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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 425 518
Rank change year-on-year -21 +93 +155
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 104 53 41
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.83% 1.40% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 32 28
10th Percentile £300 £354 -
25th Percentile £364 £465 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +26.32% -18.10%
75th Percentile £575 £694 £577
90th Percentile £655 £870 £611
UK median daily rate £450 £575 £400
% change year-on-year -21.74% +43.75% -31.03%

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 5,672 3,795 5,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.15% 14.56% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,678 2,199 3,609
10th Percentile £325 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -4.57% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £649
90th Percentile £703 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 150 304
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.70 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.04 £20.63 £14.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +19.13% -7.59%
75th Percentile £63.63 £65.00 £50.96
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £26.34 £30.00 £25.06
% change year-on-year -12.20% +19.72% -7.64%

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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 3 February 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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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 3 February 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 +5 55 £463 -23.87% 35
South East -16 20 £449 -13.75% 26
North of England -47 12 £483 +20.63% 7
Yorkshire - 6 £500 - 2
East of England -14 5 £460 -35.44% 4
Midlands -55 4 £575 +27.78% 2
South West -20 3 £450 -28.00% 4
North West -30 3 - - 5
West Midlands -35 3 £575 -4.17% 1
North East - 3 £364 - 1
East Midlands -27 1 £450 +50.00% 1
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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 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.96%) Apache
2 1 (0.96%) Confluence
2 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.96%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.65%) Power Platform
2 7 (6.73%) SaaS
3 6 (5.77%) Google Workspace
3 6 (5.77%) Slack
4 5 (4.81%) AWS
5 4 (3.85%) GCP
6 3 (2.88%) Azure
6 3 (2.88%) Figma
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.92%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.96%) Akamai
8 1 (0.96%) dbt
8 1 (0.96%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.69%) Firewall
2 5 (4.81%) Network Security
3 3 (2.88%) NGFW
4 1 (0.96%) BGP
4 1 (0.96%) DHCP
4 1 (0.96%) DNS
4 1 (0.96%) MPLS
4 1 (0.96%) OSPF
4 1 (0.96%) SSL
4 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.96%) VPN
4 1 (0.96%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.58%) Tableau
2 9 (8.65%) Power BI
3 2 (1.92%) Big Data
4 1 (0.96%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.96%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.96%) Essbase
4 1 (0.96%) Looker
4 1 (0.96%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (6.73%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.96%) Gatling
2 1 (0.96%) Git
2 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.96%) JMeter
2 1 (0.96%) LoadRunner
2 1 (0.96%) Selenium
General
1 45 (43.27%) Social Skills
2 34 (32.69%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (16.35%) Finance
4 14 (13.46%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.81%) Local Government
5 5 (4.81%) Retail
6 4 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.85%) Marketing
7 2 (1.92%) Banking
7 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Social Science
7 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.96%) Advertising
8 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.96%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Law
8 1 (0.96%) Police
Job Titles
1 33 (31.73%) Analyst
2 15 (14.42%) Consultant
3 13 (12.50%) User Researcher
4 11 (10.58%) Senior
5 8 (7.69%) Lead
6 7 (6.73%) Data Analyst
7 6 (5.77%) Business Analyst
7 6 (5.77%) Operations Analyst
8 5 (4.81%) Financial Analyst
8 5 (4.81%) Salesforce Analyst
8 5 (4.81%) Security Consultant
8 5 (4.81%) User Experience Researcher
9 4 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 4 (3.85%) Designer
9 4 (3.85%) Incident Analyst
9 4 (3.85%) Operational Support Analyst
9 4 (3.85%) Operations Support Analyst
9 4 (3.85%) Salesforce Support
10 3 (2.88%) Information Analyst
10 3 (2.88%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.92%) Kafka
2 1 (0.96%) .NET
2 1 (0.96%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.96%) Gherkin
2 1 (0.96%) Playwright
2 1 (0.96%) React
2 1 (0.96%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.96%) Spring
2 1 (0.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.58%) Security Posture
2 4 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.88%) AI Agents
3 3 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.88%) Taxonomies
4 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.96%) CESG
5 1 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (0.96%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.96%) FMCG
5 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.96%) Life Science
5 1 (0.96%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.96%) Replication
5 1 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.88%) Linux
2 1 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 31 (29.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (24.04%) Agile
4 22 (21.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 22 (21.15%) User Research
5 19 (18.27%) Analytics
6 18 (17.31%) Qualitative Research
6 18 (17.31%) User Experience
7 16 (15.38%) Decision-Making
7 16 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (13.46%) Risk Management
9 13 (12.50%) AI
9 13 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
10 12 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (11.54%) Quantitative Research
10 12 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (11.54%) Usability Testing
10 12 (11.54%) Visualisation
11 11 (10.58%) Incident Management
12 10 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.50%) SQL
2 7 (6.73%) Python
3 4 (3.85%) R
4 1 (0.96%) C
4 1 (0.96%) C++
4 1 (0.96%) Java
4 1 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.96%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.58%) Degree
4 6 (5.77%) CISSP
5 4 (3.85%) CISM
6 3 (2.88%) CEH
6 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.88%) GIAC
6 3 (2.88%) Postgraduate
7 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.92%) CFA
7 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.96%) CAPM
8 1 (0.96%) CIMA
8 1 (0.96%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.96%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (10.58%) Data Quality
3 9 (8.65%) NIST
4 6 (5.77%) GDPR
4 6 (5.77%) GRC
4 6 (5.77%) QA
5 4 (3.85%) NCSC
6 3 (2.88%) COBIT
6 3 (2.88%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.92%) ITGC
7 2 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.92%) SOX 404
8 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.96%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.96%) RMADS
Systems Management
1 1 (0.96%) Ansible
1 1 (0.96%) CSIRT
1 1 (0.96%) Grafana
1 1 (0.96%) Kibana
1 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
1 1 (0.96%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 9 (8.65%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.73%) Salesforce
3 6 (5.77%) Google
4 4 (3.85%) Fortinet
4 4 (3.85%) Oracle
4 4 (3.85%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.88%) SAP
5 3 (2.88%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.92%) Databricks
7 1 (0.96%) Arista
7 1 (0.96%) F5
7 1 (0.96%) FireEye
7 1 (0.96%) NEC
7 1 (0.96%) New Relic
7 1 (0.96%) Northgate
7 1 (0.96%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.96%) Splunk
7 1 (0.96%) Tanium
7 1 (0.96%) Veracode
7 1 (0.96%) Workday