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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 455 543
Rank change year-on-year -7 +88 +197
Contract jobs citing Actionable Recommendations 82 58 39
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.19% 0.098%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.58% 1.45% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 34 18
10th Percentile £322 £456 £325
25th Percentile £421 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £519
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +15.66% -10.17%
75th Percentile £575 £713 £590
90th Percentile £685 £830 £675
UK median daily rate £470 £588 £506
% change year-on-year -20.00% +16.05% -12.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 - -

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 5,202 4,013 5,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.71% 12.98% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,381 2,343 3,774
10th Percentile £308 £291 £320
25th Percentile £401 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -5.19% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 168 238
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.24 £15.15
25th Percentile £17.69 £15.92 £20.18
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.37 £39.96
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% -21.50% +53.69%
75th Percentile £63.40 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £83.15
UK median hourly rate £27.54 £26.68 £39.60
% change year-on-year +3.22% -32.63% +52.31%

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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 4 November 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 4 November 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 +8 39 £508 -21.92% 79
South East +15 15 £456 -12.22% 52
North of England -31 15 £475 -13.64% 14
Yorkshire -22 10 £525 -4.55% 7
Midlands -30 6 £513 -21.15% 9
East of England -9 4 £500 -29.82% 3
North West -20 4 £450 -18.18% 7
West Midlands -31 3 £575 -11.54% 7
East Midlands - 3 £475 - 2
South West +6 2 £400 -26.94% 7
North East - 1 £450 -
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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 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.22%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.22%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.98%) AWS
2 5 (6.10%) GCP
3 4 (4.88%) Azure
3 4 (4.88%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.88%) SaaS
4 2 (2.44%) Akamai
4 2 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (2.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (2.44%) Amazon Macie
4 2 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.44%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (2.44%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (2.44%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (2.44%) AWS KMS
4 2 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (2.44%) Serverless
4 2 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.32%) Firewall
2 2 (2.44%) DNS
2 2 (2.44%) Network Security
2 2 (2.44%) SSL
2 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.44%) VPN
2 2 (2.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.88%) Power BI
2 3 (3.66%) Tableau
3 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.22%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.22%) Essbase
4 1 (1.22%) Looker
4 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Git
1 4 (4.88%) JIRA
2 2 (2.44%) GitLab
2 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.22%) Selenium
3 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 23 (28.05%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (23.17%) Finance
4 11 (13.41%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.66%) Local Government
5 3 (3.66%) Retail
6 2 (2.44%) Law
6 2 (2.44%) Marketing
6 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.22%) Banking
7 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Police
7 1 (1.22%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 22 (26.83%) Analyst
2 14 (17.07%) Consultant
3 9 (10.98%) Senior
4 8 (9.76%) Business Analyst
4 8 (9.76%) User Researcher
5 7 (8.54%) Lead
6 5 (6.10%) Architect
6 5 (6.10%) Data Analyst
6 5 (6.10%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.10%) Security Consultant
7 4 (4.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 4 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) User Experience Researcher
8 3 (3.66%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.66%) Developer
9 2 (2.44%) Change Analyst
9 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Architect
9 2 (2.44%) Senior Business Analyst
9 2 (2.44%) Systems Analyst
9 2 (2.44%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.44%) .NET
1 2 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (2.44%) Kafka
1 2 (2.44%) Streamlit
2 1 (1.22%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.22%) Gherkin
2 1 (1.22%) Playwright
2 1 (1.22%) PySpark
2 1 (1.22%) React
2 1 (1.22%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.22%) Spring
2 1 (1.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.32%) Security Posture
2 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.22%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.22%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.22%) Replication
3 1 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.22%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.44%) Linux
2 1 (1.22%) Android
2 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
2 16 (19.51%) Agile
2 16 (19.51%) Analytics
2 16 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (13.41%) User Research
5 10 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (10.98%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (10.98%) Process Improvement
7 8 (9.76%) AI
7 8 (9.76%) Cloud Security
7 8 (9.76%) Data Protection
7 8 (9.76%) Risk Management
7 8 (9.76%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (8.54%) Data Strategy
8 7 (8.54%) DevSecOps
8 7 (8.54%) Incident Response
9 6 (7.32%) Data Analysis
9 6 (7.32%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.41%) SQL
2 8 (9.76%) Python
3 3 (3.66%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.22%) C
4 1 (1.22%) C#
4 1 (1.22%) C++
4 1 (1.22%) Java
4 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.22%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (15.85%) SC Cleared
1 13 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.54%) Degree
3 5 (6.10%) CISSP
4 4 (4.88%) CISM
5 3 (3.66%) Postgraduate
6 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.44%) CBAP
6 2 (2.44%) CEH
6 2 (2.44%) CFA
6 2 (2.44%) CISA
6 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (2.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.22%) CAPM
7 1 (1.22%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (10.98%) NIST
3 7 (8.54%) GDPR
4 6 (7.32%) Data Quality
5 4 (4.88%) COBIT
6 2 (2.44%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.44%) ITGC
6 2 (2.44%) NCSC
6 2 (2.44%) NIST 800
6 2 (2.44%) QA
6 2 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.44%) SOC 2
6 2 (2.44%) SOX 404
7 1 (1.22%) GRC
7 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.22%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.44%) Ansible
1 2 (2.44%) CSIRT
1 2 (2.44%) Grafana
1 2 (2.44%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.44%) Kustomize
1 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
1 2 (2.44%) Puppet
1 2 (2.44%) RSA Archer
1 2 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft
1 5 (6.10%) SAP
2 4 (4.88%) Oracle
2 4 (4.88%) Splunk
3 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.44%) F5
4 2 (2.44%) Zoho
5 1 (1.22%) Databricks
5 1 (1.22%) Intel
5 1 (1.22%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.22%) Veracode
5 1 (1.22%) Workday
5 1 (1.22%) Xamarin