Actionable Recommendations Contract Job Trends in England

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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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 443 472
Rank change year-on-year -56 +29 +107
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 119 63 61
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.26% 0.23% 0.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.50% 1.33% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 42 34
10th Percentile £375 £318 £351
25th Percentile £414 £410 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £588
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -21.28% +13.25%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £694
90th Percentile £699 £599 £820
UK median daily rate £488 £460 £575
% change year-on-year +5.98% -20.00% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - £22.30
25th Percentile £33.98 - £23.88
Median hourly rate £58.50 £25.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +134.00% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £60.46 - £36.63
90th Percentile £64.97 - £40.90
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £25.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +134.00% -10.71% -

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 7,923 4,733 4,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.40% 17.04% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,077 3,095 2,816
10th Percentile £340 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.10% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 532 217 283
10th Percentile £14.27 £15.12 £10.97
25th Percentile £19.49 £18.20 £14.42
Median hourly rate £38.72 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.07% +9.09% -35.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.53
90th Percentile £81.71 £85.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £26.93 £25.77
% change year-on-year +46.70% +4.50% -34.79%

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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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in England over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Actionable Recommendations in England

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Actionable Recommendations in England over the 6 months to 2 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 2 August 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 -27 63 £513 +7.89% 74
North of England -66 17 £500 +11.11% 15
South East -64 14 £475 +7.04% 24
Midlands -44 13 £463 -1.07% 8
Yorkshire -43 11 £500 - 5
West Midlands -53 9 £475 +3.26% 7
North West -51 5 £420 -6.67% 7
East Midlands -12 4 £400 -15.79% 1
East of England -12 3 £500 - 2
South West -36 3 - - 7
North East -39 1 £388 -13.89% 3
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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 3 (2.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (2.52%) CMS
1 3 (2.52%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (1.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.52%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.68%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.84%) SPSS
4 1 (0.84%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (2.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (10.92%) Azure
2 10 (8.40%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.88%) AWS
3 7 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
4 5 (4.20%) GitHub
4 5 (4.20%) SaaS
5 4 (3.36%) Adobe Analytics
5 4 (3.36%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (3.36%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.36%) Google Analytics
6 3 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (2.52%) Siteimprove
7 2 (1.68%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.68%) ChatGPT
7 2 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.68%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.68%) Google Gemini
7 2 (1.68%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.36%) Network Security
2 3 (2.52%) Firewall
3 2 (1.68%) Broadband
4 1 (0.84%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.84%) LAN
4 1 (0.84%) MQTT
4 1 (0.84%) SMS
4 1 (0.84%) WAN
4 1 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.56%) Power BI
2 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.36%) Tableau
3 2 (1.68%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.84%) Looker
4 1 (0.84%) Metadata
4 1 (0.84%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.84%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.84%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 2 (1.68%) Git
2 2 (1.68%) JMeter
2 2 (1.68%) LoadRunner
2 2 (1.68%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (0.84%) JIRA
3 1 (0.84%) MLflow
General
1 54 (45.38%) Social Skills
2 44 (36.97%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (16.81%) Public Sector
4 15 (12.61%) Finance
5 10 (8.40%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (7.56%) Marketing
7 7 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (5.04%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (4.20%) Legal
9 5 (4.20%) Manufacturing
9 5 (4.20%) Police
9 5 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (3.36%) Aviation
10 4 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.52%) Banking
11 3 (2.52%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.52%) Military
11 3 (2.52%) Publishing
11 3 (2.52%) Retail
11 3 (2.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (21.01%) Analyst
2 23 (19.33%) Consultant
3 19 (15.97%) Senior
4 13 (10.92%) User Researcher
5 9 (7.56%) Data Scientist
6 8 (6.72%) Architect
6 8 (6.72%) Business Analyst
7 7 (5.88%) Data Analyst
7 7 (5.88%) Lead
7 7 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (3.36%) Configuration Analyst
8 4 (3.36%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (3.36%) User Experience Researcher
9 3 (2.52%) Coordinator
9 3 (2.52%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (2.52%) Project Manager
9 3 (2.52%) Senior User Experience Researcher
9 3 (2.52%) Senior User Researcher
9 3 (2.52%) SEO Consultant
10 2 (1.68%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.36%) CSS
1 4 (3.36%) HTML
1 4 (3.36%) REST
2 3 (2.52%) Middleware
2 3 (2.52%) PyTorch
2 3 (2.52%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.68%) ATL
3 2 (1.68%) OLE
3 2 (1.68%) Pandas
4 1 (0.84%) Django
4 1 (0.84%) GeoJSON
4 1 (0.84%) Kafka
4 1 (0.84%) LDAP
4 1 (0.84%) OAuth
4 1 (0.84%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.84%) OpenID
4 1 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.84%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.84%) SAML
4 1 (0.84%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.24%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.04%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (5.04%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.36%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.36%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.36%) NHS
3 4 (3.36%) Security Posture
3 4 (3.36%) Social Media
4 2 (1.68%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.68%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.68%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.84%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.84%) Android
1 1 (0.84%) Linux
1 1 (0.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 32 (26.89%) Decision-Making
3 28 (23.53%) Agile
4 27 (22.69%) Roadmaps
5 26 (21.85%) Analytics
6 24 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (19.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (18.49%) AI
8 22 (18.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (16.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (15.13%) User Research
11 17 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (12.61%) GAP Analysis
13 14 (11.76%) Business Analysis
13 14 (11.76%) User Experience
14 13 (10.92%) Root Cause Analysis
15 12 (10.08%) Data Science
15 12 (10.08%) Migration
15 12 (10.08%) Service Design
15 12 (10.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.49%) Python
1 22 (18.49%) SQL
2 6 (5.04%) JavaScript
2 6 (5.04%) R
3 3 (2.52%) Java
4 2 (1.68%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.84%) Bicep
5 1 (0.84%) C#
5 1 (0.84%) Groovy
5 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (10.08%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.24%) Degree
3 8 (6.72%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.68%) APMG
5 2 (1.68%) CISSP
5 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.68%) IIBA
5 2 (1.68%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.68%) PMP
6 1 (0.84%) CCA
6 1 (0.84%) CCSP
6 1 (0.84%) CISA
6 1 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.84%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.84%) PhD
6 1 (0.84%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.08%) Accessibility
2 9 (7.56%) GDPR
3 8 (6.72%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.72%) QA
4 6 (5.04%) WCAG
5 5 (4.20%) PMO
6 4 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (2.52%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.68%) NIST
9 1 (0.84%) GRC
9 1 (0.84%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.84%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.84%) NCSC
9 1 (0.84%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.84%) PERC
9 1 (0.84%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.36%) Terraform
2 3 (2.52%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.68%) Grafana
3 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.40%) Oracle
3 5 (4.20%) Google
4 4 (3.36%) Adobe
4 4 (3.36%) Amplitude
5 3 (2.52%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.52%) Optimizely
5 3 (2.52%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.52%) Sitecore
5 3 (2.52%) Tealium
6 2 (1.68%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.68%) Databricks
6 2 (1.68%) Planon
6 2 (1.68%) Qualtrics
6 2 (1.68%) SAP
7 1 (0.84%) Avid
7 1 (0.84%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.84%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.84%) Solace
7 1 (0.84%) Wrike