana
3 1 (0.94%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.66%) Google
2 6 (5.66%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.77%) Fortinet
3 4 (3.77%) Palo Alto
4 3 (2.83%) Databricks
5 2 (1.89%) New Relic
5 2 (1.89%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.89%) Oracle
5 2 (1.89%) Qualtrics
5 2 (1.89%) SAP
6 1 (0.94%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.94%) Avid
6 1 (0.94%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.94%) Cisco
6 1 (0.94%) FireEye
6 1 (0.94%) Foundry
6 1 (0.94%) Juniper
6 1 (0.94%) NEC
6 1 (0.94%) Northgate
78 Actionable Recommendations jobs in England