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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 469 553
Rank change year-on-year +19 +84 +201
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 62 59 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.18% 0.088%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.30% 1.37% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 30 16
10th Percentile £300 £401 £407
25th Percentile £404 £512 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £588 £519
Median % change year-on-year -20.85% +13.25% -9.78%
75th Percentile £525 £725 £611
90th Percentile £588 £850 £681
UK median daily rate £460 £575 £506
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.58% -12.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year -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 4,786 4,309 5,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.22% 13.08% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,125 2,575 4,009
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £657
90th Percentile £725 £762 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 215 227
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.96 £15.22 £19.47
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% -17.01% +66.67%
75th Percentile £61.13 £64.24 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.85 £70.00 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year +9.09% -22.82% +54.91%

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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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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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 +25 28 £450 -25.00% 56
North of England -9 12 £475 -13.64% 20
South East +25 9 £465 -10.49% 31
Yorkshire -9 9 £525 -4.55% 5
Midlands -28 7 £513 -26.79% 10
West Midlands -24 5 £518 -26.07% 4
East of England +6 3 £513 -10.87% 11
North West -17 2 £450 -18.18% 13
South West - 2 £375 - 7
East Midlands - 2 £513 - 6
North East - 1 £450 - 3
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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 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.61%) SPSS
3 1 (1.61%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.29%) AWS
2 4 (6.45%) Azure
3 3 (4.84%) GCP
3 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon Macie
4 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (3.23%) AWS KMS
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.23%) Lucidchart
4 2 (3.23%) Serverless
4 2 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) Firewall
2 2 (3.23%) DNS
2 2 (3.23%) Network Security
2 2 (3.23%) SSL
2 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.23%) VPN
2 2 (3.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) Power BI
1 3 (4.84%) Tableau
2 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.23%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.61%) Big Data
3 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.61%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.61%) Looker
3 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) JIRA
3 2 (3.23%) GitLab
3 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.61%) Pa11y
4 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (40.32%) Social Skills
2 19 (30.65%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (20.97%) Finance
4 11 (17.74%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.23%) Local Government
7 1 (1.61%) Advertising
7 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.61%) Games
7 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Law
7 1 (1.61%) Marketing
7 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Police
7 1 (1.61%) Retail
7 1 (1.61%) Social Science
7 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (25.81%) Analyst
2 10 (16.13%) Consultant
3 7 (11.29%) Business Analyst
3 7 (11.29%) User Researcher
4 6 (9.68%) Senior
5 4 (6.45%) Data Analyst
5 4 (6.45%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.45%) User Experience Researcher
6 3 (4.84%) Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Data Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Lead
6 3 (4.84%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Analytics Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Change Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (3.23%) Security Consultant
7 2 (3.23%) Senior Business Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) .NET
1 2 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (3.23%) Streamlit
2 1 (1.61%) Kafka
2 1 (1.61%) PySpark
2 1 (1.61%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (1.61%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.45%) Security Posture
2 3 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (3.23%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.61%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Linux
2 1 (1.61%) Android
2 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 15 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (22.58%) Analytics
4 12 (19.35%) Agile
5 10 (16.13%) Process Improvement
5 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (14.52%) User Research
7 8 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (12.90%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (11.29%) Data Analysis
8 7 (11.29%) Data Strategy
8 7 (11.29%) Incident Response
8 7 (11.29%) Roadmaps
9 6 (9.68%) Visualisation
10 5 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (8.06%) Data Protection
10 5 (8.06%) Data Visualisation
10 5 (8.06%) Usability Testing
10 5 (8.06%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.74%) SQL
2 7 (11.29%) Python
3 3 (4.84%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.23%) R
5 1 (1.61%) C
5 1 (1.61%) C#
5 1 (1.61%) C++
5 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) SC Cleared
1 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.68%) Degree
3 3 (4.84%) CISSP
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.23%) CBAP
4 2 (3.23%) CISA
4 2 (3.23%) CISM
4 2 (3.23%) GIAC
4 2 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.61%) CAPM
5 1 (1.61%) CFA
5 1 (1.61%) CIMA
5 1 (1.61%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) GCIA
5 1 (1.61%) GCIH
5 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) GDPR
2 6 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (9.68%) NIST
3 5 (8.06%) Data Quality
4 4 (6.45%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.23%) NIST 800
5 2 (3.23%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.61%) COBIT
6 1 (1.61%) GRC
6 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.61%) PMO
6 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Ansible
1 2 (3.23%) CSIRT
1 2 (3.23%) Grafana
1 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.23%) Kustomize
1 2 (3.23%) Prometheus
1 2 (3.23%) Puppet
1 2 (3.23%) Terraform
2 1 (1.61%) QRadar
2 1 (1.61%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 5 (8.06%) Splunk
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.84%) SAP
3 2 (3.23%) F5
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle
3 2 (3.23%) Zoho
4 1 (1.61%) Databricks
4 1 (1.61%) Intel
4 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.61%) Xamarin